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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1916
Page
5
The column blends verses on boyhood with a parade of social notices. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Sechrest and son and Miss Edna Potter depart for the eastern state region. Numerous residents visit relatives or travel to cities such as Washington Norfolk Richmond Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Friends learn Sunday afternoon about 4 o clock the infant son of Mr and Mrs Edward King Willis died in Washington NC. Willis Jr was a week old and had not been well since birth with jaundice and no hope of recovery. Relatives received a telegram around 6 pm yesterday and a Saturday letter conveyed the illness and grim prognosis. The bereaved parents receive deep sympathy from a circle of friends.
A group of children attended a seventh birthday celebration at Mr and Mrs J Vassie Wilsons on Lindsay Street. Guests enjoyed lawn games and cooling refreshments with a birthday cake bearing seven candles. Helpers included Flora Martin Susie Kirkman Lucile LeRoy Irene Kirkman and Rachael Wall.
D. F. Staley and family departed today for a ten days visit to Liberty. Mrs. W. T. Ueltschi and daughter Elizabeth of Raleigh are guests of A. L. Elison on Thurston Street. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Blair and children are also noted in the household segments.
A letter from R B Terry reports driving through western North Carolina on vacation with his family. He praises mountain roads as better than High Point's Main Street, says the trip took eight hours, and notes hotels filling up with visitors despite floods.
Prof Claude Smith conducting High Point school census expects 3500 children ages six to twenty one in the city after two or three weeks of effort. He notes 133 children found on one ward street and warns schools would be crowded if 2000 enrolled.
Friends learn with regret that W M Kenney II was stricken Saturday morning with appendicitis. An operation was performed Sunday morning. He emerged from surgery fairly well but remains in danger and is not yet out of danger.
A remark notes that politicians tout rising farmer income while consumers face higher prices. The piece contrasts advocacy for farmers with the impact on shoppers facing elevated costs.
Dr. D. P. Johnson of Muscatine Iowa spent six weeks in an Austrian jail over an alleged radium smuggling attempt. Ambassador Penfield and First Secretary Grant Smith secured his release, sending the radium to the United States. Johnson praised Penfield, noting prior help in similar cases.
A large audience enjoyed the old folks concert at Wesley Memorial church. The program featured Florence Blair at the organ, Gurney Briggs and Genevieve Moore solos, and multiple church singers. Proceeds benefited the Christian Endeavor city union treasury.
Copenhagen reports a one week postponement of the decision on the Danish West Indies sale and on forming a coalition cabinet. The left party seeks proportional representation in any government, risking four seats vs two for others, possibly forcing general elections.
Salisbury August 21 C E Helms uncle of Fred White who died by drowning last Sunday returned with soldiers from Fort Caswell and refutes reports that hazing caused the death H Z White father and Helms both investigated and found no truth to hazing claims. Electricity and liquid air are used in German quarrying to save explosives while an electric ultraviolet sterilizes 14000 gallons of water daily at York springs near Toronto.
Eight persons were killed and more than twenty injured in an explosion at a munitions plant in Drummondville Quebec on Sunday morning. The cause of the disaster was not yet determined.
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