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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1916
Page
5
The column observes varied reasons people attend church from habit and duty to social vanity and fear of trade impact. It notes among many, Dorothy Snow underwent an operation for appendicitis this morning and is resting well in the hospital.
Mrs Vernon Idel entertained the Priscilla club at her North Main Street home yesterday afternoon with sewing and music. She served a tempting menu to Miss Vera Idol and a list of club members. organizers ask next week’s hostesses to send notices to the society editor by noon Saturday to avoid date conflicts.
The first social meetings of the Y W A s and Susbeams missionary auxiliaries of the Woman s Missionary Union of the First Baptist Church are planned for Sunday at 3 30 PM. All ladies and children of the congregation are invited to attend.
Dancing tonight at Miss Brockett's studio near the Enterprise office invites local dancers to join in, with the event advertised as an evening of movement and community music.
Mrs L W Blackwelder and children left for Salisbury to visit her mother for several weeks. Dr G F Duncan, recovered from grippe, will rest in Emond before a city bout. Rev L W Blackwelder goes to Wilson for weekend, Mrs T Ingram leaves for Madison for two weeks before joining Mr Ingram in Greenville. H C Sechrest returned from Charleston with pneumonia threat, and Thomas Ring returns to Winston after a week's stay on Gatewood avenue.
The High Point graded school senior class elected officers for the final exercises. Lawrence Cannon chaired the meeting. Elected: Orator Odie Ingram, Prophetess Nellie Muse, Donor Banks Bencini, Historian Alice Reddick, Testator William Simmons, Poetess Louise Ingram.
A jury in federal court in Joplin Missouri found the Menace Publishing Company of Aurora and four alleged officials guilty of riot misuse of the mails. The trial concluded yesterday with the federal charges.
A pithy aphorism warns that viewing a wife only as a woman poses danger. The quote centers on gendered perception and warns against limiting a spouse to a single identity.
David Yow Harrison Gurley and Marvin Rogers were charged with assault on George Brittain a bottling plant worker. Judge Dalton found them not guilty noting Rogers discarded the boots but said George should be allowed to wear them and would discuss with the fire chief.
In Concord on January 15 the jury acquitted J A Trammell of Cabarrus County of Luther McCall's murder. Trammell, a local merchant, claimed self defense after saying an intruder tried to enter his store and living quarters. Court adjourned, tears were shed by Trammell and his counsel Maness.
The board of trustees met yesterday afternoon at 2 in the Greensboro Loan and Trust building to discuss routine matters. A follow up meeting is set for the 28th at Guilford College to consider important issues.
Carter Dalton travels to Washington to appear before the Interstate Commerce Commission on the question of certain lumber cases.
Jr Elwood Cox travels to New York to attend a key gathering of the American Bankers Association executive committee. The group will choose a new secretary, likely earning over 5000 annually, and discuss amendments to banking laws with Federal Reserve officials.
Berlin January 3 reports from a local paper cite a police ministered tally of human and animal corpses destroyed after expulsion of the enemy across various Russian governments in 1812, arguing the slaughter then was greater given the territory involved.
A critic earns credibility through measured judgment, not praise from the ill informed. The public should weigh informed critique over empty flattery and rely on reasoned analysis rather than spectacle.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Piedmont Building and Loan Abocib ties will be held in the directors' room of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company on January 17, 1916 at 8 00 p m for the election of a board of directors for the ensuing year and for such other business as may come before the meeting. This 18th day of December 1915. W. M. IDOL, Secy.
Notice that the firm of Parnell and Maynor formed by C. H. Parnell and C. H. Maynor has mutually dissolved. C. H. Maynor buys Parnell’s interest and assumes all liabilities while collecting and retaining all accounts due. Dated January 1 1916.
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