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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1917
Page
5
The Enterprise will close at noon for an early edition. Readers are urged to phone social items to the office before then and cooperate by informing the paper of any social happenings for this page.
Red Cross officials in High Point appeal to local women to volunteer weekly sewing of hospital bed jackets for soldiers in France. They urge donating linen for bandages and dressings, stressing urgency and patriotic duty, with three women already reporting for duty this morning.
Wednesday night a group of youths rode to Gould lodge for a farm party. They sang with ukuleles and guitars, shared a supper, punch, cake and salads, and danced on the porch. Guests included Mary Sher rod Adeline Coleman Dorothy Snow Nellie Muse Thelma Wineskie Nell Hyde Ethel Thompson Louise Ingram Annie Foushee Catherine Stoffer Dorothy Henley Virginie Henley Banks Bencini Roland Holton Andrew Lindsay Dave Stanton George Lowe Tom Dupree Everett Marsh John Rochelle Rodney Snow Frank Henley Horace Sisson Lawrence Ingram and Greensboro couples Mr Boren Kirk Dillon and Mr and Mrs John R Peacock and Mrs Thomas J Gold.
Cleaning out all lawn neckwear with a center table display. Dainty collars in the lot priced at 25 cents each, with other collars previously selling at 50 cents each.
A local store announces a clearance sale on all waists remaining in stock. All items are new styles despite some handling, with prices set at 75 cents each for Saturday clearance.
Clean up sale announced with drastic price cuts on brassieres 50c to 1.50, white skirts 24 to 30 inches at 75c, plus two lots of silks and crepe de chine yardage offered at deep discounts. See store for sizes and availability.
About two hundred fifty yards of fancy Voiles and five pieces of white ground Voiles with self stripe and floral patterns. Sold all season at 25 cents per yard. Saturday they will be cleared out at 12 4 cents a yard.
Plain white Voile costs 35c with 25c, 40c and 45c fancy striped Voile also priced at 25c.
Local campfire groups unite to raise funds and earn money for expenses while aiming to join the High Point Red Cross chapter. Those presenting with tags tomorrow will have contributed to both the campfire girls and Red Cross society.
The chairman of the membership committee asks local business leaders to inform employers that Red Cross buttons are being ordered and will be supplied at a nominal cost to each new member in the city chapter.
The Friday Night Bridge club moves its benefit at the Elks home from Monday to Tuesday due to conflicts with social events. Proceeds will go to the local Red Cross chapter.
M. J. Wrenn hosted a small gathering at Hayworth Mineral Springs for a fried chicken dinner. Attendees included Miss Ludie Clinard, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Rawley, Mrs. Frank H. Ford, Miss Kirkman, and the host.
The Enterprise notes an omission by chapter officials who compiled the member list. Three members were inadvertently left out: H. C. Lewis, Mrs. J. D. Mann, and Mrs. J. T. Burrus.
The Young People's Missionary Society of Wesley Memorial Methodist Church will meet tomorrow Saturday at 3 30 in the ladies parlor. Attendance of all members is desired.
Miss Virginia Winstead of Mullin is visiting her aunt Mrs. Gilbert Park. She recently concluded a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Gold in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Mrs. M. A. Tate marked her eighty seventh birthday on Wednesday and reports she is enjoying good health.
A. A. Holton will relocate from 115 Steele Street to 121 Steele Street, changing location in the Steele Street area.
V A Idol, cashier of Commercial National bank, at Moore's springs for a few days. Miss Fileen Parnell and Mrs. R F Johnson attend the summer wheel at the State Normal and Industrial College in Greensboro. Mr and Mrs A Harriss and Rev A R Gallimore of Lexington were guests yesterday of Mr and Mrs John Holmes on Lindsay street. EF Jones of Greensboro was a business visitor yesterday afternoon. City Manager Thomas J Murphy also visited Greensboro briefly. Thomas H Tate returned after visiting his mother in Greensboro. A Sherrod goes to Detroit and Grand Rapids for about 10 days. Rev J E Thompson, visiting, returns to Winston with granddaughter Mary Francis Kearns. Cuba L Chernault visits city en route home from Indiana. L C Sinclair reports Elks convention in Boston was a big affair. Arthur Oliver spent last evening in Winston-Salem on business and returned this morning. Miss Lula Harris of Trinity is guest of Mr and Mrs R B Terry in Roland Park.
A continuation lists 381 new Red Cross members in High Point led by Lillian Massey and many residents including Mrs. H A Millis Mrs. O FE Mendenhall J W Martin and E P Parker. The roll names dozens of volunteers and contributors from local families and businesses.
A long list of individuals and families appears, labeled as Colored List, including Parker, Mrs, Reed, Rowe, Smith, and many others. The piece reads as a registry of residents or social connections with numerous surnames and titles, grouped by family lines and such identifiers.
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