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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1935
Page
6
Society note features Marise Holliday praising Autumn in Florida. Poetic portrait depicts Autumn delivering gifts to orchards fields and harvests, then fading with evening mist and frosty air as flowers are drawn away.
The Philathea class of Green street Baptist church meets this evening at seven for a potluck supper at the church. All members are urged to attend and visitors are welcome. The Mary Hoy class of the First Evangelical church also plans a Tuesday 7 30 pm business meeting with all members asked to attend.
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Stanton of Winston-Salem entertained with dinner for Mrs. J. B. Williams of Miami Beach. Carl White Jones, son of Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Jones, goes to Philadelphia to enter Jefferson Medical School. Rev. and Mrs. Hoy L. Fesperman hosted guests at Woodrow avenue as Fesperman's mother Mrs. W. F. Rader and sons Holland and William visited Newton. Ray Hoover and wife with daughter Patsy came from Thomasville. Frances Wagner of Greensboro and Corky Pollock and Frank Southerland of State College were weekend guests of H. A. Cecil and H. A. Cecil Jr. on Montlieu avenue.
The Pentagon club holds its quarterly officer election at the regular meeting tonight at Bill Forster house on North Main street. Retiring officers include President Curtis Newton Vice president Garland Hayworth Secretary Edwin Rankin Treasurer Robert Taylor Assistant-treasurer Wayne Garner and publicity chairman Buster Moffitt. All members urged to attend.
Judie Marie Dillon daughter of Mrs. Emmett Ward celebrated her fourth birthday with a party Saturday afternoon at the home of her grandparents on the Thomasville road. Guests enjoyed games with Patty McManus winning, then gathered for a green and white themed cake and ice cream. Attendants included Patty Jean McManus, Jerry Alexander, Fay Pierce, Dorothy Jean Cooper, Evelyn Farberry, Minnie Lee Meredith, Dolores McBride, Albert Lee McBride, Ardenna Meredith Jr., Robert Monroe McBride, Mrs. Jerome Alexander, Mrs. J. Lee Meredith, Mrs. A. L. McBride, Mrs. Emmett Ward, and Mrs. W. A. Earnhardt.
A slate of community gatherings is scheduled including Phi Kappa club at Mrs. Sheloff’s North Main home at 1 pm Tuesday, Business and Professional Girls at the YWCA 6:30 pm, Mid-Week Garden club at Elliott Wood Inc Greensboro road 10 am, Mid-Week Study club at Roland Park, Woman's club at YWCA hut 3:30 pm with Santford Martin as speaker, tea at 6 pm at 405 Parkway, Education committee YWCA Hut 2 pm Thursday, and a Hubert Liverman concert at the Emerywood Country Club 8 pm.
Friday schedule lists Priscilla club at Mrs C A Ring's Oakwood Court home at 3 p m Laura Weston chapter U D C meets at Mrs F J Flagler's Montheu Avenue 3 p m W O T and Philomathian clubs host joint session at Parkway home of Mrs C F Tomlinson with Mrs A G Douglas guest 4 p m Y W C A industrial committee meets at the Hut Dr W C Smith to speak 8 p m Lotus club first fall meeting at Mrs W L Hargett's Johnson Street.
Saturday features two matinees of Jack and The Beanstalk at the Paramount theater. Margaret Hauser directs the production with Ned McEachern chairing the play committee.
Miss Margaret Curry of High Point and Baxter Warner Webb of Greensboro and Washington D C will wed at the First Methodist Protestant church tonight at 6 o clock in a ceremony with close relatives present. Rev George L Curry will officiate. The bride is the pastor’s daughter and has lived in High Point attending High Point College. The groom is the son of Mr and Mrs W B Webb Jr of Greensboro and works in Washington D C where they will make their home.
Mr and Mrs C B Pierce of Mechanicsville announce the marriage of their daughter Miss Virginia Pierce to E B Stone of High Point in Martinsville Virginia on September 1 1935. The ceremony was conducted by Rev Charles M Wales pastor of the Martinsville First Christian Church. They will reside at the Elwood hotel
The Letitian club meets this evening at 7 30 at the home of Mise Hazel Scoggins on South Main Street. Members are urged to attend.
Squirrels do not crack nuts they gnaw them Sailors and Sea Scouts of Japan plan to present their training ship to Siam signaling a naval goodwill gesture and cultural exchange between nations.
We glimpse a Marian Martin pattern 9613 that touts youthful, slenderizing lines. The ad notes a light collar contrast, gathers on the bodice, a center panel, and a chart. sizes 16 28 20 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 with yardage requirements and price per pattern. Orders go to the Enterprise Pattern Department New York.
Winston-Salem fair officials announce Hankison Speedways will hold an AAA championship race meet as the fair's main event on October 12. Top national speedway drivers will race Millers McDowells Vances and Cragars. The event carries AAA sanction with prize money and eastern championship points at stake. Track reconditioning with calcium chloride is planned for fast, safe speed. Relatives of Mankinson Speedways prepare for race meet operations. The modern world uses two time scales Sidereal and solar time, the latter aligned around March 21 each year.
