Social calendar events for Civilian Defense and community groups
The list covers a Civilian Defense Drivers Corps meeting at the senior high school at 7 p.m. and a Family Night dinner at Emerywood Country Club 6 30 to 8 p.m. Friday hosts Priscilla Club at Mrs. Wa B Hall’s home. Saturday 8 15 p.m. USO dance at the Y M C A with John Peddicord and band. Sunday 5 to 7 p.m. Y W C A and USO buffet at Adams Memorial for service members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civilian Defense Drivers Corps
Emerywood Country Club
Priscilla Club
Wa. B Hall
John Peddicord
Y. W. CA
USO Club
Adams Memorial Building
North Main Street
Bessie Carter
Jolia
Salisbury
Cpl
John Carter
Illinois
Stephen Thornton
U S Needs All Home Scrap Metal
U S salvage policy calls for a nationwide day between October 1 and November 15 to collect household scrap metal. Chrome, nickel and molybdenum are valuable for steel hardening but hazardous for salvage work. household items are easier to reconvert and will be sought aggressively for the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Stevick
NEA
Washington
Junk Man
Nurses Aides To Start Eighth Class Monday Night
An eighth Nurses Aides class sponsored by the local Red Cross will convene Monday evening October 4 at 7 30 in the Burrus Memorial hospital Nurses Home Demonstration room. Miss Hazel Johnson will teach. Mrs T E Tyson Jr invites interested women ages eighteen to fifty to apply. duties include 150 hours yearly, unpaid, under supervision, and readiness for disaster work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Burrus Memorial Hospital
Howell Street
Hazel Johnson
T. E. Tyson, Jr
Denton Items Of Interest
Denton report lists visitors and social visits around Denton including families from High Point Kannapolis and Albemarle. Funeral attendance noted for Mrs John Taylor at Chandler's Grove church. Residents visit relatives and serviceman Bob Surratt returns from Arkansas for a few days at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vestel Cook
Walter Lomax
Whitson C. Skeen
Denton
Norman Chandler
Albemarne
Ernest Skeen
Valinda Noah
Elvira Skeen
Marshall Skeen
Claud Elliott
Nelson Smith
Bob Surratt
Arkansas
Joe Cook
Hazel Lamier
Rebekahs Meet Tomorrow Night
The Magdelane Rebekah Lodge will meet tomorrow at 7 30 PM at the Lodge hall for an important session focusing on degree practice and plans for the district meeting to be held here in October, as announced today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magdelane Rebekah Lodge
Sans Souci and Thursday Bridge Clubs Meet Today
Thomasville notes describe multiple bridge gatherings. The Sans Souci club met at Mrs. O R Hodgin’s Mock Street home with war stamps as prizes, while the Thursday Afternoon Bridge group dined at Mrs G W Lyles on Salem Street and awarded top scores. Other events included the Brierfield chapter U D C meeting on Salem Street with program on James Monroe and the Monroe Doctrine, plus social visits and guest announcements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Sans Souci
O. R. Hodgin
Mock Street
G. E. Crowell
Fred Gray
Walter Newby
Julius Green
P. M. Sherrill
G. T. Alexander
M. T. Lambeth
J. W. Prevo
William van Liere
Alvah Boyles
James Lambeth, Jr
G. W. Lyles
Salem Street
Bridge Club
Mesdames Carson Cox
J. W. Hawthorne
Charles Phillips
Robert O
Brierfield
United Daughters of the Confederacy
J. A. Palmer
Charles M. Hoover
Nat Walker
John R. Myers
T. RB. Johnson
Sallie McCracken
U. D. C. Bulletin
Vann Stringfield
Aimes Monroe
James Monroe
Monroe
Deep River Girl Weds Navy Man in Ceremony There
A September 24 marriage united Miss Ruby Craver and Roy Call of the U S Navy. The groom, stationed in San Francisco, will travel to California after a short visit at North Wilkesboro. Mrs Call remains with her parents. Many local names and visits follow as community life is noted. A honey industry fact concludes the item: it takes nectar from 6 000 000 blossoms to make one pound of honey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garsden Club
