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? Highlands Highlights MRS. H. O. STORY MOVES BEAUTY SHOP Mrs. Winifred Parker has moved her beauty shop Irom the Mitchell building on Fourth street across the street to the building formerly occupied by the telephone exchange, next door to the Condiment shop. Early Announces Sunday Sermon T opic ; Service To Mark National Week "Honoring the Christian Family" will be the sermon top ic of the Rev. Robert E. Early, pastor, at the 11 a, m. service at the Highlands Methodist church Sunday. The service will | mark the beginning of the ob- I servance of National Family Week, the week immediately preceding Mother's Day. Hall Named Delegate To Church Convention Tudor N. Hall has been elect ed delegate form the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation to attend the diocesan convention in Gastonia May 8 and 9. Mrs! James H. Howe was elected al ternate. Miss Cook Tours With College Glee Club Miss Mary Bascom Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Cook, of Highlands, toured throughout Georgia and Flor ida with the Wesleyan glee club from Wesleyan college, Maeon, Ga. The glee club returned to 1 the college April 27. Coin Week Juftt Like Any Other To Pienon National Coin, week was just another routine week to E. Kendall Pierson, son of S. P. Pierson, of Highlands, and his co-workers, employes of the city of Miami Beach, Fla. Their job is collecting and counting hundreds of coins from the city's 900 parking meters. These collections, Mr. Pierson said this week, run from $500 to $2,000 a day, de pending on the season of the year. . He added that in a day's collection the mechanical sep arator and counter has picked out coins from almost everjl nation in the world. RAZING BUILDING The old Main street store building belonging to Bryan Ed wards, of Douglas, Wyo., which was condemned several years ago, is being razed under the supervision of Mr. Edwards' father, W. W. Edwards. EXCHANGE PLUS TAX SIZE 6.00-75 SIZE 6.70-13 OTHER SIZES EQUALLY LOW mo ?THEE TBSli NEAR ITS WM&Z OFFERS ALE. THESE FEATURES MORE NON-SKID SAFETY . . . Wider, Flatter Tread With Thousands of Sharp edged Angles Gives Greater Protection Against Skidding. . I GREATER BLOWOUT PROTECTION . . . New Exclusive Super Gum-Dip; ir.jj Eliminates Internal Heat. LOWER COST PER MILE . . . "'n: M:I . Tread Rubber Wears an J V.'gars. LIFETIME GUARANTEE BURRELL MOTOR COMPANY, inc. Phone 123 Franklin, N. C. HIGHLANDS JUNIORS AND SENIORS ON EIGHT-DAY TRIP TO CAPITAL Eighteen members of the Jun ior and senior classes at High lands school left Friday in the school's private bus for an eight-day trip to Washington, D. C. W. C. Newton, high school teacher is supervising the driving of the bus and assist ing Mrs. Roy Speed as chaper one. Juniors on the trip are, Misses Naomi Miller, Anne Stevens, ! Dorothy Talley, Margaret Zoell ner, Audrey Deal, and Lester Green, Eugene Houston, Slndey McCarty, III, Neville Owens, and Olan Vinson. Seniors include Haze Edwards, Onville Owens, Louis Reese, and Misses Hazel Chastain, Pearl Chastain, Edith Head, Lois Potts, and Virginia Vinson. Leon Talley, a last year's senior, is also a member of the group. Arbor Day' Planned May 10 By P. T. A., If The Sun Shines The Highlands P. T. A. will sponsor an "Arbor day", May 10 for work on the new school grounds if the weather is "sun ny"; if not, then the first sun ny Saturday thereafter, it has been announced by the grounds' committee. Dinner will be served free to workers by members of the P. T. A. All workers are asked to j please bring mattocks, potato | diggers, shovels, rakes, and | trucks for hauling, the commit tee said. Persons wishing to donate shrubs or top-soil are asked to J contact Mrs. Sidney McCavty j at the Highlands Engineering company, so arrangements can ; be made for the hauling. Speed Church Building For Rotary Club Dinner Building acatlvity at the I Highlands Methodist church was speeded up this week, to j get the remedeled x church in : readiness for the meeting of , the Highlands Rotary club in J the church room next Tuesday. ; The Woman's Society of Chris tian Service of the church has agreed to serve the dinner to the Rotarians each Tuesday evening, starting next week. Working all day and into the j evening, workmen this week are completing either permanent or temporary wiring, the plumbing, 1 ! and other details in the base- j ment, where the church dining , room is situated. The floors also j have been finished and win I dows and doors installed. The Woman's Society has di vided into groups, teams of j three to take turns serving the I meal. ? Personals Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Hemphill