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TKeEntew Very Best advertising mediums in Piedmont North Carolina'Itreaches thepeople VKS - Vol. xxvm. HIGH POINT, GTJJXFOBD COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 19Q5. No; 11 trrm it II l . 1 VI I f 11 v.. SUPPORTING MISSIONARY IN JAPAN Washington Street M. K. Church Keeping Miss Gains in Field. - Miss Gains, In charge of girls school in Hiroshina, Japan, is sap ported by Washington .street church. The following persons pledged themselves to pay annual ly the sum set opposite their Respective names for the term of five years for her support. Dr. D A Stanton, $50.00 J B Kirkman, 50.00 Frank Hurley, 50.00 W M Bagby, 50.00 J H Millia, 35 00 J P Redding, 25.00 Dr W G Bradshaw, 25.00 G A Matton, 20.00 M J Wrenn, i5 W T Kirkman, 13 00 0 Ed Gnrley, 12.50 B C Harmon,' 12.50 O E Kearns. 12.50 J W Clinard, 12.50 A Sberrod, 10,00 J D Mann, 10.00 N B Smith, v 10.00 J A Marsh, 10.00 Prof G H Crowell, 10 00 Jule Marsh, 10.00 R B Strickland. 10.00 Dr J W McAnnally, 10,00 Miss Venetia Smith and Hague 10.00 J W Harriss, 10.00 W MAllred, 10.00 A B Sapp paid by sisters, 10.00 S L Davis, 10.00 - These all paid In full two years ago and 11 was paid in full one year ago except one. The following amounts have been paid this year. W MAllred, , $10.00 ' I E Marsh, 10 00 Frank Gurley, 25.00 t Ed Gurley. 6-5 These pledges are now due and the parties making them wiH please hand to the pastor the sum due. I am told by Dr Lambeth our missionary secretary that Miss Gain is doing the mo9t successful work of any of the missionaries sent out by 'our church. We hope to have a report of her work soon. The missionary contributions in this church have increased ten fold in the past three years. W. M. Bagby. MORE BUILDING The following contracts for houses have been let the past week: E A Jenkins, dwelling house. J C Modlln, dwelling house. Curtis Welborn, dwelling house. Hill Veneer Company, factory on Russell property. E C Conrad, dwelling house. Mrs Tomlinson, dwelling house. W C Jones two houses in west ern part of town. Everett Corbett, drelling house. Herbert Ward, dwelling house. T H Matthews, dwelling honse. : ' RUSHED n Workmen are rushed to get the new part of the Elwood hotel done 1 in order to give Mr. Plummer the room he very much needs. Travel has taxed the capacity so much lately that he has had to put beds in the parlor. ' TOO BUSY President Roosevelt has a name sake in the country near High Point in the person of master Theodore Roosevelt Hay worth.Mr ' Hay worth is the father of eigLt children. He expected to see the President here but was too busy sowing wlieat. . at GONE TO HOT SPRIGS Mr. A. J. Dodamesd who has been ill for some time with ecsema left Saturday night for Hot Springs Ark.", -.where he will remain a month. ; Hi many friends hope that be may be permanently cured. THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT Special trains began to arrive at 12 o'clock and streams of people poured from the station all after noon. By 1 1 o'clock at night the city was crowded and sleeping quarters were at a premium. It is estimated that 25,000 people will see the President at the fair grounds. A stand has been erected in front of grand stand wtth a ten acre space at the sides and in the rear, so that there will be plenty ol room for all. VERY APPARENT It is very apparent that High Point must have more money for current expenses. We have grown to be quite a city in a short time with an exceeding low assess ment and an average rate. If we had that an average assessment on the property of the town the re ceipts would be $10,000 to $15,000 ftnore every year. It is an import ant matter and should be attended to at the proper time. Mr W L Smith who went to Idaho to reside a few weeks ago has returned. He likes North Carolina better and High Point best. There is nothifrg in the west now to compare to the pro gress of this community. REAL ESTATE DEALS Pitts & Penny have bought for the High Point Loan & Tmst Co., one house and lot on South Main; house and lot on English street, and two houses in eastern part of the town. SOLD MILL PROPERTY Mr J P Redding has sold the Monarch Mill property to Hay worth Bros. We hope to see a new enterprise established on this site vary soon. The Hayworth boys are pushers in every sense of the word. TROUBLE AHEAD People continue to build houses here without first getting a permit from chief A B. Homey. Under a law passed by the last legisla tion the requirement is very strict and if it is not heeded Mr. Horney