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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1926
Page
8
Local druggists estimate High Point youth spend about 35 000 annually on rouge talcum tonics and cosmetics. Eight top stores sell over 100 dollars monthly in cosmetics, with total city sales likely rising beyond 35 000 yearly. Census data show cosmetics market values nationwide, linking youth fashion to rising perfumery sales.
A London Tit Bits joke recalls an Aberdonian asking for three penny worth of arsenic and, when asked its use, replying that he wants it for two pence. The humor hinges on the counterintuitive pricing in a terse exchange.
At the initial rehearsal for Little Bits of Everything a High Point welfare department project about 30 roles were assigned by directors Mrs Fred Klein and Charles Hilliard. Proceeds will pay a 1200 debt. The show staged at the American theatre Sept 24 features a minstrel with women only, a music act, a 20 minute comedy, songs and more. Participants include Lester King Robert Marshall Vernon Johnson and many others with a Charleston specialty by nine year old Jamallyn Dyer. Rehearsals continue nightly.
Principal L. R. Johnston reports 856 students enrolled with expectations to hit 900 by Christmas. Freshmen number 335, sophomores 232, juniors 147, and seniors 141 as the new $700,000 high school prepares for opening. The school plans to reach about 1,000 students next September with full accommodations in place.
Quoted line reports Nome Alaska receiving frozen blocks of reindeer milk. It notes unscrupulous milkmen drilling holes to insert icicles as a dubious practice.
Frank Sizemore declines an Asheville chamber invitation to join the third annual Good-will tour into Canada from Sept 28 to Oct 10. J Elwood Cox leaves for New York en route to Los Angeles for the 52nd annual American Bankers Association convention. The hottest day of the month hit 99 degrees with noontime 65 degrees and a later drop in temperature. Building permits issued for several residences and a service station. A porch fire on English and Lindsay streets was extinguished with chemicals. cause thought to be a cigarette on a shingle roof.
Charles Lem, owner of a North Main street laundry, chased a white man about 21 who rifled the cash drawer last night at 7. The thief fled toward South Main street with roughly $4.50 as a crowd pursued through Main Street alleys and past the Princess cafe.
Major William Morgan of Washington DC urged High Point Civitan members to ensure equal educational opportunities for all boys and girls. He cited NC examples and urged action to enroll about 800 missing high school students, praising editorial support and stressing long term benefits for the state.
An Aberdonian father and daughter play golf. After a round the father is dead as a stymie while the daughter wins with a decisive hole. He tells her it is a birthday gift, offering the hole as the prize.
Fate returns Theodore Roberts to film after two years in a Pittsburgh wheelchair. He stars in The Cat's Pajamas at the Broadway with Betty Bronson and Ricardo Cortez in a wheelchair role. Arlette Marchal appears as a French actress pursued by women. Ernest Vajda wrote the story for Bronson and Cortez. William Wellman cast Roberts in the wheelchair role.
Property transfers recorded across townships listing buyers, sellers, and lots or tracts with prices and valuables. Transactions include Jamestown, Oak Ridge, Gilmer, Monroe, High Point, Morehead, and White Realty Company listings with Emerywood and Tremont drive parcels noted. Some entries include government loan assumptions and various lot dimensions.
C C Garrett president of the High Point chamber praises local subscribers for contributing to the $25,000 budget campaign. In four mornings about 10 hours the drive exceeded the goal, doubling annual support and showing strong community spirit.
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