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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1936
Page
7
Bids totaling over $135000 were received yesterday for a bank property sale in High Point. Several parcels including D Perry and various industrial and residential lots changed hands as buyers assume taxes and street assessments, signaling a revived pace in local real estate activity.
Martinsville sender apologizes to Mrs Hutcher and sends a dime. The note explains the sender once received 10 cents too much change in a Hutchersons ten cent store transaction. The Hutchersons have not run the dime store for 12 years.
Claradon C. Smith files for absolute divorce from Margaret Sykes Smith in High Point municipal court after more than two years’ separation. Mary Golden returns home on Welborn street claiming she did not desert the child, aided by police in locating her.
Miss Clarke Bowman conducts the mid week service at Wesley Memorial at 7 30 in the church basement on the theme Green Lights Miss Betty Hunt Murray plays and W C Phillips sings through the program.
The regular prayer service will be held this evening at 7 30 by Mrs H A Knight president of the City Wide Woman's Missionary Union. She will speak on The Importance And Need Of Prayer by request of Pastor Rev H C Miller.
Arthur Mayo 78, longtime afort county register of deeds, clerk of federal court and justice of the peace, died yesterday in State. Mrs John H Couch 70 died of a heart attack in Chapel Hill yesterday. Survivors include three sons Joseph H Norfolk Va John N and W T Couch Chapel Hill plus two daughters Mrs R E B Haltiwanger Winston Salem N C and Mrs Herman Dickert Buffalo N Y.
Funeral services for H B Durham age 30 of Kannapolis will be held at 4 30 p m today. Durham died Monday at the home of his parents Mr and Mrs J M Durham in Greenville South Carolina.
Thomas Martin 79 a Greensboro figure in business social and religious life for more than 26 years died Monday. He is survived by his widow two daughters and a son.
Mrs. Ella M Holland 77 of Winston Salem died at her home in Elizabeth City. The body will be sent to Winston-Salem for burial. Auction and property listings follow with multiple parcels sold by various bidders and agents. An unrelated note mentions microscopic sea organisms that would live forever if undamaged.
H T Short of the High Point Over all company faced contempt charges after allegedly firing Mrs R B Peatross the day she was called as principal witness in an abandonment and non support case Judge Teague postponed judgment to October 2 Several other minor cases were heard including drunkenness gambling and driving offenses with fines costs and suspensions.
Funeral services for Mrs Susan Dill Hubbard who died Saturday at her daughter’s home were held Monday at Mace Donia church at 2 30 pm. Elders Spangler and Trent and Rev Frank Young conducted the service. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were grandsons Herman Burrows L P Greenway Fred Moose Herbert Wood Paul Wood and Garfield Green. Mrs Hubbard born February 2 1856 was widow of F A Hubbard married March 11 1857. She had 11 children 32 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren. Survivors include two sons Sam Hubbard Wentworth and William Allen Hubbard Danville Va and seven daughters.
A note reports that in some Chinese communities grated raw potato is used as a substitute for soap. This practice reflects local improvisation in personal hygiene amid resource constraints.
The passage notes many mothers advise Cardus to daughters because they themselves benefited. It claims Cardul helps women weakened by malnutrition and eases menstrual discomfort, with thousands testifying to its effectiveness. It adds to consult a physician if it does not help.
Kay hosts an impromptu aviation crowd at their home to celebrate Ted Graham's trans-Pacific fame. Ted, tired and distant, withdraws to his locked den as Kay confronts his indifference fueled by gossip and lingering suspicions about his motives and marriage.
Kay declares she will fly to Honolulu with Monte after a night of partying and reflection on domestic duties. Doris cautions restraint as Kay resolves to break from a life of careful housekeeping and embrace a spontaneous escape. The note ends with a geographical trivia line about California’s extremes.
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