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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1919
Page
7
The ad touts Hoosier cabinets as time saving and convenient for housewives. It claims complete meals can be prepared from the cabinet with all utensils and supplies within reach. Demonstrations invite readers to choose a model and pay a small initial sum plus weekly installments.
Two city councilmen voiced support for an ordinance to banish pool halls. The debate focused on subletting fronts of pool rooms and the impact on public access, with Hedrick urging abolition and Ingram backing a full ban, but the matter stalled without action.
The High Point Foundation trust fund will be administered by Wacho via Bank and Trust, following a proposal presented by Attorney Julius Smith. A five member board including the mayor and county officials will oversee the fund for five years. Council members welcomed the plan noting it could attract charitable gifts and civic support.
Berlin reports the American Red Cross completed relief work in German Russian prison camps. For six months it supplied clothing medicine and food to camps and hospitals as the Inter Allied Commission and Marshal Foch ordered transfer of duties to German authorities. General Harries praised the Red Cross for its achievements.
Danville Virginia October 8 Samuel Martin who was to be tried yesterday in Martinsville on a charge of complicity in the killing of George Carter a policeman had his case continued owing to the continued illness of an important witness.
Eugene Hamilton, a negro serving a 10 year term for attempted murder of Jasper county farmer Charles Tingle, was seized by about 60 men from Sheriff Middlebrooks near Gray and shot at daylight near Monticello. Tingle survived despite threats from his supporters as Hamilton’s new trial motion was denied and appealed.
In Atlanta on October 8 the Confederated Southern Memorial association and the Sons of Confederate Veterans opened the 24th annual United Confederate Veterans reunion with welcome addresses and organizational routines. Veterans toured local battlefields and renewed old memories during the day.
Mrs A voices suspicion about the new cook who acts as if she believes the entire place belongs to her. Mrs B asks for specifics, noting the evident odd conduct. The dialogue appears in the Boston Transcript.
In a general plebiscite held yesterday Norway voted to adopt national prohibition. The decision ends decades of debate and establishes nationwide restrictions on the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
The City of High Point adopts the S. R. S. septic privy as default and allows other privies only with special permission. It offers sanitary privy tanks at cost through city arrangements and urges citizens to apply at once, including residents outside corporate limits.
The High Point City Council in 1919 enacts an ordinance requiring flush closets or L R S septic privies for residences near the sewer line, with water from city mains within 2900 feet. The measure adopts L R S septic pits as the city standard and offers to assist residents by supplying equipment at cost, repealing conflicting ordinances, and taking effect upon passage.
COBLENZ Oct. 8 German statistics show that non commissioned officers killed wounded and missing total 778560. Of these 610900 were Prussians 79066 Bavarians 55390 Saxons and 33204 Württembergers. Total killed 190205 in roughly the same proportion.
Seven social figures from Oakland were hosted by Mrs. G A Buckingham for an aviation tea. The guests flew in Durant's airplanes individually for five to twenty minutes and later debated their experiences over tea.
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