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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1917
Page
5
A select High Point choir led by Miss Clara Boyd performs The Resurrection and the Life at Sunday 8 o clock services. The program features solos and choruses including The Faith in Darkness Lies The Lament of the Women and Victory with the public invited to attend.
The Old Peabody Pew a quaint little play about church life in New England will be staged at the South Main Street Methodist Episcopal church this evening at eight. Cast includes Mrs J W Clinard Mrs M P Vail Mrs Snider Miss Elsie Pegg Mrs Eugene Wall Mrs Bryant Mrs M Blair Mrs N F E Russell N B Russell and Mrs J G Greene. Public urged to attend.
Miss Jeanete Pearce of Greensboro College for Women travels to High Point to attend the wedding of Miss Faith Willis and Stokes Smith at St Mary's Episcopal Church on April 11, with Pearce serving as an attendant.
The Christian Endeavor society of the Friends church will meet this evening at 7 30 in the high school auditorium instead of at a member's home. Members are urged to note the change and attend in large numbers.
Mrs. J. D. Horney received word of the death of her sister in law Mrs. Robert Harris at Mount Airy. The deceased had lived in the city for a period and was widely known and liked. No further details were provided.
The last Holy Week service will be held at 8 o'clock this evening at the Lutheran church. The Good Friday service commemorates the Crucifixion with the sermon titled The Magnetic Cross. The public is invited to attend.
A preparatory service is held tonight in advance of a forthcoming celebration. The gathering focuses on reflection and readiness for the main event, inviting community members to participate in prayers and songs ahead of the planned observance.
The Holy Communion of the Lord's Supper will be held at the First Reformed Church tonight at 7 30. All members are expected to be present. Visitors will be welcomed.
Fred N. Tate is staying at home after a slight injury at his factory. The damage was not serious, and he chose to remain indoors for a few days to recover.
Mrs C J Cauble and daughter Kathleen of Charlotte visit Rev H H Robbins on South Main Street. Cliff McClellan of Greensboro visits city. Iram Harrison recovering well after appendectomy at local hospital. Essie Mae Houchins spends afternoon in Greensboro. Mrs R C Charles leaves for Winston-Salem to spend Easter with relatives. May Fay Ferree of Greensboro College for Women travels from Mrs Earl Craver’s to Ashboro for Easter holidays.
State merchants organization now on a business footing with a permanent secretary, Leonard, and a monthly North Carolina Merchants Bulletin. Local groups like High Point are urged to reorganize, with meetings planned in Thomasville Randleman and Mt Airy while bankers and business people are welcomed as members.
Berlin reports an odd winter scene as law courts run with judges and lawyers bundled in overcoats and fur hats due to extreme cold and fuel shortages. The image shows bench and bar muffled up to their noses as proceedings continue despite the severe weather.
The North Carolina state board of health and American Public Health Association signed papers listing services health workers can render in war or national emergencies. Doctors Rankin Shore Booker MecBrayer Gordon and Cooper pledged sanitarians engineers bacteriologists statisticians vaccine inoculations water and sewage work hospital inspection and general administrative tasks. The move emphasizes health resources for defense and future orders from the Council of National Defense.
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