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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1923
Page
4
The legislature appears to have finished its sessions as Congress adjourns without enacting any bonus legislation. The Winston-Salem Journal recalls Senator Simmons calling the 67th Congress “the worst and most inefficient congress in our history.”
The Chapel Hill Weekly editor Louis Graves praises North Carolina papers, notes towns growing with new mills and a Swink town in Rowan County, and suggests High Point’s golf club as a potential president retreat while urging milk campaign support for undernourished schoolchildren.
Local hopes rise as Wrenn street set for a new White Way lighting project. City already boasts Main street illumination and aims to boost the appearance of another principal thoroughfare with brighter lights.
The Charlotte News reports that twenty percent of jails are empty since prohibition began and others show admissions down 25 to 80 percent. Former treatment institutions for inebriates have largely closed, evidence against claims that prohibition does not prohibit.
Greensboro hearing next Monday will report on the resale of the Carolina and Yadkin River railroad. High Point Thomasville and Denton citizens race to raise stock to keep the line alive amid fears it may become junk. editorial urges local unity to secure a fair arrangement March 2.
The Enterprise thanks John A. Owen of Owen Welding for quickly repairing a linotype machine after an accident. A High Point resident since September, he’s an acetylene specialist who has completed 2,000 jobs and serves many manufacturers. His business operates separately from the National Machine and Electrical company building.
The state greets Alvin Owsley national commander of the American Legion on his first North Carolina visit. He speaks in Raleigh today before ex service men and women from across the commonwealth with High Point represented in the capital audience. Owsley is praised as a dedicated leader and community figure.
Two men named Philip Lakin and B Patterson were arrested after a $100 watch and chain were reported stolen from Robert Trittle, foreman at a school project. Police found the items during a room search of 28 workers. Both men confessed, saying they hid the watch in a coat pocket and passed it to a partner. The case heads to municipal court tomorrow.
Fire damaged a motor truck on Greensboro Road. The driver was reportedly inspecting the vehicle when the blaze began, and firefighters arrived to control the flames. Further details are unavailable due to the damaged text.
High Point firefighters responded to a blaze near the Five Points Service station on the Greensboro highway. A late model Maxwell truck owned by Palmer Private Construction Company of Greensboro was saved from significant damage by chemical extinguishing agents.
Floyd Smith of Bradford county was electrocuted at Rockview penitentiary in Bellefonte Pa for the slaying of his infant child in South Waverly in April 1920. He died after three contacts amid last minute hopes Governor Pinchot would commute.
Regular meeting of the board of directors of the Wachovia Bank and Trust company High Point branch will be held at 7 30 o clock in the offices on North Main street. Routine matters of business will be discussed in the business session.
A son named James Shelton was born to Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Ellis on February 27.
The Ministerial Association of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends meets at Guilford College this afternoon at 2 and runs through Thursday night March 8. Miss Clara Cox and Rev. and Mrs Samuel Haworth attend the two day sessions, with Rev. Kirby Bowen presiding. Milo Hinckle of Richmond Indiana will be principal speaker for the Five Years meeting.
Abbeville South Carolina March 6 C E Chick Galloway announced he signed with the Philadelphia Athletics for another season and will report for spring practice at Montgomery Alabama next Thursday. He had rejected the initial contract but signed the second offer.
An old wives recipe for concealing gray hair is revived with Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound sold in drug stores. The product is applied with a comb or brush and reportedly darkens hair by morning while adding a soft luster.
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