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The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03
SUNDAY BATHER LOSES
HIS LIFE.
In a Small Pool Of Water With Five
Other Boys Who Did Not Miss Him
for Some Time-Unnsual
and Almost Unbe-
lievabIe Affair.

Samuel Shropshire, the 14-year
old stepson of Will Gurley, drowned
/ Sunday afternoon in pool of water
at the Southern Power Company's
plant in the western part of the city
- The young man with five othel
boys were enjoying the sport in the
16-foot square pool and sank in II
foot of water without being noticed
strange to say, very strange. Seems
impossible for six boys to be housed
| together in Is foot square and not
one of the five notice that the sixth
one was missing. It looks like a
glance of the eye would have de-
tected the missing of one.
However after a As minutes stay
in the warm water the five boys
craWIed out and put on their clothes
and yet never missed Shropshire un-
tilthey noticed there were six piles
of clothes and only five boys to
jump into them.
Then it dawned upon one of the
boys that something was wrong
where was the sixth boy? Surely
not in hiding with no clothes on
The alarm was given and a fishing
around in the water for Is minutes
brought the lifeless body of 14-year-
old Shropshire to>the surface. Eff
forts to bring back life were futile.
The body was taken to the under
taking establishment of j. w. Se-
chrest and prepared for burial and
taken home Monday morning, the
funeral services being held Tuesday,
S The unfortunate young man was
delivery boy at his fathers meat
market.
The Review would like to know
by whose authority boys under age
eand not accompanied by parent or
;guardian) are allowed to 60 in
swimming in such deep water. 1t
looks like some one stands RESPONSE
bic for the safety of the boys, espe-
cialy when a fee is charged and
con nsquently their presence in the
DoOi OF water known. -
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03
EXTREME PARTISAN POLL
TICS
Chief Horney Must Go Be
cause He is a Republican
Best Fire Chief High
Point Ever Had.

The City Council went on record
Tuesday night as opposing the en-
dorsement of the best fire chief High
Point ever had and one of the very
best in the State, just because he
happened to be a republican. The
fire laddies, true-bIue boys that they
are, went before the board and told
what their chief had done for the
firemen and the town, in the be-
ginning, when there was only reel
and hose until today. with splendid
auto trucks, thoroughbred horses
and fine apparatus we stand second
to none But the Board said naye-
the town is now on a political
basis and it wouldn't work, but gave
the firemen the privilege to name
their chief so he was "demycrat."
The editor is democrat but doesn't
believe in such stuff and if we are
not badly mistaken High Point will
be found in the Republican column
hereafter and the treacherOus act of
a democratic legislature is largely
IcSpULlSlUlS lOI IL, OdChCu up NY
narrow political chickering's following
i'm the wake.
Chief Horney, the people are with
you, and the unpaid firemen or any
underpaid ones should be also. When
High Point gets a chance to vote like
free men should the wrongs will be
righted, mind you.
We are not condemning the carry
ing out of policy by the Council
so much as the act, which gives the
chance. When so much is at stake
it is folly to even think of dispensing
with such an experienced man.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03
CARTER JAMES SHOOTS
FRANK BARNES.
Bullet Found Lodgment 10 Head, Mar
cowiy Escaping Brain--Wounded
Man in Serious Condition.

