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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1921
Page
8
Helena Montana January 11 Jake DeHart state game warden notes record elk hunting outside Yellowstone Park. Open season ends that day with many hunters drawing hides teeth antlers with carcasses left behind. Naturalists seek legislative protection to shield elk from future slaughters.
Americus Georgia farmer Sam McGarrah plans a winter trip to Palm Beach with his herd of milk cows. He will bring fresh cream and butter and cover expenses with the dairy outputs.
Cincinnati dispatch reports W B Dennon of Stearns Kentucky suffers a recurrence of mustard gas poisoning two years after his discharge. His hands and arms blistered while in a hospital, continuing effects from a German gas exposure.
Helena Montana January 10 home steaders sell their lands as they prove up on them. Many sellers are former service men who obtained the lands for speculation. Not many desire to lead the simple life says Joseph Oker of the U S land office.
A quinquennial census in October in the International Settlement and French Concession lists 26 869 foreigners in Shanghai. totals for the two concessions show Japanese 10 521, British 6 385, Americans 2 813, Russians 1 382, and French 846. In the Settlement Japanese lead, Americans in the French Concession outnumber French, with Germans declining.
Warsaw reports 400 physicians died from typhus in the previous year reducing Poland to about 4,000 doctors for 28 million people. The official Ministry of Public Health document to the American Red Cross notes the country now has one doctor for every 7,000 residents. The Red Cross continues to reinforce its medical staff to assist local authorities.
A new dashboard device, the altimeter, provides altitude readings for travelers with reasonable accuracy.
The Orpheum hosts James Heffner’s Merry Musical Comedy Maids with strong harmony, Heffner LeRoy singing and dancing, plus a premier chorus and refined wardrobe and scenery. Also features a solid film program with Christie comedy Monday Tuesday and Hired and Fired midweek and a Mack Sennett two reel on Friday Saturday.
A 24 story Fort Worth office building is described as the tallest in the south, signaling a regional record for height and significance in local business development.
Guilford County NC voters are asked to approve a bond issue up to 600000 dollars to build and equip a new High Point Township High School. Election set for January 18 1921 with registration rules and counting procedures outlined by the Guilford County Board of Commissioners.
The ordinance outlines Main street parking at 45 degrees with directional fronts, requires cross street yielding, and sets a 15 minute limit on East Commerce and East Washington. It creates school zones with 10 mph speed limit and imposes fines of 5 dollars first offense and 10 dollars for subsequent offenses.
The ordinance states it takes effect immediately and repeals all conflicting ordinances by order of the City Council. Dated December 21, 1920, signed by R. L. Pickett City Manager.
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