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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1931
Page
5
The Musical Art club cancels its evening program at the local Country club due to the serious condition of J. Gurney Briggs, who was injured in a horse fall Sunday.
A solid silver key ring doubles as an ego flattering initial or monogram. Keys fit onto the letter eight, offering a compact, quality novelty gift for tough-to-buy names on holiday lists.
A fashion feature by JOAN SAVOY presents a two tone winter ensemble pairing a red crepe silk waist with a brown skirt and cuffs. The outfit includes matching two tone kid shoes with dark brown counters and lighter brown vamp, highlighting coordinated accessories and refined tailoring.
Members of the DeMolay chapter will host a dance on December 30 at the High Point Country club. Admission will be by cards available from any member. Music provided by Burt Asbury and his orchestra.
Mrs. I. Fay Horton entertained friends at a bridge party in her home at 309 Sunset Drive. Four tables played with Christmas greens decor. High score prize went to Mrs. Ted Baker a necklace with dress clasps. Second prize bronze incense burner to Mrs. E. R. Outland. Consolation to Mrs. R. A. Wilson. Mrs. Horton gave a hand embroidered towel to Mrs. J. D. Daggett. Refreshments followed.
Miss Elizabeth Strickland leads the Mozart Music Club at the Redmans home on Greenway drive. New officers Mary Ruth Woollen Anne Chappell and Jane Austin take office as the program features Edward MacDowell life and works with Jane Austin narrating and piano pieces by Miss Strickland and herself. Then tours of The Musicland School study class and refreshments served by the Redman hostesses and Mrs K Redman. Dr and Mrs H P H Robinson of Medina Ohio arrive Wednesday to visit daughter Mrs Marvin Greenwood on Johnson Street.
The North Main Street Baptist church hosts Christmas pageant Gifts to the Christ Child directed by Miss Aline Kelly at 7 30 PM. A silver offering for state missions will be taken. The Sunday school will hold a Christmas tree with gifts for each child.
North Carolina boys may compete for one of twelve Culver Military Academy full scholarships valued at $6000. Open to ninth graders from NC after September 1932 with limits including age 14 to 16, height 5 ft 2 in, family income under $6000, NC residence since Jan 1 1931, and high school eligibility requirements.
Miss Mary Lou Thompson, sponsor of the Philothea class of First Baptist High Point, is a patient at Baptist hospital in Winston-Salem ill with mastoiditis. Friends of Mrs. G. M. Grubb report she is improving at home after surgery at Burrus Clinic Saturday morning. Mrs. Virgil Gurley is ill at Guilford General hospital. Anne Robbins, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music student, visits holidays with her parents south of the city. Dr. and Mrs. G. C. Allery of Springfield Ohio stay with daughter Mrs. Seborn Perry at North Main Street.
Churches across the city featured special Christmas music during Sunday services. Wesley Memorial Church held a lawn concert at 6:45 pm by its young people’s band. Dr Charles H Nabers preached at First Presbyterian on The Man They Cannot Forget, praising Christ as the universal savior and central to Christmas.
The Christian Science lesson sermon for December 20 centered on the theme Is the Universe Including Man Evolved by Atomic Force. The golden text came from a cited source as part of the weekly religious study across churches and societies.
Rev. T. H. Willey preached at the Gospel Tabernacle about the Christmas prophecy from Isaiah. He argued the text points to two world histories with a Divine Man Child first and a second coming with universal authority and judgment.
Pastor John B. All at the Seventh-day Adventist church teaches that the glorified body will be made of bones flesh sinews skin and breath. He cites Bible verses to describe the prefall perfection and the future resurrection at Christ second coming as the churchs glorious hope for believers from Abel to the present generation.
Father C B Murphy at St Edward's Catholic Church speaks on Christmas as a time of remembrance and thanksgiving. He notes the incarnation as a divine mercy and explains the real presence in Holy Communion, urging the faithful to reflect on Christ's birth and last night as a sign of enduring union with believers.
A full Wesley Memorial Congregation filled the lower floor and balcony as 29 junior choir members aged 8 to 12 performed The Awakening cantata under Mrs Sidney Gayle. The program showcased polished singing and careful vestment and stage decorations with a White Christmas theme throughout the auditorium.
White festive decorations covered the church as the service closed with a $157.72 Christmas offering to the Methodist Children's Home in Winston-Salem. Eight hundred five attended the church school while over 80 boys and girls joined the Junior Church. Rev. G Ray Jordan gave the sermon Why A Savior. The Young People's group staged a lawn carol concert with the band attracting many adults. Junior Choir members named include Irma Shore ShERoff and others.
Central Friends church held Christmas themed Sunday school and worship. Rev. Tom A. Sykes preached on Our Christmas Gifts and Christmas the Message Our World Needs. The cantata The Cradle of Bethlehem closed the day with the choir joined by Marian Burgess.
Mrs J A Eshelman and her two daughters Misses Helen Bonner and Frances have returned from New York City where they spent several months Frances Eshelman will return to resume studies at Columbia University on January 3 James M McLaurin a student at State College Raleigh is spending holidays with his aunt Mrs A E Frazier at 1112 Johnson Street
A cat wandered into the First Christian church as services began. The animal stood in the aisle, stared at the preacher, then jumped onto the secretary's desk and fell asleep.
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