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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1941
Page
14
The narrator recalls spring’s pull on memory prompting acts left undone like bills and visits. Vivid scenes recount barefoot walks with a terrier named Tige, a perilous creek crossing, a dog’s rescue, and a fascination with cemetery epitaphs as life and time blur in the season.
The High Point District Methodist Church will convene at High Point College on Wednesday April 23 with Dr S W Taylor presiding and a 9 30 am worship service. Dr Frank S Hickman of Duke University will deliver the keynote address on An Old Gospel for a New World at 11 30 am. The afternoon features reports on church work training and youth, plus three sermons on lay service and stewardship.
Funeral mass for Harry H. Harker of 400 Barker Street was held Saturday at 10 AM from St. Edward’s Catholic Church with Father Bernardine Watson in charge. Active pallbearers included J. J. Hutchens Chris Schultheiss Mike Shipwash George Wilhelm Norman Thomas William Von Drehle Don Burgess and Carl Wright. Honorary pallbearers were members of St Edward’s Men’s Club. Interment followed at Floral Garden Cemetery.
Funeral services for four month old Tyler Marshall Holt, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Holt, were held Saturday at 2:30 at First Pilgrim Church. Rev. O L Ruth led the service with a ladies quartet singing Gathering Buds Farther Along and Precious Memories. Interment followed in Oakwood Cemetery.
Funeral rites for Mrs Ernest E King who died Wednesday at a Hamlet hospital were held Thursday afternoon at the Methodist Church in Mt. Croghan South Carolina. She formerly bore the name Berte Edgeworth of Chesterfield and had several relatives she visited with in this city.
The Elm Street preschool clinic will take place Thursday April 24 in Elm Street School auditorium from 9 to 11 30 a m. All district children who will be six by October 1 were urged by the city health department and the school to register now.
Mayor Kirkman and Republican Leader York back a May 4 to 10 Clean-Up Week timed with election week. A junior chamber proposal prompts the council to endorse the plan while officials joke about "cleaning up" the city.
High Point hydro electric project protests gain hearing request from Snow Lumber Company and other corporations. Public Works Administration notes project not defeated despite attempts. details dispute jurisdiction and grant increase plans to 38 000 000 with ongoing federal financing history and past advances.
The eighth annual district camporees of the Uwharrie Boy Scout Council will take place April 26 and 27 in High Point Liberty Thomasville Lexington Salisbury and China Grove with about eighty patrols expected. Troop 72 China Grove registered first, led by Jack Eller. Troop 528 Asheboro and Troop 42 with the Rattle Snake Patrol followed. Some 50 troops are anticipated. top thirty patrols advance to the council camporee at Camp Sapona May 16 17 18.
Frank Wineskie will show motion pictures from a recent trip with focus on spots of interest at the Men s Brotherhood dinner meeting of the First Evangelical and Re formed Church Monday night at seven. F W Gibbardt, club president, will preside as the dinner is served by one church circle.
The Allen Jay Girls Quartet will sing this morning at 9 30 o clock during the Men's Bible Class at Highland Methodist Church.
The Lebanon Methodist Church will hold a special evening service devoted entirely to music on Sunday under the direction of the church leader, featuring performances by the choir and invited soloists. The program aims to showcase a range of sacred songs and instrumental selections.
Fred Luther Lee a 22 year old white man arrested on a liquor charge will be turned over to federal authorities for trial. Deputies said 80 gallons of white liquor were found in his outhouse during yesterday raid. He was held in city jail on a 3500 bond and will face a preliminary hearing before a United States commissioner.
Cary J Davis directs a church choir for a devotional service led by Pastor O L Easter. The program features congregational singing, special selections by the local choir, and visiting groups including the Allen Jay Female Quartet and the Hayworth Trio. The public is invited to attend and enjoy.
The annual style show Topping the Trends by Tomlinson of High Point opens in the four story Tomlinson Exhibition Building and runs all week. Invitations are distributed by the Guild of Tomlinson Dealers. public admission is free for a display of interiors from yesterday today to tomorrow with two Technicolor shorts and 32 scenes across four acts.
After days of efforts to persuade laborite candidates Robert Floyd and Fred D. Smith to withdraw, Democratic leaders abandoned plans and faced a light city wide primary. Only 2,774 Democrats registered from eleven precincts, with 803 Republicans and 154 Independents, suggesting waning interest and a likely last minute surge.
Post Commander A C Ingram of High Point Post No 619 VFW says the post and its ladies auxiliary will hold a joint meeting at the post on North Main Street Monday night at 8 o clock. Newly elected officers of both groups will be installed. B F Ledford of Greensboro adjutant of the North Carolina VFW will install the post officers and Mrs Ruby Snyder, senior vice president of the auxiliary, will install the auxiliary officers.
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