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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1917
Page
5
A fragment from a patriotic poem by Salisbury Field is followed by a local notice about Red Cross headquarters on North Main Street with contact number 726 and hours from 1 a.m. to 6 p.m. It states a knitting class first lesson will occur Friday morning from dawn to noon.
The local Red Cross chapter lists committees and members to engage the city in its work. Purchasing, Cutting, Inspection and packing, Comfort bags, Knitting, House, Education, Membership, Special campaign, Publicity, Finance, Red Cross benefits, Extension committees include representatives like Mrs J Elwood Cox Miss Fiffie Cox Mrs W Chase Idol Rev J A Clark Dr S B Coe and many others.
Women from the city will hear Alice H. Woods executive secretary of the national defense council speak at 11 30 AM in the Normal College auditorium. Dr Frederick L Paxson will give the evening patriotic address at 8 30 PM. College plans a public program and a hospital sock drive for soldiers.
The Red Cross chapter appeals to city women to assist in making hospital supplies. The text urges volunteers to contact the chapter for enrollment and assignment details.
The evening circle of the Young Women's Missionary Society will meet this evening at o clock with Mrs J Sheloff at 601 Wing Street. Attendance of all members is desired.
Miss Vera Henderson of Burlington stays in the city with her sister Mrs R D Penny. Miss Lottie Hobbs also visits Mrs Penny. Several locals, including W P Ragan and J Elwood Cox, spend time in Greensboro on business or with friends. Mr and Mrs Thomas J Murphy and Mr and Mrs Homer Wheeler recently return from trips to Mount Airy, White Sulphur Springs, while Mrs J W Welborn heads to Lynchburg.
Witness recalls seeing the Hohenzollern on a Newcastle bound voyage when a sudden North Atlantic storm struck drove the royal yacht and convoy from sight. The Kaiser appeared on deck in uniform before the weather obscured them, prompting reflections on future tensions and Hohenzollernism.
An American observer recalls encounters with Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1910 Bergen and Koenigsberg. He notes the Kaiser's autocratic stance, a controversial quote, and reactions in Hamburg and Frankfurt amid looming tensions and later historical judgments.
American Pipe company proposes selling the People’s Water plant to Millville city in two options priced at 125000 to 150000 dollars. Millville Water owner Walter Wood plans to visit next week to discuss terms while rival concern has not named a price. Wood previously hinted he would will the plant to the city upon death, as the city seeks to end the water war amid consumer worries over half-rate water.
Glassboro New Jersey July 3 Peach packing schools open for the first time teaching green hands how to pack fruit scientifically under the New Jersey State Agricultural Station. Similar schools planned in fruit growing areas with Gloucester Cumberland and Burlington counties scheduling tuition and hands on practice to meet a large peach crop and labor shortages.
In Uniontown Pennsylvania creditors meeting over J. W. Thompson coal holdings in Pennsylvania and West Virginia failed to reach agreement. A proposed sale valued at 12 million dollars for five million faced added pressure from some creditors seeking formal bankruptcy proceedings.
The government announces removal of import duties on automobiles wagons and farm machinery from today through December 31. The notice urges buyers to pay up for credit and mentions Bradner & 4t 20 percent discount on dry goods at Hobl store.
Mrs Kat of Rossville Georgia recalls her engineer who suffered severe swelling after a work injury. He weighed 165 pounds then dropped to 110 and endured extreme pain. After using castor oil and strong medicines he finally found relief and recovered with Thedford's Black-Draught.
Buenos Aires reports the government has proposed a Bank of the Republic with 20 million piasters gold capital. A second bill seeks an external loan of 500 million piasters at six percent and an internal loan of 500 million piasters at four percent.
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