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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1917
Page
5
Edmund Vance Cooke writes that the divine presence resides in beauty and truth found everywhere from spring haze to the Milky Way. The speaker longs for a beloved essence but finds echoes of that light in all things and everyone.
W C Gibson celebrated his 73rd birthday with a dinner at his southern city home attended by children, grandchildren, and friends. L R Gibson drove him to Wesley Memorial church and about 60 guests gathered upon return, leaving him surprised and moved by the kindness. A note advances with several local visits and health updates from area residents including O Brien and Mrs J Harvey Everhart in Thomasville.
The Baptist church assembly opens with a list of attendees including Mrs. H. G. Fields Mrs. D. T. Andrews Mrs. J. T. Burrus Mrs. Charles Weedon Mrs. J. N. Rumble and Miss Charlotte Perry as delegates for the 2023 gathering.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will hold a meeting tomorrow afternoon at o'clock with Mrs. W. B. Griffin at her residence on Johnson Street.
The Measley club welcomes four new members including Miss Nellie Ellington, John Royal, Charles Hughes Ellington and W. W. Ellington Jr., expanding its membership roster.
George Coggings of Lexington was the overnight guest of his sister Mrs. John A. Holmes on Lindsay street yesterday.
A. R. Holmes of Mebane arrives to be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Holmes on Lindsay street for some time. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Starr of Harbor Springs Michigan, who spent winter in Florida, have arrived to be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dutton on Hawthorne street for a few days.
Miss Blanche Cox of Ashboro has left Lindsay street where she stayed with the Misses Henley for several days and will spend a few weeks visiting Chapel Hill.
Misses Bertha and Blanche Cox of Ashboro visit. Virginia and Dorothy Henley spent Saturday in Greensboro meeting Fay Huntley of Winston-Salem who will stay on as guest. Bertha Cox will remain a few days longer with the Henleys before returning home.
L L J Ingram of Elm street is reported as returning to Greensboro College for Women today.
A woman named TVS Shaw was injured in a crash on the High Point Greensboro highway yesterday afternoon. She is reported resting very well this afternoon and is not seriously hurt.
Dallas Cox of Thomasville had a successful appendicitis operation at the local hospital yesterday afternoon and is improving today. Mrs. Fred N. Tate, who had a minor operation there last week, is also recovering.
Seborn Perry, previously very ill, shows continued improvement. Bob Amos underwent a minor operation at a local hospital and plans to return to his desk by late this week or early next week.
The Ladies Aid and Missionary Society of the First Reformed Church held their annual thank offering service led by president Mrs. E. T. Hedrick. Mrs. Edgar White read the Scripture and led prayer, with Mrs. R. B. Smith presenting a paper on the Life Work of Miss Emma Zeimes. Other members contributed music and a solo by F. W. Gebhardt complemented the event as offerings were collected.
The Durham Hosiery mill on Hamilton Street secures a 450000 pair order from the United States Navy, to be filled in 60 days. The High Point factory will fulfill the entire order, sidelining other orders to meet the navy's demand. If war uses hosiery, production could reach 8000 dozen daily and complete orders in as little as two days with machinery changes.
The first patriotic wedding on record will be held next month at the Hotel Majestic in New York. Miss Gene Krey Miller of Brooklyn will marry Professor L L McIntyre, physical instructor at St. John's College. The ceremony will feature national colors, a silk Union Jack altar drape, America played instead of the march, and military cadets as escorts for the groom.
A thrilling train top fight marks episode six of Pathe's Pearl of the Army at Broadway today. The plot centers on Panama Canal plans risking U S safety. Star Pearl White leads with Ralph Kellard Theodore Friebus and W T Carleton among supporting cast.
The Rose screens William Farnum with H A Barrows in The End of the Trails, a challenging scene where Barrows fights Willard Louis weighing over 400 pounds, aided by a kitchen table. Rehearsals ran smoothly until a key take needed repetition. Barrows was helped to his feet after the takedown. Advance sales for Experience at Greensboro Municipal Theater March 23 and 24 opened at Klutz drug store due to mail and phone reservations.
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