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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1939
Page
12
From Charlotte, economist Babson argues that 1939 workers are better off than in 1929 with higher wages and lower living costs overall. He notes taxes consume more of the wage and predicts gradual wage gains into 1940 while postwar shopping and post Christmas sales offer limited savings.
Thelma Loflin argues for mandatory three week driving school for reckless driving offenders. She urges jurists to require driving school for license eligibility, noting safety and civic duty along with potential reductions in crashes and fatalities.
The annual Sunday School program at the First Methodist Church will be held in the church auditorium next Friday night at 7 30. The theme is White Gifts To The King and attendees are asked to bring gifts wrapped in white. Special music will feature the event.
Edenton residents report Fire Chief Dick Hall who, while promoting chimney and flue cleaning, saw his own house catch fire in a chimney. Fire crews responded to extinguish the blaze as he supervised the effort.
Elementary glee clubs across High Point prepare Christmas program appearances in city churches this week. Miss Dorothy Hoskins leads the effort, marking the first year these clubs exist in the city’s elementary schools. The Elm Street School Glee Club performs at 11 this morning at First Baptist Church under Mrs Aubrey Dunbar. The Emma Blair group sings at Green Street Baptist Church later today.
Between 20 and 25 members of High Point lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose traveled to Danville Virginia last night for a birthday party hosted by Mrs Cy Young and E D Clutter at the Danville Moose Hall. The event is an annual affair in Danville.
Miss Dorothy Kirkman and Mrs. Mabel Beeson lead a 7:30 PM study group tonight. At 7:30 PM Thursday the Ada Blair Glee Club under Mrs. A B Parker will sing at Gospel Tabernacle on Willowbrook Street. Cloverdale Glee Club led by Miss Winifred Bodie performed at the YWCA candlelight service last Thursday.
Mrs C A Nichols mother of Mrs W B McEwen and Mrs J C Abels of High Point and Mrs J T Weaver of Archdale died at 9 Saturday morning while visiting a cousin in St. Petersburg Florida. She was born Sept 19 1853 daughter of Dr J A and Elizabeth Weaver Reagan of Weaverville NC and married at 18 to Charles A Nichols with surviving children Mrs George L Hackney Lexington Mrs W B McEwen High Point Dr J T Nichols Muskogee Oklahoma and C Arthur Nichols.
Funeral services for William H. Smith 82 died Saturday at 1301 West Green Street will be at West End Baptist Church at 8 pm today conducted by Rev T H Biles with Rev Reese. Burial at Pleasant Grove Cemetery Nichols Tulsa Oklahoma. Survived by two sisters Mrs Thomas Hale Weaver San Diego and Mrs E M Goosby Weaverville and one brother J J Reagan Weaverville. Interment will be at Weaverville Monday afternoon.
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