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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1938
Page
7
In Cairo the 17 year old King Farouk wed 16 year old Farida in a Moslem ceremony. Farida attended only in a distant room, while never witnessing the ceremony. The event sparked three days of nationwide celebrations with drums, bells, and horsemen.
Mrs. Eshelman spoke at the Mid-Week Club meeting hosted by Mrs. Morrow. She described two trips to Lake George and a Florida tour, comparing summer northward and tropical winter climates. Mrs. Watson served chicken salad and guests, including 11 members and three year members, enjoyed spring floral table centers.
At the Magdalene Rebekah lodge regular meeting tomorrow at 7 30 p m new officers will be installed Mrs Bessie Baker is noble grand and Mrs Margaret Hayworth is vice grand Miss Emma Calhound records secretary Miss Dessie Gregory financial secretary and Mrs Verta Loman treasurer Other officers and committees will be appointed and other important business transacted
Mrs. Willis H Slane and Miss Betty Vetterlein of Ardmore Pa attended a luncheon in Statesville hosted by Mrs J B Cooper to honor Miss Vetterlein whose Philadelphia marriage to Louis DeLone is planned for spring. A four course luncheon featured pastel sweetpeas and a silver ash tray place mark for Miss Vetterlein. Bridge followed with Mrs Elise Herman of Danville Va winning the high score prize.
Friends of Miss Ann O'Brien learn she is improving at Guilford General Hospital after undergoing an appendectomy last night.
The Fine Arts department of the Thomasville Woman's Club held a meeting at Mrs. W. E. Tomlinson's Sunrise avenue home. Miss Elmina Hearne presided and opened with remarks on Robert E. Lee's birth anniversary. Mrs. Charles F. Lambeth spoke on The Negro and Better Race Relationship as the program highlight. Twenty three ladies attended, with two visitors.
The High Point college band presented its first concert on Wednesday January 19 during chapel hour led by undergraduate conductor Olin R Blickenderfer from Gary Indiana a former student of Josef Oszuscik now with the Chicago Symphony The program featured marches by Fillmore Talbot and an Hayes overture plus two other pieces and announced future concerts in the series. A stray note adds a plant fact about sundew behavior when meat is nearby.
Hollins College figures announce the arrival of Miss Lelia Kocke from Roanoke to visit Miss Caroline Dalton, once her Hollins roommate. The Kocke family long steered Hollins and the visit precedes Miss Kocke’s four month European tour starting March 1, with two months in Germany. Also noted is the birth of a son, Alvis Garland, to Mr and Mrs Alvis Merringer of Altamahan, January 17. the mother was Violet Dickens of this city.
Miss Irma Gray Hornaday was honored at a Greensboro tea hosted by Mrs N J Mason and her daughter at a Fairmont Street home. About 20 attendees welcomed Hornaday and her mother Mrs W G Hornaday as she prepares to marry Alson Gray next month. Guests from High Point included Misses Jacqueline Kinney Sarah Forest Thompson Ruth Merelyn Thompson Dorothy Jones and Frances Gueth.
The word pecuniary comes from pecus meaning cattle, reflecting how cows once formed a man’s wealth and financial basis.
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