Births and society notices from High Point
Announce birth of Frances Yvonne Peters at home on Ragan Street January 11 to Mr. and Mrs H é Peters. Also announce Vestal Edwards born January 6 to Mr. and Mrs Melvin Wall of Kearns Street. Junior Elizabeth Fry class to meet at Central Friends Church annex tonight. Mrs. Amos recovering after operation at High Point hospital. Wednesday Contract Club meets at 3 o'clock at Mrs. Sam Strickland’s home in Jamestown. Green Street YWCA meets tonight at 7:30 at Miss Sadie Doss’s home. Chapter 106 OEO meets Tuesday January 13 at 7:30 at Masonic Temple. North Main Philathea class meets Tuesday January 13 at 7:30 with Mrs. R. L. Reid. Grace Beatrice Kidd wed Lawrence Thomas Lee at Danville January 10 1931. will reside in High Point. Powell Pritchard marriage announced. Ruby Powell to Emmett F. Pritchard of High Point. home after January 15 at 504 Sunset Drive High Point. Lotus Club hosted by Mrs. Edgar Whitener. refreshments served. American Homes Department of Woman's Club meets Wednesday 3:30 at Tomlinson Chair Plant showroom. talk on styles and fabric in furniture by Rufus Martin. Frederick Taylor tenth birthday party for son. guest list. Funeral of Mrs Nancy J Bescher attended by many High Point residents.
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North Main
Philatheas
Philathea Claes
North Main Street
Grace Kidd
Lawrence Taylor Lee
J. EB. Kidd
Grace Beatrice
Lawrence Thomas Lee
Danville
Virginia
American Homes Dept
American Homes Department
The
Woman's Club
Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Company
West High Street
C. F. Tomlinson
Local Society News and Brief Notices in Michigan Fossil Find
Mrs W P Pickett guests in Tampa Fla. Walter Crissman visits Greensboro on business. Mrs Leslie Rowlings visiting her mother in Greenville S C. Dean P E Lindley of Point College ill at home. Friends of Mrs Turner sad to hear she is ill at Parkway. Herman Smith returns from New York at Governor Clinton Hotel. Elizabeth Bowie of West Jefferson visits Elizabeth Jones at 305 North Main. Mrs Hughes once with Country club now at 307 Parkway. Alene Wrenn and Beat Rice Stewart weekend in Greensboro visiting relatives. Marion Duches returns from Columbia S C with Duches parents. Fossils of sea going whales found in two Michigan localities near northern state and near Ann Arbor.
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Thomas Turner
Parkway
Michigan
State
Ann Arbor
Flaming Dress Keeps Fire Record Intact in Lexington
A flame consumed a dress at Hedrick home on East Lexington avenue yesterday but fire fighters saved Chief A. B. Horney and his North side station crew still met their 24 hour response pledge since 1931. The blaze in Hedrick’s residence left the dress in ashes while the fire team battled the fire on Kivett drive at Charlie Davis’s home, where the rear of a one story frame dwelling burned, with no occupants present.
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Carf Heurick
Lexington Avenue
A. B. Horney
Northside
Hedrick
Charlie Davis
Kivett Drive
Lentz Improving In Burlington Hospital
W B Lentz fifth district highway patrolman seriously injured in a January 3 motorcycle collision between Burlington and Haw River remains hospitalized at Rainey hospital Burlington. Doctors report he has a fractured skull a torn collar bone and other injuries and he is expected to be moved home to Statesville later this week after regaining some consciousness.
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W. B. Lentz
Fifth District
Burlington
Hawriver
Rainey Hospital
Statesville
Lieut
T. A. Earry
Kestouane
Peace Hearing for Roy Peace in Lucille McCrary Killing
Roy Peace, 17, charged with manslaughter in the death of 9-year-old Lucille McCrary, will have a preliminary hearing Wednesday at 3 PM before Squire B. W. Stone in Thomasville. He remains jailed in Lexington without bond. Funeral services for Lucille drew thousands at Midway Methodist Church. family notes the shooting as accidental.
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Roy Peace
Lucille McCrary
C. C. McCrary
Wallburg
Squire B. W. Stone
Thomasville
Lexington
Midway Methodist Church
J. B
Lucille
Thurmond
Live at Home campaign to visit Guilford County farms
North Carolina's Live-At-Home program comes to Guilford County on January 24 with extension workers meeting farmers bankers and merchants at the county seat. Speakers B T Ferguson and Miss M E Thomas will discuss self sufficiency and a year round farm and livestock ration as part of the 1931 campaign led by Dean J O Schaub. The drive aims to boost food and feed crop values statewide, following last year's $19 million increase and under Governor Gardner's push to add $40 million.
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North Carolina
Guilford County
B. T. Ferguson
M. E. Thomas
Dean J. O. Schaub
N. C. State College
Dean Schatie
C. A. Sheffield
Gardner
Revival Opens at First Church of the Living God
A one week revival began last night at First Church of the Living God on Grace and Lake streets with Rev J L Armstrong of Spray preaching. Services run each night this week with George W Clark of Spray leading the singing. The public is invited. Also notes Peruvian rules require kerosene for gasoline adulteration prevention coloring blue and tractoline, kerosene for tractors, amber.
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Church of the Living God
Grace and
Lake Streets
J. L. Armstrong
Spray
George W. Clark
Remove Patrolmen From Virginia Line After Lone Arrest
Four state highway patrolmen stationed at the Virginia line during the Danville strike area disturbances were recalled by Lieut. T. A. Early after no further trouble and one arrest. The lone arrest occurred Saturday when a motorist was caught with a concealed weapon and bound over to superior court on $500 bond.
