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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1919
Page
5
A fragment quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson on the ease of living by social opinion versus personal solitude. It asserts the great person remains independent in the crowd with sweetness, maintaining inner freedom.
The local Equal Suffrage League met at 4 PM yesterday at Friends church. Mrs. E S Weaver of Colorado spoke on women clerks at polls, morale at Colorado polls, compulsory education, higher teacher salaries, and prohibition impact. Delegates will attend Greensboro convention November 17 18 with speakers Carrie Chapman Catt and Percy V Pennybacker. Wesley church hosts a get acquainted meeting for new and old members tonight at 7 30 with brief program and refreshments.
Tonight at 8 o clock a congregational meeting will be held in St Marys Episcopal church to discuss the nationwide campaign. Full attendance is urged. rm il Alexander of Greensboro spent last evening in the city.
Mrs. W. B. Davis and son Julius return from Altavista Virginia after visiting friends. W. B. Davis Rufus Davis and S. R. Matthews spent the weekend in Altavista and came home Monday. Mr and Mrs C W Harris depart for New York for a short stay. Mrs M C Crowson spends the day in Raleigh. Lawrence Adams of Charlotte visited yesterday. Mrs Lacy Seawell and daughter plan to live in the city, currently at Hotel Elwood. Mrs G A White returns from a ten day Richmond visit.
The Order of the Eastern Star of High Point held a meeting to discuss district turnout in Greensboro on October 20. Attendees will dine at the Masonic home with proceeds for home upkeep, and all local chapters are urged to send members.
Mrs. C Earnhardt is expected to return to the city this evening after visiting relatives in Lynchburg.
Cc Swain and M C English visit Thomasville and Jamestown while J A Armfield travels Greensboro on business. Dr S S Coe opens an office in Stanton Welch building and Dr F C Shugart arrives from Elkin after Columbia University training. Mr Wrenn buys Empire hotel property in Salisbury. crowds attend Central Carolina Fair in Greensboro.
P M Derrick, circulation manager of the High Point Enterprise, after several days in Athens Georgia, is expected to arrive in High Point the latter part of the week and resume charge of the circulation department.
The Williams colored singers will give a concert Friday night at 8 o'clock in the school auditorium under the High Point Normal Institute. Local residents who have heard them say every performer is a star and the program promises a splendid, entertaining event. The First Baptist church auditorium is not hosting the concert.
Jim E Hoover, formerly of this city and now of Tulsa Oklahoma, spent yesterday in High Point visiting old friends. He left five years ago to pursue research and survey work at University of Mexico and is now a prominent metallurgist and geographical surveyor in Tulsa.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. FE M Venable on October 14 a son is born and to Mr. and Mrs. L C Furgearson on October 15 a daughter is born.
West Point cadets visiting the Italian front climbed Mount Grappa with its 329 switchbacks and 6,000 foot peak. Italian general staff tacticians explained army operations while Major Stabili’s bersaglieri battalion scaled Mount Sabatini in 47 minutes.
The article notes that watches vary in parts with an average of 175 pieces and estimates manufacturing requires at least 2,400 distinct operations to produce a watch.
A note reports shirts priced at 175 in Petrograd and second hand trousers available for as little as 1.00, illustrating wide value differences in global markets.
Miss Georgia Freeman, two years superintendent at the local sanatorium, resigns to devote efforts to special nursing in the city and community. Applications may be made through the sanatorium. Annie Yow of Thomasville succeeds Freeman as superintendent after training at Watts Hospital and Massachusetts General.
The market opens with dull activity as futures quote modestly steady values. October and nearby contracts show slight changes while deferred months hold near the prior close.
The passage attributes the origin of profile portraits to an ancient emperor who was blind in one eye and sought to conceal that disability in his images. It notes this claim as a commonly repeated explanation in historical lore.
The piece describes a winter street outfit in bronze citron velour de laine with gray squirrel fur trim on pockets collar cuffs muff and hat. A close-fitting turban features a trim of French violets, adding a refined accent to the ensemble.
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