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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1945
Page
12
Society of Chattanooga announces the engagement of Jesse Ellsworth Evans to James Henry Millis. The couple, both from prominent Tennessee families, plan a future following Millis’s return from military service and Evans’s family ties to J E Evans of Chattanooga.
High Point chapter number 106 Order of the Eastern Star will hold its regular meeting Tuesday at 7 30 PM in the Masonic Hall per an announcement by Miss Bessie and the secretary.
The YWCA Business and Professional department announces two club meetings this week with one postponement. On Thursday the Jolly Y club hosts a Christmas format at Adams Memorial YWCA with ORD Greensboro officers as guests. Dinner at 7, dancing later. hostesses Esther Rae Wilson Joyce Suggs Dorothy House. Live Yers New Year dance Friday at 8 for ORD soldiers. arrangements by Lella Smith Dorothy Hiatt Inez Pierce Dorothy Davis. The Business and Professional re will not meet Tuesday.
Miss Margie Crawford daughter of Mr and Mrs J D Crawford of 421 Oak street married W Leslie Burdick of Somerville Massachusetts at the bride's home with Cecil Haworth officiating. The couple will reside near Boston and plan a Florida wedding trip after holidays.
Miss Nellie Ruth Wolling married Harry Dixon Hines at Main Street Methodist Church McColl South Carolina on Saturday December 15 at 5 pm in a ceremony conducted by Rev J S Coates and Rev D A Montgomery. Attendants included Elizabeth Morrison and Sarah Wilson Keel. reception for family followed. The couple will reside at 1119 Glendon Way South Pasadena California.
Mrs. John Hobbs hosted a birthday party at 800 Prospect Road for her son Harold turning four. Attendees included Annabelle Hobbs and eight children who enjoyed games and a cake with four pink candles followed by refreshments.
Mesdames Fred A. Thomas and Henry A. Betts hosted a tea at 906 Forest Hill Drive honoring Mrs. Fred Thomas Jr and Mrs. Craig Venable Morton of Dayton Ohio. About two hundred guests visited 4:30 to 5:30 PM, greeting by Mrs. W B Thomas and Mrs. Collier Ellis, with formal receiving line and a tea service featuring red candles holly mistletoe and a silver tea service.
Mrs. L. F. Honeycutt hosted the annual Christmas recital for her piano pupils on Friday December 21 at 607 Woodrow Avenue. The program featured numerous young performers and mothers as guests, with each pupil displaying notable progress in their numbers.
Guilford county sanatorium staff and nurses at the nurses home honored Miss Ruth Anderson as she resigns as superintendent of nurses to lead a new department. Christmas decorations, poinsettias, and waxed white flowers brightened the venue as red candles added color. About fifteen staff and nurses attended the holiday gathering with dainty refreshments.
Miss Barbara Lynn a junior at the University of North Carolina selected as one of nine winners in Yackety Yack annual beauty contest. Final decision made by stars Humphrey Bogart and Laureen Bacall after contestants were submitted for judging. Miss Lynn is daughter of Mr and Mrs J Herman Lynn of Wellington Road High Point.
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