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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1917
Page
5
Poem excerpt reflects on Valentine’s Day as memory and enduring love. It contrasts fleeting youth with lasting affection, noting hearts offered and promises kept. The verse, attributed to K. M. Thorntoin in Mother’s Magazine, evokes sentimental imagery of gifts and waiting.
The civic department of the Woman's club schedules a key meeting tomorrow at 3 30 P M at the Elks club on Broad Street. State president Mrs Petty of Greensboro will speak on Civic Work and Its Many Phases and district chairman Mrs Burnham of Thomasville is expected to attend. Attendance of all department members is urged.
Miss Lucille LeRoy resumes studies at State Normal and Industrial College in Greensboro after visiting her mother Mrs W C Archbell on Borth Main street. She was among the young women from the dormitory destroyed by fire last Saturday morning.
Miss Marylily Fisher has returned from a six week stay in the east visiting friends and relatives and other points of interest.
The L. T. L. will meet tomorrow after moon at 3 30 with Miss Burgess at the South Main street school building. Title attendance of all members is urged.
The regular meeting of the order of the Eastern Star will be held tonight at 7:30. The presence of each and every member of the local chapter is desired.
William J Bain of Greensboro visited the city yesterday afternoon. W W A Underwood of Ashboro came through yesterday en route to Greensboro on business. Mrs T H Mayo returned to Greensboro after a weekend in the city and Trinity. K E Philips, recently a hospital patient, went home to Greensboro in improved condition. M C Newbold of Raleigh was in the city this morning on business. Charles W Gueth, with the Southern Railway for four years, resigned to join a Winston Salem tobacco firm.
A fresh Silk Petticoats shipment arrives with a wide range of shades all in stock. Stock is large and trends bright, with many colors available for immediate purchase.
Citizens express surprise at low turnout for three Alice in Wonderland performances at the auditorium. About $160 was raised, with $90 to the producer and instructor, leaving a net profit of around $40 after covering costs. The proceeds were to offset a roughly £900 deficit from the Atelier project under Superintendent W. M. Marr. Officials thank outside volunteers who aided the effort.
Count and Countess von Bernstorff ended eight years in Washington with a stream of callers at the embassy. They will sail for home Wednesday on the Danish liner Frederick VIII after tea for intimate friends. The Swiss minister has taken over Germany's interests here and will assume charge.
In Concord on Sunday at 4 15 am a burglar tried to rob Deputy Sheriff William Propst’s home. Mrs Propst woke to dogs barking and found the thief’s arm and shoulder in her son’s bedroom. The robber fled when called for help. no clue identified. The incident echoes Salisbury robberies and locals suspect a stranger.
Concord on February 13 reports Policeman Widenhouse pursuing a negro boy in a back lot as he prepared to sell whisky. A club pressing room yielded 15 pints of liquor found on Beech Dry who was arrested and held to be tried Wednesday for retailing. The officer then captured another negro charged with retailing after a chase.
Mrs J B Whittaker of McDuff Virginia says Black-Draught cured her family of headaches and stomach trouble after a decade of distress. The purely vegetable remedy regulates weak stomachs and aids digestion while relieving indigestion, colic, wind, nausea, and similar symptoms. Now over 70 years in use, it has helped more than a million people. Drugstores sell it for 25 cents a package. N. C. 123
Amusements manager J Lee Stone presents the first episode of the Universal serial The Purple Mask starring Francis Ford as a detective and Grace Cunard as the female criminal. Also shown is the L K O Komedy A Limburger Cyclone with Phil Dunham.
A William Fox production presents a grand telling of Romeo and Juliet with Theda Bara. The tale follows the secret marriage, feud, duel, exile, feigned death, and tragic double suicide ending in Verona.
Prof W M Marr announces Fayssous the psychic marvel will stage a three night engagement at the High School Auditorium starting Thursday. A free hypnotism exhibition is set for 7 30 tomorrow night in which a subject will sleep 24 hours in a store window. Thursday at 2 pm he will show mind reading by having business men write a letter and place it in a random post box, then hide the key somewhere in the city.
The Associated Charities urge a general hospital with a free ward in High Point, noting daily requests for food clothing and fuel due to sickness. An obstetrical ward would relieve mothers unprepared for poverty, speeding recovery and improving home sanitation for the future.
Newport News Virginia February 13 preparations are underway at the Atlantic coast aeronautical station to train 100 men for the area division of the United States signal reserve corps. Officials said the men are expected within six weeks.
On principal streets of the city an event will feature a blindfolded driver leading a team of horses to locate a key and retrieve a letter from a designated box then deliver it to the addressed party. The stunt appears as a public exhibition.
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