Methodist church reports year end receipts and allocations
Dr Morris W Ehnes announces that year ending November 1 receipts reached 15 489 762 dollars about 72 percent of pledges. Disbursements totaled varied boards including home and foreign missions, education, temperance and Freedman’s aid with several educational institutions receiving funds. He also notes uncollectable notes and outlines a broad campaign combining religious and secular media to advance the centenary effort.
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W. Ehnes
Council of Boards of Benevolence
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
American Bible Society
General Deaconess Board
Board of Education
Board of Foreign Missions
Board of Home Missions and Church Extension
Board of Sunday Schools
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Norals
Freedman’s — Aid Society
Shires
Dea Estates
Drave
Debate over British Navy Gains Momentum in London
Japan refuses to move toward a smaller navy triggering renewed British debate on naval policy. The controversy heats up as Britain halts capital ship construction pending reassessment after lessons from the Battle of Jutland.
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London
Japan
Britain
England
League of Nations Assembly
United States
Jutland
Wonderful Christmas Week Show at the Orpheum
The Orpheum presents the Virginia Belles for Christmas week with a tabloid version of Tennessee Pardner starring Bob Eagan and Gee Whitaker Hay. Eagan is an acrobatic Rube comedian with lively talk and action, Rose Fagan supplies comic chatter, and a beauty chorus of ten adds musical dance.
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Bob Fagan
Gee Whitaker
Hay
Yorrells
de Luxe
Rose Fagan
Comedienne
Orpheum
Virginia Belles
Bret’’ Hart
Tennessee Pardner
Bob Eagan
Eagan
Memorial designs and erection service offered
Read The Want Ads promotes a book of designs and offers to execute custom memorials from headstones to mausoleums with attentive workmanship and full service.
High Point Seeks Contributions for European Relief Fund
J Elwood Cox of High Point is named community chairman for a European relief drive by Henry A Page of the state division. The appeal calls on churches clubs and citizens to donate, noting that one dollar a month feeds a child a hot meal and ten dollars sustains a child until harvest.
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J. Elwood Cox
High Point
Henry A. Page
European Relief Council
Cox
Mr. Cox
High Point Township
Woman's Club
Commercial Cub
Rotary and
Kiwanis Clubs
Europe
Ate
Henry. x White
White
Herbert Hoover
United
North Carolina Educational Needs Outlined in Campaign Appeal
An appeal by the Association for Promotion of Higher Education in North Carolina urges statewide action and funds to promote higher education opportunities. It notes past wartime patriotism and the need to prevent illiteracy among returning youth, seeking $500 donors and a $25,000 minimum for a publicity campaign.
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South
North Carolina
Nani
Flanders
Association For Promotion of Higher Education
Living Conditions Near WN Bayt Port au Prince Haiti
Report describes cheap living in Port au Prince with a top hotel at four dollars a day for room and meals. Rooms are small but clean though lacking modern amenities. Meals are abundant and frequent, with fruit plentiful and workers paid low wages.
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Port AU Prince
Portian Prince
United States
Haiti
Hayti
Man Found Guilty in Slaying of Special Policeman
Taylor Cole was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of Special Policeman E. L. Ripley on November 18 in Williamson West Virginia. Judge Berry sentenced Cole to five years of hard labor, the maximum penalty, in the state penitentiary.
Hedgecock Sentenced After Greensboro Conviction
Hedgecock, a High Point youth, was tried in Greensboro after a municipal court hearing before Judge O A Kirkman. He was convicted of automobile larceny and sentenced to three years in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty post evidence. The case involved stealing a car in High Point and selling it in Mount Airy for 67.50. Also, Walter Murray in High Point was found guilty of forgery in Superior Court and likely to be sentenced today, while being acquitted of carrying a concealed weapon.
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Ba Hedgecock
High Point
O. A. Kirkman
Greensboro
State Penitentiary
Hedgecock
Mount Airy
Walter Murray
Murray
Local Families Celebrate Christmas Visit of Kivett Sisters
Miss Pearl and Miss Gladys Kivett arrive for the holidays. Pearl Kivett studies at Barnes Creek Academy while Gladys attends school at Oxford, sharing a festive season with family.
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Misses Pearl
Gladys Kivett
Miss Pearl Kivett
Barne’s Creek Accademy
Oxford
Lord Fisher Declares Aircraft Doom Surface Battleships
Lord Fisher, one of Britain's greatest admirals, warned before his flight that aircraft have rendered surface battleships obsolete, signaling a shift in naval warfare strategy and technology. The remark underscores the rising influence of air power in modern combat.
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Lord ‘Fisher
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Wednes & Thurs
Eileen Percy
Warne Oland
Woman In Grey
Annine Pretty and
Henry Gsell
Chicago
Morris
the Orpheum
Rapers Marble and Granite Works
W. Commerce St
High Point, N. Cc
Shorty Hamilton
PEN
Master Key
Texas Rangers
U. S
Secret Service
Jean Valdoc
N. Y
European Relief Fund
WN Bayt
Ruba Hedgecock
Taylor Holmes
Goodyear
Southern
Swineheart
M. S. Hiatt Tire Co
High Point Battery Company
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