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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1951
Page
3
Tickets for Agenda Club Fall Style Show are on sale through club members. The event at Adams Memorial Building on Friday Sept 28 aims to raise funds to buy a radio phonograph for YWCA use. John T Ellis and Company will supply clothes with Mrs David Chauns in charge of modelling assisted by all club members.
About 300 guests attended last night’s event at the Junior High School cafeteria honoring City School System faculty. Charles F. Carroll and W. P. Hawkins spoke while Nile F. Hunt MC’d and Rev Car Grimm delivered the invocation. The program, led by Dr Charles Taylor, featured a high school girls’ trio and each new teacher was introduced in a novel way. General chairs were Mrs S R James and Mrs Ellis H Roach with Mrs Herman Honeycutt as program chair.
Mrs. C C Grady and Mrs Edward C Clark hosted a miscellaneous shower at Mrs Clark s home to honor Miss Peggy Clark who will marry Robert C Grady in September The event featured fall floral decor games prizes and an ice course in green and white followed by the gift of an electric iron presented by the hostesses with thirty five guests attending
Detroit AP reports Nona Mitchell celebrated her birthday on the cruise ship Put-In-Bay where she was born. Officials found her birth recorded on the ship accident report list from 1936, prompting a party aboard the vessel.
The Green Acre Garden Club held its first fall meeting at Mrs. Walter Comfort’s Greenway Drive home with associate hostess Mrs. Grady Morgan. President Mrs. Charles Collins led a brief session as Depa R. K. Stewart spoke on perennial borders and fall garden tasks. She urged gardeners to express personality and avoid crowding plants. Dessert was served to 16 members and 6 guests.
The Guilford County Medical Society Auxiliary met at Starmount Forest Country Club in Greensboro for a noon luncheon attended by about 43 members. President Mrs. Ralph Lake led a business meeting and announced support for The Mental Health Clinic of Guilford County. A bridge and Canasta party is planned at Starmount Forest on October 2. Leroy Cox, NC Medical Society Public Relations Director, spoke on Public Relations.
The State Department said a new powerful radio transmitter will beam Voice of America broadcasts to Russia from North Carolina. A second transmitter will be built near Seattle. Exact sites are not yet decided and negotiations continue. Construction will start as land purchases finalize. The North Carolina transmitter aims to reach Europe, Africa, and Latin America.
Garden Gate Garden Club met at Mrs. P. C. McLain’s home on Lindsay Street last evening with Mrs. R. K. Stewart as guest speaker. Stewart stressed planting mass arrangements and flowers suited to the garden to avoid spotty displays. President Mrs. Howard Pancoast announced plans to co host October with two other clubs and a program by Mrs. R. L. Underwood. A Thanksgiving table arrangement was assigned for the November meeting with committee including Mrs. Tyree Nabers, Mrs. T. J. Beam and Mrs. E. C. Ring, and members were asked to bring Christmas sugar for the November gathering.
The High Point Chapter 106 Order of the Eastern Star met in the Masonic Temple led by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Oglesby. One petition was received for membership. Initiation rites set for September 25. Reports covered the District School of Instruction in Gibsonville on September 8 and the Rob Morris Day Picnic at the OES Home. An invitation came from Denton Chapter for the District Deputy Grand Matron and Deputy Grandakegi visit on September 14.
Bryant W. Langston leads Samuel M. Langston Manufacturing Co. in Camden where 360 workers are employed and nearly half are relatives. The workforce includes 35 fathers and sons, 46 brothers, 29 brothers in law, 15 sons in law and 23 cousins.
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