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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1936
Page
6
Emerywood Country Club plans a Hallowe'en dance with a box supper this Saturday at the Clubhouse. Members and out of town guests expected in costume with prizes for best dressed. Coffee served by the club, refreshments in intermission, 7:30 to 12, popular orchestra. Herman Smith chairs arrangements.
Esquire Pre-Hallowe en dance at Winter Garden Ballroom Greens boro features Ina Ray Hutton’s all girl swing orchestra. Dance leaders Ruth Pollock and Margar ite Mann escorted by Friemann Vestal and David Gallaher. Sponsors include Mickie Donaldson Frale Patterson Frances Grubbs Randy Speight Peggy Leake Jimmy Phillips Martha Webster and others. Music begins at nine and lasts four hours with club parents and Mrs Huton as chaperones.
Mrs. Willis H. Slane spoke to the American Homes Department of the Woman's Club at Mrs. J. F. Hayden home on East Washington Street. She described her recent trip abroad with vivid word pictures and remarks on inhabitants, presenting a memorable program.
On Wednesday evening Miss Allie Owen hosted a weiner roast at Haworth's Springs for friends. After games and a fire side, ghost stories were told and Miss Willie Lee Dickens won a prize for the best tale. Those in attendance included Ruth Baldwin Beatrice Taylor Ruby Baldwin Edith Baldwin Willie Lee Dickens Erkine Kinley Austin Hendricks George Elder Ralph Burgess Sam Needham and Bill Weedon.
A Hallowe'en Festival will be held at Allen Jay school this evening at 7 30. The event features side show booths contests games and a stage program with public attendance invited. A small admission will fund school library supplies.
Mrs C B Stainback entertained with a surprise dinner party at 6 30 pm on Otteray Drive to honor her husband C B Stainback on his birthday. Guests included department store employees and a few others who gave him birthday gifts including cigars.
The Aberdeen Kiwanis club chose Charles W. Picquet, theater operator, to lead the club for the coming year.
A jury found Harold Torrence age 21 guilty of manslaughter in the death of Elwood Hawkins age 19 from a automobile accident.
Friday at 10 p m The Stag club hosts a Hallowe en Ball at the American Legion hut in Thomasville. Saturday from 7 30 p m to midnight Emerywood Country club holds a Hallowe en Ball and box supper with music by John Peddicord and his orchestra of Winston Salem.
Messrs J L Perkins and B Mose return from the three day state Water Works convention in Charlotte. Tonight at 7 30 oclock Oak View school hosts a Hallowe en Carnival with a play The Old Fashioned School and side shows plus refreshment booths. Public invited to attend.
The Woman's Wesley Bible class at Wesley Memorial church hosted a Hallowe'en party at Mrs. J. F. Hayden's East Washington home. Prizes were awarded for talks and stunts, with plans announced for the annual bazaar in early December.
Mr and Mrs Nathan Ayers and Mr and Mrs Allen Watkins host a Tuesday evening dance at Sedgefield Manor ballroom. Invitations issued in Greensboro and across the state read Mr and Mrs Nathan McNeill Ayers and Mr and Mrs Allen Harrison Watkins request the pleasure of your company on Tuesday November 3 at nine thirty in the evening.
Sophomore Girl Reserves announce a Hallowe'en party at the YWCA this evening at eight o'clock. The event is described as a gala evening with plans already set.
The bulletin promotes Pattern 9926 for active girls age two to ten with a dainty frock featuring a trim collar and pleats and matching bloomers. It notes fabric options, button choice, and ordering details including sizes 2 4 6 8 10 and price of 15 cents per pattern.
Mrs Hume R Steele of Nashville Tennessee wrapped up the Mission Study series at Wesley Memorial church with a lecture on the cultural and educational state of the American Negro. She contrasted physical and mental types and noted 700000 own homes and 232000 own farms while urging vocational education. The course was organized by Mrs C A York.
A drag hunt tomorrow afternoon will begin weekend events for Sedgefield Hunt members with the start at 3 o’clock from the Sedgefield stables. Sunday features an informal ride at 3 from the same stables led by Mrs Seborn Perry and Stark Dillard.
Two youth groups at the local Y W C A held Halloween events last night. Live Yers hosted 15 attendees with bridge bingo pumpkins and themed cakes while Jolly Y members plus guests enjoyed gates contests and refreshments for 18. Decorations added a festive scene.
Special to The Enterprise Greensboro October 30 high Point area students join 15 enrolled at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina as total enrollment reaches 1790. Guilford County contributes 258 students led by Greensboro residents.
Mrs L W Apple entertained members of the Community Arts Club at her Magnolia court home. Roses and chrysanthemums decorated the rooms as sewing provided entertainment. The club prize a sewing basket went to Mrs W L Welborn. Refreshments were served with two courses and Halloween place cards marking each seat.
The article names club members and a visitor Mrs. Eddinger among a broader list including James Cora Stewart Gibson C A Daniel T J Underwood Frank Payne W L Welburn H G Rothrock L H Warren.
The Florence Nightingale affiliated book club of the YWCA will start fall meetings with a trip to Cole's Pottery near Asheboro tomorrow afternoon. They will depart the hut at 1 30 and return later in the evening, with Miss Catherine Howard in charge.
Work has begun on a new $32,000 WPA armory in Washington North Carolina site officials announced the project aims to provide federal work relief and long term storage and training facilities for local defense efforts with construction underway in October.
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