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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1917
Page
5
A poem laments war through vivid images of soldiers, mothers, and children. It contrasts warlord ambition with the harrowing toll on youths, families, and the home front, invoking a winter night and cries of the living and dead.
Bee High Point chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy announces a white sale for charity at the Elks Club on Broad Street later this month. Articles have been donated for sale with proceeds supporting regular organizational work and Belgian relief efforts to feed one Belgian child for 12 months.
The Philathea class of the First Reformed church holds a business meeting this evening at 7 30 at Miss Lena Hedrick's home on Willowbrook Street. All members are urged to attend as important matters will be discussed.
The literature department of the Wo mans club will meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs C P Hamilton at 3 30 o clock.
Miss Esther Minard arrived in the city Saturday night after delivering lectures in Raleigh. Mrs. Julius Smith also returned Saturday from Raleigh and was joined in Greensboro by Mr. Smith who had business there for a few hours.
J M Milliken of Greensboro visited on a business trip late Saturday. Miss Maude M Armentrout of Greensboro spent the weekend in town as a guest and returned to the Gate City this morning. Capt A M Rankin spent Saturday afternoon in Greensboro on business. Bruce Carraway returned to Wake Forest to resume law studies after a few days with Mrs Carraway. E C Caldwell of Greensboro was in the city this morning. C W Dixon of Greensboro was in town on business for the day. C F E Wagner of Greensboro spent the weekend with his family. J Lee Stone manager of Broadway theatre spent today in Charlotte on business.
Joseph Preston Norris a veteran porter in the Baltimore and Ohio railroad office of President Daniel Willard and body servant to General Robert E. Lee in the Confederate army died at his Baltimore home. Norris, born a slave in Lexington Virginia, came to Baltimore after Lee’s death and worked at Camden station before joining the executive office.
Trinity College notes Dr John Spencer Bassett, Trinity alumnus and former history professor, has published The Middle Group of American Historians. The work centers on Bancroft Jared Sparks and Peter Force, key figures between 1830 and 1870. Bassett now teaches American history at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
New York February 12 The leak committee attorney Sehrama L Whipple says the investigation proves a leak existed in Washington The committee's progress is satisfactory and the leak was carried by two paper men Price and Essary Whipple heads to Boston for three days to inspect records of two Wall Street brokerage firms and will return for another session. The findings exonerate Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and R W Bolling the president's brother in law.
R. A. Marvel, steward at the Battery Park hotel, saw his residence nearly destroyed by a fire yesterday afternoon. The loss was estimated at 1500 dollars.
A statewide livestock exposition and conference will be held March 28 and 29 in Wilmington under the Southern Settlement and Development organization with the Wilmington chamber of commerce and other groups. The event aims to promote livestock farming, mobilize farmers and bankers, and feature pure bred cattle and hog exhibits from southern regions.
Seattle youth Robert Curtis Talbot, thirteen, mailed a letter to Buffalo Bill as he lay dying. The boy, inspired by reading and belief in a shared West, asks for a monument funded by American boys to honor the Plainsman, suggesting a nationwide contribution toward a monument as grand as the Statue of Liberty.
The High Point chapter of United Confederate Veterans held its regular meeting at the veteran headquarters with many veterans and guests present. Delegates to the Washington D C reunion were named with alternates, pledges for veterans pensions were discussed, and gifts to the camp were announced.
Newport News February 9 British steamers over twenty in number, most of whom have left Hampton Roads in recent days, gathered near the Virginia capes and will be convoyed to England by a British warship according to reliable information. Reports had circulated for two days but gained belief only last night.
Brownsville Texas February 12 The second Virginia infantry left here for Richmond Sunday to demobilize.
Da Bara headlines the Rose February stage production of Romeo and Juliet starring The 14 and premiering on St. Valentine’s Day with theater fans urged to attend.
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