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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1918
Page
3
Raleigh officials report North Carolina hotels and cafes save large amounts of flour beef and pork sugar monthly. Fifty six establishments contributed pounds saved, with some reporting 10 to 50 percent reductions. Officials plan public shaming of non cooperating eateries to boost harmony with the food administration.
Northampton County health officials announce a $130 thrift bond contest to boost home and school sanitation. Prizes include multiple $5 bonds for high and grammar schools for essays and sanitary improvements since August 1917, with a household winner receiving a $5 bond.
Three towns were raided and looted and a Southern Pacific de Mexico train held up yesterday by bandits operating between Nogales and Cananea. Three hundred federal soldiers have been ordered for Hermosillo to pursue the marauders.
Camp Sevier Greenville reports Ford combat wagons ordered sent back by the War Department and replaced with mule drawn carts. The piece notes boxing gloves ordered for Y units, new insignia for Third Division lieutenants, a notable private earning three dollars monthly, and a New York World editor enlisting as a private. It also covers early surgical history of appendicitis and general facts about the disease and surgeries.
Raleigh January 2 The State Food Administrator Henry A Page cut the minimum wholesale quantity of cottonseed meal from 30 to ten tons. He ordered crushers statewide that any sale under ten tons is retail and capped at 2 50 per ton above the agreed retail price. Ten tons or more is wholesale with price limited to the agreed price plus delivery drag or outrage if needed.
The piece notes Moses Yale Beach born in Wallingford Connecticut and credits him with proposing pooled news in New York after buying The Sun in 1835. It describes the AP as arising from cooperative news gathering and cites Gerard Halleck as first president and Dr. Alexander Jones as first manager. It covers early exchanges with New England and Western APs and later rivalries after 1882.
Washington January 2 The Fuel Administrator Garfield sent a New Year's message to the field organizations of the fuel administration. He expresses hearty good wishes and appreciation for continued support and says united effort and patience will help achieve results of great service to the country in its present crisis.
Camp Sevier Greenville S C January 2 with the camp library building under way centrally located ER P Emerson camp librarian notes soldiers are avid readers and favor detective stories tales of adventure and westward life Dumas popular A cooks school is forming at Camp Sevier Captain Chauffele leads a six man non commissioned team The school is attached to the 308th field bakery company Thrift slides ads appear at Y M C A units Officers to Fort Sill Oklahoma around January 10 Col Hugh B Gallagher depot chief inspects Camp Sevier from Atlanta
Washington state that fifty thousand tons of linseed cake slated for Tolland will be sold at the consignees' request after a Netherlands embargo blocked dairy product guarantees. The Food Administration aims to move the cake to New York Pennsylvania and New England to ease railroad congestion and supply feed concentrates this winter and spring.
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