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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1936
Page
6
The Coterien Graduation Ball will be held at Sedgefield Manor tonight drawing members from nearby towns. Bob Pope and his Orchestra provide music with torch singer Lee Southern. dancing runs from 9 30 to 1 30, chaperones listed.
The Council of Jewish Women held its monthly meeting at Mrs. Samuel Hyman’s home on Fourth Street with Mrs. Max Friedman as associate hostess. They reviewed reports, heard from Education chair Harry Kaplan, and noted High Point items from the national News Letter. Reservations for a June 1 luncheon at the Sheraton were requested. Rev. Tom Sykes will speak.
Members and about 15 couples attended a picnic supper at C. C. Hudson's Idle-Wild estate near Easton concluding the club year. Guests included C. C. Hudson and the households of R. B. Terry and W. T. Powell. Mrs. Cummins reported on the Burlington Garden Club conference and plans for next year centered on Gardens and Flora of North Carolina. The rose gardens, floodlit for a moonlit effect, are among the South’s finest with Madonna Hilles added this season.
About four hundred attendees toured the newly completed First Baptist educational building during an eight to ten o clock reception. A B Tate supervised the event with Mrs. Tate and others greeting guests in each department while punch was served and floral arrangements plus covered tables highlighted the decor.
The eleventh commencement program at High Point College opened with Miss Mary Frances Warlick’s junior piano recital. The event featured works by Mendelssohn Chopin Godowsky Beethoven Strauss and Debussy with college choir and four music department assistants.
Miss Virginia Hunt was feted at a bridge party hosted by Miss Fern Daniel and Miss Grace Koontz on Louise avenue. The event celebrated her upcoming marriage to W. S. S. McKinney of Salisbury. High score received lingerie, second prize a costume flower, with sherbet glasses and silver as gifts.
Friday events include Alumnae of St Marys College Raleigh visiting Mrs John Foy and Altrusa Club banquet at Sheraton with Day Brothers Orchestra. Evening ballroom music by Pope and his orchestra at Sedgefield Manor. Saturday features Wednesday Book Club picnic at Mrs C G Garrett’s home with husbands invited. list of attendees from Covington Virginia.
The Vagabond club met May 26 at Miss Marguerite Freeman home. They sent flowers to patient Mamie Howard at Guilford General hospital and planned a moonlight picnic for June 5, 1936. Members Edna Howard Edith Henderson Dena Corgs Doris Smith Dorie Fiddle Willie Veigh Garner Helen Henderson attended with Mrs E V Freeman and Ernest Jr. Freeman. one visitor Miss Irie Aubert.
A. Sherrod, prominent businessman, is a patient at Burrus Memorial Hospital after being ill at his North Main Street home for several days. He was admitted this morning for treatment.
Miss Gertrude Barnes wed Edwin Upchurch on Saturday May 23 in Reidsville North Carolina in a simple ceremony. The bride is the only daughter of C A Barnes of Candler and the groom’s parents are C A Upchurch.
Mrs J E Thomas of 706 Montheu Avenue is a patient at Guilford General Hospital after an appendectomy yesterday. Her condition is reported as satisfactory this morning.
The article discusses fitting frames to individual features to enhance appearance while reducing eyestrain. It highlights latest frame types that provide comfort and suit various facial features.
Local brief notes a weekly event at a Thomasville area store on Thursday evenings. It mentions Thursday Nights activities connected to the Over Mart's Drug location and First National Bank blog as a cited reference.
The Household Arts club met Thursday afternoon with Mrs C F Grisso at her East Green Street home. Baskets of mixed flower roses decorated the room as members packed a remembrance box for Mrs L L Farlow, who is ill in Guilford General Hospital. Refreshments followed for Mrs Claude Ellington, John T Minnie Hinkle, Fred L St N E Russell, V D Sal, J H Womble, and pastor Mrs W W Snider. Mrs Mary Perry Poll of Fort Myers Florida is the go her grandfather L J on West Farriss Avenue.
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