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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1917
Page
5
A young man kisses a maiden who initially resists then seems to resist again. After a final muffled moment she softly says don’t stop and the scene ends in quiet tension. The verse notes the author Dwight S. Anderson and presents a playful back‑and‑forth on consent.
The Grimea Street School Parent-Teachers association holds a Sunday 2:30 PM meeting at the school. Devotional exercises led by Rev J W Rose, talks on punctuality and views from business, home, and school, plus factory laws and child labor by Rev J M Hilliard. Public invited.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist church will hold its regular meeting Monday afternoon at 3 thirty. An interesting program has been arranged and all members are urged to attend.
The W. O. T. club will meet with Miss Helen Brockett Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. All members are requested to bring their needlework.
The Mission Study class will meet Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the First Baptist church. Attendance of all members is urged.
Mrs. J. D. Fulmer Mrs. J. Walston both of Elizabeth City and Mrs. W. F. Craig with Mrs. J. Porter of Butler Pa host at Johnson street. Linnie Lambeth Brown Summit and Ruth Atwater Chapel Hill guests of Edna Sechrest for the weekend. Martine Barker John Welborn return from New York auto show. C B Mattocks returns from Newark business trip. Carter Dalton Guilford county official spends weekend with family. George F. Wilson returns after New York show. Horace Sisson among local dealers at New York auto show.
Dred Peacock was a business visitor to Greensboro yesterday afternoon. Dr. J. C. Montgomery of Greensboro spent several hours in the city yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Charles Ingram and children Worothy and Charles T. Jr arrived this afternoon on No. 21 for a stopover with Mrs. L. J. Ingram while en route to Greenville South Carolina. Miss Lillie May Baker returned today to Madison where she has been a guest of his wife and relatives.
Gastonia January 13 A major Gastonia retailer the Thomson Mercantile Company closed its doors and posted a voluntary assignment for creditors Judge A C Jones named trustee Assets listed at 12803.27 Liabilities 23711.51 Stockholders J F Thomson J C McNeeley J R Baber and O O Baber The firm formed eight years ago under Thomson as manager Local mills likely earned a sizable but undisclosed net sum with extra dividends beyond 5 percent semiannual.
Preliminary plans begin for a year long observance honoring Henry David Thoreau born July 12 1817 in Concord Massachusetts. The noted writer and philosopher lived a solitary life at Walden Pond and was praised by Ralph Waldo Emerson for his devotion to nature and intellect.
An 18 month old baby left in a perambulator in a Powell Avenue building corridor experienced a day of adventure. The infant was taken to Brownsville police station then sent to Kings County Hospital after being found by Ida Rubin and identified by Lillian Gales as her missing child.
A High Point resident notes that the standard cord of wood now measures four by eight feet with a new length of six inches less than four feet. The cord remains four feet high and eight feet long, but its breadth is reduced by half a foot, while prices rise and demand stays brisk.
A vintage advertisement touts Tollo Water as a cure for constipation and bilious headaches. It claims relief within 30 minutes of a wineglassful and repeated use restores vigor, clears skin, and eliminates morning headaches, with bottles sold for 15 cents from Hart Drug Company and other druggists in Dawson Springs Kentucky.
A London statistician estimates postwar price increases cost Greater London residents about 500 million dollars annually. He cites food and essentials driving higher daily outlays, noting bread alone consumes about 9,500 tons per day and raises cost by roughly 35 million dollars yearly.
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