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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1922
Page
4
A column recalls Ty Cobb era remarks on Cobb's aging frame and fading strength while praising his remaining speed and batting eye. It contrasts old age with his enduring tools and notes memories from past seasons.
The High Point crowd near the jail was calmed by Chief Blackwelder using restraint and dialogue rather than force. Mayor Hedrick and deputies supported a cool headed approach that avoided lynching or violence, earning praise from citizens and Guilford county.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says Sherlock Holmes has no place in his life as he lectures on spiritualism in a country tour. He explains spiritualism as the survival of the spirit beyond earth, not table tapping or ouija, noting much remains unsettled and many communications cannot be proven by practical standards. He cites The Seven Purpose by Margaret Cameron as a notable work.
Roger Babson argues nations can have too much money as Russia and Germany showed. He warns even mild inflation demanded by some farmers would be bad, and that prosperity should be judged by goods, not gold. Moderate credit relaxation has helped but further expansion could raise living costs and worsen conditions. He credits the Fed Board for resisting ignorant criticism.
In Goldsboro Miss Weill destroyed marked ballots at the courthouse to protest guidance to voters. The piece argues that voters should choose ballots freely and without direction, supporting the secret ballot principle while noting many electors vote as directed under pressure or persuasion. It suggests women voters may influence future ballot methods.
The Greenville chamber of commerce guided 6506 cars through the city visiting major attractions including the Furniture Exposition building. The tour moved to Greensboro and Danville after High Point, with officials listing a large volunteer staff and numerous car commanders and committee chairs for the trip.
A mob gathered at a High Point fire station demanding where black prisoners were kept. Police Chief Blackwelder said one man was sent to Raleigh and another to Salisbury while pledging that all inmates remain jailed. Mayor Hedrick and Sheriff J B Stafford with deputy Mike Caffey helped quell the crowd, leaving at dawn for Greensboro.
Ruth Freeman Reynolds, known in this area, died suddenly in Atlanta, Ga., where she had lived for three years. She formerly lived in Archdale before marrying James Nahan Reynolds. She worked for Shipman Organ Co. and had many friends. The funeral will be at Rubert A. Tomlinson’s home in Archdale tomorrow at 4 p.m., with Rev. Lewis McFarland Rev. W A Lambeth and Miss Clara Cox officiating. Interment at Springfield Cemetery. Pallbearers named. Survived by three sisters two brothers a niece and an aunt.
Guy Garrick and Dick Defoe follow Ruth Walden to a yacht like houseboat named Sea Vamp where Ruth, Glenn Buckley and friends mingle. They uncover a diamond clasp tied to Vira Gerard and glimpse a wireless radio setup aboard.
In Chicago on June 6 peace was predicted as Fred Mader agreed to resign from the building trades council and unions were to accept the Landis wage award. Mader and Tim Murphy had recently been released from jail after indictments tied to bomb outrages and the slaving of two policemen.
Trinity resident A. Cousins, a white man, remains in serious condition at Burrus-McCain hospital after a collision last Saturday night that left head injuries. Another rider, B C Albertson, was also hurt. no other serious injuries were reported. A Fete Champetre fundraiser in New York in early June by the Authors' League was also announced.
Parker Waynick came back to Oakside Farm after his stay in Alderson West Virginia completing his trip yesterday returning to the family property and resuming daily activities on the farm.
Eigh ty persons are believed to have per ished in the sinking yesterday of the steamer Villa Franca near Posadas where the river forms the Argentina Paraguay boundary. The ship carried 30 first cabin passengers 70 steerage and cabin passengers and 100 drums of naptha. A survivor said sleeping passengers were awakened at 1 40 a m and rushed on deck as flames enveloped the vessel. A heavy explosion followed and the boat sank rapidly about four miles from shore with some passengers swimming ashore. An American family and three others were reportedly saved from the first cabin in an unconfirmed report.
Two soldiers were killed instantly and two injured fatally when a truck carrying ten from Camp Hollabird went over an embankment near Westminster Maryland. Six others were less seriously hurt. The dead are Privates Parent and Hersechner.
Silken American flags are presented to Rotary clubs in Britain as a token of Anglo-Saxon friendship and cordial relations between the two nations.
A letter recalls a six month improvement in a ill father after taking Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. The writer claims the remedy clears catarrhal mucous and inflammation in the stomach liver and intestines and cites a money back guarantee at Hart Drug Co and Randleman Drug Co in North Carolina.
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