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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1917
Page
5
Thanksgiving visitors return to college towns and locals head to events with clubs meeting at homes and at Red Cross. Name lists include Brockett Coffield Pollock Baxter Davis Davis, Kearns Lowe Storey Welch Pickett Lucas Simmons Johnson Streetman Steele Muse Harris Kinley among others.
John R. Holbrook and Miss Bessie Beck of the city married yesterday at 7 30 p m by Rev Fogleman. Ceremony at the parsonage with only a few friends and relatives present. Annie Laurie Council returns from Concord and rests at Thurston street with health improving after illness there. Rev J Cleveland Hall of Danville Va is visiting Mr and Mrs Gilbert Clark. Mrs Ath Paris returns to Hopewell Va after visiting Mrs J W Chandler. Mrs Davis accompanied by little Miss Diana Chandler. Roger Ogburn of Guilford college a week end visitor. Annie McDuffie of Greensboro guest of Nellie Muse. J A McLaughlin Jr John Barnam
Patriotic service committee reports and the address of the president Mrs Anna Gordon engaged the attention of nearly LOC delegates to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Washington today.
Regular monthly meeting of the Philathea class will be held tomorrow evening at 7 30 with Miss Estelle Davis at 500 South Main Street. Every member is expected to be present as important business will be presented.
In France near Gouzeaucourt, a large group of American army engineers working on British railways escaped German shelling by lying in shell holes until British fire passed. They joined the advancing lines and then fought valiantly, aiding in repelling the enemy, with high praise from British commanders.
Report from La Feria Cameron county says Friday battle between Mexican cattle bandits and American soldiers left one soldier dead one wounded and a Mexican river guard in US employ wounded. A number of bandits are reported killed.
The war office reports nine desperate German assaults yesterday near Masuieres on the Cambrai front were repelled by British forces, with heavy losses inflicted on the attackers.
The Sons and Daughters of Liberty with International Productions will present The Man Who Cared at the school auditorium Friday night. The drama league plans future productions across North Carolina cities and includes vaudeville acts such as The Lone Star quartet with Blackface routines.
Leonard D. Abbott, an anti conscription official and radical group leader Emma Goldman, said today’s meeting was the first gathering of the Bolsheviki of New York. He said the organization aims mirror Bolshevik aims in Russia and that a large radical faction now controls a great country.
Dispatch from Dyersburg reports Ligon Scott, a Black man accused of harming nine women in Dyer County on November 22, was captured in Jackson and brought back. A crowd in Dyersburg oversaw his execution as he was tied to an iron stake and burned on the public square after noon. The crowd behaved orderly and the killing proceeded without incident.
In Lynchburg Virginia a six story Barker Jennnings Hardware plant was destroyed by a fire deemed incendiary by police. The blaze also damaged A B White and Co wholesale grocery. Damage estimated at about 500000. Firemen and police say origin was in the center building away from heat sources and spread rapidly through non inflammable materials.
A Reuters dispatch from British headquarters in France notes 15 German attacks on Saturday at La Vacquerie. British and American engineers helped recapture and disable many enemy guns, with the line largely holding despite costly losses on both sides.
In New York fifteen top professional cyclists began the 25th annual six day race at Madison Square Garden. The event runs six days, finishing midnight next Saturday, with a 144 hour goal and sprint points shaping team prize payouts totaling 16000 dollars.
Mrs Effie F E Kleppe of Averill Minnesota reports three weeks at a Fargo sanitarium for rheumatism and kidney trouble with no relief until Foley Kidney Pills were used, after which she says a bottle completed the cure. Mann Drug Co.
Harvey Naylor age 23 of Dunn died after pneumonia following a weeklong illness while in training with the national army at Camp Sevier Greenville. Funeral services were held in Dunn conducted by Rev A. Campbell with burial in Spring Branch cemetery. He was survived by his parents three brothers and two sisters and was active in Masonry Woodmen and Sunday school.
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