Early Monday morning while en-
gagged in quarrel at the home Of
Carter C. James, Frank Barnes was
shot in the head and probably fatal.
ly injured by James, who strongly
claims that he was justified in the
act and who feels that he will have
to suffer very little from the affair
Barnes was boarder at the James
home and under the influence of
Whiskey started a row with James,
he alleges. After Barnes was shot
he cried out that he was killed and
sat down ON the curbing with blood
flowing freely from the wound.
James remained at the house until
officers arrived and put him un-
der arrest, placing him behind the
bars without bail awaiting develop
ments of the wound inflicted on
Barnes. DR.. H. w. Mccain dressed
his wounds and said he had fight
ing chance to recover.
James is % years of age. He
came here from, Thomasville and
has heen employed by the Carolina
& Yadkin River Railroad putting
down pavement. Barnes worked at
the Tomlinson Chair Mfg. Co. The
trial it is thought will bring out SEN
sational evidence, even James re-
marks point that way, a; d the evi.
dence may develop case for the
Federal authorities-a three cor
nered" affair with a nauseating Sc
quel. James says the people will be
on his side when once everything is
told. He refrains from saying any
thing until trial as to the real cause
of the affair, but no doubt there's a
woman in the case.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03
DOLLAR A DAY. EVENT
Merchants Expect to Follow
a Plan Successfully Con-
dncted in Other Towns.

Quoted in Other Towns.
The merchants of the city are
figuring on Dollar a Day event
for one day next week, probably
Saturday. ~,
On this day the merchants will
make feature of $1.OO articles and
one will be surprised to learn just
what can be bought for one hun
dred cents. Of course everything
will be marked down to a low figure
and many articles that hardly could
be bought for one dollar will be
offered as an inducement to get the
people to trade in High Point.
The Review sometime ago cham
pioned Dollar-a-Day for the mer-
chants and has several times made
mention of it and of course is glad
to see the movement finally launch
ed by the merchants, because we
know good results will naturally
follow.
Let every one patronize the Dol
lar-a-Day event, it will not only De
a saving to you but it will help boost
business.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03
IT IS ''CHIEF GRAY" AGAIN
Election of Patrolmen---All
Have Served City Before
Except one---Sworn in
Forthwith.

Monday night the City Council
had a special meeting to elect the
new members of the police depart
ment. ..-t~l.
C. Leighton Gray was the choice
for chief of police. 49,.
The patrolmcn are as follows: j.
o. Wood, C. S. Carroll and J. M
Evans, reelected; w. H. Welch
served patrolmen once before; Ed
I. Mungo, is the, new man.
The Review believes the Council
made a good selection. Chief Gray
gave good service once before. And
the potrolmen look good. The oath
of office was. administered to the
new officers before the Council ad-
journed.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03
SPIRIT OF COOPERATION.
Get Together Banquet Plann-
ed at $i.O0 per Plate---Mer-
chants and Manufacturers
Busy on the Plan.

The Manufacturers club and the
Merchants association have a move
ment on foot to hold get together"
banquet at the Elwood at some
future date at which time all busi-
ness men and other we'll wishers
will be asked to come together and
sit around the festive board in
spirit of brotherly-love and unison to
the end that greater things may be
planned and carried out for a greater
High Point. 1t is believed that
America and especially North Caro-
lima and more particularly High
Point is on the Threshold of the
greatest prosperity in the history of
the country-that it is only ques-
ton of very short time, when the
weapons of war fare so savagely
used now will be made into plow
shares and pruning hooks and a
stream of gold will follow in their
wake throughout this great country
of ours and especially in our beloved
southland; that every factory,
SplnQle ana loom and business
house of the nation will be running
at full capacity and everybody happy
and contended.
This is no idle dream, conditions
past, present and we might add
future, by experience and otherwise
proves the statement. 1t is bound
to be a happy realization of these
declarations. And we can all do
our part, for in union there is
strength; and the sooner we get out
of the ruts and begin to push at
the wheel of progress the better it
will be for us. The Lord hates a
gutter, do nothing and very few
things in this life were ever accom-
plished without effort.
1t is good proposition and should
receive the encouragement of every
well wisher for High Points best
interests.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03
The Home Mission Field:

All told 665.5OO people of respon-
sible age in North Carolina in 1905
were outside the church. At that
time, 1851 churches in North Caro-
lima had no Sunday schools, and
222, 800 children of school age, or
nearly one-third of them all, were
outside the Sunday schools of the
state.
With nearly two-thirds of the to-
tai population of the United States
and three-ffths of the people of North
Carolina outside the church, and a
third of our children outside the Sun
day school, there is abundant work
for every church to do at home over
against>every church door.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03
Truss Expert Will be Here June Sth

Hart Drug Co., next to POstoftice,
has recently arranged to have Doc
Anderson, of Boston, spend Tuesday,
June s. at their store on So. Main
St. and fit Trusses.
The Doc brings complete assort-
ment of Trusses at reasonable prices
and does the fitting free.
This opportunity should be taken
advantage of by all who are in need
IF a truss. Remember the date,
June 9Th. adv.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03
Back from Reunion.

