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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1935
Page
6
Pattern 9485 offers a quick sew dress with a front yoke forming part of the sleeve and a one piece front sleeve with a gathered bodice. A bow or flowers adds dressy flair, with slim skirt panels for a slender look. Sizes 14 to 42. order by mail for 15 cents to Marian Martin pattern department.
Emerywood entry club will hold its bi weekly bridge party tomorrow morning at 10 o clock. Mrs Jesse Wash man announced the change to a morning start. Mrs C F Tomlinson and Mrs A Millis host. prizes awarded and lunch served for early reservations.
The High Point Christian En vor Union schedules a mass meeting at First Methodist Protestant Church tomorrow at 7 30 PM with an executive board gathering at 7 PM. All society presidents and officers are urged to attend the executive session briefly to start promptly, with awards for best work and a report from ten members who attended the recent international convention in Philadelphia.
The parsonage of the First Evangelical and Reformed church hosted a quiet Sunday wedding at 1 o clock. Miss Frances Lady Thomas and Jay A Hipps, both residents of Candler, exchanged vows before Rev L Fesperman. Only close friends and relatives attended, and the couple departed for a wedding trip after the ceremony.
Former city resident Nell McGhee arrives in town to visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. B A McGhee on Morris Street. Jennie Lee Welborn and Frances Halman plan a Myrtle Beach motor trip. Addie Lomax returns from a twelve day tour of the New England states Canada and Niagara Falls New York. Mr and Mrs C L Carter and Misses Jessie Inman and Lessie Huggins of New Bern hosted the Sewells on Woodrow Avenue en route to Chimney Rock for a stay.
The Big Brothers club of South Main Street M. EB. church will join with the church class for a sandwich supper at City Lake on Tuesday evening July 16. Members should bring wives and sandwiches, meeting at the church at 6 or going directly to City Lake. Games will be played and timely attendance urged.
Rev. H P Williams preached on John ten nine at Gospel Tabernacle. The message declares Jesus is the door to salvation and safety, liberty to go in and out, and enduring pasture in Christ, with reference to Psalm twenty three. The sermon contrasts Christ with all other claims and emphasizes eternal abundance in God’s provision.
W G Kincannon from the US Department of Agriculture in High Point urges farmers to use cover crops after harvesting small grains like wheat and oats. He warns bare land loses soil and nutrients to erosion and leaching during heavy rains, harming next year’s yields.
Erosion expert Mr Kincannon emphasizes fall planted winter cover crops such as wheat oats barley hairy vetch and Austrian winter peas. Data show cotton fields with no cover lose 30 tons of soil per acre while rotating cotton with wheat and clover reduces loss to 6.3 tons per acre, with non winter cover plots eroding six times more than winter crops.
Evangelist Bascom Rollins continues a two week revival in a tents on the Fairfield road after last night’s fruitful results. No service tonight but if weather allows a service tomorrow at 7 45. Archdale Friends Methodists and Baptists join in the union meeting inviting High Point residents.
James Talbert, 17, of 303 Osborne Street, was arrested on a warrant charging breaking and entering and larceny for a July 8 English Street filling station robbery. Bond set at 1000 on larceny and 500 on carrying a concealed weapon. lodged in city jail. Also sought are Harrison Winslow, 14, and Garfield Cobb, 15, both with prior records and active robbery charges.
Tar Heel Legion No 159 Loyal Order of Moose closed its two day convention in Jamestown with an executive session at the Moose Home and a banquet at the city lake park pavilion. The next convention is set for September 2 in Spartanburg South Carolina. thirteen members were inducted. Great North Moose leader E D Clutter of Danville Virginia presided over inductions. Eight cities were represented and the High Point Moose lodge quartet performed.
S. S. Simril a 45 year old colored night watchman for Wrenn Columbia Furniture was found dead near the Southern railway tracks 200 yards from Oak Hill crossing at dawn. Coroner Dr Harvey says death likely accidental but police say no conclusion yet and have detained Charles Miller for inquiry.
