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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1922
Page
5
The document outlines city efforts to expand library capacity, support youth programs through the YMCA, develop parks and playgrounds, build a new passenger station and Main Street underpass, and advance city planning with more homes. It calls for expanded sewer and water systems, paved streets, hard surfaced roads, and improved street extensions.
A narrator longs for home on a cold December journey. He pictures a warm ranch scene with a roaring fire, a tidy house, and loved ones gathered for a simple, abundant Christmas dinner. The piece closes citing Strickland Gillilan and Farm Life as an approving note.
A fragment notes that choir singing in the vicinity of Richmond and New Brunswick is described as a hazardous calling. The text hints at safety concerns without detailed events or official actions.
A playful spoof of celebrity antics and world events mocks Arbuckle’s film comeback and speculative politics. The column jokes about Ireland’s struggle, Poland’s future leader, and a light note on Christmas fires, medical funding, and holiday recovery.
Composers and musicians protest the practice of jazz artists adapting classic themes into new pieces. They condemn turning Strauss waltzes and Chopin funeral marches into cabaret and fox trot formats, arguing it markets infringement on literature and good music. They urge an end to these adaptations.
The passage argues that increasing mail volume at post offices nationwide this Christmas shows the world is growing better. It suggests people are thinking of others and responding to the Christmas spirit, implying moral improvement as the season's generosity rises.
The Enterprise will close on Christmas Day to rest staff and allow readers to celebrate. It is the mild holiday when the paper is not published. The paper thanks subscribers and advertisers for their patronage and wishes all a happy Christmas and prosperous New Year.
Christmas means peace on earth and brotherhood beyond belief, a time of open hearts for the poor and needy. The prose contrasts sacred celebration with universal goodwill, then shifts to a New York note on Edmund Goulding's Fury, praising its sea lore and character whimsy, including Looney.
The North Carolina and United States departments of agriculture issue a semi monthly bulletin noting higher cotton ginnings, improved tobacco auction totals, firm hay prices, and abundant pastures. Pear and apple shipments rise amid record farm activity, with fall vegetable and potato markets showing mixed changes.
The piece layers a sea tale with Dag Lay ton and his son Roy amid Missourian origins and a certain tenderness. It also jokes about a New York bank window scam, poet Paul Claudel, and a crutch case in court. It closes with details of the Fifth Avenue bronze traffic towers and bells.
Over the past two weeks weather remained changeable with average temperatures. General rain and cloudiness spread across the state with light snows in some areas and low temperatures. No serious damage occurred. Farm progress stayed steady as mild conditions aided plowing and seeding of grains.
The Friends church last night staged a tableaux and song nativity with angels lighting windows and a manger scene. Miss Dorothy Gardyne read the Christmas story, Rev. Samuel Haworth delivered scripture, and gift offerings to the poor followed the Wise Men’s arrival, echoing the spirit of caring for the least.
A Christmas program titled Together We Shall Sing was staged by the Sunday school of the First Presbyterian church on East Green Street. Six principal roles included Bryce Bennett as the interpreter and Miss Edith Harrison as church, with Donald Headen as pilgrim and Miss Alma Headen as Angel. E A Russell performed as World without Christ and Miss Adele Wineskie as wandering Jew. The life service featured scripture and a Christmas tree. Gifts were given to the children and to the Barium Springs orphanage.
D. H. Blair, United States internal revenue commissioner, will visit High Point for Christmas Day with his sisters Ada Emma and Martha E Blair at their residence in the southern part of the city. He grew up on the Blair dairy farm here and has many local friends.
Seven passengers aboard a jitney bound for Elkin escaped serious harm when a Statesville bound bus collided with a Ford loaded with tobacco. The Ford was on the wrong side of the driveway, causing the crash. The jitney overturned, passengers were flung from windows, but all reached Statesville unharmed while the bus was taken to Charlotte for repairs.
At Churches Tomorrow services feature Rev Samuel L Ha worth leading Sunday school at 9 45 with Joseph D Cox as superintendent Morning worship begins at 11 with familiar hymns and Christmas music Choir anthem Sing O Sing This Blessed Morn Rogers solo There’s a Song in the Air Oley Speaks Christmas vesper 5 to 6 Emmanuel Lutheran Rev F L Conrad pastor Bible school 9 45 worship 11 Sermon The Greatest Promise 7 30 Christmas carols readings and songs on Monday night at 72 39
Pastor Rev Immet Kennedy McLarty conducts morning worship at 12 noon. Sunday school is led by B C Harmon at 9 30. Choir offers Christmas music at 7 30. Prayer meeting held Wednesday evening at 7 00.
Pastor Milton Whitener leads morning worship with a 11 oclock service and 1 45 a m Sunday school supervised by John W Hedrick. The Christmas story is told in Scripture and song with readings hymns and four anthems. Evening service at 7 00 p m features a special Christmas sermon Gog With Us by the pastor.
Saint Marys Episcopal Church outlines Fourth Sunday in Advent events led by Rev H N Bowne. Church school with H S Co Meld as superintendent at 9 30, Bible class at 10, morning prayer and sermon at 11. No 7 30 p m service. Christmas Eve watch at 11 30, Christmas morning service at 4 30.
Catholic parish on East Green and Park streets with Rev. Father Morris McHale as pastor offers a low mass at 10 a.m and a Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve.
The Orpheum presents Tom Meredith and Realart Revue for Christmas week. From Danville Virginia the company brings singing comedians and specialty acts including Pritchard and Cole Fred Kramer Pick and Nick and the Realart Trio. The Danville house reports them as a top attraction and plans a return engagement.
The management promotes a rare treat as Kimball’s company brings a ballad singer Miss Bobby Jones a dancing soubrette and a snappy chorus of dancing dolls to a popular High Point theater engagement. Christmas day features two matinees with doors at 2 and 3:45 and shows at 2:30 and 3:45.
Thieves entered Policeman Murray's Lathem apartments home and stole $31 cash while Mrs. Murray was away. The robbery happened between 7 and 9 o'clock with locked doors showing possible key access. Furniture and trunks were rummaged though no valuables were reported stolen.
London dispatch notes that Parliament opening drew more attention to ceremony than to the king's speech. It recalls George IV during his regency who bet dramatist Richard Sheridan he could insert nonsense lines without reaction. The Regent supposedly said "Baa, baa, black sheep" mid speech and faced no notice.
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