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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1917
Page
5
The text mixes a political poem by Katrina Trask with a wedding anniversary notice. It notes a fifteenth wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Murphy at their Greensboro home on Church Street and their plan to move to High Point after a reception.
Miss Ruby L. Venable of Virginia, who has served with the Red Cross at Fort Sam Houston Texas, arrived Saturday night to stay with Mrs W S ONeal on Maple Street. After a vacation with relatives she plans to sail for France to resume duties with an American hospital unit.
Miss Georgia Freeman, recent High Point hospital graduate, will sail for France in early September as a member of the Virginia Red Cross hospital unit. She remains in the city until September continuing her nursing work and is expected to be the youngest Virginia unit member to sail for Europe.
Miss Maude Idol Miss Cecil Holt Miss Jet Moorefield and Miss Essie Mae Houchine left for Salisbury to attend the rehearsal evening ahead of the Kluttz Sills wedding to be held tomorrow night.
The High Point Child Conservation league will not meet with Mrs. W. F. Norman this week. The meeting has been postponed until next Tuesday.
Harry FE Barlow secretary of the Wilson chamber of commerce passed through the city en route to Salisbury for business and will attend the state commercial secretaries meeting tomorrow. Miss Helen Fisher of Statesville visits the city with Miss Elizabeth Harris. W Brooks Marsh of Greensboro and Judge Spencer B Adams of Greensboro were business visitors yesterday. Miss Lena Wilkerson and Miss Pearl Bennett with Miss Lucille Bennett visited friends in the city. Mrs J D Suttonfield visits Charlotte. Mrs C T Lipscomb of Greensboro is mentioned.
Mrs William Armstrong returned to the city this morning after a two week visit to relatives on Long Island New York. S B Felker went to Salisbury this afternoon to attend the Kluttz Sills wedding to be solemnized tomorrow evening. Frank Sherrod, who underwent an operation at the local hospital, is doing very nicely. Thomas R Foust of Greensboro county superintendent of education was a business visitor to the city this morning.
In Cork on June 25 a violent confrontation between Sinn Feiners and police left one man dead and scores injured. Rioters attacked the jail to free prisoners and attacked recruiting quarters in the town center. Clergy urged restraint before police with carbines bayonets and revolvers moved in. Soldiers joined the response, machine guns were deployed, and patrols kept order into the morning.
Samuel V. Perrott the Indianapolis police chief and five others were found guilty by a U S district court jury of conspiracy to commit election frauds connected to the 1914 registration and election. Roy A. Pope police captain Wayland Sandis Morton C Hulse police sergeant Lee Stringer city detective and Herman F Adam city inspector of weights and measures were also convicted. A seventh defendant Frank M Johnson was acquitted.
Fayetteville on June 26 Hon. B. R. Lacy state treasurer spoke at the annual union services of ten Sunday schools at First Presbyterian Church. The rally featured a singing contest won by Campbellton. Tolar-Hart won for catechism recitations relative to membership, and Mile Branch took the attendance prize.
Washington reports a flood of applications for the second series of officers training camps beginning in August. Officials expect total applicants to exceed the 16 000 admitted, and fitness alone will determine acceptance and later commissioning.
United States Marshal Thomas G. Burch sent notices to local officials to arrest all men of eligible age who failed to register on June. No arrests have been made in Danville yet, and a list of names given to officials has produced no action.
A Houston company paid $925 for the first bale of 1917 cotton on the Houston market. The 412 pound bale, grown by Dr. W. P. Webb of Lyford, sold about $2 above the market price, marking Lyford's fifth straight year producing the first bale.
The comptroller of the currency issued a call for the condition of all national banks at the close of business Wednesday June 20. The note also mentions Greece’s area, roughly equal to West Virginia, and cites that a captain’s pay in the War of 1812 was one hundred dollars monthly.
Read The Enterprise for Dollar Day bargains and specials. Watch the Enterprise for upcoming Dollar Day events and promotions.
The Junior Order United American Mechanics plans a special sermon at the South Main Street Methodist Episcopal church next Sunday. Rev. H. H. Robbins will preach, and all city juniors are urged to attend as the lodge, a strong local fraternal group, expects a crowded church.
Washington reports a strong national response to the regular army recruiting week appeal. Officials foresee a recruiting boom as newspapers and civic groups spread the call, stressing that enlisting now offers early overseas service and assignment under experienced officers with equipment secured before wartime demand.
In Greensboro on June 26 a consent judgment for 9250 was entered in a Guilford superior court suit over the death of Samuel Shropshire by drowning at a Southern Power Company pond in High Point. The case began with a 25000 claim by Mary J. Gurley as administrator for Shropshire.
Ad promotes Q-Ban hair color restoration claiming gray hair banishment with a money back guarantee. Highlights Hart Drug Co. as seller and Hessig-Ellis Co. Memphis as direct supplier. Also mentions related products Q-Ban Tonic Shampoo Soap and Depilatory.
The National Emergency Food Garden commission urges housewives to begin food canning. Sterilization is presented as cheaper and easier than traditional methods, with future bulletins to show home sterilization directions.
A reader is urged to try a suggested remedy for dandruff itching scalp and hair loss. The note presents a call to action for individuals facing these scalp issues.
Mrs Pearl Patrick of Meadowsville Kentucky writes of relief from constipation sour stomach and discomfort after doctors pills worsened digestion she found Black Draught to be a gentle reliable laxative improving digestion and bowels with no after effects The product has long been valued for stomach liver and bowel troubles NC 135
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