High Point Real Estate Transfers Highlight Major $3 500 Lot Sale
The register of deeds records show the largest amount paid was 3500 for a 70 by 150 foot lot at the southeast corner of Mangum avenue and East Russell street in High Point. D T Andrews bought the property from A J Dodamead, adjoining E D Steele and D T Andrews others. Additional deeds include Collins Horney and W P Ragan to Jones Chisholm for a 50 by 150 foot Churchill street lot and R J Clinard and wife to R Clay Crouch for a 50 by 197 foot Church street lot, sums 350 and 200 respectively.
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Register of Deeds Office
High Point
Mangum Avenue
East Russell Street
E. D. Steele
D. T. Andrews
A. J. Dodamead
Collins Horney
W. P. Ragan
Jones Chisholm
Churchill Street
J. ©. Bouldin
E. Smith
R. J. Clinard
R. Clay Crouch
Church Street
R. L. Davis
Pro-German British Prisoners at Ruhleben Camp
London reports reveal about 800 British subjects at Ruhleben prison camp who sympathize with Germany. Many are Germans by birth who naturalized in Britain to avoid military service and later returned to Germany to live. The camp also held Austrian German Swiss and Russian nationals with British citizenship. About 300 volunteers for the German army were secured from the camp after tensions over dual loyalties.
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Associated Press
London
Lord Newton
House of Lords
Ruhleben
Germany
England
Austria
Switzerland
Russia
Jurors Drawn for May Term at Guilford Court
Guilford County commissioners selected jurors for a one week civil court term starting May 21. The drawn list includes William R. Michael, A. F. Greeson, W. T. Staley, F. L. Landreth, E. F. Fisher, W. E. Hackett, N. G. Walker, George E. Buchanan, Thomas Crabtree, W. C. Ogburn, Foy C. Royals, T. R. Dillard, C. M. Waynick, E. F. Paschal, W. G. Hooks, J. H. Newman, A. C. Case, R. J. Frederick, Robert L. Gorrell, H. J. Cook, D. R. Pegram, N. E. Welborn, B. A. Welborn and P. G. Hartsell.
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Board of County Comissioners
Civil Court
William R. Michael
A. F. Greeson
W. T. Staley
F. L. Landreth
E. F. ‘Fisher
W. E. Hackett
N. G. Walker
George E. Buchanan
Thomas Crabtree
W. C. Ogburn
Foy C. Royals
T. R. Dillard
C. M. Waynick
E. F. Paschal
W. G. Hooks
J. H. Newman
A. C. Case
R. J. Frederick
Robert L. Gorrell
H. J. ‘Cook
D. R. Pegram
N. E. Welborn
B. A. Welborn
P. G. Hartsell
Rocky Mount Passes Midwifery Exam Law to Cut Infant Deaths
Rocky Mount's health department requires all midwives to pass a free examination in midwifery basics. The ordinance, effective January 1, 1917, aims to improve infant health as birth registration rises. State data show white births attended by midwives at 20 percent and correct births at 80 percent, with colored infant mortality linked to untrained midwives. The board endorses the Rocky Mount ordinance and urges similar action locally.
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City Health Department
Rocky Mount
Health Department
James C. Braswell, Jr
State Board of Health
Southern Cattlemen Convention Opens in Atlanta
In Atlanta on April 4 the Southern Cattlemen's association opened its annual convention with over 500 delegates from more than a dozen states. R K Doney of Duckport LA presided as sessions begin over three days featuring talks from cattle breeding experts and a notable blooded cattle sale accompanying the gathering.
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Atlanta
Southern Cattlemen's Association
R. K. Doney
Duckport
Fiji Islanders Offered to Work as Military Transport Laborers
Native Fijians unhappy with British army enlistment offers welcomed a proposal to serve as laborers on military transports in England. Henry Marks announced Fiji Islands authorities would equip and ship a contingent at their own expense, and the offer was accepted.
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Suva
Fiji Islands
England
Henry Marks
Fights Tonight in Erie feature Brown and Greb
Boxing card stacks six bouts led by knockout Brown facing Harry Greb in a one round bout at Erie Pennsylvania tonight with local fans awaiting a fast finish.
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Brown
Harry Greb
Erie
Making Laborer a Business Partner in Britain
Paris reports progress toward giving workers shares and a say in management of firms. The senate backs a bill letting qualified employees hold labour shares and participate in profits, with dissolution winnings shared by all shareholders. Some exemptions aim to ease capital-labor friction and reduce strikes.
