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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1917
Page
2
London reports a shift in wartime fashion as women increasingly accept standard uniforms and dress codes. From housemaids with caps to bank workers in overalls and Red Cross volunteers in khaki, experts note uniforms gain dignity and may reshape dressmaking as an art. The vogue favors khaki, blue gray, and hints of crimson reflecting allied military attire.
A toddler Leo Jaksins eighteen months old of 502 Eleventh Avenue wandered onto railroad tracks in front of a New York Central locomotive on June 28. The engineer braked hard and the train halted after about 100 feet. Passersby and crew freed the child, who lay unharmed aside from a dress fold around the cow catcher. Dr Olcott of New York Hospital said the baby was not bruised.
C J Posey of Hendersonville drowned while bathing in a Salisbury reservoir late yesterday. The incident is the sole local tragedy among a day of varied state news across North Carolina with other items on bridges, enlistments, a cheese factory, and civic efforts.
Justice Ford of the Supreme Court refused to sanction the name change for George Louis Greenhouse to George Louis Woods. The court argued Greenhouse is a fine name, American or European, and that the Woods family has a right to object to his masquerading as a member of their lineage.
Representatives of national and state war relief societies and patriotic organizations met in New York in response to Mrs. William G. Brown's call. The conference aimed to foster closer cooperation among groups and prevent overlapping activities of their war relief efforts.
The Friday Enterprise lists special Dollar Day prices across local stores and vendors. Shoppers can expect discounted rates on household goods apparel and groceries while supplies last.
The piece argues only a few states grant tenants sunlight and air through housing laws and defend that those laws exist to curb slums and ensure sanitary construction. It contends all states should forbid housing families in unfit, unsafe places and protect homes from disease during a time when life is precious.
Visalia recruits are transported to the Presidio in eight and a half hours over 230 miles by Dodge Brothers cars. The venture shows motorized troop movement is feasible with sufficient vehicles, despite rain and five tire punctures.
Alexander Berman the anarchist, still on crutches, was released from the Tombs on a $24,000 cash bail. A $4,000 cash bond was posted for William Bales, office boy at Mother Earth and The Blast, under indictment for failing to register.
Mrs Ida Berged of 7 East 117th street asks New York readers to help find her 15 year old daughter Lillie Berged who disappeared after leaving for work at the Grant five and ten cent store on West Idth street. She was last seen wearing a black straw hat with a yellow ribbon a checked suit a white middy blouse and gray lace shoes. The disappearance was reported to the Missing Girls bureau police and newspapers.
William Kennelly a New York real estate broker challenged alimony by claiming National Guard orders for federal service on July 7. Justice Ford ordered Kennelly to pay his wife $200 in costs and $7 weekly alimony while Kennelly sues for absolute divorce alleging undue friendship with Alfred H. Fuller of Hampton Connecticut. she denies.
Manager McIntyre announces presentation of The Heart of Texas Ryan a Selig Red Seal drama through K E S FE service featuring George Fawcett Frank Champeau Bessie Eyton and Tom Mix The film includes forest fire poker room ride cattle rustlers bulldogging and a rescue set in Texas with Lone Star scenery.
Owing to the pravosition Pont Lodge No. 1155s night at 7 30 instead of 8 a full attendance is desired. R H Sechrest, FE.
Several hundred college men gathered at Washington University in St. Louis for the opening of the annual grand chapter meeting of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. The fraternity traces to Miami University in 1855 and now lists 15,000 members with 68 active chapters. Notable members include Brand Whitlock Booth Tarkington and George Ade.
Roanoke Virginia donors increased the Red Cross fund contribution from 105 654 to 108 619 yesterday. Officials expect the final total to exceed 116 000 as the allotment stands at 50 000.
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