The Lowdermilk family reunion at Pleasant Hill church Randolph county included a marker unveiling for Jacob Lowdermilk honored for Revolutionary War service. Major Bruce Craven spoke. Rev N M Harrison presided. dinner followed, with a business session and music by Thomas Brothers Quartet. Officers elected: J A Lowdermilk president. Herbert Howard vice president. E E Henley secretary treasurer. J C Pugh assistant secretary. A C Lowdermilk historian. W C Garner program chairman. D 8 Coltrane publicity chairman. Next reunion planned for last Sunday in September 1936 at Pleasant Hill.
The Ladies committee of Sedgefield Country Club announces a combined golf tournament and Annual Invitation Tournament for Ladies of the Club on Wednesday October 2. Play begins at 1 pm with wet and gross and special feature events. Tea after in the Grill Room. Bridge games run weekly Wednesday mornings and afternoons with prizes.
The High Point Parent-Teacher Council sponsors a School of Instruction at Wesley Memorial Methodist church starting Tuesday at 9 AM. Registration begins 8:40 AM and all interested in Parent-Teacher work are invited. Mrs. Cottam asks committee members to attend. Six members of the State Board of the North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers will attend. the event ends at 11:45 AM.
Mrs. Felton Baird hosted a three course dinner for twelve at her Thomasville residence on Sunday honoring sisters Miss Catherine Welborn and Mrs. T E Wright as they marked their birthdays. Guests included Mr and Mrs T E Wright, Mr and Mrs K C Welborn, Mr and Mrs Horace Lawing, Miss Holline Wright, Joyce Wright, Mr and Mrs Robert Hill, Mrs R C Sheppard and F E Sink of High Point. Jane Pratt recovers from a recent tonsil operation at Duke hospital and stays with Frances and Lena Myers on West Main Street. Maile Snell returned from Mount Airy after visiting Harston Williamson.
The joint meeting of the W. O. T. and Philomathean clubs is now scheduled for 3 o clock Friday afternoon at Mrs. C. F. Tomlinson's Parkway home. Guest speaker will be Dr W C Smith head of the English department at the University of North Carolina Woman's College.
A tentacular predator settles over its prey forming an airtight death chamber before consuming the victim, describing a lethal ambush by the marine invertebrate.
Friends of E. E. Holloway Jr of High Point mourn the death of his father E. E. Holloway at his Smithfield Virginia home. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 11 AM likely in Smithfield. South Africa launches an anti divorce campaign.
A reader describes how film sensitivity to green and red light, with yellow filters, helps render clouds whiter than the blue sky in photos. John van Guilder explains filter types like K-2 and Sky Filter, noting exposure adjustments and practical use for amateur cloud photography.
Deep River Philathea and Baraca classes held a chicken stew at Alton White's tobacco barn with record attendance. Nearby youths drove to Arthur Yates home for a weiner roast Monday night. Mrs Claudia Smith celebrated her 67th birthday Friday at her daughter’s Greensboro home, Mrs Earl Bridges hosting dinner.
The Deep River Philathean met for its regular business session with Mrs. Ruth Williams in attendance. Members enjoyed dainty refreshments as the meeting concluded.
Dr. Murry B. Davis, alumnus of William Penn class of 1926, lectured Friday on The Benefits Of An Education at the William Penn high school senior class program. He outlined social and economic gains from education after graduating from Howard University and the Howard University College of Liberal Arts and medicine, then interning at Kansas City General Hospital No. 2.
After a campus meeting in the assembly hall last Friday the 143 William Penn Science students organized a club to promote practical science through experiments and research. Otis Wells is president with Guy Lee McFall as vice president Oma Jane Capel secretary and Henry Truesdale treasurer Thomas B. Smith heads the science department and serves as adviser.
Personal Prof and Mrs Lorenzo Poe arrive in the city to spend a few days with Mrs Bettie Roger, the mother of Mrs Poe, before starting their teaching assignments in the Reidsville public schools.
Through an oversight the name of Miss Annie Mae Grant was left off the local list of young people attending college this fall. Grant is a sophomore at Talladega College in Talladega Alabama. The total number in college is twenty four, nine of whom are sophomores.
A large Jamestown gathering attended the Sunday school convention at Mitchells Grove church. Dr George H Crowell spoke on The Catalogue for Parents Teachers and Children urging fellowship and unity among families teachers and pupils.
Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Thomas Thompson of Morganton were conducted at Green and Funeral Home with Rev. J A Palmer leading. The service featured a quartet and floral tributes from family friends. Interment followed in the local cemetery. she had suffered ill health and hip fracture complications, and was a descendant of John Thomas, founder.
Last rites were held at Botts Creek church for Julia Stoner Teague of Thomasville who died Saturday morning at her home in Asheville. The service was conducted by Rev. E. F. Mumford and Rev. L. J. Matti, with a large crowd attending. Pallbearers included nephews Paul and Fe Stoner and Roy Mocksville among others. she is survived by husband C. H. Teague, daughter Bila, three sons Harvey L, Clay V, and numerous Stoner siblings. Interment was at Kotta Creek cemetery.
A reflective scene as a girl studies sunlit glass in a grand cathedral. A Sunday school teacher asks for a saint and answers that a saint is a person who lets light shine through. The dialogue urges walking in truth and sharing God’s beauty and glory with the world.
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