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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1933
Page
6
The Sedgefield Ride and Hunt club hosts a drag meet Saturday at 4% o'clock from Sedgefield Inn with moving pictures planned. Messrs Earl N Phillips and Frank Curran will host tea at the Inn after the drag.
Mrs F R Taylor hosted the Auxiliary of the Guilford County Medical Society at her home 1113 Johnson Street for the annual Christmas party. The event featured holly decorations a lace covered table red and silver centerpiece and tall red tapers. After a buffet supper a brief business session was held and funds and gifts noted for the nurse at the Sanatorium. Members from Greensboro High Point and Guilford College attended and carols concluded the evening.
Tea and Topics club met at South Main street home with Mrs J E Marsh hosting. Mrs J T Weaver led a program on Sidney Lanier and read his poem Corn, followed by refreshments as Mrs Marsh’s daughter helped.
O R York High Point postmaster explains the home and school role in character and citizenship at the Oak Hill Parent Teacher meeting. The event featured a devotional, music, a play by Oak Hill parents and a later schedule for a school event.
The Priscilla club meets Mrs. C. A. King on Oakwood court at 3 p.m. The Philomathean club is entertained by Mrs. Rufus King at 402 Hillcrest drive at 3 p.m. The Lotus club meets Mrs. W L Hargett on Johnson street at 8 p.m. Members are asked to note the change in day and hour of the meetings.
The Senior Christian Endeavor Society of Central Friends church holds a regular meeting in the church auditorium tonight at 7 30 bringing members and guests. The event includes a contest for the most representatives with Welch Memorial church, encouraging attendance and friend invites.
The regular monthly meeting of the Willing Workers class of South Main Street M. E. church scheduled for this evening at 7 30 with Mrs M M Howard is postponed to Friday December 15. Members are asked to note the date change and attend next Friday.
Robert Blackwell 16 son of A F Blackwell of this city died in Chester South Carolina hospital Wednesday from pneumonia. Survived by father mother Mrs Sidney Blackwell Chester five brothers Otis Fred Forest Albert William Thomas and two sisters Mrs Dewey McDaniel Union DC and Mrs Carl Lee Fuller Blithewood DC. Funeral services will be held at the home in Chester.
In Winston-Salem on December 8 a woman named Bertha Watkins clapped when a friend was acquitted of auto theft. Judge Thomas J. Shaw jailed her for five days and imposed a $10 fine for the clapping act.
A male heir was born to Richard J. Reynolds Jr. at Reynolds mansion, Winston-Salem. The infant, likely to be named R. J. Reynolds III, weighs nine pounds and with mother Elizabeth McCaw Dillard is reported doing nicely. The birth enters a complex family estate where Smith Reynolds left a $200,000 personal estate plus trust funds, and disputes over the will and guardianship continue before courts.
After growing sugar beets, subsequent crops show a 50 to 80 percent increase in tons. The observation highlights crop rotation benefits and potential planning implications for farmers seeking higher total farm yield.
The department of agriculture maintains five experimental stations to promote Alaska’s agricultural development.
Mrs J F Davis and her daughter were struck on South Main by a speeding hit and run vehicle near B Park bridge. Davis suffered a concussion and scalp lacerations with a right clavicle fracture while her daughter Lena Davis was uninjured. Harris, riding with two women, sustained lacerations. Police pursued the fleeing car for about seven miles but did not overtake it.
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