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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1935
Page
6
The Mid-Week Garden club met at Mrs. Frank Hunsucker’s Hillcrest drive home Wednesday morning with 17 members present. Mrs. K C Denny led a program on Gladiel and Dahlias, discussing planting and care, while Mrs. T Sr and Dr. T R Zimmerman provided a showy échevas arrangement.
A joint Altrusa meeting of the High Point and Greensboro clubs is planned at Sedgefield Inn Friday evening with Miss Anne MacCrae of Charlotte as the honored guest. Local organizers Mrs H C Caddell and Mrs Nency K Poston cooperate with Miss Corrinne Kenedy and Greensboro staff. attendees include Altrusa members from Winston Salem Roanoke VA Durham Chapel Hill and Charlotte. About sixty guests are expected.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union met at Misses Martha and Elva Blair's South Main home with seventeen members present. Mrs. J. A. Eshelman led with a devotional period, reading Moffitt text. In the business session letters were read by secretary Mrs. C. L. Whitaker. A social hour followed with refreshments served by the Blair sisters.
The Pentagon Girls' club held an initiation at Miss Jacklyn McMullan's Howell street home with eight members present plus two new initiates Miss Tess McMullan and Miss Marguerite Mann. After the ceremony a social hour followed with a salad course served to Edith Crowder Mildred Ferguson Marian Elliott Marguerite Burress Pat Hall Leora Hempp Lois Chidester.
Mrs Valette Harriss hosts an afternoon bridge on Rockford Road to honor Virginia Guest visiting Culpeper resident Mrs Bernard Williams and Mr Roland Holton. Arnold announces birth of Frederick Wayne to Fred and Lucille Arnold at 122 Elm Street on September 11.
The YWCA Live Y'ers banquet at the Hut opens the schedule. Friday plans include a Laura Wes son chapter UDC benefit bridge party at Mrs M J Wrenn home with reservations. High clubs joint meet at Sedgefield Inn honors Miss Anne McCrae. American Legion Auxiliary first fall meeting at 116 Oakwood Court with memorial for L J Ingram. Club of Twelve holds fall kickoff at Mr and Mrs B J Payne residence.
The Emerywood Women’s Golf Association held a Wednesday afternoon meeting at the club led by president Mrs. John Abels. Treasurer report noted. secretary Mrs. Laurance Ingram resigned and Mrs. Philip Davis elected to succeed. Golfing continues weekly this fall except next week during the Women’s Championship Tournament. Handicapping winners were Miss Margaret Hauser and Mrs. Luther Parker.
Mr and Mrs B T Kirkman announce the birth of a daughter Fay Carol on September 17 at their home 308 Asheboro Street Alton Stutts of Cable Street is recovering nicely from an operation for appendicitis at Guilford General Hospital
The Music-Literature department meeting at Mrs. W. E. Gray's home featured Harriett Hammer Walker editor of the Asheboro Courier speaking on Editorship. A vocal trio performed Mendelssohn Night Sinks on the Way and Trees with Mae Kirkman on piano, as business outlined a year studying Pulitzer Prize winners.
Miss Ophelia Hutchens was honored at a bridge and kitchen shower hosted by Misses Rath and Mary Elizabeth Hamlin at their Montheau avenue home. Hutchens will wed Johnnahe Johnson in October. high bridge score won a novel dish, low score a handkerchief, with gifts presented as utensils in green and ivory.
Miss Virginia Frank resumes leadership of the high school symphony orchestra and returns to the state high school music contest in Greensboro where the group won first place. She spent six weeks in New York listening to concerts and opera. Sensational 14 year old Daughters of America prepare for an evening meeting at 7 30 in their Washington street hall.
About people Miss Josephine Gibson left yesterday for Winston Salem where she will begin here sophomore year at Salem College. William J McAnally has gone to Durham where he will continue his studies in the Medical School of Duke University. His brother Albert McAnally left today for Chapel Hill where he
Miss Leora Hampp leaves for Converse College Spartanburg to resume studies as a junior. Walter L Hargett Jr departs for Chapel Hill to begin a senior year at the University of North Carolina. Mr and Mrs Robert Oswald Kay and child visit grandmother Mrs 8 R Styers in Briegs Avenue with guests from Richmond Va. Mrs Mary Voncannon removed to Randolph hospital Ashe. John Munyan and Mr Munyan return from Portlandville N Y after summer visit to Mrs S R Davidson.
Fred Guerin, previously tried on a bigamy charge that was dismissed, is re arrested on bigamous co habitation after the state supreme court upheld a judge who set aside a divorce obtained under alleged false testimony. Bond of 1000 was asked. The case involves residence claims and a second marriage without knowledge of the first wife.
Sheriff Joe S. Phipps agreed in Greensboro to return Ralph Dills and Luther Osborne next Saturday for a new murder trial over the death of William Davis in a holdup. Both had been on death row in Raleigh after the State Supreme Court remanded the case to Guilford Superior Court. They will stay in Greensboro jail until the October special term.
Florida police reported a search for identification after a woman believed to be from High Point was found drowned along a Jacksonville riverbank last Friday. The deceased was a 27 to 32 year old, six foot six, 139 pounds, brunette with perfect teeth, wearing a pink dress size 6 1 2 shoes and a white gold wedding ring inscribed R H L and B M T 1922.
The Oxford Orphanage sirvine class will present a varied program at the Masonic temple tomorrow night at 7 48 oclock. The group of 10 girls and four boys changes costumes for several numbers and uses stage scenery. Admission is free but a silver offering will be collected.
Mrs. Irene W. Price, manager of the local bureau, announced that this month about twice as many persons are placed in employment compared with August. Since Monday the office has secured 76 on Soll Erosion projects and 23 private placements.
A sandstone stone from the mountains about 20 miles above Winston-Salem is shown in The Enterprise window. The rock supposedly bends without breaking and its sand is used for floors in mountain homes.
Adolphus A. Burton aged 83 died at his High Point route two home. Survived by six daughters in Thomasville and nearby areas, two sons in Thomasville, three sisters in Thomasville, one brother in Oregon. Funeral set for Friday at 2 p.m. from Mt Pleasant M.E. church.
Cyrus H. McCormick resigned today as chairman of the International Harvester Company, a position he held since 1918, passing the post to his brother Harold F. McCormick in Chicago.
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