Businesses and Housing Are Growing in High Point, Dec. 15, 1921

Fred Barbee Builds New Store Building

Fred Barbee, High Point business man, has begun excavation work for a store building on Rankin street. The structure is to be built of brick and will front 75 feet on Rankin and will be 100 feet in length.

Three store rooms in the building and each of the rooms will measure about 25 by 100 feet with large plate glass fronts.

The second floor will be divided into apartments for light housekeeping. There will be three four-room apartments and six three-room apartments.

The building, which will have every modern convenience, will be completed during the next few months, it is expected.

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Building Permits Here Total $48,000

Last month Fire Chief A.B. Horney issued permits for buildings to be erected in High Point at a total estimated cost of $48,000, and not $21,000.

Here are the permits issued in addition to those previously reported:

Judge Walter Royal, dwelling on Parkway, $4,000;

E.J. Phibbs, dwelling on King Street, $2,000;

J.R. Sparks, dwelling on Wildbury, $1,500;

W.W. Payne, garage, $100;

Albert Hart, dwelling on Parkway, $6,000;

Damp Laundry building on Pine street, $150;

Mrs. Loaman, dwelling on Wise, $1,200;

W.V. Fowler, dwelling on Wise, $2,000;

H.W. Smith, dwelling on Myrtle avenue, $1,600;

B.C. Albertson, dwelling on Montlieu, $2,000;

E.S. Darr, garage and barn on Maple, $100;

S.D. Shelton, addition to dwelling on Shelton, $1,250;

Ben Davis, barn, $50;

Thomas Holmes, dwelling on Wise, $800;

B.T. Witcher, addition to dwelling, $200;

George L. Reynolds, dwelling on Montlieu avenue, $2,500.

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Large Firm Wants Factory Built Here

Secretary F.J. Sizemore of the High Point Chamber of Commerce, received a letter Thursday from a large manufacturing corporation in Illinois, seeking information concerning this city with a view of probably establishing a factory here.

The letter was written by the manager of the company, who asked Secretary Sizemore to furnish freight rates from High Point to several cities and towns in the United States. The letter said the firm for sometime past had been considering opening a factory here in view of the fact that High Point had been extensively advertised as a great furniture manufacturing center.

The company produces davenports and couches.

From the front page of The Review, High Point, N.C., Dec. 15, 1921