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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1887
Page
3
The High Point Enterprise lists religious services for several denominations. Methodist, Presbyterian, Friends, Baptist and Episcopal churches show preaching on varying Sundays, with pastors named and Sunday School times noted.
A brief item lists upcoming events and local notices including a Greensboro federal court session next Monday, plans for road paving, and various community updates across town involving businesses, schools, and public notices.
Ralph Williams, a Guilford county tobacco man, moves to Durham while Fred Poisson, a Wilmington native, journeys to Africa with a prospecting party. The Supreme Court frees 54 young lawyers as tobacco crop injury looms, and local notices urge readers to consider B F Johnson plans for quick money.
A regional page defends High Point cotton mill workers against critiques from the Craftsman journal. The piece asserts standard mill hours, piecework pay benefits, and employer fairness, while praising mill managers and noting community support for North Carolina factories. It also reports the Piedmont Reduction Company’s upcoming operation in Thomasville, its $50,000 plant, nearby Silver Valley mines, and Baltimore investors backing the venture.
Jor G. Anderson writes that W W Andrews fully endorsed the Leader note on the lynching and declines to further discuss the crime. He dismisses references to a “young black man” as irrelevant and invites a talk to resolve misunderstandings.
The ad counsels readers feeling low with headaches and poor appetite to avoid stimulants and bitters. It promotes Electric Bitters as a blood purifier that sparks liver and kidney action, restores vitality, and renews health, priced at 50 cents a bottle at Moffitt & Bradshaw's Drug Store.
Vanparia North Carolina features a large and well chosen stock of fruit trees ornamental trees evergreens roses shrubs and plants for fall plantings. All orders entrusted to Mr. C F Crutchfield of High Point receive prompt careful attention from G L Anthony.
Anna Haygood was found dying in Charlotte in destitute condition. A trunk search revealed $500 in gold and greenbacks. Reports from Mc Dowell county note a couple married and then sent to the county poor house. Wayne and Davidson counties report a self sustaining poor house and a chain gang. A Wilkes county correspondent describes Nathan Phillips accidentally shooting his ten year old son at Stony Hill on the 13th inst.
Moffitt and Bradshaw's Drug Store reports a broad revival in trade due to offering free trial bottles of Dr King's New Discovery for coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and throat and lung diseases. Trial bottles are free with large sizes at $1 and each bottle is warranted.
Dr R W Tate was chosen as Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Health, signaling leadership change in county health governance. Tate succeeds prior chair, guiding public health policy and oversight.
Brindleton makers sing of Huckleberry Cordial claiming improved bowel relief and teething comfort with every dose. They recommend it to every mother and the household physician.
Advertises Nortis Carolina Lime Phosphate as a dry mineral fertilizer for cotton, corn, wheat oats rye and grasses. It lists contents like phosphoric acid, bone phosphate, lime, potash and trace minerals, and argues it contains little water and no excess sulfuric acid.
Practical fertilizer formulas for clay or rich soils and for wheat on sandy land. Guidance covers Lime Phosphate combined with Muriate Potash salt and other amendments for one to four acres. Notes Lime Phosphate benefits for oats and bluegrass regions and recommends broadcasting 600 to 1,000 pounds with kainit on sandy soil.
Horticulturists emphasize lime phosphate and related amendments for orchards and vines. Nurserymen broadcast a heavy lime phosphate application before planting and apply 5 to 10 pounds around each young tree during setting.
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