Business-Professional Girls Club Installs New Officers
The Business and Professional Girls Club of the Y W C A held its first meeting of the year at the Hut with retiring president Mrs Mary Leet Hodgin presiding. Officers installed include Miss Mary Kearns president and Miss Lucille Browne membership chair. Eighteen members attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business
Professional Girls Club
Business and Professional Girls Club
Mary Leet Hodgin
Mary Kearns
Cille Browne
Kathleen Roser
Vola Anderson
Elva Grissom
Kearns
Lucille Browne
Louise Jennings
Blanche Barbour
Club
Country Club New Year’s Ball a Successful Affair
About two hundred fifty Emery wood Country club members and out of town guests attended the New Year’s Eve Ball. Dancing ran from ten to two with Bubbles Becker and his orchestra providing music. Festive decorations included holly and poinsettias. At midnight guests used noisemakers and welcomed 1936 with bells and horns. Intermission featured refreshments in the dining room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerywood Country Club
Ten Jelock
Bubbles Becker
Sheraton Hotel
Club i
Leap Year Ball Tonight by High Point Girls Pentagon Club
Younger social set in High Point will mark the new year with the Leap Year Ball at Sedgefield Manor. Dancing runs 10 PM to 2 AM with Sam Hensley and his Collegians providing music. Sponsors include James Bishop and Lawrence Martin with escorts, while Judge and Mrs. Tea gue and many families serve as chaperones. Tickets available from any club member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Pentagon Club
Sedgefield Manor
Sam Hensley
Collegians
Ncers
Ite
Pentagon
Greensboro
Lexington
James Bishop
Mildred Furgurson
Lawrence Martin
Lexinton
Catherine Browne
Frank Parker
Edith Crowder
Kelman Gomo
Jacklyn McMullan
Walter Sprye
Marian Elliott
Joe Welborn
Ruth Pollock
Lewis E. Teague
George Dobbins
E. B. Leonard, Jr
Marcie Tyree
W. A Davis
C Cc. Hampp
W. F. Bailey
W. T. Forster
H. C. Hull
R. A. Bishop
M. L. Patrick
E. T. Harrison
Burbank Crosses Daisies From Global Stock
Plant pioneer Burbank develops Shasta daisy by crossing varieties from Japan England and America. In Canada St Catherines movie houses accept starling and crew legs as payment for tickets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burbank
Japan
England
America
Moving Picture Houses
St. Catherines
Ont
Starling
Crew
Social Calendar Highlights For Wednesday And Thursday
Open house hosted by Mr and Mrs John Whitescarver on West Lexington Avenue begins the social lineup from 5 to 8 p m. The Club at Twelve plans a 6 45 p m dinner party for the ladies at Emerywood Country club. The Girls Pentagon Club hosts a Leap Year dance from 10 p m to 2 a m at the Sedgefield with Sam Hensley and his Collegians. Thursday features a 3 30 p m study club gathering at Mrs Arthur Marsh on Edgedale Drive with a note of day change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Whitescarver
Lexington Avenue
Emerywood Country Club
Pentagon Club
Sedgefield
Sam Hensley
Collegians
Arthur Marsh
Edgedale Drive
Local Notables Visit Greensboro Family Scenes
Local residents share holiday movements and health updates. Guests include Winnie Hardison and Raye Owen at Miss Helen Eshelman’s Johnson street home. Recovers note for Mrs. Robert L. Conrad after appendectomy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnie Hardison
New Bern
Raye Owen
Asheville
Greensboro
Helen Eshelman
Johnson Street
Surprise Dinner Honors Cranford Couple Near Denton
A Christmas Day gathering at the Cranford home near Denton celebrated the birthdays of Mr. C. P. Cranford aged eighty two and Mrs. Crawford aged seventy eight. High Point visitors included Mrs. T. A. Spencer and several families. The event featured many gifts and a large dinner. Mary Jones Bible class will meet at Mrs. J. L. Kivett’s home on Franklin Street tomorrow afternoon at 3 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton
C. P. Cranford
Mr. Cranford
Crawford
High Point
T. A. Spencer
Jordan Spencer
Dewey Nelson
J. D. Jennings
Arthur Bean, Jr
Mary Jones
Mary Jones Bible
J. L. Kivett
Franklin Street
Stanback Balanced Prescription Promises Quick Relief
An advertisement touts Stanback as a wonder balanced prescription for headaches neuralgia aching joints and periodic pains caused by inorganic factors. The product claims no unpleasant after effects and promotes free and pure cellophane packaging.
