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THURSDAY, APRIL 6, ??39 THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN PACE FIVE Highlands MRS. H. CHURCH NOTES Highland Presbyterian Church Rev, R. B. DuPree, Pastor 10 a. m. Church school. 11 a. m. -Worship, ', 7:30 p. m.-Christian Endeavor. Highlands Methodist Church Rev; W. F. Beadle. Pastor Highlands:, . v 10 a. m.-j Church school. ' 11 a. m.-Worship. Clear Creek: 3 p. m. Worship. Highlands 5 p. m. Junior League. 7:30 p. m. Worship. Highlands Baptist Church Rev. J. G. Benfield, Pastor 10 a. in. Sunday school. 11 a. ni. Sermon. : 6 :45 p. m. B. T. U. . 7;4,5 p. m. Sermon. Church of the Incarnation ' Rev. Frank Bloxham, Rector . 11 a. m. Holy commupion and sermon. BAPTIST W. M. S. CHANGES MEETING DATE "the Woman's Missionary Society of the Baptist church has changed its regular meeting date from the first Monday of the month to the second Monday, and will meet at the parsonage next Monday after noon, April 10, at 2 :30 o'clock. This change is to be. permanent. OFFICERS ELECTED BY P.-T. A. TUESDAY At the regular meeting of the Parent-Teacher Association on Tues . day, April 4, Miss Mattie Wilkes' fourth grade pupils gave a .short but very charming play, , "Cinder ella." The play was followed by a program of music with piano solos by Barbara Zoellner, Marie Neely and Mozelle Bryson. i Mrs. O. F. Summer and Virginia Mae Edwards gave a piano duet. "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" was sung by Mrs, Jack Hall, Jacquelin Aiken, Marie Neely, and Mrs. O. F. Sum mer, with the' piano accompani ment by Mrs. Summer. The audience was then requested to go to Mr. Hentz's room for the annual election of officers. Mrs. E. H. Potts was re-elected president ; other officers elected to serve with her were: Miss Nina Howard, vice president; MLs? Elizabeth White side, secretary, and Mrs. A. C: Holt, treasurer. The above slate was presented by the nominating committee composed of Mrs. W. F. Beadle, Miss Ethel Calloway and Prof. F. C. Hentz. Mr. Beadle served on this commit tee in the absence of Mrs. Beadle who was ill. The retiring officers are: Mrs. J. E. Brown, vice-president; Mrs. W.' H. Cobb, secretary; and 'Mrs. C. H. Zoellner, treasurer. Tea was served in the lunch room after the meeting. Mrs. J. A. Hines and Mrs, W. H. Cobb were joint hostesses. Those assisting in serving were. Mrs. H. P. P. Thomp son, Mns.1 F. H. Potts and Mrs. Ethel Russell. The tables were . lovely with centerpieces of jonquils and Easter lilies. The refreshments were hot buns, butter, strawberry jam, cookies, coffee and tea. The Association will celebrate its 20th. birthday next year. MARY BASCOM COOK ENTERTAINS AT PARTY Little Mary Bascom Cook entertain ed a number of friends at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.-Frank B. Cook, on" Tuesday afternoon, April 4, at a gay party on her sixth birthday anniversary. Games were played and an Easter egg hunt enjoyed. The refreshments were a birthday cake and ice crQarn. Those helping to celebrate the occasion were Collin Wilcox, Sarah Hall, Isabel Hall, Tudor Gilbert Hall, Marshall Murray, Ann Reag an, Billy Reagan, and Beverly Cook, small sister of the hostess. BAPTISTS DISCUSS PLANS FOR ERECTING NEW BUILDING V V At a meeting Sunday the pastor and members of the Baptist chirrch discussed plans for the erection of a brick church building on the pres ent church site,, and a building fund drive has been launched, . Highlights G. STORY MISS SARA GILDER ENTERTAINS CAkU CLUB xVliss Sara Gilder entertained the Wednesday Card Club on- March 29 at dessert bridge. The beautiful ly appointed table, where the 12 guests were seated, was centered with a bowl of jonquils in a nest of Easter eggs. Silver candlesticks held yellow burning 'tapers. The dessert was apple pie a lav mode, cheese, Ritz crackers and coffee. Before the game began, Miss Reoecca Nail gave the club a short budge lesson,' and has kindly of fered to do tftis each week. In the several progressions, Mrs. E. R. uilbert was holder of high score, winning a jar of home-made Flor ida orange