Comfort Bags Needed for Asheville Field Hospital Corps
A poem ends with a call for care and remembrance as Martha Lang notes, then Miss Clara I Cox reports 17 boys left for Asheville with field hospital corps. The Red Cross seeks 156 more comfort bags, urging widespread production and detailing pickup points at Red Cross headquarters and through Mrs. W A Hayes and Miss Dorothy Snow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara I. Cox
Asheville
Field Hospital Corps
Red Cross
W. A. Hayes
Dorothy Snow
Red Cross Benefit at Rose Theater This Afternoon
A Red Cross benefit is planned at the Rose Theater with tickets sold by young women on the streets or in booths. Proceeds will fund Red Cross work and all who can should buy a ticket to support the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Rose Theater
Local Residents Attend Events and Visits Around Town
Mrs J R Young travels to Cord to attend the state convention of the Woman’s Missionary Society. Mrs Armfield and two children visit from Monroe with her father on West Broad Street. Vallie Armstrong of Winston Salem stays several days in the city. Genevieve Moore travels to Greensboro for a State Normal and Industrial College concert. Edwin B Jeffress of Greensboro visits for business. Horace Sisson attends a patriotic farewell dance in Greensboro. Maude Lyndon of Raleigh arrives to visit Miss Mable Gurley on Maple Street. Vernie Sue Williams of Davenport College visits Miss Gurley. Lottie Denny of Greensboro, visiting Mrs J C Hill, undergoes a medical matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Young
Concord
The
Woman’s Missionary Society of the Reformed Church
Young
First Reformed Church
Genevieve Moore
Greensboro
State Normal and Industrial College
Maude Lyndon
Raleigh
Mable Gurley
Maple Street
Lottie. Denny
J.C. Hill
Greensboro and High Point youths receive Red Cross comfort bags
Seventeen young men from Greensboro and High Point gathered to travel to Asheville and join the field hospital corps were each presented with a comfort bag by the local Red Cross chapter. The gifts, valued for usefulness during service, dispel reports that the bags were unappreciated and plans exist to equip every Company M member with one.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
High Point
Asheville
Field Hospital Corps
Red Cross
Company M
W C T U Meets At Harriss Home On Broad Street
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union held a meeting at Mrs J W Harriss on West Broad Street with 12 members present. President Mrs J Edward Kirkman led devotions and prayer. A report on the annual dues was read and a pledge of $1 per member was urged to fund 400 comfort bags for the North Carolina cruiser. Mrs J A Eshelman spoke on Medical Temperance as refreshments followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
J. W. Harriss
West Broad Street
J. Edward Kirkman
Sylvester Newlin
Goodno
North Carolina
J. A. Eshelman
Harriss
Hospital operation and Greensboro visitors update
A hospital report says she was resting well Monday morning. John D. Waldrop and Leslie Grubbs of Greensboro were in the city for business last evening. Dallas Zollicoffer also of Greensboro, a former High Point resident, is spending the day on business here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Waldrop
Leslie Grubbs
Greensboro
Dallas Zollicoffer
High Point
Shortage Narrows Swedish Life to Substitute Economy Sweetening
In Sweden a liquid substitute named economy sweetening appears as a response to scarce life necessities. Each 120 gram bottle is claimed to equal thirteen pounds of sugar in sweetness, but analysis reveals it contains 0.1 percent crystallose, 12 percent ordinary sugar, and 87.4 percent water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Sweden
Market note on securities values for July by Bankers Magazine
London reports for July the value of 307 representative securities rose by seven million pounds. Gains in foreign government securities bank shares and iron and steel shares offset by declines in British and Indian funds and American gold bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Bankers Magazine
Potatoes Remain Good Winter Crops for Sale
Fall Irish potatoes and sweet potatoes are good crops to keep on hand for sale during the winter season.
Doan's Kidney Pills Backed by Local User
Brooks a machinist from High Point reports relief from kidney trouble after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He praises the remedy for reducing backache and twinges, urging others to try the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doan
Brooks
S. Hamton
High Point
Van
Dean
Mr. Brooks
Foster-Mitvurn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
National Conservatory of Music Aimed For
American musicians and composers meet in New York to push a national conservatory. Reginald de Koven chairs the executive committee to nominate a national committee and oversee the institution’s creation with noted figures including Horatio Parker, George W. Chadwick, Henry Hadley, David Bispham, and Frank Damrosch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cians
Reginald de Koven
National Conservatory of Music
Horatio Parker
Yale University
George W. Chadwick
Henry Hadley
David Bispham
Clarence Eddy
Albert Spalding
Fan
Southern Harness to Install Gasoline Tank on North Main
The Southern Harness company may install a gasoline tank in front of its business on North Main Street after city council approval last evening. The tank will be installed under specifications from insurance underwriters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Harness Company
North Main Street
The
Con
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Martha Lang
Red Cross Benefi
Frank Armfield
Monroe
W. d Armfield
Miss Vallie Armstrong
Winston- Salem
City
Parker R. Anderson
Washington
Edwin B. Jeffress
Horace Sisson
Colors
Vernie Sue Williams
Davenport College
Leonir
Fisk
Fugi
Fisk Rubber Company of
N. Y
Chicopee Falls
Mass
Trip
Enterprise
I Company
Securities Advance
New York
Nie Bloomfield-Zeisler
Ernest Schelling
Frank Damrosch
Pierre V. R. Key
Saath Li. Sutro
Detroit
North Carolina Public Service Company
Adg
Allens
Bank OF Commerce
H. A. Millis
O. E. Kearns
J. H. Adams
4. M. Rankin
G. A. Pollock
Asst
Cery
Christo-Cola
Christo-Cola Bottling Works
High Point, N. C
Matton’s
Matton’s—-Drug Store
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