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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1918
Page
3
The complete stock of the C. B. Mattocks Company is offered at slaughtering prices with thousands of dollars of regular stock. Buy here this week and save money. Prices cut to the core on all merchandise.
Rev. James A. Clarke delivered the annual Odd Fellows sermon at First Baptist Church to a gathered lodge. He cited First Samuel and 1 Corinthians, urging members to live Christian friendship, love, and truth while honoring the church as Christ’s institution. He noted two Repiton lodge members had died since last year.
Thomas J. Shelley, a real estate broker, fatally shot his six year old daughter Grace and four year old son Thomas Jr. He then wounded his youngest daughter Dora, 12 months, before shooting himself in the right temple. He and the surviving child were taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Mrs Effie FE Klepe of Averill Michigan writes of severe rheumatism and kidney trouble lasting weeks. After using Foley Kidney Pills she reports immediate relief and continues using the remedy to maintain comfort, noting a half bottle completed the cure. Mann Drug Co.
In Chico California on June 24 M D Lyons a draft selectee barred from returning to France attacked four men making pro German remarks. He fought off two reserves and continued against a fifth until police intervened. The German named Britton was jailed 90 days. Lyons was commended by the court for his actions.
Washington reports new sugar limits with a three pounds per person per month cap for home use. Nonessential manufactured goods face 50 percent sugar cut, and ice cream makers must reduce to 75 percent. Officials draft ration card to enforce the three pound monthly rule.
Washington reports the ninth brood of the 17 year locusts is due this summer in West Virginia Virginia and North Carolina. Next year the tenth brood is forecast to reach the Ohio valley and Allegheny region from Alabama and Georgia north to New York and New England.
Winston-Salem reports counties statewide express enthusiasm for the war savings drive. Buncombe Scotland Cherokee Wayne Warren New Hanover Durham Mecklenburg Wilson Cleveland Swain Pasquotank Ashe Granville Forsyth Madison Northampton and Buncombe rally to over subscribe the government loan, with Buncombe County pledging to exceed prior totals.
Rev. C. P. Coride of the First Presbyterian Church preached on Philippians 3:8, stressing that the peace of God is the world’s greatest treasure gained through trust and obedience to Jesus Christ. He outlined four reasons to win Christ, including righteousness, divine grace, Christ’s rest, and peace. He contrasted worldly riches with spiritual riches and urged support for war savings stamps.
Major Theodore Roosevelt eldest son of Col Theodore Roosevelt is cited in U S Army orders for valor in the Cantigny operations on May 27. He served with distinction in France as part of the American Army during World War I.
The ad urges replacing heavy carpets with cool mattings and using light chairs and rockers to stay comfortable in summer. It promotes furniture draperies and floor coverings suited to hot weather.
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