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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1919
Page
5
Beginning at 1 p m tomorrow the ladies of Green Street Baptist Church hold a prayer and intercession service for a 75 million campaign. The program features scriptural lessons prayers hymns talks and poems by local women and a chain of prayer with several readings and offerings.
The Woman's Guild of St. Mary's church gathered yesterday afternoon at Mrs. S F Brown's residence on South Main street. After an hour of business and pleasure, delicate refreshments were served by the hostess to a very good attendance.
A poetic line about turning clouds inside out to reveal a bright inner side. It frames cheer as a hopeful theme and suggests viewing adversity as optimism.
The civic health department of the Woman's club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Friends' church. A full attendance of members and all those interested in this work is desired.
B R Thurman and family will be permanently located at 203 Linday Street after the first of the month.
Oliver E. Causey, who underwent a serious operation about ten days ago at the sanatorium, is improving.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver 5. Causey, a daughter. SON. Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Gray, a 12-pound son, Joseph Hutchinson Gray. Mrs. T. J. Gold spent the morning in Greensboro today. Miss Esta Minard is visiting relatives in Chicago.
Heyward M. Crowson spends the day with his brother M. C. Crowson of Roland Park. Lefty Furguson and Lacy Groves drove to Winston-Salem last night to visit friends in that city for a short time.
A High Point business leader warns the city faces a serious living place problem amid inadequate housing facilities. Despite new houses, owners plan to occupy them, leaving renters unable to find homes. Rochelle of the High Point Furniture Association says several families want to move there and seeks cooperative action from homeowners and citizens.
Mrs Josephus Daniels wife of the secretary of the navy will address the North Carolina United Daughters of the Confederacy convention in High Point October 7 to 10. A luncheon for the executive board is planned and a revised delegate list includes delegates from Albemarle Asheboro Charlotte Concord Fayetteville Goldsboro Raleigh Rocky Mount Winston Salem and many other towns.
M. C. Snead local agent for Oakland Paige and Wissel-Kara cars leaves for Charlotte to join all dealers and distributors from the state and South Carolina. The gathering aims to form a dealers organization for mutual benefit of dealers and customers. London restaurants report profit from more meals eaten away from home as tea shops and lunch rooms multiply.
The note urges reconsideration of engine use when auto policy lacks full coverage. It cautions delaying activation until coverage criteria are met and risks are evaluated, stressing prudent policy adherence.
Riot violence marked a day of steel strike with 11 wounded in Newcastle and heavy alarms across the Pittsburgh district prompting state trooper reinforcements. Buffalo saw rioting around the Lackawanna plant, forcing its suspension, as Donner Steel announced shutdowns for tomorrow. In related activity, a meeting at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church invited local merchants to discuss the unrest and operations.
War department reports final counts through September 1 showing 50 327 battle deaths including Russia and Siberia. Disease and other deaths total 66 165. Wounded in action 205 590. Overall American casualties reach 322 182.
Chattanooga September 23 The board of adjustment of the Southern railway system opened a three day conference with major topics including the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks strike ballots already distributed. Clerks have been told to refrain from balloting until the adjustment board finishes its deliberations.
H. C. Lewis returns to his old position in the shoe department at Allen Brothers after 23 months away on military service. Wyatt Pickens comes back from Jessup Georgia where he spent the summer with relatives.
Notice from City Manager R. L. Picket announcing all water and light bills are due on or before October 1. Failure to pay will result in discontinuation of service. Dated 9 23 51.
The pastor and St. John's Lutheran Church members in Salisbury honored returning soldiers with a special Monday morning service. Dr Kinard preached to the veterans who sat in reserved seats and W F Snider addressed them as a leading layman of the congregation.
The Paramount Aircraft special Secret Service opens at the Broadway theater next Thursday and Friday starring Major Robert Warwick. The Varney mansion interior evokes a southern civil war manor with genuine sixties relics and exquisite costuming.
Salisbury reports T C Williams the white man imprisoned for 10 years for violating a young girl attempted suicide while being taken to Raleigh with Deputy Sheriff Rankin. He claimed sickness from bichloride tablets and asked for a physician rather than rescue. A Greensboro doctor pumped his stomach before continuing to Raleigh. Williams had concealed the tablets during prior detention in Mecklenburg jail awaiting trial.
Robert Clark Hubbard and his family are new residents settling into the city, marking a residential change for the community.
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