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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1919
Page
5
A narrator battles jealousy and resentment toward Rose Grandon and Leela as she navigates marriage hopes. Mrs. Gray counsels dignity with servants while urging patience to win Everett’s love and acceptance, amid lingering memories of Leela and a key to a hidden trunk.
Revival services at First Methodist Protestant church on North Main Street led by Rev. J E B Pritchard draw congregation praise as his preaching is said to do much good. Morning services start at 10 30 to allow women to attend and return for the mid day meal. The public is invited.
Dr F E Perkins of Brazil is in the city for a few days and plans to return to Brazil soon. He is described as a visiting physician and will depart in the near future.
Mrs. C. B. Clegg and daughters Jane and Christine from Greensboro are visiting Mrs. R. K. Clegg on Russell Street, the family matriarch.
Dolphus Brown, a Black man held in Greenville county jail, saw his home near Conestee go up in flames overnight. His two children died in the fire as the house burned, leaving the family in tragedy.
A revival is underway at the Methodist Protestant church. There will be no prayer meeting at Wesley Memorial tonight. Attendees are urged to join the revival service at the stated hour.
Rev and Mrs S S Best of Durham visited the city yesterday.
Frank Wishart of Smithfield Virginia visits his father A T Wishart on Lindsey Street during a daytime family visit.
County Commission W. C. Jones to attend a Greensboro Country Club dinner Thursday at 7 30 pm hosted by the Greensboro board of public welfare Principal speaker will be Roland F Beasley state welfare commissioner Mrs Blanche Carr who just began leading Guilford County welfare will bid farewell and present a report Other after dinner talks planned reflecting new welfare work countywide
Miss Ruth Freeman wife of J. R. Reynolds of Augusta Georgia, wed in Charlotte on Monday August 25. Rev Earnhardt officiated. Freeman previously worked at Shipman Organ Company in this city, Reynolds later tuned organs in Greensboro. The couple likely set off on a bridal tour.
Mr and Mrs R A Loflin have returned from New York Philadelphia Baltimore and other eastern points where they spent their honeymoon and will be at home on Elm Street Mrs Loflin was Miss Myra Adams before marriage The couple married in New York City on August 15
Yesterday and today the city hosted state visitors including P. M. Dillon of Greensboro F. H. Medlock of Charlotte John C. Watson I Hardman R P Coble William L Waef f of Winston Salem B T Stephenson G D Gilman L M Maurill J H Graham Z D P Walser Lexing ton Allen Bingham of Denton J W Webb of Durham and Dr J W Hunter of Asheboro.
Mr and Mrs John R Peacock will return to the city tonight after months away in the west. They recently resided in Colorado Springs. Friends are glad to hear that Mr Peacock is in perfect health.
Mrs Sim Flinner visited the photo gallery on Monday and had her portrait taken. She remained cheerful as she headed home. Raz Barlow calls being best man at a wedding a great honor and an advantage at a fight. The postmaster dropped a five cent piece today but it was recovered before it vanished into the rat hole in the corner.
Mrs. Margaret Francess Boswell, 57, wife of L G Boswell, died at home on Adams Street Tuesday night. She leaves husband, five children, two sisters, and a brother. Funeral from 940 Adams Street Thursday at 9 AM with burial at Hillsdale Church burying ground.
The Chambord domain in the Loir et Cher region could become state property if a petition signed by nearly all adults in Loir et Cher is approved. Once a royal hunting preserve and later a residence for monarchs, Chambord faces sequesterment amid wartime asset actions.
British film exhibitors and industry figures protest American entry into the British film scene. At a London meeting, resolutions urge government support for large scale British production, call for reciprocal showing of British films in the United States, and request British capitalists to avoid theatres under foreign control.
George Baker and Earl Teague left for Raleigh to resume their studies at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Engineering this morning.
The Philathea class of the First Baptist church will hold a business and social meeting Thursday evening at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. O. G. Allen 118 Boulevard. Every member is urged to be present.
Howell Albertson went to Raleigh today to enter the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Engineering. FOR SALE One acre pea vines ready to cut. phone 921. 9-3-tf Sycamore is noted as a durable wood and a sycamore statue in Gizeh Cairo is said to be over six thousand years old. The wood remains sound and natural in appearance.
Mrs B B Wagner of Thomasville and Mrs A A Wagner with her son and daughter from Sanford spent yesterday with Mrs H A Cecil.
Miss Blanche Burgess of Mt. Airy visited the city shopping and said she will go to Tarboro next week to accept a teaching position in the Tarboro schools.
An advertisement from the National Medical Institute of Milwaukee Wisconsin promotes Triumph Pills as a safe dependable remedy for irregular or delayed conditions. It claims the pills are not sold in drug stores and urges readers to request the free information pamphlet titled Relief with full particulars.
Paris reports explain the collapse as extremists gaining Socialist party control while unions lose independence. About 1.5 million members resist radical general strikes, with 300,000 still closely managed. The labor federation backs a platform to boost production, ease barriers, curb paper, and organize national economic and provisioning control.
Ten miles from a railroad and five from a trolley line St Iznatius Catholic Church in Adams County held its annual Field Mass under a tree. An old fashioned picnic followed with a large dinner as farmers and friends joined in the invitation to see the little cameo church and worship.
Mary Castellano told Mayor Gillen's committee that she and her three sons slept for a month in a dump cart after losing their home over unpaid rent. The family endured rain and mosquitoes while her husband slept in a stable with his horse. Investigator William J. Morgan sought housing for the family as Isla Marshal plans to teach in Goldsboro this coming year.
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