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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1918
Page
5
The Enterprise asks readers to send personals and society news for parties receptions and club meetings. Names of attendants are especially desired and items should reach the office by noon. Telephoned items will be carefully checked for accuracy.
Confusion over army uniform rules leads A Bennett Phelps to publicize a memo from Camp Sevier. Knitted woolen helmets mufflers and wristlets may be worn olive drab only. other colors prohibited. Sweaters not to be outerwear. grey wool should be used for sweaters and socks to conserve olive drab wool.
The record covers the Red Cross workroom activities for the week starting January 28. It lists bed jackets completed and started, bandages made, and names the sewing volunteers including Mrs. Vivian Parker, Mrs. Butler Johnson, Mrs. W. G. Munyan, Mrs. W. W. Smith, Mrs. John Munyan, and Mrs. Minnie Vail.
Miss Annie Wilson Watlington of Wendell marries Lieut Charles F. Matton at the Presbyterian manse with Dr W M C White performing the ceremony. Matton, a Trinity College graduate, is stationed at Camp Jackson in Columbia South Carolina and a native of High Point. Present were Mr and Mrs George A Matton and Lieut Lawrence Matton as witnesses before the couple departed for Camp Jackson.
The Philathea class of the First Baptist Church will meet Tuesday evening at 7 30 at the home of Mrs P A Jones 216 North Hamilton Street with the gathering to follow.
A full attendance is expected for the event featuring Miss Sallie Simpson as a central figure. The notice outlines anticipation of a large turnout and surrounding activities.
A gathering for members of St Mevs Mpiseonal elameh is planned this evening at 7 30 o clock in the Elks hall. Visitors include Rev Thomas L Trott rector and Rev Warren Way. Episcopalian clergy from Salisbury Lexington and Charlotte will attend along with Prof Wade R Brown from the State Normal and Industrial College.
The Priscilla club will meet Friday at 3 PM at Red Cross headquarters on the second floor of the post office building. All members are requested to attend.
The W. O. T. club gathers at Mrs. A. S. Caldwell’s home on Parkway tomorrow at 3 PM. Members are urged to bring their knitting.
Charles Ward is ill with pneumonia at home on South Main Street. The column lists births, illnesses, and visitors including Jewel Parkin from Trinity, Miss Margaret Billings, and Mrs. D. F. Hudson. Several residents travel to Greensboro, Washington, Mount Airy, and Charlotte for business and visits, with updates on recovering patients and ongoing performances at local sanitoria.
A string of visitors and locals share weekends and days in Greensboro. T Wilkerson of Pietersburg Vai visits friends. Edith Moore teaches music in Greensboro spends the weekend with her parents. Mrs. McClure of Jamestown shops in the city. Various residents travel to Winston Salem Asheville and Philadelphia on business and pleasure trips.
The city hosts a roundup of residents and guests visiting from Philadelphia Washington Winston-Salem and Greensboro. Local officials Swfit and Company representatives and Y workers are noted as they travel attend meetings visit relatives or undergo medical procedures with several coming from or returning to Reidsville Morganton and Camp Sevier.
A two part story set in 1917 follows Sybil and Homer Carleton as twilight park hours prompt a sudden kiss. Sybil confronts the act while reflecting on Landry and Mrs. Hyde, weighing fidelity, desire, and social restraint in a fragile marriage. A lingering question of trust and attraction threads through their exchange.
The narrator recalls a social afternoon with Homer and Landry while observing Mrs. Hyde's car at the curb. Homer declines a home visit, promising to telephone in the morning, and Landry invites the narrator to dine later, prompting inner conflict about loyalties and love.
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