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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1917
Page
5
A festive poem extols Santa as a merry, beloved figure among children. The piece notes children’s dreams of him before and after his arrival and praises the joyful reception by a cheering crowd. It adds a call for local ladies to assemble a timely holiday assortment to meet rising demand.
The wedding of K P Daniels and Miss Jettie May Younger took place November 18 at the home on Catewood avenue with Hoy Jams A Clarke officiating. The couple, who kept the ceremony private, announced the marriage after news leaked. they will soon begin housekeeping. Local Red Cross asks knitters to finish work by Friday for a large upcoming shipment.
The Women's Guild of St Mary's Episcopal Church will conduct a sale next Tuesday at the Home Banking Co. The event typically draws strong interest with many attractive and useful articles expected. A special invitation is extended to all to attend.
The funeral for Mrs. J. F. Ellison will be held tomorrow morning at 19 o'clock at the home of J. T. Fljicon on North Tart Street.
Mtowlep a visitor in Hroetiedrort and meetings with Mike Muvaladh mark activity. Miss Claire Brown departs to visit friends in Durham before returning to Ayden. Dr. H B Hiatt's family shares news of recovery after a serious operation at the local hospital.
The poem sung to A Perfect Day recalls a meatless and wheatless day in wartime. The narrator lists cheese beans fish oysters and corn meal bread alternatives and humorously imagines continuing these diets after victory. The piece appears in the Oconto Wis. Enterprise.
Marcus Edwards will face a preliminary hearing in Raleigh city court for the shooting death of his wife at their father’s East Martin street home. Police report indicate intoxication but not blackout. The wife died after being shot twice in the head and rushed to hospital.
Horace Jordan sues Edward Davis and seeks damages, contending a Seaboard Air Line foreman fired a shot that wounded him after Jordan refused to leave his work squad. Davis was fined in city court. Seaboard may be deemed liable as Davis acted for the company.
Slices of bread found on the Zeppelin wreck at Bourbonne les Bains were shown at the academy of agriculture meeting. Officers enjoyed whiter bread with honey and ten percent Java rice, suggesting supply routes through Holland. The crew’s fare was gray and lard covered.
Copenhagen reports German military health data show overall illness among soldiers and sailors declining. Army illnesses are about twenty percent lower than the war's first year. naval illness per thousand down about twenty five percent from peacetime, with nutrition diseases still common but improving. Tuberculosis up slightly, other respiratory diseases down markedly. nervous disorders down. diphtheria nearly vanished.
Commissioner of Insurance James R. Young has returned from New York after a meeting of the national association of insurance commissioners. The executive committee urged fraternities with insurance memberships to ensure solvency by 1920. Governor Bickett grants an additional 10 days furlough for H. A. Hayes to continue hospital treatment in Baltimore while serving a state prison term for embezzlement as superintendent of the Western Carolina Methodist Orphans Home.
Trustee G. A. Pollock will sell at public auction on January 4, 1918 at 3:00 PM at 112 Elm Street High Point NC the personal property from Rhett L Comstock and C W Comstock including gas ranges dining set chairs tables beds bookcase lamps and assorted household items. The sale follows a chattel mortgage and a Guilford Superior Court judgment in Bank of Commerce vs Rhett L Comstock and C W Comstock.
Tanlac sparks widespread discussion across North Carolina as hundreds report stunning health improvements. Prominent professionals and ministers publicly endorse the medicine, with Hart Drug Co in High Point selling it exclusively.
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