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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1918
Page
5
Sunday school groups from East Green Baptist are to be entertained at the home of Mrs Charles Ellington on East Russell and Tate streets Wednesday at 3 45 PM. The notice lists several local and visiting residents in the city on various social and business trips.
Regular Eastern Star meeting set for 8 o clock with important business. AW members urged to attend. Mrs G C Kester W M and Mrs Edgar Whit ner secretary preside. Miss Margaret Wise of Charlotte visits Miss Mildred Mc Intire. Capt A A Mendez returns to Spartanburg after furlough with Mrs W G Brashaw and Mrs Mendez plans to join in New York for eye treatment. Miss Margaret Edmondson of Goldsboro visits Miss Vera Wing.
Local people and visitors frequent the city, with Candor residents Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Caffney and several families from Charlotte and Greensboro stopping briefly. Notables include Robert R. King Jr of Greensboro visiting on business and W. S. Harville, now in the Marines, overseas. Lane Sechrest is seriously ill at his Washington street home.
Private reports of showers in central and eastern Texas sent cotton prices down 15 to 32 points at the opening. July futures slid to 28.55, October 25.60 to 25.40, December 24.83 to 24.75, with October and December posting declines as July suffered liquidation.
A British aviator forced to land ten miles within Turkish territory due to engine trouble taxied back to British lines over desert terrain. He crossed a Turkish encampment, damaged a clothes line and several shirts with his undercarriage, and repelled attacks from Turkish detachments and German planes with his gun.
Lawrence Ingram Banks Bencini and Dillard Ragan are set to depart Wednesday for Plattsburg New York to begin military training at the Plattsburg Training Camp. They have passed examinations for the appointment at the University of North Carolina and received notification today.
A London report notes improving Allied progress but cautions slower advances due to strong German infantry and artillery. French forces reportedly gained a mile along four miles of front this morning, while Germans reinforce between the Oureq and Aisne rivers and shift guns to stiffen defense.
The contract to build a $1,000,000 cantonment at Camp Zachary Taylor near Louisville has been awarded and work starts immediately. The layout will concentrate 53,000 artillerymen and make West Point range the largest artillery firing center in the United States. Army officers say two camps near Louisville will house about 100,000 artillerymen.
In a letter to Charles Vrank manager of the Atlanta team now YMCA physical director at Camp Gordon Frank Manush former New Orleans and Atlanta third baseman and manager of various class C and PD teams says he is anxious to sign as a YMCA physical director.
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