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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1917
Page
5
In Life magazine Kate Masterson profiles Susie as a devoted scorekeeper who follows every pitch and play like a true fan. She uses golf terms on the card, annotates slides, and shouts Play Ball while cheering Matty Larry and the team, showing pride in her precise, cryptic tallying.
The Woman's club held its final meeting of the year at the Elks' home on West Broad Street with over 75 members present. Officers and department chairmen reported, plans for a fall benefit event were announced, Red Cross work was urged, and a High Point chapter for the North Carolina Children's Home Society was formed.
The pupils of the third ward school will perform at the high school auditorium on South Main street this evening at 8 o clock. City residents are cordially invited to attend. The program includes recitations dialogues and songs.
The music pupils of Miss Florence Blair presented a varied recital in the high school auditorium on South Main street to a large appreciative audience. Performances, both vocal and instrumental, were well chosen and well rendered showing notable adaptation since last year, pleasing parents with progress in the current school year.
The Woman's Missionary Society of Wesley Memorial Methodist Episcopal church holds a Monday afternoon meeting in the ladies parlor at 3 30. The Africa topic aims to draw a large attendance as delegates Mrs Wall and Mrs Owen report on the Western North Carolina conference gathering in Asheville this week.
Mr and Mrs John Roscoe Peacock travel home this evening on No 35 after a honeymoon through Washington Philadelphia and New York. The couple were married May 1 at noon at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church.
Litle Miss Nancy Teetor and Dennis Teetor are now members of the Measley club, a well known local organization.
Little Louise Jackson Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Williams, is quite ill with an attack of measles and pneumonia.
Greensboro business visitor K. C. Barrow came to the city yesterday afternoon. Mrs. J. D. McCrary Daisy Og burn and Clara Ogburn from Winston Salem spent time with friends yesterday. Wyeth Long and John A. Ricks of Greensboro were here this morning on business. J H Willis of Hickory visited this afternoon and stayed with J Lee Stone. New member Mildred Theresa Furgurson joins the W K Measley club.
With no graduating class this year the upcoming session will add an eleventh grade. Seventh grade pupils will conduct the close of the current session and the annual commencement elevates seventh graders to the high school. Hon. James J. Britt of Asheville will deliver the principal address Sunday evening May 20 at the high school auditorium. Friday May 18 opens with drills and plays while Monday features prizes for sewing cooking and scholarship and the Lambert memorial medal. A Friday May 18 program includes Wing drill Dutch drill and pantomime The Headless Horseman The Patriot Girl. Sunday May 20 includes the address and a special musical program May 21 offers debate song and class prophecy with medal awards. The public is urged to attend.
Coke Harris returns from a business trip through Virginia and Maryland. Railroad Jones of Greensboro visits the city on business. Wade Rankin recovers from a pneumonia illness and will return to work Monday. R. L. Fergusson of Greensboro also visits the city for business in the afternoon.
Munson Clapp of Greensboro was in the city as a business visitor for several hours today, making calls and observing local commerce.
May 11 Rockland Maine locals spread an unverified claim of a submarine off the New England coast after a British merchant steamer docked. The crew avoided confirming the report while a sighting alleged near Cape Ann, Massachusetts prompted naval inquiry.
The Joseph J Davis chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy met at Oaklawn Cemetery in Louisburg on May 11 at 10 o clock. After a prayer by Rev. W. M. Gilmore the ladies strewed flowers on graves marked by marble crosses in honor of the heroes who wore the grey.
Robert R. Mallard of Allendale South Carolina has been chosen editor in chief of Old Gold and Black at Wake Forest College succeeding George Rit tenhouse. Mallard earlier won the fiction medal for best fiction in the Wake Forest Student.
Wake Forest College Athletic association elected J W Tomlinson of Fayetteville as track team manager for 1918. Assistant managers are B Crowell of Roxboro and A J Franklin Jr of Bryson City.
Miss Vinitia Smith announces a tomorrow only sale offering big reductions on all newly trimmed summer hats. The event is strictly cash and none of the items will be charged.
A fragment from a millinery notice promotes summer hats and cautions against using matches near gas lights. Miss Vinitia Smith is named in the sale context.
The Southern Railway authorizes a round trip fare to Raleigh for the Elks State convention on May 16 and 17 amounting to 8.20. Tickets go on sale May 3 to 15 at the Southern railway passenger office. Raleigh prepares entertainment for attendees as committee members Schaub Wilson Kirkman urge travel.
The ad promotes Toric Lenses that widen vision when properly fitted. It invites wearers of flat lenses to try the Toric lens at this shop. It notes eye tests performed here are based on a scientific thorough examination and cites moderate prices.
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