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Virginia Line
Danville
T. A. Early
Fifth District
Virginia
Early
Superior Court
Sunday Services In High Point Churches
Wesley Memorial Methodist pastor G Ray Jordan preaches a morning sermon “Scientific Proof For Christ” to a large crowd and previews four more messages shaping his upcoming book The Intolerance of Christianity. Evening sermon at Central Friends recalls the value of enthusiasm and memory as spiritual power.
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Wesley Memorial
G. Ray Jordan
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Jordan
Fleming H. Revell Company
Jesus
Mr. Jordan
Samaria
Messiah
Christ
Sermon on The Peril of Lowered Enthusiasm at First Methodist
In yesterday morning worship Rev R S Farmer delivered the second sermon in the Seven Churches series from Revelation 2 4 I have somewhat against thee because thou hast left thy first love The minister urged true enthusiasm as earnest devotion not frenzy noting a Boston grave marker calling someone an enemy of Enthusiasm The Rev dismissed such misreadings of faith and urged steady zeal
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R. S. Farmer
Asia
Capp’s Hill Buryine Ground
Boston
Christ
Emer
Tanlac offers renewed strength for nervous women
Mrs Dora Robillard of Bellingham Mass reports improvement after taking Tanlac for poor digestion and headaches. The ad claims Tanlac is safe, herbal, and free from harm, promising a full refund if not helpful after 10 years of doctor endorsements.
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Taniac
Dora Robillard
Bellingham Mass
Netanie
Dhat
Tanlac
McLaughlin to Speak at High Point College Tonight
Dr. Robert W. McLaughlin, slated to address High Point college on Tuesday at 8 p m, recently endured a remarkable episode while delivering his lecture A Quest For a Pair of Slippers in Fitchburg Mississippi a city with about fifty thousand residents.
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Robert W. McLaughlin
High Point College
Fitchburg
Mess
Noted Beauty Finds Sage and Sulphur Hair Darkener
An advertisement touts a simple remedy using Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur, claiming gray hair vanishes overnight and returns to the exact shade after two or three applications. The formula is promoted as easy to use and inexpensive at 75 cents per bottle.
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Wyeth
Reporter Delays Leaves Extra Election Scoop Unreported
In Fitchburg a local election produced a near miss for an Extra edition as a reporter covering a speech became absorbed in the address. The editor notes the reporter’s merit slip while awaiting returns from two precincts, praising the writer’s good coverage but lamenting the missed timely city election results.
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McLaughlin
Fitchburg
Air Rail Hookup Plans Between Imperial Airways and Rail Groups
A London announcement outlines a planned air rail hookup linking Imperial Airways with four British railway groups in a scheme similar to the United States model. The arrangement aims to integrate faster air travel with rail connections for improved national transport.
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London
Imperial Airways
British Railway
United States
Passenger service eyed in future railway hook up
Brief item notes a British rail plan to begin with package and freight transport and later add passenger service. The change anticipates a broader use of the line for commercial movement. The notice sits under a help wanted FEMALE heading.
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Announu
H. É. Peters
Frances Yvonne
Ragan Street
Elizabeth Pay
Elizabeth Fry
Central Friends Church
Annex
Amos
High Point Hospital
R. T. Amos
Sam Strickland
W. G Regedale
Jamestown
Green Street
Green Street Baptist Church
Sadie Doss
Tate Street
C. E
High Point
Masonic Temple
Edgar Whitener
Lotus Club
Johnson Street
C. C. Barnhart
A. L. Gibson
W. L. Hargett
H. L. Mitchell
F. E. Moses
H. R. Williamson
W. R. Shaffer
Rufus Martin
Tomlinson Company
Frederick Taylor
F. R. Taylor
Frederick
Mary Lewis Mills
Mary Sue Briggs
Anna Tomlinson
Eleanor Powell
Joseph Farmer
Frank Dalton
Richard Hargett
Tal Rochelle
N. J. Bescher
Nancy J. Bescher
D. T. Andrews
J. M. Hillard
J. D. Barnett
M. C. Culler
J. H. Vestal
F. C. Burney
M. V. Andrews
O. M. Andrews
A. M. Bain
B. G. Snider
L. Smith
Molly Gaddis
Mary Washburn
Emma Younts
Moffitt’s
W. P. Pickett
Herman Meredith
Tampa, Fla
Walter FE. Crissman
Greensboro
Leslie Rowlings
Mrs. Carper
Greenville, S. C
P. E. Lindley
Point College
Herman Smith
New York
Governor Clinton
Elizabeth Bowie
West Jefferson
Elizabeth Jones
Hughes
Country Club
F. F. Brown
Alene Wrenn
Beatrice Stewart
Austin Duches
Marion Duches
Ae Duche
Columbia
8. C
Lentz
Burlington Hospital
Midway Church
Mary E. Thomas
Guilford
Son
Spurgeon
Central Friends
Takis
Tom Alderman Syies
Jerusalem
Zion
Helen Lang
George H. Godbeer
Great Britain
Sheraton Beauty Shop
Frederic
Bonnie Betty
Beauty Shoppe
Woolworth
Sale Raincoats
Beavans
Dodge
H. G. Slderton Motor Company
Dodge Brothers
Trucks
Plymouth
Willowbrook
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