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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1916
Page
5
Poem excerpt by Bliss Carman from Century Magazine reflecting on a house that sheltered early love. The speaker pleads for mercy toward the aged home, urging warmth and openness as memories persist.
High Point WV branch of the Womans Christian Temperance Union met at Mrs K T Harmon on North Main with vice president presiding. Reports covered prize essays on cigarette evil and a plan for flower mission events and a postponed social meeting. A charity collection aided a prisoner’s ill mother.
In the city court four of five state prosecutions were dismissed. The judge ruled that key testimony about a 1911 robbery tied to Henry Davis was insufficient. Ira Hutchins pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon and faced fines. A separate case against Richard Haney was dismissed for lack of notice.
The window to file formal candidacy notices closes this week. By May 20 authorities will confirm who enters Guilford County’s June 3 primary ballot for county offices.
Mrs Robert Walker will entertain at rock tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in honor of Mrs W L Jackson. Mrs FE Barbee of Wake county visits her son M S Barbee on Alfred street. Miss Gaynette Hepler accepts a stenographer position with the Southern Mirror company of this city.
Dublin May 17 The coroner's inquest examined the deaths of two men Bealyn and Healy found buried under saloon debris after Dublin fighting. Jury verdict says they died of gunshot wounds inflicted by a soldier or soldiers. Military evidence deemed unsatisfactory and an officer's responsibility questioned. A visiting lieutenant colonel contested civilian testimony.
A Madison Wisconsin resident M. D. Reynolds says a long history of rheumatism was helped after using three boxes of a product labeled as a good investment. He endorses the treatment citing nineteen years of pain and relief after trial.
An advertisement urges readers troubled by chronic or muscular rheumatism to try Chamberlain's Liniment. It claims relief from pain is worth many times the cost and notes the product is obtainable everywhere.
Reverend Edgar E White, pastor of Tenth Avenue Baptist Church in Philadelphia and Wake Forest College graduate, will occupy the pulpit at First Baptist Church next Sunday. He is described as a brilliant speaker and an able young preacher and is expected to draw a large audience.
Mrs J S Welborn has gone to Richmond and entered St Luke s hospital for treatment. France says it rejects German peace terms and asks for peace on own terms. The public mood expresses a desire for peace and varied opinions on how it should come.
Masonic notice calls full attendance for the Regular Convocation of High Point Chapter No 70, Royal Arch Masons, Friday night May 19 at 7 30 p m with J H Dobbs E H P Jas J Griffith secretary listed.
Mortgage sale under a 1915 deed by W F Burley and Malis ie Burley to satisfy debts will occur May 18 1916 at 2 30 PM on premises High Point township Guilford county adjacent to J R Williams for one acre more or less The estate of D W Nichols executor J Parkins dated April 18 1916 appears in Guilford County records
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