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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1917
Page
3
The wind and dust swirled through the streets while the water cart failed to appear, leaving pedestrians scraping dust from eyes and clothes. Officials offered no explanation as to the cart’s absence, and residents wondered where the sprinkling wagon had gone.
High Point faces delays as the proposed furniture exposition building stalls amid uncertainty over two potential builders and a shaky freight embargo. Manufacturers demand clear financial benefit and buyers for two yearly shows, with shipping disruptions delaying progress for months.
Danville Virginia February 27 hair tonic labeled bay rum appears as intoxicant after Rube Farmer says he bought a bottle containing 50 percent alcohol on Wilson street and lost control of himself. he spoke to the mayor this morning.
Winchester Virginia February 27 Thomas W Mathews an apple buyer long time resident is believed to have been a passenger on the Cunard liner Laconia sunk yesterday He had left for Glasgow to rejoin his family and planned to sail on the Laconia
Nature's own laxative and liver aid from Dawson Springs Kentucky, Tollo Water, is said to expel waste quickly and gently. A 15 cent bottle is recommended with a third of a tumbler before breakfast, then occasional use to keep bowels regular and head clear. Hart Drug Co. and other druggists carry it.
Under an order of sale by the Superior court of Guilford county in a special proceeding J R Trotter and H T Cox administrators vs J Ed Cox and Flora Cox et al the undersigned will sell at 12 noon Saturday March 1 1917 cash to the highest bidder on the premises in Jamestown township N C the tract lies adjoining Sarah Weaver H W Cox Bright Leonard and Henry Crowder begins at a stone runs north 120 poles to a stake east 30 poles to a stake south 121 poles to a stake west 31 poles to the beginning containing 24 acres more or less this was described in a deed from Jacob Leonard to H W Cox and wife Sarah Ann Cox and recorded Guilford County Book 79 Page 402. This 26th day of February 1917 J R TROTTER 227-to-41.
By order of the Guilford County Superior Court in Bettie Cruthis et al v J F Cox et al, commissioners announce a public sale of land in Jamestown township Guilford County. On March 1 1917 at 12 o clock noon bids by cash. Tract 1 contains about 24 acres described by metes and bounds. Tract 2 adjoins the above and continues the parcel details.
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