Week By Week In The Garden A seasonal gardening column
Hallie Hay details planting and care for vegetables and flowers including beans beets carrots parsnips and gladioli. She notes pest control with tartar emetic and brown sugar and shares advice on using cedar in flower arrangements and on forcing Madonna lilies Lilium candidum with careful planting and timing.
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Kentucky
America
Florists Review
France
Holland
United States
Points And Personalities At The Furniture Market
Mary Louise Medley surveys a bustling High Point furniture market scene. Six hundred sixty buyers attended opening day amid war shortages, with vendors highlighting government orders and Navy, USO, Red Cross furniture needs. Notables include Capus Waynick, Bob Thompson, and HH Hoopes in uniform, while booths showcase rattan, beauty rests, and linoleum substitutions as industry adapts to wartime constraints.
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W. A. Tomlinson
Navy
USO
Service
Red Cross
HH. B. Hoopes
Brandt
Hagerstown
Hoopes
U. S. Army
Washington
High Point
Second District Altrusa Conference Planned for October
The Second District Altrusa clubs will hold a skeleton conference in High Point on Saturday October 9 with one delegate from each of 23 clubs due to war. Miss Daisy H Stubbs of Savannah Ga will preside at a one day session with an afternoon meeting to finish business and a dinner in the evening. District officers slated to retire include Miss Stubbs governor and others except to remain until fall.
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Altrusa
High Point
Mary Lou Rothrock
Asheville
George Vanderbilt
Daisy H. Stubbs
Savannah
High Point Club
Miss Stubbs
Aliss Hocker
Edith Eskridge
Final Prenuptial Parties Planned For Miss Grayson
Miss Margaret Grayson prepares for her marriage to Lieutenant Furman P. Covington of Thomasville with several pre wedding events. Tonight she will attend a garden party in Thomasville hosted by Miss Jennie Reid Newby on West Main Street at 7 30. Thursday luncheon at her North Main Street home features Miss Grayson and her attendants. Friday cake cutting follows the rehearsal at the Grayson residence hosted by Miss Frances Grayson. Saturday morning wedding breakfast is hosted by Mr and Mrs James F E Lambeth Jr of Thomasville, with Mrs Lambeth matron of honor at the First Baptist Church wedding Saturday evening.
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Margaret Grayson
Furman P. Covington
Thomasville
Jennie Reid Newby
West Main Street
Miss Grayson
Miss Idol speaks on American humor at Y Club meeting
Miss Vera Idol addressed the Florence Nightingale Club supper at the YMCA last evening. She traced humor forms and read selections from American humorists including Mark Twain and Benjamin Franklin. Mrs H W McCain attended as a special guest.
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Vera Idol
Florence Nightingale Club
Miss Idol
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
H. W. McCain
Altrusa Official Ts Visitor Here
Miss Ruth C. Hocker left last night for Baltimore after a brief stop with Mr. and Mrs. John Rothrock at 208 Woodrow Avenue en route to Asheville for the district executive board meeting. Hocker is placement counselor with the Baltimore Board of Education and has vacated since June first.
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Ruth C. Hocker
Baltimore
John Rothrock
Woodrow Avenue
Miss Hocker
Altrusa Clubs
Rothrock
Asheville
Board of Education
Local residents amid travel and hospital updates in Baltimore area
Robert Smith plans return to Baltimore tomorrow for defense work after visiting his parents on English Sweet. Ray Macomson hosts J J Wood Paul Wilkerson and Buddy in Spartanburg for a week. Anna Elisabeth Wearns leaves for Washington Federal offices after time with Thurlow A Kearns on Lindsay Street. Tom Bates hospitalized at Burrus Memorial for treatment. John C Autry recovering well after surgery in Winston Salem. C M Fivuni of Fort Lauderdale recuperating at Nance home after Burrus surgery. Nellie and Bill Price return from Carolina Beach with Cornelie Bristow Arnold Scott and Charlie Thomas. Marshall Falls family back on Barbee Street after two weeks in Virginia and visits to Carolina Beach Charlotte Gastonia Greenville S C.
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Robert Smith
Baltimore
Mrs. H. C. Smith
Anna Elisabeth Wearns
Washington, D. C
Aii
C. M. Fivuni
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
W. K. Nance
Mary Hogan
Hamilton Street
Burrus Memorial Hospital
Nellie Price
Bill Price
Phillips Street
Carolina Beach
Cornelie Bristow
Arnold Scott
Charlie Thomas
Mrs Carraway To Give Program At Legion Auxiliary Meeting
The Blair Park clubhouse hosts the local American Legion Auxiliary for its 143year meeting this evening. Mrs Leigh Harper will preside as president after installation, and Mrs Bruce Carraway will present a program titled Trophies and Awards. Hostesses include Mesdames Bates Burns Carriker Gant Haley Harrison Teague and Williams.
