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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
5
Miss Patricia Rothrock hosted a Friday dinner at 6 30 p m at her Pine Street home. She was among the high school marshals and entertained the other marshals as guests. Covers were set for Misses Annie Booker Christine Webb and Edward.
Dr. Charles B. C. Franklin marries Miss Virginia Rabon at the Rabon home in Hamlet. The bride, a nurse trainer, wore a white street dress and corsage of Bride's roses and valley lilies. The groom, originally from Ontario, studied in Vienna and North Carolina, heads the Surry Health Department. The couple plan a honeymoon in New York and Canada.
Miss Ethel Lassiter and John Robert Peele will wed at First Baptist Church Friday at 5 30 P M. A long guest list includes Mrs. Roger M Lassiter Robert Lassiter Beulah Lassiter Mrs W R Sevills Miss Minnie Sanford Stemn Miss Gray Chandler Mrs M L Kendall Mr and Mrs A S Long of Guilford Mr and Mrs J H Oneal Mrs L J Oneal Yanceyville Mr and Mrs C M McCraw Charles M McCraw J A Oneal Danville Va Mr and Mrs John Smith Mr and Mrs Clay McCraw Miss Lucille Smith High Point Jesse O Mowyer St Andrews Tenn. Reverend A S Hale to officiate.
Newton announces the private March 31 ceremony in Hillsville Virginia uniting Miss Vera Elizabeth Stamey and Columbus Reeves Cockerham. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs William A Stamey, taught at Flat Rock school and studied at Catawba College and UNC. The groom son of Mrs Joseph Lafayette Cockerham is a local grocer. They will live in this city with future home announced.
Mrs. Orover C. Lovill hosted a three table bridge party Tuesday at 3 o clock to honor Mrs. Frank J. Casey of Newark New Jersey, guest of Mrs. Greer C. Volta. Flowers including snapdragons, delphinium and roses decorated the room. Mrs. D. C. Lewis won the high score prize and Mrs. John Franklin received a gift for the guest of honor.
Mrs. James Russell Bray and Miss Bessie Lou Bray hosted a Thursday bridge at the J. B. Bray home on Church Street honoring Miss Doris Cockerham bride-elect of June. The home was decorated with roses and a miniature rolling pin marked the honoree. High and low score prizes included china in her wedding pattern. a silver gift went to Mrs. Edward Clark and a guest book to Mrs. Reid Stewart.
Miss Pauline Hendren and Edward Thorne Clark were married on Saturday at 5 pm in the First Baptist Church. Rev A B Hale officiated as relatives and friends attended. The couple plans a short wedding trip and will reside at the Hendren home on Pranklin Street.
Mrs. Trent Harkrader hosted a Contract Club gathering honoring guest Mrs. James Bailey of Bluefield West Virginia. A figurine gift went to Mrs. R M Hudgins as high score winner and an elephant bell was presented to Mrs. Bailey.
Mrs. A L Clark and Misses Grace and Louise Foy hosted four table bridge at the Foy home on Main Street to honor Mrs Edward Clark before her marriage to June 1. High and low winners received gifts. Mrs Edward Clark and other guests were presented keepsakes. Refreshments followed as Mrs E S Hendren, mother of the honoree, attended.
Miss Beverly Bivens and Miss Elizabeth Banner hosted a Wednesday bridge at Miss Bivens home in honor of brides elect Miss Doris Cockerham and Miss Betty Norwood and Mrs Edward Clark a June bride. Roses and peonies enhanced the setting as four tables hosted play. Mrs J M Cheek captured high while Miss Alma Hines claimed low. Crystal fruit platters were given to Mrs Ital and Miss Cockerham. A salad course with iced tea closed the evening.
Misses Bessie Lou Bray and Alma Hines spent the weekend in Richmond Virginia to attend commencement at the Richmond Professional Institute.
Local families and friends plan visits and travels this week with Mrs. Elaine Campbell Bradner and Mr. Howard Bradner visiting at Cherry street. Others include Mrs. Sam Allred heading to North Wilkes, Miss Ola Dobson in Washington DC, and Thelma Crawford visiting Philadelphia before the World's Fair.
Mrs O J Sykes of Albemarle visits sister Mrs J G Harri son in this city. Misses Lucille Haynes and Edith Covert from Washington DC arrive to visit Miss Haynes parents Mr and Mrs C H Haynes. Howard Key and Mary Mon with Mrs R A Plinchum depart for New York on vacation, plan to tour several states including Indiana. Mrs Frank J Casey returns to Newark NJ after visiting Mrs Greer C Weitz and Mr and Mrs J D Sargent. Bob Randolph and family leave for a month in Texas. Marguerite Murrill of Plant City Florida visits Miss Lucille McCraw. Mrs J D Sargent and Mrs G C Weitz visit Greensboro. Helen Robertson goes to Washington DC to visit sister and attend summer school at Benjamin Franklin University. Ruth and Louise Johnson go to Boone for Appalachian State Teachers College summer term. Anne Smith of Salem Academy is home for summer. Mrs Wilson Kearney and son Eric of Morganton visit local relatives. Mr Kearney leaves for Raleigh. E L Sides Jr and daughter Barbara Jeanne of Greensboro spend weekend with relatives. W S James of Laurinburg and Miles Pay of Burlington attend Hendren Clark wedding. Zeb Hatcher hospitalized in Greensboro for eye infection. Hat cher improving. James Robertson of Washington VT and New York World’s Fair in notes. J J Leake visits Richmond and Richmond VA and Washington. Hat cher episode details and recovery noted. Bill Tatum and son Bill Jr visit parents at Walnut Cove.
Mrs G A Kittrell entertained the Thursday Afternoon Bridge Club at her Rockford Street home last week. Three tables played with peonies and roses decorating the rooms. The high club prize went to Mrs G D Fawcett, low to Mrs G C Lovill, while the visitors prize was won by Mrs Hugh Holcomb and the visitors’ low by Mrs B E Pad dison.
Miss Anna Rue Hauser daughter of Mr and Mrs Gid C Hauser was initiated with the Greensboro College Players becoming the third freshman to receive the honor. She was elected critic in the Emerson Literary Society.
This month the Workmen's Federal Savings & Loan Association reaches its 30th year of service to Mount Airy and Surry County. Organized in 1910, charter members M. H. Sparger and W. F. Carter remain connected. Last year the name changed from Building and Loan to Federal Savings and Loan. Assets total $1,250,000, with leaders T. C. Barber Joe Hollingsworth Dr. T. H. Worrell George W. Sparger Jr W. L. Sydnor and Marvin H. Sparger.
Little Miss Gaynelle Marshall marked her third birthday on Sunday June 2 with a party for 23 friends at her parents home Route 1 Longap. Mrs. Charlie Pulk and Mrs. S F Jarrell assisted.
Miss Louise Moody returns to her city home after spending the school term in Palmville Virginia where she studied at The institution referenced in the report.
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