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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1921
Page
9
A Sunday afternoon Elm Street school playground in High Point hosted an Elks band concert with over a thousand attendees. Cars lined the street while hundreds stood for the performance under Dr J Frey Tesh. The piece calls for a bandstand to improve acoustics and reach for ongoing summer concerts.
Annette Kellerman stars in What Women Love at the Broadway theatre. The plot follows a daughter of a moral crusader whose actions force his resignation from the Purity league. She travels by yacht to Honolulu, saves a suitor from mutiny, and teaches physical preparedness, in a photodrama produced by Sol Lesser with a Bernard McConville script and Nate Watt direction.
Mrs. John Flood of Memphis Tennessee at age sixty is constructing a new bungalow solo. She dug the cellar laid the foundation and handles the carpentry without any male assistance.
Paris dispatch says Greek forces were driven from Eski-Scheer by a Turkish counter attack early this week and Turkish cavalry is pursuing the retreating Greeks. The oddly inserted line about wall paper samples from a button factory sweep is noted as a stray fragment.
The Department of Agriculture unveils thermometers capable of detecting a temperature difference as small as one ten-thousandth of a degree. This breakthrough promises highly precise readings for scientific and agricultural applications.
Sealed proposals for 175000 funding bonds of the city of High Point N C are invited. Bonds 1000 each dated 1921 bearing 6 percent interest semiannually and maturing 1924 1926 and other years. Conversion to fully registered bonds possible. Payment in gold coin at Hanover National Bank New York. Proposals due April 15. Bid security 2 percent or equivalent. Details list maturities and conditions. Also political notices for council candidates A J Aldwell and N E Russell.
A resident of High Point declares intent to run for the Fourth Ward council seat. He pledges to serve honestly and to the best of his ability, seeking Fourth Ward voters’ support for a clean administration.
Candidate M D Ritzel announces March 12 bid for First Ward councilman through the Enterprise. He pledges to serve all citizens with an honest, economical, clean administration and to run as a plain citizen’s candidate not aligned with any ring or slate.
W L L Stamey argues voters should back a proven candidate over rhetoric. He cites achievements including free school books for all students, cemetery beautification, and free playgrounds and community facilities.
A local candidate declares support for extensive city upgrades including railroad crossing improvements, paving Steele Street, Centennial highway work, water and sewer extensions, sidewalks, street lighting, and a modern municipal building. He promises transparency, consistency, anti corruption, and to serve the public without offering political jobs, asking for votes and trust.
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