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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1916
Page
3
Winston Salem faces a sugar shortage with white sugar nearly exhausted and brown sugar and molasses likely to be used for cooking and coffee. Hotels and restaurants hold supplies for days, while retailers stop taking orders as wholesalers cite war trade, cane crop shortfalls, and railroad car shortages as causes.
Railway switchmen in Chicago yards weigh flat rejection of the Adamson bill. They now work 11 hours being paid for 10 due to lunch provisions, with three eight hour shifts yielding 3.20 daily pay. They fear income loss. leaders question statutory force and political motives behind the bill.
Mrs. J. M. Gaskill of Etna Green Indiana reports severe back aches and sharp pains. She credits Foley Kidney Pills with providing relief and safe use alongside other remedies. Mann Drug Co. stocks the standard kidney and bladder treatment for sale.
In New York on October 19 Mrs Clara Rodger wife of Dr David R Rodger of Richmond Hill took charge of Queens suffrage efforts needing an auto to reach dispersed districts. Miss E B Walker replied the second assembly district had not authorized vehicle purchase and would not fund it. She noted former chairman Alfred J Eno spent personal funds on borough work and auto use, urging frugality and prior liquidation of expenses.
Mrs Myron J Pickard of Merphie says a winter illness left her two children with severe colds but the medicine proved to be the remedy they needed. She notes the product was obtainable widely.
New York reports a sharp rise in consumer costs as cotton climbs to its highest since the Civil War amid a tropical storm and strong demand. July cotton tops 1? cents a pound, wheat and corn also firm with May wheat at 1.68 and corn at 1.04 per bushel. sugar and pork prices rise, while flour and lard show notable increases.
Judge E B Cline sentenced John Wentz to 15 years in the state penitentiary for an assault on his 14 year old daughter Kate Wentz with criminal intent. The trial lasted nearly two days with the jury out six and a half hours returning a verdict last night around 10. Wentz, long time Indian Trail resident, had recently moved south of Monroe where the crime occurred last summer. He has been in jail since.
In a months-old arrest, lawyers argued insanity as the core defense. The jury rejected full insanity, deeming him morally weak rather than legally insane.
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