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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1916
Page
5
A poetic description recalls a rugged ascent through wind and snow and the moment of reaching the sunlit summit. The piece notes perseverance and gratitude to the Father. Community notices report local residents undergoing surgery or illness recovery and visits from relatives and friends.
The Humane Society reports increased membership with about 40 new registrants added last week. Names newly enrolled include Mesdames Eshelman Coley Briggs Matton Tate Barnes Gilliam Caldwell Nichols Ragan Nuttenfield Hoffmean Wilson Milton Sovars Gray Chenault Stamey Ragan and others.
Mrs. F. H. Wood, aged 78, fell about ten feet when misjudging a door and opened the back stairway. She broke her hip but is resting well and receiving friends wishes for a speedy recovery. She is the mother of Mrs. J. J. Farriss and George T. Wood.
A called meeting and quilting session will be held at Mrs A Ik Pate’s Broad Street home on Thursday at 3 50. Members should bring a needle thimble and 10 cents. Strong attendance urged as federation laws will be made.
Mrs Gurney entertained Saturday noon at her annual family dinner. Eight courses were served and the vegetables came from her own garden. This detail was noted as especially timely for the season.
Jim Hoover spent the weekend in Greensboro visiting his parents. A party of six including Florence Baxter Iris Holt Marylily Fisher Bob Amos Dr. W Clayton and Willis Slame will motor to Greensboro.
Berlin reports that despite millions of iron five pfennig coins issued recently, few are circulating. Newspapers say the public withholds them as war souvenirs, urging patience until after the war. A month of coin shortages started with five pfennigs and moved to ten pfennigs, prompting the subway to ask riders to buy tickets in bulk.
Reports from the Dutch frontier say Belgium faced severe floods with the Scheldt river rising and villages in the south being destroyed. The Associated Press notes widespread damage and loss.
The Leonard Beavans Stamey company advertises large reductions on coats and coat suits in today’s paper, inviting shoppers to take advantage of the sale.
Colangelo's Musicians under Signor Luigi Colangelo perform at the Lyceum tonight in the school auditorium. The program features brass and reed solos, orchestral groups, tenor and soprano songs, Colangelo novelty pieces, guitars and mandolin accompaniment, Neapolitan operatic and folk numbers, plus English songs. Ruth Elliotti soprano and Anthony Quarino tenor headline with notable voices and costume changes.
London, Jan 17 Sir Alfred Mond introduces a bill for a rent moratorium protecting soldiers' dependents from rent hikes and eviction over arrears. The war office considers the measure, noting France enacted similar legislation at the war's start. England, a volunteer nation, has not before deemed it necessary.
The Guilford County Republican Executive Committee met Saturday in Greensborough and set February 5 to hold the county convention for delegate selection to the state convention. R L Schofield chaired, Kh F E Mendenhall secretary, with W P Ragan of High Point delivering an enthusiastic speech predicting Republican victory in 1916. The committee expressed strong optimism for a Republican year.
In Tokio on January 17 subscriptions across Japan to the French 5 per cent war loan totaled about three million francs, mainly from foreigners. Due to favorable yen francs exchange, Japanese buyers could acquire bonds at yen 29.829, equating to francs 87.25, with an exchange rate of 2 francs 92 1/2 centimes per yen. The Moffitt Furnishing Co urges warm weather necessities and knit goods in new colors.
About 100 Greensboro Baseball Club season tickets priced at 3 dollars are offered through Clem ents Cigar Store. Arthur Lyon forwarded the tickets for sale to High Point. they admit holders to all North Carolina league games at Cone Park Greensboro for the 1916 season except July 4 and Labor Day. Tickets transfer between holders, enabling about 60 games for the price of 12 singles.
Floyd Abee a 20 year old deaf mute from Hickory Va was killed Saturday after stepping from behind a passing train into a shifting engine on the outskirts of Danville. He waited for a southbound passenger train to pass then crossed and was struck dying on the locomotive. His body was taken to Hickory.
The Till Street Baptist Church in Concord has extended a unanimous call to Rev. S. W. Bennett of Lincolnton. The occasion was reported yesterday with no binding decision yet on Mr. Bennetts action. The item closes with a local ad note about gloves and warm underwear for ladies and misses.
A saying contends that a woman rarely deems a man a devil until her own view shifts to accusing him. It notes a daughter’s relationship to her father remains defined by kin role rather than personal judgment.
It is a rare and fortunate man who retains the same woman for wife that he wore as a sweetheart. The saying reflects enduring bonds and loyalty in domestic life.
The annual meeting of the stoeckhold ers of the Piedmont Building and Loan Association will be held in the directors room of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company on January 17 1916 at 8 00 p m for election of a board of directors for the ensuing year and for such other business as may come before the meeting. This 13th day of December 1915. This is to give notice that the firm of Parnell and Maynor composed of C H Parnell and C H Maynor has this day mutually dissolved C H Maynor buying the interest of D H Parnell and I D H Maynor assuming all liability of the said firm of Parnell and Maynor collecting and retaining all accounts now due said firm.
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