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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1934
Page
6
At 3 P M the Sorosis club meets with Mrs D Stanton on East Green Street. At 4 30 P M Mrs Ed Lyon hosts the Canterbury club on Otteray Drive.
Mr and Mrs J 8 Frasier are ill at home on High Point route two. Miss Mary Duncan McAnally returns from Niagara Falls to Winston-Salem to resume studies at Salem College. Donald Morton remains very ill with pneumonia at 798 Scott Street. Mr and Mrs F M Cradle and children return to Long Island after holidays with Mrs Cralle's parents.
Mrs J F Hayden entertained the Entre Nous club and guests at her East Washington home with holiday decorations and four Boston rock tables. A two course repast followed the games. members present included Mesdames Beavans Clark Cummings Harriss Hoskins Kearns Morris Overman Rankin Tate Terry Walser. guests were Mrs O E Kearns Mrs Ed Steele and Mrs J S Welborn.
The YWCA Service Committee held its regular meeting on Thursday at 3 PM after a postponement from Tuesday. Miss Mary Gwynn spoke on the National YWCA Conference in Philadelphia May 2 to 6. Also noted are DAR Alexander Martin chapter meeting plans for January 9 at Mrs. J E Millis’s Forest Hill drive home with papers on Andrew Jackson and the D A R Student Loan Fund and election of delegates to the state conference in Winston Salem March 6 to 8 and to the Continental Congress in April.
Thomasville society notes detail Ace of Clubs host Mrs. W E Tomlinson welcoming members and visitors for a midday bridge gathering on Sunrise avenue with prizes awarded to Mrs. Walter Newby and Mrs. Vernon Snider. Several local residents and guests are mentioned along with at home dinners and social visits.
A Wednesday morning bridge luncheon at Mrs. Ralph Wilson’s Lexington highway home featured high score honors for Mrs. Austin Finch and two card decks given to Mrs. Laura Price and Mrs. Harston Williamson. Guests included Mesdames Finch, Cooksey, Hodgin, Lambeth, Rapp, Williamson, Price and Miss Hoover. Miss Mary Rucker returned to Queens-Chicora college after holiday visits with her parents. Charles Lambeth and daughter Catherine were in Chicago.
Regular business was transacted and the society dismissed. Sixteen members attended the meeting, which was very enthusiastic.
Wake Forest announces an eight game football slate for next fall with a possible ninth game. The Demon Deacons host Guilford and North Carolina and play Furman Presbyterian Duke and Davidson among others. Open dates may be filled later and a night game is listed at George Washington.
Dean W. Burford steered his mail plane to a 4:40 a m landing at Newark airport after four hours aloft amid ice, fog, sleet and radio silence. The Columbus Ohio flyer had earlier bailed out December 11 over Cambria county Pennsylvania. a $75,000 diamonds cargo survived a wreck.
A F Whitney president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen favors government ownership if current conditions persist, noting one million rail workers laid off in four years. He opposes railroad consolidation and regrets the industry’s exclusion from the NRA as the labor agreement nears its June expiration.
Two tornadoes in Pensacola injure six people and damage structures including a drydock and a naval air station magazine roof. The most serious injury is a 3 year old boy, Marion Rigby, described as critical after being hurled from his father's arms. Officials estimate total damages at about $35,000.
A car driven by W. A. Fincher overturned near Monroe on January 5 killing his wife and injuring Fincher and their son Lloyd.
Governor Blackwood proclaims next week as cotton week in South Carolina coordinating with the government's acreage control program to boost cotton production.
Taylorsville Jan 5. Samuel Williams 84 a retired farmer died when his home burned. Fire origin not determined.
Salisbury's white city schools are postponed until January 15 due to measles. Health officer Dr. C. W. Armstrong reports 400 homes quarantined. Colored city schools will open next week as measles among colored children is less prevalent. County schools mostly in session with rural cases noted.
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