Keener Rawls Named Managing Editor and Business Manager
W.8. Keener is appointed managing editor and Rawls named business manager in a local newsroom staffing update.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1916
Page
4
W.8. Keener is appointed managing editor and Rawls named business manager in a local newsroom staffing update.
A June 6 1916 overview notes the sixteenth Republican national convention in Chicago opens with a fresh scramble for the presidential nomination. Hughes Roosevelt Burton Root Weeks and others contend while the Progressives delay until Saturday. South’s role shifts with 200 southern delegates this year.
The article reviews Horatio Herbert Kitchener born June 24 1850 in Ireland to French and English ancestry. It covers his youth at Woolwich, service in France, surveying in Palestine, Cyprus admin work, and pivotal roles in Egypt including the Gordon relief expedition and his appointment as Sirdar after Grenfell.
Reports from Heber Springs say a tornado Monday afternoon killed 20 to 25 whites and injured about 50. The western part of the town is described as in ruins.
John Adams aged 58, a workman, was electrocuted when he sat on a lightning arrestor at the Carolina Power and Light sub-station yard in Henderson. The arrestor was believed heavily charged due to a progressing electrical storm as Adams rested during yard work before planting grass seed.
Employment notice announcing openings for twenty five sales girls at the Dixie Department Store. Applicants urged to apply at the store tonight until 9 30 p m.
New York opening shows nerves in the cotton market with first prices steady and modest declines. Active months soon slipped several points as July and nearby futures moved to 12.467 and 12.80 respectively while December touched 12.92 and January 13.00 as Liverpool remains a moderate buyer amid quiet general business.
New York reports a calm Wall Street response amid news of Kitchener and his staff's fate. Standard shares moved moderately while the general list showed heaviness for Marines and United Fruit was weaker. Gains appeared in motor, sugar, Crucible Steel, International Harvester, United States Smelting and other specialties.
Foreign buyers and tight offerings pushed Chicago wheat higher after an initial dip. Opening quotes showed declines to 7% with July from 1.031% to 1.04 and September from 1.05 to 1.06, before a broad upturn materialized.
Miss Lilly Wave Baker was bitten on the ankle Friday evening while walking on Johnson Street. The snake coiled around her ankle and punctured three skin spots. She returned home, a physician treated her, and her condition improved though the ankle remains swollen.
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