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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1917
Page
3
New York notes a downturn in organized shoplifting as police focus and tougher laws curb crime. Longtime thieves are disappearing, replaced by amateur pilferers, with harsher sentences for repeat offenders and possible prison terms of up to three years.
In Denver CO the School of Opportunity is hailed as a flexible re educational hub offering day and night classes for 500 to 600 day students and a roll of over 1500. It hosts both old and new systems with a shorthand inventor teaching 25 students and plans an auto repair shop in a basement building.
In New York women replace flower boxes and hat racks with customizable papier mache hatrests carved to resemble the wearer or a historical figure. Miss Frances Simpson Stevenson manufactures them, inspired by Paris shops and historic sailors heads, with hats priced from twenty dollars.
In outlying Philadelphia areas many women become apiarists, turning beekeeping into a money-making hobby. Wives of businessmen and farmers, they earn about 30 to 40 dollars per hive annually from honey, with ten to thirty hives yielding 300 to 900 dollars yearly for pin money.
Raleigh reports 96 NC furniture plants filed data with the labor commissioner. Total output is 13,420,000 with capital stock 3,303,343 and plant value 3,690,995. Workforce totals 7,533 workers, 7,241 men, 28 women, 264 children, average 10 hours daily. Payroll 2,522,156. most use steam power. eight use electricity. seven power types unreported.
Asheville official Agey, jailed on charges tied to violating blue sky statutes, posted $2,000 bond furnished by friends. He faces related cases with $1,000 bonds and was held until release. The Southern Orchard Company linked to him allegedly sold Georgia fig lands without a license. He may travel to Knoxville until required in superior court.
A 10 month old Aberdeen-Angus senior yearling valued at 1500 dollars was shipped from Chicago to Durham and relayed to Lyons Granville county by Southern Railway. Buyer Bob Bullock of Creedmoor-Hester area secured the 1500 pound animal at the International Live Stock Exposition. A Salisbury note mentions local artillery members boycotted Governor Biett inauguration over unpaid service from a prior Wilmington call.
Catawba county discusses a possible bond issue up to 500000 for roads and bridges ahead of the legislative session. Morganton reports a new steel bridge for the Catawba river while Oakboro plans a two story brick school. Greensboro names its new hotel The O Henry as Durham notes a lower 1916 death rate. Cleveland County appropriates 400 for the capping club program.
Senator Overman predicted international reaction after urging the State Department to probe how Cuban bonds were obtained. A Cuban decree halted the North Carolina suit in the Supreme Court, signaling possible repudiation of the bonds and warning other nations. The Cuban minister pledged a formal statement, while North Carolina lawmakers consider a resolution exposing the bonds’ fraudulent character.
Charlotte report notes the Cotton Manufacturers Association of North Carolina will hold its winter meeting in Raleigh on January 18. Officers include W. G. Ruffin president, John L. Patterson first vice president, Arthur J. Draper second vice president, T. C. Leak third vice president, and Hudson C. Millar secretary-treasurer. Also updates from Reidsville on cigarette factory stamps and Fayetteville aid to Company F of the North Carolina National Guard at El Paso.
Statesville reports white farmer John Hartness of North Iredell was arrested on his Bethany township farm for Sabbath plowing. Hartness, a Seventh Day Adventist belier, allegedly wanted his sons to work Sunday while he and his boys toiled on the Sabbath. He appeared before Justice W. C. Moore, fined $1 plus costs in the cage.
Writer Frank Hamilton Spearman, famed for railroad lore in the Rockies, extends his mastery to fiction with Nan of Music Mountain. The adventure novel centers on fearless heroes and men of grit amid the high desert, with a lively plot and no dull passages.
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