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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1916
Page
4
In a Greensboro Patriot Christmas tale from 1915 a kind Saint Nick fills two stockings for a girl named Clara Hall. He notices one note asking to share the other stocking with Clara and brings a wardrobe and toys, blessing the scene with charity and the spirit of peace and goodwill.
Miss Helen Long entertained the G T club yesterday afternoon at 3 o clock with a movie matinee. Those present included Miss Annie Whhte, Lucille Sherrod, Iris Burrus, Lillian Smith, Stella Norman, Lucy Neal Carr and Katherine Raymond.
Miss Lilian Robbins and Rufus Hayworth, both of this city, wed Wednesday night at 8 oclock. Rev. H. H. Robbins performed the ceremony. The couple will make High Point their home.
Mrs J W Smith leaves today for Salisbury to spend the weekend with relatives. Miss Oma Kluttz leaves tonight for Birmingham to spend the holidays with relatives and friends. Mix Essie Mae Houchins leaves today for Charlotte to spend Christmas with friends. P M Derrick leaves tonight for Ma Ga to spend the holidays with relatives and friends. A Schrock Jr leaves tonight for there to spend Christmas with relatives and friends. Miss Emma King of the State Normal college will arrive tonight to spend the
Holidays with her parents Reverend and Mrs Rufus King on South Main Street. Edward King arrives from Columbia tomorrow to spend Christmas at home. Mrs KE E Phillips of Greensboro, a city hospital patient, will return home tonight.
Miss Pauline Phillips of Greensboro visited this afternoon. Rev. J. M. Hilliard leaves tomorrow for Knightdale to spend the holidays with his family.
Glenn Rawley arrived from Wilmington and will journey to Charlotte for holidays where he will be hosted by brother J. P. Rawley who plans to join his wife there. Nellie Dodamead, student at State Normal College, arrives to spend holidays with her parents on East Green street.
The friends of Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Cofield are informed their infant son is much improved. Miss Luciel Goldston and Miss Lena Barbour depart for Goldston to spend the holidays.
Miss Cecil Holt left yesterday afternoon for Burlington to spend the holidays with her parents. Lucian Long of Detroit is visiting relatives in the city. Miss Katherine Harmon arrived this morning to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Harmon, on North Main Street.
Asa Biggs leaves this afternoon to spend the holidays in Greenville, where he will join family and enjoy seasonal gatherings and local traditions.
C. M. Brown leaves for Greensboro to spend holidays with C. D. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Williams and children go to New York to visit friends. Hallie and Neal head to Burlington to see Grace Mink and Katherine Brockway. Misses Mink and Brockway, formerly at Ethical Culture school in New York, return to South Main Street home. Helen Johnson and Phebe Johnson, relatives of Mrs. G. W. Denny, visit in Reidsville.
Berlin reports that Ambassador Gerard met with Foreign Secretary Zimmerman at noon to discuss President Wilson’s note. Gerald conveyed the American position after recent talks with Wilson and Secretary Lansing. Charge d affaires Grew delivered the note yesterday and held a confidential discussion with Zimmerman.
New York report at 10 p m during the 118th hour of the six day bicycle race shows the top six teams more than 122 miles behind the record with 2 182 miles and three laps. Root and Madden pace after sprints with McNamara winning honors in several. Three teams trail by one lap and two by another. The 118th hour record stands at 2 304 miles and nine laps set by Verri and Egg in 1914.
Edward C. Edmunds, 67, prominent Winston-Salem citizen, died at 3 a.m. at his home 231 West End boulevard after an eight year illness, four years bedridden. He had suffered paralysis.
Buffalo, Dec. 23. John Edward Teiper found guilty of second degree murder for killing his mother last January after a 29 hour jury deliberation. Sentence minimum is 20 years. sentencing deferred as the verdict was read. Teiper reacted with visible distress, crying out in disbelief.
Danville Virginia police hold a man identified by Cheraw South Carolina Chief W D Pegues as Herbert Horton in connection with a two year old shooting that wounded Cheraw chief Pegues Horton claims the name Galdden and refuses to return without a requisition despite Pegues identification
Danville Virginia December 22 forty packages of whisky consigned to local residents were seized by an agent of the state prohibition commissioner. The liquor allegedly arrived improperly marked with price lists and brand leaflets, and is now under state control, with forty interested residents facing loss of their whisky under the law.
Mount Olive residents will no longer see carnivals minstrel shows or similar entertainments as a town ordinance passed by the board of aldermen bans them following a recent meeting.
Samuel Mendenhall named executor of Martha Mendenhall deceased Guilford County North Carolina seeks all claimants to present verified claims to his attorney W P Ragan by November 20 1917 or will be barred. Debtors to estate urged to settle promptly this November 20 1916.
The Humphreys flood control bill would appropriate 50.6 million dollars for the lower Mississippi and Sacramento rivers. The measure passed the House last session and was favorably reported by the Senate committee on commerce on December 23. Senator Newlands opposed a compromise adding a nationwide river regulation commission and waterway conservation scheme.
General church organizations plan action on President Wilsons note to belligerents. The Church Peace Union announced a trustees conference for next week and a member urged endorsement of the note.
The Allen store offers valued gifts for Christmas with fur sets and pieces on the second floor. A superb selection of fur items and other worthwhile presents is advertised as the season’s best in the city.
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