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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1917
Page
5
A feature column mixes a patriotic poem with society news. It notes Albert Jay Cook and Miss Mary Lily Fisher visiting, residents traveling to Greensboro and Wake Forest college, and local movements. War honors for William H. Wallace and Bert Swannell are reported, with brief biographical details and cited citations.
The Red Cross plans to care for National Army detachments due to depart September 5. Under Winthrop M. Crane Jr and Foster Rockwell, Yale football figure, chapters form a cantonment canteen service to supply refreshments beyond War Department rations. Gulf Division head W J Leppert confirms chapters ready for troop movements.
Thornwell Haynes former superintendent of city schools left Washington on August 30 to assume duty as United States consul in Petrograd Russia. Mrs Haynes and Miss Sara Haynes stay in the United States with Miss Haynes resuming studies at Lourie Compton seminary in Birmingham. Earlier Washington papers note Haynes would later help establish an American consulate at Helsingfors Finland.
Mr and Mrs Collier Elis move from the home of Mr and Mrs RB White on Lindaay Street to 10 Boulevard today.
A meeting of the Home F Economica department is set at Red Cross headquarters tomorrow afternoon at 3 30. Members who agreed to serve on the launch committee are asked to attend with the department.
Mr and Mrs Robert A Wheeler and relatives including Mr and Mrs Homer Wheeler and Mr and Mrs Cyrus Wheeler traveled to Badlin yesterday. Lieutenant Ben Moore from Columbia spent the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs Benjamin I Moore. Mrs William Armstrong and children reside on the Gould estate.
At Allentown Pennsylvania the Ambulance Training Corps trains over 2000 selected young Americans in ambulance driving stretcher bearing and battlefield medical care. The photograph shows dogs of war aiding wounded search on Europe battlefields, a practice adopted by the French medical corps and now part of American service.
The American mission reports General Cadorna explains the greeting Chow or Ciâe used by Italian soldiers. Major Bolling notes the exclamation sounds like How but is Piedmontese origin and not used by women, followed by cheek kissing and hearty slaps between Alpine regiments.
Parisers face rationing as bread quality and supply tighten under war rules. The Official Journal outlines a bread card system with allowances for different ages, duplicate cards, and penalties for bakers selling nonrevolution flour as measures press on.
In Berne Switzerland on Friday August 31 seventy protesters were arrested for demonstrations against the high cost of living. About one hundred of the arrestees were foreigners and several clashes occurred between demonstrators and police yesterday.
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