will have to put some of you to much trouble and expense. Every one who intends to build inside the incorporate limits of the town must first get a permit from Mr Horney. He is the officer here created under this act. MARRIED Monday night at the manse, Firs Presbyterian church, Mr Wm G Hall and Miss Eliza Farlow, were united in marriage Rev. E L Siler, officiating. SOON TO COMMENCE Work on the addition to the silk mill will begin in a few days. This plant will eventually be one of the largest of the kind in this country. v NEW STORE S A Van Every and John A Bell, two young men from Asbe ville, were here . making pre parations for the opening of the Ideal Grocery Company, about November 1st. The company has rented the tiapp building on Main street and will keep anl up-to-date establishment. INTERESTED IN HIGH POINT Mr. D. J. Hank) of Ohio, was in the city Saturday. He is a prominent business man of hisJ state and is muck struck with High Point. It is likely that he will return here soon aud look in to the advisability of erecting some handsome store rooms on Main street.' :1; "J . .'(."' ; vv'. ' -V:.- SUCCESSFUL STATE FAIR The Cotton Picker a Wonder to the Farmers Other . Notes. TheEnterprlse spentWednesday afternoon at the State Fair. The exhibit was fairly good with a few novelties in machinery, notably, the cotton picker, which attracted considerable attention. There were one or two demonstrations by this machine. The owners claim that two boys to feed it will pick 2500 pounds of cotton in 10 hours. If it does the work it claims, there will be a revolution in growing the weed. Some of the farmers who saw it work were favorably impressed while others were not. The racing took up the whole afternoon wjth baloon ascentions and other attractions intervening. Wednesday of the State Fair is usually for Raleigh people and the city was out en masse. The fikars were more numerous than they have been at the Fair and the gambling feature was immense. Mr. Shipman, of the High Point Piano & Organ Co., who has been away for a few days making arrange ments for the operation of the plant here, returned last night. Mr. J. M. Owens, a prominent lumber dealer, of Star, wat here yesterday returning home from his bridal trip. Mr. and Mrs. Owens will live at Stay. MISTOOK SIGNAL Editor Varner bad the whistle's at Lexington to blow when the President passed through last week but the citizens did not re spond. They took the signals for two steam threshing machines working in town!! LET S DECIDE IT It will not be but a few weeks before the Highway Commission will commence work on the road to Jamestown provided the city authorities decide upon the loca tion leading into town. The En terprise has it from one of the commissioners that unless this question is decided by the time the force is ready to take up that work the work will start lower down on the road and work towards Greens boro leaving a gap of 4 or 5 miles unworked. There are three routes leading out of town and only one of which can be selected. Let us lose no time making the selection. We would advise that the com mission and Board of Aldermen or one from each, meet together. A CARD OF THANKS We sincerely thank our friends who came to our assistance in our late affliction and sorrow in the sickness and death of our dear wife and moth er, and most especially to the lady friends who came at the most critical time and renderad their aid and heart fell sympathy, and we would not forget to thank those good men who came and offered their aid also. John Farlow and children. BEGINS TODAY This morning will begin the trial of the Old Nick Williams Distilling Company, N. Glenn Williams and D. E. Kennedy, ac cused of defrauding the govern ment. District .attorney Hoi ton and assistant district attorney Price arrived yesterday and Wil liams, Kennedy and a great many witnesses for loth sides are on hand this morning at Greensboro. DISCHARGED FROM BANKRUPTCY Judge Jas. E. Boyd this morn ing in the U. S. Court, signed an order discharging from bankruptcy James R.vShepherd, a hardware merchant of Winston-Salem, MYSTERIOUS MAN DEAD Went by the Name of William Berkley in High Point Bur dened With a Great Grief- Believed Himself to be Hunted. tfigh Point, N. C, Oct. 21 There died here Saturday a man whose life's history is wrapped in mystery. Five months ago Wm. Berkley, as he called himself, came to High Point from Mebane, where he had worked at the White furniture factoryand engaged work at the Kearns Furniture Company. , Four weeks ago he was taken sick and carried to the