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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1917
Page
6
Excitement rises as Miss Gloriana Dockstader arrives in High Point to assist in the Merry Maids Minstrel show. She is sister to Lew Dockstader and praised as a premier Mack-faced comedienne with a celebrated theater lineage.
Promoters hype the minstrel show as the year's top society affair at the town auditorium on Tuesday April 24 at 8 15 pm. Local residents anticipate a major, laughter filled production in a premier venue.
Eminent representatives of the Jewish race from many southern states gather in Chattanooga Tennessee for the Grand Lodge District No 7 meeting of the Independent Order of B nai Brith. Relief measures for Jewish war sufferers in Europe and elsewhere will be considered.
M L Scheffer aged 70 native of Harrisburg Pa and uncle of W D Brooks of this city died last night at the local hospital after about one month of illness He had lived in High Point with W D Brooks for about three years and was grand-uncle of Mrs J E Millis and Mrs Emily Brooks The remains will be sent to Harrisburg tonight on No 32 for funeral there likely tomorrow in Tuskegee Ala April 21 1915 the Negro Health Week campaign is to be repeated nationwide with cooperation of negro churches and organizations in memory of Booker T Washington The text also includes a quoted line about a child Margaret and politeness.
National Philadelphia 4 Brooklyn 3 Pittsburgh 6 Chicago 1 St. Louis 7 Cincinnati 6 New York 2 Boston 4 American Cleveland 4 Detroit 7 Washington 4 Philadelphia 6 13 innings. Chicago 5 St. Louis 2 Boston New York rain Southern Association New Orleans 5 Atlanta 2 Memphis 2 Nashville 0 Mobile 9 Birmingham 1 Little Rock 7 Chattanooga 6 South Atlantic Macon 6 Columbus 6 10 innings darkness Charles 5 Augusta 3 Jacksonville 4 Columbia 6 American Association Columbus Indianapolis 2 Toledo Louisville rain.
Interurban Motor Lines Inc. operates daily routes between High Point Winston-Salem and Greensboro from March 20, 1917. Timetabled departures include 7:50 am 1:00 pm and 9:00 am from High Point to Winston. 11:30 am 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 6:00 pm to Winston. 7:30 am and 4:30 pm to Greensboro with a 7:30 am connection to Winston trains at 9 oclock toward Elkin Wilkesboro Mt. Airy.
Rain and wet grounds disrupted rail service from Minneapolis to Milwaukee and St Paul to Kansas City. International lines show Richmond to Rochester and Baltimore to Toronto with several routes postponed due to rain.
In Spartanburg D C Wofford College falls to University of North Carolina 4 to 8. Local results include Greensboro 8 Asheville 5 and Charlotte 14 Winston-Salem 13 with Durham 5 Raleigh 3. Tonight Asheville visits Greensboro Winston-Salem hosts Charlotte and Raleigh goes to Durham.
President Wilson convened the largest gathering of bankers and financiers in U S history at the American National Red Cross headquarters Washington to fund the Red Cross duties for soldiers and civilians. Delegates and invitees from across the nation attended or sent views, including Louis W Hill Lawrence Phipps Sr Julius Rosenwald Henry Morgenthau F L Higginson Jr Festus Wade Thomas Ryan and others from cities like St Paul Philadelphia Chicago Boston San Francisco New Orleans and Portland.
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