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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1939
Page
6
Deline Hoover edits this social column and club notices. Office hours run from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Readers submit event listings and announcements for community groups and organizations. Contact details include a local office line for inquiries.
The Entre Nous Club held a holiday gathering at Mrs A E Tate's 6 West Broad Street with festive decor nandina and pyrocanthera berries and a music box playing songs. Four Boston rock tables were in play and a repast was served at tea tables with Mrs J W Harriss supervising the frozen dessert in the dining room. Members present included Mesdames E Sheloff G I Humphreys Embree H Blackard B S Cummins and others with guests Mmes R K Stewart C A Barbee OB Kearns and OP Moffitt.
Members of the Y s Girls Club enjoyed a Christmas luncheon at the Y W C A hut starting at 1 p m yesterday. Each member found a small gift at her plate with Christmas napkins and table settings matching the tree and creche motif. The event closed with carols sung by the 12 members present and plans for next week to meet at 6 p m Thursday for caroling.
Mrs J E Burton entertained last evening at her mother Mrs J D Greene Sr home on Idol Street honoring Miss Katharine Greene whose wedding to Edward Ridge is planned for the month end. Yuletide decor, bingo and games were enjoyed with prizes to Mrs Irvin Iseman and Mrs Frank Courtney. The honoree received a crystal pattern piece as a hostess gift, followed by a salad course and green and white candies for guests including Mrs S J Best Jr Vernon Ward Frank Courtney E B Dennis Co C Goodson J D Greene Sr Mrs Irvin Iseman Mrs Woodrow Crews Marie Heath and Virginia Greene.
The quiet ceremony at Hilliard Memorial Baptist Church united Miss Lily Mae Frank of this city and Robert Lee Scott yesterday afternoon. Rev. H Q Miller officiated as Miss Frank wore a plum suit with fur trim and talisman roses. The couple will reside at 618 White Oak Street.
A Johnson Street school PTA Christmas tea was hosted by Mrs. E. K. Hightower at 1513 Larkin Street with holiday decorations and gifts distributed. The Wallburg Beta Club met at Miss Margaret Garrison’s home to discuss parliamentary law and enjoy games, with prizes awarded.
Live Y ers and Highland Clubs prepare festive gatherings at Emerywood Country Club and at Mrs. C E Sheloff’s Parkway home. The YWCA Book Club meets Saturday at two thirty with Miss E Vera Idol reading poetry. Groups plan holiday meetings through Tuesday before break.
Mrs W L Wiles of 718 For rest Avenue announces the marriage of her daughter Rowena Reitzel to Seabron Alton Morton. The couple wed quietly in Chesterfield South Carolina on November 9 with Mr and Mrs George Leonard as witnesses. Mrs Morton is the youngest Wiles daughter, born in High Point where she attended high school. Morton is son of Mrs R E Morton and the late Morton, educated in Albemarle schools and now living in High Point. They reside at 3298 West Russell Street.
The Anderson Memorial Class of Oak Hill Friends Church gathers Saturday at 7:30 PM at Mr. and Mrs. Paul Williams home on English Street. Green Street Baptist cradle roll hosts a Christmas party Saturday 3 to 4 30 PM. South Main Methodist Willing Workers hold their Christmas party tonight at 7 30 at Mrs. E Roy Samuels 801 East Lexington Avenue.
The Thomasville Circuit of Methodist Churches met at Fair Grove on December 11 with a Christmas sketch by the Fair Grove League. New officers were elected for six months led by President Mary Lee Crouse and Secretary William Frazier. Birth announcements include Alan Edward Hart born December 9 at Burrus Memorial Hospital and Priscilla Ann Rich born December 10 at home on Kearns Street.
Mr and Mrs Jack Thomas of New York City plan to arrive tomorrow to spend the holidays with Mrs J E Marsh at 448 South Main Street. Davidson College student George Marsh is coming this evening to be with his mother during the holidays. Mrs Winnie Barber is confined to her Motfitt Drive home with a severe cold and cannot go out for several days. Mrs A B Loftin of Denton is ill at her son G K Loftin’s home 611 Montheu Avenue after falling ill while visiting.
Mrs J N McCrary was elected president of the Social Arts Club for the term starting January 1. The meeting at Mrs Leland B Nelsons on Louise Avenue also elected officers including Mrs F Z Jones as vice president and Mrs J W Rose as secretary treasurer. A committee presented the slate and arrangements were made for the clubs annual Christmas party.
Miss Anna Tomlinson daughter of C. F. Tomlinson and Miss Dorothy Dean Davis daughter of W. A. Davis both Ward Belmont School students in Nashville Tenn arrive tonight to spend Christmas vacation at home. Tomlinson is a sophomore and Davis a freshman both active on campus. They will return January 3 when classes resume.
The Johnson Street school PTA held its December meeting at 7 30 PM with the annual Christmas pageant O Holy Night presented by faculty and pupils. The pageant featured pan tomine music movement songs and reader lines dramatizing the first Christmas across three scenes with shepherds kings and the Nativity.
Peace Council No 9 Daughters of America holds its regular meeting tonight at 7 30 at the hall Members of the degree team are urged to be present for initiatory work Also noted a newborn daughter Carol Lynn born December 10 to Mr and Mrs James H Donovan in Brooklyn N Y former local resident Miss Johnsie Sprye is related to Mrs Donovan
A vested choir of 100 children from grades four to six sang a Christmas carol under the direction of Miss Dorothy Hoskins of the city school music faculty and Miss Ivey Paylor, principal of Johnson Street school, as the Star of Bethlehem shone above.
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