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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1930
Page
7
Miss Lois Johnson hosted the Phi Beta Club gathering in Thomasville on Friday with chrysanthemum decorations. The group discussed Venezuela with talks on Orinoco travel and poet John Mansfield, as five new members joined the department. Rev J M Warner departed for Matthews to become pastor at First Methodist Church.
At Randolph street home Miss Mamie Harris hosted a Thursday meeting of the Thursday Afternoon Bridge club. Two tables of bridge were set among red and yellow chrysanthemums. Mrs. Charles Phillips won high score and a double deck of cards. consolation went to Mrs. David Long Jr.. refreshments included salad and dessert. Members present included Mesdames Jennings Cox Swaim Rapp Tomlinson Lyles Phillips Long, and tea guest Mrs. J. T. Henry of Newberry, S. C.
Miss Dolly Hite left last week for her home in Rappahannock County Virginia after a several week stay with her brother M B Hite and Mrs Hite on Salem street. She was shown many social courtesies during her city visit.
S. C. arrived Friday for a visit here with her sister Miss Mamie Harris at her home on Randolph Street.
Mrs Ansel Cox Jr and her little son Ansel ord leave today for Greenville South Carolina after visiting Mrs Cox's parents Mr and Mrs W H Tudor on Lexington avenue. They will be accompanied as far as Charlotte by Mr Tudor who will return some Sunday night.
The Fine Arts Department of the Woman's Club held a most delightful meeting on Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. W. E.
Mrs. Alvah Boyles and her father R. L. Harville attended the Thompson School class reunion in Siler City last Friday. Harville was a former student there.
Miss Annie Yow spends several days in High Point as a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Hammond on North Hamilton Street.
Professor Majuri reports three exquisite white marble statues from a rich private Herculaneum villa near Mount Vesuvius. The four foot figures include a drunken Hercules, a satyr, and a hunting scene with perfect workmanship and a pale ivory patina from long burial since A D 79.
Reports of treasure ships off European coasts prompt a Scotchman to suggest salvaging the Lusitania and its thirty ton safe. He believes the ship sank years ago at 300 feet when struck by sea, and bases his plan on a World War I American idea to use a submarine to fire torpedoes through the sunken hull, pulling a steel cable to raise the wreck.
Central Washington fruit growers hire a specialist to guide orchard development toward hardier varieties and improved fruit quality, focusing on propagation techniques and best practices for future production.
Elegant Lexington gathering hosted by Mrs B H Finch featured a card party with visitors and prizes. Names of attendees span local and visiting prominent women, with Go de y prints awarded and a salad luncheon served by the hostess and Mrs E C Clinard. The note also references the Lexington Music Club meeting and the Philathea Class officer elections at First Baptist.
Rev and Mrs J T Mangum bid farewell before moving to Greensboro after two years in Lexington as pastor of the First Methodist Church. Friends hosted a series of dinners and luncheons from Wednesday through Friday with Mr and Mrs Hackney Burkhead Sink and Burgin among the hosts. The Mangums left many ties within church members and Lexington residents.
The North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South endorsed consolidation with the Methodist Protestant Church in the state. A commission will handle details with Western North Carolina and the Protestants. A $100 000 fund aims to liquidate debts on Chapel Hill and Greensboro churches by February 1 1931. Bishop Mouzon and others spoke on moral renewal and future conference sites Greenville and Durham are under consideration. Special services and ordinations were scheduled with a memorial service for deceased members.
The Garden Club was entertained by Mrs J C Leonard at her West Center street home Friday morning. Mrs Woodrow McKay and Mrs W Welborn participated in an interesting program.
University news notes Virginia Cavaliers captain Hunter Motley will bow out after his third and final season in the Thursday game against North Carolina. Motley, versatile in line duties, battled a leg injury last year and now shares tackle and guard roles. He plans to continue athletic competition in boxing and track during the winter and spring.
Mrs Guilford Henderson from Lynchburg Virginia arrives to visit her mother Mrs R F Johnson on Parkway and will stay through Thanksgiving. Mrs Ralph Welker and Mrs Orville Campbell from Elizabeth New Jersey are guests of Mr and Mrs W P Lafferty and will remain a week in North Carolina before heading back. Mr and Mrs W H Day of Louisville Kentucky spend the weekend with Mr and Mrs Harry.
New York reporter notes Marian S. Vanleew director of Home Economies for the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs urges careful meal planning on tight budgets. She argues many families starve nutrition by cutting costs and notes protein can come from meat less than daily. She outlines a week of meals for four to cost about 13 dollars, including sample menus for breakfast lunch and dinner.
Mr. Day serves as secretary and treasurer of Wood Massaic company while Mrs. E. P. Shoup of Memphis, formerly Miss Marjorie Tate, visits her parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred N. Tate in Emerywood. Mrs. Shoup travels with Mrs. Randall Mann and her daughter Nelson who accompany her to High Point.
A thrift fashion tip suggests wearing a narrow suede belt in a coordinating watch color with last winter’s coat to create a newer appearance when a new coat isn’t affordable. The guidance emphasizes simple styling and color harmony for a refreshed look.
The nation now has roughly 90,000 miles of oil lines representing about 700 million dollars in investment. One of the longest spans 1300 miles from Oklahoma oil fields to refineries in Philadelphia.
The Greensboro Junior League Puppetteers, chaired by Mrs. Wade Marsh and Mrs. Alvin Haley, presented Punch and Judy and Little Red Riding Hood at Elm Street School. Several hundred children and adults attended, with guests from the Methodist Protestant Home. Volunteers from the Junior Service League assisted in publicity tickets property ushers and more.
The Farmers' Union Terminal association of St. Paul says based on September prices, wheat is valued 33 percent higher than corn for fattening baby beeves.
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