marmalade. Mrs. Eliot Caziarc won the traveling prize, "Rebecca," by Daphne du Maurier, with the request that it be truly a traveling prize till each member of the club had had a chance to read it, when it would be returned to tiie original winner. Mrs. J. C. Blanchard was a guest of the cluo, substituting tor Mrs. W. H. Cobb while she is vacationing in Florida. MRS. RANKIN BUILDING SUMMER HOME Mrs. Margaret T- Rankin, of At lanta, is building a summer home on batulah road. Jack M. Hall is the contractor in charge of the work. R. D. Rogers has the con tract for the O. F. Summer bunga low cottage being built on Pierson drive. Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Waters, of Havana, Cuba, are building a summer cottage on their lot on Cul lasaja drive, bus Baty is doing this work. r ' Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sargent, of Galesburg, 111., were week-end guests at Hotel Edwards. Mr. Sar gent , is professor of English at Knox college. Airs. Sargent is the former Miss Louise Anderson, daughter of Dr. A. P. Anderson, who invented the cereal, puffed rice. The Andersons were former summer residents of Highlands, and the stately home on Fifth street, now owned by Mrs. W. W. Sulli van, ' was built , and occupied by them for a number of years. Mrs. Meta N. Hall and her fam ily have leased and moved into the R. K. Nimmons cottage on Hick ory street. J. B. Lemon of Miami Beach, Fla., is expected to arrive this week to take up his seven year lease on the Hall hotel prop erty. Prof. W L. Lippincott returned to his duties at Clemson college Monday, after spending the spring holidays at his cottage on Mirror Lake. While here he had" as his guests Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fer now, also of Clemson College.' Mrs. Fernow is a portrait painter of note. Mr. Lippincott's other dinner guests on Friday evening were Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Townsend. Miss Estelle Edwards a student at the North Carolina State Col lege for Women, at Greensboro, is Spending the Easter holidays with her parents, Mr. arid Mrs. F. A. Edwards. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wilson, of the Clear Creek section announce the birth of a son on Thursday, March 23, whom they have named Woody Madison. Mrs. Wilson is. the former Miss Ona Penland. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hays and MVs. J. A. Hines attended the con cert at Brevard college last Thurs day evening to hear Madame Elda Vettori, dramatic soprano, who was with the Metropolitan Opera com pany for 12 years. Mr. and Mrs, Harvey Trice, of Thomasville, Ga., spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Cook. Mr. and Mrs. Trice were entertain ed by Miss Sara Gilder at a buf fet supper Sunday night. Mrs. C. K. Wall, of Thomasville, who is building a summer cottage on East Main street, came up with the Trices and spent the week-end at Hotel Edwards. The party returned by way of Gainesville, Ga., to visit Mrs. Trice's daughter, Miss Peggy Polhill, who is a .student at Brenau college. Arthur L. Bliss, of Washington, D. C, is spending several days with Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Town send at their home, "Far Horizons." Mrs. W. W. Cunningham, who spent several days last week with her sisters, Miss Esther Elliott and Miss C. B. Elliott, left Saturday to join Mr, Cunningham for an Easter visit with his sister in Salisbury! before returning to their home in Scarsdale, N. Y. , Miss Sarah Bridges Thompson arrived Sunday from Queen's- Chicora college to spend the Easter holidays with her mother, Mrs. H. P. P. Thompson. Mrs. Evelyn' Harris and Mrs. W. C. Wardlaw, of Atlanta spent the week-end at the Harris cottage on little Bearpen mountain. The Presbyterian Sunday school will enjoy an Easter egg hunt on the church grounds Monday after noon, April 10, beginning at 4 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kay and small daughter, Florence Wayne, of Calhoun, S. C, were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Hicks. Other Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hicks