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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1917
Page
5
Poem praising the Great Eternal Painter for winter and spring imagery. It reflects on love, beauty, endurance, and resurrection, ending with a dedication to the painter and the promise of dawn. The text names Mrs Jane Moore Norment as author.
Monday 3 30 Y W M S Wesley Memorial church Mrs T D Gilliam Tuesday 3 30 Literature Department Womens Club Mrs H A White Wednesday 3 30 Civic Department Womans club Elks Home This calendar lists meetings for a week at community groups including church, literary, and civic clubs with host members.
Mrs Idol entertained Gamma Zeta at her North Main street home with three bridge tables. Mrs T D Gilliam had the high score and received a book of Irish toasts while Mrs W C Jones won the visitors prize a book of Irish poems. St Patrick theme appeared in refreshments and cards with sister Miss Helen Wilson assisting.
Mrs A Sherrod hosted the Sorosis club at her North Main Street residence with jonquils and ferns as decor. Six tables played contract rock while a buffet luncheon was served by the hostess assisted by several guests, including Annie Leslie Richardson of Georgia and numerous local members. The note mentions a member fully recovered from pneumonia and back at work.
Under Mrs. Susan B. Stedman's direction a chorus of 30 will perform The Holy City at the school auditorium on Wednesday night March 14 at 8 o clock. Soloists include Mrs Grace Kephart and Miss Vera Idol with pianists organists and violinists providing accompaniment. The work by Alfred R Gaul is hailed as a high class cantata.
Last night the First Presbyterian church officers hosted a banquet for minister Rev C P Cobb, church gentlemen and friends. Sixty covers were laid with Carter Dalton as toastmaster and several impromptu toasts, creating a evening of fellowship and enjoyment.
Miss Lillian Shipman of Salem Virginia leaves Tampa after a brief call on Gatewood avenue with Mr. and Mrs. E M Shipman before continuing to her home.
Mr and Mrs J L Fletcher of Winston Salem arrive tonight as weekend guests for Mr and Mrs J G Lambert at their Church Street home.
Miss Hazel Briggs spent the day in Greensboro as a guest of local friends, enjoying the hospitality and sightseeing with no notable incidents reported.
Mrs J D Mann and daughter Miss Frances visited Greensboro today. Miss Kathryn Tate also visited Greensboro. Mrs J M Batte, traveling from Alabama to Salem Virginia, left this morning after staying with her brother E M Shipman on Gatewood Avenue. Mrs J Jonathan Jackson has recovered enough to be downtown after an appendicitis operation at the city hospital.
The note from LaPorte Indiana describes Master Charles Kern son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Hurley living at 1026 Madison St. as guided by a blue jar “Bodyguard” named Vick’s VapoRub Salve. It claims external application plus warm flannel provides quick relief from croup colds sore throat and bronchitis with family testimonials of relief and prior own use for pleurisy.
Miss Cecil Holt left today for Golds ton to be the guest of relatives for the weekend.
Bruce Carraway arrived from Wake Forest to spend the weekend with his wife who is the guest of her mother Mrs. J. A. Lindsay on North Main Street.
Miss Susie Dick of Sumter South Carolina arrived yesterday while returning from Washington where she attended the inauguration and will stay with Mrs. A S Caldwell on Parkway for the weekend.
Miss Nell B. Johnston of Salisbury North Carolina is spending the weekend with her sister Mrs J Wesley Smith on Steele street Description notes a family visit and residence in Salisbury and Steele street location.
Mr. Fred Houchins of Philadelphia stays a few days with his sister Miss Essie Mae Houchins. Before returning home he plans to visit points of interest in Florida.
Mrs. R. M. Raney of Stanford Kentucky reports her child suffered recurring croup. After starting Foley's Honey and Tar the child slept that night without coughing and the cold vanished by the next day. The remedy relieves coughs and colds with no opiates, sold by Mann Drug Co.
Mrs James Mellichampe entertained the Priscilla club at her mother Mrs F M Pickett’s North Main street home yesterday afternoon. After needlework, hostess with Mrs Robert Walker and Mrs H D Sears served a tempting collation to guests Mrs C A Ring Mrs M C Crowson Arthur Marsh S B Coe and Vernon Idol.
Mrs. John M. Cook of Concord arrives to attend and will speak tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock to the Woman's Missionary Society of the Lutheran church. She will be the guest of Mrs. E. W. Freeze on Lindsay street.
The Young Womans Missionary Society will meet at 3 30 Monday afternoon with Mrs T D Gilliam for the last meeting of the quarter. Full attendance is desired.
Mrs J B Whittaker recalls years of sickness until using Thedford s Black Draught a vegetable remedy she keeps on hand for her family It is claimed to regulate weak stomachs aid digestion relieve indigestion and stomach discomfort The product has sold for over 70 years and allegedly benefited more than a million people
Miss Billie Hiatt joins the Measley club alongside Masters William and Harry White Cobb as the latest additions to the group.
Friends report Mrs P B Rogers is convalescent and able to be up and walking yesterday afternoon. Joel Blair has been called to Philadelphia because of his brother in law I H Webster’s death. Friends of E M Shipman will be
A scanned schedule lists Southern Railway departure and arrival times with several odd notations. It mentions trains to and from High Point, varying times such as 1:22 a and 8:06 a, plus 12-29 and 4:12 a entries. It includes lines about No. 16 and No. 148 departures and Sunday-only services, with references to multiple trains arriving High Point at 7:05 a and 13:20 p. The page ends with a call to cut this out for value.
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