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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1917
Page
3
The piece notes Holland-America Line profits and dividends amid wartime context, alongside social notices. It mentions a December club meeting, a Scilly convention in Durham, and upcoming invitations and gatherings in Lexington with local families and figures.
Helen Holmes famed as Darling of the Rail faces extreme danger in a new Signal-Manual photo-novel The Railroad Raiders shown at Broadway. The star performs numerous high risk stunts on moving trains diving from roofs and riding engine cabs as part of dramatic adventures praised for acrobatic skill.
J. H. Harrison a Greensboro native was fined 25 dollars in Danville Virginia court for obtaining money under false pretenses. Evidence showed a local mill corporation sent eleven dollars and fifty cents to settle accounts and pay his railway fare to Danville for work here, but he instead took a job elsewhere and had worked sixteen days before arrest.
George Stallings manager of the Boston National League team married Mrs Bayard Sharpe widow of Bud Sharpe former Braves first baseman yesterday in Westchester. The ceremony was performed by Rev M Kunkle of the First Baptist Church with only immediate relatives present. The couple departed for Boston after the ceremony.
Twelve American missionaries from Turkey arrive in Berne after three weeks quarantine at the Austrian frontier. Ten additional Scorpion crew members join them. It is expected other Scorpion crew and American missionaries and teachers will soon depart Turkey with embassy arrangements supporting exits.
The railroads of the United States consumed 200000000 tons of coal during the period from Aus to 2, indicating heavy reliance on coal power. Detailed figures for specific years or routes are not provided in the fragment.
Juliane Blair, a young white man, was arrested and jailed on cruelty to animals charges after using a plank as a whip on balky mules. Blair await arraignment before Judge Peacock in municipal court. city seeks to curb drivers abusing animals with sticks boards or similar implements.
Albert McCall and Bernice Swinney were married Friday night in Rockingham after meeting in Namlet. Swinney, a Chesterfield County teacher, will live in Monroe with McCall, manager of McCall Jewelry, at West Windsor with his mother Hattie McCall.
Graham May the young people held a dance from 9 to 12 with many attendees and chaperones listed including Misses Mary Hunter Frances Moore Margaret Hunter Lucile Holmes Julia Cooper Myrtle Kzell Blanch Allen Dore vok Louise Moore and others.
British observers say Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg is delaying a firm peace plan to ride out the summer. He wants outcomes of submarine warfare Western front and Russian crisis before committing to no annexations and internal reforms. A Reuters despatch notes pan German presses attacking the chancellor.
Monroe May and Stafford Wolfe along with Andrew Monroe Robert Houston and Archie Fairley were accepted for Fort Oglethorpe training. Several Monroe men went to Charlotte offering services but only these four applicants succeeded.
The baccalaureate sermon for the Highsmith training school for nurses was preached at First Presbyterian Church by Rev. W. E. Hill. Graduating exercises will be held tomorrow night in Fayetteville on May 8.
The text notes that over 106 million pounds have been lent by people of modest means to support the national exchequer during the war. In the first two months of this year the small investor lent no less than 400 million pounds to the state.
Melbourne reports that with imperial approval the minimum height for enlistment in Australia is reduced to 5 ft 2 in and a chest measurement of 32 in, aligning with new imperial standards.
Durham ministers preached political sermons urging moral records and reform as city efforts to gain Liberty Bond subscriptions intensified. Police investigate alleged negro labor emigration with manufacturers claiming over 1000 workers enticed away. Democratic committee renews leadership and plans for today’s general election.
In Leeds on May 8 silks are in great demand as vest silk dresses become popular among women munition workers. Limited stocks fetch high prices and reflect a shift in fashion among laborers in the munitions industry.
A monster parade in Manila on Saturday showcased Filipinos pledging allegiance to the United States in a large demonstration extending wartime loyalty and support.
Mrs. G. P. Cartwright of Whitwell Tennessee credits Cardui, a purely vegetable tonic, with ending four years of dizzy spells after two bottles. She reports regaining health and no further trouble, urging other women with female symptoms to try Cardui.
The British Museum houses the world’s largest book, an atlas of Dutch maps bound in leather and silver-clasped. It stands about seven feet high, weighs around 800 pounds, and is more than 250 years old.
Seventh Day Adventists inform the war department that their faith prevents participation in the U S and German war. Water glass, used to preserve eggs, was invented by a German chemist in 1825 to harden shell coatings.
A Seattle shipyard reports the construction of a wooden freighter costing $200000 and its sale for $350000 the day before its launch, reflecting a profitable pre launch sale.
A concise comparison notes Germany has a smaller land area than the state of Texas, highlighting the geographic scale difference between the two regions.
W. H. Ragan as guardian will resell the Z. A. Burns farm at the Bank of Commerce in High Point N C on Thursday April 12 1917 at 2 PM. The sale follows a decree of resale and a raised bid of four hundred twenty five dollars deposited by A L Burns. W P Ragan attorney.
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