will leave for Pinehurst Sunday where they will attend a meet ing of the state medical society. They will return to Highlands Wednesday night. Earl F. Baty, of the USS Thomas Jefferson, operating out of San Francisco, Calif., ar rived Sunday for a two-week visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Baty. Mr. and Mrs. C. Townsend ! Scanlan, of Dunedin, Fla., ar- j | rived last week and have open- ( | ed their summer home on j j Brushy Face mountain. Mrs. G. W. Sheppard, who j spent the winter in New Or- [ leans, La., has returned to the i i home of her sister, Mrs. Grover ! D. Edwards, on Fifth street, j Also visiting Mrs. Edwards is ; her niece, Mrs. Mildred Jackson, j | of Atlanta, Ga. Mayor and Mrs. W. H. Cobb attended the Little Theatre j play, "A Young Man's Fancy", [ ! in Greenville, S. C., last Wed- j i nesday night, in which their J son-in-law and daughter, Mr. ] and Mrs. A. L. Chalker played ; j leading roles. Going down with ; j Mayor and Mrs. Cobb were Mrs. i William A. Matthews, Miss Sara Gilder, and Mrs. J. D. Harcombe. Mrs. Alice L. Olds, of Miami. Fla.. arrived Saturday and has opened' her summer home in ! the Mirror Lake section for the \ season. Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Stewart. I of Miami. Fla., are spending this | week at their summer home on Lake Sequoyah after a visit with their daughter. Miss Anne Stew art, student at the University o; i Alabama, Tuscaloosa. ALAX THEATRE ..HIGHLANDS..! Friday-Saturday, May 2-3 Tim Holt In "RIO GRANDE PATROL" Shows at 7:15 & 9:00 Monday -Tuesday, May 5-6 Richard Derr & Babbara Rush In "WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE" .Shows at 7:15 & 8:55 pons HOUSE LEASED BY FLORIDIANS Delray Beach Couple Expected Here Next Week Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Plaxico. of , Delray Beach. Fla., owners and operators of The Arvilla, one of Delray's oldest hostelries, have leased the Potts House here on Main street. They are expected to arrive in Highlands next week to begin preparations for | the season's opening of the I hotel. | Mr. and Mrs. Plaxico said their place in Delray Beach Is not a hotel, nor a guest house, or even an inn, but a combina tion of all three, where true Southern hospitality reigns, and that they expect to operate the Potts House in the same man ner. Mr. and Mrs. Potts, who have occupied the place this winter, will return to their home on the Dillard road, purchased last year from Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Stringer, of Anderson, S. C. THREE ENTERTAIN TUESDAY CARD CLUB Mrs. Earl D. Brundage, Mrs. J. D. Harcombe, and Mrs. D. B. Wentzel were hostesses to the Tuesday card club in a three table game last week at "Helen's Haven ', the home of Mrs. Brunda^v on Martha's [ Lane. Jonquils, sprays of flow ering quince, and pear bios- j soms decorated the rooms. Mrs. John H. C. Perry won high score prize and Mrs. Tudor N. Hall the bingo prize. The low score award went to Miss Sara , Gilder. Farmers in Oregon are pro- 1 ducing 800 pounds of beef per year on irrigated pasture. Traffic accidents caused in juries to 15,123 persons in North Carolina last year. NOW OPEN Every Saturday Night HELEN'S BARN HIGHLANDS, N. C. 24-Hour Wrecker Service TELEPHONES ? MACON MOTOR COMPANY Palmer Street Franklin, N. C. MASON'S WEEK-END SPECIALS NO. 1 TALL CAN SALMON 39c TWO NO. 2 CANS TOMATOES .... 27c NO. 2 CAN PINEAPPLE .... 28c 3 LB. SWIFTING .... 83c 1 LB. MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE 81c 1 LB. JFG COFFEE 81c QT. JFG MAYONNAISE . . 59= QT. JFG SALAD DRESSING .... 45c LB. GROl'ND BEEF ....... 59c LB. BONELESS STEW ....... 63c LB. MINUTE STEAK 69c LB. SKINLESS WEINERS 49c LB. WHITE'S CORNFIELD BACON 55c ALSO A GOOD VARIETY OF FRESH PRODUCE Phone 9 WE DELIVER OPEN EACH EVENING UNTIL 10 P. A!. Plymouth's Pace-Setting Sew Belvedere Here'* Plymouth's smart hardtop club coupe, the Belvedere, the pacesetter la the lowest price BeM with its new concepts In stylinf and beauty. The ear has (listening, lively two-tone colon: Soede Tan with Sable Bronze top; Belmont Blue Polychromatic with Sterling Grey top; Mint Green with Black top. The color need on the roof follows the Belvedere's streamlined contours around the spacioos rear window and down uvea the rear deck, giving the car the continental look. Sparkling chrome molding outline* the top and nil Us back to separate the two colors at their Junction at the rear quarter-panel. The Interior is hiimlwu, with ceterfat quality fabrics and vinyl blended in perfect harmony with the shades used on the exterior. J. C. SORRELLS MOTOR COMPANY Phone 281 East Main Street Franklin, N. C
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