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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1946
Page
14
Emerywood country club hosted a February dinner dance and a large Friday evening duplicate bridge. John Peddicord and orchestra provided music while couples at four to forty per table enjoyed a formal dinner. North South winners were Mesdames Beaver and Wilhite. East West winners were Mesdames Flythe and Tillson.
Tickets for the Marion Hargrove lecture sponsored by the Altrusa club go on sale for Monday March 11. Proceeds fund club projects including a tonsil clinic for underprivileged children. Hargrove, Mount Olive native and author of See Here Private Hargrove, will discuss army life and postwar civilian adjustment.
J A Shanklin cotton specialist of the state college extension service says the choice between cotton and rayon for automobile tire cord will hinge on which fiber is produced more efficiently.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Myrick announce the marriage of their youngest daughter Nona Belle to Pfc. Farrell Lindsay Sink Jr. The ceremony was at the bride’s sister’s home with Rev. C. M. Floyd officiating. The couple plans to reside with the bride’s parents after the groom’s return from service.
Miss Halrie Louise Lowe and Raymond Harris wed Friday at Springfield Friends Church with Rev. Milton Harris officiating. Music accompanied the ceremony and reception, with sponsor ushers Byron Haworth and Gaither Cagle. The couple, daughter of W. C. Lowe and M. B. Harris’ son, plan to live in High Point after a wedding trip.
A meeting of the Wild Flower Garden Club is announced for Thursday evening February 28 at 7 30 at the home of Mrs R H Shaw in Westwood. A good attendance of members is expected for the gathering.
Today pattern buyers are invited to send twenty cents for pattern 4818 from the Anne Adams Spring Pattern Book. The ad promises easy to make fashions with free hat and gilet directions, button opening for ironing, and optional ruffle trim. Sizes 12 to 20 are listed. size 16 requires 3 1/2 yards of 39 inch fabric.
Monday events include United Daughters of the Confederacy at Broad Street with Mrs Tate and AAUW talk at Elk's club by Anna Seaburg on women's status in NC. Tuesday brings a Wood Country Club bridge party and Altrusa dinner with speaker Taylor M Simpson, plus Rotary Ladies Night at Emerywood with Dr D W Daniel as after dinner speaker. Other gatherings include lunches at Emerywood Country Club and Sedgefield Inn, Tea and Topics, and the Wild Flower Garden Club at Westwood. Friday Canterbury lunch at Emerywood. Saturday Emerywood duplicate bridge.
Plans are complete for a March benefit dance by the VFW Auxiliary at the Sheraton hotel. The event welcomes any service member in uniform or with a VFW button and their spouse or date, using uniforms and buttons as tickets. City officials have invitations, and Misses Lois Hedgecock, Bobbie Suggs, Melba Jones, Illa Mae Ingram, Elsie Willis, Catherine Grant, Margaret Long, and Ruth Newton lead sponsorship. Tommy Amead and his orchestra will provide music.
Members of the Twentieth Century Study Club hold a regular luncheon on Wednesday February 27 at 1 PM at Sedgefield Inn. Mrs Henry V Koonts leads the program following the meal.
Mrs. Charlies G. Doak notes praise from Secretary of State James Byrnes for the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. The letter applauds clubs for informed public opinion on foreign policy, supports Dumbarton Oaks aims, and cites their role in UN human rights, atomic energy control, and inclusion of women in delegations to San Francisco and London.
Rehearsals continue for a Stephen Foster concert Thursday evening at St. Marys parish house under Friday music study club sponsorship. The program features Foster compositions including Suwannee River Old Kentucky Home and Old Black Joe with a skit on his life by Edith Moore Sherr W Wilkinson and S A Gayle. Local talent used with Mr and Mrs W B Lord assisting.
Frances Louise Brown and George Hanley McCurdy married February 8 in Palmer with Rev. Charles N Lovell officiating. Attendants were maid of honor Jane McCurdy and best man Robert Carney. The bride, a North Carolina Theaters employee, wore maize with talisman roses. The groom, a discharged paratrooper with the 101st Airborne, holds honors incl purple heart and bronze star. A reception followed. the couple planned a Northeast trip and will reside in High Point after returning.
The High Point chapter number 106 of the Order of the Eastern Star will hold its regular meeting Tuesday at 6 30 PM at the Masonic Temple. An official notice announced the event yesterday.
Miss Myra Ward and Richard J. Dorsett wed February 17 at First Presbyterian Church Bennettsville with Rev. Everett P Moye officiating. Mrs Ward is elder daughter of Earl C Ward and a Guilford Business College graduate employed by Pilot Life. Groom son of Mrs David C Dorsett a two year European theater veteran and High Point College student. They reside at 405 West Bay Street. The army menu of 1775 is noted with beef flour dried peas milk rice and spruce beer.
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