Centre Friends Plan Bicentennial Celebrations at Meeting House
Descendants of five Quaker pioneer families will gather at Centre Friends Meeting House on August 17 for a bicentennial event and pageant The Silver Thread recounts early settlers William Hockett John Bales Peter Dicks and others and the community’s growth from 18th century logs to multiple meeting houses The event is led by Centre Friends Meeting House members Ruth Hackett Hazel Murrow Frances Gamble and J Phal Hodgin Jr with a cast of 125 in a pageant staged on the Meeting House lawn.
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ED Lane
Centre Friends Community
Centre Friends Meeting
Centre Friends
Beatrice — Ey SC
Monthly Meeting of Friends
Richard Beeson
Peter Dix
Hackett
Pennsylvaniaville
John Lord Carteret
Rowan County
Orange County
Pole Cat Creek
Sele
Charleston
New Garden
Guilford
Cane Creek
Alamance County
Centre
Four Acre
Ocene Center
Centre Friends Meeting House
Ruth Hackett
Hazel Murrow
Frances Gamble
J. Phal Hodgin Jr
Centre Friends Bicentennial Pageant and Regional Growth
The article describes Centre Friends Monthly Meeting bicentennial ceremonies with Rev. Elbert Newlin presiding and a designating marker planned by the North Carolina Historical Association. It notes reenactments of Centre's early arrivals and a pageant site prepared to host seven thousand visitors amid 1860 to 1950 population data and regional development forecasts for the Raleigh Durham Greensboro Charlotte area into the year 2000.
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Tne
Elbert Newlin
Centre Friends
North Carolina Historical Association
Cere Ee Wa
USA
North Carolina
Raleigh- Durham
Piedmont
Greensboro
High Point
Winston-Salem
Salisbury
Concord
Charlotte
Greenville
Spartanburg
South Car
Sunday Puzzle Solution Page Fragment
Puzzle clues listed with many misspellings and garbled words. Contains across and down entries including Cuban dance and Fred Astaire’s home town, plus numerous broken terms and partial phrases from a newspaper puzzle page.
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Thomas Meekin
Whitpey
Kruger
Fred Astaire
Jerry
Britain
Ambassador's Report on Ocean Voyage for High Point Students
Fred Macon reports from June to July as he and 1,300 Experiment in International Living students sail aboard Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt from New York to Rotterdam. He details UN tour, lectures, Dutch meals, onboard recreation, sea sickness, and early impressions of Rotterdam and his Swiss host family. He thanks Jim Randle and notes the trip's educational aims.
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High Point
Fred Macon
Switzerland
Jaycee
Jim Randle
New York
Henry Hudson
Gordon Boyce
U. S
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Holland American Lines
JVC
Australia
Tour Org
Rotterdam
Switzer
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Odell Marion
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