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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1920
Page
2
An 1890s guide describes hostess duties for a Hallowe'en gathering with Burns poetry themed games. It details three fortune bowls, apple dunking, raisin on a string, apple and candle tricks, apple paring, ghost writing, friendship nuts, and festive refreshments as party highlights.
The article notes High Point society in festive mood for the Eula celebration with old customs still alive. On Friday at 3 30 p m Mrs F R Taylor hosts Cornelian club members at her Johnson street home.
The text describes a Halloween program with a dream costume leader of the grand march and a favorite in the hall, a band of spooks, and bobbing for apples. Decorations will reflect the season. The afternoon event ends with a party at Miss Rachel Wall's Lindsay Street home, hosted by Wall and assisted by Miss Lucille Barbee and high school students.
High Point readers brace for an early Hallowe en as revelers plan a full weekend and beyond. Social calendars glow with parties masks fortunes and ghost walks while neighbors anticipate seven days of gaiety and merrymaking.
The curtain rises tonight at eight for a Halloween party hosted by N. J. Bennises in Lindsay Street to honor the Kress store employer Brennings the manager. The event promises a festive kick off to the weekend.
Before the evening event the Beta Pi club enjoyed a Halloween party hosted by Mrs. Irvin Groome on South Main Street. The afternoon affair was decorated and themed for the season with festive favors.
The second party of the night hosts a Halloween social for Springfield church Sunday school classes south of the city. Pen leader Miss Emma Blair is among organizers planning the event.
The round of revelries for children starts tonight with a party at Miss Elizabeth Jones home on North Main street. Attendees are fifth grade division A Elm Street school students. Sallie Radcliffe serves as teacher and master of ceremonies for the evening of surprises.
A Hallowe en candy sale will be an interesting feature of the Saturday festivities and will be conducted by the Harvest Workers guild of the First Reformed church. Booths will be decorated in colors of the season.
Miss Nancy Carr Terry will entertain at the R. B. Terry residence in Roland Park on Saturday evening. The event is described as one of the loveliest of the weekend for children.
Saturday night a gala masquerade hosted by Miss Alice Pitts on Broad Street with Miss Elizabeth Hayden as hostess is planned. Unique invitations promise thrilling surprises for attendees and a scheduled event from to 11 o'clock.
At the same hours in Archdale south of the city Mrs Mert Tomlinson will entertain for her Sunday school class. Wallowe'en favors and decorations will mark the weekend party as an outstanding event.
The Ladies Aid society of the South Main Street Methodist church will host members and invited guests at a Halloween function on Monday evening November 1 in the church basement. Autumn leaves corn stalks and pumpkins decorate the room. Classic Halloween games will be played during the event.
The High Point high school senior class plans a Hallo we'en party Monday at 8 PM as the season’s grand finale. Details remain unreleased, but organizers predict an unprecedented close to the social season in High Point.
Mr and Mrs Earl Steed entertain Saturday night at their Commerce Street home with a elaborately planned Halloween celebration. The festive season is expected to feature a gay social gathering in the neighborhood.
A lonely orange pumpkin and a fluffy black kitten seek belonging with a merry child. In a gloomy night a woodsman, carpenter, and animals help by cutting windows and shelter, turning the pumpkin into a warm home as they travel toward companionship.
A playful Halloween idea invites guests to a fancy dress party where attendees wear paper costumes and masks. The highlight is a midnight court of witches review with prizes for the prettiest and most unusual paper outfits, including gowns, clown and sports motifs, and a paper bathing suit among the designs.
The article recounts traditional All Hallows Eve observances in Scotland Ireland and Britain. Bonfires lit at nightfall symbolized sacred fires, while beliefs about fairies witches and ghosts guided festive rituals. Ancient youths tested charms and divination as part of a solemn merrymaking pre dating Christianity.
The editors praise Halloween thrills with masquerade revels and a ghost Walk for children. It notes the ghost walker parties as an exclusive, old tradition based on roaming spirits, needing only sheets, skulls, and witches for staging.
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