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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1918
Page
4
In a 1918 Enterprise column the author argues thrift is essential for national recovery and personal welfare. He critiques waste, high living, and poor use of soil while urging intensified farming, reduced consumption, and self reliance over government dependence to improve individual fortunes.
The Enterprise reports the Loyal Order of Moose formed a local council in High Point last night with enthusiastic business and professional members taking the obligation. The judge heads the effort to build a strong fraternal and social body dedicated to improving the city.
A nationalist sermon links bread waste to moral duty amid WWI allies. It recalls a Serbian noblewoman starving for bread, English law punishing bread waste, and a restaurant fined for throwing away cake. The piece urges collective conscience to avoid wasting any bread to aid hungry allies.
Thomasville mills Jewel Cotton and Amazon Cotton supply employees with free seeds to plant gardens and host contests for best yield. The program includes yard work at no cost to growers and prizes for top vegetable production. Jewel Mills forms a baseball team with Jacob Stirewall as manager and FE G Rollins as captain as preparations begin for the season.
The forthcoming marriage attracts widespread attention among friends in this part of the state as both families prepare for the ceremony.
Washington March 20 Opposition to the proposal to set a government price guarantee of 2.50 per bushel for 1918 opened in the senate after three days of debate. Western agricultural state senators supported the rise while others doubted a two thirds vote to add it to the agricultural appropriation bill. Senator Pomerene Democrat of Ohio urged against any increase saying the 2.20 rate in Wilsons proclamation was sufficient.
Boone March 20 W Kerr Scott assistant emergency boys club agent visits with Prof. Smith Hagaman county superintendent of schools to boost farming with rail access. Farmers expect bigger cabbage and potato crops as the railroad opens better markets. Rev B D Cross of Charlotte has been called by Baptist churches in Boone Blowing Rock and Cove Creek and will begin preaching March 23.
Mrs Orlando D Cox announces the engagement of her daughter Bertha Matilda to Talmadge Veron Rochelle of High Point. The wedding will be held in early April at the bride's mother's home in Asheboro. Bertha Matilda is a Salem College graduate and a daughter of the late Orlando D Cox. Rochelle is a prominent High Point business and social figure.
Pasadena report states Grover Cleve and Alexander, a former Philadelphia pitcher, signed with the Chicago NL club after a holdout for a $10,000 bonus. Terms not disclosed.
A brief note observes that only a rare few achieve such standing that they become irritated by photographers and press attention, suggesting others endure publicity without fuss.
A vintage advertisement extols four ounces of rad Salts to be mixed in water for three days to flush and stimulate clogged kidneys. It claims it neutralizes urinary acids, ends bladder irritation, and serves as an inexpensive lithia water drink suitable for any home.
A translated poem from Leipziger Neues Nachrichten dated November 25, 1917, portrays a sub-tenant pleading with the council over fuel hardship. The speaker laments kerosene rationing, begging for affordable heat and oil or risk of death from cold.
Notice to milk buyers explains a bottle shortage and embargo. asks customers to leave milk bottles on the porch when expecting a bottle, signed John B. Blatr.
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