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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1922
Page
4
The platform calls for immediate extension of city limits in all directions, a substantial city library, expanded parks and playgrounds, a new passenger station and elevated tracks, a city planning system and more homes, more paved streets, extended sewer and water systems, hard surfaced roads everywhere, and a 20,000 population target upon expansion.
A mixture of quips and sayings on marriage finance and luck. The piece features lines urging hasty marriage if income covers needs, then shifts to cynical jokes about business, travel, and human folly. It reflects a vintage newspaper humor column with mixed maxims and snippets.
Bankers and business leaders urged patience with Liberty bonds as values rose above par after months of weakness. Holding bonds yielded gains while labor unrest and postwar turmoil linger, proving patience a virtue and suggesting restraint from strikes. The Washington Times echoes prudence, condemning violent acts and praising steadiness and patience as keys to success.
The Hickory Daily Record highlights Louis Baker a 16 year old with seven months of poultry records earning five dollars on 22 chickens and notes the wider appeal of raising chickens in Catawba County with advice from veteran keepers like F. J Huffman. It also mentions upcoming Ball's Creek camp Kiwanis program and broader poultry opportunities for youth.
Rumors float that Danville may withdraw from the Piedmont league due to repeated losses. The piece urges perseverance, notes the club’s poor finish this year and last, and argues fans should support the team until better breaks come, stressing sportsmanship and patience.
An editorial argues drivers often fail to look both ways at crossings, noting many deaths occur from carelessness. It critiques slow speed excuses, cites 251,939 highway crossings and a plan to remove 400 annually at $12.5 billion. It calls for more parks and outdoor recreation space in Charlotte for broader public access.
In New York, a judge ordered the seizure of seventeen dogs from Mrs. Pauline Danreuther’s Prospect Avenue apartment after neighbors complained of constant barking. The case, noting no malice, touched on damages and oddities as the court also heard a peculiar claim for ten thousand dollars over a lost tooth in a separate filing.
Mrs Jittie Wagner of West Twenty second street asked a Brooklyn waitress to mind her six month old while she attended a theater. The waitress handed the infant to police after the mother failed to return. The baby was taken to Kings County Hospital. Greenwich Village plans a centennial celebration with a historical pageant the week of October ninth marking a century since its boom and past epidemics.
New Orleans hosts the American Legion national rifle meet during the convention with state teams from across the Union competing at 200 300 and 500 600 yard ranges. Winners receive a loving cup and gold medals with silver and bronze for runners up and top aggregate scorers. The event runs two days featuring departmental team and individual entries on the 60 yard range using Springfield 03 rifles. Captain Earl G Niehies leads the meet with Crescent City Biffh Club support from notable southern marksmen.
In Clarksburg West Virginia on July 17 bloodhounds owned by Deputy Sheriff Thomas Inverson pursued burglars who hit the apartment of W. Chapman, general claim agent of the Monongahela Power and Traction Company. The trail led to a vacant upstairs room containing a complete distillery and hundreds of bottles, one of the largest found in the country.
A Iowa Legion official announced that several thousand Iowa Legionnaires will travel to the national American Legion convention in October aboard five special trains. They will park in fifty seven Pullman cars stationed in New Orleans during the event.
Two of seven realty transfers recorded last Saturday involve High Point townships. W F Allred deeded four tracts to D L Witcher for 2500 dollars. listings detail multiple parcels with specific measurements and boundaries. Other transfers include Walter Dick to Lillie A Foust for 260 dollars, and John L Daniels to R W Mitchell and Pearl Mitchell for 6900 dollars in Morehead township.
Newport News July 17 Three hundred wooden steamers anchored in James river at Claremont will be scrapped for junk. One hundred ships to New York for junk, another hundred to be broken up by a New Jersey firm, with officials offering no comment. The wooden vessels cost nearly 1,000 each, likely to fetch about 1,500 as junk.
A quantity of goods and stamps stolen from the Spencer post office on January 23 was found near Newell s Island by farmer Curtis Long and handed to the Charlotte postmaster. The haul included a mail bag stamps wrappers war savings stamps vouchers and other items. No suspect identified for the robbery.
The Hague July 17 The Russian delegation stated prospects for continued talks at the conference despite signs of an imminent break. The message suggested a chance to keep the negotiation alive amid mounting tensions and stalled progress.
Greensboro July 17 John F Reece 45 died at home 25 Elm Street Revolution after six months of ill health. He moved from High Point five years ago. Survived by widow three sons Luther George and infant son two daughters Rosa and Edna and sister Mrs T H Andrews of High Point. Funeral at home 2:30 this afternoon Rev B G Whitley and Rev Summers. body to Hickory Grove Church 11 miles southwest for interment. High Point council No 29 Junior Order of United American Mechanics of
The article notes that Mr Reece was a member who had charge of the services at the grave, indicating his role in conducting the burial rites.
The total state and county tax levy in Robeson county for the year 1922 will be 71 cents on the $100 valuation, up from 70 cents in 1922. The levy was approved at a recent meeting of the county commissioners.
Garland E. Carr, a World War veteran, damaged the Washington bureau by punching a hole in a wall and setting a fire to destroy records. He claimed his disability claim was ignored and is held for mental examination.
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