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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1918
Page
5
Mrs. O. Mendenhall posted the highest score and received dainty handkerchiefs while Albion Millis won the gentleman’s prize, a pair of socks, as Mr. and Mrs. Ed Millis and Mr. and Mrs. O Mendenhall gathered for bridge at the Millis home.
The poem celebrates the New Year with a bold, hopeful spirit. It speaks of bravery, steadfastness, and joy, urging a cheerful path forward as Time gifts the land. It concludes with a toast to health, wealth, and the New Year. The verse is attributed to Julia Bennett Gilbert from the Philadelphia Ledger.
Wednesday features a 3 30 general meeting of the Woman's club and a 3 oclock executive board meeting at the Elks' home. Thursday lists Over the Teacups at Mrs H A Millis. Friday attendees include The Sorosis club at Mrs Frank E Creelman and Philomathean at Mrs O T Moffitt.
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Pollock entertained a New Year’s Eve dinner party at their North Main Street home. Twelve guests from the regular Friday night bridge club attended. After dinner they were joined by Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Gold.
Ki A Snow entertained yesterday at his South Main Street home with a New Years turkey dinner for fifteen Sunday school members and guests. Attendees included Rev Coble A P Caldwell Dr W A Hayes Brice Bennett Donald Headen Alfred Sleaden Frank Smith Hugh Hamilton Clyde Norman William Lee Smith Theodore Woenig Ernest McCain and Raymond Pike.
Hass Bryant, a High Point youth, married Vera Shockley of Wilmington Delaware. The ceremony took place on Christmas Eve, and Bryant now resides in Wilmington. He is a brother of George Bryant of Efird and is well known in the city.
Miss Edith Sechrest of this city married Robert Bulla of Camp Sevier in Greenville last Thursday night. Mrs. Bulla is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Sechrest of this city. Mr. Bulla serves in the National Guard, formerly Company M, stationed at Camp Sevier.
Captain Welch of the 119th Infantry at Camp Sevier is in town for a few days. Lieut Julius Peel of Camp Jackson arrived for a brief stay. Miss Nellie Muse left for Lexington to attend a dance and will visit Miss Mildred Walser. Miss Herati Coe of Greensboro visited Mrs S B Coe. Lieut Henry Ingram of Camp Jackson spent hours in the city en route from Adherboro. C M Timmons and son Charles from New York returned home. Miss Mary Sherrod returned to Baltimore to resume studies at Goucher College. Mrs R A Sills of Greensboro visiting Mrs C B Devrman. Lieut Flake Shipley of Camp Sevier spent hours en route to Statesville. Miss Catherine Wilkinson of Danville is visiting Mrs Bascom Hoskinson Parkway.
Morganton January 2 A C Avery local attorney and Burke examination board chairman has been named to the censorship board for foreign mails and cables under the trading with the enemy law. The post office war and navy departments the war trade board and the committee on public information are represented. Avery starts January 8 in New York with branch boards at other locations.
The High Point township exemption board reports 25 men did not receive draft questionnaires. A published list names missing registrants and directs relatives to notify the board. Registrants must answer within seven days after mailing, with penalties for noncompliance and potential police summons. The list includes James Wilson, Luther Alison, Emerson Allred, and others at multiple street addresses.
Sybil, Landry, Warren, and Margaret discuss taking over a house in New York for Landry to practice, while Sybil fears distractions from New York women and vows to pursue happiness with Landry. Margaret and Warren foresee financial realities of city life and Landry’s potential success as a surgeon.
Thomas H Ince presents Bill Hart in The Narrow Trail at Broadway this and tomorrow. Hart plays a Western highwayman who enters a Barbary Coast like San Francisco roadhouse and battles a dramatic shanghai attempt in a scene praised for spectacular screen action.
A son weighing ten pounds was born to Mr and Mrs Edward Henderson. The newborn is named Edward Leo and joins the family.
Percy Kirkman a noted Mason and furniture expert voices frustration with persistent bad weather. He jokes that a heavy dose of weather makes soldiers stationed nearby feel at home, then pleads for more normal conditions and ushers off to lunch.
The piece recalls Rachel, famed Jewish descendant and successor to Sarah Bernhardt, who rose from Paris streets to stage stardom. It notes her avarice yet generosity to kin, a later American tour, and a fatal physical and nervous collapse before her death on January 4, 1858, sixty years prior.
The Metro wonderplay Outwitted features Emily Stevens as Nan in romance with Billy Bond played by Earle Fore at the Rose Theatre. Viewer sees Lake George scenery and a painting titled Portrait of a Lady in a Larson house. A dictaphone and covert signaling reveal a conspirator's thoughts through Nan.
John Winebarger son of Mr and Mrs Wesley Winebarger wed Miss Willie Shook daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Shook at the home of Rev and Mrs Abernethy in North Newton. Rev Abernethy performed the ceremony with only a few friends present.
Mrs. Julia Ann Isenhower, about 50, living five miles from Conover, was found dead in bed at her daughter Mrs. Chal Kirby’s home in Newton. She had visited and retired early saying she felt chilly. The death ocurrió Monday with her daughter in attendance.
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