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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1917
Page
7
Voters in the city show strong interest in tonight's meeting at the South Main street School auditorium regarding proposed city charter amendments. The gathering is advertised for supporters, but opponents may attend. registration closes tomorrow night with many registrants reportedly against the amendments.
Twenty women received firearm permits from Police Chief Jackson under Safety Superintendent Ben Woolgar. Woolgar says nightly prowlers harass women and urges each complainant to obtain a revolver, carry a permit, and shoot first if bothered again.
King Alfonso, immobilized by occupation, cannot sit for Carlo Vasquez. The artist now uses a wax figure of the king in a colonel’s uniform to stand in for the body, with Vasquez painting only the face and hands. The studio is arranged so the king can be seen at any visit, in the same pose.
Pilot Mountain March 8. Little Grover Bullin, six weeks after a tree crushed his foot, has been returned home from Greensboro hospital. Amputation was avoided and healing is good though he will not bear weight for about three months.
Warren H. Booker of the state board of health cites 97 towns with public water supplies and notes many small towns lacking works are planning or installing systems. He highlights the statewide focus on sanitary water and sewerage, with 3,289 water analyses in 1915-16 and recent declines in waterborne epidemics.
Black Creek with about 200 residents tops the state in health work says Dr. B E Washburn director of Wilson county health campaign. Every home has a state approved sanitary closet with 22 new and many remodeled since February. No hookworm found in first 75 tested. town plans a spring fly and filth extermination and general cleanup campaign.
Hopewell Virginia's Y M C A building burned early yesterday from an unknown origin. The fire caused an estimated $50,000 in losses including contents.
Major and minor baseball schedules show little change for 1917. Most leagues keep past opening and closing dates, with the International and American associations reducing seasons by six weeks for inter league series. Openers run April to October in several circuits, with varied lengths and some undetermined dates.
The Southern railway system adopts joint yard operation at Chattanooga Birmingham Meridian New Orleans and Oakdale to cut 2 3 hours per through freight train. Through traffic between west south Louisville Cincinnati and east southwest will move faster due to reduced double handling and inspections.
In Paris on August 27, 1733, Montgolfier brothers launched a 12 foot balloon before 500000 spectators. At Versailles on September 19 a balloon carried a sheep a rooster and a duck before Louis XVI. On November 21 1733 De Rozier achieved the first manned flight lasting 20 minutes.
A washout at Mascot on the main Southern line 12 miles east of Knoxville forced trains to detour via a branch line between Knoxville and Morristown. Nearby mines at Mascot were flooded yesterday adding to disruption.
The executors Robert E. Bencini and Nancy E. Bencini notify all persons with claims against the estate of E. A. Bencini deceased to prove them by January 23, 1918. Debtors to the estate should settle promptly. this notice is dated January 23, 1917.
A Kentucky reader asserts Foley Kidney Pills stopped joint and muscle pains and grippe aches caused by overworked kidneys. The ad urges strengthening kidneys and cleansing blood of acids and poisons, attributed to the pills.
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