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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1919
Page
10
Dr. Florence L Meredith claimed Wellesley College girls wear sensible shoes and no corsets based on exams. Students counter with campus dates and city corset shop patronage, joking about dressing up for The Square.
A deeded trust sale set for 12 o clock noon January 9 1920 in High Point Guilford County North Carolina. The sale includes a land tract in High Point Township adjoining Jerry Beaman measuring about 12 500 square feet plus all household and kitchen furnishings on the premises. Cc A York marks the December 9 1919 notice date.
London reports that despite labor protests, the government keeps unemployment pay for ex soldiers and widows. About 244000 men are affected while civilians struggle for work. Beer consumption shows lower unemployment than the prewar fifteen year average.
In Monmouthshire Wales on December 16 400 miners refused to travel to work because the train they were to ride was not heated. They returned to their homes in protest against the railway company.
A slip invites readers to mail for a trial box of Cummings' Family Sal throat remedy. It promises return-by-mail delivery and a money-back guarantee via the local druggist selling the product.
Georgia physicians declare Smoky Joe William Daniels a fakir not insane to justify delaying the death penalty. Daniels, convicted in Pulaski County in 1916 for the murder of two children, has a long history of alleged feigned illness and escapes, with new exams now reporting him sane and capable of paying the crime penalty.
State Superintendent Roth E. C. Brooks and Guilford County official Thomas R. Foust urge every rural and urban white and black school to observe Aycock School Improvement Day on Friday December 19. Patrons plan to fund a Charles Aycock monument by collecting five cents per pupil with options for pennies dimes or quarters. the drive aims to involve all North Carolina schools and communities.
In Indianapolis a report notes Grace Hawk, secretary for the Red Cross in Paris and other cities, has returned home after studying the customs of the French Belgians Germans and English during her overseas assignment.
Canadian women including wives mothers and sisters will undertake a spring pilgrimage to the graves of soldiers in Flanders fields. The Canadian Red Cross Society has leased a large Kensington house for a two year period to convert into a womens hostel for comfort during the Canada to France journey.
Revenue officers unearthed a hidden whiskey cache in a cabbage patch up the hollow from Bottom Creek in Williamson. They found fourteen 14 gallon kegs, one 5 gallon keg, two 5 gallon oil cans and several pint jars filled with liquor, a surprising tally of illicit spirits.
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