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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1928
Page
9
Want ads offer a five room bungalow on East State Street in exchange for a car or sale on favorable terms. Asking price three thousand dollars.
Real Estate for sale or trade includes a 1926 model Essex coach and a 1925 Overland touring in good condition. For rent a five room house near New Silk Mill at $15.00. Additional five room houses on Thomasville Road Franklin Street East Green Street. Farlow Ins. & Realty Co. Room 3 and 4 Askin Bldg. Phone 2351.
Freshmen orientation will span two days with registration on Tuesday and initial sessions that evening. The Davidson faculty sees few changes with some former professors returning and new instructors joining. The $60 000 fraternity court nears completion as eleven houses finish interior work and a surrounding road is dug. Chambers building progress includes a third floor and soon a completed roof, while the central auditorium section lags and will be used only for graduation.
R D Dixon of Trenton has assumed duties as assistant federal director of employment bureaus in North Carolina under the State Department of Labor and Printing. He succeeds Clarence Beddingfield, who resigned to become Wake County game warden.
Herbert Hoover considers a campaign tour into the solid south and will address gatherings in Newark and New York City on September 17 and October 17. He weighs Virginia North Carolina and Georgia sentiment while awaiting a clearer picture before finalizing travel. He reviews Wisconsin primary results as LaFollette Jr. seeks renomination, with a tight GOP contest expected.
Heavy rainfall pushed the Neuse and Cape Fear toward flood stages. The Neuse near Smithfield was forecast two feet above banks and the Cape Fear at Fayetteville was seen at 39 feet, four feet beyond banks.
The overseas trade of the Philippine Islands reaches about 270 million dollars, signaling a significant rise in international commerce and economic activity for the territory.
Eastern time schedule lists numerous stations with concerts, dance music, opera, and variety shows. Notable programs include Ipana Troubadours, National Light Opera, Palmolive Hour, and Venetian Nights across WEAF WJZ WOR and others.
Davidson college prepared for the ninety third session with more than 650 students to register on Tuesday and Wednesday for the official opening day Thursday September 13. Some upperclassmen withdrew over financial difficulties reducing projected enrollment from 675. The registrar noted many freshmen seek admission but the new class capacity is full to prevent overloading.
Jordan A. Shutt died in Morganton and his brothers file for administration claiming no valid will existed. On the same day niece Mabel Conrad Hartman presents a purported will naming her sole heir. The estate is valued at about $25,000.
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