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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1917
Page
5
A 1917 poem by Nina Holland Covington reflects on age and history while a mix of society personals notes recount upcoming events and visits. The page lists hostesses, guests, and travelers including Miss MaryLily Fisher and several young women returning to colleges after holidays.
The annual reception and dance will be held tonight at the Elks Home on Broad Street from 9 to 12:30. Reception cards inform guests that Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Sinclair are at home at Melrose on Tuesday evening January second nineteen seventeen from 8:30 to 11.
Robert L. Brannock wife and child of Seattle Wash arrive on No 38 tonight to spend Tuesday with cousin W L Stamey family on East Washington street. Brannock represents a large tobacco manufacturing concern on the Pacific coast and is making his annual visit to the Winston Salem home office and relatives in the state.
The regular meeting of the W. O. T. Club will be held at the home of Mrs. Moon at 3 30. Members are requested to bring their sewing.
Miss Illie Waye Baker hosts a bridge gathering in the afternoon at 3 oclock to compliment Mrs C T Ingram visiting from Greenville South Carolina and to entertain her friends in the city.
Miss Della Stamey of Fallston arrives in the city tomorrow afternoon to spend a short visit with J and Mrs W L Stamey on East Washington street. She is a student at Credit College in Raleigh.
Miss Lois Edwards of Hendersonville guests of Capt and Mrs A M Akin on North Main Street. Mr and Mrs C C Prince Miss Vatte Jones and T V Rochelle are among those attending the dance at the city club tonight in Winston.
nd Weedon and Neil Edwards left this morning for Buies Creek where they will enter school. Mr and Mrs Joe Weaver left Saturday for Asheville to spend 10 days with Weaver's parents. L McCallum returned from a week in New York. Thomas Dalton of North Wilkesboro visited for a few hours. Mrs Fraik Armfield and daughter left for Monroe after visiting her father on street. Me J Armfield Jr and children of there spent yesterday in the city. A Schrock Jr who spent the week in Greensboro with Mrs Schrock is visiting her parents. Jose Marco Goley returned to Graham after spending the holidays with her parents. A A Mendez, former of her mother, Mrs G W Brad on South Main Street, for the past.
Lenoir January 1 a new room was added at the graded school by cutting off part of the auditorium to increase space for the spring term opening early January. In recent years three or four rooms were created from the basement and new fittings, and further space shortages are expected to push the school board to consider a larger building soon.
Carter Dalton, newly elected to Guilford county as a state representative, left this morning for Raleigh to settle in before the annual session opens Wednesday morning.
Caldwell Furniture of Lenoir shipped a solid car load of furniture to a Panama Canal Zone firm. Routed by rail to New Orleans then by steamer across the Gulf to the canal, it marks the first such shipment by a local company to the far south.
J Ferdinand Poggenburg, a multiple holder of the American amateur billiard title, died at his New York home yesterday. Born in New York in 1865, he was a leading figure in American billiards.
A committee on Russian industrial affairs calls for rapid expansion of electric power generation. It notes 93 generating stations currently operate in European Russia with a combined capacity of 75,553 kilowatts.
A miniature Mantle lamp lighted by a single dry battery cell can be seen up to 50 miles. It is employed in United States coast and geodetic survey triangulation work to determine accurate positions along coastlines.
In a Greensville address, Chief Justice Walter Clark urges North Carolina lawmakers to pass a winter bill granting presidential suffrage to women. He cites Illinois 820000 female voters in a presidential election and argues federal and state actions can extend voting rights without a ballot measure.
Paris reports the Y M C A extending its aid to frontline troops with refreshment dugouts serving hot drinks near battle lines. Workers risk exposure as tea and cocoa reach wounded men carried to dressing stations amid debris from recent engagements.
Guatemala City Guatemala January 1 The ruins of Antigua the ancient capital of Guatemala studied by expeditions from Harvard University and Yale Antigua said to predate Egyptology and to have suffered a volcanic destruction that killed all inhabitants by scalding water.
A short humorous column exchange notes a minor head scar and a light reply about its significance. The dialogue shows casual banter between speakers in a periodical comic column format.
An English dispatch notes electric eyes are popular with pedestrians in dim London streets. Men tuck them into buttonholes and cuff links while women use them as eyes for animal furs and carry the batteries in a muff.
World famous soprano Madame Gadski will perform in Winston-Salem on January 10. It is her only southern date this winter, drawing music lovers statewide. Due to limited hall capacity, advance seat orders should be placed at Q Hanlon's Drug Store. Ticket prices are $1.50 $2.00 and $2.50.
Lenoir, Jan 1. After the July flood swept away most bridges and damaged roads, Caldwell County borrowed 50 000 to repair routes and replace the stream bridge. About 38 000 has been spent on roads and bridges, with 12 000 to build a new county home for the aged and infirm. Bonds sold to a Toledo Ohio firm at 4 percent will cover the loan. Electricity automatical ly wakes firemen, releases horses and opens England station doors.
Wireless messages arrived describing a detector crafted from a pencil lead fragment and two safety razor blades.
When you feel too tired to work wake up weary or have backache or pains in sides you may be sure the kidneys are disordered. Fay Shelburg says Foley Kidney Pills cured kidney trouble after two years of illness. Available for sale by Mann Drug Company.
The annual meeting of stockholders will be held at 8 o clock p m on January 16 1917 in the Wachovia Bank and Trust company office High Point NC for the election of a board of directors for the ensuing year and other business All stockholders are urged to be present This notice is dated December 15 1916 signed W C Idol Secretary
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