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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1922
Page
4
A bond issue of 250,0000 supports rapid expansion of the city school system and extension of city limits in all directions. It envisions a municipal building and auditorium, a city library, parks and playgrounds, a new passenger station, elevated tracks, a city planning system, more homes, paved streets, extended sewer and water, hard surfaced roads, better garbage disposal, and population growth to 20,000 with extended annexations.
A poem celebrates building a home with a little land cash and plan a place of peace beneath the heavens a porch lawn garden and a hopeful family life as a wise man who treads on loam. It contrasts restless roam with the joy of marriage children and a simple home.
Community calls for removing several grade crossings in High Point after two accidents in two weeks. Main Street crossing highlighted for safety and economic loss as traffic concentrates near the railroad hub. Proposals include underpasses at Willowbrook and Chestnut and a track bridge at Dalton to reduce danger.
Local chamber of commerce urged support for establishing a loose-leaf tobacco market in High Point. A cooperative by Carolinas, Virginia and Kentucky growers could handle up to a million dollars of tobacco annually, with 4 to 6 million pounds marketed locally.
The article details chaotic overcrowding in High Point public schools with 3,477 students in only two under capacity buildings. A $250,000 bond issue funds remodeling of Main Street and Elm, additions at Grimes Street, a new ward and central high school, and a new colored school to relieve crowding and improve ventilation and facilities. Enrollment has risen since 1918 and is expected to surpass 5,000, while the colored schools remain severely crowded with 720 students in 14 rooms.
A High Point citizen recalls a boy's remark about crowded schools to illustrate the urgent need for new school buildings. The piece urges readers to register in time for the June 6 bond election and to cast a vote supporting school bonds, arguing schools are a disgrace to an intelligent community.
A fragment notes deprivation of school facilities threatening access for hundreds of children next fall. Details on location and responsible authorities are unclear in the readable text.
May 12 New York dealers report magic related books eclipsing pirates and South Seas works as the new bestseller. Ghosts angels demons and telepathic forces attract buyers across all social groups as entire shop sections are cleared for these volumes.
Announced plans to unveil busts of George Washington Mark Hopkins Edgar Allan Poe Maria Mitchell and Gilbert Charles Stuart in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University.
Police orders halt all night dancing with a 2 a.m. curfew along the great white way in Gotham. City ordinance has long proposed limits but enforcement now appears abrupt and unexplained.
Washington May 12 Southern railway system passenger trains kept an on time record in April. Vice President H W Miller in charge of operation reports 14 541 trains operated 13 600 arrived at final terminal on time 93 5 percent and 14 011 or 63 percent maintained schedule or made up time while on the southern.
Ellmer Lewis of Henry county was held for the county grand jury after a preliminary hearing on charges that he plotted and caused the death of Constable Hughes Mitchell near Martinsville. He was remanded to jail without bail. The state says Lewis armed Puster Brown who shot the officer and who is at large, and armed L. W. Holder who has been arrested and disclosed the plot to kill the constable after liquor was seized and destroyed.
Vogue of Red highlights brilliant red as the season’s top hue with red handbags and red heels. It notes black patent leather pumps as a smart pairing and keeps a sharp focus on bold color in accessories.
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