Junior Or der Hospital where kind friends administered to bis wants. He will be buried hei e tomorrow after noon, if nothing is heard from his people. The man is apparently about 35 years of age, five feet ten inohes iq height, red hair and mustache, weight normally about 155 pounds. During his stay here and through his illness he repeatedly said: " would rather be dead than alive.' He always eluded any questions as to bis past, his people or any thing that would give a clue to hi past - life, and seemed to be brooding over something that was destroying his vitality. To an acquaintance he remark ed that West Virginia was his home and that at one time he was engaged to be married, but his betrothed died. It is purely con jecture as to what terrible thing caused the man to live such a recluse life. In the hope that perhaps an old mother or father, or brother or sis ter, wife or child of the dead man may see or learn of him, this ac count is furnished at the urgent request of jthe humanity-loving people of High Point, wb.o will give the man a decent burial and pay the expenses his sickness oc casioned. High Point Corres pondence Morning Post. It has been learned since the above was sent that Berkley has a divorced wife living in Rocky Mount, N. C, and an uncle and aunt living six miles from Suffolk, Va., these bring his only relatives so far as known, the man was buried Sunday afernoon. TWO WEEKS As announced Sunday at the Methodist churches, there are only Iwo more Sundays for the officials to close up the work be fore conference. It meets at Greensboro November 8th. KEEP IT IN MIND We must keep in mind the im portant matter of putting the wires underground on the principal streets. It will have to come. SUPERIOR COURT The superior- court is now en gaged in trying the case of Stewart vs the Vande venter Carpet Com pany, tor injuries custained by plantiff in the fall of an elevator on which plantiff was riding. A verdict was given Stewart on a former trial but it was set aside by the supreme court. In the case of George'Crutchfield vs. the Bank of Guilford, tried ' yesterday, the jury gave a vedict for the bank. TOOK PRIZES Mr. A. E. Tate's fine-Plymouth Rock chickens won the prizes at the State Fair as follows: First, second and third on pullet; second and third on cockerel. High Point Bjggy Company is putting in a new cubular 30 h. p.; boikr for heating purposes LEXINGTON FURNITURE FACTORY SOLD Lexington, 0?t. 20 Mr. J. N. Mendenhall, trustee in bankruptcy for the Rex Furniture Company, sold the entire plant and equip ment of the company at public auction today. J T. Hedrick, oi Lexington was the highest bidder, purchasing the plant for $6,800. It is not known yet exactly what the purchaser will do with the plant, if the sale is made final. It is more than probable that the company will be reorganized and the factory will continue to be operated with some changes in the line of goods made. INCREASING SERVICE The Southern Bell Telephone Co., are putting in a few local stations here for parties desiring long dis tant service. GREENSBORO ITEMS Sheriff James F. Jordan left to day, taking with him a big pack of fox hounds for Chase Ciiy, Va., to engage in the inter-state hunk there this week. Mr. D. F. Busick, one of the best police on the force who was discharged by the board of alder men some months ago for incon siderately eating ice cream one Sunday with a woman of bad character, has been appointed jailer by sheriff Jordan, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Jerome May. Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Griffith an nounce the marriage of their daughter, Lillian, to Mr, Robert Trelius Travis, of Winstcn-Salem to take place November 22nd at the home of the bride's parents on Church street, this city. Southern Railway ticket agent, Richard H. De Butts, of this city, has gone to Belleville, Ontario, on an Important and happy mission. Thursday, November 2nd, at Belle ville, he will be marrltd to Miss Mary Jones, an accomplished young lady who has many friends in Greensboro where she resided last year as head nurse at the Greensboro hospital. MARRIED Mr. Arthur F. Stewart and Miss Minnie Hudson were united in marriage at the home of the officiating minister, Rev. J. M. Hilliard Oct. aist 190,! Mr. and Mrs. Stewart will make their home on Park street for the present. We wish them much joy in their new relations. The winter set in last year in November and it was the loncest and the hardest in years. They say it never comes twice in succes tion. but don't risk it. Better