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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1920
Page
11
A verse by Thomas Hood describes playful social calls about Matilda’s marriage and hosting guests. The speaker wishes for longer visits, noting the carriage, brandy, and future dinners with neighbors the Skinners.
Dr Dred Peacock visited Greensboro yesterday and Mrs Oscar Kearns arrived for a Greensboro visit. Several businessmen from Atlanta Raleigh Roanoke and Charlotte stop by High Point for meetings. Al Moffitt recovers at home then resumes outings, while E J Stafford mayor of Greensboro and J W Long visit High Point on business. Mrs C W Gaddy and daughter visit from Albemarle as Mrs Loflin returns from New York with spring stock purchases.
The Entre Nous club resumed social activities after a sunny day with a meeting at Mrs. A. E. Tate's home on West Broad street. Members, including Mrs. Harry Raymond Mrs. Gurney Kearns Mrs. Fred Tate and others, attended a business session followed by rock games and dainty refreshments.
Miss Susanna Cocroft, famed health advocate, closes a Raleigh lecture series on Why and How to Stand Correctly tonight and outlines plans for a southeastern women’s training camp in Asheville. Attendees include many state club women and former war workers drawn to her message of self mastery and women’s place in the new America.
The president of the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union asks High Point to send delegates to the regional W C T U conference in Macon Georgia on February 4 and 5. Five states will be represented and Mrs Sarah Hoge of Virginia will lead as assistant national secretary. Delegation from High Point not yet decided but North Carolina will be well represented.
In view of a possible influenza epidemic the health department of the Woman's club asks all persons willing to volunteer as nurses to assist in a diet kitchen or provide needed service in emergencies to telephone their name and address to the Home Service office at 580.
Friends announce Mrs. C. A. York is ill and confined to her home at 3035 Church Street. The notice provides no further medical details or duration of illness.
Announcement of the Greensboro Woman's and Reviewer's club meeting at 3 pm in the O'Henry with the High Point Woman's Club literary department as guest. The sessions, held on the last Saturday each month, discuss modern literature. Dr H M Dargon of UNC English department will speak on The Contemporary Novel.
Sorosis club members will meet tomorrow at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. EB T Harmon on South Main street to hold their gathering.
In Chicago on January 30, every seventh and eighth grade pupil is ordered to memorize the American creed. The Illinois Society of the Sons of the American Revolution will supply copies to all public school students. The creed declares belief in a government of the people and duties to country. Experts note irrigation could boost Mesopotamian cotton yields.
The Civics-Health department discussed district nurse funding and city beautification plans with a committee to report next February. Volunteers for influenza era nursing were named, and a charity fund for local families was organized. The Social Service group reviewed magazine committee progress and planned a talk by Hugh Magill on the Smith-Towner bill at the Commercial club next Friday.
In Tallulah Louisiana a dissenting juror was publicly whipped and dipped in mud after a murder verdict in the Alvin Calhoun case. Calhoun confessed to fatally striking N H Arnold during a cow milking dispute and robbing him of under $100, Arnold had been a migrant farmer from Danville Kentucky.
Clover seed brought 37 dollars per bushel at Roanoke Virginia today an increase of 12 dollars from last year with predictions of further gains. In Persia the marriage of first cousins is noted as the favored union.
Chicago window washers walk off jobs demanding 45 dollars a week for experienced workers on extension ladders and 44 dollars a week for apprentices. They seek pay for hours per week regardless of work performed.
New York reports Rich mond Levering, wealthy oil operator, died from influenza. His death also deprived his estate of seven hundred thousand dollars in life insurance as premiums had not been paid before he fell ill.
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