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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1934
Page
6
Fashion pattern 066 for a Daisy frock sold by Marian Martin includes sizes 8 to 18 and yardage for size 12. Pattern 9966 costs fifteen cents and orders should include name address style number and size. The accompanying Summer Edition pattern book offers beach outfits costumes and sun suits with vacation wardrobe ideas.
Tuesday Evening Garden club held its final meeting of the year at First Reformed church. Members displayed gladioli including two outstanding arrangements by Mrs. Arthur Ridge and twelve varieties grown by Mrs. Leon Douglas. W. C. Asbury presented a notable gladiolus display. Mrs. R. R. Blackburn presided. nominations were approved for club officers for next year.
Dr. P. E. Lindley dean at High Point College spoke to Altrusa members at their bi weekly dinner at Mrs. A. D. Brockett's home on North Main street. He discussed his book Human Nature and The Church. Miss Lucille Johnston introduced him and Miss Hazel Johnson presided in President Nancy K. Poston's absence. The next meeting is set for Tuesday August 14 on Burrus Memorial hospital lawn.
Mr and Mrs N R Schram announce the birth of a daughter Barbara Anne on Monday July 23 at their Kivett drive home. Grace Cashatt, before marriage, is of this city. lawn party at Glenola Church Friday evening July 27 5 30 to ? hosted by Faithful Workers class with ice cream and cake. public invitation.
In Roduco a six to seven hundred pound post office safe was dragged two miles by thieves who opened it with a cold chisel and took only five dollars. The crime was spotted at 7:30 am by G. M. Brown and the car tracks led two miles to a bypath near Gatesville.
RALEIGH July 25 The escape of five prisoners from county camps was announced today. Troy Williams serving 7 to 10 years and Forest Cashey a short term man escaped from Duplin county guards by jumping from a truck and fleeing into the woods. Malcolm Simmons and Fred Daniel walked off from the Halifax county camp. Bernice Ennis a trusty escaped from the Sampson camp.
Social notes list several visitors and travelers including W. H. Silane staying at the Hotel Governor Clinton in New York City. Mrs. W. D. Welborn and son Billy visit Winston-Salem relatives for a week or ten days, with Mrs. Welborn’s former Winston-Salem home noted. Other items mention trips to White Lake, Carolina Friends improving after surgery, and assorted visits in High Point, Norfolk, McBee, and Burlington, with names and addresses provided.
The Business and Professional Girls club meets tomorrow at 6 30 PM at the YWCA for a dinner meeting. Dr J H Stallings and C H Flory from the Soil Erosion department are guest speakers with civic club representatives among the attendees. Miss Kathleen Younts presides as president.
The Junior Christian Endeavor City Union plans a picnic at Springfield Friends church on Thursday afternoon, departing for the church at four. All junior Endeavors and friends are invited, with the Springfield Friends Society directing the program under Mrs Oren Vincannon.
Winter menus favor crisp color in salads. A molded crab meat salad with celery green pepper and onion juice pairs with watercress sandwiches for porch luncheon. Lime juice and mayonnaise provide the dressing.
The text details crab meat and ham salads with jelly molds and garnish ideas, plus a forecasted tomorrow menu including cantaloupe, tomato and bacon toast, and a dinner plan. It then reports a death by hanging near Union, North Carolina, noting discovery by a search party, coronial remarks, and a coroner's jury with no verdict.
In Gatesville the coroner's jury could not decide whether Tommie Holliday 28 of Creme Bertie county died by murder or by self harm after his body was found hanging from a tree in Menoia Hertford county. The jury will reconvene Friday night in Ahoskie to further investigate the case.
The article advises skipping strict dieting in July and August, urging sensible portions, flexible meal timing, and cooling foods. It recommends ten glasses of liquids daily, preferably water or fruit juice. It also notes U S Navy aircraft carriers' deck landings approaching forty thousand and an amphibian aircraft launch by a land catapult at Farnborough, England.
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