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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1938
Page
5
Nine tables of bridge were in play at Emerywood country club yesterday afternoon during the bi weekly ladies bridge party held in the clubhouse ladies lounge. Winners were Mrs E Moses who took a double deck of bridge rounds as the prize.
The High Point Graduate Nurses' Club met at Burrus Memorial Nurses' Home after noon with Miss Gilbert Muse chairing. Miss Mae Weaver presided. Miss Janet Hall led a musical program. Vera Idol read poems by Dunbar Hughes Cullen and Brown. about 650 attendees enjoyed refreshments.
Mrs Amos Kearns hosted the West Emerywood Garden Club on Hillcrest Drive where ten members attended. R T Fountain was elected president succeeding Mrs John he, with a dominant committee led by Mrs O Arthur Kirkman and officers including E W Freeze Jr as vice president, Charlee Karns secretary treasurer, and L G Richaux program chair. Lawton B Dutton spoke on roses detailing historical notes and future rose plans. The club plans a May meeting with Mrs O Arthur Kirkman.
The Theta Phi sorority plans a dinner dance Saturday at 8 30 p m in the Sheraton 1 ballroom to honor members and escorts. Guilford College orchestra will provide music for the event as fraternity and social activity continues ahead of Easter vacation.
The Business and Professional Girls' club met at the YWCA after a weekly dinner to discuss multiple items. Miss Gladys Ellington reported a new project the group unanimously adopted and the club voted cash gifts to the Institute of International Relations and to the Western North Carolina track meet fund.
The Stag Club and Bachelor Girls Club held a joint meeting at the Stag cabin on Winston-Salem road with hostesses Allene Lambe and Betty Richardson. They planned a private dance for Friday April 8 at the Jefferson Standard Club and mailed invitations citywide. Members present included Clara Mickey and others. Roger Bruce Chilton was born at home to Mr and Mrs John C Chilton on April 5.
The Business and Professional Women's club hosts a dinner at the Elwood hotel with Charles F. Carroll as guest speaker.
Betty Jo Abela returned from a house party in Columbia and Misses Sheloff Weaver and Abels resumed studies at Duke University. Jeasie Frazier went back to Coker College after spring holidays. Mrs Spicer visits from Goldsboro as H F Cooper recovers from appendectomy. Craven improves at 304 Elm Street. Hayworth returns home after touring eight northern states with Wallburg seniors. Pickett and Walker visit Washington this week.
The Daughters of America will hold the Piedmont district meeting in Washington council hall on North Main Street Saturday April 9. The session opens 2 30 pm with Mrs. Mary Haynes district deputy presiding. Dinner follows at 6 30 pm at the I C O FP hall on West Commerce Street. State officers and members from Roxboro Greensboro Hamlet Asheboro Kernersville Summerfield Altamahama Broadway are expected.
The Women of the Moose will hold their regular meeting this evening at 7 30 at the Moose hall on North Main street. Members are urged to attend as a special program has been arranged.
The Philathea class at Abbott's Creek church met April 1 at Mrs. Howard Dean's with 12 members and two visitors. Mrs. Alta Green led the devotional, a brief business session followed, then an April Fool games social hour and refreshments. Next meeting will be at Mrs. Alta Green's.
The American Legion Auxiliary met at Mrs. Phil Shuford home selecting Mrs. R. P. Murphy as delegate to the Area Conference in Charlotte April 19 with Mrs. Brooks Gardner as alternate. Mrs. Vera Green Phillips presided as plans for Poppy Day were discussed.
G Marshall Hoover has recovered enough from a knee injury suffered when struck by a car in November to be moved from City Memorial Hospital to his home on West Main Street. Mrs Paul Green and Miss Mamie Harria attend a missionary conference in Monroe representing the Janie Tuttle Missionary Society of Main Street M E church. Miss Alliene Hoover is in Charlotte to play in the upcoming event.
The Union Hill school will host its commencement program Friday night April 8 at 7 30. The P T A will elect officers during the event. A musical playlet titled April Showers will be the main feature and the public is invited to attend.
The Social Arts Club postpones its meeting set for tomorrow afternoon at three. Further details will be announced by club officials.
Dr and Mrs Claiborne Pennington Mrs J C Pennington Miss Mary Johnson Lambeth and George Finch Doak Finch and Eugene Webb depart with Glenn Pennington for Toledo Ohio for the wedding of Glenn to Miss Lillian Lambert of Toledo to be held Saturday The groom is well known here and the bride has many friends also visiting Mrs Jessie Shelley stays with Mrs Eugenia Fife on West Main Street Romulus Thomas of Tennille Ga visits Mr and Mrs G M Hoover Monday
Miss Bain Johnson entertained at her home to honor her sister Miss Mae Johnson of Greensboro. Three tables of contract bridge were played with spring flowers as a backdrop. Fanny Glenn Elder won a flower bowl. KR Holliday received a guest towel. hose were given to the honoree. a salad course and accessories were served to a group of guests including Ruth Thomason Eunice Reece Isabel Boyles Isabelle Mouzah Margaret McLeod Martha Garbee Beulah Normen Florence Lawrence and Mrs Vann Stringfield.
