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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1931
Page
8
Children’s expressions span group compositions and prose or poetry. Read about Crabs Jelly-Fish wishes sea creatures and a live oyster and clam brought to class by Eleanor Powell as students observe breath, study shells and compare specimens under Mrs Pick’s guidance.
A reminiscence from a schoolroom includes children digging for Go-Ducks clams on Puget Sound shore, noting clam holes and water squirt when dug. It also features student writings about cotton, library projects, early lighting methods, Great Americans, a steam shovel, and various Indigenous dwellings in a mixed classroom anthology.
Spivey describes tepee construction with twenty poles and skins and smoke hole. rain covers the hole and door. Andrews visits to lecture on hour classes using hour, half hour, and three minute glasses. Duggins notes kite making and a Kite Race with Verlo and Thomas winning the kite and card. Margaret Ellington.
In Miss Gallant's Second Grade, Ruth and Doris brought hoes and fertilizer to school. They prepared a bed, mixed fertilizer with soil, planted seeds in rows, and used bricks to prevent washing away.
The scene shows nasturtiums coming up with small stems visible above the soil. Graham Morgan notes the budding start of the garden season.
The notes describe tomatoes planted in a cheese box now about an inch high. A woods stroll yields a lame cluebird found after a noise like a rabbit. The bird, rescued and cared for, refused to leave and nested in the garage. Forrest Gates notes the cracked Liberty Bell received thirteen taps on the radio.
In a first grade piece Miss Chadwick describes a home with three rooms and abundant furnishings, while Miss Ward narrates a Washington birthday parade with flag displays and a reading party. A Fulton boat scene from 1807 on the Hudson ends with speculation on its success.
Fourth grader Mary Lewis Millis praises Clermont oil exhibit with twenty one oil bottles from a heavy sawdust filled box. Second graders Miss Deaton recount a field trip to a local fire station with trucks bells nets poles and a demonstration of a life saving motor.
The executive board of the Wo mans auxiliary of the First Presbyterian church will meet in the ladies parlor on Monday at 3 PM. Friends of Mr and Mrs Allen Layne mourn their daughter Frances Margaret illness with influenza at 504 Richardson Street. Mrs Eunice Adams is spending the weekend with her parents.
Mr and Mrs Anderson host at South Boston Va Eleanor Pope from Winston Salem visits cousin Miss Sophia Taplin at Artyn Hills home of Mr and Mrs A E Taplin Eshelman to return Monday from Chicago Lyon Furniture Mercantile agency meeting Frances Eshelman NC CW Greensboro guest of her mother J A Eshelman at 905 Johnson street Mrs J Royster Thurman Jr and infant Maxwell Reid return to Roland Park Ave from High Point Hospital Harry White and daughter Pegsy Jane spend weekend guest of friends in Fayetteville
The Aurorra Chapter of the Delphian society will meet with Miss Alta Chamberlain Monday evening at 7 30 at her home on North Hamilton Street.
Asheville February 28 Five banks in western North Carolina plan to reopen within weeks after year end closures. The Bank of Murphy will reopen Monday with $250000 on deposit and about 1500 depositors. Others preparing to resume include Traders Bank Weaverville Bank of Leicester Bank of Franklin and Citizens Bank Waynesville.
Lexington February 28 Rev J D Andrew former college president and veteran pastor has accepted the pastorate of the Lower Davidson charge of the Reformed church and moved into the parsonage at Hedrick's Grove. The four to five rural churches now gain a known preacher returning to Davidson after leading Upper Davidson county. The charge has been without a pastor for about three months.
After the resignation and departure of Rev. A S Peeler, the former pastor, Rev. Mr. Whisenbunt a ministerial student served the charge during the past two summers.
W T and J C Sheloff announce Shell Eastern Petroleum Products will offer lubricants from 100 percent Pennsylvania base crude oils starting March 1. The oils will be supplied by Pennsylvania refiners and sold at Shell service stations nationwide alongside Ethyl gasoline.
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