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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1917
Page
5
A Baltimore Sun feature extols living with song laughter and love over sorrow and trouble. It contrasts cheerful thoughts and sunny hours with gloom and weeds, urging kindness and generosity. Names listed include T. J. Gold Frank Henley and several New York and Greenville residents.
The holiday session opened with a Commercial Club Christmas Eve dance in the city. Hood's orchestra played from 9 until after midnight. Notable couples included Lieut. Hal B. Ingram with Annie Fred Foushee, and Lieut. Chas M. Kep hart with Dorothy Henley among Greensboro pairs. Others featured Miller Davidson, Varlette Jones, Roland Holton, Mary Sherrod, George Lowe, Nellie Muse, Hiram Armentrout, Lucile Holton, Carson Burns, Emily Brooks, Walter Storey of Burlington, Maude Owen, William Simmons, Louise Ingram, Everette Marsh, Aliair Pickett, Stuart Goldstein, Elizabeth Harris, Wade Marsh, Clara Steele, Rodney Snow, Virginia Henley, Sergt. Roger McDuffie, Camp Jackson, Private Jack Hardy, Private Wallace Freeman, Lieut. Tabb of New York, Banks Bencimi.
A double ceremony was held Sunday afternoon at 1018 English Street as Miss Alta Kennedy and Grover Bates wed, and Miss Lula Norman married Luther West. Pastor Rev James W. Rose officiated with close friends and relatives in attendance. The couples plan to reside in the city.
Miss Virgie Baden and Carl W. Hughes, two well known city youths, were married yesterday at 4 30 PM at the home of P. Dicks 504 West Green Street. Rev James A. Rose of the West End Baptist church performed the ceremony in a small intimate gathering. The couple plan to reside in High Point.
The Entre Nous club meets Thursday at 3 PM at Mrs. W. C. Beavans home on North Main with knitting. Locals Kephart and Ingram return to camps Sevier and Jackson respectively. Several residents travel for holidays: Henley to Greensboro, Elliott family guests on Lindsay street, Lilly May Baker visiting, Griffinh family from Raleigh, and others visiting relatives in Asheboro Richmond Danville Mount Airy and Greensboros. Crown Automobile manager Morgan spends Christmas in the city then leaves for Mount Airy. Yates returns to Raleigh after holidays. Furgurson family hosts Danville visit. Mrs. White hosts visitors from Goldsboro and Richmond.
The Federal Council of Churches calls a Week of Prayer from December 30 to January 6 with a program of union meetings across city churches. Leaders urge renewed faith, prayer, and cooperation as they face global challenges and seek revival. Local readers note pastors’ enthusiasm and tentative schedule across East Side M Church West End Baptist Presbyterian Lutheran Friends.
Dec 26 report notes thousands of French women and girls from 14 to over 60 work behind British lines in France. They excel in camouflage painting and packing at ordnance dumps, often outperforming other workers by about 50 percent. Women also assist in clerical roles, repair respirators, renew leather goods, bootmaking, and armorer tasks, with output surpassing German prisoners.
London reports fifty artists engaged to portray battle fields roads and ruined towns of the Canadian War Memorial fund. Works will tour London briefly then go to Canada for display and a building to be erected. Included are Major Augustus John D Y Cameron George Ogden William Orpen Julius Olsson Charles Shannon Frank Brandwyn Lewis H W Nevinson J W Morrice Ettore Tito and notable women painters Mrs Swinnerton Laura Knight Anna Airy Claire Atwood.
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