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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1929
Page
6
Local society notes announce the Mardi Carte club meeting Tuesday at 3 PM with Mrs William Simmons on Hardover Street and the Esbera club gathering Thursday at 3 PM with Mrs J J Dell on Rowland Park Avenue. Debutante coverage notes High Point participants at Raleigh’s Debutantes Ball.
Greens boro resident Miss Mildred Little spent the week end with Miss Katherine Snyder. Ralph Weedon heads to Raleigh to enter State College junior class. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Crowson, formerly of High Point now Durham, visited friends in the city. Alice Elizabeth Freeze travels to Hamlet to stay with Miss Johnsie Dennis. Thomas Dalton, visiting his brother Carter Dalton and Mrs. Dalton on Johnson street, now with his parents in Greensboro. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Blackwelder and daughter Lydia return to Spartanburg S C after visiting Mrs. F. A. Stewart. Mrs. Alexander Rankin Jr returns from New York and Washington with Mr. Rankin. They stayed with Mrs. Spencer Wiese in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. E L Millikan and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Agner and daughter Pauline spent weekend in Rocky Mount with Mrs. Millikan’s sister Mrs. W. E. Hussey.
Circle No 4 of the Presbyterian Auxiliary holds a plant and seed sale Tuesday at 9 at Mrs D E Compton's on Steele Street. Plants include Columbine foxglove iris gallardia hardy phlox pyrethrum butterfly bush althea pink and lavender winter bouquets mixed hollyhocks Chinese forget me nots African daisy. Seeds feature a double pink poppy iris delphinium. Bulbs offered are gladiolas.
Tobacco farmers in the middle belt prepared to move crops to eleven markets opening tomorrow in Burlington Mebane Durham Oxford Sanford Aberdeen Carthage Roxboro Henderson Fuquay Springs and Warrenton. Durham led last year with 22 279 428 pounds at 20.06 a hundred. Henderson 20 232 962 at 19.56. Oxford 16 989 629 at 18.17. Mebane posted the top average at 22.08 per hundred.
The Commerce Department reports August figures with North Carolina in second place behind Massachusetts for active spindles and second to South Carolina in total spindle hours. North Carolina shows 5.84 million spindles active, while South Carolina leads hours at 1.80 billion and Massachusetts follows in both measures. Carolina’s average hours per spindle rank second at 822, trailing South Carolina and ahead of Georgia and Alabama.
A merchant gave his wife a glycerin buckthorn saline mix marketed as Adlerika for sour stomach and gas. The ad claims Adlerika cleanses upper and lower bowels, relieves gas and constipation, and promises a restful day after one spoonful. Sold at Eckerd's Cut-Rate Drug Store and other druggists.
Thomasville Sept 23 Rev Z T Bell aged Methodist minister is critically ill at his home on Fisher Ferry street after a period of ill health that recently worsened.
Four University of North Carolina football players were injured when a light roadster left the highway near Salisbury and rolled over three times. J W Daniels and Jack Dunavant, both of Charlotte, were hospitalized with chest injuries and a fractured clavicle, while W G Reid of Charlotte and N E Eskew of Greenville SC sustained scalp wounds but were able to travel to Chapel Hill after treatment. The team had been returning to campus after a weekend in Charlotte and said they swerved to avoid a car on the wrong side of the road.
Mrs Virginia Hodgin Kersey 69 died yesterday at 4 05 AM at home off Kivett drive after four months illness. Born November 12 1859 she married April 15 1893 to John C Kersey. Survivors include husband two sons Geo A and John H both of High Point route 2 two daughters Rachel Loflin Ruth Ker sey four brothers William George John and Charlie Hodgin all of Jamestown three sisters Mrs Nathan McGehee Mrs Ed Holton of Jamestown and Mrs Annie Robbins of Archdale Funeral services were held at Mitchells Grove M E church this afternoon. Interment in the church cemetery.
Washington September report shows watermelons shipped from the south to the north suffer chemical damage from residues of fertilizers left in cars. Researchers find lining cars with paper and bedding floors with straw after cleaning remedies the issue in nearly all cases.
Lea Simonson, renowned for Theatre Guild stage settings, designs a six movable-piece living room for the Delmonico Hotel. He argues built in furnishings preserve unity, contending constant rearrangement disrupts interior architecture and suggests a three year lease may suit a hotel suite style.
The passage argues that a home becomes livable through change not perfection. A space with four chairs and two movable tables reflects a need to grow, adapt, and develop personality. Imperfections create character and better suit occupants.
Describing Simonson's apartment, the piece notes multiple modern features with natural colors and new woods. It praises the lack of zig-zags and futuristic angles, clashing lines, or feudal styling, emphasizing tasteful, contemporary design.
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