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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1916
Page
5
The social editor asks readers to report anyone visiting in High Point or High Point residents visiting elsewhere by calling telephone number 12. The appeal emphasizes community cooperation and gratitude from local readers.
Monday features include a Thank offering and rally at 3 p.m. for Mrs. O. FE. Kearns and a 3 p.m. W. M. S. at First Baptist with Mrs. R. C. Charles. Tuesday lists Mission Study at Wesley Memorial ladies’ parlor and a 3:30 p.m. W. O. T. club with Mrs. A. S. Evening includes a George Washington tea at 7:45 p.m. with Mrs. C. S. Grayson. Wednesday offers U. D. C. At home at Elks club 3–8 p.m. and Parliamentary law for Wo man’s club at 3:30 p.m. with Mrs. B. J. Moore. Thursday’s 3:30 p.m. Entre Nous club meets with Mrs. Dred Peacock.
Miss Katherine Tate hosted an auction at her Hamilton Street home in honor of guest Miss Eugenia Franklin of Greensboro College and visitor Miss Capitola King from Kingsbury South Carolina. Franklin wore pink chiineuse with white lace and tulle while King wore white lace with flesh colored taffeta.
Mrs Laura Bratcher of Ready Kentucky says after six months of illness she suffered severe headaches nervousness and "womanly troubles" and found relief after taking eleven bottles of Cardui the women’s tonic. She praises Cardui as the best medicine for such ailments and urges others to obtain a bottle from druggists or write for information from the Cededen Medicine Co Chattanooga Tenn.
All articles contributed to the U D C entertainment are requested to be sent to Mrs C L Wheeler on Lind say street not later than Tuesday morning.
Myrkes Mary and Henrietta White went to Raleigh to visit sister Mrs. J F Griffin. Katherine Tate Eugenia Franklin and Capriola King toured Greensboro. Eugenia Beaver and family visit Rev L W Blackwelder in Salisbury. Pickett back from New York business trip. J B Harve of Berkeley en route to Cuba. Kluttz and Kra mer return from New York with spring stock for Venetia Smith millinery. Dalton visits from Winston to bring Mrs Dalton to North Main Street. Tate Hoskins and Fields spend afternoon in Greensboro. Infant Mary Perry ill yesterday but better today. Mrs J H Petty remains ill at home. Mrs P B Rogers much improved and may be out soon. R T Amos weekend in Reidsville for ill nephew. Gretchen Hartge heads to Raleigh extended visit. weekend in Greensboro.
In Richmond on February 19 the joint resolution to submit women’s enfranchisement to Virginians failed in the House of Delegates by 52 to 40 after a spirited debate. A shift of seven votes would have carried the measure for suffragists.
An old advertisement states Foley Kidney Pills help with back or side pains stiff muscles rheumatic aches and kidney trouble symptoms such as puffy under eye swelling and urinary disturbances. The notice frames the product as beneficial to thousands.
Agnes Sorma known as Fraulein Sorma, wife of Count Minotto and Red Cross nurse, is barred by Hanau military authorities from appearing at the municipal theatre for charity. She is set to perform in Flensburg and Duesseldorf before April 1, when she resumes Red Cross duties.
Asheville Feb 19 Mrs Sylivine Dennett vanished after leaving the Swannanoa Berkley hotel about 11 am Thursday. She has been in a sanatorium recently and was accompanied by her mother and three children as well as a nurse. The case is treated as a missing person with no clues to her present whereabouts.
Berlin reports most German gold stored in the imperial bank with a butcher in Fuerstenwald advertising fat in five pound lots for gold and in one pound lots for paper or silver. The sale prompted a gold rush as buyers from nearby towns hoarded cash, turning the stall nearly a thousand marks in gold on day one.
Sweden has formally advised the United States that, in response to Germany and Austria plans to sink armed merchantmen without warning after February 29, it will notify Swedish nationals not to travel on such ships.
The Pennsylvania returned from two days of trials off the coast and will be dry docked at Norfolk navy yard for button scraping and painting. Builders say slight marine growth during completion may affect speed, but unofficial trials met all requirements.
The Broadway presents GRAFTS a 16 part serial by eighteen authors starring Hobart Henley and Jane Novak as district attorney and lead figures. Early reports praise its portrayal of grafters high in society with Henley delivering a strong performance. Watch for the Morning Independent insert Monday for distribution details.
A Greensboro council committee of the United Commercial Travelers No 296 meets today to recruit and enroll new members for the organization.
Released Ruhleben inmates in England dispute the claim that British taxpayers fund fatigue labor in the camp. They say the five marks a week is repayable and that parcels from England cover most needs. Prisoners describe two camps divisions, with pro German British-born inmates favored and some enlisting in the German army.
Ringgold, La resident S A Cotter reports strong recovery from pellagra after using the Baughn remedy. The ad urges readers to request the free Baughn book from American Compounding Co box 3008 Jasper, Alabama, with a money back guarantee if no cure is achieved.
The Southern Car company of this city reports new orders from three railways for 20 large cars. Lehigh Valley railroad booked 12 cars, Virginia Railway and Power four, and Corning and Painted Coast railway of New York four. The firm works to fulfill these recent orders.
Charles C Daniels brother of Josephus Daniels announces he will leave government work. He had been handling hundreds of cases to set aside land transfers by Indians on the White Earth reservation and declined an appointment as counsel under F J Kearful, saying he cannot agree with the new policy.
Berlin reports the Goethe association plans to dispatch several people’s libraries to East Prussia to replace books destroyed by Russians. Other Goethe groups across Germany are coordinating similar efforts to aid the destroyed regions.
The donor from Essen named Herr Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach contributed 5,000 marks toward buying literature for East Prussia, boosting cultural aid across the region.
An ad explains headaches stem from autointoxication and toxins in the liver and bowel. It urges a daily hot water drink with limestone phosphate to wash out poisons, cleanse the alimentary canal, and prevent headaches. It touts quick results and claims lifelong headache relief with regular use.
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