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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1926
Page
5
The article recalls a hay fever festival on August 25 and notes local enthusiasm for boosting the High Point chamber of commerce. It discusses proposals to lower railroad tracks, attract manufacturing, advertise locally, and cautions about city bond costs. It also highlights the reception of outside salespeople and the need for better support of new ventures.
A four page High Point Chamber of Commerce brochure outlines the forward movement campaign. It urges organized business support with a $25 000 annual contribution to expand activities and promote statewide and national advertising while detailing plans for industrial and civic growth.
John Martin, four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ebbert Martin, died at their Springdale Avenue residence after a three day illness. Doctors report diphtheria as the cause. Survived by parents and a younger sister. Funeral plans uncertain, body expected to be buried in Virginia where family recently moved from.
An anonymous admirer circulated a humorous piece titled Fire Station Comforts to fire station number two. The item humorously invites the public to use chairs as seats, call the department at any hour, and even spit on the floor while praising firemen as loyal public servants who balance service with firefighting duties.
Eligible students for the colored Normal high school must register at the Norma School on Wednesday morning September 8 at nine o clock. Principal F E Cartright announced the start of classes on September 13 for the 1926 27 term and a record attendance is anticipated as plans for reorganizing vocational evening classes are prepared to launch later in the month.
The Rev. Jesse James will conduct a two week revival at the Pentecostal Holiness church on Highland Avenue, beginning yesterday. Pastor J. F. Goins announced the schedule with services nightly at 7 29 oclock, concluding September 19. The public is invited to attend.
The text notes that potatoes baked when half done and pierced with a fork or skewer allow gases to escape, making them more digestible than potatoes left unpierced.
Postal receipts at the High Point office totaled 10 451 69 for the past month, about 600 above August 1925, with August sales at 981 825 35. A Farris Bible Class plan splits into two nine group teams to score hits for members and visitors as a class contest opens this morning. Six hundred Continental Furniture employees attended a Ritter’s Lake picnic near Greensboro, with tug of war, races, swimming, a square dance, and a lively day of contests and fellowship.
A black cat causing an automobile crash in Brooklyn sent two men to hospital while injuring two others and wrecking two cars. Buster the blind sea lion at Battery Park died after a quarter century of entertaining. Two boa constrictors and a zoological expedition arrived in transit to Pittsburgh University with a pile of exotic creatures.
High Point officers kept busy arresting 27 alleged offenders at the municipal building on charges from bad checks to Volstead law violations. Eleven black men were nabbed for gambling at the Elk’s club on Washington street, with a large crowd involved as whiskey flowed. Bonds were posted in most cases, and the biggest interest centered on the 11 gamblers named Geo Williams B L Lighter Simon Massey Vergrar Eckell Fred Dixon Walter Welborn Bill Johnson Jim Robbins John McCuller Will Gaither Willie Lee.
Washington Sept 4 AP The post office department demoted two railway mail service superintendents to chief clerk and promoted division chief clerks to superintendents. Walter H Riddell Illinois moved to third division superintendent position in Washington replaced by Algene A Fisher Vermont. R J Harris Atlanta demoted to chief clerk Chattanooga, Richard N Bird Cincinnati swapped with Charles P Kendall in that city.
Guilford county courthouse will host a tax sale Tuesday morning for delinquent taxpayers who fail to pay by Monday afternoon. County Tax Collector R B Parker says about 600 residents owe taxes for the year and warns that every acre could be sold if bills are not settled in time. The sale starts at nine o clock, with a final rush anticipated.
Raleigh September 4 The State Insurance Commission reports a Pitt county arson conviction. J A Wingate burned his home to collect insurance and received a two year state prison term from Judge N A Sinclair in Greenville.
The guide advises cooking vegetables until tender but not overcooked. Overcooking makes them indigestible and overly strong in flavor.
The Rev. H. N. Bowne rector of Saint Mary's Episcopal church has returned from a vacation at Blowing Rock and will conduct services this morning and tonight The morning service starts at 11 o clock and the evening service at 8 o clock The public is invited to attend.
A joint meeting of Caswell Training School directors and Governor McLean reviewed operation plans for the Kinston institution. They considered the Rankin commission report on the feeble minded and tentatively adopted it for printing and later distribution.
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