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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1918
Page
2
North Carolina launches a state plan to push War Savings pledges from June 23 to 28. Colonel Fries adapts the national plan to local needs with house to house canvassing and a rally in every schoolhouse to secure quotas and individual pledges.
President Wilson urges all citizens to pledge thrift and buy War Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds to support the war effort. He emphasizes increased production, conservation, and nationwide participation by June twenty eighth in a unified thrift movement.
Ukee J A Culler returns home from Buffalo. C Will Smith visits Asheboro cousin Mack Smith. Mrs Thurman Summey ill in bed. Several Durham Hosiery Mills men fished at High Rock last Saturday. Mrs Arne Culler in hospital serious. J A Culler family Sunday visit. Mrs Frank Luck returns from Abbott's Creek area. Born to Arthur Goodman and wife a girl on Saturday night June 1. Ice cream supper hosted by J Matt Gordon. Convict escaped from camp last week. guard fired but fugitive still at large. Welchs visit Mechanicsville. J Matt Gordon back from Orange county trip. Brick House sale at auction. bought by Mr Steed of High Point. Miss India Young returns to South Norfolk school. Greensboro district conference set for July with Bishop Darlington. Epworth League held exercises at college Sunday night. Miss Eleanor English visits grandmother nearby. Mrs Blanche Carr of Greensboro visiting Trinity.
Mrs D C Johnson and Mrs Marvin Andrews were taken to High Point Sanitarium last week. Master Emmet Willis of North Wilkesboro is visiting. Mrs Brock Wagoner has returned to Thomasville after visiting her sister. Dr Frank Ellis is spending time at home. Mrs Young is critically ill on North Main. Mrs Sarah Paul White of Ore Hill visits her parents on South Main. Mrs Weeks of the hotel is expected home soon after a visit in Edgecombe county.
Mary A. Clodéester reports rains revived farm work on High Point Route 4. Tobacco nearly all set. worms harm crops. wheat ready to harvest with few laborers. Fruit crops poor. Grandfather Wall predicted rain. a June 1 marriage linked Chas Redwine and Cassie Clinard. Smith sells a Holstein cow and has fine wheat ready.
Miss Ruth Grissom of High Point visits relatives in town this week. Arthur Goodman hosts visitors while Mr. and Mrs. James Lowe and Mr. and Mrs. F W Welch call on Mechanicsville. Luther Carrolls welcome a daughter Margaret Greyson. Fred Sechrest and W J Yatel host a Sunday gathering. Paul Jester, son of W P Jester, hospitalized Saturday by Dr McAnally.
Local residents visited friends and relatives including the Guys, Phillips, Jesters, and Byerly family members. Earl Byerly returned from duty to care for his ailing father Joe Byerly, with the father still seriously ill at High Point hospital. Also mentions a move to High Point and an update on Mrs. Henderson’s recovery. Also advertisement for White Leghorn eggs and a rental listing at 808 Main Street.
After June 15 1918 the Calvin Burton farm of 125 acres on the Thomasville road will be subdivided into twenty five 5 acre tracts for sale. Interested parties may contact W R Ragan attorney or Mrs Bettie Corbit for details.
By virtue of two mortgage deeds dated 1911 and 1913 to E. T. Corbit the home place in High Point Guilford County North Carolina is sold for cash at public auction on July 13 1918 at noon. The property on Price Street extends 1182 feet along Welch line and 40 feet along Welch other bounds totaling about one fourth acre. Bettie Corbit admix guardian assignee attorney W P Ragan handles the sale.
J. E. Upton and Battony Upton defaulted on a May 11 1914 mortgage to E. T. Corbit recorded in Guilford NC. A cash public auction will be held July 13 1918 at 2 PM on the premises in High Point township to sell a one acre parcel bounded by Fulton's and Bell lines.
The Food Administration seeds a voluntary rationing plan for homes in 10,000,000 houses led by American women. The proposed weekly per person limits cover meat butter fats wheat flour and sugar, with milk and children’ s allowances protected. The plan aims to supplement the Home Card and align with Allied nations. Married Miss Mary Sullivan and Hobart Garrison wed at Abbott’s Creek with Rev P W Williams officiating.
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