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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1917
Page
5
The poem recalls yesterday's joys and springtime sprites, asking where months like April and May have gone. It contrasts fading shadows with persistent memory, celebrating May as part of summer's ongoing magic and youthful delight as the speaker, The Bentztown Bard, frames love as life.
Mr and Mrs J W Harriss traveled to Greensboro to attend the Greensboro College for Women commencement exercises. Accompanying them were Dr Dred Peacock who will introduce Governor Thomas W Bickett who is to deliver the address. Miss Maude Owen was part of the party.
The social service department meeting of the Woman's club, scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, has been postponed due to the death of Mrs. Emma Cox mother of department chair Mrs. W. T. Saunders.
The arrangements committee for the North Carolina state convention of Christian Endeavor societies will meet this evening at 7 45 o clock at the First Presbyterian church to discuss important matters and asks every member to attend.
The senior Baptist Young People's union of the First Baptist church plans a social session tonight at 8 o'clock at 317 Hamilton Street. All members are urged to attend and bring a friend.
Miss Vera Idol of this city was yesterday elected third vice president of the Alumnae Association of Greensboro College for Women. Miss Helen Sparger of Mount Airy was elected president.
The Over-the-Tea Cups club will meet Thursday at 3 PM with Mrs Carter Dalton at her Johnson Street home.
The regular meeting of the Order of the Eastern Star is set for this evening at 8 o'clock in the Masonic hall on East Washington street. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Cook of Mangum avenue.
Miss Josephine Romeo visits Savannah society on South Main Street while nurses and doctors head to Fayetteville and Greensboro for conventions and commencements. Local residents attend events in Greensboro Raleigh and Charlotte including Governor Bickett’s address at Greensboro College for Women.
Closing exercises planned tonight at the Methodist Protestant Children’s Home near the city. Superintendent Garrett announces an 8 o’clock program featuring choruses, recitations, songs, violin duets, dialogues, and remarks by Garrett with the home orchestra.
The Lowell Courier-Citizen reports Germany advertising for a new national song as the current anthem Watch on the Rhine is deemed worn out and Heil Dir in Siegerkranz set to God Save the King is considered unsuitable.
A vintage advertisement invites readers to obtain a free 239 recipe cook book from The Nick. Fairbank Company, promising crisp crusts and tasty results with Cottolene. It notes using one third less Cottolene than other shortenings and claims richer, more economical frying.
Brig Gen Horatio Gates Gibson retired U S A, aged 90, marks his birthday in Washington D C. He is widely known as the academy’s oldest graduate having received his diploma about 70 years ago and begun service in the Mexican War. In Fargo North Dakota bankers hold patriotic conventions to bolster military and agricultural service, Liberty Bond sales, and food production.
An Atlanta dispatch reports that Georgia supplies a high share of blue eyed recruits for the army and navy, with at least 90 percent showing blue eyes. Military experts note southern recruits may be keener in sight but less quick in hearing compared with northern peers.
Wool and worsted dress goods faced a breadcloth shortage. Jobbers seek fabrics from others while mills cut planned deliveries. Raw wool prices rose 5 to 10 cents per pound in Boston amid strong demand and British shipments may be allowed to reach 200 million pounds.
A reader from Amberg Wisconsin reports a severe winter cough that resisted medicines until taking Foley's Honey and Tar, which allegedly cured the cough. The letter promotes Foley's product as effective for coughs colds and whoping cough.
Emma Cox 59, a devoted Christian and Friends church member, died early this morning after heart leakage following gall stone surgery at the local hospital. Survived by sons T D Cox Jacksonville Florida J G Cox Pocahontas Virginia Herbert Cox Richmond Virginia and daughters Hattie Bertha W T Saunders Effie Luna Cox all of High Point. Funeral plans pending with services likely Thursday at the family home on Willowbrook street, conducted by Dr Sylvester Newlin and Rev L W McFarland. Interment at Oakwood cemetery.
The Dry Goods Economist notes a general rise in temperatures across the eastern half and southwest, signaling stronger demand as the nation nears war. Government contracts in Fall River keep looms busy, boosting cottons and khaki production, while silk prices rise and major operators hold back.
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