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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1917
Page
5
A shipment of material arrived this morning for making hospital bed jackets. Work will start immediately and the chapter aims to finish the required number as quickly as possible. All interested women in the city are urged to visit headquarters to assist in the work which is badly needed now.
Washington Aug 6 The American Red Cross establishes a bureau of sanitary service to aid federal state and local health authorities in civilian areas around army cantonments. It will deploy bacteriologists public health nurses and inspectors as needed and operates with local invitation and public health service coordination led by Dr. W H Frost.
Children's knitting class to be held at Red Cross Headquarters on Wednesday morning. Knitting cotton provided. children should bring their own size four knitting needle.
Miss Florine Robertson of Burlington spent the weekend in the city as a guest of Miss Maude Idol and Miss Mary Kirkpatrick of Pilot Mountain visits Miss Cecil Holt. Lee Ralls of Greensboro visited friends. Rev. P. D. Brown leaves for Rowan Salisbury route No. 6 for vacation with his father Nathan Brown returning mid August. Mia C H Baker and daughter Lillie Way Baker plan a stay of several weeks at Ocean View Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. J P Rawley and son Albert return from Winston Salem. Miss Vera Kluttz weekend in Salisbury. Miss Bess Lambert visits sister Mrs J L Fletcher in Winston-Salem. S Blake Phipps of Greensboro in the city.
A millionaire commissions Skulps the sculptor to carve Polyphemus crushing Acis under a rock for ten thousand dollars. Skulps stalls a year then presents a lump of clay as the rock, claiming Acis is crushed under it and Polyphemus vanished. The millionaire laughs at the reveal.
Henry Lewis, a Black man who escaped custody by leaping from a moving train near Salisbury, North Carolina, was recaptured in a woods patch near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is being returned to Salisbury to face a murder charge. his only injury from the escape was a sprained shoulder. Martin Luther urged employing women as teachers in a nearby context.
Mrs. Theodora M. Youmans, president of the Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage association, discusses how World War I shifts focus yet supports continued suffrage efforts. She notes fundraising and organization may be harder but patriotism and democratic spirit bolster advocacy and recognition of women's essential wartime contributions.
Commercial National bank received 173000 interim bond certificates for Liberty Loan subscribers. Bank president J Elwood Cox said distribution will await real bonds in October due to heavy bond work. Visitors may view the sinews of war specimens, signed and engraved, at the bank amid campaign-era wartime imagery.
A playful exchange contrasts American and British habits of thrift. The Yankee boasts a plan to feed people by eating what is available and using what cannot be eaten, while the Briton concedes Americans throw nothing away and eat everything they do not waste.
A bird woman from an airplane proclaims the nation resembles a giant dish of succulent ash as the National Emergency Food Garden commission showcases home gardening success across the country.
An automobile publicity agent proposes renaming the commission to National Emergency Food Garden commission citing its widespread coverage. He notes the food gardens are everywhere like the car industry.
Advert reads Calotabs as a pure calomel tablet free from old side effects. One tablet at bedtime with water. wake with a clean liver and good appetite. Sold in twenty dose packages for five cents. refund offered if not delighted. Also notes a printer error praising the Good Garden commission for its work.
A letter from a physician criticizes the National Emergency Food Garden plan claiming gardening harms medical practice. The writer argues outdoor work and fresh produce reduce demand for medical services and warns of a bleak midsummer outlook as people eat garden produce.
Mauree Wetten, a distinguished cartoonist, recounts a home gardener who praises overnight vegetables that sprout without roots. A neighbor teases him, claiming the gardener bought the produce and planted nothing, confessing the ruse to spare his feelings.
A Nebraska reader reports relief from lumbago after using Foley pills. The letter describes a cold damp spring causing backache and rheumatic pains and credits the pills with helping recover. Mera Drug Co.
A note from the editor replies to a reader offering gardening lessons. The editor questions why such lessons are requested and declines to publish them, citing uncertainty about the request.
Public notice states David Rones not responsible for debts or obligations of a High Point bakery. The statement covers liabilities up to the last day of May 1917.
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