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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1944
Page
6
Mrs Rankin and Miss Furgurson hosted a WAVE party at the Ferguson home on Lindsay street for Miss Mary Doane Ran who is leaving for service. The event featured four tables with patriotic decor and prizes for winners. Guests included Miss Rankin and many others with a salad plate reception concluding the cards.
The Women of The Moose held a membership party Wednesday evening at the Moose Hall. Speeches and dancing filled the event with high scores in ladies and gentlemen bridge, door and setback prizes, and all prizes paid in war savings stamps.
The Voorhees Town and Country School kindergarten operated by Mrs Louis F Voorhees will reopen for the fall term on Wednesday September 20. The delay is in cooperation with the public schools and Mrs Voorhees is in Charlottesville Virginia due to her mother's illness.
About People Miss Lois Bowen returns from Montgomery to visit fiancé Avi ation Cadet on oo P vne Was account her mother Mrs M J Bowen. Mrs Lloyd McClure comes home from Buffalo visiting sister Mrs Frank Carter and Niagara Falls Toronto and other points, with brief Washington D C. stay. Mrs J B Dobson Jr travels to New York for Post-War Girl Scout program at Edith Macy Camp Aug 23 29. Mr and Mrs T P Kimrey and daughter Mrs Harding McKinney head to New York City. F C Morehead and family return from Hildebran after son Rev F Curtis Morehead Jr wedding Martha Hines at Mount Hebron.
Seaman second class and Mrs Coy W Jackson announce the birth of a son Eddie Dale on August 21 at the Boulevard unit of High Point Memorial Hospital.
Miss Martha Hines of Hickory wed Reverend F Curtis Morehead Jr a Lenoir Rhyne and Lutheran Theological Seminary graduate. The ceremony at a Hickory church featured a ring ceremony and floral arrangements. The couple will reside in Hildebran after a short trip.
Busy shoppers are offered Pattern 4685 for jumper frocks in women sizes 34 through 46 plus a blouse description. The ad notes yardage, sleeve length, and price ten cents per pattern with an extra fifteen cents for the Anne Adams Fall and Winter Pattern Book.
Poetically urges embracing full feeling as proof of life. Calls for courage to feel joy anger sadness and desire, rejecting complacency and numbness. References historic symbols and a prayer to the Creator, urging action over passive existence. The eagle emblem as a sign of might is noted.
Miss Marjorie Payne president of the First Methodist Church Youth Fellowship and Gil bert Gray past president travel to Lake Geneva Wisconsin for the National Convocation of Methodist Youth. They represent their church among one thousand selected from two million youths nationwide to attend the conference from August 25 to August 30.
Mr and Mrs S C Craven returned Monday from Macon Georgia where their son Pvt Henry B Craven, a patient at Camp Wheeler Station Hospital, recuperates from a fractured foot suffered three weeks ago. Pvt Craven, in service since May 18 1944, has been stationed at Camp Wheeler during this period. Mrs W W Evans of Brunswick Georgia, daughter of the Cravens, joined them in Macon.
New Orleans football referee Johnny Lynch says the greatest compliment is players failing to recognize him after a 7 6 game. He notes if players in a hotel elevator do not know the official they can feel he did a swell job. The black eyed susan is Maryland’s state flower.
Among living animals the alligator and crocodile possess the smallest brains in proportion to body size, a fact noted in comparative neuroanatomy highlighting extreme brain-to-body ratios across species.
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