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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1933
Page
7
M. T. Hicks of this city has accepted a job with Selden Manufacturing Company in Palatka Florida and has left to begin his new work. The Hicks Manufacturing Company, operated here by Micka, is temporarily closed in his absence.
A. A. Prim, manager of the Thomasville shooting club, seeks 60000 in a suit against the North Carolina Railroad in Superior Court. Prim and Miss Marie Wright were injured when Southern Train 38 hit their auto at Tomlinson crossing in High Point January 8, 1932, with alleged excessive speed and lack of warnings.
The world famed wild animal trainer Clyde Beatty will perform in the city on Wednesday September 20 as the feature of features with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. Beatty defies danger entering arenas with forty wild lions and tigers and is joined by Jules Jacot and a diverse cast including leopards bears and hyenas. The program also features elephants camels zebras and spectacular equestrian acts in a grand season of circus entertainment.
A program at Mt. Zion church in Randolph County includes several quartets and talks. Relatives and friends of the Hoover family are invited to attend. It notes a hearing before the state industrial commission about compensation from the employer shooting club for an injury while engaged in business for the club.
The Hoover reunion plans its annual meeting for Sunday September 10. The event recalls the invention of the vacuum tube by Lee DeForest in 1912 and the subsequent rise of radio technology.
Dr. John T. Burrus president of the state board of health and former state senator denounces the sales tax and calls it wrecking North Carolina schools at the High Point Merchants Association annual outing at City Lake. Speaker George L. Stansbury and R. R. Blackburn presided as about 800 merchants and guests attended.
The register lists locals trading items at 887 North Wrenn Street including a victrola for a one horse wagon and a winter coat for a house. A white man seeks a farm place for himself and wife as part of the day’s listings. The piece also notes the 1835 Nicara volcano eruption near Coseguina and a Belize misperception of distant gunfire, plus a remark on the Riga to Vladivostok railway distance.
Meall State guard John Stanko, a junior and top voting guard in the state last season, is sidelined with a torn nail on his toe, delaying his return to practice until next week as Nort hovaties football followers track his status.
The writer argues the Eighteenth Amendment failed due to bootlegger protection by supporters and officials. He cites witnesses, voting oath duty, and a senator’s inaction in Washington as evidence. He claims repealing laws would not ensure virtue or reduce crime and warns against romanticizing a lawless millennium.
A narrator recalls night moonshine raids and the saloon era in Winston-Salem, describing Fourth and Third Street districts crowded with taverns. He notes few drunks after the Eighteenth Amendment and criticizes taxes that aid a few while harming the poor, urging retention of restraint.
A Colorado reader from Denver details personal use of All Bran to ease chronic constipation. The note mentions daily intake, fiber benefit, and vitamin and iron addition as helpful, with claims of regular relief after seven weeks.
Buella McClendon was found guilty in High Municipal Court of larceny for stealing three pairs of hose from a local store. She received six months in the county workhouse, potential execution within three years, and was ordered to pay $10 plus costs. The store manager testified seeing her take hose and hide them in a parasol she carried.
A historical note states that a checker must jump an opponent when the opportunity exists under the game's rules. The rule emphasizes forced captures and keeps play moving by penalizing missed jumps.
Postal regulations state that adhesive postage stamps are not redeemable nor exchangeable at post offices for other stamps.
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