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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1918
Page
5
The War Prayer Union will hold a regular meeting tomorrow at 4 o clock in the Lutheran church. Rev Dr Brown recently returned from camp will lecture. The community is urged to attend. Local society notes mention guests and visits from Greensboro Winston-Salem Durham and Charlotte with several officers and residents cited.
The gathering praises the fighting men in a German encounter, notes a battle story of hidden machine gun positions and flawless American fire, and reports $400 raised toward a Blue Ridge Y M C A building fund with over $230,000 already invested. Musical numbers include Miss Stuart and Miss Perry with selections by Professor Cox, and a patriotic ditty "Far O'er the Deep Blue Sea" prepared for release.
A Thursday meeting at the Commercial Club organized the local home guard as a distinct unit from the Greensboro company. About 65 members aged 31 to 45 were enrolled, with plans to recruit to 84, weekly drills, state supplied equipment, and officers training to match state standards. Officers elected were H. A. Mills as captain, A. S. Caldwell as first lieutenant, and W. M. Tucker as second lieutenant, aiming to make High Point's home defense the best in the state.
Evangelist L. A. Bennet of Baltimore will conduct revival services at the North Main Street Methodist Protestant Church from September 8 to 22. Preparatory cottage prayer meetings will be held at listed homes Monday through Saturday, with services nightly at 8 o'clock. Citizens of all denominations are invited. church members urged to bring hymn books.
In Taihoku Formosa a typhoon has killed about fifty people and destroyed roughly 3300 houses. Telegraph and telephone lines were cut. sugar plantations were only slightly affected. Also noted is a church meeting notice for Peacock Philathea class at Wesley Memorial Church this evening at 8. Mrs. Hunter Sechrest signs as secretary.
A wartime plea urges American children to skip daily candy to save sugar for hungry Belgian and French refugees. The piece explains a chain reaction: fewer lollipops reduces sugar demand, lowers shipments, and frees ships to bring wheat and supplies to Europe, culminating in sugar coated buns reaching refugees. It frames the effort as white magic linking American habits to relief overseas.
Tokyo reports unofficially that Japan aims to boost its army by fifty percent and triple the number of dreadnoughts and battlecruisers. The plan calls for 21 corps, 42 divisions, and a navy with three fleets of eight dreadnoughts and eight battlecruisers each, with army divisions restructured to three regiments per unit.
A Greensboro merchant recounts a 38 year shoe repair career and retirement aided by a herbal remedy named Dreco and Preco. The piece, told by W T F Bialock of Union Street, urges readers suffering stomach and related ailments to consider the medicine and its testimonials.
An advertisement asserts Foley Kinney Pills outperform others, claiming rapid relief for backache rheumatic pains sore muscles stiff joints and frequent bladder action attributed to kidney trouble.
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