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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1920
Page
5
Rain snow mud and sleet are described as enemies of society with clubs and social events postponed. The Children of the Confederacy Tar Heel chapter led by Mrs Wishart planned gatherings canceled by weather and postponed indefinitely with date to be announced.
Equal Suffrage leagues of North Carolina meet in Greensboro today and tomorrow causing the Civic and Health and Social Service department meetings of the Woman's club to be postponed. The Civic and Health session will convene at Miss Clara Cox's home on East Green Street at 3:00 PM Thursday, followed by Social Service at 2:45 PM, same location. Full attendance is requested for these important discussions and nonmembers are invited to join.
The Centre-Nous club will meet Thursday at 3 PM at the home of Mrs. A. E. Tate on Broad Street.
The fifth annual North Carolina Equal Suffrage association convention opens at 3 PM in the Elk's clubrooms Greensboro with Miss Gertrude Weil presiding and delegates from across the state. A memorial service for Dr Anna Howard Shaw is featured and a grand banquet with speakers Mrs Josephus Daniels Miss Marjorie Shuler and Chief Justice Walter Clark follows.
The ministerial association of the city hosts a banquet tonight at 8:30 in the dining room of the Elwood hotel for its members and their wives. Elaborate plans and detailed arrangements promise an elaborate repast and speeches, marking the year’s first social function to foster closer acquaintance among High Point’s ministers and their wives.
Mrs Frank Ford departed High Point Sunday for Philadelphia and New York to buy half of the most exclusive New York lines for a millinery shop to open here. Her return is uncertain but likely weeks away.
Mrs Terry of the University of Oklahoma is briefly ill and taken to a local hospital this morning. Her condition this afternoon is reported improved.
A historical note states that Australia, twenty six times larger than the British Isles, has a population not exceeding that of London. The comparison emphasizes size versus population in a concise geographic fact.
Miss Ida Shrago of Goldsboro visits Miss Ida Harris on North Main Street. Miss Harris returns from Richmond after attending her cousin Rena Shapiro’s wedding to Jack Cohen in Milton Florida. Various visitors include C F Smith Asheboro W H Coffey Statesville and J Cox Greenville SC plus many local hosts and trips.
London reports that the modern girl has won independence, with both daughters and mothers offering mixed views. Fathers and mothers discuss shifting influence as 1920s young women assert autonomy, supported by social figures praising wartime resilience.
Miss Helen Louise Johnson, editor of the General Federation Magazine, urged standardizing women's apparel at Columbia University. She said partial dress reveals none of art or modesty and called for exposing the full limb as more artistic. She argued women dress to outdo each other and that men are not immune to fashion vanity.
The Woman's Guild of St. Mary's Episcopal church held its regular weekly meeting at Mrs. Henri Turner’s home. Attendance was light due to cold. Mrs. H. B. Hint led the session. The treasurer reported encouraging finances and December expenditures, noting the Christmas sale raised substantial proceeds under Mrs. H. B. Hiatt. A spring sale was proposed but not decided. Tea and sewing followed.
A banquet for the men of the congregation will be held Thursday at 7 30 in the Sunday school rooms of the First Presbyterian church Greens boro led by the bible class and church officers. Rev C F Myers pastor will attend with his quartet and deliver brief talks alongside other speakers. Ladies auxiliary will serve refreshments.
Mr and Mrs Clark Mendenhall relatives of Mr and Mrs Walter White of Johnson Street have left High Point to spend the rest of the winter in Florida.
In London on January 27 a surge of orders for gowns to be flown from Paris by air swept West End dress firms. Clients demand speed, with Mille Cleo Deroux noting styles shift daily. Women paying extra to transact directly with Paris houses now rely on aerial delivery to stay current.
London report notes mixed opinions on whether brunettes are smarter than blondes. Charles Garvice says many heroines are dark and faster to grasp but fair girls may keep steadier, longer notes in a long run.
Miss Josephine Bowen appears at the shoe convention in a head to toe brown kid outfit she designed herself. The chestnut shade is touted by manufacturers as a fashionable future footwear color. Her tam echoes the French blue devils style while matching the Norfolk suit and high lace boots.
East End mothers in London react to San Francisco man Hubert Barnett offering to sell his unborn baby. Respondents favor drastic actions like using flatirons against a husband who would sell a child, arguing women would rather fight than part with their babies. Some insist more babies are born in slums despite poverty.
Landowner L A Brown states he has leased his case to Leonard Thacker and Nicholson and will not be responsible for any debts contracted by the case on and after January 20 1920. Public advisory notice dated January 20 1920.
Obie Cincinnati January report notes the rise of prohibition leading tailors to call for smaller pockets. They cite illegality of guns and impracticality of hip pockets for handkerchiefs and flasks, warn wood alcohol used as a substitute.
The highest inhabited place for humans is the Buddhist cloister of Hanle in Tibet where a score of monks reside at an altitude close to sixteen thousand feet.
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