Dear Miss Mansfield How to choose between husband and family
A reader writes seeking advice after a hasty marriage to a man from a less cultured background. Marjorie Mansfield urges patience, loyalty to the spouse, and potential effort at self improvement, warning against breaking with the husband over manners.
New Year Snow and Sleet Bring Slick Streets to High Point
A brief flurry of snow and a minute of sleet accompanied the New Year into High Point. Snow fell for a few minutes around o o'clock this morning, with sleet starting about 9. Traffic remained hazardous as ice and snow piled along streets, though state highways were cleared and chains allowed travel with little difficulty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neaw
High Point
Birthday Ball Plans Progress For Roosevelt Day
Plans for the President's Birthday Ball on January 30 are accelerating with Byron Haworth as general chairman. Proceeds will aid local charity and the Warm Springs Foundation in Georgia for infantile paralysis research. Committees will be appointed, venues announced soon, and an orchestra secured for a high quality event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Byron Haworth
Warm Springs Foundation
Georgia
Haworth
Dor sey M. Lewis Rites Held After Sumter Accident
Funeral services for Dor sey M. Lewis of 320 Montheu avenue were held at Wesley Memorial M E church with Pastor W A Lambeth and Rev C N Royal officiating. A quartet performed, Mrs Hayden sang and Mae Kirkman played organ as pallbearers from Asheboro participated. interment at Oakwood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorsey M. Lewis
Montheu Avenue
Sumter
D. C
Wesley Memorial M. FE
W. A. Lambeth
C. N. Royal
Green Street Baptist Church
J. Gurney Briggs
J. F. Hayden
John Gurney Briggs
A. R. Bullock
M. J. Kivett
Reid Kearns
Lee M. Kearns
Asheboro
Oakwood
Entertaining Open House Tonight by Mr and Mrs Whitscarver
Mr and Mrs John Whitscarver host an open house on ton avenue this evening to celebrate the New Year. About fifty members of the younger social set are invited with calling hours from 5 to 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Whitscarver
Lexington Avenue
Morris Parham Vows Announced Here
Announced here is the marriage of Alice Evelyn Morris to John Marshall Parham on Tuesday December 31, 1935. Mrs. J. Frank Morris announces the wedding in Winston-Salem North Carolina with reception at 120 East Morehead Street Charlotte. The notice notes that in Norway seventeen of every thousand men rely on the sea for livelihood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Frank Morris
Alice Evelyn
John Marshall Parham
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Morehead Street
Charlotte
Norway
Real Estate Men Enter 1936 Optimistic Over Market
High Point real estate operators express optimism for 1936 following a strong December 1935. They note improved residential sales, expect more activity as credit improves, and aim to attract new businesses with Chamber of Commerce efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Chamber of Commerce
Church Social Postpones Meeting and Oak Hill Circle Delays
The Mary Harper Philathea class of South Main M. E. church postpones its Thursday evening gathering due to bad weather with date to be announced. Oak Hill Friends Circle also postpones its meeting at Mrs. J. H. Elliott’s home with a new date to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Harper
Oak Hill
Tribute Paid To Mrs. Lewis By Trinity Community
Major Bruce Craven speaking for Trinity citizens mourns the death of Mrs. Lewis praised for her splendid character that endeared her to school children and the wider community at Memorial Park cemetery.
Funeral services for N. Howard of Polkton
Funeral services for N. Howard of Polkton were held yesterday at the Rocky Mount Baptist Church. He was the father of C. E. Howard and Mrs. J. T. Curlee of High Point and was well known in his section of the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. &. Howard
Polkton
C. E. Howard
J. T. Curlee
High Point
Rocky Mount Baptist Church
Howard
Funeral services for Miss Martha C Millikan
Funeral services for Miss Martha C Millikan former resident here who died in Morganton early Sunday were held today at 11 from Sechrest Funeral Home chapel. Miss Clara I Cox pastor Spring field Friends church conducted the service and burial was in Springfield cemetery. Pallbearers were Blair Richardson L D Davis Willis Davis W T Anderson J B Red dick and J M Woodell. During the service Miss Polly Hicks sang Face To Face.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha C. Millikan
Morganton
Sechrest Funeral Home
Clara I. Cox
Springfield
Unemployment Seen as Gravest Problem by Senator Bailey
Raleigh January 1 Senator Bailey of North Carolina warned a radio audience that 2 to 3 million unemployed Americans pose a grave national problem. He also projected the national debt could reach 31 to 36 billion dollars by July 1 with further extraordinary expenditures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Jan
Bailey
D-Nc
United States
Washington
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