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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1917
Page
3
After a party Landry buys a car to ease his work and please Louisa. She fears the gift signals distance, while Margaret cheers the novelty and Landry’s skill at driving. An evening bridge game ends with hopeful, mixed thoughts about future time together.
North Carolina reports pellagra deaths dropped from 551 in 1914 to 467 in 1916 with white and Black victims. Officials credit better diet, prosperity, and wiser food preparation for the decline, urging more protein rich meals and improved cooking as a wartime reform.
The Y M C A war fund central committee meets at 7 30 p m in Hotel Elwood parlors to discuss the active campaign beginning Friday. A mass meeting Thursday may feature Dr Thoburn. nationwide drive targets 35 million dollars for war work. The goal for High Point is 47000 and organizers remain hopeful. The Y M C A aims to keep soldiers healthy and away from vice by providing clean sports and a protective environment.
San Diego Nov 14 A score of leaders from education and professions will speak at the league of the southeast inaugural congress meeting here for a four day session. Bertram F Goodhue Dr William Mayo and Benjamin Ide Wheeler are listed among the speakers.
Fairfax Harrison, chairman of the Railroads War Board, authorizes sending 1500 flat cars to southeastern lines for shipyard lumber, 3000 box cars to the west and midwest for gov ernment orders, and refrigerators to Colorado Idaho North Dakota and Minnesota to handle crops. The board urges economy in refrigerator car use, prompt unloading, full car loads, and return to owning road, with boxes recommended for potato movement.
In an editorial voice by Jonathan Bang, Vred J. Wern, former congressman and city official, declares German Americans loyal to the United States. He denounces Kaiser worship and defends American natival allegiance amid wartime, contrasting German exile ancestors with U.S. liberty. The piece defends citizenship and calls militaristic zeal outsized.
In a wartime editorial the Rocky Mount Telegram urges Americans to stay united in the fight, noting changing fortunes in the war yet stressing that victory depends on every citizen pulling hard. It calls for immediate commitment to the war effort to hasten peace.
Fitchburg Massachusetts November 14 large attendance marks the twenty eighth annual convention of the Massachusetts Sunday School Association. Three days of sessions will feature addresses by Bishop Perry Rhode Island Governor Milliken Maine and other prominent speakers.
The City Transfer Co. employs competent men and assures patrons the best of service. There is nothing too large to move and they offer an auto service with cars for hire anywhere at all hours.
Mrs Effie Ee Kleppe of Averill Minnesota reports three weeks at Fargo sanitarium for rheumatism and kidney trouble ended with immediate relief after using Foley Kidney Pills. A bottle completed the cure as cited by Mann Drug Co.
Schedule lists southbound train No 28 with Sunday only times in afternoon and evening indicating expected arrival and departure at stations, disclaiming departure or arrival not guaranteed and subject to change without notice.
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