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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1919
Page
4
The text questions whether lynching in Bickett's home county is worsened by location and jabs at city repair failures on Centennia avenue. It hints at New Year resolutions and asks what vice remains to resolve.
A $100 counterfeit federal reserve note is found loose. The remark states one certainty that it has not taken us with us, implying a missed seizure or misstep in handling the bill.
A Greensboro News column muses on public affairs from fashion and finance to city services. It critiques newspaper stances, notes garbage can removals, urges road building in Guilford County, and questions rail passenger discharges while urging readers to write the commission.
The editorial condemns mob lynchings in Franklinton and North Carolina, denouncing the failure to bring murderers to trial. It questions officials’ ability and will to enforce law, calls for restraint and wiser legislation, and urges economic sobriety and prudent state action in wartime and postwar governance.
The article urges postwar peace at home and abroad, stressing stable commerce, industrial harmony, and national welfare. It calls for railways back in service, a strong merchant marine, anti profiteering, housing solutions, employment for veterans, vocational training, controlled immigration, better postal service, and improved national leadership.
Two city council members deny any authorization for placing billboards on streets as garbage cans. They say if authorized it was by the mayor or city manager, whom they doubt have such authority. If not authorized, the cans stand as a nuisance for the police to abate, since sidewalks may not be obstructed without municipal sanction.
Highlights include 1809 birth of William Ewart Gladstone, 1827 Margaret Bottome, 1843 Queen Elizabeth of Houmania, and events from 1890 to 1917 such as the second Khafir war, Silver Lake fire disaster, Braura River actions, Swedish-German naval actions, Scandinavian peace appeal, and the sinking of three British destroyers with 193 lives lost.
Dr. Simon Flexner, director of Rockefeller Institute laboratories, will preside at the AAAS annual meeting in St Louis. Renowned for work on bubonic plague infantile paralysis and infectious diseases, he hails from Louisville and trained at the University of Louisville Johns Hopkins and abroad. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University the University of Pennsylvania and held major hospital posts. His research has earned honors from major universities and societies worldwide.
Horace Chilton former U S senator from Texas born in Smith County Texas 66 years ago today. Charlotte Walker noted actress born in Galveston Texas 41 years ago today. Clarence Ousley former USDA assistant secretary born in Lowndes County Ga 56 years ago today. William J Fields U S representative born in Carter County 45 years ago today. Jess Willard former heavyweight champion born in Pottawatomie County. Ran 32 years ago today.
Manchester reports C Whakley has left England after failed attempts to introduce his circular loom in mills. He travels to the United States seeking financial help to test the device. Blackburn Technical School official says the loom could cut operating personnel costs by about three quarters.
Tulsa oil driller Oren Grandberry has been unconsciously asleep at his brother's house since December 7 despite eight physicians' attempts to awaken him.
The sixth Philadelphia trade expansion excursion will visit High Point on Thursday January 29 arriving about 11 15 a m and leaving at 12 30 p m The party travels by special train with dining and sleeping cars and aims to meet local business leaders rather than seek immediate orders.
In St Thomas on December 29, U S marines garrisoning newly acquired territories cannot fathom local fashion. Natives wear every item possible in 100 degree shade, parading through streets in overcoats, capes, multiple trousers, and red bandanas, with horns strapped near the ears.
Germans arrive aboard ships from Holland into Argentina, with 400 on one vessel. Land allotments in Missiones Province near Panguiay and Rio Grande do Sul area go to settlers for 12 acre lots. Colonists focus on yerba mate cultivation amid provisional permits. A separate note recalls low literacy among Britons at Victoria’s ascent.
Today starts the seventy second annual meeting of the AAAS in St. Louis with affiliated bodies, while the American Philosophical Society gathers at Ithaca. Geological and Palaeontological societies meet in Boston, and the Archæological Institute opens in Toronto with the American Philological Association. Harvard hosts Anthropology Psychology and Folklore sessions this week. Municipal leaders gather in Cleveland for the National Municipal League annual convention. Alabama votes on constitutional amendments in a special election. Western farmers clubs meet in Berkeley for a conference and Oregon holds Farmers and Homemakers Week at the state college.
Racing in Havana at the Cuba American Jockey Club and New Orleans Jefferson Parish Fair Association opens. Three cushion billiards match in New York between Robert L Cannefax and Charles Otis. Pinehurst hosts the midwinter golf tournament. Boxing cards in Jersey City Syracuse with Kilbane Chaney Reich Cowler Greb Ratner Sharkey Collins. rounds listed.
The National Theatre, under construction since 1902, will cost at least 20 million pesos and is tentatively set for a September 16 dedication next year, aligning with the national holiday.
Saturday deeds filed at the county courthouse in Greensboro show High Point transfers. J Hanison Dorsett to A N Hedrick lot 26 Snow Park. Mary A Johnson to J Bourdin lots 16 and 17 Barnes subdivision. John Messer to John R Allred lots 22 and 23 Charles Amos property High Point township. J H Wright to M M Blair lot in High Point township. D R Parker to A N Hedrick lot 1 Snow Park. Charles L Amos and wife to John Messer lots 22 and 23 Charles Amos property. M J Wrenn to W F Lewallen lot 12 High Point Development Co. property. T C Andrews to Pickett Cotton Mills lots 4 5 and 22 West End heights. J P Perdue to T A Pierce lot on Coltrane street. — sums range from 10 to 1280 dollars.
Washington, Dec. 27. The Mexican government ordered the closure of another large American oil well in the Tampico area. The well had produced for over a year and followed all regulations in force at the time. State Department seeks further details on the seizure.
William Fogel, an American farmer living near Jaurez, Mexico, has been missing for some time. Edward A. Dow, the American consul, has received notices and relatives in Phoenix, Arizona, have sought information. A passport had been issued to Fogel to aid his return home, but no word has reached the consul.
Washington Dec 27. War Department designates cadidates for the February entrance examinations to the Military Academy. Georgia Cary J King Jr Rome and South Carolina Sarratt T Haimes Union are listed among the nominees.
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