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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1916
Page
5
A humorous note shows a man teaching Eliza arithmetic with puns on addition subtraction multiplication and division ending with a playful misstep as a father responds. The item also reports social events from Roland Park, including a bridge party hosted by Dr and Mrs H B Hiatt with prize winners and attendees listed.
At Mrs. A. K. Tate’s home a quilting session marked by an 18-member group for a High Point Chester U. D. C. lunch plan. Rev. C. P. Cobl’s residence hosted visitors Mrs. Nettie Paschal Jones J. W. Hobbs Delos Hammer and others on New York Philadelphia business.
Ten days before his wedding Robert Stanley Boykin, a prominent Wilson figure, left town with no address. Invitations withdrawn, sister in Atlanta, rumors of a note to his father, and the social community shocked by the sudden departure. The article notes his prominence and the forthcoming marriage to Isabel Kuhrt of Atlanta.
Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound restores color to faded hair and stops dandruff. Sold in drug stores for about 50 cents. Apply with sponge to strands. by morning gray hair fades and repeated use darkens hair, leaving it thick and glossy.
Raleigh January 21 Ida Ball Warren and Samuel Putnam Christy face the electric chair on March 3 unless Governor Craig intervenes. The supreme court unanimously rejected their appeals amid harsh verdicts. The article notes public sentiment favors Christy over Warren and reports a separate gubernatorial respite for J H Johnson.
Washington report to the Senate shows Southern Power and Carolina Power and Light control 75.1 percent of developed water power and 66.5 percent of total water power in North Carolina. Eight corporations hold 94 percent of power. municipalities own 1 percent. Public service power share is higher than these figures indicate.
Mrs. Houston Overcash, seriously wounded Sunday night at her parents home near Amity, died Tuesday morning. Suspicion falls on her estranged husband, arrested amid circumstantial evidence. Sheriff Deaton reports sworn statements placing Overcash four miles from Winecoff home and two miles from his own. A witness says he courted another woman and planned to wed Tuesday, while the wife believed he was divorced.
Washington on January 21 reports the senate agreed to adjourn last night until Monday to allow committees to work steadily on preparing legislation following a conference of administration leaders.
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