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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1933
Page
8
Archdale and Springfield Friends churches unite for tent revival services at the Fairfield road junction with Archdale road starting Sunday night led by Bascom Rollins. Dr. Frederick R. Taylor will speak at Central Friends Sunday night at 8 on Alcohol From the Doctor's Standpoint.
Regular services at the Church of Christ corner North Hamilton and State Streets. Bible school at 10. Sermon at 11 by Rev Nixon A Taylor on What Men Need Most. Sunbeam Chorus meets at 7 20. 8 o clock service topic Follow Thou Me. Public invited.
Ennis church will hold Sunday school at 6 45 with no morning preaching. A song service at 7 will precede Mrs. C P B Carter's sermon on Unity. The public is cordially invited.
The Reformed church Young People's Christian Endeavor Society meets Sunday at 7 p.m. led by Mrs. Lloyd Smith on the topic Why Should We Have Sunday. Edna Master outlines future programs. Ernest Howell and Mary Agnes Crooks will solicit registrations. Mrs. Hoyle Liepp reports on the foot measuring social held Tuesday.
Dr. A B Conrad pastor sets Sunday morning topic And Peter and evening topic Vain Excuses. Choir will sing Praise the Lord O Jerusalem and When Shadows Darkly Gather. Bible school at regular hour. B Y P U meets at 7 with programs The Stranger Within Thy Gates Preaching the Gospel In the Homeland Baptist Work In Africa. Cordial invitation to all.
A memorial service will be held at Pleasant Grove M. P. Church Sunday at 11 o clock. Sunday school begins at 9 45 o clock before the 11 o clock sermon by Rev. R L Pope of Thomasville. The public is cordially invited.
Rev Thomas Willey returns from New York to lead both Sunday services at Gospel Tabernacle. Sunday school starts 9 45 with Mrs T H Willey as superintendent. At 11 00 he speaks on The Deciples before and after Pentecost. Evening service at 7 45 features Mr Jack Otis directing singing and a sermon God Locating Man. A welcome is extended to all.
A revival starts Sunday night in a large tent on Fairfield road at the Archdale junction. Sponsored by Archdale and Springfield Friends churches, it runs about two weeks. Evangelist Rev Bascom Rolline from Greensboro leads the revival with Norman Fidler directing special music and Rev Robert Melvin assisting. Services are at 7:30 pm each evening and the public is invited.
The Junior C EB society meets at 9 15. The Sunday school is at 9 45. The Intermediate and Senior C EB societies meet at 7. The regular sermon hour is at 8 with The Inner Man. There is no morning service due to the High Point college commencement at First M P church.
Calvary Methodist announces Sunday school at 9 45 followed by the 11 o clock morning service led by Dr George H Crowell with the sermon Child Life Is the Greatest In the Kingdom of God. The evening service at 7 20 will feature Who Cares Anyhow God for the topic. The public is invited.
Revival services start Sunday morning May 28 at Trinity Memorial Methodist Church with Rev. A. C. Waggoner in charge. Evening services run nightly at 7 o'clock and the Sunday 11 o'clock morning service is also led by Rev. Waggoner. Public invitation extended.
George R. Miller, 72, Archdale, native of Randolph County, died suddenly at home. He owned substantial property and had been in declining health. Funeral Sunday at 10 from Archdale Methodist Church, Rev. W. T. Allbright officiating. burial in Thomasville city cemetery. Survived by wife Mary, daughters Mrs. J. R. Perry, Ruth Miller, and Alice Ray. brother Ed Miller. sisters Mrs. Ed Millikan, Mrs. Alfred Kennedy, and Mrs. Pete Walker.
English Street M P church schedules Sunday worship at 9 45 a m 11 a m and 8 pm led by pastor Rev C H Hill. Christian Endeavor meets at 6 45 pm led by Miss Carrie Moore to discuss how to be true to the missionary spirit. Public invited.
Services at St Mary's Episcopal Church corner North Main and Farries avenue include Holy Communion at 7 30 AM Sunday school and adult Bible class at 9 45 AM, and evening prayer with sermon at 7 30 PM Rector Rev D W Allen will preach on While He blessed them he was parted from them. A Young People's Service League meeting is set for 6 30 PM parish house. Public invited.
Rev G Ray Jordan speaks at 11 tomorrow on In There a Moral Standard and at 8 pm on The Religion of Fun. Church school starts at 9 45 with classes. Elizabeth Munroe speaks to Peacock class. Harris and Moore sing. Palestine talk by H A Millis. Junior church at 11 led by Liston Pope and Mrs Chandler. Margaret Hayworth tells a story. Eshelman addresses young people at 7 pm on Kagawa. Supper five cents.
Mass at 9 a.m. Sunday at St Edward's Catholic Church with Father Beshel in charge. Sunday school at 10 a.m. and evening devotions with benediction at 7:20 p.m.
The subject for Sunday services in all Christ Scientist churches is Ancient and Modern Necromancy Alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism Denounced. Services are at 11 oclock at 309 North Main Street. Sunday School at 9 45 a m reading room hours Wednesday and Friday 2 to 4 30 oclock.
Emmanuel Lutheran plans Sunday sermons at 11 oclock on gazers and seers with Acts 1 11 and 7 56 as texts and an evening talk From Simon to Peter with John 1 42 9 45 Sunday school meets.
