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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1919
Page
8
Chicago's telephone service halted as hundreds of operators stopped work to protest the wage adjustment granted by the Chicago Telephone Company. City Hall and several large office buildings were without service for over an hour, with company officials noting the workers complained but denying a strike.
High Point taxes for 1919 are due at the City Collector W L Smith office. A 2 percent discount applies to taxes paid in October. Date 10 22 41.
In Cleveland on October 22 Judge Martin Foran upheld city police power to ban certain apartment constructions and enforce building restrictions. He attacked folding beds as a symbol of hidden squalor and derided landlords for profiteering while condemning housing conditions and rent hikes.
In municipal court Judge Kirkman finds Celia Samet and A Benard guilty of affray. Samet appeals with bond set at 100. Benard testified that a butcher knife and a jar were involved during a dispute near the Samet home. Additional defendants Cain and Jessups, two Randolph county farmers, are found guilty of drunk driving and fined 10 with costs. case of being drunk is dismissed for them. Paul Payne is also convicted of being drunk and disorderly with a 10 fine and 100 bond on appeal.
Dog Hill remarks clash with a person of opposite views and are said to do little good. A Bounding Bil lows merchant notes a dinner-time staff rush boosts customers. Tickville Tidings reports Mrs Atlas Peck visiting town last week. Atlas Peck notes papers often err.
A fragment from a Baltimore American item cites a dialogue about music soothing the savage breast and a woman asking why the man objects to the playing. The exchange hints at social attitudes toward music in a casual remark.
Mrs. Kate Wisdom of Clovis New Mexico says she suffered twenty years from indigestion rheumatism and gas bloating before using Taniae. She reports appetite return relief from heart pressure improved sleep and ability to eat anything now. She recommends Taniae and says others report help. Sold by all druggists.
A breakfast scene shows a mother scolding a daughter while a playful remark about a visitor from the Great Lakes surfaces. The article notes healthful athletic exercises daily at school are altering the Japanese girl’s physique, making her larger, heavier, and longer-limbed than her mother.
The city council voted to raise pay for police and fire department personnel. Police Chief Welch will earn 125 dollars per month while each patrolman under his command receives 1060 per month. Firemen receive 90 dollars monthly for experienced workers and 584 for less experienced men. The council also debated paving Steele Street near the cemetery but delayed action due to sewerage expenditures.
Two carloads of sanitary surface closets arrived today and will be delivered immediately. Persons desiring them are notified to visit the city manager and procure order.
The stock holders of the High Point Perpetual Building and Loan association will meet in the Commercial National Bank directors room on Monday night October 27 at 7 30. V A J Idol secretary notices dated September 26 to Thursday 4t.
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