Community Holiday Activities and Club Gatherings Listed
A busy weekend calendar lists dinners and luncheons at the Ool Oat Club and Priscilla Club with Mrs R K Y, a Christmas tea at the Burbank Garden Club home on Hillcrest Drive, and a Christmas story by Mrs A McMurray. The Double M club honors the Y and W club at the YWCA with a Christmas tea and dinner. The USO plans a weekly service men event at the YMCA gym with music by a Greensboro band, plus an informal party at the USO club. Sunday features a buffet supper at the YWCA building for service members, in cooperation with the USO.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oool Oat Club
Priscilla Club
Burbank Garden Club
G. V. Baenee
Hillcrest Drive
A. McMurray
Double M
YWCA
Mesdames Jocest
George Cecil
USO
Ymca Gymnasium
BTC
Greensboro
Ywca Clubs
Efird's Store Annual Party Honors Longtime Employees
Efird's Store held its annual party for employees of one year or more with Miss Ruby Keller as mistress of ceremonies. Rev. C spoke the invocation, and Walter Sink discussed humorous store thefts of a Christmas tree. Gifts were exchanged around the decorated tree, with each recipient receiving a personalized novelty. Windham received a gold watch from staff for thoughtfulness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sp. Windhemm
Ram
Ruby Keller
Efird’s
Rev. C
Indham
Walter Sink
Virginia Ison
Joanne Loflin
J.cross
Ellen Hill
War Department
Mr. Windham
G.C. White
Windham
Business Club Elects New Officers At YWCA Meeting
The Business and Professional club of the YWCA held its dinner meeting at the Y building with Mrs. Alice Paige White as speaker on The Business and Professional Woman. She traced women's roles from colonial days to today and urged that the best person for a job should hold it. Annabelle Thompson was elected president to succeed Maud Reynolds. other officers include Unity Nash, Rada Poston, Polly Moon, Mary Ruth Seward, Lillia Marlowe, Neald Steed, Ethel Cronstedt, Margaret Link, Helen Betts, Rubia Shelton, and Jo Wood Welch with guests and club members in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Bailey
Frances Brown
Jean Horry
Susan Copeland
Marie Heath
C. E. Sheloff
Club
Jeannette Stutts
Lillian Mare
Rainbow Assembly planned by Eastern Star at High Point
Eastern Stars hear report on holiday projects at High Point chapter 106. Twenty three girls named for Rainbow Assembly to be organized here. Mrs Edwin Bennison presided. Reports note orphanage box valued 696.48 and gifts to Masonic Star Home in Greensboro. War bonds and tubercular seal bonds purchased. Invitation from Lexington chapter for December 16 initiation read. Christmas decorations and tree highlighted. Center of nation mentioned as 23 miles east of Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rainbow Assembly
High Point
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Edwin Bennison
Clyde Johnson
Susieham
Oxford
Willie Updegrove
Masonic and
Eastern Star
Greensboro
Lexington
BPWC Combines Meeting and Christmas Party at Sheraton
The High Point Business and Professional Women’s Club merged a brief business session with a Christmas party in the Sheraton ballroom. Elsie Kropf won a small tree ornament in a yes and no game, attendees sang carols by a simulated fireplace, Santa presided, and gifts and fruit punch with Moravian cookies were served. The club read a Christmas letter from Dr. Minnie L. Maffett and voted to donate to the Empty Stocking Fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheraton Hotel
High Point Business and
Elsie Kropf
Evelyn
Santa Claus
H. Casey
Minnie L. Maffett
Dallas
Tex
Graduate Nurses Club Holds Christmas Dinner and Installations
The Point Graduate Nurses Club held its annual Christmas dinner at the Adams Memorial YWCA with 36 members and 10 guests. Miss Wilma Webb chaired the event, which featured a U shaped table, carols, gifts, and a Christmas motif. installation of new officers followed, with Miss Reece Quinn becoming chairwoman and other officers installed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Graduate Nurses Club
Adams Memorial Y.W.C.A
Wilma Webb
Parsons Speaks at Friendly Garden Club Christmas Party
Mrs. David H Parsons delivered a talk on The Meaning of Christmas at Jamestown home of Mrs Roy C Brown for the Friendly Garden Club annual Christmas party. Miss Elizabeth Witcher sang White Christmas with her own accompaniment as club president E F Witcher announced new Hi Point Council affiliation and plans to help decorate High Point College gym for a December party. Donations for refreshments totaled 4.50 and gifts were distributed by Mrs Co L Clapp as twelve members enjoyed the afternoon hosted by Mrs Clapp and Mrs A M Upshaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy C. Brown
Jamestown
Friendly Garden Club
David H. Parsons
Parsons
W. L. Kivett
Elizabeth Witcher
E. F E. Witcher
Hi Point Council of Garden Clubs
High Point College
326Th College Training
Co. L. Clapp
League Urges Buying Red Cross T B Seals In December
At the December Junior Service League meeting held at the YWCA, Mrs. James S. Moffitt urged purchase of Red Cross T B seals to fund tuberculosis work including salaries for a nurse and an educational worker in High Point. Mrs. Willis H. Slane chaired as activities and plans were reviewed for a party for air students at the High Point training detachment and for Garden clubs sponsorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Service League