Green Street Baptist church will convene Sunday school at 9 30. At 11 a m Pastor Rev George T Tunstall will preach Faith for Fear. Evening service will feature highlights of the recent Baptist convention in Washington.
The thirteenth annual North Carolina Osteopathic Society convention in Winston-Salem elected Dr. W. J. Hughes of Winston-Salem as president. Dr. E. M. Stafford Raleigh was named vice-president and Dr. F. R. Heine Greensboro secretary-treasurer. J. M. Rowlett Concord was noted as successor to the presidency.
Mrs Emma C Cochrane 73 mother of R A Cochrane operator of Southern Stone Co of this city died at her Hickory home after illness. Funeral held at home then Bethpage church Cabarrus county with interment in church cemetery. Survived by husband H H Cochrane daughter Maude E Cagle and sons R A Cochrane and C W Cochrane. Married fifty years and a Methodist.
Mary Ann Tyndale 73 died at 10 30 am at her Trinity home after a seven week illness. She was widow of Morris Tyndale who died 42 years ago. Survived by two daughters Mrs Earl Johnson and Mrs June Johnson of Trinity, six grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Born May 4 1860 in Pennsylvania to M H Cornell and Rachel States Cornell. Member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. Services at home Sunday 2 30 pm conducted by Rev C Waggoner with interment in Trinity Cemetery.
Funeral services for Mrs. Odelia Stanley widow of John M. Stanley will be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock from Providence Wesleyan Methodist Church. The service will be led by multiple local pastors and burial follows in Fairfield Cemetery. Pallbearers are Walter Haysworth Will Falwell Ed Jennings Henry Dowdy Arthur Sink and Ed Wood. Flower bears will be chosen from J C Penney sales ladies.
In Poona on May 27 Gandhi's condition improved slightly with some nausea returning but he remained very weak and exhausted on the 19th day of his voluntary fast against untouchability.
The name of Clarence P. Morris, member of the graduating class at High Point College, was omitted erroneously from the list of cum laude graduates published yesterday.
At the last general teachers meeting at the local high school three speakers reviewed the new North Carolina school law. City officials and educators discussed abolition of city schools and potential for a nine month term via local referenda. Expenditures and state funding were debated alongside salary implications for teachers.
Presidents vice presidents and secretaries of the Northwestern District Teachers Association met at the junior high school to map the convention program to be held in this city next October 20. The association is led by T Win Tate Andrews of High Point. M Yount of Graham serves as vice president. About 20 to 40 departmental officials attended.
The Enterprise showcases two new freak fruits a twin banana with side by side bunches and a grooved orange contributed by Charles Lewis who runs a city curb market both visible in the newspaper window display.
J A Bryant 17 a high school junior drowned near here while wading in a river. The incident occurred during a local outing and authorities investigated the sudden death.
A: Goodman, a painter and brother of L. W. Goodman of Durham, died after being struck by a shifting freight train at the P. and N. yards. He was married with one child and died early today in a hospital.
The Daily News Record discusses how far the government will push fair wages for workers under the industrial recovery bill. It notes local wage conditions, trade association power, and the potential for wage advances and collective bargaining in mills, questioning the impact on cotton mills and labor.
A fragment of an auto bumper from a collision on North Main street in front of Moffitt's store broke the front center window and shattered glass. The drivers fled before police arrived, and their identities were not learned.
FRANKLINTON N C Following reorganization at a meeting the Sterling Cotton Mills will reopen next Monday employing about 406 workers. The mills have been idle since last November. J A Moore elected president and A H Vann treasurer. The property's value was nearly one million dollars.
An annual estimate suggests 65 000 girls vanish in the United States with no trace ever found highlighting concerns over missing youth and gaps in search efforts across the country.
Dr Gideon S Humphreys president of High Point College will preach the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class at the First Methodist Protestant church Sunday at 11 oclock. The college tradition continues this year with the local church service.
A series of state meetings urged lavorers to back the Industry Control Bill, arguing it benefits both labor and industry. Speakers included I. M. Ritchie and C. W. Bolick, who criticized inaction and asked attendees to write to congressmen, with another session announced for next Friday.
The Hickory Record reports that payrolls in Hickory and nearby areas reach a new high with wages paid on a regular payday. Almost every plant operates day and night shifts, with business volumes comparing to 1930 levels.
Twenty three students graduated from Jamestown high school during the commencement exercises this week. The graduates include Ruth Beam Fannie Bowman Delma Browne Howard Byrd Annie Ewing Kathleen Flournoy Luther Frazier Gertrude Gardner Paul Guice Francis Harrington Lillian Hassell Herman Hetheox J Add Hill Volney Horney Louise Luquer Willard Moore Marvin McGhee Leo Palmer L Smith Christine Suits Hazel Wood Lois Luquer Evelyn Wicke. The annual high school play Skidding was participated in.
The case against Ray McCarter Wade Smith and Avery Wood of High Point for breaking and entering box cars and receiving stolen goods was continued until Monday. They were arrested by Southern Railway detectives.
The Enterprise amends a previous graduation report to correct several misprinted student names. Corrected list includes Kath leen Flournoy Herman Hethcox Lois Swiggett Howard Byrd Willard Moore Evelyn Wicke Margaret Fowler Robert Parker Woodrow Long and Billie Bundy.
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