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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1938
Page
10
The Golden Gate Jubilee Singers from Charlotte perform spirituals and folk songs at First Baptist Church at East Washington and Hobson streets Tuesday night February 15 at 8. White and colored attendees welcome. small admission charged.
We thank friends for kindness and sympathy shown during the illness and death of Mrs. Bessie Chambers. Appreciation is extended for the many beautiful floral offerings.
William Penn High School staged a National Negro History Week pageant Friday morning. The audience reflected no applause after the curtain fell, as the simple pageant conveyed the Negro American story from pre slave trade days to today. The event featured William Penn choruses under Mrs Grayce Waddy Lyons with music including We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder and Medley From the Sunny South.
The Senior choir of St. Stephen A M E Zion Church will host a smiling party at the home of Miss Myria Beamon on Price Street Monday evening.
The Church Progressive Circle number 1 of St. Stephen A M E Zion met at East Washington street to hear a talk by Mrs. Sarah Cochran president of the St. Stephen Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society A repast followed the meeting Present were a list of many women and visitors The High Point Negro Recreation Commission chaired by Dr J C Morgan will hold a public meeting on Tuesday March 8 in William Penn cafeteria with an invitation to all.
The Junior Missionary circle met at Day Street with Christine Leland on Friday February 11. After the business meeting, members discussed ideas to attract young ladies, then served candy and played games. Attendees included Lucile Goolsby president and Georganna Hairston among others.
Sunshine Circle of the First Baptist Church met with Faye Davis at 707 East Washington Street on a Wednesday in February. After business, the circle enjoyed a repast. Members present included Juanita Eccles president Katharine Clanton secretary Louise Leak treasurer and several others.
Native Maiden Hair Fern Adiantum pedatum thrives in shady moist sites for gardens and rock or wild-style plantings. Osmunda species such as Royal Fern Osmunda regalis Cinnamon Fern Osmunda cinnamomea Interrupted Fern Osmunda clatoniana provide large, ornamental, moisture loving ferns for fertile soils with varying sun exposure.
Guilford College a cappella choir will sing at Springfield Friends church at 3 30 this afternoon and Central Friends church at 8 this evening in High Point area. The group, in its tenth year, is directed by Professor Max Noah and draws members from the whole student body. Programs include sacred works by Palestrina Anerio Schutz Bach Kalinnikoff Lutkin and Dvorak among others with special numbers by Tsches nokov Lyovsky Schuetky Cain and Weis. The choir tours neighboring communities and travels to other states in spring.
Washington feb 12 two NC house members William B Umstead of Durham and J Walter Lambeth of Thomasville announced retirement without detail Umstead plans to resume law practice in Durham Lambeth gave no future plans Both held influential posts including naval and general appropriations committees and printing chairmanship as speculation swirled about congressional life and retirements.
J. W. Clinard is chosen by the High Point Real Estate board to represent the local board on a national committee on real estate taxation. The committee, formed by National Real Estate boards, will assist state groups and serve as a clearing house for a movement to adjust the tax structure to relieve real estate of an inequitable government cost burden, per H. A. Nelson, executive vice president of the national group.
The Africa okapi is related to the giraffe, but Goodsink brushes may be made more primitive in skeletal formation than any fossil giraffes discovered so far.
Ferns prove versatile for garden design around naturalistic pools and wild, open woodland glades. Their shade tolerance and lush fronds suit naturalistic landscapes in wooded areas.
Duke Power announces a new rural program in North Carolina to assist farmers. L. L. Ray, an agricultural engineer from Alamance County and NC State graduate, will advise dairymen poultrymen plant growers florists and others on applying electric service to operations. The program aims to expand electric use in farming.
The article notes that producing one gallon of maple syrup requires about 83 gallons of maple sap, illustrating the high volume of sap needed for a single syrup batch.
The term rock oil referred to petroleum in early usage before scholars adopted the Latin words petra and oleum to form the modern name. The change reflects linguistic borrowing to describe the substance found beneath rocks as oil.
School principal J F Barrier released the Union Cross school honor roll for the second quarter listing students across grades 1 3 4B 4A BA 6 and 7. Names include Rebecca Hine Charles Edward Palmer Amelia Gray Smith Blaine Teague June Tucker Ralph Weavil J B Gibson Ray Jones Kathleen Williams Weldon Idol Helen Parker William Smith Bliss Mildred Weavil Mary Ruth Bodenheimer Wenona Smith and others.
The winter of 1929 was the hardest in 103 years in Poland. Sixty percent of fruit trees and nursery stock perished due to record cold.
In 1878 a display introduced the eight model typewriters then produced, marking a key milestone in mechanical writing. Inventors and manufacturers showcased early designs, drawing interest from engineers and businessmen seeking faster drafting methods.
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