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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1917
Page
5
A fragment from Laura Beney in The Lyric contrasts a forest tale of a swineherd and a mysterious girl with a town note that High Point will host a major event drawing about 150 participants. Miss Bidleman will arrive tomorrow to help present the entertainment.
The Ford Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan, donates a credit valued at 500000 dollars for ambulances, cars, parts and other supplies to the American Red Cross. The gift supports ambulance work in France and may extend to Russia and Serbia. Funding details urge cash, undesignated gifts through local chapters to maximize distribution.
Mr. and Mrs. C. FE. Mendenhall Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Wheeler Mr. Cyrus Wheeler and Mr. Homer Wheelerwill visit Badin tomorrow. They plan to tour the aluminum plant and have secured necessary instruments in writing.
The High Point chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy will stage a home talent musical comedy titled The County Fair to benefit the local Red Cross chapter. Rehearsals begin Monday evening in mid September.
Miss Veradol returned to the city last evening for a weeklong visit before heading to Texas to be principal of the Yancey rural high school at Hondo. She has spent the past three months at the Peabody summer school in Nashville Tennessee.
The regular meeting of the Daisy Davies Missionary Society is scheduled for Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock at Wesley Memorial Methodist Episco pal Church. Attendance of all members is desired.
Carter Dalton a professional business visitor to Greensboro. Mrs F D Blake of Johnson Street gradually recovers from appendicitis. Mrs Frank H Ford better at home after grippe. Mrs J L Welborn and daughter Wilma left on No 36 for extended visit to relatives in Richmond. G Roth tailor left Thursday night for New York to purchase fall and winter suitings. Miss Edith Irma and Keith Harrison visit Norfolk Virginia as guests of Mrs W S Wilder.
Miss Mabel Jones returns to Richmond after a lengthy stay with relatives. J T Weaver and Arthur Lyon head to Twied Point Fishing Club preserve in Moore County for a weekend. Mrs Fr OW Sills of Baltimore returns to Durham with Mr B A Brooks for a short stay, joined by Mrs R W Sills as guest.
Rev. Roy E. Linebach of Philadelphia arrives to take the pastorate at the First Reformed Church. He is highly recommended by Reformed classis officials and will preach both morning and evening services tomorrow. The public is invited to attend.
Chicago on September 1 1917 the organization committee of the Peoples Council of America for Democracy and Peace was dispersed by the police on Governor Lowden's orders with arrests reported.
Governor Low den orders adjutant General Dickson to stop a People's Council of America gathering in Illinois at noon today due to fears of disorder and rioting.
Washington reports the Netherlands government and the food administration reached a grain cargo release plan but the export board rejected it. The project now risks collapse under the described conditions and constraints.
Hundreds of Greenville residents hope the troops will have a short stay or be sent to France. The North Carolina National Guard company, led by Captain James W. Welch, is praised as a top unit. The roster lists officers, sergeants, corporals, buglers, mechanics, and many privates.
Washington reports a nationwide stock taking of pantry cellar and warehouse inventories as 400000 housewives, racers, farmers and food dealers tally foodstuffs. The agriculture department will use detailed reports to estimate total supplies for Hoover era regulation and distribution. A 75 adding machine battery will run a month for the report. A second inventory will follow after fall crops are in.
Raleigh Sept 1 B S Hurley representative in the lower house from Montgomery has signed to resign. Hurley has been made a lieutenant in the National army and is now at Camp Jackson.
Petrograd reports increased artillery fire toward the northern Russian front. The Rumanians repulsed an attack in the Fokshani region on the Romanian front.
President Wilson announces a $10,000 investment in farm loan bonds and recently took $10,000 of the first issue of Liberty bonds. The disclosures mark a notable pairing of official support with public bond offerings.
Seismic activity struck Bogota Colombia on September causing no damage reported at this time authorities say. No injuries or structural failures are confirmed yet as emergency crews assess the area and monitor aftershocks in the capital city.
In Washington on September 1 radicals and conservatives clashed over war profits taxes. The Senate defeated the radical maximum amendment by Senator Johnson of California proposing a 50 percent levy on war profits in the revenue bill.
Patrolman C S Carroll and Mrs Carroll donated nine phonograph records to Company M late yesterday. The gift raises the reported total to 99 percent. The Enterprise office received the records too late to appear in yesterday’s donation list.
A six corner match race at Sheepshead Bay speedway is planned for September 22. Likely starters include Ralph De Palma Louis Chevrolet Ralph Mulford Ira Vail Barney Oldfield and Johnny Aitken. Tentative plans also call for one of the cup races.
In Chicago on Sept 1 delegates from Minnesota Wisconsin and other states debate venue for the People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace suppressions noted as forbidden by governors in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Mrs. Alice Johnson describes a year of back and side misery until Cardui relieved her symptoms. She notes she could sleep and work again after taking the entire bottle and continued use to full strength. Thousands of women reportedly praise Cardui for improved health. NC-133
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