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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1917
Page
4
Governor Bickett appoints the North Carolina Library War Council to manage the state campaign for a Million Dollar Fund for Libraries and soldiers. The Greensboro meeting set district boundaries including Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro, Durham, and Wilmington areas with named members and host districts.
The state adjutant general cannot grant discharges for men in units that formed the former North Carolina National Guard. Such requests must go through the War Department. The NC National Guard ceased August 6 when drafted into federal service, and the adjutant general has no authority to act. Plus storage guidance for sweet potatoes and a teacher prize notice.
A Justice Department special agent said papers in the case against T M Stikeleather of Iredell County were sent to District Attorney W C Hammer in Asheboro. An arrest for attempting to bribe Dr W Nicholson the local exemption board chair is expected. The allegation says Stikeleather offered Nicholson 25 dollars to exempt a negro tenant on the Stikeleather farm near Statesville. Agent Dorsey Phillips investigated the rumors and reviewed oral testimony and affidavits.
Normation from Washington signals possible regulation of cottonseed crushing and refining with licensing to curb hoarding and speculation. R H Mason plans Ohio trip to buy two carloads of pure bred Jersey cattle for Harnett and Granville counties calf clubs.
The piece highlights two piece or three piece millinery sets including hats with matching accessories and the rise of hat and bag sets for Christmas. It also gives sewing repair tips for lace and urges women to knit woolen garments for French Red Cross requests, stressing duty and social change through wartime support.
London and Paris advance masculine fashion with separate waistcoats. Makers offer soft patterned knits with roomy cuts and side pockets. A watch fob dangles from one pocket while plain shirtwaists and jabots remain visible beneath. Women often remove the suit coat to show the waistcoat.
Wilmington reports U S District Attorney J O Carr warns violators of the Keating Owens child labor law risk indictments if the Supreme Court reverses Judge Boyd. He awaits the nation’s final ruling on the constitutional question as legal debate continues. Six community fairs planned in Catawba County at Mt Olive Terrell Killian’s Rockett Yount Minerva with 100 officers and many producers backing the effort.
Dr B F Kaupp poultryman with North Carolina Experiment Station was chosen president and Thomas J Conway of College Station Texas named secretary at a Raleigh meeting of the southern section of the American Association of Instructors and Investigators in Poultry Husbandry The session aimed to organize poultry husbandry instructors and investigators in the south praising Kaupps work in North Carolina and the station as a whole.
The note advises using plain material to shorten a blouse into a long waist dress for a young girl. It suggests cutting the waist and reforming the garment to fit a child, reflecting frugal, DIY approaches to clothing updates.
The article notes that buttoned spats will be popular again this fall with fits described as beautiful. Available in gray and tan, and in olive drab nicknamed the soldier color, the new spats emphasize style and practicality.
Raleigh aims to model NC cities with a year round garden program. Two garden supervisors, elementary agriculture in schools, and a garden schedule distributed to 4 100 homes via the chamber of commerce and Boy Scouts. Other towns urge gardens, but Raleigh pursues a well directed plan.
About 400 African American helpers in the Atlantic Coast Line machine shops at Rocky Mount walked out after rejecting a four cent hourly raise offer. They had demanded six and a half cents more per hour and began the strike this morning.
Governor Bickett authorized six teen notaries in a single day the largest such issuance. Durham awarded a 60000 yard street paving contract. Twenty three American ambulance men earned the French war cross for recent heavy fighting including Lansing M Paynen from Durham. Kinston public schools will have a brass band this year. Albemarle and Badin business men push to establish a Badin bank. Trinity College will keep German in the program next term though classes may shrink due to instructors shortages not war related.
Governor Bickett spoke under the Four Minute Men banner to a crowded theater, urging total national unity and commitment for the war effort. He warned against neutrality, contrasted Germany with the United States, and called for unwavering support from every citizen.
Morganton Miss Nannie I Kersey resigns as head nurse at the North Carolina State hospital citing failing health after several years in the role. The hospital laments her executive ability and efficiency while noting the demanding duties she leaves behind.
Monroe J Wesley Helms, 21, appeared before U S Commissioner M L Flow on a charge of failing to register for the draft. He was bound over to the federal court in Charlotte opening the first Monday in October after being compelled to register. He initially denied reaching majority but conceded after government evidence.
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