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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1947
Page
20
The American Legion Auxiliary will meet Tuesday evening at 7 45 at the home of Mrs G M Ipley 400 Howell street with George Connor group 4s as hostesses. All members urged to attend and gifts for veterans hospitals are to be collected.
The Bur bank Garden club will meet at Mrs. Charles Carroll's home 1306 Greenway Wednesday at 10 o'clock. The meeting will discuss proper fertilizer use and its role in economical cotton production.
Miss Dorothy Mae Brinkley and Garland Thomas Ferguson were married October 24 at Greenwood Baptist parsonage Thomasville officiated by Reverend Dave Oldham. The bride, blue wool suit with black accessories, is a Pilot High School graduate employed at Thomasville Chair company. The groom, son of the late Mr and Mrs Steve Ferguson of High Point, is also with Thomasville Chair company. They reside with the bride's sister Mrs Frank Mendenhall in Thomasville.
In candlelit vows at First Baptist Church Thomasville on Friday November 14 Miss Vera Elizabeth Hyder the daughter of Mrs J L Hyder and Harold R Hilliard son of Mrs T H Hilliard were married. The ceremony officiated by Dr Charles F Leek included music by Mrs R W Crews and Miss Jean Walton with maid of honor Miss Maurine Metcalfe and best man Joe Hillard. About fifty guests attended the reception at the bride's home featuring a cake cutting.
Brentwood school observed American Education Week with a PTA meeting led by guest speaker O Arthur Kirkman. Miss Womble's fourth and fifth graders presented a play and the sixth grade chorus performed. An open house followed.
At Emerywood Country Club yesterday afternoon Mr and Mrs Bradford Thomas and Miss Barbara Thomas hosted a casual reception honoring Miss Mary Anne Thomas and her fiancé James Campbell Lipscomb who will wed in December. About 175 guests arrived between five and six thirty. Decor featured rust to pale yellow chrysanthemums, ivy, frosted grapes, copper bowls, and bronze candles with fall colors throughout the rooms. Hors d oeuvres were served on copper leaf shaped plates as part of the autumn décor.
Mrs Charles Carroll will be hostess to the Mid-Week Study club on Wednesday at 3 o'clock. The event will be held at her home 1306 Greenway Drive.
Mrs Charles Perry will entertain the Priscilla club at her home on Sherbrook drive Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The article notes a separate agricultural tip warning that too little potash in tobacco fertilizer may cause inferior burning quality.
The Susannah Wesley class of Archdale Methodist church will meet at 7 30 with Mrs E Williams as associate hostess. The Philathea class of the First Baptist church will hold a regular business meeting at Mrs Clyde Chay 195 Centennial Avenue Monday evening at 7 30.
Mrs. N. P. Yarborough announces an emergency quota of fifty bed jackets to be completed and shipped within a week for wives of veterans at Oteen with tuberculosis. Garments are cut and ready for sewing, using flowered outing material, and local women are urged to donate by visiting the Red Cross office to help meet the timely shipment.
Mrs. John Francis Weinmann of Little Rock Arkansas was elected president general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the 54th annual convention in Miami. Officers named include Mrs. Molly Holifield Jones Auburn Alabama and Mrs. Glen Long Newton North Carolina among others. The day also announced additional officers and a service medal presentation to Gov. J Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
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