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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1937
Page
10
A short piece by Gertrude Cook Page warning about the fragile power of words to rule hearts and topple rulers. It cautions that words can destroy beyond repair and urges careful sharing.
The Piedmont German club staged a successful private dance at Emerywood Country club on Friday night. Lew Gogerty and his Greensboro orchestra provided music from nine to one, drawing many local and out of town guests and earning high praise from attendees.
Guilford College president Dr Clyde A Milner will be the guest speaker at the tenth annual national banquet of the Business and Professional Girls Club of the YWCA at Emery Wood Country Club on Tuesday evening The event expects about eighty attendees including Winston-Salem and local Y clubs and civic representatives Miss Thelma Patrick will preside and Miss Gladys Ell will deliver greetings from other clubs
Henry Millis son of Mr and Mrs H A Millis was elected most amiable character at Darlington by the student body in a poll conducted by the Hall School of Commerce of Rome. He serves as chairman of the committee and is regarded as one of the most active boys in the school.
The Priscilla club held a farewell gathering for president Mrs. C. C. Robbins at Mrs. A. Ring’s North Main Street home. Guests enjoyed games and a repast. Robins received a silver board tray, and Mrs. Whitesell, ill, missed the event.
Four churches organize an old fashioned Exhibition Day at the Eagle Hill schoolhouse four miles west of Wallburg on Monday March 29. Missionary societies from New Mount Vernon Springs Hill Crews and Mitchell Grove will stage recitations dialogues speeches string bands and team judging with barbecue country chicken pie and other refreshments served.
The Utopian Study club will meet with Mrs J I Groome at her Hillcrest Drive home on Wednesday afternoon at 3 30. ANNOUNCE THE BIRTH OF SON Mr and Mrs Sapp announce the birth of a son George Curtis on Monday February 22.
The wedding of Miss Mary Edythe Ferrell and Joseph Leon Iveigh is set for nine thirty this morning at Mrs. T D Cox 408 Otteray Drive with Rev Howard S Hartzell officiating. The ceremony features Norman Fidler singing Until and Mrs John W Clinard Jr at the piano plus Wagner and Mendelssohn pieces. The couple will honeymoon in Florida and reside with the Cox family after returning. Miss Ferrell is from Durham and has lived in High Point. Iveigh is with Industrial Electric.
Ten dollar prize offered for an unpublished poem on gardens or flowers at the Short Course for Gardeners in Chapel Hill and Durham March 11 1997. Submit to Mrs Hi KR Totten president Garden Club of North Carolina by March 5. Best two read March 12 at the Carolina Inn ballroom.
The Canterbury Club will meet with Mrs Roy Spearman at 112 Brentley Circle on Friday afternoon at 3 30 o clock.
A student musicale by piano pupils of Miss Louise Salsbury was held Saturday evening February 27 at eight oclock in the Sheraton hotel. The program featured many pieces by Beethoven Bach Chopin and others including Minuet in G and Valse Petite with performances by Nancy Bennett Nancy Smith Fritzie Raymond and Waring Smith among others.
Final plans are set for the Charity Ball of the High Point Graduate Nurses' club to be held at Sedgefield Manor on Thursday evening. Lew Gogerty and his Greensboro orchestra will provide music for a nine to one dance program in the manor ballroom. Club members report strong ticket sales from out-of-town buyers including Thomasville and Asheboro.
Women’s club will meet Wednesday at 14 Rovella apartments. O A Kirkman will speak on International Cooperation and Peace. Hostesses are Misses Frances Mendenhall Eloise Ward and Clara Whitehead.
Dr. John H. Cook head of the education department at Women's College will address Ray Street School Monday at 7 20 PM on National and State Legislation as It Affects the Public Schools. The Classroom Teachers' Association brings him to High Point and invites the public to attend.
The Club of Twelve will be entertained Friday at eight o clock at Emerywood Country Club by Mr and Mrs John C Abela. Also announced is the birth of a son Gerald Anderson Lewis to Mr and Mrs Crafton Lewis of 403 Howell Street on Pace Naty 22nd at Guilford General Hospital with Mrs Lewis formerly Nellie Matthews of Chapel.
The schedule lists meetings and events for W O T club at Mrs. Jones on Farriss avenue, Girls clubs YWCA banquet at Emerywood with Dr. Milner as speaker, garden clubs, Woman's club executive and general meetings at the YWCA Hut with Arch Schoch, BPW at Rowella Apartment with C A Kirkman, Tea and Topics at Mrs J W Wilson home, Charity Ball by High Point Graduate Nurses at Sedgefield Manor, Lotus club at Cedron avenue, Philomathean club at West Broad street, Canter bury club at Brentley circle, Club of Twelve at Emerywood, Wick Wack dance at American Legion Hut, Omege Kappa Gamma Silver tea at Sedgefield Manor, Royal Arcanum dance at Emerywood with Davis Brothers.
Miss Vesta Copeland entertained about seventy five students and guests at the Duck club near Sedgefield with a monthly dance. A dancing contest awarded prizes to Miss Eloise Rankin and Jack Sappenfield. best fox trot to Caroline Stimson and C I Smith. Chaperones included Fred Whitescarver and family, George Hutchens and family, M A Lackey and wife, Roger Taylor and wife, Harry Doctor and wife. The event whetted plans for an Easter dance.
The Philomathean club will meet with Mrs A E Tate on West Broad street Friday afternoon at 3 oclock. Mr and Mrs Wilton Snyder of Richmond Virginia formerly of Norfolk spent Thursday visiting relatives here.
The Royal Arcanums plan a private dance at Emerywood 7. club on Saturday March with the Davis Brothers orchestra providing music from eight to twelve. Cards mailed by the Old Wrank Road Council limit attendance to registants only. this marks the fourth such event and is billed as an outstanding social affair.
Bonnie Kilpatrick was honored at a Friday evening party hosted by friends in the Biltmore hotel ditfus room. Floral pink roses and a decorated birthday cake adorned the central table as guests enjoyed cake, coffee, dancing, and entertainment for about twenty five attendees hosted by Mrs. Lillian By and other friends.
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