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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1931
Page
6
The Piermont Women's Golf Association will hold its regular golf tournament at the Sedgefield Club tomorrow morning starting at 9 o'clock.
The Ferris wheel carries the name of its inventor George W J Ferris an American engineer and steel bridge builder born in Galesburg Illinois in 1859.
Miss Dorothy Cook of Washington will drive the lead car as the Women’s International League for Freedom and Peace begins a California to Geneva disarmament caravan. The motor protest will deliver petitions to President Hoover and later present the same petitions to the 1982 International Disarmament Conference in Geneva, met by prominent state women along the route.
Miss Shirley Farr and Miss Allie May Taylor spent Sunday in Durham with friends. Mrs. M. L. Collins of Dobson visits her sister Mrs. J. E. Robertson. Miss Bessie Robbins returns home near Winston after visiting Misses Faye and Artis Caudle. Mrs. Wiley Stone and her daughters Jessie Palmer and Mary Elizabeth return from Mocksville after two weeks with Rev. and Mrs. Watt. Mrs. J. M. Freeman and Viola Freeman visit Spartanburg, D. C., after staying with Mrs. O. M. Andrews on Chestnut Street.
Rome reports King Victor Emmanuel arranged government permission to reopen Catholic laymen clubs closed by police. Cardinal Pacelli influenced Premier Mussolini, with the pope and king signing the ratification of the Lateran accord. Clubs may resume under diocesan bishop direction.
DeMolay chapter hosts annual homecoming dance at Mrs. Ella Dallas residence on South Main Street tomorrow night. All DeMolays invited, including Advisory Council members, as part of a summer activity series honoring members away at school.
The High Point Red Sox face the Winston-Salem Safety Bus nine tomorrow night at Willis Park. Both teams remain undefeated this season. Joe Crawford pitches for the Red Sox with Crump slated to start for Winston-Salem.
An open meeting of Chickasaw Tribe No. 32 Improved Order of Red Men will be held in its wigwam at the Broadhurst building over the High Point Enterprise on Wednesday at 7 30 p m Rev R A Whitten of Reidsville great sachem of North Carolina will be the guest and speaker of the evening.
Tests reveal flowers rank by keeping qualities with Roses orchids lilies carnations chrysanthemums spring flowers and calendulas. The list orders flowers by durability and longevity, noting roses and orchids top the ranking and calendulas lower.
Miss Leona Welborne married Rev. Robert Cletus Foster of Lexington at the bride’s home on Monday morning. The ceremony was officiated by Rev. M. O. Alexander with a ring ceremony, followed by a wedding breakfast and a trip to Niagara Falls and Canada. They will reside in Warsaw North Carolina after returning.
Mrs R G Jennings with Betty Clare and Royal Jr and Miss Alma Jennings came back Monday after a week at White Lake.
Secretary Wilbur will depart Washington tonight for Yale university to attend commencement exercises. He will then go to Cleveland to deliver the commencement address at Western Reserve University Thursday morning.
About 100 bodies were sighted near the Loire mouth after the excursion steamer St Philibert sank. Eight army trucks carried 70 bodies to Nantes in wooden boxes as crews prepared to identify them. Officials say 474 aboard when sailing from Nantes for Noirmoutier, with 423 dead unofficially and 50 fareless children among the lost. Salvage vessels await weather to raise the sunken vessel.
Three African American men were jailed in Warrenton North Carolina after a criminal attack on a woman near Norlina. The victim will identify her assailant when she has recovered from shock.
P. M. Davis, Republican candidate for third ward councilman, says he was not the offender in a traffic law case arising from a city license tag left on a traded car. He notes the arrest was of the new car owner, not himself, and asks The Enterprise to correct the impression.
Willie Shanklin of Durham is in High Point this week to campaign for colored Sabbath schools. He aims to boost overall attendance and especially enroll all colored children of school age in the city's Sunday schools.
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