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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1934
Page
6
An unusually large crowd attended the Pentagon club masquerade at Sedgefield Manor on Friday night. Judges awarded prizes for costumes to Adelaide Williamson and Samuel Winslow with honorable mentions to Leora Hampp and Charles Connor.
Wesley Memorial Methodist church hosts a membership reception Tuesday evening from 8 to 10 oclock organized by the Woman's Missionary Auxiliary. Honorees include Dr and Mrs W A Lambeth and Mr and Mrs Liston C Pope. Junior Board of Stewards hosted a dinner honoring Mr and Mrs Liston Pope, married in Durham February 3, now at home here.
The High Point Chapter 106 Eastern Star calls a full attendance for a Tuesday 7:30 PM meeting at the Masonic Temple to appoint committees for the public officers installation on March 27 and to plan a March 6 oyster supper.
Miss Rubye Samuels hosted her bridge club Friday evening at her Willowbrook Street home. Two tables featured a George Washington motif with cherry tree designs. Miss Lee Forward won high score for a novelty powder puff ensemble. next meeting is set with Miss Carey Atkins on Fourth Street.
Miss Elon Greene married Albert Hearst Newsom on February 24 at Wesley Memorial church in a ceremony officiated by Dr. W A Lambeth. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs J D Greene, wore a navy ensemble with roses and valley lilies. the groom, son of Mr and Mrs A L Newsom of New som North Carolina, works for the High Point Paper Box company.
Greensboro duo announces engagement of Margaret Gwynn Thompson to Jule Blair Meredith of Knoxville Tennessee. Bride to be is High Point city schools faculty member and UNC Woman's College alumna. Meredith a UNC graduate and Prudential mortgage loan representative in eastern Tennessee.
Philomathean club met Friday afternoon at 3 30 hosted by Mrs T Wingate Andrews on North Main street. Eleven members attended as Mrs W C Jones spoke on Edna St Vincent Millay with readings from her poems. Mrs Andrews discussed Edwin Arlington Robinson focusing on Matthias at the Door and Cavender's House as examples of his narrative and dynamic writing. Tea followed with Russian tea, sandwiches, hot cakes, nuts and mints amid a bouquet display.
A lively High Point social column recounts local dances and costumes at the Pentagon Masquerade and Country Club events. It notes Sarah Lacy Tomlinson and Betty Monroe as notable attendees, mentions future plans by Mrs. Dan Gorman and Bill Bailey, and teases Frances Walker Lambeth as a beauty candidate. The piece also references Alice Barbee’s possible modeling role, local decor trends, and a wave of Miami and Bermuda travel.
Miss Eleanor Powell, who had been ill since Wednesday at her parents home, Mr and Mrs W T Powell, 526 Parkney, is now better, it was learned last night.
A roundup notes visitors and residents for a weekend in Troy including Miss Lou Della Hulin and Miss Sara Russell guests of Miss Hallie Hayworth, plus Tate Andrews from UNC Chapel Hill. Hospital updates report Irby Cates recovering from appendicitis and J R Davis ill with pneumonia improving. W L Thrift remains seriously ill. The piece also records Lucille Cable and Wade A Pierce marriage in Martinsville on February 17 1934.
The schedule lists gatherings from Monday to Friday: High Chapter UDC at Mrs J E Marsh on South Main with associate hostesses. Wayside Garden Club at Mrs J F Hayden on East Washington with a guest speaker and full attendance urged. High Point Chapter 106 of the Eastern Star meets at the Masonic Temple for the last meeting before new officers are elected. Delta Tau club luncheon hosted by Mrs C F Tomlinson at 529 Park Way with Mrs J E Millis in charge. Needlecraft Club meets at Mrs L P Magnin’s Cedron Ave home. Utopian Study Club hosted by Mrs Charles Kephart at 1007 Johnson Street. Idylwild Club dance at Sedgefield Country Club with Alex Mendenhall and orchestra.
The Ada Blair Parent Teachers Association meets Thursday March 1 at 3 pm in the school with Superintendent T Wingate Andrews to speak on Our Movie made Children. Four local YWCA girls attend a conference in Richmond. Florence Nightingale club starts Glee club instruction Monday at 6 30 pm. Brightwood PTA presents A Little Clodhopper Friday March 2 at 7 46 pm with cast listed. Junior Music Study Club met Feb 24 with German music talks and performances by members and refreshments hosted by Clark family.
The Sedgefield Country Club closed its Washington birthday festivities with a Friday ball in the Manor Ball Room. Members and out-of-town guests danced to tunes by Jack Wardlaw and his sixteen-piece Carolina Pines orchestra starting at 9:30 p.m.
Members of the Lotus club were entertained Friday afternoon at Mrs C Earnhardt’s home on John son Street. Guests included Mrs Floyd Wilson Mrs Royster Thurman Mrs Jack Taylor and others with bridge and needlework among the activities. Mrs Earnhardt’s daughter Evelyn helped serve.
Emerywood Country Club launched a new social series with a George Washington Birthday dance from 10 PM to 2 AM. A large crowd enjoyed Tommy Tucker and his Californians, an eleven piece band from Miami Beach, and Tucker’s vocal rendition of Sweetheart drew applause. Club officers include Am R. Kearns president, Millis vice president, and Trout secretary and treasurer.
High Point bride to be Mrs Liston Pope was honored in Thomasville with a three to five thirty afternoon event at 218 Salem Street hosted by Mia R L Pope Mildred Pope and Eve lyn Pope. The reception featured green white and gold decor a dining room display and a receiving line of local hosts. About four hundred guests attended to greet the honoree and view the bride’s register.
Miss Dora Peace and William Walker Miller of Trinity N C united in marriage at noon Saturday February 24 in Duke Memorial chapel Durham. Rev Dr Paul N Barber assisted by Rev Clifford Peace officiated. Only attendants were best man J C Woodard and dame of honor Mrs J C Woodard. The couple will reside in Trinity after a brief ceremony before a small circle of intimate friends.
Announcements show the marriage of Beulah Beck to Ransom Harriss at Street Methodist parsonage in ville Virginia in April 1933. Beulah is daughter of I A Beck of Lexington and longtime Greensboro worker. Harriss is son of N R Harriss of ity and works at Mace Manufacturing. They will reside at 410 Montlieu High Point.
Adelaide G. Crowell of H Point violinist with the Orpheus String quartet at a Woman’s College recital in Greensboro North Carolina. Other players include Henry Fuchs Gertrude Rich and Charles Pier. Crowell, a senior in the state college of music, performed Mozart and Schumann quartet works.
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