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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1943
Page
10
A wartime Christmas prayer petitions Christ the child to comfort suffering children and end fighting. Elizabeth Vera Idol signs the plea dated 1943.
Mr and Mrs Wagner of High Point celebrate their golden wedding on December 28 1893 marriage date 1893 with open house for friends and relatives at 216 Willowbrook Street Hamint. They have eight children six living Avon Charles Ray Berge Brownie Minevie Miss Margie Ralph died and nineteen grandchildren.
Emerywood teenry club juniors enjoyed a gala holiday afternoon and evening on Christmas Eve with the annual Christmas party and dances at the club. Festive decorations featured Christmas greenery red tapers and poinsettias.
Ruth Goodman director of speech and dramatics at the local senior high school leaves for New York City to attend the joint conference of the National Association of Teachers of Speech and the American Educational Theater Association at the Hotel Commodore. She attends as national president of the Masque and Vet Society and will visit Miss Harriett Gates at Brooklyn Naval Hospital. The event runs for three days starting Tuesday.
The clubhouse hosted festive lights in the main lounge and dining rooms. Junior members aged nine to fourteen held a tea dance from four to six, while older members with out-of-town guests danced from eight to eleven. Music and intermission refreshments complemented the celebrations.
Announcement of the marriage of Earldine Adelaide Patterson and Ivey Austen Teague, a Navy seaman second class, solemnized December 19 in York South Carolina with Judge E Gettys Nunn officiating. The couple resides at 508 Hawthorne Street High Point.
The eighteenth annual Christmas dinner of the Overseers Club of the Amazon Cotton Mill was held at the Womans club in Thomasville with 65 members and guests present. D A Long Jr served as toastmaster. prizes included a $25 war bond to Jesse Crawford and war stamps to several attendees. Special music by Miss Dot Lewis and short talks by club members followed.
The Woodmen of the World and Woodmen Circle joint Christmas party on December 21 featured a Christmas program, devotional by Frank Hart, Mary Washburn telling the story, carols by Edith Ieva Virginia Leflin and Barbara Carroll, a reading by Bonnie Mack, gifts from Santa, and refreshments for about 50 members and guests.
Mr and Mrs J Add Hodgin of Jamestown announce the marriage of their daughter Shirley to W Guy Johnson of Baltimore Maryland on September 20 1943 in Baltimore The bride is a Jamestown High School and Jones Business College graduate The groom is the eldest son of Mr and Mrs W V Johnson of Epworth Georgia He graduated Copperhill High School and attended North Georgia College They will live in Baltimore where both work in the Glenn L Martin Aircraft Company inspection department An auxiliary sentence about ammunition remains from source not part of this wedding item.
Archdale Methodist Church heard the marriage of Miss Soaabies Zanda Lindley and Lt. William Roman on December 18. Rev. G. E. te officiated as a large crowd watched. The bride wore white satin with train and veil, carried white carnations, and wore her mother's pearls. The groom is with the Army Air Corps and recently commissioned in Florida. After a wedding trip they will live with the bride's parents through January before the groom resumes duty.
Announcement of the marriage of Miss Margaret Elizabeth Potts to James Brantley Lambeth states vows were exchanged September 4, 1943, in Laurens, South Carolina. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Potts of Kernersville, is a Colfax High School graduate. the groom is a senior at North Carolina State College Raleigh, majoring in civil engineering.
Mr and Mrs J L Barlow announce the marriage of their daughter Billie Jane to Pvt Loyd Taylor Fronterhouse of the United States Army. The ceremony occurred Sunday December 5 in York South Carolina with Judge FE Gettys Nunn officiating. Fronterhouse serves with the paratroops and is stationed at Camp Mackall North Carolina. The bride will live with her parents while he serves.
In York December 5, Mrs Loyd T Fronterhouse formerly Billie Jane Barlow daughter of Mr and Mrs J L Barlow of this city announced today her marriage to paratrooper.
Engagements and marriages announced in Asheboro include Joy Siler and Pfc. Hugh C. Patterson Jr in Chesterfield South Carolina with Patterson stationed at North Camp Hood Texas, Evelyn Marie Rich Barker ties to J O Barker in York South Carolina, Bonnie Tabitha Rugan wed Thomas Reid Hunt, Margaret Ellen Wright weds Wade Arnold Cox, Emma Hunt wed Lewis Daniel Thomas, all noted by local families and churches in December ceremonies.
The North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs urges organized women to study postwar needs and push for international cooperation. The article notes the deaths of Mrs. Josephus Daniels and recalls her Raleigh club leadership and Wilson era Navy Secretary husband.
Announcement of the engagement and approaching marriage of Miss Anna Marie Groty of Santa Ana California and Sgt Thurman Williams son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Williams of this city. Betrothal news came at a party at the Groty home. Williams is in the Army Air Force. Wedding planned for January.
Engagements and marriages unfold in Asheboro and Moore County. Helen Eloise Brown to Staff Sergeant Carl Phillips of Fort Knox, wedding January 15, 1944 at Central Methodist Church. Leslie Britt wed Miss Dorothy Cheek November 25 in Bennettsville. Lena Hilliard weds Clifton Presnell at First Methodist with brief family ceremony. Presnell linked to War Housing Agency Charleston. The couples reside in or near Eagle Springs and Asheboro.
Open house at the McCall residence on Colonial Drive celebrated Christmas Eve for about 40 guests from the local younger set. Cpl McCall and his bride Miss Helen Scott of Kingsport Tennessee greeted attendees and will return to Fort Bragg Sunday.
Erie Country Club highlights the week with a New Year's Eve dinner dance for adult members at the clubhouse on Friday night. Bill Chandler and his orchestra provide music for dinner and dancing starting around 9:30. Noisemakers will welcome 1944 as the year ends with a festive emphasis on social events at the Emerywood Club.
Miss Laura Virginia Clodfelter and Cpl Joe Don Fouts of the U S Army Air Forces wed December 22 at Fair Grove Methodist Church Thomasville in a ring ceremony. Rev Walter Lee Lanier officiated. The couple plans a Tampa, Florida spring move after a holiday visit with the bride’s parents.
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