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[The Chowanian, Chowan College, Murfreesboro, North' Carolina.
February, 1933.
CHOWAN GIRLS CONDUCT
SEHVICK MURFREESBORO
Cliowan College girls had charge
of the eerv'^ice at the Murfreesboro
Baptist Churoh on January 28.
Miss Cornelia Grissom led th3
devotional. A talk, “God’s Jewel
Case,” was given by Miss Velva
Howard. She showed how the
wonderful gifts of forgiveness, re
demption, and eternal life are all
found in Christ, who is God’s jewel
case and his most preci&us gift to
man. Miss Wilma Council spol*
on “God’s Plan for an Individual’s
life.” Miss Council said that God
has a j)lan for every life, but man
is given the power to accept or re
ject it. One may find God’s plan
for hij life by talking to oUier
Christians about it, by reading
God’s Word, ajid through prayer.
The coUege choir furnished sev
eral musical numbers. ^liss
Martha Bishop, a graduate of last
year and a week-end \-isitor at the
college, helped make the music a
succeiss.
ALATHEMAN NOTES
The Alathenian Literary Society
had a meethig on Wednesday af
ternoon, February 8, 1933. A very
interesting program in keeping
with the Valentine season was giv
en. Winifred S]iencer discussed
1849 1933
Chowan College
Standard A Grade
Institution
84 YEARS OLD.
84 YEARS STRONG
84 YEARS THE SERVANT
OF NORTH CAROLINA
BAPTISTS.
INVITES YOU TO SEND
HER YOUR
DAUGHTERS THAT
THEY MAY BE
TRAINED FOR THE
LARGE
CHRISTIAN LIFE
RECOGNIZED BY
STATE DEPARTMENT
OF EDUCATION
W. B. EDWARDS
President
MURFREESBORO, N. C.
the origin of St. Valentine’s Day.
The advantages of Vauen.tine’.s
Day were set forth by Mabel Car
roll. This was followed by a dis
cussion of the disadvantages of
Valentine’s Day. This prograjii
left the members of the Society in
the spirit of Valentine’s Day. TF.3
Society song and victory song were
Bung TOth a great deal of spirit.
The meeting was then turned into
a pep meeting.
The Society members are looking
forward to Society Day with en
thusiasm.
—Alathenian Reporter.
TOWN TALK
Miss Mary Louise Deans visited
friends and reilativ'es in Newport
News recently. While she was
there, she attendetl the graduation
exercises of New^port News Hig’i
School. Her cousin was a member
of the graduating class.
Tlie Meherrin B. Y. P. U. mem
bers gave a Valentine party at the
home of Miss Bernice Wai'ren on
Saturday evening, February 18.
Nuts and candies were served, and
each memljer entered into thy
gaiety of the evening.
Miss Brownie Trader and Miss
Linda Ferguson spent the week
end in Franklin and Norfolk.
Little Miss Katie Ann Evans hag
been elected mascot of the high
school senior elass.
Miss Dorothy Taylor has return
ed from Scotland Neck, where she
visited friends.
It has been rumored that wed
ding bells will ring here during the
week-end. We are wondering who
Cupid’s victims are.
Those who attended the Epworth
League District Meeting at Gates-
ville Friday were: Misses Linda
Ferguson, Mary Forbes Wiggins,
Katherine Matthews, Bessie Fer
guson, Katherine Evans, Corinne
Lawrence, and the Rev. Mr. Hur
ley, Mr. Haygood Hill, and Mr.
William Ferguson. The young peo
ple report a very good meeting.
Mrs. W. M. Jordon and daugh
ter, Elaine, have returned from
New York City where they ha;?e
been visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Malone and
Miss Dorothy Parks have returned
from Monteagle, Tenn., where they
were called to the bedside of Mr.
Parks, the father of Mrs. Malone
and Dorothy. He has been very ill,
aud we are glad to hear that he is
infpro^g.
