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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1917
Page
4
City council meets tonight to consider a petition to pave Main street between Commerce and English streets. Property owners are urged to join the effort, forming a paving district to finance the project and begin improvements.
The piece praises a Philadelphia effort isolating the infantile paralysis germ and predicting a cure while arguing for a gradual war profits tax. It cautions against heavy taxation that could kill industrial initiative, noting war profits fund new enterprises and urging balanced revenue in 1918.
The article argues High Point shows progress with new streets and growing residential areas. It highlights Commerce to English as a key section demanding resurfacing, calling Main Street the real artery of trade akin to Wall Street and Broadway for New York.
Delia Alexander of Charlotte shares a meal with C. C. Saunders, a soldier helping build Camp Greene, where federalized militia troops will train for overseas work in Charlotte.
Report notes Austrian batteries have been active along the Isonzo as Red Cross ambulances and stretcher bearers are shelled. The piece argues reprisals would be aged for by Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns, but Italians resist such moves, trusting a victory that should not justify brutal domination.
The British admiralty notes signals of a Reichstag monopoly and peace talks at the next session. The German government weighs a minimal peace program and possible pre Christmas negotiations. The Hague’s role as a potential peace plenipotentiaries meeting location is discussed with Berne favored by Germany.
The American Bar Association opened its annual meeting in Saratoga New York with over two hundred delegates and more expected. Senator George Sutherland delivered the annual address on Private Rights and Government Control. Additional sessions feature Boris A Bakhmetief Russian ambassador Thomas W Hardwick and Mat re Gaston de Leval with topics on democracy interstate commerce and Prussian law in Belgium.
Rail schedule details arrival and departure times for stations including High Point Thomasville Cordontown Denton High Rock and High Point arc. Service notes specify daily and Sunday departures with numbers No 31 No 27 No 28 No 22 and prices indicated for some services.
Fort Morgan Colorado hosts the third annual Frontier Days carnival and celebration starting today under favorable conditions. Hundreds are expected to attend over three days as prizes totaling more than 510000 attract riders and broncho busters from the West.
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