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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1927
Page
6
Mr and Mrs John Beck announce the birth of a daughter named Doris Peggy. Annie Tucker leaves Thursday for Raleigh to take a position with a realty company there. Several church and social group notices follow with meetings and events across High Point activities and residents.
Earl N. Phillips leaves today for a business trip to Richmond. Miss Ruth Moffitt and Miss Elizabeth Hayden attended the races at Charlotte yesterday. Miss Ada Brown of Greensboro and her sister Mrs. J. M. Booth of Charlotte are visitors here today. Britt Armfield is in Winston-Salem today. Carl Wood returns from Columbia South Carolina on a business trip. Alfred Caldwell Jr leaves tomorrow to resume studies at the University of North Carolina.
A report notes that about one seventh of Great Britain’s population is employed in the clothing trade, highlighting the sector’s large labor share.
Raleigh Sept 20 AP Cautiously 35 warehouses in 10 Piedmont cities began middle belt sales as farmers worry over opening bids while hoping for later price rises. North Carolina Warehousemen urge farmers to withhold tobacco for better prices though market control remains limited. Durham Oxford Henderson Fuquay Springs Roxboro Mebane Burlington Aberdeen Carthage Sanford totals cited.
Twenty six Greensboro boys join Oak Ridge for the fall term led by Talmadge Allen J H Blue Jr Archie Bevill J P Clark A O Coleman Homer Chamblee Wilbur Cockman Paul Glass Herman Gardner Howard Gardner Bynum Hines Archie Joyner E G Kilgore Champ Land Ted LeViness Roger Lewis Sam Marley Clyde Nance Reid Perkins Walter Ridenhour Madry Solomon Douglas Swin H F Tucker John Turner Paul Wyrick. Cadet leave rules match other sections. Dr Herbert Ogburn Oak Ridge alumnus will address the student body Sunday Sept 24 at 11 oclock, first talk in the 1927 28 series.
A man in Grand Rapids, identified by police as Rev. Willis F. Gordon, is hospitalized with typhoid symptoms. Police believe he is the missing Rev. Willis J. J. Jordan of Columbus, Ga., who had been missing since last Wednesday night.
The Carolinas end a record hot spell as heavy storms pass and cooler air arrives. Asheville records 52 degrees, Charlotte hits 60 at 6 am and 67 at 10:30 am, Wilmington 69, with statewide reports of general cooling overnight.
Funeral services for Hazel Louise Elkes infant daughter of Mr and Mrs P J Elkes Jr were held at the family home 709 Grace street at 1030 this morning conducted by Rev H C Byrum pastor of Calvary M E church Pallbearers were C B Solomon Alfred Williams T P Cooper and T A Talley Burial was in Lebanon cemetery at Mechanicsville
The Guilford county board of commissioners met in Greensboro and received letters of thanks from the High Point chamber of commerce and Pleasant Garden citizens for endorsing the construction of a new road through the county.
President Coolidge has decided against a special session of Congress before its December meeting. Mississippi flood relief funds are sufficient through January 1, and Hoover reports engineers will need more time to compile data for flood prevention plans, making December action unlikely.
Announcement of the engagement of Miss Constance Simons Du Pont of Grangague Delaware to Colgate W Darden Jr of Norfolk Virginia son of Colgate W Darden and Mrs Darden of Franklin Virginia has been announced by AP from Norfolk Virginia dated September 20.
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