Society Notes Highlight Local Bridging and Card Parties
Mrs. Horace Ragan hosts Archdale Woman's club at her Archdale home this afternoon at 3 with out of town guests from Lexington. Mrs. Terry entertains at bridge in Roland Park praising dahlias. prizes go to Forrest Murray and Thelma Wineskie. Miss Venetia Smith hosts Sorosis at Jamestown tea house with rook and a large guest list. Phillip Chandler visits Guilford General hospital event and Dayton couple F P Chandler arrive in Greensboro for Johnson street stay.
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Horace Ragan
Archdale Woman’s Club
Archdale
John P. Lowe
George
Ju. Hackney
Pearl Moffitt
Lexington
Thelma Wineskie
Terry
Bridge
Roland Park
Forrest Murray
Miss Wineskie
Catherine Harmon
Bessie Tate
Marjorie Cottam
Valette Jones
Violet Johnson
Nellie Mrge
Herbert Newbold
Lawrence Matton
Charles Matton
Wade Marsh
Bascom Hoskins
Venetia Smith
Sorosis Club
J. R. Reitzel
C. A Barbee
Farriss
J. FE. Kirkman
Robert Brockett
L. J. Ingram
FF. M. Pickett
J. A Lindsay
A. Sherrod
J. Petty
E. D. Steele
Brash
Elwood Cox
S. L. Devis
D. A. Stanton
W A. Lambeth
Personal notes from town socialize across states and colleges
Miss Hester Weaver visits her brother Joseph P Weaver in Archdale. Miss Mary Annis Younts leaves for Greensboro to enter North Carolina College for Women. Elder and Mrs T W Williard head to Atlanta and Macon Georgia for several weeks by car with Mr and Mrs T J Rice of Reidsville joining. Mr and Mrs H B Parks of Concord and Mr and Mrs Joseph Parks of Philadelphia visit Ed Kearns. Dr W L Jackson returns from a motor trip to Rock Hill with family, stopping in Charlotte for Made in Carolina exposition. Friends note W A Graven recovering well after an operation.
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Mary Annis Younts
Greensboro
North Carolina College For Women
Elder
T. W. Williard
Atlanta
Macon
Wets
T. J. Rice
Reidsville
W. L. Jackson
Rock Hill
S&s. C
Merchants Plan Supper and Gate Closes for Baseball Day
High Point Merchants' association agreed to hold a supper at the Old Hickory club on Thursday night September 22. They also urged local retailers to close at 3 p m so clerks could attend the Friday baseball game at 3 45 p m. The Old Hickory club, built by local business leaders, will be opened next week with elaborate preparations for a social event. The exact opening date could not be learned today due to the championship series.
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Old Hickory Club
High Point Merchants’ Association
High Point
Slave market for jobless men to move to New York church
Urbain J. Ledoux known as Mr Zero the auctioneer of industrial slaves arrived in New York and said he would open his market at St Marks chapel East Tenth Street tomorrow to bid for the services of unemployed men aiming to reduce New York bread line.
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New York
Boston
Urbain J. Ledoux
Mr. Zero
St. Marks Chapel
East Tenth Street
Trinity Methodist Church to pay record Virginia minister salaries
Petersburg reports Trinity Methodist Church plans a pastor salary of 10000 dollars annually with an assistant at 6000 dollars when the new church building opens. The figures, cited by congregants, would set a southern high mark for minister pay.
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Petersburg
Virginia
South
Trinity Methodist Church
Fire destroys Winchester Co-operage plant in Virginia loss
Fire swept the Winchester Co operage plant in Winchester Virginia owned by W A Higes and associates of Charles Town West Virginia causing about 60000 dollars in damage partly insured The facility comprised three large frame buildings storing about 20000 apple barrels and vast raw materials.
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Winchester
Winchester Co-operage Company
W. A. Higes
Charles Town
W. Va
Fatty Arbuckle Career Highlights From Silent Era
The article recalls Fatty Arbuckle starting as a film extra with Mack Sennett police comedies and his breakthrough moments. It notes his Kansas birth, Santa Ana schooling, marriage to Minta Durfee, transition to movies in 1913, ownership of a Vernon Coast League team, style statements, and rise to fame as Roscoe Arbuckle.
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Los Angeles
Pfatty Arbuckle
San Francsco
Arbuckle
Mack Sennet
Smith Center
Kansas
Santa Ana
Cal
Minta Durfee
Fatty
Vernon
Squirrel Island celebrates golden jubilee of Maine summer colony
On Squirrel Island Maine fifty years have passed since twenty men bought the island to found a summer retreat with religion and local government. The current generation marks the golden jubilee of the Maine summer colony idea noting its influence on other colonies from Kittery to Sorrento. The association was established on a basis of sex equality with women voting alongside men under a compact likened to the Mayflower Pilgrims.
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Squirrel Island
Maine
Kittery
Sorrento
Sugar Cane stalk used to make building boards in Marrero
Bagasse from sugar cane juice is being converted into building boards by a Marrero company across the Mississippi from New Orleans. The boards measure 12 feet wide and 80 to 6 feet long, with one board containing material for three bungalows. The idea emerged from wartime insulation board research.
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New Orleans
Marrero
Mississippi River
Accidental Hanging Fatal for 14-Year-Old Boy in Barn
Geo Bossinger, 14, of Ligswiston Pennsylvania, died after accidentally hanging himself with a rope carrier used for hay in a barn. He vanished for two hours before father William Bossinger, a candymaker, found the body still warm. The family rejects suicide theories, saying the boy was optimistic and became entangled while swinging between rope sections.
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Ligswiston
Geo. Bossinger
Bossinger
William Iossinger
Spanish coast eyed for large Zepplin base base
A report from Huerl Spain dated September indicates exploration of the Spanish coast as a potential site for a large Zeppelin base to maintain communication with South America. The source mentions plans to establish a base for this airship link.
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Huerl
Spain
Ayer Man Er A
South America
Ministers as salesmen undermine church vitality says Dr. Ladd Thomas
In London on September 14 the Rev. Dr. J B Ladd Thomas of Chicago warned at the Ecumenical Methodist conference that modern ministers are trained as salesmen rather than Christian apostles. He decried denomi national leaders pressuring a narrow ministry aimed at revenue and urged revitalizing the church to restore faith, trust in Christ, and service to the world.
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London
Ladd Thomas
Chicago
Dr. Thomas
Christ
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Guilford General Hospital
F. P. Chandler
Dayton
Ohio
Walter White
Johnson Street
Phillip Chandler
Delaware
Mrs. F. P Chandler
Miss Hester Weaver
Joseph P Weaver
H. B. Parks
Concord
Joseph Parks
Philadelphia
Ed Kearns
W. A. Graven
J. B. Gravin
Hals
Moffitt Furnishing Co
Fatty Arbuckle
Figs
Walter Newman
Newman
Arbuckie
Roscoe Arbuckle
Roscoe
Fatty) Arbuckle
Solerrel Island
Accidentalll
Plan Air Service
L. A
Atlantic City
Margaret Gorman
Washington
Howard Chandler Christy
Davis
GEQ
H. Jacobs
High Point, N.C
Beavan’s
Tokyo
J. A. Hart Drug Co
Glover and Sides
Rear Lashmit’s Shoe Store
Lapert Shoe Fitters Quality Shoe Store
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