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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1917
Page
7
A city column lampoons High Point mud as endless and tenacious calling it earth and water mixed. It jokes about floods of readers, Poe, Webster, and weather orders, and warns of the danger to children as paving delays, poverty, and grime persist.
Nashville delegates from every section gather for the Tennessee Equal Suffrage association as it aims to make Tennessee the first southern state to grant women full ballot rights. National officials and prominent leaders attend to boost momentum for the cause.
The Wo man’s club leads a 7:30 pm mass meeting at the school auditorium to rally support for a public library. Prominent residents will speak and local musicians perform as organizers push plans to fund and establish a city library serving all ages and boosting education and recreation.
The seventeenth annual show under the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce opens at Grand Central Palace tomorrow afternoon and runs for a week. It features American manufacturers and a lineup of new cars mainly in the moderate price class.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled in favor of Newport Lumber Company in its dispute with Atlantic and Western Railway. A reparations award sets a maximum rate of 22 cents per hundred pounds for crossties, replacing the former 26.5 per hundred. The case, filed over a year ago, involved overcharges on three carloads from Broadway to Wayne Junction, Penn.
Residents on Main Street have begun constructing sidewalks themselves to prompt official action. The move is seen as a catalyst, with hopes that the city will soon start work on additional streets to enhance pedestrian safety.
Harden Lazenby and Cuthen Harpe, both of Iredell, were fined 20 dollars and costs after a trial before Mayor L C Caldwell for affray on Statesville streets two weeks earlier. Dorsett Fraley was found not guilty and both Lazenby and Harpe were put under a 250 dollar peace bond.
An 87 year old Springfield man writes that a severe kidney trouble improved after using Foley Kidney Pills. The advertisement claims the pills build up weakened kidneys and help rid the blood of acids and poisons and relieve bladder troubles, sold by Mann Drug Company.
AP dispatch from Simla notes India appears peaceful on the surface while seditious undercurrents run deep. Educated Indians seek peaceful reform within the empire, illiterate masses focus on daily needs, and sporadic local troubles risk rising into broader disturbances, with Punjab's past attempts highlighted.
Dr H W McCain of this city was chosen president of the Guilford County Medical Society at yesterday afternoon’s Greensboro meeting. The election was by ballot after a long afternoon of voting with strict constitutional rules. Dr McCain narrowly surpassed Dr W M Jones who became vice president, while Dr R A Schoonover was named secretary treasurer. The three delegates to the state medical society were elected: Dr J A Williams Dr C E Reitzel and Dr J T J Battle, with alternates Dr C W Moseley Dr Parran Jarboe and Dr W J Meadows.
W L White and wife default on mortgage. sale of Lot No 42 in Roland Park Co. plot High Point Guilford NC at Guilford County Courthouse on January 8 1917 at noon for cash to highest bidder. Trustee W J Armfield Jr mortgagee. Jan 4t.
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