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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1941
Page
11
Evangelist William Young will speak at Gos pel Tabernacle on Willowbrook Street at 11 a.m. and 7 45 p.m. today. He fills the pulpit during the absence of Pastor Rev H P Williams who is attending the church duties elsewhere.
The Greensboro district Missionary Society of the Western North Carolina Annual Conference meets May 22 at Women’s Memorial A M E Church with a full schedule including devotional service, sermons by Rev. M L Johnson and Rev S S Stroud, a dinner on the church grounds, and a graduation of Pauline Long Luther Mingo Jr and Frazier R Sanders Jr. The day features organizational discussions, discussions, and local talent. Also on May 22 the Social Art Club meets at 205 Hay Street. A finance drive at Brooks Memorial Church runs May 19 to 25 with nightly sermons by various pastors and group leaders. Master Singers Quartet and Jubilee Gospel Singers perform Sunday afternoon at Women’s Memorial. Emanuel Baptist Church holds services with 9:45 Sunday School, 11 worship, 3 Master Singers and guest Lexington quartet, 7:30 sermon by Rev D D Mason.
Parents and friends are invited to a 11:30 a.m. assembly at William Penn High School where Charles F. Carroll will discuss adding a twelfth grade to the city system. Commencement activities for William Penn begin May 23 with the oratorical contest and a 3:30 p.m. baccalaureate.
St Luke s Lutheran School concludes with a three act play The Polly William Club Tuesday at 8 15 pm an exhibition Thursday 7 00 to 9 00 pm and a primary grades performance Friday at 8 00 pm all in public programs inviting community attendance
All women registered for membership are asked to attend Monday night May 19 at 9 o clock at the Elks Hall on East High Street. This is the final meeting before the Daughter Elks organization, and all members should be present. The organization will be held on Thursday May 22 and all interested women are welcome.
Mrs Leona Spencer 29, of 619 Mangum Avenue, died May 15 after illness. Funeral at Gethsemane Baptist Church at 2 pm with Rev W H Hall officiating. assisting Rev J W Gray. Survived by husband Thomas Spencer son Willian parents Mr and Mrs William Davis sister Miss Mary E Davis brothers Charles Edward Van Marion Frank Davis and grandmother Mrs Ida Johnson. Interment Greenhill Cemetery.
The Church of God in Christ offers revival with Sunday school at 10, sermon at 11 by Rev A D Sanders, sermonette by Mrs Lillian Norman, and evening worship. Rev A S Gaskin from New York will conduct the revival.
On Friday morning the seventh grade under Mrs Blackburn presented a geography program of South America outlining each country’s chief products climate and capital. A Cook Band used cooking utensils as instruments while Janietta Alexander Alene Houston danced and Doretha Brown served as mistress of ceremonies. The Smart Set Club and Men’s Arm Club met at Mrs Rose Davis’s home May 15, planning a tea at Mrs Marjie Alexander’s home May 18 from 5 to 6 PM.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy and flowers after death of James Gray from Mrs Cornelia Gray Trinity. Baptist mass meeting at Mt Vernon Baptist Church May 23 8 15 pm for Lott Carey Foreign Mission with Dr W C Sommerville speaker and D E Simmons leading choir. Cherry Street Presbyterian church youth program and dime social at Mrs C W Robinson home Normal street Estella Brown hostess. Jubilee Singers of Winston Salem perform at Beths emane Baptist Church for Sunshine Band Sunday 3 pm.
The Twilight Choral Club will meet at Mrs. Connie Gaines on Leonard Street this Sunday at 3 PM. All members are requested to be present.
Friends report Whitt Wall has returned to his home at 1216 Hoover Street after hospital confinement. The Men’s Arm Club will hold a call meeting tonight at 8 at Mrs. Marjie Alexander’s home, 520 Grayson Street.
Rev C H Reed and his Antioch C M E church of Greensboro will lead services at St Matthew C M E church Sunday afternoon at 3 o clock. The event brings together church members for afternoon worship and a preaching session.
The family of Rev. T. W. Bynum thanks friends and neighbors for sympathy, kind deeds, words, and floral designs during his illness and passing. Signed by Mrs. Henrietta Bynum Frederick Bynum and Mrs. Minnie Parks.
The First Baptist church holds morning and evening services with sermons by Rev. W. F. Elliott. At 11 o'clock the sermon is titled Seeing the Invisible and at 6:30 the message is We Taking Christ Seriously.
The Beacon Light Chorus Club will meet for rehearsal on Monday night at Hairlip Funeral Home at 8 o clock. All members urged to be present.
The Central Volunteer Bureau of High Point launches a citywide registration drive to match residents with volunteer work for public and private agencies. Sponsored by the Council of Social Agencies, the program supports groups such as Public Welfare, Health, Parks, Juvenile Commission, Boy and Girl Scouts, Salvation Army, YWCA, YMCA, Red Cross, Public Library, hospitals, and more. Registration asks about training, transport, availability, and weekly hours to place volunteers effectively.
A white leghorn hen owned by C. G. Green of High Point produced a remarkable egg weighing six and a half ounces, far exceeding the standard two ounces. The egg measured ten and a quarter inches long with a seven and a quarter inch circumference at the widest point. Green, with fifteen years of experience, said he had never seen such a large egg before.
Registration booths for the YWCA and public library are open with schedules listed. The YWCA operates 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the library from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 5 p.m. Local volunteers are urged to sign up.
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