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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1937
Page
13
Gertrude Cook Page recalls a mother who offered comfort through small memories a blue cup a gray kitten and a grandfather clock. The speaker notes growing up and the impending loss of a mother while asking for strength to bear grief and joy with her example.
Miss Minnie Alexander hosted an informal afternoon tea honoring Mrs Clair Conner of Greensboro, formerly Miss Mary Simmons, before her February marriage. Guests enjoyed spring flowers, garden views, and light refreshments as they mingled in the Eng lish street home with pink roses and sweetpeas.
The Priscilla club gathered Friday afternoon at Louise avenue home of Mrs. R. S. Lafferty. Red rose and iris arrangements decorated entertaining rooms as Mrs. Harry Brockmann presided. Members included Harry Brockmann Hoke Bullard F F Dickson J F Hayden I P Ingle W W Idol Charles W Perry A E Taplin Fred A Thomas R K Young and the hostess with Freddie assisting.
The High Point chapter 106, Order of the Eastern Star, will hold its regular meeting at the Masonic Temple on Tuesday evening at eight o'clock, the summer time. All members are urged to attend.
Peggy Jane Bryant and Billie Frazier hosted the May gathering of the Junior Etude Music Club at Peggy Bryant’s Woodrow Avenue home. A brief business session followed a program titled Music and Spring Flowers featuring piano solos by club members and a Musical Terms contest awarding first place to Bryant Thomas and Kline. Refreshments were served to members and a visitor.
Kee Klub plans its initial dance at the American Legion Hut in Thomasville on Friday evening May 14. Bernard Fowler and his Rhythm Masters will provide music for dancing from 9:30 to 1:30. Club officers include President Virginia Horney Secretary Margaret Wood Treasurer Ercelle Allen Publicity chairman Margaret Kemp.
The American Homes Department of the High Point Woman's Club will now meet on Wednesday May 19 at the Pickett Farm home of Mrs H D Sears. The joint session with the Music Literature department will follow. All members should note the date change.
The Junior Service League will meet Tuesday morning at ten at Emerywood Country Club. The executive board will meet at 9 15 with both retiring and new board members present.
The High Point and Laura Wesson Daughters of the Confederacy chapters plan a memorial program for Confederate soldiers at Oakwood Memorial Park tomorrow at four. Rev. J. M. Hilliard will speak, with taps by Boy Scout Lawson Ingram. Volunteers will lay flowers on graves, and a pre-event meeting will occur at 3 30 at Mrs William Kester's home.
The community news lists visits and returns including Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foscue home on Parkway from Jamestown and Chicago shows. Derby tripgoers Coy Willard R. Glenn Hendrix and Red Dixon head to Louisville as Mrs. Silas McBee and Helen visit Mocksville.
The Tea and Topics club will meet Thursday afternoon at 3 30 with Mrs F Logan Porter at her home on Fairway Drive. A son Charles David was born to Mr and Mrs Jack Hunsucker of 508 Steele Street on Thursday May 6 at Burrus Memorial Hospital.
The Junior Service League hosts a Saturday evening dance at Emerywood Country Club honoring newly elected provisional members Mesdames Henry Foscue J A Hart Jr Jack Holbrook Jesse Washburn and Miss Mary D McAnally Invitations go out this week dancing runs 9 to 12 with Miss Charlotte Kingston and Richard Gallub of New York City performing an exhibition dance Tickets and further details follow for this annual social event of the league
The Alexander Martin chapter of the D A R will meet Tuesday at 3 30 PM at Mrs Levi Hayworth s North Main home. Associate hostesses include Mesdames Coffield Harriss Covington Kearns Carraway and Pickens Sr. Reports from the Continental Congress will be given by Mesdames Welborn Hayden and Lambeth of Thomasville, with a program on Ellis Island by Mrs Joe Snyder.
Mrs. F. R. Taylor and her daughter Miss Sarah Taylor host a garden tea at 1113 Johnson Street on Wednesday afternoon to honor Mrs. William Henry Turner, Winston-Salem bride formerly Miss Martha Taylor. The invitation reads Mrs. Frederick R. Taylor and Miss Sarah M. Taylor at home Wednesday the twelfth of May from four to five thirty, Garden Tea, Mrs. Henry Turner.
The Good Will Garden club announces its annual picnic to be held Wednesday. Members should meet at Blair Park at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning and proceed from there. William Allen Farlow born to Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Farlow of Archdale on May 7.
The listing shows Monday events from the Laura Weston chapter U D C meeting to memorial service at Oakwood, Junior Service League at Emerywood, and several garden and study group gatherings. Tuesday through Saturday include often evening meetings at YWCA, Masonic Temple, Sheraton, and Emerywood venues with teas, lectures, dances, and club events.
Miss Faye Long entertained her visiting niece Faye Louise Long of Richmond Virginia at a Hamilton street party marking the child's fifth birthday. Children enjoyed games and tap dances before refreshments in the dining room. Guests included Peggy Long Nancy Baker Lois Lee Ann Hoyle Norma Jean Pendergrass Jimmy Long Rachel Long and Mrs C C Smith.
The High Point Garden Club will hold an all day trip to Duke University on Tuesday May 11. Arrangements committee includes Mesdames H. H. Tomlinson J. D. Cox J. W. Harriss and J. B. Kirkman. Members should call Mrs. Tomlinson at 4291 by Monday noon.
Members of the Tuesday Evening Garden Club are reminded the May meeting will be at Mrs J H Tates home on Parkway Tuesday May 11 at three oclock All members are expected to attend. ANNOUNCE BIRTH OF JETER M FARLOW Birth of a son Jeter Monroe May 6 to Mr and Mrs W H Farlow 413 Carter Street Dorothy Cooke is Mrs Farlows prior name.
A High Point event by the local American Legion Auxiliary honored Gold Star mothers Mrs. Mary Grant and Mrs. Mary V. Dash and eight War mothers at Mrs. W. J. Bennett’s home. The program included Red Cross greetings, readings, a vocal selection, and war songs as about forty guests attended.
Mrs. H S Coffield president of High Point P T A along with Mrs. Dan Schroder a NC Congress of Parents and Teachers board member Mrs. Creddie Strickland Bay Street P T A president and Mrs. H P Morrison Elm Street P T A president spent a week in Richmond for the North Carolina and National Congress of Parents and Teachers convention. Schroder was reelected to the state board heading social welfare and Coffield was elected music chairman on the state board of managers. The party with H I Coffield returned Friday evening.
The Burbank Garden Club will hold its regular meeting at the home of Mrs. J. W. Clinard on South Main Street Wednesday morning. The hour for the meeting will be ten o’clock, as usual.
The Circle Two plant sale of Wesley Memorial Church will be held Wednesday morning May 12 at nine o clock. Mrs W C Idol is group chairman and Mrs J F Hayden local chairman. Proceeds support Circle work. Plants on sale include asters blue salvia daisies hibiscus petunia vinca vinca and snapdragons.
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