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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1913
Page
5
Officials warn that weakly constructed buildings contribute to a high fire risk across the state. Emergency crews report numerous blazes tied to poor workmanship and substandard materials, urging stricter building codes and inspections.
The ad promotes a large Yuletide Gift selection at Staley’s Store in High Point featuring fine white diamonds and high grade jewelry. D F Staley, Jeweler, invites inspection and emphasizes the quality of Staley’s Stamp. Thacker’s shoe store also runs a well worded ad today.
At a Friday preliminary hearing the youth Nalls was bound over to face a murder charge with a 2500 bond after allegedly striking Craven with a rock, an offense tied to Craven's death. Nalls had fled to Durham before officers tracked him down and returned him to High Point for trial. Beware of skint flint peddlers offering goods far below value.
A Sunday morning blaze destroyed most of Mrs Mary Westmoreland’s Blairtown home and contents. Firefighters found a fire that began Saturday night, then rekindled about five o’clock Sunday morning. origin undetermined.
Canton readers witnessed a dramatic wedding when Robert M Calvin married Marie Kerr amid a downpour, after a long courtship and repeated elopement attempts. The couple wed in a cornfield at Candler near Asheville following partnerships with travels through Waynesville and Canton.
The law bars any unlicensed association or society from handling insurance business in North Carolina and makes it a misdemeanor to aid their contracts. Citizens should use only licensed firms, with bi monthly lists published by the Insurance Department and available through county clerks or the department.
Henderson county holds its Superior Court clerk C. M. Pace in high regard for forty five years of uninterrupted service. He has presided as court clerk since 1868 and, until recently, was absent only due to injuries from a courthouse basement incident.
Piedmont Camp No 62 Woodmen of the World held unveiling exercises Sunday afternoon at 3 at the cemetery. Monuments for T. H Spencer and Hiram J Wood were revealed amid a watchful crowd despite poor weather. About half the city has paid taxes with discounts. after January 1 a 1 percent monthly penalty applies. A democratic Santa Claus will reportedly fill children’s stockings.
North Carolina pleased with Thursday's showing as the Tar Heels dominated Virginia in a Thanksgiving night game. The piece catalogs past Virginia Carolina results from 1892 to 1912, noting Carolina’s three championships and Virginia’s eleven wins, plus point totals and shutouts across the series.
The Greensboro and Winston districts list presiding elders and assigned stations including Asheboro, Deep River, Greensboro circuits, High Point, Reidsville, Wentworth, and Ramseur. Elders J R Scroggs and J W Vestal preside, with other officials and missionaries named. transfers include Holston and Cuba assignments.
A reader laments lax enforcement of the law on selling cigarettes to minors in High Point. The editor cites daily smoking by youths eight and older and even younger children seen with cigarettes. The piece urges penalties on buyers and sellers to curb the practice.
Mortgagee H A Millis will sell at public auction for cash the property in High Point Guilford County North Carolina described as Lot No 13 Block B Moon plat South Side East Street fifty feet front and 117 feet deep with a room dwelling in High Point township The sale is on January 3 1913 at 2 00 o clock in front of Bank of Commerce North Main Street High Point N C by virtue of a mortgage dated April 30 1909 recorded Book 211 page 604.
By virtue of a mortgage default Roy Cole and wife Lesser Cole will sell cash to the highest bidder on January 3 1914 at 2 PM in front of the Bank of Commerce High Point North Main Street. The tract in James Town Township contains six acres more or less and adjoins Pheba Dodd and Tanda Mathews. the home place formerly had a dwelling which burned. J F Hoffman mortgagee.
A half page advertisement from D. Bones and Son outlines reasons and benefits for customers to buy now. The copy emphasizes value, trust, and product appeal, urging readers to act promptly.
Delos Hammer laments a distant base of supplies and a shielding pageant turned corrupt by race and luxury. The poem warns that pursuit of power and petty wealth erodes honor, urging protectors of others to condemn bad in all, not shield it.
The item notes a continuing fair and a new Cannon-Fetzer Co. advertisement in the regular space. It hints at money saving through the ad but provides no specific details or dates.
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