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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1922
Page
4
Seamor City Editor Adv. Mer. 2312 2725 2355 appears to be an advertisement listing or classified entry. It lacks surrounding context but suggests a directory or shop reference in the High Point Enterprise archive.
The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to its news dispatches published in the paper and local news. The item is entered as second class matter at the High Point North Carolina post office under the 1872 act. Advertising reps are listed for Forst Landis and Kohn in New York and Peoples Gas Building in Chicago.
A public notice outlines a bond issue of 250000 for immediate expansion of the city school system. It calls for citywide expansion, a municipal building and auditorium, a sufficient city library, parks and playgrounds, a new passenger station and track elevation, city planning, more homes, paved streets, extended sewer and water systems, and hard surfaced roads as the population grows to 20000 with city limits extended.
poem memorializes fallen soldiers praising sacrifice and freedom and notes a Chicago church move over rent. Local editorials urge Chief Blackwelder and citizens to weed vacant lots, with chambers of commerce backing a citywide campaign to keep streets and properties clean and disease free.
Citizens welcome Oasis Temple Shriners and their guests as the city hosting its first Shrine gathering. Local leaders praise the event and anticipate a future auditorium, noting High Point’s accessibility and hospitality to prominent Shrine members from mayors to bankers.
Greensboro Daily News reported that over 300 Shriners could not find hotel rooms in High Point and slept in Greensboro. High Point hotels say they accommodated all applicants who came in person, proving capacity existed despite crowded facilities.
North Carolinian writer reflects on High Point being called the Furniture City and the pride felt from tourists remarks. The Enterprise editor notes local sentiment about the city’s image and cleanliness.
A Dayton, Ohio party wintering in Florida called High Point the cleanest and most beautiful city they saw on their trip and they regretted not staying longer. R. O. Horney Richmond, Va., May 25.
The Raleigh News and Observer argues the Interstate Commerce Commission’s ten percent freight rate cut still leaves rates far above 1916 levels. It says railroads blocked business by charging prohibitively high rates and questions why passenger and Pullman car rates were not reduced to spur travel.
The Charlotte News contrasts Southern views on terrorism with harsher handling in Dixie. It argues that the South will not tolerate bombings and crimes done in zeal for sacred causes and that vigilant self policing leads to swift justice. The piece also discusses child theatergoing and censorship.
Dr. RoW Bishop explains that true night terrors signal an unstable constitution and may precede mild epilepsy or St Vitus dance. Symptoms include wakeful alarm, clinging to the mother, unrecognizable faces, and inability to be soothed, with possible later memory loss.
George W. Norris, governor of the Federal Reserve Bank district, has been elected president of the Belt Line Railway a public line created to ensure railroads serving Philadelphia receive equal traffic advantages to piers and warehouses on the Delaware River waterfront.
The Wood-Forbes report and Philippine policy are praised by Rev Dr George Alexander head of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. The document notes cooperation by Filipinos contrasts with India's nationalist campaign and urges cautious support for the Philippine program under the Power Treaty.
Camden officials plan a shrine at Walt Whitman’s frame house where he lived and died in 1892. A committee led by Councilman Frederick Von Nieda will seek city funds for restoration and keep the house on its original site. The building will store Whitman relics and commemorate the poet’s birth spot anniversary on May 81.
On the Board Walk in Atlantic City May 25, shoppers view a display of sports wear fabrics. Poplin, beach cloth, silk and cotton pongee and dimities come in many shades with English prints, Japanese crepes, ginghams, sateens and voiles in pattern variety.
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