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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1917
Page
5
Poem by Helen Field Fischer about lessons learned beyond school. A speaker urges a boy to look to nature and God as teachers, describing blue skies and June truancy from books. The verses celebrate spontaneous joy and the lasting lessons of childhood through music and nature.
Local talk centers on a musica comedy show by the Daughters of the Confederacy for the Ke Cross project. Half of High Point participates in daily rehearsals at the school as they prepare for a performance on September 4 with music, dances, drills.
Miss Margaret Lee Young of Greensboro will wed J. R. Thomas of Greensboro in Reidsville at 4 p m with Rev. Abernethy and Rev Bennett officiating. Family and local notables from Greensboro and Asheville travel for the ceremony and reception with flowers, music, and a large guest list.
Mr and Mrs W L Stamey and their child returned from a 10 day auto trip to visit relatives in Catawba Lincoln and Cleveland counties. They were delayed three days by the Catawba River closure and crossed at Mount Holly where a temporary bridge was swept away Friday night. They left Lincolnton yesterday morning and drove about 150 miles to reach the city.
The Alexander Martin chapter will meet tomorrow at 10 00 with Mrs A S Caldwell on the Park Way instead of Thursday. Members are urged to note the day change.
Mrs. D Leonard and son Billie of Lincolnton with Mr and Mrs W L Stamey traveled by car to the city for a day visit. Mrs Leonard leaves tonight for Greensboro to attend to unspecified plans.
After 12 months absence from the city Dr. J F Duncan visits friends in High Point. He is greatly improved and says his rest has done him good though he has not decided if he will resume medical practice locally.
Mrs Dallas Zollicoffer entered the car hospital this morning for an operation after falling ill in Philadelphia. She and Mr Zollicoffer left at once and arrived in the city by 1 this morning.
The Johnson Street Embroidery Club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 30 o'clock with Mrs Dunbar. New members are especially desired as Red Cross work is being done this year in the club.
Mrs William Armstrong spent yesterday in Greensboro and Capt J W Fry of Treensboro was in the city for a short business visit. Harry Elam and Horace Sisson were in Greensboro for business and social visits. Stephen C Clark and Dr Welborn head to New York tonight on business. Vic and Mrs C P Ausband and children of Charlotte visit Mrs A Ausband on South Main. Henry Hall returns to West Raleigh to continue studies at the State college. Mrs C S Brown of Greensboro arrives for a few days with relatives. Tom Kearns travels to Oak Ridge Institute. Mrs LP Elam of Richmont VA visits her son Harry Elam and family on Jones Street. David Harris and Miss Ida Harris return from Wrightsville Beach and eastern NC. Miss Ida R Shiago leaves for Goldsboro after days with Miss Ida Harris. Miss Frances Eshelman returns from a week with aunt Mrs A Sams of Winston-Salem. Walter Royals travels to Danbury Stokes County for a professional visit.
Readers are invited to visit Allen's stores for a Phez demonstration this week. Phez is the pure Loganberry juice with no additives or preservatives and only sugar. The note highlights its refreshing quality and versatile uses. Also recounts a double marriage within the Gould family, noting Kingdon Gould’s bride in New York and George Gould Jr.’s marriage in Philadelphia.
In Hartford Connecticut on September 4 St Frisco driven by Ed Keers defeated Mabel Trask driven by Cox in the Grand Circuit opener at Charter Oak Park. St Frisco set a track fastest heat record with a 2 04 pace, the winded four starters produced the only split heat. Bertha McGuire swept two straight heats in the Acorn for three year old trotters.
Washington reports the War Department authorized a 2400 man regiment of Negro stevedores for foreign service to load war supplies for the American Expeditionary Force in France. Recruiting officers in southern port cities are told to seek Black workers. The army also seeks Negro cooks and may grant draft exemptions for those preferring work behind the lines.
Harrisonburg Virginia Sept 4 Five new cases of infantile paralysis were reported to the Rockingham county board of health yesterday and today. One twelve year old Etta Susan Jones daughter of Sin Jones near Bridgewater died Sunday night. Two cases are near Dayton while the others are scattered.
Ottawa reports F. M. Carroll of Rocky Mount NC listed among Canadian forces wounded in France. The Sept. 4 casualty list names Carroll as a casualty from the Rocky Mount area.
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