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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1916
Page
5
The Toledo Blade reports a social notice quoting Mother Shipton’s prophecy predicting wonders and a world end in 1881. The verse foretells horses replaced by new travel, water walking, and iron ships, with gold at a tree root and England admitting a few.
An Elms Street gathering honored Miss Lillian Switzer of Durham with games prizes and a two course luncheon. A separate Camp Beavers shower for Miss Verta Idol featured pink flowers, gifts, and a surprise visit to Idol. The article lists attendees from Salisbury Winston-Salem and Harrisburg and notes related society activities at Wesley Me and the Fish Baptist Society.
Rey and Mrs. P. D. Brown and family return from Philadelphia. Visitors include Claude Reitzel and family in Greensboro. Trips to Augusta, Baltimore, New York, and Winston noted. Mrs. J. P. Redding improving after operation. various arrivals at Morris Street homes. A long travel spoof about South American voyage closes the column.
In Lima Allen County authorities sought state troops after a mob sought Charles Daniels, accused of assaulting Mrs Baker. Sheriff Eley, tortured to direct the mob to Ottawa then escaped, learned his daughter died from shock when the jail was forced. Daniels held in Napoleon Henry county jail.
Carter Dalton left for Oakwoods near North Wilkesboro to spend ten days at his brother's apple orchard. He plans to return to High Point then begin campaigning for the Democratic party and work through election night.
Miss Mason writes on her South American styles for Red Letter with a follow up next Friday. She may visit Europe afterward and go directly from the far south to London to file more observations from war ridden capitals.
Poet Margaret Mason surveys cultural ties between the North and South, exploring whether the two regions will grow friendlier. She travels and reflects on fashion drama and art as a measure of postwar unity and shared tastes.
All city banks will be closed on Labor Day September 4.
Washington D C Sept 1 During July 1916 Southern Railway disbursed 4629628 for labor material and supplies with 3967752 or 85.70 percent paid to entities in the south. The month saw heavy construction spending totaling 985242.38, while gross revenue reached 5481475, up from 1915 and down from 1914.
The article reports that King Constantine of Greece resisted joining the Allies in WWI. It notes pro German sentiment among his entourage and officers trained in Berlin. The queen backs the king, and reports claim a telegram from the German emperor urged abstention.
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