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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1917
Page
5
Poem by Margaret KE Sangster Jr reflects on returning home to a loved one after long separation. The piece evokes sunset, tearful welcome, and a sense of longing for a past relationship. Includes local social notes about Mary Anna White’s illness and various residents visiting Guilford college and Salisbury.
Professor Collier Cobb of the State University geology chair travels to Thomasville to speak at the Chautauqua club in the Baptist church this evening. His illustrated lecture titled Belgium Its Country and Its People invites public attendance and is expected to draw many locals.
The Alexander Martin chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will meet with Mrs. R. B. Terry at 10 o'clock Thursday morning.
Rev W L Mellichampe will lead a Lenten service at St Marys Church tomorrow afternoon at 4 o clock. The public is cordially invited to attend.
The home economic department of the Woman's club will meet tomorrow at 3 30 p m at the Elks home for an afternoon session.
Friends report Bob Amos is convalescent following a recent operation at High Point Hospital.
Mrs Prevo of Worthville returns home after an appendicitis operation at the city hospital. Mrs Sarah Tucker of Elm Street improves from pneumonia. Miss Corinna Austin of Lexington enters the hospital for appendicitis surgery. Miss Ruth Freeman and Misses Penelope and DeLisle Cobb will attend Prof Cobb's Thom as ville lecture tonight. Mrs W L Armstrong returns this morning from a short visit to her locality.
William B. Merriman of Greensboro was in the city for several hours today on business. Mrs. W. H. Plummer returned to town after visiting relatives in Reidsville and friends in Greensboro. E. C. Barrow of Greensboro was a business visitor yesterday afternoon. W. C. Jones spent yesterday afternoon in Greensboro on business. Dallas Zollicoffer was a brief business visitor to Greensboro yesterday afternoon.
Paul Gallus of North Dakota has arrived in Trinity and is spending time with his family.
Mr and Mrs Edgar Pepper of Thom asville spent Sunday in town visiting relatives and returning home.
Mr and Mrs Vernon Peace arrived Saturday to visit the family of W M Leach. W F Ellis returned Saturday from an extended eastern trip and departed on the noon train. Miss Callie Phillips, home with measles, left last week.
Four days of special training for the Young People’s B Y P U begins Wednesday at 6 pm. Rev J D Moore and E R Carroll of Raleigh lead sessions with devotional, class work, lectures and demonstrations. Guests include B Y P U groups from High Point Greensboro and Forest Avenue Church Greensboro.
In Mexico City authorities ban most games of chance and skill in cafes. Dominoes and dice are confiscated while a local game called mark the paper, a form of tic tac toe, remains. Cafes close from 3 p m to 5 30 p m and reopen until 9 p m.
Pharmacist L A Hancher in charge of the High Point Navy recruiting station leaves for Wilmington to be stationed there. He had spent two visits in High Point, with 19 recruits forwarded for training or instruction, and notes High Point youths favor Navy over Army. He will report to Raleigh by Wednesday noon before proceeding to Wilmington.
Francis Ford and Grace Cunard attract large local crowds at the Broadway with the third episode of The Purple Mask set in Paris before the war. The program includes additional short features as part of a strong variety bill. Tomorrow Paramount day features The Happiness of Three Women with Myrtle Stedman and House Peters.
Joseph E. Davies argues that England accumulates debt rapidly in war and retires it slowly in peace. He notes 128 years of alternating war and peace since 1688, with £825,000,000 added during war and only £30,000,000 reduced in peace. The Crimean and Boer wars altered the balance, and he warns that future generations may pay interest on debts from earlier wars for many centuries.
A series of residents and guests ranging from High Point Greensboro and Ashboro visited the city over the weekend. Notables include David White and D M Ballance with families along with Miss Kate Craven and Eugenia Tyson visiting from Durham and Ashboro respectively.
Comic exchange notes a husband’s golf habit while children are now allowed to watch, highlighting a domestic moment with humorous undertone.
A Metro wonder play The Dawn of Love features Mabel Taliaferro and a riotous comedy The Flirt with Ralph Herz headline today at Rose Theater. The program is touted as the best in weeks with Fox day tomorrow presenting Virginia Pearson in an arraignment of modern society shams and Hypocrisy expected to draw many motion picture fans in High Point.
The piece notes about 2000 Americans in Germany with 1500 long-term residents who are more German than American and stay to do business and marry locally. About 500 are visitors seeking cures or business travel who plan to return to the United States and may seek neutral countries. Germany requires aliens to register and be observed for two weeks before departure to root out spies.
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