High Point Route 4 Tells War Draft and Local News
Several of our boys have left for camps since our last letter and more will go soon as the next draft looms over all vocations. Meetings begin at Sriedland Church in October. tobacco farming continues with prices near last year's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Clodfelter
P. HB
High Point
Sriedland Church
Mary Clodfelter
Phillips
Warburg
Jackson
Weavil
School Plans and Costs Face City Delay
Supt. Taylor outlines admission exams for elementary and high schools, 9 12 1918. term start, recess dates, and 1919 undecided. He cites $500000 for streets vs school buildings, proposes Park Street redirection to Main, Grimes and Elm for crowding, and urges new Park Street or separate high school building. He notes unchanged curriculum with emphasis on civics history science and manual arts and praises local faculty and calls for strong patron–teacher collaboration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Septender
Park Street
Main
Grimes and
Elm
3Rd Ward
Grimes
High Street
Florence Pitts
Margaret Owens
High Point
A. A. Taylor
Davis renews newspaper subscription on Saturday visit
W Ransom Davis paid the editor a pleasant Saturday afternoon call and renewed his subscription, continuing a long standing reader relationship with the paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Ransom Davis
Rosh Hashanah Observed As Hebrew New Year
Saturday the Jews observed Rosh Hashanah extending from Friday sundown to Monday evening marking the Hebrew year 5679. Hebrews from nearby camps joined in the observance of the day with Sept 16 Yom Kippur noted as the day of atonement.
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Lou Hine
Roe Craven
Mount Pleasant
Early Fullers
Lee Johnson
Greensboro
R. M. Clodfelter
C. €. Smith
J. S. Hine
Mary Jones
Y. C. Weavil
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D. BE. Clodfelter
Supt. Taylor
Fords
Tires
Hanes, Miller
Quaker
Ohio
Mason’s
Southern Harness
High Point, North Carolina
B. Osborne
Soil Improvement Committee
Atlanta, Ga
France
Joe, Hoffman
H. F. Hoffman
South Main Street
W. P. Ragan
Ocean View
Thomas’ Commercial College
N. C
Thomasville Business College
Thomasville
Thedford’s
W. F._Pickle
Rising Fawn, Ga
Thedford
E. Lawrence & Co
Chicago
Mana Drug Co
J. A. Hart Drug Co
T. J. Murphy
Beavan’s
Beavans
Postoffice
Xtra
Atlantic Store, Inc
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