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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1917
Page
5
A H A Wilder verse reflects on the grippe season as the narrator greets friends after the holidays. The poem surveys common ailments and sympathy, asking readers if they too have suffered and urging shared experience as a bond.
The congress of the Christian Endeavor union met at Mrs. L. W. McFarland home and set January 28 as the start of Christian Endeavor Week. Activities include class meetings, a social at First Presbyterian January 30 to aid the state convention, church attendance nights, a June convention in High Point, a rally at North Main Street Methodist Protestant church with Wyatt Taylor of Columbia as speaker, and a junior rally at First Reformed. The public is invited, with a 1 cent per year age fee or a silver dollar if age cannot be told.
Early today a force of laborers cleared mud from the Main Street railway crossing. The dark mud was removed and replaced with gravel to restore passage.
Mrs I Thurman Mann will host the Delta Tau club Thursday afternoon at 3 30 o'clock at her home on South Main street bringing together members for an informal gathering in a local residence setting.
Members of the Gamma Zeta club will be entertained next Friday after noon at 3 o'clock by Mrs I Thurman Mann at her home on South Main street.
PERSONALS: Miss Bessie Hackney and Miss Helen Brockett spent Saturday afternoon in Greenaboro.
Charles Kephart visited Greensboro on Saturday afternoon. C Everett Wagner returned to Greensboro after spending the weekend with his family in the city. Mrs J P Rawley and son Albert spent Saturday in Greensboro meeting Mr Rawley who was in Winston-Salem on business. A T Wishart went to Mississippi to join a hunting party with Big Mitch for several days. Mr and Mrs A M Marshall of Charlotte and Mr and Mrs C B Clegg of Greensboro visited Mrs R K Marshall on Russell Street for the weekend. C C Haworth of Wilson arrived to attend the funeral of his uncle J Harper Johnston and will return to Wilson this evening.
Mr and Mrs M Abstein of New York spent the week end in the city as guests in the home of D Rones.
Mrs Covington of Walnut Cove visits her parents Capt and Mrs Parkin. Mr and Mrs Edgar Peper of Thomasville stay with their parents. David White and Eugene Frazier of High Point spend Sunday night here. Marsh Bulla of Gainesville visits his mother Mrs Benson Parker. W F Ellis returns from New York. D M Ballance visits Greensboro on business.
A seven reel Triangle film titled Wars Women is shown today and tomorrow at the Broadway theater. Stars Frank Keenan and Enid Markey present a frank appeal for preparedness, directed by the same team behind The Birth of a Nation Civilization and Intolerance.
High Point patrons enjoy daily high class films at the Rose theater under Manager McIntyre. Tonight Fox presents a modern American East Lynne with Theda Bara and Stewart Holmes. Tomorrow Metro offers Madame Petrova in The Scarlet Woman in five acts.
Greek forces and war matériel continue to be removed to the Peloponnesus. Transport of artillery is expected to finish next week, allowing the blockade to be lifted. The overall transfer is planned to be completed within a fortnight.
In Tifton Georgia on January 22 a Superior Court jury found H E Ragsdale former cashier of the Bank of Omega guilty of embezzling about 10000 from the state institution. The jury recommended a misdemeanor sentence and the judge deferred sentencing.
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union held a prayer meeting at Friends church on Sunday afternoon presided by Mrs. J. E. Kirkman with honors to Mrs. B. E. Moore and music led by Miss Hazel Briggs. Speakers included Rev. W. A. Barber Dr. Gilbert Rowe and Dr. Sylvester Newlin plus Miss Elizabeth Jones who sang It’s Nothing to Me. D. H. Parsons praised progress in temperance work and urged school and home teaching of prohibition.
Chicago January 22. The Western Golf association will act independently of the United States Golf Association on defining what constitutes an amateur golfer. New officers and a board elected last night support action that could divide major golf bodies and potentially form a new governing group. President Charles F. Thompson has broad backing to craft a universal amateur standard.
Sanford Jan 22. Increase in attendance and more pupils in fifth and seventh grades necessitated hiring another teacher to supervise these grades. Mrs J L Gilmore has been employed. Continued rains and sleets damaged Lee county roads, now being repaired by Superintendent Collins and crew as heavy travel from northern tourists to Florida continues.
Athens January 21 British cabinet discusses a proposal to lease the Greek merchant fleet to assure enough ships for food supplies. A high official cites coal and insurance as factors driving Greek shipowners toward Entente proposals, with coal shortages prompting acceptance and insurance possibly sought from the United States.
An advertising note prompts readers to send five cents with name and address to Foley Co at 2835 Sheffield Ave Chicago to receive a trial package of Foley products including Honey and Tar Compound Kidney Pills and Cathartic Drug Co. Tablets as a sales offer.
The death ends the life of J Harper Johnston a long time Guilford County resident noted for his strength and upright bearing. A Civil War era supporter of the south he served as tithe master for Confederacy and later helped run Home Banking. Funeral services were held at 2 pm from the residence with Masonic pallbearers and Wesley Memorial church pastor Rev Gilbert Rowe officiating.
The President planned a midday Senate address touching on the treaty making power and possible international action to enforce laws and treaties. Some senators expected a foreign relations focus while others heard it would cover the legislative program. Session openness was unclear.
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