Clyde Kennedy
Sam Elliott
M. H. Charles
G. V. Bodenhamer
Elizabeth Deaton
Eliott
Deep River
Ruby Craver
Roy Call
U.S. Navy
San Francisco
Cal
North Wilkesboro
California
West Emerywood Garden Club Holds Inaugural Fall Meeting
The West Emerywood Garden Club met in an outdoor setting hosted by Mrs. W. G. Ragsdale Jr for its initial fall gathering. With retiring president Mrs. James B. Moffitt in the chair a nominating committee presented a new officer slate accepted by the group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerywood Garden Club
W. G. Ragsdale, Jr
James 8. Moffitt
Mesdames Ragsdale
Earl &Sliott Wood
Charles Kearns
James S. Moffitt
Earl Phillips
Herman Smith
John Foy
Willing Workers Class to Meet at Mrs Fowler Home
The Willing Workers class of South Main Methodist plans a Friday 7 30 PM meeting at Mrs. W H Fowler’s South Main street extension route three home. Associate hostesses include Mesdames G F Fallenstein M L Fletcher and Thelma Greene. Members should meet at the church by 7 15 PM and go in a body to the home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Main Methodist Church
W. H. Fowler
South Main Street
First Baptist TBE 1 Class to Install New Officers
The T E L class of First Baptist church meets Friday October 1 at 7:30 PM in the young people’s department. Group four hosts and the highlight is the installation of newly elected officers for the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T.E.L
First Baptist Church
Program Chairmen Decide Club Will Keep Varied Agenda
The program chairman announced the club will maintain its usual varied program. The decision reflects ongoing planning for upcoming meetings and events.
Song Service at Moriah Church Sunday October
A union sacred concert is planned at Moriah M. FE church four miles southeast of Greensboro next Sunday at 1 45 pm. The Gethsemane Fairgrove and Apples Chapel choirs and A M Fentriss quartet from Pleasant Garden will participate in the service. Admission is extended by Mr Fentriss to all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M Fentriss
Pleasant Garden
Moriah M. FE
Greensboro
Gethsemane
Fairgrove
Apples Chapel
Fentriss
Pee
Hemp shortage reveals whale oil enables jute spinning
In 1882 a hemp shortage led to the discovery that whale oil could render jute suitable for spinning by power machinery. Separately, an English inventor created the concertina in 1829.
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U.S
W.p. B
Rebekahs
Pillsbury’s Best
Pillsbury's Cooking Service
Minneapolis
Pillsbury's
Pillsbury
Pillsburys
Clarise Rose
Carolina Apartments
Barbara Weir
Eva Kirkman
Carson Cox
Mary Lou Ellis
Margaret McLeod
Jane Barber
Mesdames Vann Stringfield
Maie Snell
B. H. Williamson
Mount Airy
Williamson
Mollie Snell
Ethel Porter
Ral Wilson
D. R. Thomas
Tennille
G. M. Hoover
Hoover
Mr. Thomas
Charles Eanes
Bill Dillon
Oakdale New Methodist Church
H. C. Byrum
High Point
Hickory Grove Church
Julius ‘Tedder
Hickory Grove
R. L. Borum
Julia Jones
Hilda Paris
Paul Smith
Hugh Degrass
Pilot Mountain
Thurman Cook
Nancy
R. T. Jordan
Claudia Thornton
Virginia
John Robert Borum
Fort Bragg
R. F. Thornton
Herman Sampson
Young
Trinity
Ugene Hiatt
Oak Ridge
Arthur Jones
Julius Tedder
Joseph Peele
Guilford College
C. V. Idol
Route 1
Albert Farrington
McCoy
Wisconsin
Irma Bundy
David Chains
Itty SN
Just
Guilford Furniture CO
N. Main St
West Emerywood Garden Club
South Main
First Baptist T. BE
Girl Scout Headquarters
Lonks
Fabrica
Goys Mackinaw
Coats
RED Goose
Ladies’ Miracle Arch
Peter On
Friedmag Shelley
Moriah Church
Barigade
Sly
Dorminy Dance Studios Arcade
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