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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1938
Page
6
Madame S C Clark hosted the Wednesday Book club initial luncheon at 538 Parkway with a three course menu and fall flowers. New president H P Hardin led a brief business session as members and one visitor Miss Carrie Ogburn gathered for year planning and discussions on upcoming reads.
The Twentieth Century Study Club began its Fall program with a meeting hosted by Mrs. W W Gluyas at 1319 Greenway Drive. New president Mrs W F Freeman presided as Mrs R J Quigley introduced The Modern Woman study series focusing on Woman and Her Place with topics The Evolution of Woman and North Carolina Women Before The Law.
Members of the Alexander Martin chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will travel to Winston-Salem for the Fifth District meeting at the Robert E. Lee hotel with a luncheon following the morning session. Local regent Mrs J F Hayden will lead the delegation along with state registrar Mrs J S Welborn, with members from High Point and Thomasville among those attending.
Plans for a Guilford college alumni unit supper to be held Friday October 14 at 6 30 p m in the Friends annex were finalized by unit officers and a planning committee at the Professional Building office of Byron Haworth. Attendees include Murray White Martha Jarrett Grace Bullar treasurer and guests from Archdale Trinity James town and Thomasville with reports on college activities to be presented.
The Magdalene Rebekah lodge will meet tomorrow at seven with a brief business session followed by a social period to honor September birthday members. The gathering includes a measuring party and is open to lodge members and invited guests.
Nearly 200 freshmen from High Point college attended a rush picnic hosted by the Nikanthan and Thalean Literary Societies at High Point Municipal Lake. After a supper at 4 o'clock on Tuesday, attendees enjoyed dancing and games on the pavilion.
The Girl Scout Council hosts a Harvest Tea for current and prospective troop leaders at Mrs. E. H Blackard's Hillcrest drive home. The Cavalier club dances at Sedgefield Manor with Swing Club Orchestra until midnight. Piedmont German club opens a monthly fall winter dance series at Emerywood Country Club with John Peddicord and his Winston-Salem orchestra. Saturday’s NC division AAUW executive board meeting will be hosted by the local chapter president Mrs. H. A. White.
Mr and Mrs Charlies M Rus sell of New York arrive in the city for a visit with N E B Rus sell and Mrs Russell at 602 Centennial avenue en route home after time in Florida.
Mrs Robert Carter as Ethel Lippard, recently wed, was feted at a surprise home shower hosted by Mrs A Lee Gibson and Miss Athleen Fleming at 4058 East Washington Street. Guests wrote advice for the bride and enjoyed games, gifts, and refreshments while sister Cleo Lippard and Mrs J L Shaw won prizes.
The Wayside Garden club opened autumn activities with an outdoor Brunswick stew supper at Mrs G E Hutchens West Lexington Ave. 65 to 76 members and guests attended, enjoyed the garden then stew from an outdoor oven, plus games and novelty stunts afterward. Thomas Ronnie Mock Jr born September 27 to Mr and Mrs T R Mock of 411 Lexington Ave Thomasville.
New Marian Martin pattern 9862 offers three neckline treatments and three sleeve lengths for misses and women sizes from 14 to 42. Choose satin or silk crepe fabrics with a shirred bodice and flared skirt, plus a Sew Chart to simplify making. Order details include price one pattern 15 cents, book 15 cents, or both 25 cents, with full mailing instructions.
The Friendly Garden Club held its fall flower show yesterday at Mrs. W. L. Kivett’s home on Kivett Drive. Kivett won the top award for the greatest number of points, with Mrs. T. L. Cox second and Mrs. R. L. Stovall and Mrs. Co. L. Clapp tied for third. Judges were Mrs. R. R. Blackburn and Mrs. John Tate.
A chicken pie supper will be hosted by the Ladies Bible class of Zion Reformed church on Saturday evening October 1 starting at 4 o'clock. The event will be on the church lawn two miles north of Thomasville on Highway 109 and the public is invited. The Rainbow class of the Lebanon M. P. church meets Friday at 7 o'clock at Miss Jewell Welch's home on Winston-Salem road for its regular monthly gathering.
Greensboro social notes detail Miss Nancy Byrd Miles of Greensboro wedding to J. Walter Hedrick this Saturday and a previous dinner bridge honor hosted by Miss Martha Manget at Courtland Street with guests from High Point and local society. Patricia Ann Best Born at Home on Richland Avenue.
Miss Georgia Faulkner of Peachland and Raleigh married Jack D. Kemp of High Point and Raleigh in a Sunday dawn ceremony at the bride’s mother home Peachland. Rev. C F Brooks officiated with close relatives present including Mrs W T Kemp and Mrs R H Broaden.
Plans for the Harvest tea presented by the Girl Scout Council are complete. The event at Mrs. Embree H. Blackard’s home 202 Hillcrest Drive runs from 4:30 to 6:00 p m and will honor local troop leaders committee members and program consultants with about seventy five guests expected to attend.
The groom, a civil engineer educated at gia Technological Institute and formerly employed by the city, now works for the State Highway department. After their ceremony they visited the groom’s parents in High Point for lunch before continuing west in North Carolina. They plan to return home on Wilmington Street in Raleigh next week.
Mrs W Eugene Armstrong formerly Miss Julia Gold Clark a clerk and stenographer in the Soil Conservation Service office resigns effective October 1 announced this morning at the SCS office.
A readable fragment suggests breakfast choices to aid digestion, advocating Kellogg's All-Bran as a bulk contributor not a medicine. It mentions Battle Creek and notes the product is sold by grocers.
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