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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1917
Page
6
The Enterprise reports shifts in draft rules affecting registered men. Local board chair A F Tate notes potential calls for two to three more white men and possible discharges for dependents. Some already sent to Camp Jackson may avoid further exams if quotas are met.
A note on military jargon shows British soldiers learning department initials as offices expand. It cites examples like the Assistant Director Imp lecent and Machinery Department Section, Food Production Department, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, reflecting growing mystic titles.
A traveler, believing himself the lone survivor of a shipwreck, hid for three days on a cannibal island. He was driven out by ham mer and saw smoke from bushes. A voice asked why he played that card, and he kneeled, praising God as Christians.
The text argues High Point receives little of state tobacco funds while Greensboro and Winston merchants gain. It questions why a local tobacco market is not developed and who benefits from High Point’s absence of such a market.
At a New York court martial, 24 year old aviation student Samuel Livingood from Princeton faces charges of possessing poison with intent to injure. He denies the accusation, says he owned the poison for a possible suicide after a failing love affair, and notes prior attempts to harm himself. He recounts past troubles including job loss at the Panama Canal and studies interrupted by theft of his savings.
London dispatch describes an army order captured from General Linsingen’s front showing German officers instructed to fraternize with Russian soldiers during holidays. Russians may present gifts and be welcomed back. conversations limited to officers, with hints that England and France bear war guilt while Germany and Austria sought peace, and to avoid tactical topics.
The seventh federal reserve district reports subscriptions turned into banks totaling $185,302,900 as of October 23, reflecting lag in subscriber conversion during the Liberty Loan effort.
Flora Macdonald college ships pine faggots to Mrs. W G McAdoo and Mrs. Lindsay Patterson for Liberty Loan bonfires in Washington and Winston Salem. The ceremonies include a campus sentiment praising colonial resistance and urging fires to keep burning at home and abroad.
Boston yesterday met its minimum allotment of 66,346,000 with subscriptions totaling 67,841,000. For the federal reserve district, the total reached 218,789,000, short by 115,000,000 of the minimum.
In the Western District of North Carolina the bankruptcy court orders a highest bid sale of Phacker's Shoe Store assets at High Point. Merchandise includes menswear, books, supplies and fixtures, free of encumbrances, with whole-lot bidding. Also offered are a National Cash Register, Hoffman pressing machine, and a half-interest in a Ford, all subject to mortgages. The sale awaits court confirmation and inspection by appointment with Trustee E. W. Freeze.
Charles S. Nesbit, superintendent of insurance of the district of Columbia, has been selected by Secretary McAdoo as commissioner of insurance in the government's war risk insurance bureau. Nesbit will, under treasury direction, oversee the soldiers and sailors war risk insurance administration.
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