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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1942
Page
6
Mrs J Wo Harriss hosted the Entre Nous Club meeting at Emery Wood Country Club yesterday at one o clock with members and guests seated at colorfully arranged tables. After lunch players engaged in five tables of card play, with listed members and visitors present.
High Point Girl Scout Council approved March 21 to 28 for the annual Cookie Sale with a week long order campaign. Details include volunteer rally March 21 and troop leaders meeting March 17 at the new headquarters. Proceeds fund the Building Trust Fund for a future title house as awards are planned for top sellers.
The Sedgefield Hunt lists weekend events including Saturday morning live hunts with casting from Sedgefield Inn at 9 30 and breakfast to follow. Hosts Mr and Mrs Kurt Meitner and Mr and Mrs Hal Gaffney of Greensboro coordinate the event. March features multiple hunts from Adams Farm and other local estates with a gymkhana scheduled for Sunday March 29.
Magdalene Rebekah lodge sets 7 30 PM regular meeting to confer the degree. Degree team to wear uniforms. Carol Jean DeVries born at Burrus Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs Clarence A De Vries of 803 Lindsay Street. New parents recently moved to High Point from Chicago.
Community Concert Drive reports steady memberships and a top notch season ahead. The headliner choice hinges on memberships with options including Lawrence Tibbett and Helen Traubel, plus a potential Lauvity Melchior Astrid Varnay joint recital. Final decision set for Saturday night.
The Pied-Anton Cotillion Club plans a March dinner dance at Emorywood Country Club tomorrow evening with gala plans and many guests expected. Reservations must be made tonight with Mrs. Clinard or Mac Moore to provide final headcount. Joel Palmer will lead his band for the melodic menu before the 8730 PM start.
Reservations for the Thursday Family Light Dinner at Emerywood Country Club were listed. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Wath and Mrs. Wail’s mother Mrs. O. E. Wilson of Archdale, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Amos, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Gamble, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rechmain, Mrs. Robert Fawcett of Cambridge Massachusetts, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. J. To Weaver, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foscue, Mr. and Mrs. Grady Stroupe, and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Sullivan.
Miss Edna Ball hosted friends at 331 West Burton Street where they decided to form The Happy Go Luck Knitting Club. Music by Gerald Ball accompanied refreshments for Hilda Workman Nettie Potts Madeline Gurley Elwanda Gurley Jacqueline Burton Frances Burton and Edna Ball.
Miss Katherine Baxter, who will marry William E. King of High Point and Washington, D C, in a late afternoon ceremony at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church tomorrow, was honored tonight at a cake-cutting and bridge party hosted by Misses Frazier and Harville. The event featured bridal motifs in flowers and decor, top score prizes, and a guest list including Baxter family and friends.
Mrs. Koontz hosted the Charta Club gathering at her College Drive home. Two bridge tables played with a St Patrick’s Day motif. high score went to Mrs. Austin Hedrick, runner-up to Mrs. John Rudisill, who received a handkerchief. A salad course with coffee followed for members and one visitor, Miss Louise Clark, and new member Fipley Horney.
Lexington news reports the marriage of Joan Peeler to William Clifton Raykes on Feb 27 in York S C with Probate Judge E Get tys Nunn officiating. Joan is the Peeler’s daughter and Greensboro College freshman. William is son of Mr and Mrs A C Raykes, Lexington Silk Mills employee. After the ceremony they travel for a wedding trip to Virginia points.
The Willing Workers class of Main Street Methodist Church will meet Friday night at the home of Mrs. E. E Sensenbach, 629 Colonial Drive, with associate hostesses Mrs. R. G. Laubsher, Ruth Beile Sawyer, and Emma McWhorter. Catherine Gill Bible Class Meets Tonight at Welch Memorial Church
RANDLEMAN March 6 Members of the Beta Club from the local high school attend the Raleigh convention with listed participants including Margaret Emily Pickard Daisy Farlowe Joan Dean Airylee Gaffney Blanche Kennedy Billy Jo Lambe Lydia Lou Farlowe Bobby Ann Caudle and faculty members Baysdon Nita Garrett. The observance focused on Home Mission season of prayer and channels of blessing with talks by Mrs T E Allred and R E Biles. R O Bennett Wake Forest student to deliver morning sermon at First Baptist with B T L U meeting at 7 pm and plans for Royal Ambassadors activities discussed.
The Juvenile division of the Junior Musical Art Club will meet Saturday at 4 PM at Barbara Tobiason Parkway home. Announcement made this morning.
The Archdale Parent-Teacher Association will not meet Monday evening because Red Cross Home Nursing Classes occupy the school auditorium. A new date will be announced later, per officials.
The Ray Street P T A postponed its regular meeting due to conflicting dates and set it for Thursday March 12 at the school. Teachers and students from all grades will participate. Plans to attend the Greensboro state convention April 8 to 10 were discussed. Cancer drive contributions urged and annual reports were submitted. Eleven board members attended. The British held Hoeligaland from 1814 to 1889 when exchanged for Zanzibar.
A recipe for Shamrock Rolls using Irish potatoes and fast granular yeast. Steps cover mixing with lukewarm water, sugar, potato water, and flour, then proving dough, shaping into shamrock forms, rising, and baking at 400 F for about 20 minutes. Optional egg yolk glaze and refrigerating remaining dough for 3 to 4 days.
Social calendar notes an 8 pm Pageant of Brides at Wesley Memorial Church sponsored by Circle three chaired by Mrs Howard Blair. Gown models span from 1855 and feature local young women. the public is invited. Separately, nearly 3,000,000 defense workers have received vocational training across 1200 public schools, 153 colleges and universities, and 10,000 public school shops.
In McKenny on Bridge, a singleton or doubleton lead against a trump contract is debated. The piece argues a plain-suit singleton can yield a ruff and set the contract, using a hand where West holds a singleton diamond and uses the ace of trumps to force a heart lead and a later diamond ruff to collapse the contract.
A dealer warns that a singleton lead risks ruff loss and gives the declarer insight into unseen hands. The speaker emphasizes the need for a precise opening lead to avoid revealing partner patterns and to preserve defense chances.
The Alexander Martin chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will meet Tuesday afternoon March 10 at Mrs M A Lackey's home. Hostesses listed include Mrs W L Tabb Mrs A Ey Tate Mrs T S Mackenzie Mrs C F H Robertson Alberta Corbitt Snider Clyde Farley G D Pettibone and Miss Mary Munyan.
Mrs Lillie Holder Clinard returns to her West Lexington Avenue home from Burrus A Memorial Hospital where she was treated for a broken hip after a fall at her home during the first week of January.
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