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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1939
Page
7
Parents of children entering Ray Street School next year are asked to bring them to the school Friday morning between nine and twelve for examination and registration at the pre school clinic.
Twenty thousand blossoms were laid along Bombay streets to fund an anti-war propaganda campaign, drawing attention to a public fundraising effort amid wartime tensions.
A lighthearted guide suggests a simple menu for fathers using Wilson's Tender Made Ham sliced from a meal size tin. It includes ham with minimal prep, optional broiled steak, boiled potatoes, a vegetable, lettuce with dressing, and a dessert prepared a day ahead.
Sauté 4% lb thinly sliced mushrooms in 2 tablespoons Clear Brook butter for 5 minutes. Add 1 teaspoon lemon juice and 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce. Prepare a thickened gravy by melting 2 tablespoons butter, blending in 2 tablespoons flour and gradually adding 4 cups brown stock until boiling. Stir in mushrooms, season with salt to taste.
The Mid-Week Garden Club met at Mrs H Albion Millis home on North Main Street for its annual business meeting and officer elections. Mrs Hoke Bullard was re elected president with a new slate including Mrs Millis vice president and Mrs J E Millis corresponding secretary.
Mrs M C Illedge hosted the Fortnightly bridge club in Thomasville on a Wednesday evening with spring flowers decorating two tables of play. Miss Mare Snell won top score after the contest and guests were entertained in a cordial social setting amid the event.
Guests enjoyed prize drawings with novelties and bath cloths as awards. Mrs. Elledge hosted refreshments for Club members and visitors including Miss Baker and Miss Perry, brides elects, as well as a bridge afternoon where top scores earned crystal prizes.
L G Foster president of the Bank for Cooperatives at Columbia and Dr Joseph G Knapp agricultural economist of the Farm Credit Administration in Washington will speak May 9 at the annual joint meeting of the cotton Growers Cooperative Association and Farmers Cooperative Exchange in Raleigh.
Invitations issued in High Point North Carolina from Burrus Memorial Hospital announce graduation exercises on Friday evening May 12 1939 at 8 30 at Lutheran Church. Class members listed include Naomi B Berrier Esther Blevins Josephine Curry Ruby Motsinger Frances Page Margaret Warren and Ethel Wood.
Mr and Mrs C H Caddell and French McMillan plan in Louisville to attend the Kentucky Derby. Mrs Frazier Siler and daughters Barbara and Mary Jane of Warsaw visit Mrs M J Carmichael and relatives here. Mrs F I Hedrick’s friends learn her mother Mrs C C Rhodes recovers from an appendectomy in a Lexington hospital. Mrs C C Chapman of 314 West Bay Street is ill at Guilford General Hospital. Mrs Charles Delevan Elliott of New York leaves after a short visit with Capt A M Rankin on Church Street. she tours the South, Mexico, and returns to New York July 2.
Thomasville Boy Scouts will travel Friday to Camp Uwharrie for a council camporee running from 2 PM Friday to 4 PM Sunday. Scouts from Troops 60 26 35 and 21 list numerous signees for the event led by patrols Eagle and Wolf with many named participants.
W H Grissom as administrator of Mrs Mabel Ruth Merediths estate in Guilford County North Carolina calls all claimants to present claims by April 27 1940 duly authenticated. Those indebted to the estate should pay promptly. Notice dated April 27 1939 and published in High Point North Carolina P O Box 1643.
Having qualified as executrix and administrator of the estate of Wm. A. Stack, deceased, this is to notify all persons with claims to exhibit them duly authenticated to the undersigned by March 30, 1940. Debts owed should be paid promptly. Anna Stack executrix and Co. E. Davis administrator announce the estate details.
About 20 members of the High Point Garden Club traveled to Winston-Salem for a luncheon meeting and garden tour. The group left at 11 a m to visit iris gardens before lunch at Winkler's Tea Room. A brief business session followed with reports on the recent state garden club meeting in Durham, then tours of notable gardens in the city before returning to High Point.
The Emerywood Country Club hosts a regular evening bridge party for adults tomorrow at 8 in the main lounge with Mr and Mrs Lloyd Flythe as hosts. Two ladies bridge events are set for May 9 and 23 with play starting at 3 p.m. A May dance is planned for May 20 with hors d'oeuvres at 9 and dancing at 9:30.
Mr and Mrs Carl M Hatley announce the birth of a daughter Ellen Karlene on May 3 at Guilford General Hospital The notice also notes rising wages in Italy followed by higher living costs
Paul Mooring of Rocky Mount High School won first prize in the state wide North Carolina Association of Elks essay contest. Florence Smith of Grantham High School won second prize and Julia Frances Kraft of Lilesville High School won third. The $50 cash prize was awarded for the best essay on Obligations of Citizenship.
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