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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1942
Page
6
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Members of the Altrusa executive board met at the Sheraton Hotel for the November gathering hosted by president Mrs. Mabel Burnett. Dinner for seven covers preceded routine business and plans for a Christmas project and entertaining soldiers. Next meeting set with Mrs. Ann McNeill at her home. Attending were Mrs. Burnett, Mrs. Mabel Hargett, Vice-president. Mrs. Anne McNeill, treasurer. Miss Marie Sandlen, secretary. Mrs. Lillian Massey. Edna Blake, board members. and Mrs. Mary Lou Rothrock, ex officio.
The Ada Blair P T A Executive Board met in the school library with Mrs. Carl Kearns presiding. Miss Myrtle Poore displayed Needlework Guild garments noting the year’s excess proceeds. A discussion on best uses for Fall Festival funds followed and a list of school necessities was prepared for the October 16 general meeting in the school auditorium. Education Week invites the public to visit and learn about the curriculum.
Thomasville event honors Roger Matthews on his birthday and upcoming U S Army service with a family dinner hosted by Mrs. Charles F Finch on West Main Street. Guests included relatives from Winston-Salem Greensboro and Richmond, plus campus connections and visiting friends. Minnie Hauk noted as Carmen pioneer born in 1852.
Announcement states the marriage of Nell Grey Pendry of High Point and Wheeling to Chester G. McGhee of Bellaire. The ceremony occurred October 10 at the Wheeling First Presbyterian manse with Rev. Daniel I Poling officiating and Ruth Magee as attendant. The couple will reside at Heiskell Avenue, Wheeling.
Mrs. Joseph D Cox hosted the W O T club at 803 West Parriss Avenue for its first meeting of the year. Guests included Mrs Louis Voorhees who spoke on letter writing, with examples from Adams Franklin and Browning. Members and hostesses served tea after a dining room repast featuring Thanksgiving themed flowers.
A large community sing is planned for eight o’clock tomorrow evening at Senior High School. Sponsored by the women’s division of the War Savings staff at the request of the War and Treasury Departments, the program aims to boost the national crisis with song. Augustus D. Zanzig will conduct. participants include a group from the ordnance air corps at Sedgefield and local civilian defense workers in uniform if possible. Mrs. Marl Bishopric of Spray will attend. Charles I. Carroll will preside and Dr. C Excell Rozzelle will give the invocation. Morrison Armfield will accompany the singing.
The High Point Graduate Nurses Club appeals for public help to supply surgical dressings for home defense. Leaders point out a large gap between needed and available dressings, seeking cash gifts for cotton and gauze and donations of fabric to wrap the dressings. Dressings will be made, wrapped, and distributed to First Aid Stations and hospitals, with sterilization arranged by cooperating facilities.
Mrs Bill Wheless hosted a birthday gathering on the Winston Salem road for her children Bobbie and Billie Wheless. Seventeen guests joined in lawn pictures and games with refreshments served to Sherry Ann Curtee, Jimmy Curtee, Betty Grace, Barbara Grace, Richard Rutledge, Donald Wheless, Phyllis Wheless, Larry Wheless, Dwight Wheless, Billie Sue Landau, and Bobbie and Billie Wheless.
Social calendar items list activities in the city including a Business and Professional Women's Club dinner at Elwood Hotel with Eleanor Currin in charge. Girl Scout Council meeting at Community Chest on College Street then Leaders Workshop tour. Welcome party for Rev Wilson Weldon and wife at First Methodist Church. covered dish. Friday Music Study Club at Mrs J W Lindsay home with lunch at Emerywood Country Club. Canterbury Club gathering at Mrs W F Ellis on West Lexington Avenue Extension.
The Em erywood Country Club held its regular weekly ladies bridge luncheon with winners for north-south as Mrs. J. S. Welborn and Mrs. Bruce Conrad and top east-west scorers as Mrs. Logan Porter Jr. and J. T. Weaver. Mrs. E. A. Cline won high score in contract. runners-up included Mrs. O. C. Durland and Mrs. P. Y. Adams for north-south and Mrs. C. T. Howard and Mrs. J. T. Ryan for east-west. A large list of club members participated or attended luncheon. a family dinner is planned Thursday.