Y.W.C.A
Red Cross T.B
James S. Moffitt
High Point
Willis H. Slane
League
High Point Council of Garden Clubs
Rebekahs Plan Box for Orphans and Pageant Night
The Magdalene Rebekah Lodge meets Friday at 7 30 p m. Members bring gifts for the Odd Fellows Home in Goldsboro. After a brief session the box is packed. A pageant The Birth of Christ will be staged. Santa will distribute gifts from the tree as games contests and refreshments follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magdalene Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellows Home
Goldsboro
Christ
Santa Claus
Frances Chanel
Mary White
Margaret Hayworth
Bride and Sgt Metcalfe Return After Short Honeymoon
Sgt Bruce A Metcalfe and former Miss Julia Faye Setliff returned to High Point after a brief northern wedding trip. They were married Monday night in the First Presbyterian Church ladies parlor and will spend days with relatives before heading to Camp Gordon in Florida where he is stationed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce A. Metcalfe
Julia Faye Setliff
High Point
Florida
Sgt. Metcalfe
Camp Gordon
First Presbyterian Church
Elm Street P T A Presents Yuletide Operetta
The Elm Street Parent Teacher Association held its second meeting of the year with Hazel Youngs third grade and the Elm Street glee club staging a Christmas operetta based on Why the Chimes Rang. Original costumes scenery dances and dialogue complemented the program before parents visited classrooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elm Street
Parent-Teacher Association
Hazel Young
Elsieth
Elm Street Glee Club
Emma Blair School Children Stage Christmas Pageant
Emma Blair school children presented a Christmas pageant for the Parent-Teacher Association. All grades participated with a forty-child fifth and sixth grade choir singing carols and a lighted cathedral window scenery. Principal roles included Herald Angel Mary and Joseph with shepherds and Wise Men. Directors were Miss Carmen Austin and teachers Mabel Beeson Dean Pruette and Anna Dawson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Blair School
Parent-Teacher Association
Bagwend
Angel of Light
Mary
Shepherds
Manger
Herald Angel
Janice Murphy
Marjorie Hughes
Joseph
Billy Thomas
The
Williard
William Myers
Balkum
Jack Kay
Carmen Austin
Mabel Beeson
Dean Pruette
Anna Dawson
Hillcrest Christmas Party Set for Hillcrest Plant
The sixth annual Christmas party for Hillcrest Throwing Company employee children, over 150, will be held at the Hillcrest plant at 2 30 p m Sunday December 19 announced by A B Bell superintendent Special will be those children of former employees now in the armed services as employees were remembered
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillcrest Throwing Company
Burlington Mills Corporation
Hillcrest
A. B. Bell
Ormer
Armed Services
Christmas Party Plans At Company With Santa Visitor
The company prepares a Christmas party with a bonus and special letter. Santa will give gifts to children ten and under, employees’ children sing and recite, and all join in carols. J P Davis leads. helpers include Jhryn Daves, Dallas McGuire, and Jimmie Davis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
J. P. Davis
Ray Street PTA Xmas Program
The Bay Street PTA met Tuesday evening at the school. Mrs. Joe Dobson, president, distributed copies of The Messenger and received favorable comment. Letters from C F Carroll and C W Phillips were read and the Christmas play was set for Thursday at three o clock. First grade children presented a Nativity pageant with hymns and carols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay Street
Parent-Teacher Association
Joe Dobson
the Messenger
C. F. Carroll
C. W. Philli
PT Organization
R. F. J. Johnson
Local hospital patients and visits in North Carolina
Dent of High Point now in Baltimore at St Josephs hospital. Mrs T O Whittington returns home from Baptist Hospital Winston Salem after treatment. Jean Kearns, daughter of Mr and Mrs Tom Kearns, is at Guilford General Hospital after an operation Saturday. Mrs F C Remfrey and daughter Elizabeth visited Charlotte to see Mrs G C Thomas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. O. Whittington
West Bay ‘Street
Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem
Jean Kearns
Tom Kearns
Guilford General Hospital
F. C. Remfrey
Elizabeth
Charlotte
Mrs. Remfrey
G. C. Thomas
West Emerywood Garden Club Christmas Party Saturday
The West Emerywood Country Club hosts its annual Christmas party Saturday evening at Mrs. Herman Smiths home on Edgedale Drive according to club notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Emerywood Garden Club
West Emerywood Country Club
Herman Smith
Ion Edgedale
Plant closure set after December shifts
The plant will close at end of the third shift Thursday December 23 and reopen Monday morning December 27, as officials noted.
Old Washing Machine Becomes Shelter At Pueblo Center
A director at a Pueblo canning center converted an old washing machine into a small mechanical shelter near the Victory Garden. The improvised structure serves as a shelter device in the garden project space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victory Garden
Pueblo
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