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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1918
Page
5
A wartime poem depicts a booming troop train moving coast to coast with soldiers ready for action. The vivid voice calls for swift passage of troops, eager youths marching toward battle, and hope for safe return as the Kaiser faces Allied pressure and national resolve.
High Point United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter calls all members to a Wednesday meeting at 2?50 at Mrs. Charles Long’s Elm street home to assemble comfort for the Confederate woman’s home in Fayetteville. Local chapters urge bringing squares and report Red Cross weekly work with numerous bed jackets jackets packets and comfort pillows assembled throughout the week.
Lina has begun a second endowment of 600 and outlines plans to raise the funds at a date in the near future.
The group reports completed bed jackets four operating caps and 16 comfort pillows over the past week. New names appear among workers and more may join, with records kept by the chapter. When the organization disbands, all records go to headquarters.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will meet Tuesday afternoon at 3 30 o'clock with Mrs Mollie Lowe 113 West Green Street All members are urged to attend.
The W. O. T. Club plans a gathering with Mrs. W. C. Jones on North Main street Tuesday afternoon at 3 30. Members should bring their knitting.
Miss Leona Wilson arrives for a business college course in the city. Greensboro visitors include Miss Leona Muse Miss Lia Burton Miss Judith Burton and Miss Margaret Rankin while Mrs George Penny and daughter Evelyn spend the weekend there. Carson Burns leaves for Waco Texas to join the US Army aviation section.
The High Point Orchestra gave an entertainment in Trinity on Friday to aid the local Red Cross chapter. A large audience, praise for modern composers, and flawless harmony with the director and musicians marked the program. Attendees included Mrs Bruce Craven and family, with several Trinity residents traveling from surrounding areas.
About 15 000 soldiers at Camp Sevier Greenville South Carolina receive athletic instruction from army YMCA physical directors. They learn military boxing and hand to hand fighting and participate in mass athletics. Bayonet instructors are being trained to teach this subject to men off the field. Recreative sports and baseball leagues are widespread in regiments with diamonds found on many drill grounds.
Cincinnati Reds beat Camp Sheridan soldiers 4 to 3 in Montgomery Alabama exhibition. NL players struggled in a rough second inning but rallied late to secure the win. Batteries for Cincinnati were Schneider and Wingon with Smith Few and Conway behind them.
Salisbury March 18 Mrs T E Johnston of the state board of examiners spoke at the Rowan county teachers meeting with a reading recitation. About 100 teachers attended as county plans for the April 4 commencement were finalized by the county superintendent and other officials.
Federal agents, aided by operatives nationwide, target writers of a German descent chain letter urging aid to the German cause. The letter allegedly began in New York and instructed recipients to forward to twenty five acquaintances, reaching thousands after an initial 9000 recipients.
Thirty students and faculty of the University of Chicago volunteered in response to a Washington call. Meteorologists will serve as weather predictors for the aviation and signal corps, determine war velocity, and supervise gas attack measures. Physicists will handle electrical and reconnaissance duties, detecting enemy telegraph and telephone lines and acting as listening posts.
Camp Sevier in Greenville District imposes closures of towns areas within the camp reservation due to unsanitary conditions. Soldiers cannot pass through Paris or Camp Sevier except to trains. Only motion pictures and concerts on Sundays. vaudeville shows censored by a board. No women employed in the reservation except wives or theater company members under strict limits.
Mobile workers end their planned walkout after a meeting with T. E. Carroll of the United States Shipping Board. The board is given until Tuesday night to grant a rehearing of demands for 75 cents per hour for skilled labor and 50 cents per hour for unskilled.
William Ki Stephenson of Boston, second officer on the Everett, was fatally crushed in hoisting machinery while loading coal for a New England port. The Everett is owned by the New England Fuel and Transportation Co of Boston.
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