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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1916
Page
5
A poem-like description of a desolate riverside landscape sets a somber mood with a lone girl awaiting someone beside a rose. The passage shifts to a High Point society note detailing William A. Redmond and Lora Adelaide Little’s Washington wedding and return plans, plus multiple local dames and grooms in various social visits and travels.
Mrs W T Parker entertained Thursday afternoon with a joint bridge in honor of her house guest Mrs Guy Michel of New Orleans. Her Hamilton Street home featured yellow and pink floral decor with chrysanthemums goldenrod nasturtiums and roses. Guests included Misses Clara Cox Effie Cox Helen Brockett and Mrs Michel among others.
The Greensboro Cotillion Club will host an elaborate dance next Friday honoring Miss Sallie Gilmer Jones of High Point and Kemp Boren of Greensboro as their wedding approaches on the 1st lnst. Miss Annie Ruth Caldwell of Lumberton arrived today and will attend the Baxter Petty wedding at the First Baptist church Wednesday evening. The Davies Missionary Society meets Tuesday at 3 20 in the ladies parlor, Miss Edith Bradshaw hostess. The Philathea class of the First Baptist church meets tomorrow at 7 36 in the classroom. all are urged to attend.
Mrs T C Fisher with friends drove from Salisbury to visit her mother Mrs W F Ellis last Thursday. Miss Phillips returning from Laurinburg Thursday night. Many locals visited High Point on Saturday. Miss Mary White departed Saturday noon for Guilford to teach this year. Rev J H Crowder preached a fine sermon in the chapel yesterday. Dr A M MacQuiston left this morning for Charlotte as a day visitor.
A fragment lists participants and locations in North Carolina events or associations, naming individuals such as Miss Nellie Hearne Miss Virginia Bugg and J Howard Pay lor with multiple counties and towns including Greensboro Charlotte Kannapolis and Charlotte.
At war start high prices gave way to an 80 percent drop as supply rose. American imports from July to May totaled about 400000 pounds, boosting availability and easing costs.
Chapel Hill outlines a three tier athletic plan for students including intramural and intercollegiate options, plus a one year rule to curb early misdirection. Freshmen play five local games, avoiding long trips, while a lectures program featuring Dr James A Macdonald will explore The North American Idea.
The Rev. Mercer Johnston, resigning as pastor of Holy Trinity Newark to avoid pandering to sinners, arrives in Baltimore to form a fellowship of clergy for freedom and social righteousness. Johnston seeks straight from the shoulder religion, opposed to vestry pressure. He will join forces with Richard Wallace Hogue and may take another parish on condition of broad pulpit speech without church restraint.
Rev J W Rose begins a revival at West End Baptist Church with two crowded services and eight prayer requests. He preaches on Christian Psychology and Christ's Banner while the church passes resolutions praising former pastor F L Fiddler for resigning to return to evangelistic work.
Under the auspices of the Woman's Club Billie Burke will be presented at the Broadway tomorrow in Gloria's Romancy a wonderful production. Manager Wagoner will contribute half the proceeds from tomorrow's matinee to the Woman's club music department. Admission 5 and 10 cents.
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce presents blueprints of common South American door and window designs. Some depict massive ornate front doors for city residences while others show less expensive front and rear doors. Window and window door sketches with dimensions are included.
The bureau of fisheries and the bureau of biological survey will jointly rear blue foxes. Six pairs of blue foxes from the Pribilof Islands Alaska will be supplied this season for use on a farm in New York state.
A playful exchange questions if a wife experiences spasms of ceromy and jokes about saving carfare with an automobile, reflecting humorous domestic chatter on travel costs.
The Home Bark promotes thrift amid rising prices urging families to set aside regular savings. It urges opening savings accounts and starting children in a School Thrift Club to instill prudent money habits in the community of High Point.
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