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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1918
Page
5
The W C C T U notes today marks the first tobacco free Thursday in the city to raise funds for feeding a French orphan for a year. Smokers are asked to forego tobacco and drop the price into a receptacle, with $35.50 needed for one year of food.
Birth notice states the child was born to Mr. and Mrs. John S. Plummer. The announcement confirms a daughter was welcomed into the family.
A Friday evening gathering at the Friends church will feature Miss Lola Long Miss Franice Long state secretary Eli P Barker state president from Greensboro providing a report on the all south Christian Endeavor convention in Memphis Tenn Convention songs will be sung. Mrs Eimer Shields departed for Sanford to visit friends and relatives.
Mrs C C Seawell returns from Asheville while visitors arrive from Oklahoma Greensboro Raleigh and Durham. Local residents host guests in town including Mr and Mrs W F Ellis and Miss Grace Johnson. Missionary society meets with Mrs J C Pepper as Trinity High School enrolls many students for the new term.
The United States Fuel Administration urges immediate coal purchase to ensure winter supply. It warns delayed buying may leave consumers without coal as factories and fronts demand more freight, urging citizens to fill bins and support the war effort.
Morning services at Green Street Baptist church witnessed three new members admitted by baptism. One of the young men to be drafted tomorrow and his wife joined. Revival begins Sunday with preparatory prayer meetings at members’ homes, largely attended, as residents are invited to attend evening prayers at listed locations.
In Tombstone, a small weathered building opposite the old mail station bears a sign claiming it was the former home of the Tombstone Epitaph. Inside, a G Washington hand press roosts owls and printed lists of local violent deaths and mining stories.
Washington reports the U S Department of Agriculture urges furrow fire guards around all fields with shocked or stacked grain to prevent sparks from locomotives tractors thrashing engines or careless matches and cigarettes. Farmers should also keep firefighting gear like chemical extinguishers or water barrels and buckets on hand.
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