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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1919
Page
5
A newspaper seeks a young woman to learn reporting with duties in society items and eventual wide writing duties. Applicant must handle a typewriter and have good English. Pay starts small and increases with performance. Apply to the editor.
San Francisco witnesses a Paris inspired craze as two women Miss Mary Lewis and Miss Betty Chaplin march the streets in bare ankles with black satin pumps causing crowds to gather along Sutter Post Geary Stockton Grant and Market streets. They defend the fashion as patriotic and economical, arguing stockings are costly and unnecessary.
London plans a system of industrial garden cities around the metropolis. The first flower garden suburb will begin north of London next year on several thousand acres. It will be self supporting with an agricultural zone and engineering industries to sustain its population.
W. L. Hepler and O. M. Lovings have returned from Moore's Springs where they spent the week end.
Paraguuist, into the twin cities by the mayors of St. Paul and Minneapolis, President and Mrs. Wilson received an ovation on arrival. Streets around the station were patrolled by the national guard. The presidential party was driven to the capitol where the President will address a session of the legislature. He received an ovation entering the house chamber.
Washington September 9 The senate interstate commerce committee began debate on the bill for private operation of railroads under government control with penalties for strikes and lockouts and plans to hear labor union representatives next week.
Reach es New York N V Spencer, recently with the army of occupation in Germany, has reached New York per a message to his uncle E E Spencer here.
Rev J E Pritchard conducts daily revival at First Methodist Protestant church with strong sermons that search hearts and point to salvation. Last night’s talk on hindrances to a life of righteousness drew a large audience. Services start 10 30 AM and 8 PM daily through Thursday. public invited.
Rev J F Black opened a revival at West End Baptist with a large congregation. He preached from John 15 7 on living on the credit side of God s ledger and urged prayers that are merited by righteous living. A hearty invitation is extended to the public to attend.
Delegates from England, France, Spain, Mexico and other nations join industrial leaders at Chicago for the fifth National Exposition of Chemical Industries. About 330 exhibits span 40 industries showcasing wartime and peacetime advances, from masks against poison gas to new bronze alloys and processes in steel, paper, and dyes.
A British army chaplain officiated at mass in Cologne Cathedral at the relics of the Magi. American officers and Coblenz troops attended and viewed the bones kept in a golden Romanesque reliquary. The relics, once moved from Constantinople to Constantinople to Arch bishop Reinald, are now housed in the cathedral treasury near the organ.
Miss Ethel Brown, 19, daughter of Mr and Mrs F W Brown, died after injuries from being caught between the elevator and shaft at the Masonic Temple in Wilmington. She worked in the office of C B Newcomb on the second floor. No witnesses exist and funeral plans were not announced.
Information from the Gold Coast reports a new diamond field located 65 miles northwest of Accra. British Geological Survey officers found about 600 gems during preliminary panning operations in shallow quartz gravel.
J. T. Ryan is spending several days in Chicago on business, engaging in meetings and local commerce activities during the trip.
In New London Connecticut on September 9 James Goodbee and Katherine Curtis married after years of courtship. Justice Henry L. Davis officiated. The couple, ages 80 and 76, reside at the Masonic Home in Wallingford. The bridegroom proposed to two people before receiving affirmative replies. They celebrated with a brief honeymoon in Wallingford before returning to the home.
Announcement announced in Richmond that the Southern Railway Company will hold its annual meeting on Tuesday October 14 at 1 o'clock.
About two thousand delegates from U S and Canada attended the 25th International Convention of the United Mine Workers in Cleveland. The gathering was called to order at 7 PM in the armory.
Miss Lois Welborn has returned from Norfolk and Virginia Beach where she spent some time.
Greensboro residents F. R. Stout and M. D. Stout spent a brief stop in this city yesterday while en route to Ashboro.
In Asheville on September 8 a car carrying Patrolman W E Buckner, a chauffeur named Carson, and four other men overturned in the Mills river area. Buckner and Carson suffered broken collar bones. the others sustained various injuries and all were taken to a Hendersonville hospital.
Memphis on September 9 reports Louisa Freeman born 1799, owner of a 150 acre farm near Memphis for 70 years, died of old age. She lived in Shelby county 112 years and remained mentally sound until a month ago. Her husband Rastus Freeman died three years earlier at 100.
Special US envoy Little reports Dalmatia shows keen interest in American products. He notes locals respond to the mark made in the United States with confidence and admire American methods.
Charles F. Tomlinson is in Chicago on business. Mud and sand are the two road conditions most dreaded by motorists.
In Vladivostok on Sept 9 hundreds of letters intended for American soldiers in Siberia were misaddressed and sent to Archangel or Vladivostok. Correct format is Name unit A E F Siberia via San Francisco. Mail to units reaches troops faster and ships link Vladivostok to Japan and America. Three posts serve AEF and allied services in Siberia.
Representatives Volstead of Minnesota and Morgan of Oklahoma, both Republicans, and Representative Webb, a Democrat, were appointed managers for the house in the conference to settle disputed provisions of the prohibition enforcement bill. The senate assigns Sterling and Nelson, Republicans, and Overman, a Democrat.
London authorities doubt jazz will endure as Charles d Albert of the Imperial Society of Dance Teachers argues the fox trot dominates due to simple steps. He claims the waltz requires instinctive swing and graceful form, predicting its decline.
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