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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1917
Page
5
A verse portrait of social scenes with Mrs Trix at home from four to six and Kitty at home in the rosy light. Ladies arrive in throngs while men murmur about art, books, and weather. Cupid saves himself for the evening ball, leaving still life merry and bright.
Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o clock a meeting will be held at the First Baptist church to discuss observing a week of prayer. A joint program by the Woman's Missionary Society and the Y W A S will be rendered and all church and congregation ladies are urged to attend.
The Peacock Philathea class will entertain the two Baraca classes from evening until 10 30 oclock tomorrow night at the Wesley Memorial Methodist church. Wives of Baraca members are cordially invited to attend.
The Wo mans club library department will not meet tomorrow afternoon as announced. The committee continues planning an active city campaign to secure a public library for High Point.
Announcement: Sorosis club will not hold a meeting this week because several members are ill. The session is postponed to the date of the next regular meeting.
Mrs. E. M. Shipman will hostess the Priscilla club Friday at 3 oclock at her home 111 Gatewood avenue.
Miss Elizabeth Booe of Walkertown arrived in the city yesterday to spend several days as the guest of friends.
I Isaacson of Greensboro was a business visitor to the city yesterday afternoon. T Joseph Weaver of the Elwood hotel spent yesterday afternoon in Greensboro as the guest of friends. David H Blair of Winston-Salem spent several hours in the city yesterday on business. H S Wimbish returned to Greensboro last evening after a short stay on business in this city.
C. F. Neeley and S. T. Deal are designated as special employees of the Internal Revenue Service, handling duties under the agency.
A party with headquarters in Greensboro traveled through the city yesterday afternoon on business en route to Ashboro. Master Frank K. Jackson is critically ill with pneumonia at his home on North Main Street.
Lenoir residents and officials announce plans to pave the town public square under a re enacted state act. The project follows a local push to improve the area and boost civic appearance, with paving expected to enhance the square’s permanence and look.
A Lexington woman awoke to noises and fled with a child as three nearby men rushed to help. They freed the second child from the house and confronted a kitchen intruder only to find a cat harassing a mouse.
Six men from the ninth district traveled to Shelby for entrance examinations to Annapolis and West Point. Naval academy hopefuls were P. B. Summey of Dallas, F. W. Huey of Charlotte, and R. D. Hall of Belmont. Military academy candidates were Charles L. Kerns Jr. of Charlotte, Preston Ingram of Hickory, and Jack Ligon of Shelby, a Shelby High School graduate and Cleveland guards member now on border duty in El Paso.
President Wilson desires to establish more than one nitrate plant under the army reorganization act, proposing $20,000,000 to produce nitrogen from the air for explosives. Feasibility and site surveys by an inter departmental committee will determine how many plants are built and the funds needed.
The census bureau reports that in 1915 births exceeded deaths in 78 percent of the territory containing one third of the population. Foreign born parents had more children than native parents across the area.
A High Point citizen argues the town should secure a $150,000 modern hospital from the Western North Carolina Methodist conference. He cites benefits, site needs, tax exemptions, and a two-year $40,000 payment plan, urging local support and collective effort. The piece frames the hospital as a business move with broad medical staff involvement.
The fourth road institute will be held at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill February 12 to 16. The event advances state road work with lectures from national figures and offers lodging from 50 cents to 1 dollar per day and 20 cent meals at Swain hall.
J R Brooks a High Point machinist reports kidney relief after taking Dean's Kidney Pills. The ad urges readers to use the Buffalo produced remedy, sold at all dealers, and warns against trying other liniments and plasters. Foster Milburn Co is listed as the owner.
Roy Oakes a negro from this county is bound over to Superior court on forgery charges. He obtained a mortgage for 100 dollars by posing as Will Burke to buy a horse, a document signed with Burke’s name. He also forged Manuel Zimmerman of Welcome as a subscribing witness. Burke had not bought the horse. Oakes is his brother in law.
Hans Hansen of St. Paul led the amateurs with two perfect jumps the longest 145 feet Ragnar Omtvedt of Chicago held the world record 192 feet 9 inches and made the day's longest perfect jump 156 feet at the Norge Ski Club annual tournament.
Ad claims Adler-i-ka with buckthorn bark and glycerine gives instant action on both lower and upper bowels. One spoonful relieves constipation sour stomach or gas and may relieve appendicitis. Short treatment also helps chronic stomach trouble, per The Matton Drug Co.
On December 29 1916 B H Bradner purchased B R Powells interest in the concern of Bradner and company and all owning this concern will please come as soon as possible and settle their accounts so the purchaser can pay all bills owed by the old company. Signed.
Mrs J B Whittaker of McDuff Virginia says her family avoids serious sickness after using Thedford s Black Draught for years. She notes it aids digestion relieves indigestion colic wind nausea and headache and remains a staple in their home. The remedy is a purely vegetable product used for weak stomachs and general stomach troubles and has sold for over 70 years to more than a million people. Your druggist sells it for 25 cents per package. N C 123
Greensboro January 24 Charles Thompson a 25 year old negro hallboy at the Guilford hotel was killed by the service elevator in the rear shaft. He fell the full shaft depth while attempting to lower a basket from the third floor and likely died before the fall. He lived on Holly street and was unmarried. He had recently joined the hotel staff and was performing regular duties on the third floor.
The Home Banking company on North Main street has installed an attractive electric flashing window sign in its bank building drawing attention to its services and offerings.
Interurban Motor Lines announces routes between High Point Greensboro and Winston. Departure times from High Point are at 2 30 p m 8 30 a m and 11 a m with arrivals at Elwood and Guilford Hotels. Look for the Red Star on the windshield as the trade mark.
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