EXCHANGES
The column on “Retrospection”
in the Lenoir-Rhynean gives us
an idea that something interesting
might be dug up around our place
concerning its past history.
Technocracy seems to be really
taken seriously by our colleges.
A remarkaible book has been
loaned to the Wake Forest Lib
rary by the Rev. J. G. Blalock.
It is a complete text book in Sec-
ondary Arithraletic, w.^ittten, art-
ranged, compiled, and bound by
hand, written on watered paper
and with an old-fashioned goose
quill.
Campbell seems to be carrying
off a good many victories this year,
athletically speaking.
Professor EM ward Abner
Thompson read “Cyrano de Ber
gerac” before an audience at Vir
ginia Intermont. This is one of
numbers of the Lyceum Course.
FAMOUS SAYINGS
Emily Lawrence: Oh. who-e-e!
Marguerite Payne: It realy do
not matter.
Lois Vann: Begorry!
Ruby-Malone: O, Shoot!
Linda Lee Ferguson: I’ll snoiwi!
Maggie Price: Heck no I
Miss Liggett: I say—
Marie Riddick: For goodness’
sake!
Miss Jane Brown: My dear—
Ellen Howard; Fine!
Emerald Taylor: The cutett
one!
Miss Vifginia Martin: And all
that sort of thing.
Martha Williams: Come on
home, Mary.
Lucy Pat Meads: You ain’t right
bright.
Corinne LawrencS: Hey! wom
an.
J. J. Parker; Gloriana!
Velva Howard; Tain’t no use!
■ (Cornelia Ga-issom: Shoot, the
mischief!
IMildred Vann: Oops, an’deaii
Miss Hight: Why?
Fannie Simmons Miller; ’Cept I
got the ’ralysis.
Mary Mills: W'ell, I hope m’ die!
Gilbert Davis; Yes sir. Cap!
Mr. Edward: Now, let me see—
Hannah Clinard: Well, I swan.
Genevieve Brown: Fer Pete’s
sake!
Wilma Council; You ain’t got
no sense a-knawin’.
Frances Massey: Jellyfish.
lihodes Holder: You’re tellin’
me?
Anna Laura Baker: My con-
Bcience.
Kate Lawrence: Fan my brow.
Lou Wilson Evans: Oh, me.
Ruth Greene: My stars.
Mr. Usry; Well, blow me down!
Elizabeth Brett: Good - - ness!
Nora Mae Ward: Glory be!
Margaret Peele: I do know right
well— *
Edith Smith: To be sure and
certain—
Cora Felton Bass; Well, I de
clare !
Edith Ray Daughtry; Boy, oh
boy!
Merlee Asbell: That’s a fact!
(Miss Martin: Are your parents
going to the inauguration?
Mildred Vann; W'here is it?
Mary Seymour; That has al
ready been.
Hannah Clinard: Where, in Ra
leigh?
Wilma Council (naming types of
fractions): Mixed "fractions, prop
er and improper.
IMiss Brown: In other words, the
modest and immodest.
Beulah Lee: Nell, iwhere can I
find Gray’s “Elegy” in the library?
Nell Sample; Go look in the
card catalogue.
Beulah Lge.: Who Tirote itl
Little Johnnie: Dad, I’m nojt
going to school any more.
Dad: Why?
Little Johnnie: I can’t learn to
Ispell because the teacher keeps
changing the words.
Six-year-old Jack had just re
turned from a football game.
[When he said his prayers that
Imight he concluded by saying:
God bless papa!
God bless mama!
Goid bless Tiger!
Eah! Rah! Boom!
Emerald (leaving English
class); Miss Brown wrote on my
paper that if I was not careful,
I’d develop a style characterized
by “fin© writing”.
Mildred: What’s that? Writing
little? I
The geography class was dis
cussing why cities often grow up
at the mouth of rivers.
Mary Mills; Yes, that’s why
New Y'ork City is so large—it’s .it
the mouth of the Ohio.
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