Social And Club Activities Column Notes
Madeline Hoover editor notes activities and office hours from 9 AM to 12 AM. The fragment lists phone number 4568 and mentions social clubs and events without full context.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1939
Page
6
Madeline Hoover editor notes activities and office hours from 9 AM to 12 AM. The fragment lists phone number 4568 and mentions social clubs and events without full context.
Mrs. H. W. McCain hosted the Mid-Week Study Club at 1008 Johnson Street for an evening featuring Felix Thausig, a Vienna exile, who spoke on Czecho Slovakia and political crisis then performed violin music with Janet Russell on piano. Vocal numbers by Mrs. A. H. Whitley Jr. and Evelyn Boyd followed, as ice courses were served by Alma Virginia McCain and Caroline Dalton amid spring floral decor.
Mrs C F Ellington hosted a luncheon at 217 West Bay Street for the Household Arts club. Honoree Mrs J R Montgomery received gifts as her birthday month approached. Twelve members attended with jonquils as the centerpiece and a brief business session followed.
A stag party at Emerywood Country Club starts at 6 p m with a Dutch supper at 6 30. The Priscilla club meets with Mrs A E Taplin at 1208 Woodland Drive. At 9 30 p m Woodmen of the World Camp No 62 hosts a Pre Easter dance at the National Guard Armory with Tal Henry and his orchestra.
Mrs. John L. Woodbury travels to Louisville for a brief stay with sister Mrs. Wishart at 213 Steele Street and will remain until Monday. Mrs. Charles A. Warner of Fort Myers arrives to visit daughter Miss Charlotte M. Varner at High Point College and other friends. Varner formerly resided here. Pauline Hicks resumes teaching after Easter following a month with influenza. Rev. J. M. Hilliard, 412 Gatewood Avenue, hospitalised at Burrus Memorial with serious age related illness. Mrs. Robert Seasholtz of Greensboro visits at E. B. Gamble home and attends the country club buffet. Gertrude Sprinkle, 416 Cable Street, leaves tonight for a short visit to Washington Baltimore and nearby.
The Live Y'ers club held its annual banquet at the YWCA with 24 attendees. Miss Elizabeth Ellis presided as president. officers installed included Grace Simpson vice president Mary Whitely secretary Huldah Whitely treasurer and Hazel Wright program chairman.
The Y W C A Book Club plans a 1 pm luncheon meeting at the hut with eighteen members and six guests from Greensboro industrial clubs. The program includes music by Mrs. A H Whitley Jr and a modern novel review by Miss Gertrude Capel of the high school library.
The Jolly Y club held a shower for Beatrice Overcash at Blair Park Clubhouse as she prepares to leave for Shelby. New officers were elected: President Lillian Weisner, Vice President Mary Schwartz, Secretary-Treasurer Helen Henderson, Reporter Mildred Allen. Oak Hill Friends Society to Meet. The Mary Hamilton Junior Missionary Society of Oak Hill Friends Church will meet tomorrow at 1 30 p m in the church annex.
Salem Academy selects three top scholars for its 1939 commencement. Betty Hunt Murray is first honor graduate, Margaret Leinbach is second honor, and Edith Craig is third honor. Essays will be presented by the first and second honors as features of the exercises.
Miss Alma Virginia McCain from Guilford County Welfare Department outlines aid and job programs for local Women of the Moose. She emphasizes cooperation to place applicants, notes the department cannot provide work for all, and the chapter votes to send Easter gifts to five adopted Mooseheart children.
Mr and Mrs Albert Thorndike of Boston have been vacationing at Mountain View Lodge near Sophia. They depart High Point by train for Boston to attend Thorndikes sister wedding and plan to return by plane Friday night. Frank Paine, a Boston yachtsman, is the lodge owner. Ronald Curtis Axsom is born at Burrus Memorial Hospital on March 22 to Mr and Mrs Aubrey Axsom.
The Sedgefield Hunt changes the Saturday hunt to seven o'clock and moves start to Adams Farm. It is the final hunt of the season aimed at capturing the large red fox that led several chases earlier and escaped.
Peggy Marsh daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Marsh of Archdale celebrated her sixth birthday with friends Tuesday afternoon at her home. Guests played games under Lela Mathas and Lucille Hester, then enjoyed ice cream and cake. Favors featured Easter biddies and eyes as the prevailing motif. Gifts were given to Peggy by attendees including Norma Spencer and Emma Jean Spencer, Betty Jo Wagner, and others.
Helen Randle will present a four day lecture series titled The Truth About Yourself at the Sheraton hotel ballroom starting Sunday April 2. The free talks are open to the public and led by the Columbia, South Carolina native and author of 22 books who heads the National League of American Pen Women.
District meeting of Daughters of America councils held tomorrow with Peace Council number nine as hostess. The 2 30 p m business session will be led by Mrs Berta Loman and Mrs Hazel Burnside. Honor guests include state and local officers from Henderson Greensboro Roxboro and other towns. A banquet at 7 30 will close the event with Miss Doris Wright as toastmistress.
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The Emerywood Country Club hosted about forty members and guests for a weekly Mexican themed buffet. Tables glowed with Spanish linens and colorful pottery as chili con carne and accompaniments were served from Mexican pottery bowls. Bridge followed in the lounge with prizes awarded to Carter Dalton for ladies play and W. J. Frale for men. Out-of-town guests included Mrs. Robert Seasholtz of Greensboro and Mrs. Foard of Statesville.
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