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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1933
Page
6
Mrs. F. J. Bartlett has moved from Burrus Memorial hospital to her home in Emery wood Estates after an operation for goiter. Friends confirm she is recovering satisfactorily as of the report.
Tuesday events include garden club meetings on Hillcrest drive and a chrysanthemum show at the first M. P. church. Brides-elect Anne Carter Marsh and Velva Hayden are featured at several luncheons, with D A R and Womans clubs planning programs and rehearsals for the Hayden-Whitescarver wedding.
Miss Dessie Gregory led the Glad Girls Bible class hostess group for the regular monthly meeting at the First Baptist church. Plans were made for a Thanksgiving offering to Mills Home in Thomasville, with a program featuring Addie Lomax Vera Smith Katie Sue Stanfield and Armen trout among others. A male quartet from Green Street Baptist provided music and refreshments were served to members and guests including Mrs. T. M. Guy and Mrs. A. B. Conrad.
About People Miss Sarah Deaton returned to Concord after visiting Miss Helen Paschall at 806 Fifth Avenue for the weekend. Mr and Mrs J Ralph Sechrest Mrs C A Allen and Dallas and Wilmer Allen left High Point after a week with Florida relatives. Mrs Van Holt, ill on Centennial Avenue, is now improving at home.
A Friday night party at Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Teer’s Archdale home featured guests of honor including Mr. G. C. Meeks and Wallace T. Highfill. Separately D. V. Bradley announce birth of son Jack Arnold at 420 Tate Street on November 3. Betty Joe Carter born November 2 at 2337 English Street. High Point Riding Club to meet tomorrow at 8 p.m. in new headquarters. Junior Etude Music Club met at Catherine Jane Ryan’s Parkway home with a student program and refreshments. Wanda Marie Harville accepted as new member.
Thomasville circles of the First Baptist and First Presbyterian churches held November meetings. Leaders guided devotionals and mission studies. Circles planned moving pictures at Barnum Springs Orphanage and a Mission Study Day November 14. The Woman’s Missionary Society elected officers and noted a tribute to a late member.
In New York a diverse crowd visits Major Anthony Fiala's sporting goods store and basement range to learn shooting. Bankers doctors police officers socialites bodyguards and even gangland figures seek instruction from Walter Mayer the mild instructor who demands character references and a license before teaching.
The article profiles Captain Mayer, a veteran marksman with a World War I and II record, wounded in battle, now in his forties but aging like a man of 30. He coaches, guards facilities, and mentors pistol and rifle teams while praising women shooters and maintaining a storied reputation in marksmanship.
Cary W. Bok publisher and Dr. R. Bogran Honduras Consul General appear. Antonio Jiminez, once Cuba's terrorist police head, trained with Mayer and used a sawed up .45 called a belly buster, reflecting his harsh early years and rebel life fire.
The High Point Graduate Nurses Club will meet tomorrow at 3 PM at the W. Co. A. building. The notice also mentions New Mexico nicknamed Sunshine and Spanish with the yucca as its state flower.
An advertisement features a testimonial by Mans. J. Antle of Columbus Ohio praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for restoring strength after illness and enabling multiple pregnancies It urges readers to obtain a bottle from a local store and follow directions.
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