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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1922
Page
5
Proposes extending city limits in all directions to create a 20 000 population city with improved library facilities parks playgrounds and a new passenger station. Calls for elevated tracks planning system more homes and expanded paved streets sewer water and hard surfaced roads.
The ongoing railroad strike stretches for weeks with no settlement in sight. Citizens discuss gate use and city paving as High Point plans more paved streets, aiming for a statewide lead in mileage once complete. Local editor is reportedly delayed due to the strike.
A fragmented Local notice speculates on Fifth Avenue walking ease if High Point renames streets amid a street-building surge. Strike leaders complain while the city weighs a new parking ordinance and coal distributor orders loom before cold weather.
North Carolina pastor Kelvin Maynard, famed for piloting flights, recently married a couple several thousand feet above the earth and guided them down safely. No watchman was present at Main Street crossing after 6 PM Saturday night.
Kenyon College Gambier offers a prize to any college student for the best essay on Gorge the romance of old Athens by Prof. Charles Kelsey Gaines. The work compares to Ben Hur and Quo Vadis in romantic merit and depicts Greek social, political, and moral life as an study. Some condemn modern literature’s sex content while others back scholarly reading and good morals.
Col Don Scott who commands the national guardsmen in Spencer says troops guard life and property and maintain peace. He seeks to protect all residents of Spencer and Salisbury, earning broad respect for his impartial, fair handling of the strike situation.
District Engineer Waldrop backs Greensboro residents on adding concrete shoulders along the highway. The state commission has funds and crews ready, citing heavy traffic and safety needs. Concrete shoulders favored for wet surfaces, with urgent action urged to curb gradient and curvature issues affecting commerce and public safety.
The article discusses Taft era ideas to reform the judicial system by eliminating minor courts and expanding superior courts. It argues for more judgeships to reduce docket congestion and unify administration of law across the country.
Lawyers admit changing judicial practices to simplify processes. They acknowledge reforms may become cumbersome with varied technicalities that at times hinder courts from achieving their aims.
A reader letters questions if a passerby known as smart alex acted with malice by spitting tobacco on a car carrying two young women near Oak Hill between the swimming post and highway last Saturday at about 6 30 pm The writer seeks the man’s name to give him notoriety and declares the act un gentlemanly and shameful by H J Willard Route No 5 Box 54.
New Orleans officials outline housing for 150000 guests for the American Legion national convention set for October 16 to 20. Private homes will host veterans, hotels offer 1.50 to 2.50 per day rates, and a Pullman city with 14960 visitors will be created in three rail yards. Tent cities and army base buildings will supplement lodging along the riverfront. Reservations must go through the state Legion adjutant.
Dan and Baxtey Lattimore, nine and their younger brother, were killed just after midnight in the tien gia railroad yards when a guard named W. T. Hall opened fire. Hall surrendered to authorities in Warrenton.
About 600 members of the Reitzel clan gathered at Richland church Alamance county for the fourth annual reunion. Dr Claud E Reitzel was re elected president and delivered the principal address Educational Development, with Rev B A Barringer also speaking on Religious Education. A 110 foot long table picnic and watermelon feast followed.
In Raleigh on August 28 the community greeted the Senate confirmation of William B. Duncan as postmaster with unanimous approval. Duncan, already serving as acting postmaster, is seen as favored by patrons and local officials, with little opposition from North Carolina senators Simmons and Overman.
Aug 26 report from Trenton says New Jersey state prison inmates who caused disturbances were denied breakfast after immunity from orders. Principal Keeper Hoff warned of no dinner for loud prisoners, but after meals they continued banging cell doors with metal cups.
Hildebert Letourneau of St Pierre Montwagny county has raised twenty one children and produced fine potatoes corn and wheat. His family and crops earned him the 1922 Medaille du Messe Agricole award as neighbors praise his work and the government notes his merit.
A spectacular blaze broke out aboard the Mallory Line steamship Rio Grande in a Brooklyn drydock, illuminating the harbor. Firefighters from several companies and two fire boats fought the flames as the ship burned completely, but nearby vessels were saved.
Miss Lucile Thomas arrived back last night from New York and Atlantic City after a two week visit.
Greensboro resident Miss Gladys Caudle is in Guilford General Hospital suffering from appendicitis. Local reports confirm her condition and ongoing treatment.
The statement notes birds can typically raise about half again their body weight during flight. It describes lift capacity as modest relative to overall mass and varies with size and wingbeat.
Guilford County Sunday School convention notes aggregate Sunday school membership up by 764 to 7 454 in High Point township. Officers elected include Miss Lottie Barber secretary treasurer and B T Bayne Greensboro president. Twenty eight Sunday schools represented with 11 superintendents and 47 teachers. A large picnic dinner followed Devotional led by Rev E Lee and talks on Elements of Sunday School Success and cooperative work.
This morning only three cases were disposed of in municipal court. James Lee was fined $5 plus costs for larceny. James Dudley was fined $10 and costs for being drunk and disorderly. Isaac Smith also faced a $10 fine and costs for the same offense. Several cases were continued to a later session.
Mrs Mendenhalls mother Mrs D E Hoover returned Saturday to snow Hill Miss Susis Creen spends two weeks vacation with friends in Portsmouth Va Mr and Mrs Shanon Lapa at Greensboro were guests of Mr and Mrs D T Lambeth for the week Mr and Mrs Mistadien left Saturday night for Baltimore and New York to purchase a line of fall goods for Stadien Cohen Mr and Mrs GC V Ritchie are visiting relatives in China Grove and Charlotte They expect to be away all this week
Gorge T. Penny president of American Land Co has closed a contract with J A Booth of West Point Va to sell 600 acres known as the Wray property on the west side of High Point and Archdale on an asphalt road. The land will be offered in small tracts and home sites on or about September 18.
The United States funds a $300,000 opera house style embassy in Rio de Janeiro to host Brazilian Centennial Exposition exhibits and later serve as the American Embassy. Construction by Dwight P. Robinson & Co. from Frank J. Packard plans progresses rapidly with corner stone laid by Mire Ekpacio Pessoa. Prior U S embassies include Beijing and San Salvador.
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