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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1918
Page
3
Mayor William P. Ragan proclaims May 30, 1918 a day of prayer urging all residents to attend church services from 11 to 12. Merchants' association plans to close shops 10:45 onward to join the observance, with efforts to urge nonmembers to participate.
City police will strictly enforce a ordinance barring dumping of garbage inside High Point limits. Residents have been discarding refuse in Jones woods and other groves, following a council request to enforce the statute.
V. A. Idel cashier of the Commercial National Bank left Tuesday morning for Raleigh to join sessions of the North Carolina Bankers association. He serves on the executive committee and on a five member panel to confer with Insurance Commissioner James R. Young on examinations and audits. The committee met last evening at the Yarborough hotel. Sessions continue through Friday May 24.
Prayer services at the Presbyterian Church will be held at 7 30 this evening so attendees may also attend the Red Cross mass meeting at the auditorium. The congregation is urged to be present.
London police court magistrates raise fines for ordinary offenses citing wartime conditions and higher earnings as the reason.
A Belgian escapee reports to the legation on German plans to win Flemish Belgians in captivity for a separate Flemish state under German influence. At Gottingen camp Professor Stange led agitators, but Flemish loyalists, aided by Borms and Weert, blocked the scheme. About 10,000 prisoners pass through Gottingen. only a small minority joined the separatists.
In Tokio and Yokohama 45 British subjects including consular officials and civilians, led by Lady Muriel Paget, reach Japan on their way home from Russia. The Anglo-Russian Hospital unit aided from Archangel to Galicia and Romania, then Odessa, ended as peace with Germany halted supplies and work.
The Retail Merchants Association of High Point will be represented at the state convention in Wilmington on June 19 and 20. Two delegates, John C. Sheloff and Gilbert W. Clark, were chosen. A ministers’ delegation urged closing shops on Thursday May 30 from 10 15 until after church services for prayer services, and merchants agreed to close.
London officers and men of the fire department are taking a gas mask training course. About 1,500 firemen have received regulation army pattern masks for emergency use in air raids.
A fragmented promotional notice invites readers to mail five cents to Foley and Co for a trial package of Fo ley’s Honey and Yar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets via Mann Drug Co. at 2835 Sheffield Avenue Chicago Illinois.
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