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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1931
Page
6
The Piedmont Highway Association warns against fake advertising schemes targeting hotels restaurants filling stations banks and other local businesses. The association endorses no such materials and will only approve advertising via its directors after proper submission and authorization.
The Wayside Garden club will meet Tuesday at 10 AM at Mrs J A Morris home on Roland Park. Mrs T Wingate Andrews will speak on Flowers In Music Poetry and Painting assisted by Mrs H I Coffield Mrs Gurney Briggs and Miss Florence Blair. MRS BYRUM A PATIENT AT CHARLOTTE HOSPITAL
Mr and Mrs Oscar M Hodgin of Thomasville announce the birth of a daughter Fairy Etta on September 4. Mrs Hodgin formerly Miss Madeline Owens, daughter of Mr and Mrs W T Owens of Thomasville. Miss Wannamaker Leaves for Tennessee College. Miss Elizabeth Wannamaker of St Matthews S S C will teach at State Teachers College Johnson City Tenn and assist in a demonstration school. State A A U W President to Attend Banquet. Mrs E R Mosher of Chapel Hill state president will speak at the local affiliate banquet at 6 30 pm at the High Point Country Club with a musical program by Misses Sloan Luce and Strickland and reservations urged by Wednesday noon.
About People Miss Belle Hunt Burton of Norfolk Virginia is the guest of Mr and Mrs Frank Ogburn Mrs Frank Ogburn and mother Mrs Fanny Burton have returned home after spending several weeks in Virginia Miss Vera Idol leaves tonight for New York City to enter Columbia University She will study there this winter to complete work for her Ph D degree W J Fraley left today for Pittsburgh Pa for an educational conference of the Equitable Life Assurance Society Miss Frances Jane Johnson has returned to her home in Walnut Cove after visiting Master D B Boyles Jr on Madison avenue Mr and Mrs George M Foard and daughter Mrs B O Montgomery of Statesville are visiting Mr and Mrs W Fraley at their Otteray drive home Mrs Fraley is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Foard Mrs T A Kay left to day for her home in Charleston West Virginia after spending the past week with her sister Mrs R L Waynick on North Main Street
Accompanied home by Mrs Waynick, she will be her guest for several days, sharing time in the household and familiar routines.
Rev. Tom Alderman Sykes of Central Friends church spoke Sunday on The One Great Sacrifice We Must Make urging a recovery of the sense of sin. He warned that many praise sin and neglect prayer, calling for personal responsibility and living sacrifices to enrich the community and world.
In Raleigh on September 21 Gov. O Max Gardner planned a conference with conservation officials to protest President Hoover's 20 day duck shooting order. He aligned with Gov. Pollard of Virginia who urged a 10 week season with three shooting days weekly, totaling 30 days, to spare guides and others from hardship.
Josephine, 16, responded to chores by gathering watches and jewelry and burning them in the furnace before setting the house ablaze. On questioning Judge Jennings ordered a mental examination as part of the proceedings to gauge her mental state.
New York artist James Montgomery Flagg contests Mayor Walker over authorship of the visor-beret worn in European resorts. Flagg says he designed it for motoring years ago and even considered patenting the item.
Quarterly mass meeting of the Christian Endeavor City union will be held Tuesday at 7 45 p m at the English Street M P church. Rev Roy I Farmer will report from the national convention in California. Miss Kathleen Embler will conduct devotional service. An Awards Committee will time points for each society and announce the leader. Plans for Thanksgiving baskets to the city's destitute will be considered.
Rev. G Ray Jordan of Wesley Memorial Methodist Church warns that reading alone is insufficient without discrimination and purpose. He urges readers to balance biographies science fiction and religious works, read when minds are fresh, and use books to enrich personal and communal life.
The Pittsburgh Plate Glass company will hold its quarterly district meeting at the Sheraton hotel tomorrow. Officials from the state are expected to attend and discuss various business matters, though no specific program was announced.
In Yonkers John D Rockefeller loses seven coins while counting his wealth and rewards a Hudson River ferry deckhand and two Palisades Park officers with dimes. He bids farewell with a joke about his grandmother. Separate notes report Craver’s mining texts, Anna Case quitting singing for marriage, and Butler’s converted barn mansion with 15 rooms and a 12 car garage.
All-star bowling teams from Greensboro and Winston visit to face a High Point picked team in the formal opening program of the renovated Lucky Strike alleys on West High Street. Howard Bryan, former Piedmont league shortstop, now alley manager, aims to attract public enjoyment of bowling with a focus on inviting Lady bowlers to attend. Matches are expected to be entertaining and well played.
Wheeler and Woolsey star in the comedy Caught Plastered at the Paramount for Friday and Saturday engagements. Dorothy Lee co stars as the Romeo and Juliet of the Comedy World, with a plot involving midwesterners saving a drug store from a villain who drugs soda and alerts the police. Douglas MacLean wrote the story and supervised production.
Reidsville reports the Carolinas Open golf tournament begins Thursday at Penn Rose Park, with over 100 players expected. The 72 hole medal format uses a nine hole course this year, featuring pro-am prior and a challenging wooded, hilly layout with narrow fairways and tall pines.
Chicago report states that over 3000 plant specimens, mainly from South America, were submitted to the Field Museum for study by Paul C. Standley. The plants were identified and all specimens were returned to the cooperating institutions in London Paris Stockholm Geneva and Berlin.
The State Department of Agriculture said 1930 honey production reached 1 750 000 pounds from 30 000 beekeepers owning 150 000 colonies. The industry attracted about 700 000 dollars in investment across Pennsylvania.
Notice states a 1931 Buick coach with serial 1727156 and motor 1781661 owned by W. C. Bentley is sold for repair charges of 23.25 dollars. Sale on October 7, 1931 at 12 PM at East Commerce Street, bidder wins, proceeds to owner after expenses.
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