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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1922
Page
4
The proposal calls for extending city limits in all directions and creating a substantial city library. It includes parks and playgrounds, a new passenger station and track elevation, a city planning system, more homes, paved streets, and extended sewer and water systems. A population of 20,000 is targeted with broader hard surfaced roads.
A satirical piece rails at weekend excesses and economic woes, noting paydays, easy payments, and the lure of Friday through Sunday revelry. It also references local taxes in Goldsboro, transport mishaps on the Greensboro road, and civic pride in improving roads and schools.
A local citizen asks The Enterprise about the status of the vigorously launched wet counting ordinance from early summer. The inquiry seeks clarity on enactment progress and current enforcement steps by city officials.
Citizens in High Point press for action as council delays calling a voter referendum on extending city limits. Despite a year of authority and a spring boundary survey, the council has yet to initiate the legal steps for the election, leaving outskirts residents awaiting incorporation benefits and city services.
In High Point readers criticize Southeastern Express for applying uniform rules that hurt some shippers. The letter argues for improved local service and urges the company to match its demands with better delivery and collection practices.
The piece notes about 1 500 state county and community fairs in the United States and roughly 500 in Canada before year end. Ohio leads with ninety nine fairs, Minnesota follows with ninety six, and many North Carolina counties host fairs of varying kinds.
The article compares U.S. auto ownership with Japan and other nations, noting 12,260 cars in U S while America has 10,500,000 and other countries total 2,500,000. It argues prosperity rests on production and work, not entitlement, amid a critique of thieves and parasites.
The piece condemns Kluttz for killing a Raleigh officer and questions his memory claim while noting potential insanity as a defense. It shifts to social commentary on women’s hours and beauty routines, praising a Nestle home kit for in-home cosmetics and styling as part of modern domestic life.
The Southern Railway suspends all trains from Greensboro along the main line between 7:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. due to a strike. Officials blame the walkout and a commission pledge breach, saying service will resume after freight congestion eases. Local residents face travel disruption and rising costs during the stoppage.
The article argues North Carolinians should not back a rail strike that harms local businesses and inconveniences the public. It contends the dispute lacks state interest and damages Tar Heels, urging focus on issues that affect them directly.
A Garden City resident seeks to modernize the town as late night phone pranks and bootlegging case come to light. Police and telephone officials pursue the right man after two men face arraignment for legal liquor transport amid a crime wave.
A Brooklyn setter attacked a girl and tore her dress but a fearless little girl pleaded for mercy. Patrolman Humers intervened and spared the dog, taking it to the station for examination instead of shooting.
Jane Cowl to star in the opening Equity Players production at the Forty-eighth Street theater with Maivaloca a modern Spanish play. After two months Cowl moves to Selwyns, then Hospitality by Leon Cunningham to follow beginning October 2. A new flower rental business arrives in town offering reusable table bouquets for dinner parties.
A joint meeting of city council and the school board discusses increasing the allotment for city schools and outlines salaries for Juvenile Court matters. The juvenile court judge would be paid 25 dollars per month and a combined probation and truancy officer 125 dollars per month with city and school contributions specified.
Horace Haworth named juvenile judge and a citizen of high moral character is expected to serve well. Four street petitions pass for Walnut Grimes Maple paving, but no dates set. Guilford avenue paving ordered, Barbee estate heirs matter referred, land deeded to the city for road edge alignment, and a 100 foot no parking rule near High Point hospital approved. The meeting adjourned with no date for a school tax reconsideration. The text closes with a sermon urging obedience to law over strong drink.
A church gathering hear Bishops Lines urge dynamic leadership to meet global turmoil. He calls the church to move forward beyond old limits, focusing on large, vital issues while addressing prohibition with respect for differing views and majority rule.
The Daily Mail reports Britain will use about £11,600,000 of the Boxer Indemnity due next December to found a college for Chinese students under British administration either in Britain or China. The note compares Britain’s plan to the United States use of indemnity funds two decades ago to promote Chinese student education.
Port Washington report says Glenn H. Curtis achieved a forty second flight today in a marine glider over Manhasset Bay. Officials claim it marks the first instance of a glider lifting from the water.
Mrs William Hatfield of Greensboro is in the city today as the guest of Mrs Craven Page.
In Warsaw North Carolina a scare ended when a doctor reported the woman may have hallucinated an attack near her home. Police and a bloodhound posse scoured the area after her scream but no suspect was found or arrested.
A new hospital costing 789000 dollars for disabled service men in Virginia West Virginia Maryland and the District of Columbia will begin once a suitable site is found. The project aims to serve veterans in the four jurisdictions and was announced today.
Circle No 1 of the First Baptist church will meet Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the residence of Mrs FF M Pickett north of the city. Mrs Pickett asks those attending to notify her by phone 9749.
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