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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1937
Page
11
The Piedmont German club announces its monthly dance on Saturday July 17 at the Sedgefield Inn dining room. Jack Delmar and his orchestra provide music after touring Philadelphia and Virginia Beach. Sam H. Denny leads arrangements with out of town guests expected.
A bridge party hosted by Mesdames William Jarrell and John Whitescarver at the Hayden home celebrated Miss Frances Walker Lambeth on her forthcoming marriage to Hal Reynolds of Philadelphia and High Point. Eight tables filled with bridge play amid flowers, with Miss Helen Marie Sheroff winning the high score and gifts for the honoree. Guests included numerous Winston-Salem and Durham residents and other ladies who attended meals and refreshments after play.
Miss Lucille Johnston left yesterday for Montreat to attend the Presbyterian Woman's Auxiliary conference underway this week and closing next Wednesday evening. Also attending are Mesdames P. H. Dalton W. W. Lentz C. A. McMurray and C. N. Cox of the local auxiliary. They left Wednesday morning for Montreat.
The wedding of Jewell Faye Williams to James Robert Marlow occurred in York South Carolina at Rev. BE. Gettye Nunn home. Attendants Connie Hanes and Ruth Williamson witnessed the ceremony. The bride, a High Point High School 1936 graduate, wore blue with gray accessories and gardenia lilies. The groom, from Duke University, is with A. and P Tea Co. as assistant manager. They will reside in Thomasville.
Mrs. Harvey Gibson will entertain the Community Arts club at the Gibson clubroom on North Main Street Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
The regular meeting of the Friendly Garden club will be held at the home of Mrs. E. E. Wilson Jr. on Kivett drive on July 14. Mr. and Mrs. Lanier announce the birth of a son, James William, at their home in Thomasville on July 5. Before her marriage, Mrs. Lanier was Miss Ruby Fountain of this city.
A bridge tea at Mrs. Everett Marsh home honored Mrs. John Frank lin Bivins bride of the spring. Mrs. A. B. Henley won high score with a novelty fruit basket. Mrs. Marsh gave the honoree a linen breakfast set and Mrs. Clair Cogner of Greensboro received bath salts.
Mrs. Clair C. Conner of Greensboro hosted a Winston-Salem luncheon at the Robert E. Lee hotel club room for Miss Frances Walker Lambeth and guests. The event featured a pink asters and regal lilies table, bridal motif place cards, and a salad-plate gift for the bride. attendees included Lambeth family and friends from Winston-Salem Durham Thomasville High Point.
Frances Leak and Clyde M Andrews of Greensboro were married at 5 30 in West Market Street church Greensboro. Attending were Clifford E Lehmann E E Mendenhall Jr Henry V Koonts and son Bobby Brooks Reitzel Malcolm Moore. Koonts served as groom’s man. Koonts sister aided at reception at the bride’s parents home on South Park drive.
In a simple ceremony at Green Street Baptist Church parsonage on July 5, Ruth Davis became the bride of Arthur Brown. Mrs. Brown is the second daughter of D. V. Davis of Sophia and works for Globe Parlor Furniture. Mr. Brown is the eldest son of EB Brown and the late Mr. Brown, employed by Burlington Mills in Lexington. They plan a short wedding trip to Washington and other points and will reside in High Point.
Margaret Bundy and Sherrod Salsbury wed at 7:30 pm in Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church. Bride daughter of O M Bundy Jamestown and UNC Greensboro alumna. groom son of J M Salsbury High Point. UNC Chapel Hill 1936 graduate now with Johnson Motor in Durham. They plan a Durham home after a wedding trip.
The marriage of Miss Venveneda K. Ritchie to Emery Gibson Autry was held Thursday July 1 in Raleigh with Rev. Charles Howard officiating. The bride wore a white angora suit and talisman rose corsage. the couple resides with the bride’s parents while he works in local business.
Announcement of the July 3 1937 marriage of Meta J Lomax of High Point route three to Robert E Hughes of this city with Rev Clinton A Bradston officiating a ring ceremony in Hillsville Virginia. The bride wore baby blue chiffon and her sister Ruth Hughes attended in white. They will reside at 942 Forest Avenue after a motor trip to Washington DC. HK A Surratt Jr reports a birth Harold Allen Jr at Burrus Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Boyd E Stout hosted a Thursday bridge gathering at Mrs H J Rockwell's Greenway Drive home with guests from Jonesboro and Washington D C Included were Mrs BE Candell Miss Dewey Kelly Miss Ruby Campbell and Mrs Howard Doty Four tables competed with Mrs Joe Doggett high scorer and Mrs N H Caughman visitor high scorer awarded linen handkerchiefs and vanity set A salad course and iced tea were served to honored guests and listed attendees
Mr and Mrs Tom Ritch entertained a group of children Saturday afternoon at their Grace street home for their son Claud eleventh birthday. Games were played on the lawn and cake and ice cream were served to a list of guests including Jerry Fulp Richard Lanter Colleen and Irene Angel Rogers and Douglas Voncannon Rene Walker Billy Mangan Rudolph Holt James Buck Richard and Bobbie Gill Donle and Robert Hendrix and Bobbie and Irene Dorsett. A son Morris Wayne was born to Mr and Mrs R L Farlowe on Tuesday July 6 at their High Point route three home.
Em erywood Country club alters schedule for the ladies bridge party to eleven oclock on Tuesday morning instead of ten thirty. Hostesses are Mesdames Elliott S Wood and S S Saunders. Luncheon at one oclock for reservations in advance.
Mrs. R. R. Blackburn and Mrs. John Ogburn hosted a fish fry on Monthieu avenue to honor Miss Martha Ogburn of Greensboro. The wedding to Rev. Kenneth Goodson of Oak Ridge is set for Monday at 11 at Grace M. P. church in Greensboro. Attendees included the Ogburn family and friends from Greensboro and Oak Ridge.
Miss Virginia Ryan will leave Tuesday night for Norfolk Virginia and sail Wednesday July 14 for a ten day cruise to Nova Scotia. She will be accompanied by friends from Lynchburg Virginia and will return to Lynchburg after the trip.
Miss Josephine Gibson hosted a bridge event Friday for house guest Miss Rebecca Brame of North Wilkesboro, a Salem college classmate. Also honored was Miss Mary Laura Perryman, whose wedding to David Walker of Winston-Salem occurs this month.
Miss Nelle Ansley executive secretary of the local Y W C A left Thursday for a ten day vacation at her home in Bellfontaine Ohio. She will visit Cleveland and on July 18 she goes to New York City where she will be joined by Mrs Kathleen Roser and they will sail for Nova Scotia.
Misses Hia Hensley Leslie Johnson Alfreda Hardie Elizbeth Price Helen Gibson and Margaret Burgess attend the state B T U convention in Ridgecrest representing the First Baptist Church of this city.
The High Point Altrusa will hold its regular meeting in the Sheraton hotel's private oil room on Tuesday July 13 at 6 30 PM. This will be the club's inaugural session with new officers assuming duties.
Wesley Memo participants Ki Mann Mary Ruth Woollen H Kiser Juanita Hedrick Hardison Evelyn Atkins Ric Short Clarence Terry H Welborn and Alton Hardee returned from the Young People Assembly held at Lake Junaluska.
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