Mr and Mrs Fred Montgomery Mr and Mrs Elmer Ruth and Miss Ada Leonard were weekend guests at White Lake and Pinehurst returning home last night. Mrs J Wood of Cable Street is a patient at Guilford General hospital recovering satisfactorily from a recent operation. Friends of John J Blair are glad he is able to be out again after a broken tendon in his ankle.
The film Tomorrow's Children opens Wednesday at the Carolina theatre. Based on a true story, the drama centers on sterilization as a social issue, presenting a human, romantic narrative while highlighting a topic feared worldwide if current programs continue.
A popular hot weather craft uses a needle to create pictures of the garden and flowers. The pattern 56297 offers a 15x20 inch wall hanging transfer, color chart, material list, and finishing directions. Send 10 cents to The Enterprise Household Arts Dept. in New York for the pattern.
A Hunt family reunion at the Blair home on South Main Street drew a large group including Mrs. Stephen Hunt and her Chicago daughter Mary Hunt and Mabel Leigh Hunt of Indianapolis. Guests heard a letter about the Nath an Hunt home written by Anna Braithwaite and viewed its image, noting its location near the Model Farm and Springfield Friends church property.
Harrisonburg Va July 15 a weekend in the Shennandoah Valley promises a musical spectacle with a 1000 voice choir from Virginia North Carolina Pennsylvania West Virginia and Maryland directed by G H Lehmann and Dr John Finley Williamson. The Fifth Annual Massanetta Springs Musical Festival features Virginia folk songs from Singers Glen and mountain fiddling under John Powell and Mrs Annabel Morris Buchanan in a program echoing Civil War era battles.
In Sumter South Carolina 800 Williams furniture plant workers remain idle as no work resumes under a pre strike basis. J T Buxton says plants stay closed until workers return to former terms and strikers show willingness to bargain. Strike leaders offer no signs of returning. The company refused pay raises 5 to 10 percent eight hour day and overtime pay. The strike committee accuses C L Williams of refusal to recognize organized labor.
Mrs. R. H. Holliday hosted a bridge party for houseguest Miss Dell Woods Morrisey of Canton at her West Main street home. Three tables played for prizes with high scores by Mrs. Vernon Snider and Mrs. Carson Cox. Refreshments followed as guests included Mrs. Gottman of Detroit and other local residents.
Mr and Mrs Harry Culp will depart Thursday for Blue Ridge to attend the Industrial Conference. Mrs Culp will visit friends in Henderson and Asheville before returning home.
Mr and Mrs Gottman left Friday for Detroit after visiting Mr and Mrs J C Lloyd. Lock Beard and Johnny Rudisill visited friends in Gastonia and returned Sunday. Dr M Hoover J W Boyles and C L Harris returned home after a trip to Blowing Rock. Mr and Mrs Stephen Burton spent the weekend at Myrtle Beach South Carolina.
Mrs. C. L. Harris and young Shirley Harris are spending a few days in Rich-Va. visiting relatives and enjoying the stay.
Members of the Thursday bridge club enjoyed a pleasant meeting last week at the home of Mrs. J. W. Hawthorne on East Main Street. Two players shared in friendly play and conversation amid warm hospitality.
Miss Dell Woods Morrisey of Canton is the houseguest of Mr and Mrs R H Holliday at their West Main street residence. Miss Morrisey is a cousin of Dr Holliday.
Miss Dmetri Waldrop of Richmond Virginia is spending some time at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J W Hawthorne on East Main Street as noted in local society items.
Mr and Mrs Walter Green depart Saturday night for Atlantic City New York Niagara Falls and a tour of Canadian points. They will spend several days visiting noted sites and cities along the route.
Mrs Gladys Herring travels to Burlington for a time and will also visit White Lake during the trip.
Mr and Mrs Alfred Finch and Miss Elizabeth Ogburn sister of Mrs Finch left Saturday night for Myrtle Beach South Carolina to spend the weekend. They returned home late Sunday.
Coroner said inquest not necessary into Dorothy Louise Hutchins 17 who killed herself at her grandparents home. Investigators were told she had been refused permission to marry.
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