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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1932
Page
5
Community notices include postponement of the Entre Nous club meeting at Mrs J F Hayden’s home because Mrs Martha Blair is gravely ill. Other items announce births, garden club and Bible class meetings, social gatherings, and a Legion Auxiliary meeting.
Ann, Cecily and Mary Frances Fenwick live with an heir of marriage though engaged, as Cecily tells Ann that Barry has proposed. The next morning he comes early to drive Cecily to her office and urges marriage at once.
Cecily and Barry debate engagement versus waiting as he presses for a yes while she fears long engagements. She describes inner self fears and desire for free loving, then they drift to Aunt Isabel and a cleaning woman, then a stray literary moment with Mary Frances and Earl. The dialogue marks their playful, conflicted romance and social humor.
Raleigh reports full time offices opened for the North Carolina Truck Owners Association with W. P. Horton as secretary and R. B. Koonce as vice president. Eastern and western field reps named. Bailey T. Groome to edit a new monthly magazine. The group aims to grow to 5,500 truck owners and unite haulers to counter railroad competition.
Miss Gertrude Leonard left yesterday to spend time in Fayetteville with friends. William J. McAnally Jr. returns to Duke University to resume studies after Christmas with his parents on South Main Street. Dave Harman departs tonight for New York City after Christmas with Mrs. Harman and the Hayden family on East Washington Street. Mrs. Harman plans a longer visit before joining her husband in New York. Detroit visitors in High Point depart for a two months trip to Florida and Cuba.
A new series of supper programs starts at Central Friends church on Wednesday evenings. Prof. Algie Newlin, Guilford College history head, will speak after two years in Switzerland on the Clement Biddle Fellowship studying international relations. Season tickets or reservations are urged with Miss Mendenhall or other organizers for attendees.
Prayer meeting at First Presbyterian Church will resume tomorrow night at 7 o'clock instead of 7 30 p m and continue this schedule through the winter. Dr Charles H Nabers pastor announces the initial 1932 topic Which Will Happen in 1932. Choir rehearsal will begin at 7 45 p m following the service, replacing the previous Thursday schedule.
Enterprise Bureau reports Raleigh that John Moore and Ernest Herring face possible clemency. Asbury Respus, 58, is set for execution Friday for the Vera Leonard murder in Guilford County. Executive Counselor Tyre C. Taylor indicated no commutation for Respus, while Herring's fate may hinge on testimony shifts and reenactment of the Kerr postmaster murder.
The taint was tied to two men not one. Ernest faced conviction mainly on his brother’s evidence, yet the dying statement absolved Ernest of wrongdoing, possibly seeking commutation. America’s honor list notes 161 women who died in the World War.
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