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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1930
Page
6
Community entries list the Lend‑a‑Hand club meeting at 7 30 pm in Highland Community hall and note several local events. Also included are hospital, birth, PTA, social party reports, garden club gathering, and Christmas charity activities with attendees and hosts.
People Forest Shuford, Boys' Commissioner for High Point, spent yesterday afternoon in Greensboro. George Marvin of Charlottesville, Virginia, is a business visitor in the city today. Fr. J. Flagler departed last night for New York City on a business trip for the High Point, Thomasville and Denton Railroad.
Chapel Hill December 4 The General Alumni Assembly of the University Alumni Association opens at the Carolina Inn with a session on teacher student relations. W T Shore of Charlotte presides. President Frank Graham and deans give introductory talks on teaching, deans offices, personal advice, and psychology.
The High Point Merchants Association awards two prizes after the Christmas parade next Monday night. An 85.00 prize goes to the best decorated truck and another 85.00 prize to the best decorated automobile. The parade forms in front of the Arthur hotel at 7 45 and moves to the Southern railroad station as the Piedmont Limited arrives with Santa Claus aboard. T. C. Johnson says many firms have entered and invites more businesses to join, regardless of Merchants Association membership.
A meeting of the Alumni Association board of directors is scheduled for 9 oclock Saturday morning at the Carolina Inn. Nominations for president first and second vice presidents and athletic council representative will be accepted at the session starting tomorrow at 10 30. Balloting will be by mail with results announced January 1. Reports will be heard from the alumni secretary general treasurer local alumni clubs class organizations the Alumni Loyalty Fund and the athletic council.
The obituary recalls Thomas Carlyle born December 4 1795 in Eccleston Scotland. It notes his rise as a British essayist historian and philosopher and highlights Sartor Resartus and his influence on 19th century British literature. England census scheduled for April 26 1931.
O R Hodgin hosted the Afternoon Bridge club at her Mock Street home with two tables and prizes for Miss Alliene Hoover and Mrs Zed Griffith. Gleaners class election at Mrs Curlee home selected officers led by Mrs John Hiatt with prize-winning contests and a Christmas story followed by refreshments. Several Stone family members from Asheville, Asheboro, High Point and Charlotte attended the funeral Tuesday and returned home that night.
Mrs. D. L. Maynard and daughter Ann of Greensboro along with Mr. and Mrs. Julius Green of High Point spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Green.
Mrs Marshall Hoover and Mary Hoover returned Sunday from a visit with relatives in Tennille Georgia.
Mrs. Ray Hoover came back Sunday night from Newton where she spent Thanksgiving with her mother Mrs. W F Rader.
Mr and Mrs Forrest Grimes spent Thanksgiving at Roaring River as guests of Mrs Grimes parents.
Wallace B. Stone of Swannanoa and Wayne Stone of Richmond returned Wednesday to their respective homes after spending a few days in the city. They were called here by the death of their brother.
Friends note Marie Jones has recovered sufficiently from a brief illness to return to duties at the Thomasville Realty and Trust company on West Main street.
Mrs J F Hayden and daughter Mrs Royster Tucker and little Dianne spent Monday at High Point with Mrs J A Green who is ill at home. Friends report Mrs Green's condition is improving.
North Carolina State college will air Campus Gossip on WPTF every Saturday at 5 p.m. for 15 minutes. The program, sponsored by the State college news bureau and edited by Frank H. Jeter, will cover agriculture engineering and student news briefs with Louis H. Wilson as spokesman. The theme song State College Keep Fighting Along will feature Wingham Scott at the piano.
A local bank in Falfurrias Texas distributed seed packages to farmers to encourage home gardening. Recipients agreed to plant late fall gardens as advised by the county agent.
The most powerful wireless broadcasting station in Europe, now through final tests, is to be erected at Rusia near Warsaw, Poland, marking a significant expansion of European communications infrastructure.
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