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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1916
Page
4
A Southern train No. 43 crew receives high praise for exemplary courtesy and careful service. A negro porter assists passengers, offers help with baggage, and ensures safe alighting while the conductor greets travelers kindly. The item calls for training all train crews in polite treatment and notes local speed enforcement and political remarks.
The cotton market opened steady with a 5 to 1 point advance and initial gains of 12 to 18 points before selling off. Liverpool demand and renewed bull support supported prices, with December around 1.9 and January near 15.77, later giving back 5 to 6 points. futures listed October 15.44, December 15.57, January 15.65, March 15.84, May 15.99.
In Chicago on September 18 decreasing Liverpool stock and falling northwestern receipts pushed the wheat market higher. Opening bids rose 14 to 1% with broad gains and then a broad reaction followed.
High Point and Reidsville battled sixteen innings in a 3-3 deadlock at Reidsville. Eldridge struck out 21 for High Point and McWhorter 19 for Reidsville as darkness halted play. High Point to meet Winston-Salem next Saturday at their park.
The Harvest Home service at the First Reformed church yesterday drew a large crowd with flowers and abundant food-stuffs on display. The pastor spoke to children and explained harvest abundance in material and spiritual terms, and the event will become an annual observance.
Catherine Billings daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J H Billings died at six this morning near the city from catheria. She was five years ten months and twenty two days old. Funeral and burial set for tomorrow at Mitchells Grove chapel with Rev A G Dixon leading at the grave.
Nashville September 18 troops from Tennessee begin entraining the third infantry as the last units depart for the border. The two regiments and separate organizationsCombined total 2600 men moving to duty.
Greenville Pennsylvania on September 18 Edgar Williams shipped seven tons of honey to Newcastle buyers who paid 3800 dollars by check.
A short health note claims constipation causes many ailments and urges keeping bowels regular. It recommends Chamberlain's Tablets as a laxative that also improves appetite and digestion. Sold everywhere.
Administrator Ed L. Pagan will sell at public auction on September 18 1916 at 2 pm on premises the deceased left to dispose of a soda fountain and fixtures to the last and highest bidder for cash August 17 1916 Ed L Pagan Admr
Notice announces public auction by the Carolina and Yadkin River Railroad Co on September 22 at 10 o clock for freight charges. A carload of lumber from Alcola South Carolina in an A C L car number 37670 consigned to High Point Furniture Company, some refused by the consignee, date of shipment December 15, 1915.
A letter urges cooperation between parents and instructors to develop children through home discipline and calm, attentive parenting. It praises High Point schools and calls for parental visits to stimulate teachers, ending with a hope for a productive 1916 school term.
Following the Roe Court decision to refrain from hearing cases of the 267 Industrial Workers of the World prisoners on writ of habeas corpus, counsel for the defendants announced they would appeal to U.S. courts with a petition for writ of habeas corpus asserting infringement of rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
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