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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1919
Page
7
Revival services begin at First Methodist Protestant church on North Main street with 11 am and 7 pm meetings led by Rev. J. E. Pritchard of Burlington. Monday’s sermon titled The Price of Soul Saving drew a large crowd and the preacher was praised for his Gospel delivery. Morning services reportedly last 50 minutes.
Contractors started removing the Colonial structure from its current site. The roof is off and the house will be cut into halves for relocation to the corner of Willowbrook and Green streets. Meanwhile a steam shovel digs a large hole for the new exposition building.
Mrs. Claude G. Johnson of Atlanta, a French bride who married Corporal Johnson of the Eighty-second division in Corginon France, becomes the latest member of the Atlanta Red Cross chapter. She notes homesickness, enjoys American freedoms, and praises prohibition while contrasting French tastes with Georgia scenery and dances. She values the Red Cross as her strongest link to home.
Trading on the New York Stock Exchange resumed after a triple holiday, with prices rising further on improvements in industrial conditions. Steel, equipment, oil, rail, shipping and other issues tied to labor interests led gains of one to five points, with notable names including Peace Crucible Steel, Pan American Petroleum, American Car, American International, General Motors, Studebaker and Sumatra Tobacco.
A stock report notes steady cotton futures opening with October at 31.67, December 31.95, January 31.90, March 32.20, and May 41.15. A lost pocketwatch and a lost folding pocketbook are advertised with rewards. The watch is a nickelplate Elgin with charm and the pocketbook lost near depot and C M Vanstory's Clothing Co in Greensboro, with $5 reward offered.
Dr J M Stanton resumes medical practice in this city with his father Dr D A Stanton. He returns from overseas service where he was popular locally and is expected to regain much of his former patient load. They share offices in the Stanton building. A note mentions about a quarter of a million loose stamps found annually in U.S. mailboxes.
In London the abundance of money in English villages is noted as wages rise for workers and domestic staff. Increased spending appears in bicycles and motorcycles, garages, and repair shops, plus dancing clubs and whist games with costly prizes. Sociologists view this as a lasting social shift. The passage also notes a Russian belief about beards as a contrast.
Passenger train arrivals and departures listed for High Point with times for routes N O Washn New York Washn Charlotte and Asheboro. Schedule notes include conditional stops and Sunday non-run and disclaimers that figures are for information and not guaranteed.
This timetable lists expected train arrivals and departures at listed stations but notes that stated times are not guaranteed as exact arrival or departure times.
A fragmented schedule item lists Ruthbound at Gordontown and Thomasville with subsequent times 1 20 p m 1 56 p m and 2 14 p m unclear in origin or event context.
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