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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1918
Page
5
Yesterday he served as superintendent of the old soldiers' home. Mrs. C D Gilliam and her young daughter visit Mrs. H Gilliam in Greensboro. Miss Clarice Newlin returns from visits to Atlanta and Columbia and meets Dr. F R Taylor and Dr. Thomas Newlin in YMCA work.
Local residents undertake trips and attend weddings and social events. The Harrisses depart for New York and the East for about three weeks. Several couples and individuals journey to Kernersville, Kernersville weddings are noted, and others visit relatives in Charlotte, Greensboro, and Jamestown.
Thomasville notes list visits from Snow Hill High Point Winston-Salem Salisbury and Burlington residents plus trips to Wingate Junaluska and New Orleans. Also reports two men struck and killed by a train at Mas cot on the Southern railway crossing in Knoxville Tennessee.
The railroads face unprecedented demand as tonnage doubles, prompting loading at or beyond capacity. Powerful locomotives, thousands of new freight cars, and stricter packing and marking requirements aim to keep freight moving safely, with shipments in full car lots and reinforced containers.
About 300 people gathered at the royal passenger station last night to create a large improvised canteen for soldiers passing through the city. Shoppers carried cats, smokes and similar items, reflecting items soldiers crave to write home about from fronts and camps. Canteens, organized nationwide, support troops in trenches and camps under YMCA management, with Red Cross branches and citizen groups also contributing.
Sheriff Wagner took Birch Hayes to Trinity for trial before the town justice. Birch, driven by hunger, took two bushels of corn and five cents from a thrifty citizen and was recaptured. He may be forced to repair highways so locals can travel to market in all weather.
The North Carolina Department of Agriculture announces two farmers' institutes in Guilford County. The first will be at McLeansville on July 25 and the second at Jamestown on August 1. Sessions emphasize food and feed crops soil fertility and livestock with women’s meetings focusing on conservation canning war-time recipes and women’s contributions to the war effort.
Mrs. John Griffin of Roslyn Long Island died Monday at 1 AM after a brief illness. She was mother of Mrs. William Armstrong in charge of the Gould estate near the city. Armstrong hurried to Roslyn but did not reach in time. Funeral details and other survivors not provided in telegram.
Fifteen operators of dumpers car riders and mechanics at Sewell's Point Virginian railroad piers walked out last night tying up the coal piers. The night shift operates the dumping apparatus and is highly skilled. Officials fear day shift may join the walkout.
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