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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1933
Page
6
The Welch Memorial Sunbeams meet at 7 o'clock at Miss Edna Gray's home on Smith Street for the regular gathering. The Roanerges initiate three new members with a light refreshments after the meeting.
All members are urged to attend the next meeting for important business. Birth announced of a son to Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Scott on February 23 at 1003 Park Street. Central Friends Society will meet at 7 30 this evening with Miss Bera Brown speaking on African Missions. High Point U D C chapter to meet Monday at 4 20 with Mrs. Millis on North Main Street. Limited attendance urged as an attractive program includes Vera Idol on Sidney Lanier and Mrs. A Sherrod singing.
Social calendar notes a Priseilla club gathering hosted by Mrs Charles W Perry at Sherbrook Court. The American Legion Auxiliary stages the play The Old Schoolhouse at Hickory Holler at Ray Street School auditorium at 8 06 p m.
Miss Mabel Underwood is recovering at her home 1006 Park Street after an influenza attack. Clyde Williams of 503 Cheat nut Street underwent an operation at Guilford General Hospital this morning and is now recovering satisfactorily.
Southern Pines Feb 24. Struthers Burt, author, at a luncheon, blasted the North Carolina relief department for lavish waste of public money. He charged director Fred W. Morrison with funding unemployment projects that have no permanent value, noting five towns use funds for lasting work while others clean yards and lots that soon regrow. He cited a planted highways scheme and said Reconstriction Finance Corporation funds were misused on non permanent tasks.
A special musical program is planned at Woman's Memorial A M E church on East Washington Street on February 27 at 8 o'clock. The event invites white residents to attend. Singers from Winston-Salem and the local area will participate, including the Wood Samaritans Ever Ready Four American Legion Jr. and others. A small admission fee will benefit the church.
The American Legion Auxiliary presents The Old School At Hickry Holler at 8 tonight in Bay Street School auditorium. Members of the auxiliary and Legion play roles with a notable set. two specialties follow Italian Monologue by Mr Twining and a dance by Miss Betsy Dean Wagger.
Mrs Raymond acted as gracious hostess at her North Main street home Thursday afternoon for the Over The Teacups club luncheon. A two course meal served on an attractively set table with jonquils centered the setting. Eight covers were arranged and later contract was played at two tables with Mrs C T Ingram winning a glass sandwich plate. Guests included Mrs V A dq Tool, Mrs Carter Dalton, Mrs Robert Walker, Mrs C T Ingram, Mrs B S Cummings, Mrs Oscar Durland and Mrs Albert Hart.
Local AAUW group met at the Commercial Club last night with Miss May Graham, librarian of High Point High School, delivering a talk on The Social Philosophy of John Galsworthy as Depicted In His Novels. She highlighted Galsworthy as a student of social causes, reading excerpts from The Flowering Wilderness and The Forsyte Saga.
At the Mayfair Club in Los Angeles Lois Wilson wears a white off the floor dress with triple ruffles and a circular diamond clip. Lillian Harvey arrives in a white crepe gown with beaded bodice and flared beaded ruffle. Joan Crawford, Anita Louise, and Sandra Shaw are noted in white and blue gowns with decorative details.
The 1933 NHS Service Award goes to N. L. Smith Jr for peak unselfish service. Hazel Wright receives Guilford College scholarship as 22 juniors and seniors are inducted into the local chapter. The tapping ceremony was staged by Wesley Keifer and Carroll Earnhardt with Miss Mae Graham as sponsor.
TheWheel features a playful exchange where Ike teases Mike about balloon tires and Mike retorts with a comical line. The brief joke highlights light banter between two characters referencing a purchase and ownership.
In St. Petersburg Florida open air clubs host thousands of bridge players daily. Parks provide tables and supplies for tourists to play with no stakes, just sociability. The scene includes demonstrations of blindfold bridge with city manager Wilbur M. Cotton joining a table.
In a bridge column a reader describes the Cotton partnership reaching seven spades after a sequence of bids. The declarer uses the Vienna coup to force East’s discards, allowing dummy’s three hearts to secure the grand slam despite counterplay.
Gastonia painter Frank Barlow, 28, was seriously injured when a hook failed while he worked midway down a flagpole atop the Hotel Charlotte. He suffered a fractured skull, broken shoulder, and internal injuries after landing on a concrete base. He was hospitalized.
Eckerd's Drug Stores advertise HEM-ROID claiming external treatment relieves piles by reducing congestion in the lower veins. The ad urges sufferers to try HEM-ROID with a money-back guarantee if not satisfied.
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