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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1941
Page
6
Joint hostesses Mrs Glenn S Smith and Mrs Smith entertained at the new Five Points residence Friday night. About 150 guests viewed the home, admired rosebud decor, and shared punch and cake at a ceremonious informal reception.
Approximately twenty Mis Girls gathered at the Adams Memorial Y W C A for a Possum Trot reunion during the weekly meeting. The Lowderbean and Fetchmore families led contests and presented a dramatic hour, a peanut hunt, a jamboree, and a cooperation relay. Parents hunted peanuts while children sang. balloons were released for a prize. The Florence Nightingale Club joined an after supper lake outing, and the Adams club held a singing and dramatic hour directed by Robert Garwood. Eleven Adams members attended.
A number of High Point women are slated to compete in the Fourth Annual Sedgefield Invitational golf event at Valley Brook course Friday October 3. The Scotch Foursome format pairs a lady with a gentleman for net and gross prizes, with refreshments after play and a club gathering at Sedgefield. The Stephens Bible Class meets Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Mrs. W. G. Church home, with Mrs. Nora E. Andrews in charge.
Miss Betty Hunt Murray is to wed Thomas R. Pitts Saturday at Wesley Memorial. A nets breakfast bridge at Mrs. Howard S. Hartzell’s 204 Guilford Avenue honored the bride to be. Hosts Mesdames B. Bonner and Harry Alexander led a morning event with scores, gifts, and floral table decor.
Mrs C B Mattocks spoke on the reconstruction of Louisiana after secession at a United Daughters of the Confederacy meeting held at Mrs A E Tate s West Broad Street home. She highlighted Beauregard s role in postwar rebuild, noting his service as adjutant general and influence on education and governance. The gathering, about twenty members, organized a nominating committee for next month and elected delegates to the Raleigh state UDC meeting. A new member, Mrs Floyd M Bell, was welcomed.
Mesdames Fred R. Taylor and E. T. Harrison of this city, with Mrs. Rigdon Dees of Greensboro, will depart tomorrow for Sanitorium North Carolina to attend an all day session of the state executive board of the North Carolina Medical Auxiliary. Taylor is chairman of the Jane Todd Crawford Memorial, Harrison is the new counsellor of the Eighth District, and Dees chairs research in the state group. They expect to return tomorrow night.
Announcement of the marriage of Miss Lucille Proctor and James L. Smith, both of this city, solemnized on Saturday September 20 at Rev C Francis Nobles home on Prospect Street. Bride wore navy blue with white accessories. she is daughter of Mr and Mrs John W Procter of 103 Hood Street. Groom is son of Mr and Mrs W J Smith of Prospect Street and works for Highland Mills. Also notes a birthday party for Peggy Ann Moore with family and friends. plus Circle No 1 to serve the Main Street Methodist Church luncheon featuring chicken pie and banana pudding.
Mrs. John A. Eshelman Jr of Lynchburg Va has arrived to visit Mr and Mrs J A Eshelman at 904 Johnson Street and will stay about ten days. Also listed are Misses Allie Polly Owen and Edigh Bodenheimer who returned home from Raleigh after a weekend with Mr and Mrs Charles Mallett. Edith Causey of Centennial Avenue plans to return tonight from Portsmouth Va where she spent the weekend with her aunt Mrs C C Owens.
Property transfers listed across Guilford County townships including High Point Center Grove and Gilmer with multiple deeds. Transfers involve buyers and sellers such as Tames Barker Poole Wells English and Wachovia Bank, with parcels on Tromasville Davis Davis Street Brookside Willowbrook Avenue and Lafayette Avenue among others.
Social schedule outlines tea at Emerywood Country Club honoring brides, garden club meetings at multiple homes, and formal events. Highlights include dinners, luncheons, and wedding rehearsals across Emerywood and Guilford areas with clubs such as Garden Study, Beta Pi, Sorosis, and the Girl Scout Council hosting October activities. Widespread participation features wedding parties and families with Honor guests Murray Pitts and others.
Members of the High Point public library board will attend sessions of the North Carolina Library Association conference at the King Cotton Hotel Greensboro opening Thursday October 24. The trustees section meeting follows Friday at 1 pm with Dorcas Worsley Reid as principal speaker. E B Denny of Gastonia delivers a dinner address Thursday at 7 pm. The first general session Friday at 10 am features Harold F Bingham of Louisville. A Book Dinner with Ruth Sawyer occurs at 7 pm. A Saturday luncheon closes the general sessions.
The Clare Tree Major Players of Chappaqua New York present Little Women at 3:30 PM Thursday October 9 in the Junior High School auditorium. The program starts a four play season sponsored by the High Point Parent-Teacher Council and the Junior Service League with tickets on sale. Marketing and ticket chairs from the sponsoring groups lead the effort.
The latest North Carolina Highway Safety Division report revokes driving licenses for three individuals listed as driving drunk Jessie Hedrick Charles H Patterson and Carter T West. The text also notes that Switzerland has 40 000 fishermen.
The Ladies' Wednesday afternoon prayer service meets at 206 Burton Street hosted by Mrs S W Connor with Mrs Tom Bell as speaker. The meeting is open to all interested ladies. Tunisia expects a real estate boom.
High Point Civitan Club again sponsors the Collins Festival at the Junior High School auditorium. The four performances run October 7 through October 28 featuring The Madrigal Singers, deep sea diver lecturer Robert M. Zimmerman, Victor Charles Maarion ettes, and The Mollus, a Hubert Henry Davies comedy. Season tickets are on sale at a lower combined price than individual shows, with expectations of higher sales this year. Tickets available from any Civitan member.
Center Belle Starr shows as yesterday with feature. Broadhurst Ride On Vaquero offers shows at 12 40 2 30 4 20 6 10 and 4 100. Paramount Bring On The Dames on stages with showtimes 2 W 36 and 7 00 91S. Rialto Blood And Sand features listed with times 1 50 2214 434 654 915.
Mr and Mrs Oscar S Griffin of Prospect street announce the birth of a son Rennie Hillon on Saturday September 27 at Bur rus Memorial Hospital
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