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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1918
Page
5
The High Point concert band will entertain next Saturday evening at the home of Lowery Patton at the corner of West Green and Vail streets. Boxes will be sold to the highest bidder with the entertainment in a box party followed by supper.
Mrs Rufus King will host Philomathean club members at her residence for a meeting scheduled at 3 30 p m on Friday. W F Price and Frank Sizemore are listed in connection with the event.
The Wire BOE Childress returned home to Spartanburg after visiting her niece Mrs Fred Ingram. Pastor P D Brown left for Camp Greene to serve as camp pastor for three months and will be succeeded by various ministers during his absence. Mrs M T Folland of Apex is recovering after an operation at the sanatorium. Captain C D Dowd learns of his nephew Bruce Dowd's death. funeral held in Charlotte. Lawrence Orange returns home to Roanoke after visiting his brother J Vo Orange.
Dr. Phillip Van Ness Myers, renowned author and University of Cincinnati history professor, will speak at Camp Sevier Greenville on April 24 to lecture army officers and staff about German imperialism. Myers, once a world peace advocate, now argues peace lies through Berlin and the destruction of Prussianism.
Mexico City April 11 a special commission examined concessions held by the Bank of London and Mexico for vast tracts in Quintana Roo and Yucatan. Lands were granted to colonize but colonization never occurred and only exploitation of chicle and other products took place. Lands forfeited to the national government and will be allotted to those willing to cultivate them.
A revised schedule effective today shifts Sammas day back by one hour relative to clock time, though the sun and other schedules make the change awkward. Reville, supper, taps and most calls were delayed by an hour to align with solar time, but the adjustment proved unsatisfactory and was abandoned. Sammy now starts mornings an hour earlier than two weeks ago.
Brigadier General Faison commander of the 60th Infantry Brigade has returned from Washington after passing his physical examination and resumes command of his brigade and acting command of the division. Brigadier General Tyson of the 59th Brigade led the division in his absence.
Special First Lieut William Kogan of the medical reserve corps and First Lieut Thomas B Cold of the medical reserve corps with the 105th engineers have been transferred to the 119th infantry.
Colonel S. W. Minor commander of the 120th Infantry is to depart San Antonio tonight and proceed to Camp Sevier Greenville South Carolina after being detained as a witness in a court martial.
Norfolk Va April 10 Demanding all sterease Th wages from 55 cents to 0 cents an hour iron workers in marine repair shops along the Norfolk water front laid down their tools and began a strike. All privately owned marine railways report the entire force quit. The navy yard is not included.
The 13 628 ton Minnetonka formerly in the New York London passenger service for the Atlantic Transport line was sunk by a German submarine in the Mediterranean during February, according to the Maritime Register.
Tata Fields a well known African American woman in High Point died at home after a brief illness. Funeral services will be held at Mortis Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church tomorrow at 3 PM. She was 60 and loved by both white families and the local Black community for years of nursing service.
The family expresses heartfelt thanks for kindness shown during sickness and after the death of wife and mother J L Parrish. Gratitude is extended to friends for support and sympathy.
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