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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1917
Page
2
A film industry observer recalls the silent drama era and critiques audience reactions to titles and stars. He notes that motion pictures communicate through interpreters and thought conveyers and laments unfair audience behavior in theaters.
Women hold seats in five state legislatures Utah Arizona Oregon Montana and Washington England sends women carpenters to France for huts Women’s Navy League to hold second National Service School encampment in Washington April 16 to May 26 Womans Club in Pittsburgh adopts flag salute Annettes and other notable women achieve recognition in education governance and public service from New York to Georgia to California
Statesville reports the death of John Flanigan at Redlands New Mexico at an early hour yesterday. He was about 44 and had been ill for years. Survived by daughter Margaret Flanigan brother James Flanigan and another brother Maj R L Fanigan all in Statesville. Body to be brought home for burial.
Misa Matilda Stanford aged 15 of Pilot Mountain died of appendicitis last Thursday. Funeral services were held at the Friends' church in Pine Hill the next day conducted by Rev. Egbert Edgerton and Elder Gabriel Denny. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
The Sevierville Vindicator editor cheerfully vows to pursue a dry policy despite Kentucky turmoil and his own winters in Florida, indicating a stubborn stance amid unsettled times.
An advertisement asserts catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It explains Eustachian tube inflammation causes deafness and claims Hall's Catarrh Cure heals mucous surfaces. offers $100 for an uncured case and notes circulars are available through sellers.
Alice Tisdale recounts a mud hut inn with thatched roof where a patriarchal family mills corn while children play on a sunlit dirt floor. Women in red winnow grain and pound condiments as travelers rest in a k ang section then sleep beside swinging cradles and grinding millstones.
The Pacific liner Hawaii Maru arrived at Victoria from Japan carrying 60 newlywed couples bound for San Francisco via Seattle. The group forms part of a delegation of 80 Japanese from San Francisco who visited their former homes on a pleasure tour last fall. Twenty couples did not secure a match and stayed behind.
New York City tests show open air schools and fresh air classes aid subnormal and normal students. The New York City Health Department reports 30 open air classes for normal children and widespread parental demand to extend the program. The state board of health urges North Carolina to adopt the plan, arguing milder winters and easier implementation can boost children's health and disease prevention.
Paris notes France is organizing a wartime tuberculosis program for weakened soldiers. About 190000 in service have the disease, with 80000 sent home and another 100000 expected from German prison camps. A national sanatorium system, millions in funding, and civil treatment options are planned.
An essay notes how different civilizations perceived dogs. It cites Maori, Indian, and various peoples who used dogs for food, labor, and companionship, while claiming only Assyrians and Babylonians feared dogs. It cites a Babylonian prayer seeking protection from dog baneful beings.
W C Nelson faces trial in Tarboro after a grand jury indicted him for the killing of Policeman Rawson G. Watney and Pat Riggin and for wounding Mayor J P Keech during a raid on his home seeking liquor. Keech’s condition is reported as slowly improving.
Enos Halbert of Paoli Indiana describes a severe fall cough that kept him awake. After trying remedies he used Foley's Honey and Tar and found relief from the cough after one bottle. He urges others to get the genuine product from Mann Drag Co.
Berea College in Kentucky launches a two year mountain agriculture course to develop surrounding land amid national food shortages. President Frost notes the region’s limited arable area but stresses the need to cultivate it, arguing that those with poor land require agricultural instruction most.
A merchant advertisement invites readers to cut this slip, mail it with 5 cents to Foley & Co. in Chicago for a trial package including Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets via Mann Drug Co.
Southern Railway schedule lists No 142 arriving at 7 05 am No 136 at 12 20 pm and No 134 at 6 45 pm in High Point A city election amendment to elect a mayor and four councilors with a nonpartisan primary is proposed New registration books and election officials are appointed with polling places and dates set for late February to mid March 1917 Also a land sale notice by J R Trotter and H T Cox with cash terms recorded in Guilford County North Carolina.
Having qualified as administrator of Tillman Shaw's estate in Guilford County North Carolina this notice asks all claimants to present claims to J. E. Shaw or attorney T. W. Albertson by February 6 1918 or be barred. Debts owed to the estate should be paid promptly to the administrator or attorney as of February 6 1917.
Pursuant to a resale order by Mason W Gant clerk of Guilford county in Minnie Worth vs Lou Kaney Anderson et al the Lot 21 Block A E A Bencini lands will be sold for cash to the highest bidder on Saturday Feb 17 1917 at 2 PM on the premises bidding starts at 214 50. This Jan 29 1917. ED L RAGAN Com.
City Council on February 6 1917 calls an election for March 13 1917 to decide Amendment No 1 to High Point charter as provided by 1917 General Assembly act. Ballot form directs voters to choose for amendment number one to the city charter.
Under a Guilford County Superior Court order in a special proceeding J R Trotter and H T Cox administrators versus J Ed Cox and Flora Cox, the undersigned commissioners will sell at 12 M on the Diet Day of March 1917 to the highest bidder for cash a 24 acre tract in Jamestown township. The parcel lies adjoining Sarah Weaver H W Cox Bright Leonard and Henry Crowder and is described by bounds beginning at a stone and running north 120 poles to a stake east 80 poles to a stake south 12 poles to a stake and west 81 poles to the beginning.
Commissioners auction land parcels in Jamestown township Guilford county on March 81 1917 at noon. Tract 1 covers about 24 acres described from Suit to beginning with Blair Leonard and Coleman lines. Tract 2 contains about 51 acres adjoining Tract 1 per deeds to H W Cox and Eli Leonard recorded in Guilford deeds books.
W. H. Ragan acting under a court decree will sell at public auction for cash at the Bank of Commerce in High Point on March 22, 1917 at 2 pm. Two tracts total about 36 acres described by boundary stones and lines in High Point township adjoining J W Guyer and Swaim properties. Sold by W. H. Ragan Commissioner with W P Ragas attorney.
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