tret your wood and coal in. CURTIS PARDONED Raleigh, Oct. 23. C C Curtis, of High Point, conditionally pardoned by Governor Glenn today, has, by the terms of his pardon to be on good be havior, sober and industrious. He was convicted fourteen months ago of stealing a watch which the Governor now finds was stolen b another per son and placed in Curtis' trunk with out the latter.s knowledge. The young man referred to above lives in Winston but was arrested here for stealing a watch from a party boarding at the Jarrell hotel. BRINGS SUIT Mr. Paul Lindley, who was ser iously injured and his automobile wrecked by a street car in Winston -Salem several weeks ag), has brought uit against the Fries Power and Transportation Co., for damages through his attorney Col. J. A. Barringer. The complaint has not been filed, but it is under stood that he claims six thousand dollars for the injury Mr. Lindley has been in bed for the greater part of the time since the accident but is now able to get about on crutches. , CONTRACT SIGNED The Inter-Urban Will g Right Ahead The Enterprise is pleased to be able to state that the High Point & Winston Inter-Utban line will be built and that without delay. We learned late yesterday after noon that the contract for the construction work has been signed which makes the road acertainity. While we are on this subject we desire to submit an article recent ly published in Everybody's mag azine. Through passenger traffic, how ever, is merely one phase ot this proposition. Without carrying a single passenger from one termin us to the other, this line already on a paying basis as a result of strictly local business. The possibilities of local traffic are unlimited. It has been de monstrated by scores of small roads that electric transit for short distances is a serious competitor to steam railroads. Many of the latter have been compelled to withdraw portions of schedules owing to the inroads of the elec tric competition, due to the con venience of time and economy. Freight possibilities of the fu ture have not been included in the traffiic estimate. In the transpor tation of express and mail matter, the New York and Philadelphia Electric Railway, will begin at once to compete with the team roads. Low rates, with rapid ana frequent service, insure an express business of incalculable magnitude. Eiectric railroads have followed three lines of development, each distinct but allied to the other two. First, the citv service, which spread and grew enormously, a d is still increasing; second, the suburban lines connecting or form ing a part of the city or town sys tems; the third, the inter-urban lines connecting the towns and cities and acting in combination with the other two. Statistics show that, while the local systems have thrived and grown enormous ly, the greatest development in electric roads at present is along the hues of suburban and inter urban service, the inter- urban system showing the greatest growth of the three classes during recent years. It is interesting to note figures showing the increase of this modern form of transporta tion. The "Railway Age" states that the mileage of electric lines has increased 187-85 per cent since 1890, and that the number of pas sengers has increased during that time 137 94 per cent. The electric roads have proved an enormously profitable invest ment to those who take advantage of the rising tide. The financial part of this under taking affords another striking study. It is a wonderful tribute to the sagacity of its sponsors., the banking house of A. N. Chandler & Co. , of Philadelphia and New York Today the financial world concedes the triumph of judgement on the part of this conservative house. t .. This firm was the first in the early days of electric railways to discern the great possibilities of inter-urban electric railway transit and while other financial magnates deliberated, they grasped the op portunity afforded by this enter prise. HIGH POINT BOOK We are b jsy compiling mater ial and getting views for the 4th edition of the High Point book which will appear in a few weeks. We intend to mare this book the best ever issued in the state. SHARE IN WILL We are pleased to know that two High Point gentlemen, Messrs. Edw. and W. T. Parker, are to share largely in the will of a relative the late Mr. Elliott, of Baltimore. They are not only among the special legatees but also share in the general division. Mr. Elliott was a wealthy Balti morean. ' ' i V t t . f n 4 I : ML." r. f
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