Senior Class of 1919 Gift Notes from DEWEY FOUST
A playful 1919 Senior class record lists humorous and personal gifts from DEWEY FOUST to classmates and teachers. Items include a pencil sharpener, a Turner token, a knight cloth, a tonic bottle, a wakeful alarm Glock, shoes, a spoon, Payne killer medicine, a mega phone, a question book, and a monkey likeness, with double meanings hinted for several gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howell Albesson
Josephus Wood
Margaret Johnson
Helen Gaeth
Mabel Teague
Blanche
Payne
Lawton Dutton
Robt. Kossuth Marshall
Stella Anderson
Sweet Bailey
Kathrine Pickett
Edith Harrison
Asheboro
Katheleen Welch
Bessie Tesh
Dewey Foust
City Hall Proposal Debated in High Point
High Point officials discuss building a municipal hall to house city offices, jail and police headquarters. A new lot in the southern city may host a funded structure, with an initial unit costing about twenty thousand dollars and potential relocation of the fire station to the south railroad station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jordan Street
Council Considers Central Municipal Building Plan
Discussion on consolidating fire and police units into one station proceeds. Officials note near simultaneous arrivals at scenes and plan to take definite steps at the next regular council meeting. Watch repair services advertised for Stamey’s Jewelry Store at 106 North Main.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stamey’s
N. Main
Notice of Grocery Business Purchase by Kivett and Jones
M J Kivett and W W Jones trading as Kivett and Jones announce the purchase of the grocery business of Joe Levine and will continue at the old stand. They assume obligations per contract attached with the bill of sale dated May 15, 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pjblis
Joe Levine
M. J Kivett
W. W. Jones
Kivett and Jones
Market ad seeks farmers with poultry and eggs
Kivett and Jones, successors to Joe Levine, advertise paying the highest market prices for chickens, eggs, and country produce of all kinds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kivett and Jones
Joe Levine
Building Permits for May Get City Expansion Under Way
May permits list projects across multiple firms and residences with values from 5 to 51 200 dollars. Notable entries include Southern Chair Company additions valued at 500 dollars and W T Hutchins dwelling on Campbell Street at 51 200 dollars. The Salvation Army fund drive remains short of its goal while J H Vestal buys Clean Box Works and plans new machinery. The jail is to be renovated for sanitation and the school playground fund has reached seven hundred dollars of the two thousand needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Chair Company
A. Wlaker Barver
D. R. Raper
C. A Lewis
M. C. Bane
Tomlinson Chair Company
J. T. Millington
FP. F. Austin
C. F
Monthen Avenue
Walter Sink
J. T. Brackett
F. T. Fallenstein
Thomas Watson
Salvation Army
J. H. Vestal
Hamilton Street
Messrs. Smith and Waters
Also Mentioned on This Page
Poner
Longfellow
Zane Willare
Gmithie
Old High Point
Ruth Welborn
Payne Killer
The
Piedmont Building & Loan Association
Wachovia Bank & Trust
High Point
Stamey
Georgette
Cilmer’s Specialty Store
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