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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1922
Page
4
A playful column notes mail at window three reveals only the clerk knows who gets what. Gossip and jokes touch on national bonus, prohibition, college coeds, garden tools, and streetcar humor. It ends with misread church attendance and divorce figures.
The remark contrasts a barbershop bluntness with a warning about discussing rents and staying in the game. It presents a light, opinionated quip about tone and patience in conversations and decisions.
The Manufacturers' Record urges focusing on U S development as foreign trade falters. The South is praised for driving national wealth with local spending. January NC building permits exceed 1.0 million across seven cities, with Asheville Charlotte Greensboro Durham Winston-Salem Wilmington High Point each posting sizable totals. Hotels and large apartment projects, including Atlanta's nine story $900000 coop, highlight the spring summer building surge and regional industrial expansion.
Greensboro hosts an expansive automobile show praised as grand and city-class in scope. The displays feature a wide range of cars and accessories with prices edging toward pre war levels, including big touring cars around 1500 to 1600 dollars and many under a thousand. The event aims to cement Greensboro as a regional automotive distributing hub in the Carolinas.
Harding proposes a 50 000 sum to regulate wireless signals amid growing mischief in the air. The move aims to curb interference and establish orderly use of etheric communications.
Workers at a Chicago manufacturing plant walk off seeking equal wages with male counterparts. Report notes the surprise at prior assumptions that women earned the same as men.
New York report notes St Simon's Episcopal Church in the northeastern city section was consecrated after 21 years of work from a mission started in a stable. The article highlights its Gothic design and long construction arc and hints at public controversy over its site at Rankin and Commerce.
Dr George Goubeaud a city veterinarian paints his car vivid orange to make it easily seen in his district He says the striking hue helps people spot him so they stop when he is on rounds and he can clear up a neighborhood in a single trip avoiding callbacks.
The article notes Louis Sherry reopens his famed restaurant in New York, now on Park Avenue, preserving the familiar atmosphere. It contrasts a history of Central Park development with Sherry’s ongoing influence in high society dining and arts.
A reader voices concern about locating the new municipal building at the corner of Ranks and Commerce streets. The writer cites poor surroundings, parking shortages, nearby lumber yard hazards, and argues the main street site is preferable.
A reflective column by Vivian Korner features a probing Q A on luck prizes and the illusion of easy money. The piece playfully ponders contests winnings and the speaker’s skepticism about misused wealth.
Louisville Ky March 25 More than 5000 dollars in prizes will be awarded at the first annual fat and feeder cattle show to be held at the Bourbon Rock yards November 23 and 24 Five states Kentucky Tennessee Alabama Mississippi and Georgia are represented with 50 awards in 16 rings There is no entrance fee Principal buyers feedery buyers and junior clubs are expected to attend Prizes include 450 for best carload 4 0t and 350 for junior contestants Two hundred dollars will be awarded to grand champion steers and grand champion carload Feeding cattle prizes total 1175 with 250 each for carloads over and under 1000 pounds First prize 500 for fat steers over 1200 pounds 1300 in that class and 400 for steers under 1200 pounds from a 975 total
Ohio marks the birth centenary of General Ulysses S. Grant with April 27 to 29 ceremonies in Clermont and Brown counties. President Harding planned to attend aboard the Island Queen with General Pershing and Grant descendants. Aged plans include a cabin site on state fair grounds within a glass enclosure and a Grant highway linking Cincinnati to Georgetown. Memorial coins and new roads aim to honor his Ohio roots.
In Crocker County Wyoming a gang of wealthy cattle thieves back Billy Wingo for sheriff to shield their crimes. Tip O Gorman pushes the nomination over Rafe Tuckleton and aims to hire Dan Slike to kill Tom Walton. Hazel Walton discovers Murray hiding in a canyon as Wingo approaches. Murray shoots a mule but Hazel escapes on the other.
Bill Wingo refuses to appoint the rival deputies suggested by Judge Driver and Tip O Gorman presses him on bribery. Billy braces for the fallout as Shillman and Tyler are secretly installed and DA Rafe demands cancellation.
Billy Wingo asserts control over appointments and orders the district attorney expelled. A price disputes emerge as plots to kill officials and exact money intensify. Riley Teler frets over offense as Billy faces hidden threats and more killings. Continued in Our Next Issue.
T C Watkins Jr of South Boston Virginia was chosen director of warehouses for the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association of Virginia and the two Carolinas at a directors meeting. Watkins is vice president of Boston National Bank of South Boston and a large tobacco planter.
London March 16 Trade house announces sale of silver god pieces from the Baroda palace. Highlights include Gan'ea seven and a half inches high with rubies, Kandeh Rao as Siva, Anna Purna the Giver of Food, and Surya on a lotus. The Gaekwar collection to the Star of the South is valued about £80,000.
Kingston Jamaica plans to make the city a free port of call to attract ships passing through the Panama Canal. The government proposes this policy as a strategic move to boost maritime traffic and trade opportunities.
Stockholm March 16 Sweden seeks to declare war on rats and mice led by the medical board. A memorandum asks the government to pass a bill financing rodent control and compels towns villages and ships to act. The plan proposes state funding for research and stricter building standards to deter infestations.
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