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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1916
Page
4
The High Point school faculty seeks to add an eleventh grade this year with Principal Taylor and Superintendent Marr approving. If enough students enroll, the school will become accredited with colleges in this and other states, aiding graduates entering higher education.
New York stock market notes reveal cotton futures opening easy with declines of about 40 points from yesterday’s highs. Front month contracts quote October 15.92, December 16.01, January 16.12, with later closes steady after early declines.
Chicago reports higher quotations as European uneasiness over supply and persistent Argentina drought rumors buoy wheat. Opening quotes advanced from 7 to 1% with December near 1.54 and May around 1.55, then edged higher in some cases.
Charles E. Hughes arrived in South Bend exhausted after a day of 12 speeches. He spoke to a large audience in a hoarse whisper at times, addressing topics from the Adamson law to American rights and administration methods.
General Manager M B Spier of Southern Bell met Salisbury chamber directors and citizens to outline plans for a new Salisbury plant home, underground wires in business district, and higher rates. The company would spend about 125000 dollars on the site and improvements and seeks public support to raise rates from Salisbury and Spencer patrons.
At five yesterday evening a log train backing up on the W and C railroad at the Elizabethtown road crossing collided with an auto driven by M N Folgier. The car was wrecked but Folgier and C Nortent escaped with slight injuries. The caboose and four flat cars derailed. the conductor in the caboose suffered bruises.
Winston-Salem tobacco market set a season high with 174232 pounds sold at an average of 318.89 per hundred. It marked the largest sales volume and top price of the year for the local market.
London September 23 Count Albert Apponyi a leading figure in the Hungarian opposition is a receptive candidate for the Austro Hungarian ambassador to the United States He is well known in America and his candidacy is noted in a Budapest dispatch to the Mail.
Berlin reports an agreement between Germany and the Netherlands to submit the Tubanta sinking issue to an international committee of investigation after the war. The accord aims to resolve the dispute through a joint, impartial inquiry.
Admission at the Broadway after this date will be 5c and 10c all seats, matinee and night, except big feature days.
Chicago witnesses a tenth bank failure in 30 days as Industrial Savings, led by Harry A. Dubia, closed with $800,000 in deposits. State attorney Houoe denied ordering bank closures while depositors’ complaints sparked investigations. Receivers found $25,189 in cash and negotiable checks.
Mrs Laura Bratcher of Ready Kentucky describes long illness and nervous troubles. After trying doctors she credits Cardui with restoring health after eleven bottles. Advertisement urges other women to try Cardui and requests mail order information from Chattanooga Medicine Company.
Advertisement extols Chamberlain's Tablets to aid liver and bowel health, claiming regular bowels and a healthy liver stave off aging symptoms. It touts ease of use and broad availability, urging readers with constipation or biliousness to try the product.
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