were the 'Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Benfield. Spring street, which connects the Dillard road with the Walhalla road near Highlands. Drug store is being paved by WPA labor under the supervision of the highway de partment. Miss Rebecca Harris has return ed from a several weeks' visit with relatives in Atlanta and Hawkins ville, Ga. Miss Virginia Poole, Miss Clau diana Evans, Tom Fitziatrick, Casper Walker and Mrs. Evans, of Clemson, S. C, enjoyed a house party at the Godfrey cottage on Alirror -lake last week-end. Miss Louise . Cramer and sonic friends from Atlanta spent the week-end at Miss Cramer's cottage at the country club. Miss Rachel Davis, who is teach ing .near Winston-Salem b ex pected to arrive Friday to spend Easter with her father, W. S. and Mrs. Davis. She will be accom panied by Miss Osceola Everett,. who will visit her mother, Mrs. Guy Paul and Mr. Paul. Miss Everett also has a school near Winston Salem. Friends of Mrs. A. B. Potts will be pleased to know that she is im proving from a week's illness. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Murray and their son, Marshall, of Miami, Fla., were recent guests at Hotel Ed wards. Linton Young, of Atlanta, was also registered at Hotel Ed wards the first of the week. Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Benfield at tended the Pastors' conference of the Macon county association held in Franklin last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hall, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rucker spent the past week-end in Hartwell, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Foreman spent Monday and Tuesday in Highlands at the Edwards hotel en route from Florida to their home in Tenafly, N. J. Eliijay By HAZEL AMMONS We are glad to say that Mrs. Charlie Rogers, who has been ser iously ill, was able to be out at Sunday school Sunday. Aunt Katherine Amnions is ser iously ill at her home. Miss Hallie Southards has re turned to her home at Gneiss after spending several days with her sister, Mrs. Joe Henry. Herman and .Madison Rogers, of Buck Creek, were visiting relatives here recently. Kell Jones, of Gneiss, visited his sister, Mrs. Lester Mincey, Sunday. The lightning killed a cow of Alex Amnions which was standing near a wire fence Saturday morn ing. Mr. and s Mrs. Fred Rogers were visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Mincey Sunday. Parker Adams left Monday for Bend, Oregon, where he expects to stay for a .while with his children. Mrs. Vance Jennings visited her sister, Mrs. Ed Jennings, of Culla saja, last week-end. Mr. and Mrs.- Richard Summer are visiting Mrs. Summer's parents in Canton. Mrs. Wendell Moore was visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jack Moore, of Franklin, last week-end. Briton. Bowman, of the CCC camp, is at his home with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bow man. Mrs.' Alex Coggins visited her mother at Speedwell last week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Iligdon, of Higdonville, were visiting Mrs. Hig don's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Jones, of Gneiss, recently. Abe Young is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Allen Adams of the Moun tain Grove section, this week. ODDITIES AT THE FAIR NEW YORK Here are a few of the strikingly unusual thing visitor will find at the New York World's Fair I939t A parachute tower from which visitors may "bail out" at an ele vation of 250 feet and be sure of a "happy landing.' Revolving "magic carpets from which you may look down as from a height of two miles upon "The City of Tomorrow" inside the 200-foot Perisphere. The Carrell-Lindbergh mecha nical heart, reproducing the ac tion of the human organ. "Steve Brodie" jumping six times a day from a reproduction of the Brooklyn Bridge. The most valuable wheat field for its size in the world in full growth. The steel-walled bathysphere in which descent has been made miles down in the black depths of the ocean. ."Rocket gun" by which pas sengers will be shot to the moon or Mars