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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1917
Page
5
An article celebrates an old time Christmas urging kindness and service. It notes upcoming arrivals of local students, planned Red Cross work, and a drive for new members. A lecture raised funds for materials, and a shipment to Atlanta included sweaters wristlets and murders.
Announcement from Greensboro Daily News confirms the marriage plans of Lieut. Roderick Alexander Stamey to Susie Toms Morgan of Hertford. The ceremony is set for December 29 at 11 a.m. in the Methodist Episcopal church, Hertford. Stamey, now in the regular army, will visit Greensboro December 22 before returning to his unit at Chickamauga Park.
With holidays approaching, trains will bring many students home from colleges. Miss Mary Sherrod arrived last Friday from Goucher College to spend the break. Misses Clara Steele, Elizabeth Harris and Nellie Muse are expected.
All ladies requested to deliver gifts to fill stockings for the Associated Charities at South Main Street School on Saturday morning December 22.
The W. C. T. U. will meet Tuesday afternoon at 3 o clock with Mrs. W. P. Pickett at her North Main street residence.
Miss Catherine Burns of Asheboro spent a short visit in the city. Miss Genevieve Moore was the weekend guest of her parents. Mrs. Dred Peacock visited Greensboro Saturday. Mrs. A. T. Wishart spent Saturday shopping in Greensboro. Will Bennett arrived Saturday night from Camp Sevier to spend a few days with his parents.
Seventeen enlisted men of the United States Army Engineers Corps are reported missing in action by General Pershing in a war department dispatch. They disappeared on November 30 during the Cambrai German breakthrough while aiding the British attack, all from New York New Jersey and New England.
A High Point committee of women will urge business men to buy Red Cross Christmas seals to aid tuberculosis relief. Children will canvass door to door starting Wednesday and any resident may contact Mrs J F Hayden to request seals if not solicited. Seals fund local relief with 75 percent spent in Guilford county and other cities reportedly showing strong sales.
Danville Virginia reports heavy damage after a six inch water pipe burst at George W. Lea’s tobacco factory on Craghead Street flooding a concrete storage room. Twenty five hogsheads soaked with water and valued at 200 to 500 dollars each. Amber stream flowed into Craghead Street. Also dated December 17 Nazionist leaders in Baltimore launch drive for Jewish national entity as Palestine’s status nears reoccupation.
E F Gallagher Munhall Pa W J Kramer Detroit Mich and W L Wiley Rockford IL of the 113th aero squadron U S A were burned to death when the guardhouse at the government aero warehouses at Middletown near Harrisburg burned yesterday. The fire, believed caused by burning tar roofing paper used to heat the building, left the men the sole inmates.
Greenville S C December 17 no deaths were reported today at Camp Sevier for the second day in a row at divisional headquarters. More than 60 hours passed without a death and hospital patient numbers have greatly decreased according to today’s health report. Sickness in the 30th division is now not more than half the normal amount.
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