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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1920
Page
5
A poem contrasts a seventeenth year old girl at social events with a forty-nine year old mistress of the scene. The piece follows desire to grow older and gain status through social optics and flirtations under the gaze of youthful suitors.
Sorosis club members enjoyed a 3 to 5 30 afternoon at Mrs. E T Harmon’s North Main Street home with fires, flowers, and five tables of bridge. Refreshments followed. guests included Mrs Sam Davis and other High Point socialites. Ava and Kelso Collette of Winston Salem visited Miss Florence Welborn.
The Sunshine Philathea class of the Methodist Protestant church will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. The event takes place at the home of Miss Ioa Perryman on King Street.
The Young People’s Missionary Society of South Main Street Methodist Church holds its regular monthly meeting tonight at 7 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Florence Lowe on Vail Street. A full attendance is expected.
Miss Josephine Wood spent the weekend in High Point with her parents.
Mrs C C Prince is confined at home with influenza. Miss Alice Reddick also suffers from influenza. J N Luquer has returned home from Middletown after visiting his son L A Luquer. Several locals and visitors are listed with illnesses, travels, or social engagements including Mrs Grover C Kester and Miss Louise Withers. A W O T club meeting is planned at Mrs J J Farriss in Roland Park with a program of papers.
Fashion notes on a muff comeback with cloth and fur bands in Paris influence. It describes duvetyn muffs and matching hats, angora sets, and velvet or fur details. A daytime silk duvetyn frock with a white wash net tucker and bell sleeves is sketched as a smart look.
A quiet morning ceremony united Miss Ruth Latham and J M Bolls in marriage at 9 30 at the bride’s brother David Latham’s home on Mallory street. Rev D C Sellars officiated. Only close friends and relatives attended. The couple plans to reside in High Point.
Mrs. J. R. Smith of Brussels becomes the first woman elected to a Canadian school board in 1885. Her achievement marks a milestone for female participation in local governance and education administration.
A century ago no country permitted women to vote, marking a period of universal voting restrictions. The statement reflects global gender barriers in suffrage during the era, underscoring long road toward universal female enfranchisement.
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