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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1917
Page
5
A humorous verse from Laura Simmons in the New York Sun imagines a post apocalyptic scene where households clean obsessively. The speaker envisions spotless floors, dusters, and a gleaming kitchen as women take pride in domestic perfection.
Yesterday at the home of Mr and Mrs Bascom Hoskins on Parkway Miss a social gathering or event involving Sells and Fowler was observed. The item notes location and hosts without further detail.
Myrtle A Sells and Roy D Fowler unite in marriage at a small ceremony led by Rev. J M Hilliard. The couple, residents of the southern city area, are well known and will remain in the city.
The many friends of Mrs Dougan Davis regret to learn she remains quite ill with no improvement in days. Her daughters Mrs J S Taylor of Red Springs and Mrs Charles Crawford of Ashboro are at her bedside.
Mrs. C Deal underwent a operation at the hospital this morning and was reported resting comfortably this afternoon.
Ben Pickard connected with the North Carolina Public Service company spent the afternoon in Greensboro on city business.
Harry I. Barlow of Greensboro spent the afternoon in the city on business. W. Brooks Marsh, also of Greensboro, spent a few hours in the city en route to Charlotte and points south on a business trip. Mrs. J. F. Taylor of Red Springs is
Mrs. Chas. S. Smith of York Pennsylvania praises Vick's VapoRub as a cure for her four year old son's weeklong cough. She applied the salve on the chest for two nights and the boy stopped coughing. The ad touts VapoRub salve form releasing vapors when heated, claiming to open air passages and loosen phlegm. Available at druggists in 25c 50c and 1.00 prices.
Mrs. Charles Crawford of Ashboro arrived in the city with her mother Mrs. Dougan Davis who remains very ill. Reece Harry of Greensboro was a business visitor to the city this afternoon.
In Wilmington on April 20 the Scottish Rite Masons occupy the city with festive events. A banquet at the Masonic temple closes the day as hundreds attend. Degrees from the fifteenth to the eighteenth are conferred by Cape Fear chapter Rose Croix No. 3 and Liberty council of Kadosh No. 3 handles the nineteenth to thirtieth. An unusually large class will receive the thirty first and thirty second degrees by Wilmington consistory No. 4.
About 150 New Bern Shriners will travel May 23 24 to Rocky Mount for the Sudan temple spring ceremonial aboard the Sudan Special train. The delegation will be led by Shrine engineers and flagmen and plans include a welcome with fresh meat for host city residents.
London reports General Maude commanding British forces in Mesopotamia has forced the Shatt el Arab passage attacked the Turkish main positions and routed Turkish forces. Prisoners number 1,244. The war office issued the statement today.
Benny Leonard of New York won by knockout in the seventh round of a scheduled 10 round lightweight bout from Milwaukee. The stoppage came on a hard right cross to the jaw.
Secretary Houston told the Senate the council of national defense should be empowered to fix maximum and minimum food prices. He proposed government purchase storage and disposal of food during emergencies and possible price controls directed by the President and applied to one or several products.
Fayetteville reports the death of Mack Matthews at 7 PM after a stroke at the La Fayette hotel where he had been seated earlier. He was a former co proprietor and longtime manager of the La Fayette hotel and is survived by two sisters Mrs James P Gray of New York and Mrs E Jennings of Fayetteville.
One deed to be recorded transfers a 50 by 150 foot lot on the west side of Fairview street in High Point from W. J. Armfield and others to Evangelical Holiness Missionary Association Inc for 225 dollars.
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