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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1944
Page
13
Members of the Tea and Topics club begin their fall session with a gathering at Mrs. J. Marsh home at 448 South Main Street. The hour is set for 3:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Miss Mary Maness of the Oriental Missionary Society speaks at Archdale Methodist Church tomorrow at eleven. Her talk replaces the regular sermon. A former Archdale resident, she has years of missionary work in China and recently returned on the Gripsholm.
The custom of veiling Moslem women traces back to pre-Islamic Bedouin bands roaming cities and towns. Australia is described as the flattest and driest continent.
Miss Helen Doris Creel wed Willis Nelson in Asheboro at the Pilgrim Holiness parsonage before their move to Newport News Virginia. Ruth Jat0 Neeree Jones and Clyde Nance Woolard, second mate U S Merchant Marines, married by Rev A O Lindley in Franklinville, with plans to live in Mobile Alabama. Mrs Ira Mann played piano. guests attended a buffet. Additional items note Womans Club fall meeting, choir honors for Ethel Johnson, and Randolph Book Club activities.
The marriage of Mrs Beulah Groome Carmichael and Pfc Walter Beeson is announced as having taken place September 1. The bride is sister to Mrs Charles McKenzie of Laurinburg and Beeson is the son of Mr and Mrs A R Beeson of Randleman Route One. Mrs Beeson will stay at North Main Street home while her husband returns to Camp Howze Texas after a seven- hour layoff. For the nuptials she wore pale blue with a corsage of pink rosebuds.
Miss Virginia Bowman Terry and Cpl Williamson Wilson Johnson Jr United States Army wed in the First Methodist church Hamlet in a double ring ceremony officiated by Dr S A Maxwell. The bridal party included maid of honor Mrs Mary Ellen Easterling and matron of honor Mrs B C Parker Jr with gowns in pink and lime, while 250 guests attended open house afterward. The couple plans residence in Columbia South Carolina after a wedding trip.
Miss Louise Leviner of Richmond Virginia marries Cpl Kenneth E Rhyne of the Army in York South Carolina on September 1. The bride formerly lived in High Point and works in Richmond. the groom is a High Point native stationed at Fort Monroe Virginia after overseas service.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold its regular meeting Tuesday at eight o'clock in the VFW hall per yesterday's announcement.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Jarrell of High Point announce the engagement of their daughter Ruth Arnold to Lieutenant Seibert Wood Lockman U S Army. Ruth Arnold has worked for Hyman Jewelry. Lockman, a former Officer Candidate School graduate in Sydney, Australia, was commissioned in 1943 and has been overseas for 31 months. The wedding date is not fixed but likely mid winter or early spring.
Asheboro notices report the Sorosis club fall meeting at Mrs T Lynwood Smith with guest speaker Alice Paige White of High Point College reviewing Shark Fins and Millet. Junior Woman's club held a district conference rehearsal with a quiz game prize. Pastime bridge and Virginia Lee Routh entertain with card games. An X-ray note mentions fraud detection in painting as a curious closing item.
Miss Wanda Harville’s bridal shower was hosted by Miss Dorothy Miller and Miss Alfreda Hardie at 120 Thurston Street. Guests enjoyed four bridge tables with pink rosebud motifs as Emogene Shields won top score. Refreshments and gifts followed, honoring the bride who will wed Pvt Frank Belcastro of Fairmont WV in October.
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