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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1918
Page
5
The American Red Cross drive in High Point aims to raise 3000 dollars next week led by Rev. James A. Clarke with help from city women. Organizers stress that 100 cents of every dollar goes to Red Cross work and pledge continued effort until the initial goal is surpassed.
The Tar Heel chapter of Children of the Confederacy will meet with Miss Lucy Neal Carr Friday at 3 30 oclock in the afternoon. All members are urged to attend.
Mr and Mrs J Edwood Cox and Miss Jara Cox visited Greensboro for a few hours. Archie B Joyner Greensboro Daily News ad manager spent last evening in the city with friends. Claude Wheeler Lester Peacock and Guy Grimes left for Raleigh to enlist in the navy. Mr and Mrs F M Pickett left for Hot Springs Ark to attend Southern Baptist convention sessions. They will be away about 30 days. Dr and Mrs E O Picker will leave for Birmingham Ala where Dr Wicker will conduct a revival. G B E Butner returned to Charlotte after a business visit to High Point. Mr and Mrs George Westbrook of Winston Salem drove to Greensboro and spent several hours. J W Price spent several hours in Greensboro on business. Paul Philips Goldwyn Films representative spent a few hours in the city on business. Mrs J A Capps underwent an appendectomy at Duncan.
This morning a sanatorium report said she was improving. Mrs J C Penny from Greensboro spent hours in the city with friends. Mrs J H Deligny recovers from surgery at High Point hospital. Mrs Ernest Bunting returned to town after two weeks away. Mrs FE Edwards and Mrs B L Bruce of Greensboro shopped in the city yesterday. Miss Martha Hodgin and Miss Cora Hodgin of Greensboro are guests visiting relatives.
The convention weighs a 3 million dollar fund for relief and pensions for ministers, proposing up to 500 dollar yearly annuities and 20 dollars plus two dollars per service year for those retiring after years of service. It notes fewer young men entering ministry due to hardships and urges support similar to government pensions for soldiers and municipal workers.
Major General Charles John Sackville West, new acting British military representative on the Versailles supreme war council, is a brother of Lord Sackville and has served in France since 1914 with rapid promotions and a 1916 wounding. Lutheran synod of North Carolina pledges loyalty to wartime government. mergers toward a united Lutheran church in America advance with unanimous resolutions and financial support for soldiers and Red Cross efforts.
A promotional note extols daily morning use of hot water with limestone phosphate to purify the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims improved complexion energy and better health by internal sanitation, urging purchase of a quarter pound of limestone phosphate to demonstrate quick results.
At the Broadway theater Mary Garden stars in The Splendid Sinner by Kat Jordan. The drama follows Dolores Fargia, a nurse and socialite who rebounds from a tumultuous past to marriage, war duty, and a public crucible, ending with a self sacrifice to atone for her actions.
J mrt Holder a graduate chiropodist and ractipedist has opened a foot care parlor on the Peacock Sherrod block. The office is fully equipped with modern sterilizing apparatus and devices for correcting foot trouble. Hours, telephone numbers, and free consultations are announced to attract patients seeking expert foot care in convenient new location.
All property with unpaid taxes will be sold tomorrow at 12 oclock in front of the city hall to sat.
Mrs. John Potter of Mt. Pleasant Pennsylvania recommends Foley's Honey and Tar for colds and coughs. The note states it contains no opiates and is suitable for family use, noting it relieves bronchial and grip coughs, croup and whooping cough. Mann Drug Co.
A Detroit woman Mrs. Chas. Gray reports better sleep after using Foley Kidney Pills. Her testimonial claims good results for backache rheumatic pains and kidney and bladder trouble. The ad notes contact with Mann Drug Co.
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