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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1940
Page
6
A series of sale notices lists bargain prices on gloves blouse and silk shirts. Gloves come in silk suede and regular cotton options with prices from 25c to 1.00. Silk shirts and suede bags are offered at closeout prices mainly 1.00 and 1.45 respectively. Limited stock noted for several items.
Members of the Tuesday Contract Bridge Club gathered at the home of Mrs. Howard Hartzell on Guilford Avenue for a bi weekly dinner bridge. A two course dinner appeared at dainty tables with narcissi and fern centerpieces. Bridge followed with Mrs. W E Mitchell winning top score, at three tables.
The W O T Club met yesterday at Mrs. W. C. Jones home on Farriss with a program of current events and many visitors present. Arrangements of chrysanthemums and plants were used in the living room while Mrs A S Parker served coffee in the dining room beside a lace covered table with a bowl of pastel flowers. Visitors included Mrs E C Atkinson formerly Miss Margaret Carlton of Roxboro now in High Point and Mesdames S H Tomlinson Emble H Blackard G D Pettibone plus several young ladies. members present were Mesdames G W Clark A S Parker Joseph D Cox W C Idol T J Gold J H Adams CC Tomlinson R K Stewart and Misses Mary Alexander and I Irvin Paylor.
The American Legion Auxiliary unit held a lengthy meeting at Mrs. N. L. Garner’s home on West Lexington Avenue. Reports highlighted rehabilitation efforts led by Mrs. Tom Bates, and plans to aid the D. A. R. in hosting state delegates, with attendance at a William Penn high school meeting to organize a local unit for colored women.
State D A R North Carolina Society gathers in High Point for February conference plans. Executive board members and district committee chairs, led by Mrs. J F Hayden, hear reports on arrangements hospitality transportation decorations and programs. Light refreshments follow.
The Happy Musicians Club met at Mrs. R. H. Sechrest's home on South Main Street with hostesses Mrs. Jack Forward and Mrs. I. T. Adams. A program featured Paderewski and Chopin works, plus pieces by Virginia Forward and Joan Sechrest, with prizes awarded for scrapbooks on the two composers. Refreshments were served. next gathering will be hosted by Mrs. Harry X. Russell at 816 English Street.
The Union Hill P T A will hold its regular monthly meeting Thursday night January 18 at 7 30. Miss Martha Parsons will lead the devotion and Rev N Royal pastor of East Green Street Baptist Church will be the principal speaker.
The article argues a woman's smartness shows best at home and requires careful planning and hard work. It stresses designing a gracious home, choosing fittings, and planning entertaining to project ease, confidence, and belonging without showing effort.
A group of local women left for Durham to attend the quarterly meeting of the North Carolina Society Daughters of the American Colonists at the Rebekah Home. Mrs J W Parker state regent presided over an executive meeting luncheon and business session with several local attendees listed.
The Octo Club hosted Mrs. Harry Brooks at the Gibson Clubroom with guests Miss Carolyn Price and Mesdames John Ingram and Peggy Fleischmann while missing members reduced the turnout. Anna Reeves won high score with four crystal ash trays, Barbara Courtney took second with a novelty vase. An urgent Flora McDonald College alumni meeting is set for 3:45 PM in the junior high orchestra room, lasting about 30 minutes, with current members F. F. Dickson, Carl Hill, O. C. Williamson, Myrtle Titman, Virginia Frank, Anna Elisabeth Kearns, Helen Dickson, and Elizabeth Munroe invited. calls to all eligible alumni.
At the regular Moose Hall meeting on North Main Street W L York deputy supreme governor will make an official visit. A secretary will be elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs Billie Bowman.
Washington Council number four Daughters of America will meet Thursday evening at 7 30 at 310 North Main Street. The gathering will feature a class initiation as announced this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Moran and Mrs. C. C. Moran with Howard Moran came back to Kivett Drive after several days in Washington N C visiting Mr. and Mrs. Henry Carraway. Mesdames Walter Branson and Roxie Isom return to Long Street after a month with relatives in Washington N C. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Plummer move from High Point to Chapel Hill route one to a 372 acre farm. Joy and Olean Patterson are ill at 110 Briggs Avenue with influenza. J. L. Sechrest of 416 East Washington Street is a patient at Guilford General Hospital with a deep cold. Oris C. Harvey and family hosted Mrs. J. Herman Atkins Jr. and Tommie Atkins of Richmond Va. for several days. Mrs. Wade Thrift is ill with influenza on Kivett Drive.
The Jr. Y. W. A. led by Mrs. R. B. Culler met with Doris and Virginia Robbins on Louise Avenue. Officers elected for the year include Polly Combs president Kathleen Malpass secretary Virginia Robbins treasurer Esther Rae Wilson personal service Hyacinth Hedrick and Mary Helen Daves first vice president Mamie Malpass Kearns membership chair and Virginia Crouch social chair. The program God’s Purpose Working Out was led by Virginia Robbins. Refreshments were served by the Robbins sisters and their mother. Next meeting to be with Mary Helen Daves. Archdale Women’s Class Will Meet Tomorrow Evening at Archdale Methodist Church with Mrs. B. F. Rogers. associate hostesses Mrs. W. L. Keller and Mrs. O Hz. Frazier.
Cloverdale PTA discussed mental hygiene with Mrs. Lidie P. Horton of the Senior High School Home Economics Department as speaker. She emphasized mental health importance, urged happy childhoods, and outlined ways to foster happiness and well being through interests self esteem cheerfulness and recreation.
Community clubs and social events scheduled from Wednesday through Saturday include meetings at Mrs Loui Greenberg 404 Woodrow Avenue and Mrs Harry Ray nbd North Main Street. Activities feature teatime clubs, Household Arts, Tea and Topics with a John Galsworthy program, and Beta Sigma Phi and Priscilla Club gatherings. A wedding party and bridge events honor Mrs Gilbert Bernard and Miss Nancy Smith.
Mrs. Dale Montgomery spoke to the Tuesday Evening Garden Club at Mrs. J. W. Montgomerys home about North Carolina park development. She noted many state parks across the state accessible to tourists via good roads and credited former State Forester J. B. Holmes for originating the parks program.
Ladies of the Emerywood Country Club held a bi weekly party at the clubhouse yesterday afternoon with seven bridge tables in use. Misdames R I Quigley and Fred M Metcalfe Jr served refreshments before play. Mrs Jesse Washburn won the prize by cutting for it after the game at Emerywood.
The excerpt outlines three years of work focusing on girlhood tasks. First year covers The Girl and Her Personal Needs, second year The Girl and Her Family, and third year The Girl and Her Future.
The Thomasville Business and Professional Women's Club held its January dinner meeting at six in the basement of the Community Methodist Church. Miss Sallie McCracken spoke on how business and government grow in the nation and the role of women, while Miss Eunice Woods defined government departments by initials.
The Cercle Francais gathering formerly at Mrs. Dred Peacock's home will now meet at Mrs. Everett Marsh's residence at 909 Johnson Street. The event starts at 7 30 in the evening and attendees are asked to note the venue change.
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