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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1916
Page
4
The fragment mentions Managing Editor J Prawle and a Business Manager related to cases. No further context or details are provided in readable text.
High Point residents are urged to donate to fund the opening of the High Point Greensboro road. The Greensboro chamber asks Gate City to provide 350 for expenses while High Point covers 150 toward a total of 1,000. County commissioners await both cities to raise 500 before the 3500 county share becomes available. The finance committee pleads for quick business contributions as the celebration date nears.
A hometown editorial urges strict police enforcement of speed limits on new paving. It notes drivers race on residential streets, endangering pedestrians, and compares auto speed to restricted train speeds on property. The piece also references infantile paralysis, measles and tuberculosis in New York, and ends with brief editorial observations about local editors and a columnist.
The cotton market opened feverish with an active bid. First prices showed gains of 25 to 31 points over last night, December at 15.56 and January at 15.57 on the call, with prices near the best levels despite selling pressure.
The Chicago wheat market opened Aug 25 with gains of about percent to one percent, but the move proved brief. Decem ber futures started at around 1.42 to 1.52, touched 1.527, and slipped to 1.51. No fresh bullish cues from Liverpool cables sustained the early rise.
The article recalls 60 to 70 years ago when states were divided into districts each with a company conscripting men for yearly drills a grand muster gathering under a bespangled officer with eager crowds watching. It recalls social feasts and even a Tom Corwin anecdote of militiamen charging a watermelons and plucking red hearts.
The quarterly meeting of the Friends church started this afternoon at Marlboro in Randolph County and will run through Sunday with sessions for worship and discussion.
In Springfield township favoured by a neighbor's goat, Rev. C. B. Weaver visiting John Smetzer found the animal chewing and hitting the car horn. Weaver and two men shooed the goat away, but it returned and honked again, so they penned it in the barn until the parson could depart.
In a provincial town a society woman hosts a white elephant party where guests bring unused items. The event ends abruptly when eleven of the nineteen women arrive with their husbands, derailing the planned fun.
Des Moines August 25 prospects point to a bumper crop as Iowa farmers head to the state fair. The exhibit features 63 herds of pure bred beef cattle from Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois Missouri Mississippi Kansas Oklahoma Nebraska South and North Dakota.
Austria forbids Istrians to speak Italian. Miss Lucy Black of Washington DC visits Miss Helen Brockett on Johnson Street.
Hay fever afflicts thousands and asthma sufferers endure torture. Foley's Honey and Tar gives relief by allaying inflammation clearing air passages easing rasping cough and soothing. This wholesome family remedy contains no opiates a bottle lasts a long time. For sale by Mann Drug Co.
Last night the Demoyrest Stock Company drew a full house with East Lynne and Miss Ona Demorest praised as Lady Isabelly. Tonight they announce Ku Klux Klan drama, Saturday matinee at 3 p m features The Girl of Rage, and Saturday night closes with Jesse James in four acts. A thousand seats at 10 cents.
National Geographic notes the forget-me-not as a decorative immigrant in American gardens. It highlights its honey guide marking and nectar gathering by bees, and recounts legends linking the flower to memory and love.
Enoch Chase found a joint snake in a dugout when clearing logs on Mel Hick's land. He placed one joint in a bucket as a joke and waited. The snake coordinated a multi joint mechanism, with the head leading and tails following, until a passing car frightened it into escaping into tall grass.
Miss Ethel Carroll of New York will arrive tomorrow to fill the head milliner post at Miss Venetia Smith’s millinery store. She is well recommended and previously connected with the pattern hat department of the James A. Johnson company in New York.
Mrs Wm Leonard of Pottsville Pa reports her baby had a very bad cough and the first dose of Foley s Honey and Tar gave relief. The product is promoted as a safe family cough medicine with no opiates or harmful ingredients and suggests keeping babies covered at night to prevent colds.
The city council plans decisive action next meeting to elect a new principal, Prof. A A Taylor, already chosen by Mr. Marr. The basement remodel adds two rooms for a scouts museum and cloak rooms, with former music and girls sewing spaces repurposed for classes. Prof Taylor, with Nashville roots, aims to expand study, adding French and Virgil courses as options. Prof P L Deaton to teach science and lead athletics, with a stronger program and a likely capable 175 pound player on the Newberry origins team.
In Porto Rico San Juan August 25 jitney traffic exceeds 3000 passengers daily and hurts the electric street railway system. O M Sewell general manager Porto Rico Railway Light and Power company says losses since January 1 reach 34000 with jitneys operating since last November ranging from 35 to 183 daily. None of the pre January 1 jitney owners operate now and all have lost money. Caso line gas price rose from 19 to 36 cents per gallon.
Russia's Pavlova will appear on the Broadway screen in The Dumb Girl of Portici a grand spectacle marking her screen debut. The operatic work Masaniello once a staple and later a burlesque vehicle has a fluctuating history with Fenella as the key role, now transformed for film.
Fragmentary note discusses appetite and stomach needs. It hints at stimulation and sweetening to spur action, with reference to pleasure dining. The text reads as a casual, era-tinged editorial aside on taste and desire.
Stockholm reports unusual heat on the southern edge of the Arctic circle this summer. Travelers from the north describe temperatures 10 to 20 degrees higher than Stockholm along the journey via the Gulf of Bothnia and near Haparanda. Daylight saving time shifted schedules, with twilight lengths affecting daily activities like 8:20 p.m. football and 7 p.m. golf.
Mrs Frances Axtell of Bellingham Progressive candidate for Congress in Washington second district resigns as state chair of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and vows support for President Wilson. She will not back the Colorado Springs Woman's party to defeat Wilson.
A large crowd attended the revival meeting at the Hilliard Memorial Mission on Cassell street last night. Dr. A. W. Claxon preached in the afternoon and again at eight in the evening. The tented services are open to all and expected to continue for several days with hoped for good results.
Walter Royal as receiver of Southern Buggy Company plans a public auction in West High Point for Lot 11 Block A of the N E Welborn plat Guilford County. Bids require a 10 percent cash deposit immediately if accepted, applicable to the purchase price upon court confirmation. August 1, 1916.
On September 22 at 10 o'clock the Carolina and Yadkin River R R Co will auction a freight carload of lumber consigned to High Point Furniture Co. Refusal by consignee dated December 15 1915. Alcola S5 in A C L car No 37670. Sale held at their station for freight and charges. Itawaw
Auction sale by administrator Ed L. Pagan of the estate of John Kaney proceeds at 2 p m on September 18 1916 to the highest bidder for cash includes a soda fountain and fixtures located in the deceased’s property. Auction notice dated August 17 1916.
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