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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1916
Page
4
Facts from the Industrial Department of the Commercial Club describe water capacity with a 660600 gallon mains supply and a 3000000 gallon reserve. Tax rate 1.45 per 100 on 40 percent of value. taxable property 1914 value 4392700. Two building and loan associations hold 450000 in assets. 475000 invested in homes over five years. The Enterprise and Weekly Review publish here along with the Southern Furniture Journal in the Southeast.
A patchwork of quoted quips and local chatter spans politics culture and commerce. References include Rankin and the Speaker, High Point housing, alibis for Hughes, editorials on prices, Carranza decrees, Mr. Bryan visiting, Kitchin remarks on embargoes and armed forces, fashion notes, cinema with a Frenchman and a German in High Point, and rival cheers at a film orchestra.
An editorial calls for productive lawmaking as the 1917 North Carolina General Assembly meets in Raleigh. It argues to prune redundant and unenforced statutes, focus on education and forestry concerns, and pursue constructive statewide reforms over parochial gain. The piece notes the North Carolina Forestry Association meeting to follow and stresses forest conservation and pulp industry issues as priorities.
Meetings at Friends Church opened with Rev Absalom Knight delivering sermons. He urged members to join in gathering souls to the Kingdom of God as Mrs Kittrell and Miss Margaret Mast arrived with the choir. Knight recalled evangelistic work in High Point twenty years ago and urged Christians to find their place in regeneration, knowledge of God, love, and service. Services scheduled 10 am and 7:30 pm. cp HH A Millis President W R Morrow Sec Treas.
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