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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1917
Page
5
A wartime appeal urges brethren to curb personal expenses and save resources for the wounded and suffering. It emphasizes sharing food, clothes, and money to aid friends and country, to make Christmas meaningful by supporting the Red Cross.
The groom, son of J B Lanier formerly of High Point now with Brown Belk in Greensboro, exchanged vows in a small presence for close friends and relatives and left for Greensboro with his bride.
Miss Edith Holt and John Carry Gordon were married last evening at 5 30 at the Vethedist Protestant par sonage Rev Givo Ro Brown officiated. Attendants were Misses Trene Gordon and Lizzie Hunt and Ray Carmichael and Charles Gordon. They will reside in High Point after a short wedding trip.
Miss Annie Valentine and Mr Lacey Lanier married Sunday afternoon at 2 at the home of Rev James W Rose pastor of West End Baptist church. The bride is the daughter of J W Valentine of Willowbrook street.
Workers nationwide coordinate efforts to boost Red Cross rolls to unprecedented levels before Christmas Eve. A booth is set up at the post office to enlist new members.
Miss Margaret Wishart returns to White Plains New Jersey after several weeks with Mr and Mrs A T Wishart on Lindsay Street. Miss Melanie Bowes comes back from a ten day trip to Washington. Rev G T Rowe was a business visitor to Durham yesterday. Dorothy Snow Leona Mase Dave Stanton and John Carroll motored to Greensboro today. Alston Clarke left for Washington to enlist in the aviation corps. Mrs J F E Hardee arrives to spend holidays with her mother on Elm Street. Mr and Mrs Bruce Craven and son Braxton Mrs J C Pepper Mrs Lala B Carr and Miss Elizabeth Lewis of Trinity passed through the city yesterday.
Daytime automobile trips marked the holiday season as residents visit relatives and friends. Miss Nan Williams heads to Kitrell while Nellie Muse returns from Greens boro College for Women to spend Christmas with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Watson arrive from Raleigh to stay with Mrs. A. Sherrod on North Main Street. Local shoppers Mrs. T. Gold and Mrs. H. A. Millis spend the day in Greensboro. A. R. Williamson and son return from a two week trip to New York. Elsie Mae Dillion and C. M. Brown accompany family plans in Greensboro and Durham for holiday visits.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Cooper are twin girls weighing seven pounds each and seven and a half pounds at birth.
Students from Asheville High School urge North Carolina peers to forgo Christmas gifts and knit for American soldiers in France. Principal K Weber distributes a letter calling on high schools to pledge spare time to sew sweaters, bandages and other woolen articles for troops.
The New York Bakery advises customers to place orders early for Christmas cakes. They stock fruit cakes and pound cakes made from high grade material, offer the largest loaf for 10 cents, and advertise hot rolls for supper.
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