Alvin R. Hammer returned last
nieht from Richmond on account OF
the severe ,ssrainy weather. He re-
ports a large crowd of veterans:
MIR. Hammer visited the scene OF
the Seven Pines battle and cut two
sticks from the old trenches dug
during the war. He expected to
stay until Friday but the cool, raj
nv weather was too bad. Two OLD
vets di d and many were sick, due
to tie Geld and exposure. The peo-
pie of Richmond treated them very
kindly Several High Point vets
returned last night.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03
Dispute Among Crew.

New York, June 1.-Captain
Markeschlaeger, oil the steamer
Daton, which arrived today from
Tuxpan, Mexico, reports having
boarded the American bark Nor
mandy, from Gulfpo1t May q, for
Liverpool, seventy miles south of
Cape Hatte1as to help quell a mutiny
among the crew. One man had
been shot, Captain Markeschlaeger
said. After quieting the trouble the
trouble the boarding party left the
bark, which proceeded for Liverpool
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03

Paul A. Stamey, associate editor
of The Review, left yesterday for a
visit to his friend, Telfair Horton, at
Raleigh.
The Boy Scouts have returned
looking like drowned rats" as one
fellow put it. Too bad; it raiRed too
much while the boys were on their
outing.
Miss Marjarie Cottam of Salisbury
is visiting Mrs. A. E. Tate.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03
New City Officers.

L. C. Gidney, clerk.
Drs. Hugh w. Mccain, J. A. Tur-
ner, W. r. Goley, C. A. Grayson, W.
J. McAnally, members of the Board
of Health.
! The Salvation Army was refused
ST 200 yearly for charitable work
by the City Council.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03
PAY=UP WEEK FOR HIGH
POINT.
Puts More Money in Circnlatioa- Re
stores Confidence and Helps Mer-
chant and Customer Both Alike.

chants of High Point, like the plan
SO successfully followed by mer-
! chants in other progressive cities,
and we are glad to see that the mer-
chants of this city have decided to
inaugurate such a plan which will
be carried out some timefin July OF
August.
During that week everyone who is
indebted to the merchants will be
urged to square their accounts or as
much of the account as is possible
In this way confidence among the
merchants and delinquent patrons
will be restored to a great ex-
tent and to those who fail to
pay up or show a willingness
to pay they will be discount
ed in measure in the estima-
ton of the merchants who will rate
every one according to their disposi-
ton to do the right thing. Those
who pay promptly their bills will be
given first class rating; reasonably
prompt next best; fair third rating !;
medium only fourth rating; poor
fifth rating and so on and this scale
will be applied to all alike.
To have a good rating for paying
just debts promptly is good asset
for the customer and every one
should make it point to have a
good record on the ledger of Who's
Who in High Point. G
Those who make it a point to owe
any and every one they can with
no visible inclination to pay will.
have a hard row to plough as the
saying goes. with the merchants of
High Point, who cannot afford to sell
al such low margin of profit and
then lose from one half of one per
cent to one per cent or more through
bad debts.
Other towns have successfully
held "pay-up' weeks The plan puts
more money in circulation and each
one gets his share of it.
s. However tits a good plan not 80
wait for 'pay-up'' week but begin to
square your accounts now or make
arrangements to pay on same and
then your rating as good pay" will
already have been established.
Within 80 days is considered good
pay; so days overdue, and so on.
There is no reason why bills should
be unpaid, especially by those who
have the ready money and those
whose means are limited should
make it practice not to buy more
than they can pay for-this plan
has been the ruin of many people.
Never live beyond your income but
when possible lay aside something
out of your earnings for the rainy
day In some states laws have been
enacted making it misdemeanor-
punishable by fine Or Imprisonment
for failure to pay just debts. There
is also cases where ones wages can
be garnisheed for debts and the en-
pIoyer instructed to hold back Ger
tain amount of the employees pay
each week or month until the obliga-
ton has been met.
Inc I1lSn FOlnt MeTCnanC~S ASSO-
citation is live wire and is striving
earnestly to promote the best inter
ests of its craft, individually and
collectively. as we'll as the interests
of the patrons of the retail mer,
chants and all should join hands in
the good work begun and help to
work it out to successful cOnclu-
sion.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03
Advised to 90 Slow on Tobacco

