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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1917
Page
7
Raleigh news reports state officials urge safer school construction over adding unsafe rooms, stressing fire drills and full safety. It also highlights wheat production needs 13 million bushels, fall planting plans, seed quality, and soil prep to boost state bread supply.
An anti-conscription gathering in Monroe became a patriotic rally. Ex-Governor Cole L. was invited but unavailable. J. J. Parker, a prominent Republican, spoke urging Americans to support the war effort and President Wilson, and asserting troops abroad were sent for democracy and safety.
Governors commissions county and city attorneys to hear appeals from local boards and investigate exemptions. Local boards must designate cooperating officials and provide a substitute if declined. Attorneys are empowered to administer oaths per section 6 of the selective service law.
Dr. J W Summers of Mecklenburg county, convicted in August 1916 of manslaughter for performing a criminal operation on a young woman, is granted a gubernatorial commutation. He must pay a $1000 fine and refrain from practicing medicine for three years. The governor states the defendant is guilty but that justice is served by the commutation as recommended by the judge.
The resignation of Joe L. Baker as managing editor to enter the training camp at Fort Oglethorpe is reported. A Salisbury boy, nine year old Robert Charles Whirlow Jr., died after being kicked in the stomach by a horse. The Concord Merchants association plans a local home guard, and a Morganton mass meeting of eight counties seeks government use of German POWs for road building in western North Carolina.
The North Carolina food production and conservation campaign will end September 1 after a statewide push in August. Executive Secretary John Paul Lucas says the program, funded under sixteen hundred dollars, will continue with the governor possible emergency use and county commissions kept intact. Greensboro reports officer appointments for a newly organized engineers company with Capt. E W Myers announcing the noncommissioned officers.
Asheville with its four national guard units hosted on Biltmore green as guests of Mrs Edith S Vanderbilt. She reviewed the troops and awarded prizes for athletic events to be arranged later. Raleigh reports W B McCoy of Wilmington visiting with his son Henry McKoy who seeks to enlist quickly in the French front efforts.
Since the country entered the war in early April North Carolina has recruited 1227 men at state offices with 191 added in July. Officials note western counties supplied most volunteers while eastern counties lagged.
In New York chic neighborhoods over 200 women have become apartment building elevator operators. They handle calls and doors and often run the tele phone switchboard. The Federated Non-Commercial Agencies clearing house, led by Mrs. P. J. O Connell, places workers and checks employers. Average monthly wage cited as $40 with aims for an eight and a half hour day.
Mrs. Alfred T. Anderson of Spokane owns a blue and white water pitcher bearing Lafayette’s image. The relic honors his 1824 visit when he laid the Bunker Hill monument cornerstone, after earlier 1784 trips, and notes Washington’s hospitality at a New Jersey home.
A ragged man attempted a bold bluff by feigning ownership of a car after loitering with others. A police officer watched as the incident unfolded and the supposed owner grew furious when questioned, eventually heading to the station after his bluff failed.
Two men walk on Woodward Avenue eyeing white shoes as prices rise. One bets that waitresses in the next meal houses wear at most one pair of white shoes. he wins twice and then loses the rest. A waitress explains only floor managers wear white shoes, revealing a clever con.
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