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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1916
Page
1
AP dispatch reports 83 deaths from the Alta Pass flood with nine missing as western North Carolina towns remain cut off. Relief is flowing, crops damaged, and thousands displaced as rail lines are repaired and industrial plants shut.
Reports indicate nine are still missing as flood damage spreads through western North Carolina and surrounding states. Losses to railroads, industry, and agriculture are heavy with property damage estimated upward of $1.56 million in the Asheville region though some figures were revised from earlier optimism. Relief work continues. road traffic will take weeks to normalize. Brevard reports the local college camp of 200 boys escaped damage and conditions there are normal.
Police report cutting up two illicit distilleries on Freeman's Mill Road near the Providence church. The outfits, part of a wider chain, moved locations to avoid capture. Officers seized 100 gallons of beer and 20 gallons of moonshine mash, with no whisky produced at this site. Nearby stills, some 60 and 20 gallons, operated with wood and a stove. Evidence of alcohol sightings appear on High Point streets on Saturdays as authorities search for more stills near the county line.
News comes of the death Tuesday in Zion City Ul of Dr. C A Rominger a former Reidsville resident and longtime North Carolina Dental association president He was once Teague town academy head near High Point and leaves a widow Nevada Spurgeon a large family and siblings near Winston Salem A Pro Council No 52 Sons and Daughters Liberty meeting is scheduled tonight at 7 30 in the Council Hall J O U A M hall
The Associated Press reports from Galveston Texas that Francisco Villa is momentarily expected to be captured by the de facto government cavalry. A Carranza messenger said Villa is ill and seeking medical aid with his forces sent to the town believed near Chihuahua city in Chihuahua state.
In Raleigh on July 20 the Spencer shop team swept two events at the state firemen's tournament. They won the 150-yard hand-reel race in 2225 seconds and the crab-reel race in 162-5 seconds. Concord finished second in the hand-reel, East Spencer was fifth, Winston sixth.
Asheville news reports ten dead and extensive property damage near Alta Pass North Carolina. W H Suttle arrived on foot to relay the disaster, with the C C and Q railway line substantially demolished in multiple spots and Marshall, North Carolina, facing about $250,000 in damages.
Reverend David Sampson, longtime pastor of the Friends church in Winston-Salem and a cherished figure in the North Carolina Yearly Meeting, died suddenly yesterday afternoon after visiting parishioners that morning. He was 76, with partial blindness, and was born December 2, 1846 in Nuails worth, Sengiandys.
The late missionary and pastor served in North Carolina and Virginia, helped establish a mission school at the Blue Ridge foot in Patrick county, and led the Friends church in Graham before pastoral work in Winston-Salem. Funeral services are Friday at 10 am at the Winston-Salem meeting house and 2 pm at Guilford College, with interment at Newarden burial ground.
Durham July 20 The annual convention of the N C Exhibiters league adjourned this afternoon after selecting Charlotte as next year’s meeting place and electing officers. President P W Wells of Wilmington. first vice president P V Phillips. second vice president L G Taylor of New Bern. secretary treasurer H B Warner of Lexington. attorney A F Sams of Wing
Cincinnati announces a trade sending Christy Mathewson and others to the Reds in exchange for Herzog. Giants manager McGraw and Nationals president Murphy discuss terms as Hermann and Hempstead confer with Herzog. If Herzog approves, Mathewson may join tomorrow as manager.
A Paris dispatch notes resumed French offensives along the Somme forcing back German lines from Botleaua to Soyecourt and extending five miles toward Combles. British and German forces are still engaged as Austro Italian activity grows near the front. The appeal for a High Point public library follows and a mass meeting is planned.
At a Saturday gathering in Wilkes neighbors drank freely. Rob Stone struck Weed with a stick after a drunken exchange. Stone claims self defense but Dr. Peacock doubts the plea. Weed fined ten dollars for disorder. others face court for related actions amid a car accident injuring Albertson.
Washington date predicted a European assault on the United States gold reserve and foreign trade at war's end. The National Foreign Trade committee urged passage of the Webb bill to permit American combinations in export trade.
Guilford College trustees met at the college to map the inauguration of a campaign to raise the endowment from 150000 to 400000 or more. President Thomas Newlin reported the college is in fine condition with bright prospects for 1916 17 and expected student numbers to reach a record high.
New York reports a grim day in the ongoing infantile paralysis epidemic. On July 20 only one day since June 26 saw more fatalities than in the prior 24 hours with 31 children dead and 119 new cases across the five boroughs. The mortality rate remains just under 20 percent, bringing totals to 847 deaths and 8,446 cases since the outbreak began.
In St Paul Minnesota on July 20 a move to add an anti Catholic declaration to the prohibition platform sparked a bitter debate in the resolutions committee executive session. Early proceedings saw Hanly managers predicting his nomination on the first ballot.
Generally fair conditions expected tonight and Friday with north and north west winds. Winds diminish along the coast as the trend continues.
The 1914 furniture data reveal Massachusetts capacity value at 14.8 million, Pennsylvania 17.5 million with 10,368 workers, and North Carolina 2,844 workers. High Point, N C leads among cited cities with 2.44 million, while Grand Rapids and Chicago report higher city totals though some states lack full city data.
A tropical storm is slowly advancing up the Atlantic, centered about 200 miles off the North Carolina coast east of Cape Hatteras. Reports are sparse, with edge winds around 64 mph from ships at sea, while fresh northeast gales lash the coast from North Carolina to the Delaware breakwaters and storm warnings extend from Hatras to Boston.
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