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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1916
Page
4
The Annalist reports the six months ended June showing a 45 percent rise in trade volume versus last year. Bank clearings up 44 percent, building permits up 26 percent, railway car orders up 12.5 percent, failures down 25.5 percent, liabilities down 39.9 percent, foreign trade up 4.4 percent.
New York July 19 report notes further buying of October by spot houses keeping the cotton market firm early. Opening prices show a 1 point decline to 2 point gain range, then local selling pressure pushes October to 13.03 and December to 13.19 with January down about 1 to 2 points. Futures open steady with July at 12.97, October around 13.05, December near 13.20, while a decline in wheat prices follows a brief rally.
Reported collapse of Chimney Rock area as flood deaths mount. Dr I B Morse says about 20 homes lost near Chimney Rock and Ashevale area. Names and ages of several victims listed amid vanished structures and damaged railway link to Chimney Rock.
Reports from flooded upper Yadkin districts show greater property loss than first estimated. The Southern Railway branch line for 50 miles to North Wilkesboro is torn up likely taking a month to repair. General Superintendent Simpson travels the line by foot and horseback, noting washed away small bridges and severe line damage along the river system.
The 22 rookies enlisted at Camp Glenn are named with 19 qualified including Robert B. Greer Roland B. Wray Clarence A. Haynes Robie A. Shipwasi Irey Willard James C. Spoon Ciesro Jarrett Henry F. E. Davis John T. Willet Harry J. Martin Carl C. Robbins O Neil Spencer Ed M. Brown James M. Pitts William M. Horney Julius T. Hoskins Eben Morgan Robert May-Grew and Frank L. Robbins The four disqualified are Theodore Meffrew Roy D P Church Lennie Marshall Hubert Raaeh.
Philadelphia rapidly expands shipyards along the Delaware river as millions pour in for new contracts. 73 ships are under construction or contracted totaling about 20.25 million dollars, with Cramp, New York Shipbuilding, Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pusey & Jones, Harlan and Hollingsworth, Kester Shipbuilding, and Quigley & Corp leading the boom.
In Charlotte on July 19 19 men who went down on the Southern Railway Catawba river bridge at Belmont Sunday afternoon remain unaccounted for searchers swept the river by boat with rescues reported from Gastonia to Charlotte. Four bridge victims and two rescuers were lifted to the Charlotte side Monday by two negroes Ross and Stowe. Additional rescues were reported from the Gastonia side including W L Fortune Julius White and Evans Brown. Donations exceeded 200 from white residents of Charlotte to a reward fund for Ross and Stowe. Names of working employees on the Belmont bridge include Griffin supervisor hee section foreman Kluttz Fin demrick Andrew Scott Tom Davis Daniel Heath Sloan Adams Will Adams Tom Adlwood and several negro laborers. Mount Holly reports the complete destruction of the five story Arm-on Cotton mills plant with no loss of life.
In Palms Haly July 19 Italian asdibty women submit to operations removing flesh from arms and legs to supply army surgeons. In the past month twelve women have donated tissue to save the lives of twenty one wounded Italian soldiers at the front.
The bodies of two unidentified men were pulled from the Catawba River at Belmont in Gaston County this morning.
From Laredo Texas on July 19 officials report a renewed southward travel tide at the international bridge. Americans crossing into Mexico and Mexican refugees move toward Feeneage in hastily abandoned suits as war threats loom.
Executor A F Alexander gives notice to creditors to present claims by June 20 1917 or be barred. All indebted persons should pay promptly. 41 law June 20 1916 Tee.
Mrs Laura Beall of Plattsburg Mississippi reports persistent left side pain and Bright's disease symptoms last April. She says Foley Kidney Pills relieved backache rheumatism and general aches and urine trouble, with sales through Mann Drug Co.
A fragment recounts a Des Moines mission contact describing travel in India where an illness struck him. He recalled hearing of a medicine labeled Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy used there with claimed life saving effects. The note asserts its efficacy for cholera and milder fevers.
Robert W. Woolley, from Washington, resigns as mint official to become director of publicity for the Democratic National Committee. The move follows Regittald McKenna’s exchequer remarks and a reported daily outlay of 30,002,400 pounds for Britain.
Niece Hurrah Auntie Ted has been made a lance corporal Auntie I do wish Ted would be content with being a soldier and not go in for these forms of notoriety
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