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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1917
Page
8
West End Baptist Church held a revival led by Rev. James A. Clark with a conversion at last night’s sermon from John 5 40. Three services are scheduled for Easter Sunday including morning and evening services for mixed congregations and a 3 pm men only sermon for men 16 and older.
The city’s lone licensed female auto truck driver is using her rare privilege to bolster recruitment efforts.
A lively Elm Street seventh grade team led by Claude A. Smith argued the United States should take part in the war with Germany. The South Main Street eighth grade team coached by Vera Idol defended the opposite. Elm Street won the judged contest. Iris Burrus and Allen Welborn faced Montrose Ballard and Eccles Everhart.
Lee Payne a long time High Point salesman has left his former mercantile work to join the N. H. Silver Company. He is well known across Randolph Guilford and Davidson counties for his sales ability and likable personality. Company officials say they are fortunate to secure his services.
M. C. Price of High Point and Burlington Pepsi operations is elected president of the combined Pepsi Cola Bottling company. Greensboro purchasers include H. S. Richardson and W. W. Conkwright of Greensboro. Price becomes president, Richardson secretary and treasurer, Conkwright manager of the Greensboro plant.
Berlin reports the complete text of President Wilsons message arrived by wireless after a long transmission due to static. The foreign office says there will be no official reply after careful study and noted the London version differs little.
The Northwest Stockmen's excursion from Omaha will depart tomorrow afternoon with several hundred business men aboard. The tour covers major cities across Southern Dakota Montana Idaho Wyoming Utah and Colorado as it promotes Omaha as a livestock industry center.
The new Chemistry Building at the University of Cincinnati was formally dedicated today in a program attended by educators and scientists. The $250,000 structure houses modern chemistry teaching apparatus.
The University of Michigan baseball team departs Arbor, Mich. for a spring southern tour. In the next week they are scheduled to play Georgia, the University of the South and Vanderbilt.
In Chicago on April 7 rumors of a German raider and a pessimistic crop report triggered wild wheat trading. May wheat rose to $2.12 a bushel, up about 6 percent from the prior close.
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