Society Notes Highlight Local Visits and Upcoming Weddings
High Point residents host and travel stories as Mrs. T C Watson visits family in town and Mr and Mrs Chas T Hamilton plan a winter in St Petersburg Florida. Gwendolyn Cummings recovers from appendicitis at High Point Hospital. A Halloween party, an engagement notice for Marve Hunt and Ernest Hardin, and a Durham wedding are among upcoming social events. The Woman's Club meets with a lecture on Politics and Women's Interests and plans for the Thompson orphanage box drive.
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Gwendolyn Cummings
High Point Hospital
Miss Cummings
High Point
John James Lawson
Marve Hunt
Ernest Lauriston Hardin
the Baptist Church
South Boston
Virginia
Hardin
William H. Hardin
Salisbury
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Lauriston Hardin
North Carolina
Moir
Stuart
Frank Ogburn
South Main Street
Harry Martin Moir
Mildred Ann
Samuel Davis Kent
Caroline Virginia
Guy Gamble Johnson
Danville
Radford
Klubon Calendar of Weekly Club Meetings
Tuesday Bridge club meets with Mrs M Crowson in Roland Park at 430. W T club to meet with Mrs A D Barnes on South Main at 330. No High Point Business and Professional Women meeting due to election. Eastern Star to meet with Mrs C D Smith on Green at 330. Women’s club at Elks Home Broad at 330 for regular monthly session. Entre Nous club 330 Thursday. Serosis club 330 Friday with hostess TBA. Story Hour club with Miss Myrtle Gillis at Highland Hill 730.
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Brown
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
S. F. Brown
South Main Street
Thompson Orphanage
Charlotte
W. Sh. Tabb
Episcopal Women
Tabb
Olle
Lidotnele
Ni Baer
Releigh
G. W. Saddler
St. Mary's Church
R. K.stewart
Order of the Eastern Star
C. D. Smith
Green Street
Woman's Club
Elks’ Home
Broad Street
Entre Nous Club
Serosis Club
Story Hour Club
Myrtle Gillis
Highland Hill
Mixed Pre Election Voter Tales And Local Weddings
Local socially active women host visitors from Montclair and Roland Park while two Moir sisters from Stuart Va announce marriages in High Point. A Halloween party at the Pitts home features costumes games and festive decor with guests numbering forty.
Poland Stricken by Typhus Crisis Amid War Ties
Warsaw reports warn Poland faces intensified typhus dangers this winter as Bolshevik advances destroy quarantine stations and distribution of sanitary materials. Colonel Gilchrist notes widespread contamination rising risk across eastern Poland and infection of troops and returning civilians.
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Warsaw
Poland
Harry L. Gilchrist
Europe
Russia
Gilchrist
Oregon Moves to Direct Senate Election Pledges
Direct election of United States senators began in Oregon as the legislature pledged to vote for the people's choice regardless of party affiliation.
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United States
Oregon
Holland Faces Belgium Demand Over Extradition of De Vreeze
Belgium seeks the extradition of Professor De Vreeze, former Ghent University librarian and Flemish activist, from the Netherlands. The Dutch refuse, arguing the case stems from a political offense, while Belgium cites alleged use of government property as grounds. A Dutch commission will review the matter amid tense Franco-Belgian relations.
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Haguefi
Holland
de Vreeze
Ghent University
Rotterdam
Flanders
Belgium
Germany
Ghent
Congestion in Yokohama Warehouses Reaches Critical Level
Yokohama reports a warehoused goods surge with 300000 tons imported and bonded, raising value by about 106000000 yen year over year. About 50000 tons from abroad are unloaded daily as American consigners withdraw due to market panic. President Nishiyama cites cautious shippers and uncertain economic conditions as key factors.
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Yokohama
Nishiyama
Guatemala Opens Agriculture Dept to Lure Foreign Investment
President Herrera of Guatemala creates a Department of Agriculture with Antonio Bouscagol as minister to attract foreign capital for developing about 15 000 square miles of untapped territory. The leaders aim to spark investment by sharing knowledge of Guatemala's vast undeveloped lands.
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Guatemala
Herrera
Department of Agriculture
Antonio Bouscagol
Gould Memorial Church Dedication Near Paris
The Gould Memorial Church of the Holy Trinity at Maisons Lafitte near Paris has been dedicated and placed under care of local American and British communities. The white stone building sits on a knoll by a public park with a curved fresco The Ascension to be lit, reflecting late interior plans. The note mentions Mr Gould’s Paris area home and stables and adds a remark about Ireland ceasing to be a great manufacturing country in the 16th century.
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Paris
Gould
Holy
Mr. Gould
Imagination Run Rife In One Yarn In Vienna
The Social Democratic press prints wartime Austrof Hungarian government letters as propaganda. A Reichspoe t captioned piece quotes a soldier claiming heavenly rewards for sacrifice and says heaven grants greater help than on earth. The letter ends with gratitude to the Virgin for not stopping the bullet.
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Vienna
Social Democratic
Reichspoet
Hesayen
Heatties
Capulets and Montagues described in Verona tale
The Capulets and Montagues in Verona in Shakespearean legend are based on Italian fiction, but historical records do not confirm the names.
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Capulets
Shakespeare
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Sena
T. C. Watson
Elberton, Ga
D. H. Parnell
Centennial Avenue
Florida
Chas. T. Hamilton
St. Petersburg
Fla
Hallowe'en
Karl Steed
West Commerce Street
Commercial National Bank
Elks
J. H. Petty
Womatt
Elibeoothy
Edwin Eblen
First Baptist Church
Durham
Ring Prug Company
A. H. Sisson
Montclair
N. J
A. Sherrod
North Main Street
Mrs. Sisson
W. R. Morrow
Roland Park
Mady
Milady
Jover
Hubby
Dixon-Carroll
Raleigh
H. C. Pitts
Alice Pitts
Elizabeth Hayden
J. F. Hayden
Wayne Sullivan
Pitts
Moffitt
Furnishing Co
Bill Hohenzollern
Japan
Jay Gould
Ireland
Fourtain Pen
Shoe
The
Wigh Point N.C
E. F. Cobb
Vida Johnson
Colorado
Rocky Mountains
Beavans
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