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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1952
Page
2
A compact town directory lists multiple congregations and church-affiliated names including Adventist Seventh Day, Bethel Temple Catholic, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Central Christian Missionary Alliance, and individual figures such as H R Thurber F C Myers Robert J McMillan Donald B Irvin and Eugene Crook. The notices suggest a religious community directory or church affiliation references within the local paper.
A dense street list shows numerous church names including Congregational Christian, Church of God, Church of Christ, Episcopal, Friends, Latter Day Saints and Pentecostal along with associated streets and city areas such as Cedar Street Main Street Elm, Archdale and Green Street in Asheboro Greensboro Jamestown and Melrose districts. The fragment maps church presence across Oak Ridge Deep River and nearby highways. It reads as an archival directory of religious societies and locations.
A fragmented OCR list shows multiple church names and associated streets or figures including St Stephens St Matthew M. Brooks Memorial Congregational Pilgrim Presbyterian Cherry Street St Luke Seventh Day Bartholomew Payta Waddell Foard Winston Jones Mingo Lee Ashworth Mrs Miller Crone Hilltop Vail Washington Eccles Price Leonard Hay Fairview Brooks Taylor Perry Leonard Church of God and Alexander Gilmore.
Local church items list programs for Sherwood Methodist First Methodist and neighboring churches. Activities include census gathering at the Adult Class, Sunday morning worship, evening services, nursery and youth programs, Pioneer Fellowship, and midweek studies at Randolph Crestwood Presbyterian, Gospel Tabernacle, St Marys Episcopal, First Baptist, Main Street Methodist, with schedules for Sunday school at 9:45 and worship times, plus choir and youth events.
The article reflects on the Bethany visit of Jesus and the roles of Martha and Mary. Martha is pictured as the homemaker who seeks Jesus’s help with her duties, while Mary and Martha send for Jesus as their brother falls ill. Jesus delays two days before traveling to Bethany and comforts Martha regarding her brother’s resurrection.
In the Bethany episode Martha and Mary differ in focus as Jesus visits. Martha serves while Mary sits at Jesus feet then returns to report Jesus is coming. Lazarus is raised after four days, prompting belief among some present.
Sunday events include an 8 a.m. communion service 9:45 a.m. church school with Baxter P. Freeze addressing dance seating, 11 a.m. morning worship and children’s department, 3 p.m. sub district Luther League with Rev. Carl A. Grimm as guest speaker, 7:30 p.m. sermon Sometimes, Boy Scout Court of Honor in Junior High Auditorium. Monday events list building committee meeting at Parish House with Baxter and named members.
Athens March INS reports Graceville Florida native Josephine B McGlamery a University of Georgia student has found a simple method to keep pecans fresh for three to four months after harvest. Under professor Pye Hood home economics tests show heating in a 350 degree oven before sealing in paraffin coated containers prevents rancidity for out of season storage.
Westport voters at the town polling place use six voting machines for men and three for women. Registrar Joseph McGill says women cast about half the ballots, noting machine parity and turnout patterns as officials study the check-off lists.
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