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Paris
France
Senate
Briand
Death of Sir George Chetwynd, British Sporting Figure
London reports Sir George Chetwynd a prominent patron of boxing racing and polo has died in Monte Carlo. He was a fixture at the Casino and pigeon-shooting ground and often refereed major boxing matches in England. His heir, the same name, married Rosamund Secor who later divorced him. He sued the Jockey Club over the Fullerton case, receiving one farthing, and resigned from the club in protest.
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London
Sir George Chetwynd
Monte Carlo
George
England
Rosamund Secor
Sir George
Jockey Club
Fullerton
Theockey Club
A Good Old Fashioned Physic on Foley Cathartic Tablets
An old advertisement touts Foley Cathartic Tablets as a wholesome physic that cleanses the bowels, sweetens the stomach, and tones the liver. It claims relief for indigestion biliousness bloating gas and constipation without griping or nausea, urging stout persons to try this remedy from Mann Drug Co.
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Mann Drug Co
Winston Zinzendorff Sets Times for High Point
The notice lists Winston Zinzendorff for events at 9:00 p m and 11:30 a m on the Greensoro Line. Details are sparse but indicate schedule postings for the High Point route.
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High Point
Winston Salem Line
Winston Zinzendorff
Winston
Elkin
Wilkesboro
Mt. Airy
125000 Volunteers for National Service in Britain
London reports in the house of commons that national service volunteers reached 125000 by mid March. The group includes over 4000 professionals among the participants.
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London
House of Commons
New Freight Agent Hired by C and Y Railroad
Charles G. Yates, formerly with the Southern and Norfolk and Western freight departments, has become freight agent for the Carolina and Yadkin River railroad. He brings substantial experience and aims to deliver top service to High Point shippers. Earlier reports placed him with the Southern at Greensboro, but that was premature.
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Charles G. Yates
Southern
Norfolk and Western
Carolina and Yadkin River
Yates
High Point
Norfolk
Greensboro
Sale of 24 Acre Jamestown Land in Guilford Co.
Under a Guilford Superior Court order the commissioners will sell at 12 M on the 81st day of March 1917 at the Jamestown premises the 24 acre tract described in a Jacob Leonard to H W Cox deed. Sale to highest cash bidder. This 26 February 1917. J R Trotter H T Cox
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Superior Court
Guilford County
J. R. Trotter
H. T. Cox
J. Ed. Cox
Flora Cox
Jamestown Township
North Carolina
Sarah Weaver
H. W. Cox
Bright Leonard
Henry Crowder
Jacob Leonard
Sarah Ann Cox
Office of the Register of Deeds
Guilfor County
Government to distribute foodstuffs by ticket system in Italy
Rome April 4. The government begins organizing a nationwide distribution system for life necessities using tickets to equalize access across Italy. Provinces illustrate uneven supply with Man tua allowing under two ounces sugar per ten days while neighbors have no sugar limits.
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Associated Press
Rome
Italy
Mantua
Minute men of the rails and portable telephone wrecking train
A description of railroad wrecking crews called Minute men of the rails and their portable telephone equipment. The second item records a Certificate of Dissolution for Leonard Beavans Stamey Company, filed March 23 1917, approved by Secretary of State J Bryan Grimes and sealed in Raleigh.
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Leonard-Beavans-Stamey Company
High Point
Guilford County
North Carolina
W. C. Beavans
I. J. Bryan Grimes
State of
Raleigh
A. D
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Britain
Ola
Pitia
Orion
America
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Rose Theater
W. F. Clayton
Bk. of Commerce
High Point, N. C
Winston-Salem
High Point Elwood
High Point Lv
High Point Elwood Hotel
Greensoro Line
Guilford Hotel
A. Kirkman
Sec. and
Treas
The
J. A Hart Drug Co
C. & Y. R. Railroad
D. Hall Crews Architect
Masonic Temple
Winston-Salem, N. C
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co
Insurance Service
J. Gurney Briggs
Mgr
New York
New York Bakery
J. A. Hart Drug Company
North State
Bell
Lincoln
United Nation
Commercial National Bank
High Point, N.C
J. Elwood Cox
C. M. Hauser
V.-Pres
Our Savings Department
Odia Bank & Trust Compa
Wescott Roberson
W. C. Idol
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