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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1917
Page
4
The piece extols advertising as essential to business growth in High Point, urging merchants to spend with The High Point Enterprise to reach the largest and best customers. It frames advertising as the master key to expansion and warns that slowing ads slows business.
The Enterprise urges restraint with Germany amid rising tension and urges neutral nations to form an international court to draft peace principles. It argues for stopping the massacre and developing peaceful aims, while criticizing immigration policy and supporting a literacy test. It endorses strong national control over admission and cautions against war.
The Raleigh Enterprise mocks a plan to fund a $50,000 domestic science department at North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College. It ridicules the idea as folly and questions whether sponsors expect male students to keep wives indoors while they work the fields.
W C Jones returned from Greensboro after a county board session that decided to buy the Caldwell and Staples properties on West Market street, close one block of South Ashe street, and erect the new courthouse there. The site lies opposite the West Market street Methodist church and two blocks west of the current courthouse, a surprising choice to local residents.
The Elm Street School was reported as losing several days but teachers say only one day was missed due to the cold. Repairs noted at the South Main Street School were actually the ones completed. Teachers continue to work despite the cold during the period.
A. G. Dixon urges High Point to pursue a Methodist Hospital site in Piedmont Carolina. He argues for local backing to meet future medical needs, then calls for a YMCA building a library and a park to uplift the community.
The listing notes Marguerite Clark in Snow White at Broadway for next Friday and Romeo and Juliet with The da Bara at the Rose on February 14, Saint Valentine’s Day.
Ford N. Tate spoke in Gastonia to bankers and business leaders urging a state chamber of commerce. The address drew praise from newspaper correspondents covering the gathering.
The note announces a White appearance at the Broadway venue scheduled for next Friday with tickets likely available through the box office and outlets. The brief gives no additional details about time or supporting acts.
J. B. Shaw administrator asks all claimants against Tillman Shaw's estate to present claims by February 6, 1918 and directs all debts to be paid to him or attorney T. W. Albertson. Deadline notice and guardian’s statement appear in Guilford County record.
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