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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1921
Page
2
Mrs Fitzgerald of Charleston W Va travels to High Point for family reasons as church activities fill a busy week. St Marys Episcopal Church choir meets at 7 30 tonight for rehearsal led by organist R F J Johnson. Notices invite members to attend before Sunday services.
Names and visits fill a page as Mrs Derrick of Florida and guests arrive on North Main Street. Ruth Smitherson of Wins ton Salem and Miss Louise Withers return from Charlotte while Dr and Mrs Lit Taylor and their daughter Martha improve from illnesses. Rev Thomas Les Trott returns from Greensboro goat reads meetings. Several families plan trips to Statesville and Charlotte as students and friends attend Carolina Virginia game at Cone Park Greensboro.
Mrs YH Kennedy died yesterday after a three week hospital stay. The body was taken to Ashboro for funeral services at Mount Vernon church this afternoon, with burial in the church cemetery. She was 45, daughter of Mr and Mrs Calvin Peace of Randolph County, and survived by her husband and several children.
Phoebe Perdue aged 84 died last night at her city home after an extended illness. Funeral services will be at her home tomorrow morning then the body will be taken to Davidson county for interment. Survived by two sons and one daughter including BL Ty Perdue and Clayton Perdue.
Harold Ayres, a young violinist, receives enthusiastic receptions at Chautauqua and in Chicago and New York. Debuting with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, he earns praise for a full round tone and tasteful, original interpretation, solidifying a leading position among today’s young violinists.
Yesterday the Friends church filled with women to hear Abs Barr on The Double Standard. She urged wider space for a male audience and promised an afternoon sermon on An Ideal Man from a Woman's Viewpoint. A church luncheon followed as part of the Christ life campaign.
RICHMOND Va April 23 william Turner a Nesto convicted last summer in federal court here of murdering T Morgan Moore government torpedo expert in Alexandria county was sentenced to be hanged Friday June 24 After sentence was passed by Judge Waddill counsel for the condemned man announced they would appeal to President Harding to have the sentence commuted to life imprisonment
Five contestants spoke at the annual Intercollegiate Peace Oratorical contest in the high school auditorium. Wake Forest student ALK Whitehurst won first prize with "The Nemesis of History" and $75, UNC's Phillip Hettleman placed second with "The Struggle for Supremacy" and $40. Other entrants included George Tarman of Trinity, Ht. G. Sell of Elon, and William A. Wolff of Guilford, with delays at the start affecting the event.
A stage contest in Warsaw began after nine with a short delay due to a preceding feature and poor attendance blamed on rain and other city meetings. Prof. S. F. Blair of Guilford College organized it. judges were Mrs. W. C. Jones Mrs. J. J. Farviss Rev. James A. Clarke and Rev. Rov i Leinbach. Paper scarcity prompts Russia archival searches for single use sheets as troops of women comb archives for usable paper.
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