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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1939
Page
6
Community column lists editor Madeline Hoover with contact number 4568 and office hours from 9 AM to 12 AM at A Sr e, highlighting club events and social notices.
Mesdames C. B. Baxter and Er. Z. Jones are honored at a Social Arts club birthday luncheon hosted by Mesdames A. B. Elam Leland B. Nelson and Mrs Zimmerman at 615 West Farriss Avenue. Guests include E. Co. Harville W. J. Frazier A. J. Koonce J. W. Rose and J. N. McCrary. next meeting set for May 11 at Mrs. Nelson's home.
The Girl Scout Song Festival at the junior high auditorium featured eleven troops with a strong turnout. The program opened with the senior high orchestra performing Schubert Rosamunde Dvorak Largo and Saint-Saens Francaise Militaire. Mass singing finale and patriotic "America" brought the event to a stirring close.
Mrs Ernest Wall reviews Edith Bolling Wilson's My Memoirs for Tea and Topics Club at Mrs R M Andrews home 607 Guilford Ave Greensboro. The talk covers early life of Mrs Wilson and her role with Woodrow Wilson and his death. Members and hostesses attend a brief business session followed by a salad course.
The Emerywood Country Club hosts an 8 p m social bridge event for all members at the clubhouse with advance reservations required. At 8 30 p m the High Point College Engineers Club hosts its first annual dance in the Sheraton ballroom featuring Shelton Stubbins and his orchestra.
Mrs W B McEwen of this city wins the Pen land Center for best tempera in the North Carolina Artists exhibition sponsored by the North Carolina Federation of Woman's Clubs She places fourth overall with a still life of artichokes on a tray The Raleigh exhibit ran April 17 30 with jurors Russell Train Smith A D McDonald and Henry Jay MacMillan
Guests arrive for the private Archdale Friends church ceremony in Trinity as Ruth Coltrane and Clifford W. Redding prepare to wed at high noon with relatives and close friends in attendance. Pianist and soloist roles filled by Evelyn Pearson and Eugenia Coltrane among others.
A group of 15 kindergarteners from Voorhees Modern School toured Greensboro by bus then train ending with a window shop stop. Captain Monroe gave a tour of Fire Station No. 1 and the trip featured first train rides for most of the children. Accompanying were Mrs. Voorhees and two other chaperones.
Miss Frances Mendenhall of the home economics department at the senior high school and H C Barthmaier interior decorator spoke at Chapter Night of the homemaking committee. The event opened with group singing and a prayer, followed by a poem.
The Em erywood country club announces the adult members evening bridge party scheduled for tomorrow is canceled due to conflicts with other affairs. The next event will be Friday May 5 at the clubhouse with play starting at 8 o clock.
Ruth Coltrane, bride designate of Dilford Wilson Redding, will wed at Archdale Friends Church in a private ceremony. The Archdale church Woman's Auxiliary hosted a surprise miscellaneous shower at the home of Mrs. Horace Ragan with about 45 members and guests in attendance.
The First Methodist Protestant Sunday School Juniors picnic planned for Saturday has been postponed. A new date will be announced later and all juniors are asked to note the postponement. The Sun Shine Class of Pisgah Baptist Church meets at 7 30 this evening with Mrs L B Grubb at 516 Worth Avenue. all members and visitors are welcome.
Dr. Rosen and L Mooney from Tulane University will address a May 2 scientific meeting at the University of North Carolina physics department. The lecture topic is X Rays and Crystal Structure.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lee and family and Mrs. George Jenkins return home after attending the final rites for Mrs. George Dempster Rhodes in Johnson City Tennessee mother of Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Jenkins. Miss Nancy Gladstone of Winston Salem visits Miss Mary Anne Thomas on Colonial Drive. Mrs. Robert Walker resumes city life after a three week yachting cruise to Bimini Bahamas guest of Mr. and Mrs. William Hollibird of Chicago. Mrs. Jake Bodenheimer returns from Burrus Memorial Hospital where she had a tonsillectomy and is recuperating. Mrs. Oriana B James and daughter Catherine James go to Raleigh to attend Paderewski concert at Memorial Auditorium and weekend guests of friends. Little Pattie Meade Veach remains at Burrus Memorial Hospital with pneumonia and no visitors. Little Mary Lane Ballard confined to home with measles.
Mr and Mrs Lee F Schaner entertain Wesley Memorial Sunday School members at Emerywood Country Club tonight from 9 to 12. About 100 class members and guests attend. class now lists 107 members aged 17 to 23.
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