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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1917
Page
3
In a Bethany supper, Mary anoints Jesus with costly ointment, a lavish act that provokes Judas and pleases Jesus. The scene unfolds beneath Calvary’s shadow as Mary’s devotion contrasts with Judas’s greed and foreshadows the approaching crucifixion.
Mary, absent from class, rewrote a story about Washington and a corporal. Her version has vivid originality but factual errors, including Washington riding with memos and an imagined battle in a tree where a big corporal pecks him on the nose.
In central Virginia at Cobbham a storekeeper Mr. Bell is approached by a small black customer with a freshly laid egg. The customer asks for change for the egg, first requesting a needle and then cheese as part of the exchange.
A roundup of Sunday services across North Main Street churches led by Rev A G Dixon and Rev T M Johnson at North Main Methodist, Past End Methodist, First Presbyterian, Lutheran, Bethel Reformed, First Reformed, Friends church, South Main Street Methodist and Epworth League offerings. Services include morning sermons at 11 o clock, Sunday school at 9 45, evening services, and midweek prayers with cordial invitations to all.
West End Baptist led by Rev. James W Rose holds morning and evening sermons on Spiritual Famine and The Imperishable Element in Man's Redemption. St. Mary's Episcopal features Archdeacon William H. Harden and Rev. Samuel M. Hanff with Holy Communion after the morning service. Green Street Baptist, First Baptist, and Wesley Memorial Methodist offer varied Sunday schools, sermons, and midweek prayer through the week inviting public attendance.
The story We Are French by Robert H Davis and Perley P Sheehan is being adapted by Bluebird Photoplays and will screen at the Rose theatre with Ella Hall Rupert Julian and Kinsley Benedict in leading roles. A second note says Margaret, aged five, was rude to a guest and her mother expressed deep regret at the conduct after the child left.
A fragment shows Margaret telling her mother she is a failure, expressing deep emotion and strain in their relationship. The line reflects a distressed moment within a family.
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