Contest Committees Tighten Attendance Rules
The first Reformed churches of High Point and Greensboro met in Greensboro at J. T. Platt’s home. An amendment to contest rules excludes scholars enrolled after the last Sunday in April from perfect attendance points. A picnic will replace dinner on grounds and a ball game between schools is planned. Next meeting set for the fourth Sunday in April in High Point.
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J. T. Platt
Greensboro
High Point
Edgar Whitener
Leo Welch
L. C. Furgurson
Wesley Memorial church meal planned by Ladies Aid
The Ladies Aid society of Wesley Memorial church in High Point announces an old fashioned dinner in the church basement this Wednesday at noon. Tickets are on sale. many have already been sold. Menu includes turnip greens hog jowl poached eggs candied sweet potatoes crackling corn bread buttermilk and coffee.
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Ladies Aid Society
Wesley Memorial Church
High Point
Miss Coltrane Hosts Rock Party For Nora Ellis
Miss Coltrane entertained guests at a rock party Friday night in honor of Miss Nora Ellis of North Wilkesboro. After brisk rock games, the hostess led guests to the dining room where punch and cake were served. The dining room featured ferns and violets.
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Lena Coltrane
Nora Ellis
North Wilkesboro
Tar Heel Chapter Hosts Women’s Confederate Group Meet
The Tar Heel chapter of the Children of the Confederacy met last Saturday afternoon at Miss Lillian Smith’s Pine Street home. After the business session, refreshments were served by the hostess.
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Tar Heel
The
Children of the Confederacy
Lillian Smith
Pine Street
Leinbach Returns From YMCA War Work With Soldiers
Rev RB Leinbach has returned to the city after serving in YMCA work among soldiers at Camp Lee in Virginia. He wears olive drab as a Red Triangle worker and is reported in good health. Edgar Faulconer of Greensboro visited the city Sunday, and Dr and Mrs J J Hamlin spent yesterday in Ashboro. Miss Thelma Jeenings is recovering well after an operation at Duncan’s sanitarium.
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RB. Leinbach
Roy E. Leinbach
Camp Lee
Vas
Mr. Leinbach
Red Triangle
Dough Boys
Edgar Faulconer
Greensboro
City
Thelma Jeenings
Dunecan
Mrs Jenings Recovering After Operation at Duncan's
Mrs. J. W. Jenings is reported to be recovering rapidly after an operation at Duncan's sanitarium. Mrs. J. C. Smith is visiting friends in Raleigh for several days.
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J. W. Jenings
Duncan's Sanitarium
Mrs. J. C. Smith
Raleigh
Recitals Draw Local Visitors and College Guests
Charles M Shaffer and family from Greensboro visited the city briefly yesterday. Murray Amos and relatives attended a Frieda Hempel recital in Greensboro Saturday night with multiple local attendees including the Eliott and Wheeler families. Maurice Stedman and Earl McFarland spent the weekend here with friends and family from Charlotte and Guilford College.
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Maurice Stedman
Charlotte
Earl McFarland
Guilford College
Julius C. Smith
H. J. Coffield
Greensboro
Frieda Hempel
R.J. Amos
Fried Hempel
Charles L. Amos
Charles L. Jr
Grover Kester
Reidsville
Popular Young City Man Dies After Illness
William Elmer Fagg aged 19 died Saturday at home on annual avenue after several days illness. He worked for E. S. McLeod Grocer Co and was mourned by mother Mrs. Alice M. Fagg two brothers Julius and Thomas Face of Denver two half brothers Lonnie Parrish and O Parrish of Greensboro. Funeral services were held at home with Rev J M Hilliard officiating and Oakwood Cemetery interment. The Maccabees supplied the grave side services.
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William Elmer Fagg
Alice M. Fagg
Large Don i Municipal Court Sessionee
Judge Austin presided as a large docket heard numerous cases. Britton Walton and Grissom burglary case continued. Everhart fined for drunk and disorderly conduct. Nixon and Barker convicted of carrying concealed weapons, fined 590 each with costs, weapons confiscated. Emma Smith and Bud Smith cases continued. Howardton, Tiolmes, and Loftlin faced assault or drunkenness charges with mixed outcomes.
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Austin
George Britton
Roy Walton
Clarence Grissom
Charlie Everhart
J. N. Nixon
John Barker
Emma Smith
John W Howardton
H. Freeman
Arthur J Tiolmes
Worth Loftlin
Whaley Attacks Clark on Democratic Leader Choice
Representative Whaley of South Carolina condemned former Speaker Clark as Democratic leader in the next House. He blamed Clark for last election losses and said Clark would not act in accord with the administration.
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Washington
Whaley
South Carolina
Clark
Dog Hill Paragrafs by George Bingham
Timerunners treed a screech owl in the Gander Creek bottoms Monday and felled the tree but the owl escaped. Tickville railroad directors held annual session and renewed transportation. Cricket Hicks once sought the presidency, now content to appear as popular as a hotel clerk.
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George Bingham
Tickville Railroad
Cricket Hicks
Submarines Move to Entente Powers From Hamburg
Basle reports ten German submarines bound for the entente powers have departed Hamburg, a dispatch via Havas states. The move signals a shift in wartime submarine transfers during March.
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Basle
Havas Agency
Hamburg
Passenger Rail Schedule for High Point Section Released
The High Point railroad timetable lists multiple arrivals and departures with times for Washington Birmingham New York Washington Charlotte Richmond Danville and other routes. Notes show conditional stops and Sunday suspensions with ticket office contact under the United States Railroad Administration.
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United States Railroad Administration
Southampton Port Converts Troop Flow Figures
Southampton officials reveal war hub significance with total troops processed reaching 7,136,797. Of those, 45,314 were American officers and 868,955 were American soldiers other than officers, with 6,954 nurses also accounted for.
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Southampton
England
Air Service Casualties At Front Total 554
Casualties among United States air service personnel with American and allied armies at the front reach 554. Of the total, 171 were killed in combat.
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Washington
United States Air Service
Thrift Stamps to War Savings and Victory Bonds
The notice urges saving through thrift stamps to begin, progress to war savings stamps, and ultimately invest in victory Liberty bonds as a larger scale financial plan. It emphasizes a progressive savings approach through a sequence of patriotic savings programs.
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Victory Liberty
Freight condition of Germany is bad
Berlin reports an unfavorable freight tonnage balance after peace, seen as a major driver of emigration. The Allgemeine Zeitung urges restricting emigration to aid economic reconstruction, calling for rural resettlement of surplus unemployed technical workers to boost agricultural output.
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Germany
Allgemeine Zeitung
The
Vonaerts
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