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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1937
Page
6
Detailed instructions by Lawrence Hostetler on pivot turns for the fox trot. It covers right and left pivots, the promenade pivot, weight transfer, knee flexion, and how to lead with shoulders and torso to guide a partner through turns, including the progressive pivot variation.
RANDLEMAN and ASHEBORO reports detail social gatherings. Mrs. John Fox hosted a Rook club evening with three tables, high score winner Mrs. E. E. Bunting, and an ice course served to members and visitors. Asheboro’s Friday Afternoon Bridge Club met with guests and a prize to Mrs. Barnes. A program on American composers preceded a Friday Afternoon Book Club meeting featuring Swaim, Thayer, and Johnson. A wedding announcement and Kiwanis and puppet show events are noted along with entertainment by magician N. P. Selwyn and Little Theater puppets.
The Gordon String Quartet starts the High Point Cooperative Concert Association series at the junior high school auditorium. Members are Jacques Gordon David Sackson William Lincer and Naoum Benditsky. Program includes Schubert D minor quartet and Rimsky Korsakov Flight of the Bumblebee.
Visitors from Richmond Virginia and several North Carolina towns will join the Sedgefield Hunt Thursday morning for its annual Thanksgiving ride to hounds. The event, begun about ten years ago, usually draws the largest field of the season. Guests and Hunt members will assemble at the Sedgefield stables before the 10 o'clock start, with a breakfast at Sedgefield Inn at 10. The week-end featured a dead hunt and an informal ride, while a gymkhana is planned for Sunday afternoon at the Sedgefield show ring under Mrs. L. H. Cheis supervision.
Harry Reser and his Cliquot Club Esquire Band provided the standout music at the Piedmont German club’s November dance at Emerywood Country Club. The electric organ and amplified strings enhanced the program, with some acts limited to one ball room side. Out of town guests included BU Tate and Dorothy Brooks, plus Greensboro and Burlington attendees. J Welch Harriss leads the German club, which plans a Christmas dance soon.
The Tuesday and Friday groups of the High and Lend A Hand club at the Y W C A hosted a joint supper at the Y W C A. Members planned Christmas programs and December meetings. Choir practice followed for Highland M B Church services and Thanksgiving baskets were to be delivered after Wednesday programs.
The Laura Wesson chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy postpones its meeting to next Monday. A joint meeting with the High Point chapter will be held at Mrs. J F Hayden’s Washington Street home with Mrs. Walker as associate hostess.
A chicken pie luncheon will be served tomorrow from 11 30 a m to 1 p m at the First Reformed church.
A list of weekly events including Omega sorority lecture at Sheraton led by Dr Lindley 8:30 p m concert by Gordon String Quartet at Junior High School auditorium Tuesday garden club at 1104 North Main with Mrs Sheloff 10 a m Junior Service League Book Club at Mrs Hudson home 30 p m Altrusa semi monthly dinner at Sheraton Wednesday Letitian Thanksgiving Ball at Emerywood with Guilfordians music Thursday Sedgefield Hunt Thanksgiving breakfast at Inn then Trumpeteer Thanksgiving Dance at Sedgefield Manor Bernard Fowler Rhythm Masters Friday Sorosis host at Jamestown home of Mrs W G Ragsdale
Lew Gogerty to lead his orchestra for a Thanksgiving night dance at the new Burlington armory with Johnny Powers featured. first strains at 9 30. The Gogerty orchestra recently played at the O Henry hotel and will also appear at the Washington Duke hotel in Durham on December 1. At the Florence Nightingale club YWCA supper meeting, the play Just Women will be presented, directed by Miss Emma Carr Bivins. Math class at 4 30 and carol practice at five o clock under Mrs Edith Sherrod set for club activities.
Miss Florence Atchison of Winston-Salem left for home after a weekend stay with Miss Frances Mendenhall at 602 Lindsay Street. Mr and Mrs Fred Niederhauser of Richmond arrive Wednesday to spend the weekend with Earl N Phillips. The visitors, Deep Run Hunt members, will attend the Thanksgiving hunt and breakfast at the Sedgefield Hunt Thursday.
Among the largest plant leaves are those of Gunnera on the Juan Fernandez Islands. The Shakespearean character with the most lines is Hamlet, totaling 1,659 in the canon.
Lexington reports a Thanksgiving dance planned for Tuesday evening at Smith Hall with Jack Wardlaw and his orchestra and the song of Miss Elizabeth Langford. Sponsors listed include Miss Elanor Newman Salisbury, Miss Helen Crowder High Point, Miss Margaret Cook Thomasville, Miss Sarah Brandon High Point, Miss Margaret Meacham Lexington, Miss Dorothy Marks Greensboro, Miss Maxine Puesey Winston Salem, and Miss Evelyn Greer Lexington. Local social notes mention visitors and hospital news as well.
Sidney Kusworm of Dayton Ohio urged US Jews to support democracy amid world unrest. He warned against Nazi propaganda and subversive groups seeking to replace democracy with fascism or communism. The event featured 58 new initiates, ritual work, and remarks by rabbis Greenburg and Shillman and others.
The Sallie Norman Circle of the First M E church met at the home of Mrs J A Lindsay with Mrs Paul Peacock as co host. Mrs Joe McCrary chaired and opened with a devotion by Mrs A C Fite. Officers for the coming year were elected: Mrs John Craver chairman, Mrs T B Eanes and Mrs Carl Ward finance chairman. The circle voted to buy a new table for the Hut. Mrs W L Cripliver gave the Mission Study lesson in Mrs W M Shuford s absence. Refreshments were served during the social hour.
On Wednesday evening Miss Elaine Shaw celebrated her twelfth birthday with a scavenger hunt at the American Legion hut. Miss Frances Louise McKay and Alvin Philpott won the hunt receiving a jewelry box and a tie set. An enticing ice course was served.
Mrs. Tom Bailey is seriously ill at her home on Greensboro street. Mrs. Claude York and baby daughter Judith Ann of High Point recently visited her. Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Menden and Mr. and Mrs. Dermot Weaver are noted in the same local item.
The Emma Blair school child study group will meet Tuesday afternoon at 8 o'clock. The Miss Wessinger first grade toy orchestra will perform a brief program. Mrs. Reuben Payne will lead a group discussion and all parents are urged to attend.
Miss Elizabeth Wang of Nanking China arrives to study English literature in UNC Greensboro? Actually UNC Chapel Hill Graduate School. She studied at National Central University Nanking and National Normal University Peiping with a strong record in Chinese and European literature. Her thesis on Ancient Chinese Thought was published in 1935. War disrupted her fall arrival. she traveled via Hong Kong and Seattle.
The 101st annual meeting of the North Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South closes as Bishop Paul B. Kern reads appointments. The concluding sermon is by Dr. G. Ray Jordan of Winston-Salem. Several elders and deacons are ordained including James W. Lineberger and H. M. McLamb.
Robert Reedy, 23, faced murder charges for the killing of his brother Thomas Reedy, 30, in a family disturbance in Tazwell Virginia. Sheriff R L Milton described the incident as a family disturbance.
The service focused on the Golden Text from Psalms 62 5 urging the soul to rest in God while Isaiah 61 10-11 described garments of salvation and righteousness. The Lesson-Sermon cited Mary Baker Eddy and Divine Science asserting the immortal, indestructible nature of man as the reflection of the divine Principle and Soul.
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