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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1917
Page
5
DOING HER BIT. A public notice announces that tickets for Miss Helen Brockett will be sold at Hart's Drug Store Friday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. Children’s tickets are not sold by individuals but can be obtained at Hart Drug Co.
Miss Wattie Lloyd and Walter Royal, two well known young city residents, married at the First Baptist parsonage with Rev. James A. Clarke officiating. They left for a bridal tour to Asheville and other points and will reside at 712 South Main Street after November 11. Mrs. Royal is a beloved local figure and Mr. Royal serves as prosecuting attorney in the municipal court.
A daughter is born to Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Tomin. The new arrival adds joy to the household.
Please turn in all money for tickets sold for the Red Cross minstrel event. Prompt submission is requested to settle accounts and reconcile funds.
Mrs L C Gidney and her young daughter have come back from Shelby after a month with relatives.
Mrs B C Young and children along with Mrs Henry Link of Lexington visited Mrs J A Holmes on Lindsay Street. Mrs J W Kearns spent the day in Winston-Salem attending the Daughters of the American Revolution convention.
Among those attending the automobile race in Greensboro yesterday afternoon were Dr. Mann, Joseph Weaver, F Farley, C D Smith, R E Snow, George Loewe, William Ammontrout, Chas Redding, John Pickett, Dr. Pitts, Randall Mann, and John Peacock.
Mr and Mrs W B Morgan and Miss Carrie Morgan of Greensboro passed through the city this morning en route to Camp Jackson to visit friends.
British front in Belgium reports that von Hindenburg's order to retake Passchendaele if lost has not spurred action. Canadians hold a shattered line 44 hours after battle began, weathering rain and cold in muddy trenches.
Salisbury lawyers restructured the civil docket to fit two days in the first week. Criminal cases will run Monday and Tuesday with civil cases Wednesday and Thursday. Judge Cline is kept free for a special term of Cabarrus court to try Gaston Means. Governor Bickett's term is noted.
Cincinnati reports show 5 712 of 5 756 precincts in the state. Prohibition leads by 1 446 votes with 515 430 for and 33 9084 against.
With 395 districts still to report, New York's woman suffrage majority rises to 94,292. The statewide tally stands at Yes 641,481 to No 547,189, with remaining districts in upstate rural areas not expected to alter the result.
Constantinople reports an order setting three meatless days weekly due to fuel shortages. The cor respondent notes forest cutting to save fuel and warns that paper money depreciation and rising prices are causing alarm in the city.
Freda Hart masqueraded as a boy to accompany the man she loved when his regiment was ordered away. She practiced smoking to pass as male, but grew sick yet persisted. A railway policeman at Golan Central station in New York noticed her feminine hands and had her arrested. her father is summoned.
An armed naval detachment under the maximalist committee has occupied the Petrograd official agency offices, the central telegraph, the state bank, and Maine palace where the preliminary parliament halted. No disorders reported aside from Apache outrages. city life remains normal and traffic continues.
Stockholm reports a Swedish Medical Society meeting announced by Dr. Carl Wing that a serum for scarlet fever treatment has reduced mortality in severe cases to 17.35 percent, compared with over 70 percent in untreated cases. The serum is linked to the Carolinian Institute, Sweden’s national medical training college.
In this Russia set thriller police power and romance collide as a chief schemes to seize the heroine while her husband and former lover suffer exile in Siberia. The climax remains a spoiler but promises high drama as Miss Clara Kimball Young leads the cast in a World Pictures presentation at the Broadway theater tomorrow.
The Million Dollar Doll will be staged at Greensboro Municipal Theatre on Saturday November 10 with matinee and night showings. Written by Louis Weslyn of New York City the musical is touted as a season’s top hit with original music lyrics and hook. Weslyn calls the work his best ever and praises its originality and quality.
Rene Leseere lands at Ellis Island and is adopted by a seasoned bachelor who vows to raise a Belgian orphan. The twist reveals a girl in disguise and the tale unfolds into a Bhichird photoplay starring Ella Hall titled The Little Orphan to be shown tomorrow at the Rose theater.
A demolished Ford car with 10 empty bottles and 10 five gallon jugs was found five miles west of Yadkinville. The driver, barely able to stand, refused to identify himself and claimed no ownership of the load. He was pinned under the car but later freed and captured without giving his name.
Nov 8 1930s Louisiana reports a critical sugar industry labor shortage. Mayor Behrman orders police to arrest idlers and arrange release of minor offenders in parish prison for labor on plantations.
The appeal asks every housewife and woman to sign the food pledge card and to help distribute pledge cards in their communities. It notes the Home Instruction Board will accompany each pledge card with guidance on saving and substituting foodstuffs and stresses the service as vital to the war effort.
London dispatch says Austrian Hungarian HQ reports five Teuton armies opposing Italy led by Generals Krobatin Krass Below Henriquez and Wurm with Von Below commanding the center army. Possible Austro Hungarian fleet cooperation with Wurm along the Adriatic coast is noted.
Northampton announces a correction on boot prices after an earlier misquote. The new figures set men's boots at 14 to 21 shillings for three grades, women's shoes at 12 shillings, and women's boots at 15 shillings, pending government authority for manufacture.
Washington reports the post office department warns of attempts to circulate counterfeit or forced Cuban money orders in the United States. The focus is on banks and large business houses as targets for the schemes.
Under orders from the War Department the 54th depot brigade at Camp McClellan Alabama ceases to exist Brig General Cecil C Vaughn Jr commanded the unit and all New Jersey officers are transferred to the 58th brigade while Ace General Vaughn attaches to divisional headquarters in Richmond VA and the brigade dissolves.
Maryland and Virginia officers have been ordered to join the 57th brigade for a forthcoming assignment. The move aligns units under a common command structure amid ongoing regional duties.
Mrs. Effie E. Kleppe of Averill reports three weeks at Fargo sanitarium for rheumatism and kidney trouble with no relief before using Foley Kidney Pills. She says a bottle completed the cure and immediate relief followed. Mann Drug Co. Minn.
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