The Monarch Auxiliary met yesterday to hear Mrs. H. A. White discuss keeping level heads during war times and the peace after. She urged selflessness, avoiding hatred, studying for future peace, and careful postwar reconstruction planning. A Christmas party was scheduled for December 1 at Mrs. N. L. Garner’s home.
Mrs. Frank L. Judish chairing the Red Cross surgical dressings drive announced that necessary supplies have arrived and urged local women to resume making dressings for the November quota in High Point. Classes restart today at Red Cross rooms in High Point College library YWCA and the railway.
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets promise relief from constipation and stimulate liver bile secretion while toning intestinal muscles. The ad urges correction of faulty living habits and labels directions for purchase in drugstores.
The local Red Cross chapter asks for 230 kit bags for servicemen overseas and calls on local clubs, churches, and individuals to contribute. Jaycees donated 15 dollars and Junior Red Cross at Junior High School 235 dollars toward the project, with school departments supplying bags and filling them with essentials.
The Lottie Holden Bible Class will gather tomorrow at 3 PM at Mrs. Spencer’s Best Street home. Archdale M. B. C. The Woman’s Society of Christian Service of Archdale Methodist meets at 7 30 PM Thursday at Mrs. Jim Howell’s Archdale home. Mary Harper Philathea Class to Meet at 7 30 PM Thursday at Mrs. Ray Kearns’ 1 Woodrow Avenue.
Mrs H W AlcCain entertained Adams club members from the YWCA industrial group at her home 1008 Johnson Street last evening About fifteen attendees joined in games including Gone Out West Gossip and Mental Telepathy and group singing around the piano Aliss Louise Surratt industrial secretary of the Y participated in the event with refreshments served afterward
The Business and Professional Club held its regular monthly supper at Adams Memorial building with Miss Ina McAdams presiding. About thirty members attended and Miss Margaret Austin visited. Nosegays marked birthday seats for members Misses Marie Heath Thelma Pattrick and Miss Poston and Mrs Nell Hedrick.
The annual turkey dinner at St Marys Guild will be held Friday night at the parish house with serving from 6 to 9 o clock. Mrs. L. R. Stewart announced the event. Menu includes turkey with dressing and gravy sweet potato cranberry jelly peas slaw hot rolls coffee ice cream and cookies.
Jerry Bishop son of Mrs. L M Bishop is very ill at home in Clara Cox Apartments. Mrs. L H Pyle leaves for Baltimore Md today, staying with daughter Ma R B Terry at 200 West Farriss Avenue. Mrs. Francis B Nelson returns from Winston-Salem Baptist Hospital to Woodrow residence. Mr and Mrs Thomas Jones and son Thomas Ogburn Jr of Charlotte visited Mrs W C Jones this Sunday.
The Oak View Parent-Teacher Association will hold its general meeting Thursday at 7 30 PM at the school. The topic is Any Out For Nutrition with a guest speaker not yet announced as the discussion focus.
Mrs Weaver M Marr leaves for Atlanta after a brief visit with Rev and Mrs George Brown at 1103 Johnson Street. Mr and Mrs Marr, former city residents, now relocate as he works as Boy Scout executive in Atlanta. The Harrv family from Fayetteville Country Club visit Jamestown to stay with Mr and Mrs Harvey at Jamestown. Mrs J T Mccfarland, ill at Burrus Memorial Hospital, has improved and returned home. Mrs Leonard M Bullard leaves for Macon to join husband Lu Bullard at Camp Wheeler, taking an apartment at 327 Natier Avenue.
During spring, pollen grains were detected in the air at a distance of 13 miles from the flowering tree, indicating wider pollen dispersion than expected. The finding suggests potential spread of pollen across broad areas and implications for allergy awareness.
Greensboro Nov 4 Miss Sarah Ray of High Point will serve as president of the one year commercial class at The Women's College of the University of North Carolina this year following recent elections. Associate officers are Madeline Pitts of Newton vice president Frances Starr Allen of Wadesboro secretary treasurer and Ellen Tye Moore Route Three Matthews assistant secretary treasurer.
The Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle will hold a social meeting this evening at 7 30 in the hall on West Commerce Street. The notice notes an organized gathering with members urged to attend.
Mr. and Mrs. T. Ms. Carmichael of 305 Grimes announce the birth of a son, Stephen DeVayne, on October 20 at Burrus Memorial Hospital.
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