Dr and Mrs R H Holliday returned Monday from Wadenboro where they spent the weekend with Dr and Mrs Jo F Williamson. W H Belk of Charlotte and Hi Hudson Olay were guests Tuesday in the home of Mr and Mrs James B Lambeth.
A clock with Mrs. B. Z. Jones has been postponed a week. The meeting remains scheduled for Thursday of next week at the same hour.
The Jamestown Parent-Teacher Association will present a Tom Thumb Wedding and an operetta Gee Whiskins in a program at eight Friday night in the school. A small admission charge will go to the school fund.
The Wayside Garden club gathered at Miss Martha Blair on South Main and toured her garden and Mrs. Richardson’s, studying native iris trillium aconitum columbine and foal flower. President Mrs. Charles H. Riach led a business session before the garden visits and a picnic luncheon at Blair Park capped the outing.
Asheboro reports show the Randolph Book club hosted at Mrs. W. D. Stedman’s South Fayetteville street home with readings by Mrs. D. B. McCrary and Mrs. J. O. Redding. Other clubs, including Rock club and duplicate bridge group, held gatherings on nearby dates with visitors, prize winners, Easter decorations, and light refreshments.
Announcement reports the marriage of Miss Marjorie Crawford to Charles W Hendrix in a quiet ceremony Saturday at Rev Herbert Reynolds home. The bride is the Crawfords daughter of 421 White Oak street and the groom is son of Mr and Mrs L L Hendrix of Trinity. They will reside at Alberta apartments on South Hamilton street.
Three local Girl Scout officials depart for Greenville Washington to attend a regional Juliette Low Region conference. The event runs Thursday to Saturday with sessions, luncheons, a Friday banquet and a Saturday pageant ending at 2 PM. Local delegates include Mrs. David T. Yow Dona Nichols and Mrs. Paul Weaver.
Mrs Anna Maitland Montgomery hosted a birthday party for her daughter Anna Flay at 1901 North Main Street on Saturday afternoon. Eighteen children attended with games on the lawn and group photos followed by ice cream cake and Easter baskets as favors in the dining room. Mrs Leona Welch assisted with serving.
The Oak View P T A will hold its final meeting of the year Thursday evening at 7 20. Special music will be by Mr Payne s students HM M Hendricks principal will speak on Natural Resources of North Carolina. Everyone is urged to be present.
Three Randolph babies arrived on April Fool's Day Friday. A son to Mr. and Mrs Howard Cagle Pisgah a daughter to Mr. and Mrs Carl Foltz Randleman and Patricia Deanne daughter of Mr. and Mrs Manley Vestal Asheboro Liberty Street. Earlier births include a daughter March 31 to Mr. and Mrs Millis Millikan Asheboro route one a son Henry Fred March 30 to Mr. and Mrs Giles Lemmons Balfour a daughter March 28 to Mr. and Mrs Clyde Andrews Randleman and a young son March 25 to Mr. and Mrs Clayton Graham.
Thursday evening at Mrs Harris Coffin home on Park street the Girl Scouts of troop one held a party. The winning patrol entertained the losing patrol. Anne Lewallen led games and contests. Prizes went to Lucille Cox Mary Reese King and Kitty Lee Fritz. Twenty girls attended with scout leader Virginia Barker. An iced refreshments course was served.
The Faithful Buddies club met Monday night April 4 at 402 Short Smith street for an Easter party. Hazel Lloyd led devotional exercises. After the business session, games were played and refreshments served. Attendees included Miss Ruby Bowden Jean Harris Wanda Davis Iris Floyd Hazel Floyd Kathryn Floyd and Messrs R G Kearns Bobby Floyd Paul Carroll and Jack Morris.
Johnson Street school Parent Teacher Association will meet Thursday at 7 30 PM in the school. Pupils of Mr Alexander and Miss Virginia Frank will perform a musical program. Local artist and photographer Thomas Dodamead will speak with chalk sketches. All parents and friends urged to attend.
Greenville Pa. football player Josépl Marzano, a Penn High School halfback who had played without injury for two years, dislocated a shoulder after rolling over in bed.
A fragmentary ad describes Lydia's Vegetable Compound aiding women, claiming it tones the system and eases discomfort from functional disorders. It references three generations sharing the remedy and targets mothers and older women.
The High Point Girl Scout Council reelected Mrs. David T. Yow as commissioner at a meeting held at Mrs. Willis Slane's Emerywood home. R A Herring becomes first deputy commissioner, with Embree H. Blackard as second deputy, E T Harrison as secretary, and Katherine Raymond as treasurer. Dana Nicholas will serve as instructor at Greensboro Camp for two weeks.
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