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The
American Legion Auxiliary
Blair Park
Leigh Harper
Bruce Carraway
Tom Bates
Jones Burns
J. Frank Carriker
R. B. Gant
G. M. Haley
Effie Harrison
Lewis E. Teague
M. W. Williams
Church Socials Highlight Archdale and Oak Hill Endeavorers
Archdale Friends Christian Endeavor met Sunday with Miriam Byerly from the American Friends Service Committee. A program featured a talk on present-day conditions, a business session, and plans to collect clothing for the AFSC box. Oak Hill Friends Endeavor Society hosted a Sunday service led by Dorothy Moreland from Earlham College, with the topic Love and Brotherhood. Members were invited to meet Friday at 7 30 for fellowship and games before the Benediction.
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Archdale Friends
Oak Hill
Bible Study Meet Led by Mrs Andrews at Hubbard Home
The Stephens Bible study class will meet tomorrow at 3 PM at 1601 Fast Green Street the home of Mrs J H Hubbard Nora L Andrews will lead the discussion in charge of the talk
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Stephens Bible Study
J. H. Hubbard
Fast Green Street
Nora L. Andrews
Beta Sigma Phi Meets Tomorrow
The Mu chapter of the non collegiate Beta Sigma Phi sorority will hold its regular meeting on Wednesday evening July 21 at Miss Frances Miuse’s home in the Alberta Apartments.
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Beta Sigma Phi
Frances Miuse
Alberta Apartments
Y. F. W. auxiliary to meet Wednesday night at hall
The V. FLW auxiliary will hold its regular meeting tonight at the hall on Washington and Main. All members are urged to attend. The announcement came this morning.
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V. Flw
Washington and Main
Magdalene Rebekah Lodge Officers Set Brief Wednesday Meet
The Magdalene Rebekah Lodge installing officers are asked to meet at the Hall on Wednesday evening at 7 30. It was announced this morning that the gathering is important but brief and all installing officers should attend.
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Magdalene Rebekah Lodge
Smart Renovation of Old Dresses Through Simple Tricks
Practical tips for transforming worn garments into stylish new outfits using decorative yokes sleeves and draped peplums. Emphasizes proper fit with a dress form or molded substitutes and suggests cleaning and flattening fabric before recutting. Warns about avoiding material loss during alterations.
Pattern 4097 dress and bolero for misses sizes
Advertisement for Simulated jacket dress and bolero pattern 4097 Misses size 12 14 16 18 10 includes front bodice softness smooth waistline back buttoning side placket. Describes fabric yardage 39 inches 35 inch. Offers Victory savings and Sumner Pattern Book with 32 poses for various occasions. Price ten cents. Pattern Apartment 243 West Street New York NY.
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Anne Adams
New Sumner
Kay Kyser Backing Record Campaign For Men In Service
Kay Kyser urges readers to join Records For Our Fighting Men, a coast to coast drive by the American Legion and Legion Auxiliary to collect 37.5 million old phonograph records. Proceeds fund new records and music for American troops overseas, with records selected by a committee of musical figures and sent to camps, bases, fleets, hospitals, and battle stations.
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Kay Kyser
American Legion
the Legion Auxiliary
America
West Indies
Northern Ireland
Iceland
Australia
Alaska
Legion
Kray Kyser
How Can I by Anne Ashi Ey reads reader Q and A
A woman asks how to make a sunburn lotion using two ounces of water and ten drops of glycerine with perfume, dab on skin for five minutes then wipe gently. Another reader asks how to keep watercress fresh. answer: drain after washing and place in a heavy paper bag in the refrigerator's moderately cold section. A third asks how to destroy chiggers on lawn. answer: apply sulphur with a dust gun and keep grass cut to prevent chiggers.
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V. A. Tomlinson
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Junior Service League
Mesdames
Matt Wall
Henry Foscue
Tom Tyson
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H. D. Baker
Monthey Avenue
Hubbard Durant, Jr
Lilly Kanoy
Trinity
Hugh Cannon
Martha Cannon
Hugh
Spartanburg
S. C
Ray Macomson
Lindsay Street
J. H. Wood
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Archdale
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