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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1916
Page
5
A social note reflects on evolving standards for women and a shift away from decorative roles toward active living and equal partnership. It lists local visits, arrivals, and departures, highlighting gatherings at homes of Ellis, Covington, Harris, and Craven families with a parade of friends and relatives from High Point, Greensboro, and nearby towns.
Juniors entertained the seniors with an informal reception Saturday night in the high school building. Students from both classes gathered in decorated rooms and on the lawn enjoying chatter, music from a Victrola, and refreshments served by junior members Ruth Owen Hattie Williams Odell Peacock Clarence Schultz Arthur Kirkman and Ireland Lynch.
A quiet Hebrew ceremony united Miss Frank, daughter of Mrs. Julia Kaeralson of Salisbury, and Mia Israelson of Ocala Florida at 11, with guests from both families sharing a reception. Earlier, John Jettie Carland and Miss Mary J. George wed at Rev. L. A. Peeler's home, in a small ceremony witnessed by friends. Carland, a noted plasterer and auto seller, and Miss George have many friends optimistic for their future.
Portland May 22 Hughes leads Oregon Republican primary with about 60 percent counted. Hughes holds a majority around 25,000 from roughly 100,000 Republican votes. Cummins leads Burton by more than two to one. Roosevelt's stay on the Republican ballot is negligible. Wilson triumphs for Democrats with Marshall defeating Major for Vice President.
In a St Paul cottage on May 22 Luigi Dimias and Marianna Serpi CO wed, seven years after he left Naples to seek a home in America. He told her goodbye at seventeen. now they celebrate a modest marriage in Minnesota as their “pretty little home.”
Earl Andrews of Carthage, 14, son of Mr and Mrs Lee Andrews formerly of High Point, has dominated school debates for two years winning every contest. Friday he secured the boards best declamation prize over four classmates as Carthage seeks to attract more High Point talent.
Mrs Levi Briggs died Saturday morning at her South High Point home. Interment was in Kernersville Cemetery at 2 PM. About 60 years old she is survived by her husband and four married children. A brief funeral service was held at the residence conducted by Rev H H Robbins. The Briggs family moved from Stokes county about a dozen years ago.
Paris May 22 An inventory by the agricultural department identifies forest trees yielding dye extracts. Black oak leads in coloring properties with some yellow oaks valued highly. White walnut provides browns and recalls its use for dyeing uniforms in the Civil War era. France hopes to harvest coloring materials from its forests, though American woods remain richer in color matter.
Melbourne reports a bumper Australian apple crop in Tasmania and Victoria totaling about 5,000,000 cases, but exports are limited to roughly 1,000,000. With 4,000,000 cases unsellable, the entire population would need to eat an apple daily for five months to consume the surplus.
Reverend L W Blackwelder delivered a twenty minute address at the memorial exercises of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty in Salisbury. The service at the Community building drew a large crowd with State Councilor J C Kesler presiding.
Ambassador Page reports from London that Jeremiah Lynch, a naturalized American, was originally sentenced to death for involvement in the Irish rebellion but the British government commuted the sentence to ten years in prison.
Washington May 22 The Supreme Court affirmed a North Carolina judgment awarding J K Renn a pump repairer with Seaboard Air Line $3500 for injuries at the heights about the tank at Cochran Virginia.
High Point gears up for a six day Chautauqua from June 27 to July 3 with new leadership. Fred N. Tate elected chairman. St. Davis resigns after years as chair. organizers pledge improved program and broader city involvement with active citizen support. A follow up meeting set for Friday at the Manufacturers’ club rooms.
The advertisement markets Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as the original effective cough syrup. It claims universal satisfaction and 80 cured cases of coughs colds croup and whooping cough, warning against imitations and substitutes and urging insistence on Foley's.
The fourteenth annual meeting of the North Carolina State Nurses Association will convene at the Zinzendorf Hotel in Winston-Salem from May 30 to June 2.
Cologne May 22 Garden planting of sunflowers for oil was popular last year and returns this spring. Teachers urge school children to plant sunflowers along every mile of road in the empire to extend the effort.
A vintage ad notes the five pointed red star as a health symbol used by the Pythagoreans and on Cham berlain's Tablets packaging. It promises quick relief from indigestion biliousness and constipation and urges readers to obtain the product from any druggist as obtainable everywhere.
Hartford dispatch reports a Bible sent from Chicago aboard the steamship Falaba was torn from its bail bag when Falaba was torpedoed and sunk in 1915 off the English coast. A fisherman recovered it on the Scotland coast weeks later and it was returned to Chicago.
Roy G. Booker, special representative of the Manufacturers' Record, is a visitor in High Point today.
A Mann Drug Co advertisement urges readers to try Foley Kidney Pills for dullness fatigue backache rheumatism sore muscles stiff joints and kidney trouble with claims of prompt and efficient health aid.
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