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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1916
Page
5
A poetic piece by Eva Wheeler Wilcox appears in National Magazine about holidays with her mother on Elm Street. Local society notices list visits and travel among Greensboro residents and nearby towns, detailing holiday gatherings and trips to Charlotte, New Orleans, and other locales.
Mrs A M Shipman of Satem Va visiting her son W Shipman on Gatewood avenue en route from Salisbury to home. She will be the guest of KE Shipman on Gatewood avenue for today. Mrs James Hardee of Madison Fla arrives in New York to spend time here after several days away.
Mrs. W G Shipman will host the Priscilla club Friday at 3 o clock. Dred Peacock left today for New York to attend the board meeting of McClelland five and ten cent stores.
Snow has been steadily falling since early morning and at 3 o clock it shows four inches on the ground. The accumulation is persistent and there is no sign of a let up at this hour.
Washington, Dec. 18. The federal trade commission held talks with publishers, manufacturers, and paper jobbers to ease the news print shortage. A plan would have large publishers cut purchases by five percent to aid smaller papers, with questions sent to confirm their willingness to subscribe and to gauge 1917 needs. Manufacturers seek exact on hand stock and next year’s demand, while some publishers oppose the plan, arguing it shifts burdens onto them. they suggest diverting machines to making wrapping paper.
Chase Idol announces the bank closes its best year in history with an extra 2 percent dividend of 25 000 on 1 250 000 capital stock. Employees receive five percent of annual salary as a Christmas present. Local branch reports record business and optimism for larger volume next year.
The Baraca class at First Reformed Sunday School elected W. H. Leng as president L. C. Urgerson as vice president W. G. Morrow as secretary I P Howell as treasurer and Tom Wood as business manager. The Philatheas chose Miss Lottie Foust president Miss Lena Hedrick vice president Miss Genevieve Fogelman secretary Miss Stellag Wood assistant secretary Mrs. Ona Smith treasurer Miss Edith Anthony reporter. C C Barnhart was reelected Baraca teacher and Mrs. L A Peeler Philatheas teacher.
Elmer E. Galbreath and Charles H. Davis were arraigned in the U S district court on charges of violating national banking laws tied to the closing of the Second National Bank of Cincinnati. The defendants served as president and chairman of the board respectively. Trial is expected to last one to two weeks.
The U S Coal and Coke company a U S Steel subsidiary announced a Christmas present for its 40 000 employees a ten percent wage increase.
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