Advised to 90 Slow on Tobacco.
In an address before the people
of Monroeton and Midway last Satu =
day Mr.. Ruffin, of Danville, said that
one of his sons is statistician in Lon
don for the great British American
Tobacco Company, and that this
gentleman has written bis brother
in Danyille letter advising that he
do not plant tobacco this year and
that he be very Conservative in en-
tering the tobacco market. He,
wrote that the British-American
Tobacco Company had in its ware
houses enough leaf to manufacture
! the chewing and smoking tobacco
to keep the world busy for the next
few years if there was not a leaf
grown during that period. The eco
nomic conditions in all of Europe
involved in war are such as to tre-
mendously limit the buying power
of the country. Consequently it
may be set down as a fact that a
comparatively limited amount of
tobacco is to be exported during the
great conflict. There is certainty,
however, that feed stuffs of all kinds
will increase in tonnage abroad, and
as the demand for tobacco grows
less the necessity for food will grow
greater.-Reidsville Review.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03

Truth prevails Major Orren r.
Smith, of Louisburg. N. c is given
the credit by the Confederate vet
erans for designing the first flag of
the Confederate States, March a,
1851.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03

Inc coats anu pair vi SuOeS
stolen from the store of J. A. Clinard
last week by reaching through the
bars of the window, were found in
the rear of the N. w. Beeson shops,
in an old buggy. No arrests have
been made as yet.
The Elk S lodge of High Point ey-
pect to capture the silver trophy
again this year and next when it
will become their property. Let
every loyal Elk 90 to the State Con-
vention in Charlotte ald help to do
the trick.
Mrs. John Young went to Manas-
sas, Va, yesterday on account of the
death of her brother, Robert d. Bell.
Twenty months old Violet Tresher
died yesterday from meningitis at
the home of her parents on Hamil-
ton street.
Mrs. w. L. Mcfarland left today
for Wilmington to attend the 18th
annual meeting of the N. c. Chris
tian Endeavor Union.
Misses Louise Reitzel and Edna
Wall are attend ing the summer
school in Greensboro.
Miss Louise Beeson returned to
Lexington yesterday after a visit to
her grandfather: N. w. Beeson.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03

Editor Cline of the Davidsonian,
Thomasville, was caller at the ke-
view office Wednesday afte rloon.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03
Uncle Sam Warns Mexico.

Washington, D. C.-President Will
son, in the name of the United States,
today publicly called on all factions
in Mexico to accommodate their
differences" and set up a govern
ment that can be accorded recogni-
ton.
Failure to unite in a movement
to bring peace to Mexico within a
very short time,' it was announced
in staten 1t elegraphed to Gene
rails Carranze, Tilla, Zapate, and
others, would constrain the united
States to decide what means should
/ be employed" to save the people OF
the southern republic from further
devastations of internal warfare.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-03

DR.. S. S. Coe attended the alumni
meeting of the University of Mary
land this week.
Mrs. S. L. Colvert of Wilmington,
Del, is visiting at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Kirk
man. on High street.
Mr.. and Mrs. John C. Siceloff were
called to Baltimore this week on ac-
count of the death of Mrs. Sicelof's
father.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20

