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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1941
Page
6
Miss Mary Allan Clinard hosted a luncheon at 401 Otteray Drive for Dorothy Stewart bride elect of the late summer. Guests included close friends. tables were set buffet style with embroidered linen and a summer floral centerpiece as a three course repast was served.
Miss Cunard presented Miss Stewart with a silver gift in a liner wedding pattern. Covers were laid for Mesdames Collier Ellis, Gilbert Cinard, MacLean B. Leath, Henry Betts, Richard Marshall of Memph, Tenn., and Misses Caroline Dalton, Jean B Blunt, Betty Hardin, Margaret Grayson, Sarah Tomlinson, the honoree, and the hostess. Mrs. George A. Covington returned from Washington, Bu Cy j after a month with her brother and sister.
The Double M club of the W C A met at Adams Memorial building yesterday afternoon to hear Mrs Ben Herman review Somerset Maughams Up to The Villa The audience was engaged as she painted vivid character sketches and held attention through the discourse Mrs W A James presided in place of the president with the group voting to suspend meetings until September due to vacations. Social hour followed with refreshments served by Mrs George Davis and Mrs G W Pleasants.
Miss Pat Abel hosts a party at Emerywood Country Club to honor Mrs. Frank H. Stell Jr., former Betty Lou Warner. Four tables of bridge with sixteen guests. play begins at three in the ladies lounge amid colorful flowers. Mrs Stell, now in Durham, visits her Warner parents, Mr. and Mrs. Phil Warner.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary completed plans for an annual basket picnic to be held Friday at the city lake. The event starts at six with families urged to bring well filled baskets for the supper. Mrs. Ruby Snyder presided. routine business was conducted at the West Commerce Street hall.
CHAPEL HILL Aug 6 Secretary Fred W Greene of the North Carolina Education Association urged PTA units to form a Panzer division of forceful thought to address local education needs. He called for PTA units to become squads of stuka dive bombers of determination and to mobilize for a swift attack on major problems and step up the present program of attack.
Miss Eleanor Welch daughter of Mr and Mrs C B Welch of this city spends the summer in Maine at Camden Rockport music enclave hosting Curtis String Quartet and Summer Harp Colony. She studies harp with Dr Carlos Salzedo and was admitted after a Philadelphia audition. Welch earned a cum laude Bachelor of Music from Salem College in Winston Salem. Also mentions her visit to New York before leaving for Maine. Police Chief Wallace appointed Fayetteville chief after 11 years on force.
Miss Edythe Crooks, bride elect, was feted at a dinner hosted by Miss Billie Bundy and Mrs. Margaret Taylor at Mrs. Herbert Cartland’s home in Greensboro. Guests included close friends and relatives, with place cards and green and white bridal color arrangements, and the hosts presented crystal gifts to the honoree.
Washington Council No. Four Daughters of America will hold its regular meeting tomorrow evening at 7 15 at the hall 120 East Washington Street. After business the group will proceed to the city lake for a watermelon feast. All members are urged to attend both the meeting and the outing.
The Sons and Daughters of Liberty will hold a watermelon cutting at High Point City Lake tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Members with families and friends are asked to meet at the post office at 6 o'clock and proceed together to the lake.
The Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle will meet at the Odd Fellows Hall on West Commerce Street tomorrow night at 7 30. All members are urged to be present, officials announced today.
An ad advises mothers to watch for fretfulness and spitting up due to temporary constipation in teething children. It promotes TEETHINA as a mild laxative, notes it helps during colds, and provides purchase details of 30 cents per box with a free baby booklet from Teething Columbus Ga.
Mrs W H Curlee entertained the Tuesday Afternoon Club with a dessert bridge at her Fisher Ferry Street home in Thomasville on their name days. Prizes went to Mrs J Roy Proctor for members and Mrs John Crowell among visitors. The gathering included several members and guests, with other attendees listed, reflecting a busy social scene as guests travel for visits and news from Carolina Beach to New York.
Robert Rapp and R B Eleas spend days at Wrightsville Beach attending a Rosary convention with Mrs L Pollock and children Rebecca and Lee leaving Tuesday for weeks at Kins and Atlantic Beach with relatives Mr and Mrs C H Newby Miss Jennie Reid Newby at Sevr Springs this week. Circles of the First Presbyterian Church met at Mrs D A Troutne home Fisher Ferry Street with M D M Jester presiding. Mrs F D Bevan led Bible study and Mrs William Van Liere gave a program on The Sins to the Saints followed by a salad course served to the ladies.
The Forget-Me-Not Club will meet Friday afternoon at 2 o clock at the home of Mrs C Ivey on Lindsay Street. Afr iloan Gibson HI will serve as hostess for the gathering announced today.
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