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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1917
Page
7
A new High Point resident laments the absent sprinkling cart along Main Street. He offers $10 to the driver to purchase motive power and water, noting streets stay muddy in winter and dust returns in dry spells. The piece explores public demand for the water wagon and why it has not been in use.
Foreign and local Shanghai newspapers push for municipal action to regulate insurers. They urge city council to bar any national insurers without Pekin approval, aiming to safeguard foreigners and Chinese from fraudulent firms and set a model for national legislation.
George Bernard Shaw critiques Dixon Scott as a clever young critic. He praises Scott’s sharpness yet condemns his focus on pose over content, comparing his reaction to a house fire mishandled by a callous, style driven gaze.
High Point high school students circulate a fund list to buy a field fence uniforms and equipment for a baseball team. citizens are urged to contribute with amounts noted and donations may be sent via the superintendent principal or any high school athletic association member. Howard University marks semi centennial celebrations with conferences reunions and a citywide church program.
Eugene E. Reed former New Hampshire congressman has been named president and a Democratic leader of the Manila Railroad company now under Philippine government control. Clyde A. DeWitt former public utility commissioner arranged the transfer and Loomis F. Goodale will serve as assistant to the president.
Michael Sullivan, a noted newspaper man, arrives for his regular shave only to meet a stranger claiming to be Tony’s brother and saying Tony has gone mad in the asylum after shaving his best friend. Sullivan departs, unfazed, redoing his collar in the street.
New York reports quote Adolf von Batočki, head of Germanys food regulation board, saying the Reichstag will fix potato prices for the year at five marks per hundredweight. In New York potatoes sold at about $1 a peck, roughly $6.66 per hundredweight, showing a fivefold difference.
In the Devonshire Home Circle Hugh Stokes describes eighteenth century female aging as seen through Marie Antoinette and the Duchess of Devonshire. The queen fears aging at 30 and hides it with fashion changes while the Geor gian laments being 27 years old. The French ambassador notes that in France 27 is considered elderly.
Polo enthusiasts and society folk gather in Coronado California for the annual Coronado Country club polo tournament opening tomorrow. The event features top players from across the country including a contingent from the east.
Floyd Perkins, a constable, is on trial in McKinney district court charged with the murder of Jim Ingram, a Black man, at Celina on May 7, 1916, following indictment.
Historic ruling by Chief Justice Marshall states the oath may be taken when convenient and that the interval before the new president assumes power is not a gap in office. The guidance clarifies that the secretary of state has not acted as president during this period and outlines succession rules if both president and vice president are unavailable.
Grace Conna daughter of North Dakota Senator and Mrs Gronna wed Carl W. Lewis in Washington. The bride, an accomplished musician, has long been popular in Washington society. Lewis, manager of the Dakota and Montana Telephone Co., lives in Hettinger North Dakota.
A visitor tests a class with a money problem. She spends five dollars on a hat three dollars on gloves and fifty cents on handker chiefs. A student replies that counting change beforehand would reveal what she has left.
Trustees of the estate of C. T. Munford in bankruptcy will sell at public auction on Friday March 2 1917 at 2 PM before the courthouse door Greenville NC to the highest bidder for cash one certificate of 10 shares of stock in the Atlantic Sales Company paid stock valued at 100 each with principal business in High Point NC. Bids by mail will be received and considered.
Bids for the stock sale must be enclosed to the undersigned trustees in Greenville N. C. on or before the specified date. All interested purchasers are invited to submit their offers by the deadline.
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