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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1916
Page
3
New ships from North German Lloyd and Hamburg American aim for New York service, while wartime disruptions shrink eastbound passenger totals. Analysts expect heavy competition for first class travel after peace, with many Germans and others awaiting news and ready to sail.
Andrew Courtney, a 12 year old African American boy, found twelve dollars on Main Street and spent part of it. He admitted finding the money but claimed he returned some to a white man before police recovered the rest. The court released him after his employer agreed to reimburse the owner.
London notes a projected surge in street death tolls due to wartime street lighting cuts. Final metropolitan statistics may show as much as a fifty percent increase over 1915, with 1913 recording 579 fatalities and 637 in late 1914.
Notice states the Bank of Commerce stockholders will meet in the directors room on Wednesday January 19 at 10 a m to elect a board of directors for the year and to transact other business. H A Millis Cashier. 12-20-4w-caw.
Deeds filed in Greensboro include A C Searce and wife transferring a 50 by 200 foot lot on South Main to M R Searce and George Searce for 1550 dollars, and G W Scarce selling the same tract to W M Kenney for 1600 dollars. Also transactions show Hob Barker purchasing half an acre on Thomasville street for one dollar and more, with additional High Point township parcels conveyed for modest sums.
Washington reports that Congress faces a swift House vote approving the Keating child labor bill despite opposition over federal inspection powers. Supporters say passage is likely with a possible Senate filibuster as a last-ditch obstacle. The piece ties Labor and White House issues to related personnel notices and postmaster nominations.
By virtue of a February 1914 contract of sale J W Ferrell and O S Harvill defaulted. The undersigned will sell at public auction at the Greensboro courthouse on Saturday January 22 1916 at 2 PM a parcel in Guilford County High Point Township bounded by Tipton Hedrick and Chandler streets and comprising lots 1 2 4 4 and 6 in Block 9 of the Norfleet Edmunds property. Cash terms. T V Edmunds Florence E Edmunds K C Norfleet Sophia Norfleet by T V Edmunds West View Attorney in Fact. This 6th day of December 1915.
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