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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1931
Page
6
Society notes reveal clubs detailing upcoming weddings and events under the phone 4865 contact line. Observers see networks of local gatherings shaping social calendars with marriages and related festivities highlighted by host groups.
The Service League of Saint Marys Episcopal church will serve a pancake and country sausage supper tonight at the Parish House from 6 to oclock. Little Miss Helen Cable daughter of Mr and Mrs D M Cable of 616 Cable street underwent an appendicitis operation at Guilford General hospital yesterday and is making satisfactory progress. Mrs R F Woodson formerly Miss Isabel Haylor of Spartanburg SC underwent an appendicitis operation at Guilford General hospital this morning and is reportedly improving. The Parent Teacher association met in the school auditorium with talks on health and recreation.
People J. HH. Davis visits Ashe ville while Wade Marsh returns from Chicago business trip. Dr H Foltz was in Asheville at Battery Park hotel. Roland Holton returned from Chicago where he attended the Furniture Show. Thomas Gold Jr a High Point hospital patient is expected home today. Gilbert and Cam Ragan, formerly of High Point, now in Elerbee NC, were in the city yesterday. Mrs A L Holton and daughter...
A Russian symphonic choir will join the Philco Symphony Orchestra for a radio broadcast on Tuesday January 20 at 9 30 p m EST. Howard Barlow conducts the choir in Russian language numbers including Song of India and the Dances from Prince Igor with the full orchestra. The program opens with the Prince Igor overture and features Rimsky Korsakoff pieces along with Lindoff Naenia.
A proposal seeks to extend a route from the Greensboro city limits to the airport about five miles, with a possible new entry via West Market Street. An emergency widening from 18 to 21 feet is urged as a priority. Citizens would decide on the city entrance reroute if traffic benefits are proven. The note mentions the Washington Monument costing 1 300 000 dollars and having been dedicated in 1885 with over 9 000 000 visitors by 1929.
Roanoke Va visitors Mrs J H McBroom and family join Mrs Holton’s son R T Holton in Emerywood. Mrs B Bonner hosts her mother Mrs J R Owen and sister Miss Eva Owen from Elizabeth City at Edgedate Drive. Mrs G C Ulery of Springfield Ohio visits daughter Mrs Seborn Perry and plans several weeks stay. Ivan Hill, recently discharged from High Point Hospital after ten days, returns home at 707 Fourth Street in improved condition.
Dr A B Conrad pastor of First Baptist spoke at the Y Men s Club gathering in the Y W C A praising vision observation persistence and frugality as virtues for citizens. Hoy Whitlow opened with scripture then Edwin Hedrick introduced the speaker.
A morning program at the city high school featured a sketch drawn from the life of Robert E. Lee. John Gurney Briggs portrayed Lee with others including Sara Denny as the Spirit of the South and Francis Sizemore as Blair.
Highfill announces the acquisition of the Ideal Shoe Shop located at 111. The deal confirms Highfill to expand its retail footprint and integrate the shop into its network, signaling a strategic consolidation in local footwear retail.
East Washington street near Wallace Highfill and E. M. Glover Way announce that Mr. Highfill now operates the business with W. H. Fowler, an experienced cobbler, joining him in the venture.
A 1930 college survey documents rising female enrollment in law, medicine, business and dentistry courses. The finding highlights shifting gender dynamics in professional education.
J Elwood Cox fifth district highway commissioner meets Greensboro officials including Mayor R R King and County Manager D L Donnell with delegations of citizens to discuss widening state highway Number 60 from the city to points beyond.
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