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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1927
Page
12
Judge Lewis E Teague commander of the American Legion post appoints W R Fox adjutant to lead a membership drive planned to boost local post members to about 500. A meeting at the Hut tonight at 7 30 outlines plans and team assignments for the campaign.
Arrangements have been completed for serving hot lunches at all Caldwell county schools by the women’s home demonstration clubs. Miss Mattie L. Cooley reports each club will take its district, assigning different members to the work each day.
City council appoints J H Belton to replace D H Hancock as detective after Hancock vanished from Belton amid rumors of mystery. Chief L R Gibson says Hancock was on vacation with no known foul play. city manager P P Pilcher notes family troubles as possible reason for departure.
A North Carolina highway commission chart on file shows total state road miles as 6,797.75 with 1,496.9 paved in concrete and 1,058.75 in asphalt. It lists distributions by surface type and notes the four longest routes are 10, 20, 90 and 60, with detailed mileages for major routes including 10 from Morehead City to the Georgia line and 20 from Wrightsville Beach to the Tennessee line. Route 19 and Route 20 pavement breakdowns are included, along with district lengths for Routes 10 and 60.
An Evan gelistic campaign at First Methodist Protestant Church shows growing interest this week. Dr L B Smith of Peninsula M P Church Wilmington arrived Monday to preach on the Holy Spirit and fervent prayer. He will speak on The Only Backward Step Needed as personal visitation expands outreach to prospective members.
Bert Acosta and four New York companions said they would depart from a hay field near South Boston for Richmond in a large Fokker monoplane. They expected to reach Richmond in under an hour, noting no high test gasoline was available at the field.
Kiwanis Club members will meet at the new Episcopal Parish House on North Main Street tomorrow at 6 PM for their regular luncheon. Secretary Frank Sizemore said the change from 6 30 PM was to allow fathers to take children to the circus after the meeting.
Minnie E Johnson 36 died at her daughter Mrs W W Strickland’s home 507 East Commerce Street after illness She was born June 13 1891 in Atlanta Ga daughter of William Bryson and Mary Stevens She moved from Raleigh last December to live with her daughter Survived by mother two daughters one son a sister and a brother Funeral arrangements not set likely to be shipped to Atlanta for funeral and burial
The Eighth District Medical Society of North Carolina will hold its semi annual meeting in Kernersville at the Kernersville School auditorium on Thursday October 13. Dr. J R Paddison of Kernersville will call the meeting to order at 2 pm with readings and discussions of Scientific Medical Problems. A later open air barbecue and Brunswick stew will be served at Dunlap Springs before the 7 pm reassembly in the school auditorium. The public is invited to attend the evening session.
Funeral services for Mrs. Edna Ward who died Tuesday at a local hospital were held yesterday at Bush Arbor Primitive Baptist church in Caswell County. Elder Currie King officiated and burial was in the church cemetery with pallbearers A W Chandler A S Fitch Thomas Walker A C Byrd J L Eldridge and M C Brafford and flower bearers Mrs W P Miles Miss Rosa Garrison Miss Esther Garrison Miss Bettie Sumner and Miss Bessie Shaw.
Lloyd K. Clodfelter has reopened the Model Dairy Farm in High Point. The modern facility will operate under new management and his dairy trucks will conduct rounds in High Point, with Clodfelter well known to locals and customers hopeful for the restart.
Trial set for Wednesday October 5 in Asheboro magistrate's court for Duffy B Benson Edward Loving Baxter McNeill Mrs Walter Barton and Miss Ruth Hicks on charges of operating a vehicle under the influence of whiskey and possessing and transporting whiskey The wreck occurred on the Asheboro road ten miles from the city injuring all occupants of the Chrysler sedan Benson in bad condition at home bonds of 500 set for McNeill and Benson while Loving and Mrs Barton remain in Guilford General Hospital Yow the truck owner says Benson agreed to pay 500 damages for truck and furniture
An advertisement urges thin men and women to use McCoy's Tablets to gain at least five pounds after four sixty cent boxes or two one dollar boxes. It guarantees a full purchase price refund if promised weight and health improvements are not met. The copy notes the product as McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets and directs readers to Mann Drug Co. or any drugstore.
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