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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1934
Page
10
Mr and Mrs W T Powell and Mr and Mrs A G Douglas will host a progressive bridge and rook party at Emerywood Country Club tomorrow night. Prizes for high scores, refreshments after the games, and advance notices to R L Trout, sub secretary, are planned.
Social Calendar lists the YWCA annual membership meeting at Mrs. R. T. Amos's Forest Hill Drive home as a garden party with invites to friends and members. Also noted are Junior Service League events at Mrs. Meredith Slane's West Emerywood, a progressive bridge and rock party at Emerywood Country Club hosted by the Powells and Douglases, and Lotus Club gathering at Mrs. Harry White's Johnson Street home.
Mrs. Paul Casey hosted the Wednesday Contract club at Woodbrook court with several guests. Two course refreshments and roses decorated the dining room while seven bridge tables filled the living room for high score and visitors prizes. Named attendees included Mrs Louis Heiling and Mrs J T Ryan, with many members and visitors listed by name.
The Woman's club Music Literature Department held its May meeting at Mrs. H. D. Sears's Pickett Farm home. Duke English professor Dr. Frank C. Brown spoke on folklore, with High Point musicians performing including Miss Ann Robbins and the Tomlinson-Briggs duet. Mrs. Josephine Atkins Barnhart sang "A Requiem." Refreshments followed.
The Third Area Conference of the American Legion Auxiliary will be held in Durham on Tuesday May 22 at 10 30 in the morning with headquarters at the Washington Duke hotel a luncheon at 1 o clock and address by state president Mrs W R Absher. Local unit hopes High Point members will attend and reservations should be made with president Mrs C A York. The meeting also discusses area president reservations.
Officials from High Point Greensboro and Asheboro discussed efforts to strengthen district leadership. Final plans for Junaluska were to be set at a retreat drawing interest from attendees and inviting broad participation.
Three year old son of Rev and Mrs W R Shaffer is recovering at home on Montlieu Avenue after an operation to remove his tonsils yesterday morning. J B Haff of 205 Turner Street is improving after a stroke of paralysis.
In Asheboro on May 17 Paul Leonard of Statesville, secretary of the North Carolina Fair Tax Association, urged citizens at a Randolph courthouse mass meeting to abolish the sales tax. He warned candidates shifted to anti tax stance, predicting enough supporters will block re enactment of the emergency tax act. Local merchants organized the meeting, led by E V Hobbs of the advisory committee of 100.
The High Point Unemployed League plans an appeal to the government asking for tents to house unemployed residents facing rent hardship. The group argues government tents would ease a heavy burden and help others provide for basic sustenance.
The piece reviews Penneys displays full of cotton dresses seersuckers and broadcloths in multiple colors. It highlights a brown orange yellow polka dot swiss print, angora spun suits, and upstairs biking suits plus oversized beach hats and cotton laces. Also mentions Gooch Thomas and Edith Harville hat displays with Leghorn styles and a Samuel Hyman glassware display for wedding gifts.
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