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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1916
Page
5
The Enter prise social editor asks readers to report visits of anyone in High Point or High Point residents visiting elsewhere by calling telephone number 12. Cooperation from the community is greatly appreciated.
A whimsical verse about three couples on a day trip ends with a crash at the end. Mrs. Caldwell hosts a W. O. T. club tea with Washington’s birthday decor and prizes at her Parkway home. Junior Woman’s Missionary tea at Dr Grayson’s on English Street proves a social and financial success. Col D A Milton reports on Daughters of Liberty visits. Visitors from New York plan hunting at Elwood. Sorosis club meeting postponed due to illness. Delta Yau to host tomorrow afternoon.
Review notes the aerial serial The Whisky Trust and The Mentment House Trust shown at the Elwood theater. Hobart Henley leads a capable cast in a clean, strong drama about district attorneys fighting corrupt politics, praised as the best attraction in months. Adelaide McAnally hosts a birthday event. Entre Nous club plans a 5 PM meeting at Elwood hotel.
Friends report Mrs. Amos Ragan endures intense pain as doctors have not yet set her dislocated shoulder due to soreness. Miss Maud Owen visits Greensboro for the Georgia Washington dance. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McAnally host Mrs. Charles McAnally and Lawrence to South Main, now visiting Madison. Ruth Kirkman and Mrs. F. H. Ford travel to New York and other northern cities for a short visit. Rom Bullard of Greensboro was in town yesterday. Mrs. J. H. Petty shows improvement at her bedside today.
A meeting of independent telephone managers from North and South Carolina and Virginia formed a regional organization with J A Harrill as chairman and J F Hayden as secretary. A three member committee led by A S Hallstrom will report on best long distance connections. The group endorsed North State company’s stance on the Bell merger and thanked Elwood Masonnic orders and North State for support.
Mrs Sylvia Tise of Winston died Sunday night at age 70. Her funeral was held in Winston this afternoon attended by relatives including Mrs P A Jones and her son Clifton and Mrs Homer Montsinger. Mrs Tise was grandmother to Mrs Jones and left six children.
The Oliver Morosco Paramount production The Tongues of Men stars Forrest Starley and Elizabeth Burbridge in a brisk stage kiss amid a stylish pairing with Constance Collier in the lead. The cast and mounting are praised as refined and lively, with a notable departure from conventional stage embraces. See this play at the Broadway Friday.
Herbert Whicker a young Winston lawyer spoke at South Main Street Methodist Church Sunday school service. He traced the school’s origins to today and affirmed its worth while. Special music accompanied the address.
Governor Craig issued a $100 reward for the capture of David Evans a convict charged with killing Joseph McLawhorn a convict guard near Greenville Evans and fellow convicts were working on roads when McLawhorn was fatally wounded with a pickaxe and Evans escaped.
In Dallas on February 25 the receivership suit against the Texas and Pacific Railway by Bankers' Trust of New York was dismissed in U S District Court for lack of jurisdiction. Plaintiff plans to appeal, according to his attorneys.
Washington dispatch reports the British embassy denied a Berlin wireless claim of a mutiny by Indian troops in Egypt. The denial clarifies there was no mutiny at that time.
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