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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1944
Page
6
The War Bond Booth opens as Junior Service League and D A R Chapter convene Thursday. University Women Catholic Guild, Girl Scouts and Altrusa Club meet Saturday. Priscilla Club holds a Christmas gathering Friday at 3 PM with Mrs W B Hall on Johnson Street.
Members led by Mrs. John Pickett gather at the YWCA Red Cross rooms Wednesday at 10 30 to prepare for the surgery dressings drive. Each member brings two sandwiches to support the aid effort.
The annual Y W A Christmas Banquet was held at the First Baptist Church on Monday night December 11. Elizabeth Wood presided and Rev. W. Wilbur Hutchins spoke on happiness as officers were installed by Mrs. Hazel Young. Members, prospective members, and guests attended the candlelit event with carols and songs.
Calendar lists numerous Christmas parties gatherings and club meetings from Tuesday through Wednesday. Groups include Point Altrusa Legion Auxiliary Eastern Star Garden clubs and nursing and study groups with venues at hotels YWCA Memorial Hospital and Emerywood Country Club. Several luncheons dinners and a USO dance are noted.
The Junior Wesley Service Guild of the First Methodist Church met with Miss Martha Hayworth at 406 West Bay last night. Miss Margaret Lee led the program of Christmas readings and carols. Rev. W. C. Weldon officiated at the candle light installation of officers for the coming year. New officers include Martha Hayworth president, Lillie Mae Moore vice president, Lassie Eshelman secretary, Celeste Payne treasurer, Margaret Lee spiritual life chairman, Donna Burns missionary cultivation chairman, Eloise Cecil Christian social relation and local church activity chairman, Geraldine Lee social and recrea tion activities chairman. A social hour followed with Christmas gifts and refreshments.
The Altrusa Board met last night at Mrs. John Rothrock’s home 208 Woodrow Avenue. The decor featured red and white colors with spruce and holly, a white sled centerpiece drawn by white reindeer, poinsettias and white carnations, and red tapers in silver candelabras. A Christmas dinner preceded the business session during which a Tuberculosis Association letter was read and a $15 tuberculosis donation approved. Present were Mrs. Louise Abernathy Mrs. Evelyn Alive Dixon Mrs. Marie Forrest Mary Lou Rothrock Mrs. Mary Ballard and Miss Madeline Hoover.
The Florence Thomas Bible class met last night at 906 Forest Hill Drive with 34 ladies attending. Hosts Mrs. Fred Thomas and Mrs. R. D. Baird welcomed guests, a Bethlehem scene framed the living room, and refreshments followed in a candlelit dining room with a white satin tablecloth.
Mrs. C. L. Eaton will entertain Newcomers at her home 1040 Wellington Road for the year luncheon meeting. The event is set for twelve thirty oclock in the afternoon, announced yesterday.
Asheboro reports the tenth grade at Asheboro High School hosted a Friday dance in the gym with chaperones and a grand march led by the tenth grade president Buddy Willis. Winners in a dance contest were Adger Williams and Mary Neely, while a singing quartet won the prize. Cookies and drinks followed.
The Woman's Club staffed the Sixth War Loan booths yesterday and announced the first bond buyers. Miss Helen Marie Perkinson purchased the first bond at the Sheraton booth and Mrs Iola D. Culler bought the first at the Elwood booth.
A collection of brief items reports Bob Moorefield recovering from surgery at General Hospital and plans to return home, Sgt C E Harville visiting relatives in Greenville from Colorado Springs, Frances Rich seriously injured and hospitalized in Asheboro with no visitors, Cravem Page returning from Washington DC, Mrs Edward Shamgochian visiting Fresno while Shamgochian serves in the Philippines, Lt William E King visiting family while stationed in Dyersburg and related notes on Marian King and other local residents and wartime topics.
Intermedi ate Department announces its annual Christmas party at the West End Baptist Church on Thursday December 14 at 7 30 pm. Almeta Wintiser chairs the committee with Mary Ella Coffey Betty Sue White Peanut Church and Roger Jackson Jr. among organizers. Stephens Bible Study Class to meet next Wednesday at 3 pm at Mrs C C Hook's Parkway home led by Mrs C S Grayson.
The Executive Board of the Woman's Club will meet tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock with Mrs. J. A. Eshleman at her home, 95 Johnson Street. It was also announced that the Christ program will be held Wednesday, December 20, at the home of Mrs. Sherwood Forrest.
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