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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1917
Page
4
Industrial Department of the Commercial Club notes Guilford tops several counts in statewide rankings. First in automobiles in 1915 and in professional taxes paid in 1910. Second in land value 1915 and total taxable property 1913, and in public school wealth 1914. Fourth in real estate value 1915 and tax districts 1918. Fifth in overall property value 1915 and income tax paid 1914. Ninth in corn 1910 and twelfth in live stock 1915.
Robert Allyn born in Ledward Connecticut in 1817 and served as president of McKendree College and the Southern Illinois Normal University among other midwest institutions. He died January 7, 1894 in Carbondale Illinois.
The Enterprise supports increasing teacher salaries by at least 20 percent. It argues public schools rely on underpaid principals and teachers, many earning only 1200 dollars annually or less, with eight months of pay but twelve months of work. It urges competent management and a real living wage to improve the state education system.
An interview argues that High Point should secure the Methodist hospital location and build a municipal hospital funded by taxpayers. The piece asserts the plan is sound, timely, and essential for the city’s future, urging energetic city action to avoid regret later.
Critics frame President Wilsons peace address as dictating terms to Europe while others praise its basic principles for lasting peace. The piece notes mixed editorials and highlights public opinion aligns with the presidents ideals, emphasizing unity among nations and people.
The season’s notable event features Marie Doro in Dickens’s Oliver Twist with stars Tully Marshall Hubert Bosworth and Raymond Hatton. James Young directs for Lasky Paramount. Doro reprises her stage costume from 1912. London atmosphere and period characterizations enhance the Photoplay adaptation. Broadway show opens Friday at the same prices.
Tailoring veteran Tom Walker appears at C. B. Mattocks company store today through Saturday with a full line of spring woolens. He promotes two piece silk lined suits for young and middle aged men with restricted patterns.
Miss and Mrs High Point shop during Allens annual white sale drawing many women to the store. Thousands of dainty and useful white articles fill the large shop as shoppers seek bargains. The store is decorated in white by Elmer Shields and the sale continues for several days.
A Tokyo branch of the Boy Scouts was organized under honorary president George Guthrie American ambassador with help from James A. Irons military attache and Frederick J. Horne naval attache. About 20 American boys from Tokyo grammar school formed the nucleus of the new organization.
The Wisconsin State Bowling association tournament opens in Watertown with an entry list described as large and a three week schedule. Organizers promise one of the most successful events yet for the state.
Editor notes the Western North Carolina conference of the Methodist church plans to build and maintain a hospital in the territory. A High Point location is favored and the writer pledges to contribute and campaign for funds to meet all requirements, hoping the hospital will be modern, well managed, and a credit to the city.
Chicago January 25. Jacob M. Loeb president of the Chicago board of education acknowledged the charge that male high school principals favored the face and figure of prospective women teachers. He said principals were only human as Mrs. George P. Vosbrink argued they paid less attention to mental qualifications.
Extradi tion to remove Thomas C McCoy to Fort Smith Arkansas was dropped when he volunteered to post bond on returning to Asheville North Carolina his home He will stand trial there for charges tied to a liquor tax fraud conviction and a two year federal sentence handed down in Atlanta
Manuel Baudouin aged 70 and former attorney general at the Dreyfus treason trial died last night in Paris. He had served as president of the court of cassation and was a prominent legal figure.
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