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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1917
Page
8
Announcement by Superintendent Marr outlines opening day activities for city schools on September 24. Details include classification sessions, tuition for non residents, and staff assignments across Park Street Elm Street and Main Street schools.
The notice lists student winners and staff at Fairview Street Ossie Davis School. First honors go to Nellie Dundas and Missa Kileen Parnell with several other students named. Principal Ossie Davis and teachers A A Taylor Louise Goodwin English Irma Japp Holton English and foreign language, Grace Holton Spanish French, Mary Wilson domestic science, C R Gustafson manual training, Horace Wright science, and Jessie Johnson Ophelia Robinson among top students and faculty noted.
A municipal court session heard multiple cases including Thad Welbern charged with disorderly conduct who pleaded not guilty and was found guilty after the judge’s decision. Others included Lucy Leach cleared of assault, Frog Bailey and Zeke Gurley fined, and several cases continued or dismissed with costs.
Opening of grand circuit at Syracuse and Milwaukee marks a busy week. The schedule lists races, horseshows, tennis tournaments, boxing bouts, trapshooting, polo, and dog shows across New York New Jersey Illinois Maryland Kentucky Atlantic City Denver Chicago Cincinnati Philadelphia Baltimore Newark Las Cruces Brooklyn Bridgeport Pittsburgh Reno Detroit Belmont Park Narragansett speedway and more. Notable bouts include Jeff Smith vs Harry Greb and Ali Shubert vs Young Limboff with various rounds.
Manager Hull of the Broadway theater announces an orchestra to accompany photoplays, with a pipe organ soon ready. The three Italians, harp violin and flute, will play daily. Marguerite Clark stars in Miss George Washington, drawing large crowds opening day.
California county councils of defense met in Sacramento to chart ongoing war readiness. The two day session covers farm production, warehouse protection, farm loan systems, and better coordination between state and county officials.
Mrs J K Hardie and guests visited Barden for a day. Clifford McCarr of Madison arrived to join his wife visiting Mrs J E Hardee. Mr and Mrs W T Saunders returned from Eton College weekend visit. Miss Luna Cox returned from Elon College after visiting friends. David L Stanton left to resume studies at Roanoke College.
Miss Florence Blair, who has spent the summer at Nashville and Chicago, returned to the city Saturday evening accompanied by her little nephew, Ernest Auman Jr.
Mrs L J Hubbard arrived in the area from Los Angeles California yesterday to visit her parents Mr and Mrs S J Clinfard near High Point.
A letter from Mrs. T. Bucknell of Hardy Nebraska describes relief from lumbago and rheumatic pains using Foley Kidney Pills. The note credits the pills with aiding recovery and is presented by Mern Drug Co.
A malarial remedy claimed to ease chills fevers and sweats with quinine’s benefits and tron’s tonic properties. Advertises appetite strength and vitality from the tonic blend. Try it.
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