someday perhaps. The model of a human eye to large visitors may enter it and look out upon the Fair busy scene just as if the eye were doing the looking. Two hundred blooded cows being milked daily on a revolv ing platform. An orange grove transplanted intact all the way from Florida. Automobiles with living driv ers in hair-raising collisions and flying somersaults. The largest opal in the world. An oil well in operation with real drillers in the "cast." The largest model railroad ever constructed. Puppets 14 feet tall dramatiz ing the contents of the familiar bathroom medicine cabinet. Displays- of rare orchids, re newed every three days by plants flown to the Fair from Venezu ela. The tremendous discharge of 10.000,000 volts of man-made lightning. A Brazilian exhibit building erected on stilts. A floor made of cotton. Miss Potts Honored At Woman's College Miss Carolyn Potts, of Highlands, has been elected second vice-president of the Baptist Student Union at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, according to an an nouncement made by the news bureau of that institution. SUBSTITUTE Scientists of the U. S. Bureau of Dairy Industry have perfected a process for making a transparent rubber-like substance from lactic acid of whey that has many prom ising uses in various industrial op erations. North Carolina's 1938 pig crop was the largest of any year since 1924 when pig crop reports were first begun by the state department of agriculture. The 1938 pig crop was 11 per cent greater than the number produced in 1937. DiniteiroiiaftDeiniaD FeirHozeirs We are exclusive (dealers in Highlands and Scaly for the famous International Fertilizers The best crop producing fertilizers on the mark et. International Fertilizers have been known and used throughout this section for many years and have always given entire satisfaction. Place your orders early and save time and money. Talley & Burnette HIGHLANDS, N. C. J. D. Burnette SCALY, N. C. Church Services Presbyterian Church Rev. J. A. Flanagan, Pastor Franklin (Each Sunday) 10 a. m. Sunday school. 11 a. m. Worship services. Morrison (Each Sunday). 2:30 p. m. Sunday school. (Each 2nd and 4th Sunday) 3:30 p. m. Worship services. St. Agnes Episco&al Church The Rev. Frank Bloxham, Rector 6:30 a. m. Easter service. Franklin Methodist Church The Rev. I von L. Roberts, Pastor (Each Sunday) 10 a. m. Sunday school. 11a. m. Worship services. 7:30 p. m. Vesper service. Baptist Church Reb."C. F, Rogers, Pastor 9:45 a. m. Sunday school. 11 a. m. Preaching service. 7 p. m B. T. U. . 8:00 p. m. Preaching service. Wednesday, 8 p. m. Prayer service Catholic Church Rev. A. R. Rohrbacher, Pator Services in American Legion hall second and fourth Sundays at 8 a.m. Macon Circuit I Rev. J. C. Swaim, Pastor 1st Sunday Union IT o'clock a.m.; Hickory Knoll, 2 o'clock p. m. ; Asbury, 3 o'clock p. m. 2nd Sunday Mt. Zion, 11 o'clock; Maiden's Chapel, '3 o'clock p. m. 3rd Sunday Asbury, 11 o'flock 3rd Sunday Asbury, 11 o'clock; Mulberry, 2 p. m. ; Dryman's Chap el, 3 p. m. ; Union, 7 :30 p. m. 4th Sunday Patton's 11 o'clock a. m. ; Maiden's Chapel, 3 o'clock p. m. ; Mt. Zion. 2 o'clock p. m. Increased motor truck competi tion has resulted in lowered rail road freight rates on many agri cultural commodities, reports the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Econom ics. LEGAL ADVERTISING NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Town of Franklin will receive seal ed bids for a metal stand-pipe, 20 feet in diameter and 51 feet in height, with a capacity of 125,000 gallons, the same to be erected on a lot in the Town of Franklin. For further specifications, seethe Clerk of the Town of Franklin. Bids will be opened at 8:00 p. m., Friday, April 14, in the Town of Franklin office, Franklin, North Carolina. The Town of Franklin reserves the right ' to reject any or all bids. This the 4th day of April, 1939. . THE. TOWN OF FRANKLIN George Dean, Clerk ltc ' Bryant Furniture Co. EVERYTHING FOR THE HOME AT REASONABLE PRICES Phone 106 Franklin, N. C. 1
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