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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1917
Page
3
Promoters Guilette and Harris near completion of a High Point motion picture focusing on local industry and daily life. Cinematography by Harris captures plants products and street scenes while tagging soldiers leaving for Camp Jackson, offering a vivid city portrait.
Clinton, D. C. September 21. The Presbyterian College of South Carolina opened September 15. By week end 114 students enrolled with 120 to 130 expected for the year. Military training introduced with 7:30 on field or gym for 20 minutes, then shower and breakfast at 8:10. Drill three times weekly. several old students attended officers camps and nearly all graduates secured commissions.
Tokio reports great interest as an eight member committee from four Protestant sects completes a seven year effort to translate the Bible into a more colloquial Japanese. Begun by the American Bible Society in May 1910, the project finished last February and has since undergone comparison with the prior edition.
Five local banks report deposits totaling 10.6 million dollars with check and time certificates at 12.7 million. Savings accounts exceed 349 thousand dollars, reflecting strong regional prosperity and liquidity as of September 11.
The Newton community fair held at Terrell yesterday drew a large crowd with fine exhibits. The first county fair was at Mount Olive on Saturday, and yesterday’s event surpassed it. Today the Willian fair is in progress, with many Newton residents attending. Tomorrow the Young fair will be held and Minerva school house Friday.
Local Red Cross officials visit the exemption board to hear a drafted High Point township man recite a poem by a cavalryman. The recitation, heard before muster day, praises soldiers and uniforms while urging for forbearance from critics and presents a view of soldiers from all walks of life.
Mrs. Thomas W. Lingle of Davidson has joined the University of North Carolina extension program. Her duties include expanding university resources for women through correspondence courses club study and reading programs and advising women students amid rising enrollments in professional schools.
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