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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1916
Page
5
A verse on moonshine humor opens with rustic chatter about illicit stills and warmth. The local social calendar highlights Ruth Welborn's seventh birthday party with many young guests, then wedding news for Louise Herton and Thomas Barber and various community visits and club notices.
Come to Winston-Salem Friday October 13 to see The Passing Folly a New York production at the Paramount. Prices 75c and 50c. Winston-Salem Drama Society promotes the show and invites the public.
Milwaukee Oct. 10 Municipal Judge A Backus his wife and four children narrowly escaped serious injury when a wildcat jumped at their automobile near Athens Wisconsin The animal struck the front left tire fracturing its skull and dying of impact Backus plans to have it mounted as a trophy.
A Logansport Indiana report notes a carved curly walnut panel 16436 inches long displaying two almost identical childlike faces. The grain outlines ears eyes nose mouth and hair shaping the faces. The walnut piece was sent as stock to the Logansport Furniture Company.
The University of Ghent may open late this month or in early November as a Flemish institution under Governor-General von Bissing amid Belgium government opposition at Havre. A Flemish University Association manifesto supports the staff, while the government plans to strip three Ghent professors of Knights of Leopold honors.
Alteon Pa Oct 10 John Lafferty aged 13 stood on his grandfather John Laferty's summer cottage porch at Mount Etna when lightning struck a nearby tree. His left shoe was knocked off his stocking set on fire and his trousers torn to ribbons. He will recover.
Four hundred red headed individuals from Indiana Ohio Kentucky Michigan and Illinois gathered in Indianapolis for the first annual reunion and formed the Red Head League of America. The group decided the next reunion would be held here in August 1917. Membership is open to anyone with red hair.
London dispatch reports a squadron of up to fifty German warships, largely armed trawlers, observed maneuvering in Sano Bay near Salverborg since Tuesday of the previous week.
Miss Lillian Stuart of St Louis outlines a plan to build a Great Lakes to Gulf highway by convict and free labor with profits shared by workers. The project, funded by philanthropy, would begin with 1000 miles of a 50130 mile system and feature a free roadway with an auto freeway center and local roads.
R. N. Mann and Prof. Pitts have secured the state agency for Lozier cars. Mann returned from Cleveland with praise for the Lozier. he believes it stands in a class of its own. A seven passeng er Twelve has been ordered and should arrive soon.
Charles Kumico, 20, of Slab Fork Coburn W Va, surrendered to local federal authorities in Charleston after declaring he had robbed a Slab Fork post office in 1914. He said he decided to give himself up after dreaming he had been arrested and walked over 100 miles through the mountains to reach Charles.
This Big Style Store presents a comprehensive showing of New Fall Suits Swirts Autumn Coats and Blouses in beautiful styles and colors. Also featured are Children's Coats Headgear Muslin Underwear Kimonos Negligees and Furs in sought after varieties for the season.
Jinnk Preston curates items clipped from newspapers for a family scrapbook. The clippings focus on stories involving women who seek to regain spouses after separation.
An archaic quarrel line features Mistress Mary scolding a boastful young man. Dartmouth Jack o Lantern quips that the lad labors in a livery stable, painting a comic scene of wit and social jostling.
Hamilton Ontario October 9 The rugby season begins this afternoon at the varsity stadium with the All Torontos a team drawn from soldiers in Toronto meeting the Hamilton Tigers in the opener. A reader letter notes Chamberlain's Tablets helped a boy’s bilious attacks and restored his appetite.
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