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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1918
Page
5
The poem laments lost seafaring glory and denounces German aggression. It calls for returning the sea’s honor and vows no pirate or Hun ship shall pollute the brine again. The piece contrasts past heroic crews with modern wartime villains.
Miss Muanle Idol and Miss Cecil Holt hosted a large party Tuesday at A. H. Idol's North Main home for Miss Bessie Holt of Burlington and Miss Jett Moorefield of Walnut Cove. Pink and white decor with gladiolas and Easter lilies set the scene as Ruth Yarborough entertained with songs and Madge Idol served pink and white cream cake. Earlier, Justice of Peace J. M. Davis witnessed the quiet marriage of Eva Long and J. Kent Greerer, with the couple soon relocating to Atlanta and then Jacksonville.
Mungan gone for a few days with Wade Mecum. Galloway Peterson of Hickory visits his sister Mrs. Cecil Marriner. Miss Bessiel Holt returns home to Burlington after days with Miss Cecil Holt. Miss Jett Moorfield of Walnut Cove visits friends in the city. Mrs. Robert Morrow and children depart for Charlottesville Virginia for ten days. Miss Mildred Moir returns to Virginia after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ogburn. Y B B society to meet at Wesley Memorial church at 8 oclock.
A large group of 35 Ingram relatives gathered Sunday near Ether North Carolina for a family reunion at the Hancock place, the girlhood home of Mrs W Hammer of Ashboro. Families traveled from Norwood Mount Gilead Raleigh Raeford High Point and more for a bountiful noon repast. Despite a rainy return trip everyone agreed the gathering was a memorable big time.
Paris reports Salvation Army Major John T. Atkins, once of Chicago, now serving with a U S Army battalion, highly popular with troops and recommended for chaplaincy. Known as the little major, he boosts unit morale and luck, with noted low casualties in one raid and timely seven franc loans on pay day repaid by all.
Walter David and Otha Nifong deserters from Davidson county were arrested by a posse at the Nifong home north of Lexington. Officers seized 800 shells and firearms while Samuel Nifong, father of two deserters, was held on bond for federal court. The trio were to be sent to Camp Greene for military authorities, with two other deserters said to surrender later.
Theodore N. Vail, president of American Bell Telephone, issued a statement to Bell lines employees urging them to maintain their finest sense of obligation loyalty and fidelity to public service under government control which begins today. The statement followed a meeting of officers on continuation of duties under the federal regime and implied operations would proceed as usual.
Washington reports the new army division to be trained at Camp Sevier South Carolina will be the 20th. The 48th and 50th regiments of US infantry regulars now in the United States will join as the nucleus. A battalion of the 17th infantry and some signal corps troops are already at Camp Sevier.
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