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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1939
Page
14
The Tuesday Evening Garden Club will meet at Mrs. John H. Tate’s home 200 Parkway at 7 30 p m on Tuesday. Business matters of importance will be transacted and full attendance is requested. L B Dutton will speak on Roses and Rose Growing sharing years of rose growing experience and results.
Charles F. Carroll Jr superintendent of city schools laid out the Education Week concept at Ada Blair School Wednesday morning. Highlights included a parents and teachers banquet Monday night and a study group with Mrs. Lidie Horton as guest speaker. Many parents visited the school during the week.
Misses Opal and Inez Kennedy hosted a social Friday evening with a weiner roast at their home. Pianist They Cook performed current hits and guests played games then danced on the back lawn. Notables included Catherine Burton Pauline Salts Kate Snider Virginia Austin Belva Crawford Elizabeth Bullard Lorrine Harmon and several hosts and guests listed.
Miss Helen Kimball Royster and Richard Beeson Armfield married at First Baptist Church Henderson in a ring ceremony. The couple, of Raleigh and High Point, plan to reside in Raleigh after a bridal trip. Guests from High Point attended.
Thelma Iris Pierce and Henry Edward Emerson were married October 28 at Main Street Methodist Church Emporia. The bride, daughter of Mrs. Anna Pierce, wore a gray flannel dress with velvet jacket and carried sweetheart roses with valley lilies. The groom is an inspector for Nachman Spring Corp. They will reside with the bride's mother. witnessed by G. C. Armstrong of Rocky Mount. Also notes a High Point Garden Club meeting Tuesday at Mrs. C. F. Tomlinson's with a speaker on berry bearing shrubs and birds.
The Utopian Study Club will hold its regular meeting at 3:30 PM on Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Valette J. Harriss on Onckford Road.
The High Point chapter number 106 of the Order of the Eastern Star will hold its regular meeting Tuesday evening at the Masonic Temple and members are asked to attend.
Seven members of the High Point Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy depart this week for Charleston to attend the general convention. Mrs. Morrison and Mrs. Wishart will serve as official delegates, with alternates Mrs. Harriss and Mrs. Kirkman. other representatives include Mesdames Hayden Lambeth Welborn.
Miss Rachel Stone spoke at the Oak View 4-H Clubs joint session at 10:30 yesterday morning at the school. Roy Watts and Jane Blair updated on the county council meeting. Stone demonstrated home made furniture and presented a Guilford County Dress Revue photo. Dec ember meeting is the last chance to join for 1940. Vera Idol to speak at YWCA supper meeting with Hazel Wright providing music.
Miss Clarice Ridge and T. J. Hutchins Jr tied the knot in a November 4 ceremony at the Danville Methodist Church officiated by Rev. Leonard Reid Black. The couple, with Mrs. Ridge as mother of the bride, will reside in Danville after the simple ceremony attended by close family and friends.
Brentwood School hosts an old fashioned pie supper on Friday evening November 17 at 7 30. Mothers of the school provide the pies and a program features a musical show and magic act with a small general admission fee.
Clare Tree Major Children’s Theatre from New York will perform Old King Cole at the High Point Junior High School auditorium on November 28. The nonprofit troupe travels nationwide, self managing with actors handling vans sets and costumes. Proceeds help underprivileged children, with Woman's Club sponsorship and PTAs assisting ticket access.
Miss Mary Pierce formerly of High Point married Edward Wright of Newport News Virginia in South Mills North Carolina on November 5. Mrs Pierce is the daughter of Mr and Mrs W F Pierce now of Newport News. Mr Wright son of Mrs Mary Wright and the late James Wright of Newport News. He works in a Newport News ship yard and they will live at 2711 Huntington Avenue.
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