One day after Tom Mar
 qnam came back from the Tolovana, he had his Ford car standing
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20
Will Ask eople
 To Use New Boxes

Now that the new postottice boxes are installed, making plenty of room for the mail of the families and business houses of the city, a people who are getting their mail in postotiice boxes rented by other persons to rent boxes of their own. The rent for the new boxes is only 75 cents per quarter, and it is therefore within the reach of all.
 Postmaster T. H. Deal is authority for the statement that there is a postal law forbidding more than one person or one family or the em ployees of business house from getting their mail in one box. How ever, it has never been enforced in Fairbanks, for the reason that the box accommodations have never been ample for the number of people get ting their mail at the local post office.
 office at the present time in which no less than a dozen people are getting their mail. Such condition of things would not be tolerated anywhere else than Fairbanks. Now, however, these multiple renters Of boxes are to be asked to get their mail in separate boxes.
 Postmaster Deal says that if the people who now get their mail in other peoples postoftice boxes would received would go a long way toward raising the status of this postotfice
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20
BRIDGE REPAIR WORK ID START
 THIS MORNING
TURNER STREET BRIDGE WILL SOON BE READY
 FOR USE.

George NJ. Smith. chairman oI the street committee of the cit, council. states that repair work or i the Turner street bridge will star this morning. It is expected to be finished for foot passengers by to morrow night at the latest, as two bents only and the superstructure over them. need to be installed The piles will not be driven, but will be set on mud sills as formerly More work. however, must be done on the bridge before teams can cross as it was pushed out of align ment to some extent by the heavy drift
 The men engaged in working with the caterpillar the past week taking out the drift pile finished their la bors yesterday shortly before noon. The drift pile, at first, was the largest ever known in the history of the town. It took out the two bents Ol tllt DlluSt OH lHe bdTutn lSldnu q side last Tuesday night, and the superstructure of that portion of the bridge was removed to keep it from floating away.
 But very little damage was done by the recent flood in a general way. Several hundred cords of wood were lost by the wood chop pers of the Big Cinema, but as fast as it came down the river most of it was taken out at the drift pile at one time during the height of the flood it is estimated that there were no less than 50 men working on the drift pile salving wood and hauling it away with teams. Nearly all of the wood was saved in thi manner and will do somebody some good this winter.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20

TOT Steve IS d ScHSI dl IdsoI AlC 1II will suggest more things that you have forgotten when you go into the store than any other clerk ill the city He is good salesman and I guess that is the reason he holds his job with the firm.
 A few days ago the telephone bell rang and Steve answered it The following is the conversation as related to the Tattler:
 Hello, is this MT Lovejoy?'
 Yes. What can I do for you?"
 'I want a bale of hay and sack of oats right away"
 T will have them delivered i'm mediately. Who are they for?"
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20

by the department, while those re- eeivins less than that go still lower
 The local postoftice was placed in the third class on July 1 It's re ceipts for the year preceding that date were very little less than the required amount for d second class postofiice. but nevertheless it's classi fication was lowered. It is hoped however, that it can be raised again on the next classification date, which is March 31
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20

in the postofiice department. He also points out that it would also have the effect of raising the sta tus of the town generally, for the reason that Outsiders now point with scorn at tho postohice of Fair banks and say that it is in the Third Glass;
 The classification of a postoffice is determined by it, receipts. Post offices receiving over sS,000 per ye"r are put in the second class
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20
The horse. you blamed fool.

The horse. you blamed fool
 Steve got mad and dropped the phone in his excitement, but he says if he ever finds out where they are to be delivered there will be some thing else go besides the bill. A certain man in town is still laugh him al it
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20

Jack Roman left this morning for Moose Pass. after a short business visit to the city. He has taken an option on the Skcen-Stevenaon prop erty, where the rich strike was recently made-Seward Gateway.