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■■M.rsday, February 21, 1946 [ ] SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS W rlr Black Mountain News urges our readers to either mail, phone IL bring in all news for this column V° u may have. We want all Bsocial events and visitors to your home published in this column. fMr and Mrs- Clyde O’Dell from li ff City, Tenn., spent the week id here with Mr. and Mrs. B. E. 1 IcDonald and daughter. i§ -—° — ■Mr Manuel Massey has joined le personnel staff of the Victory Bab Co. He works daily from 6 ■ Jn. until 12 midnight. ’ “ 0 I Mr and Mrs- Perry W. Melton ft-pre guests of the Dixie Home lores at a banquet held at the K eorge Vanderbilt Hotel Febru ary 14th. o ' I Mr . and Mrs. D. Blackwell, Miss Bnn Blackwell and Mrs. W. E Bienn, all of Asheville, were Sun- Bav dinner guests of Mr- and Mrs. ■r S. Cunningham. o I Mrs. W. H- Lindsey returned ■ome Sunday from a week’s visit Kith her son, Charles and family Kt Sylva, N. C. He was recently Kiseharged from the Navy and is Kack at his former job with the State Patrol. ft o I David Leon Propst, S. 2-c, is Binding up his 30-day leave with Bis mother and family. He leaves Koday f° r his post in Lake City, Bla. He then expects to be trans ferred to the State of Kansas for Kurther duty. He has been in the Wavy for two years. o I Mrs. Ruth Osteen of Dana, N. |C„ a former resident of Black Klountain, is recuperating very Bicely at the Mission Hospital as- Ber undergoing a serious opera tion. She expects to be out with- Bn a week and folks she is com- Bng back here on leave from the ■derehant Marine. He likes his Branch of service fine. §J o I A belated baby shower w r as tend STOVES NEW SHIPMENT JUST ARRIVED black mtn. HARDWARE CO. Black Mountain, N. C. Phone 3481 1 1 »■■■ ■ ■ ■ ■>■ ■■; ■:,i!TM'ari;«l:■-■■■■ll:*:* PLUMBING SUPPLIES J - W - RUSSELL and lr Heating & See Us For Yor Plumbing Needs. Repair Work Accounts Due When Work Is Completed. J - W. RUSSELL PLUMBING & HEATING Ph °ne 3802 Black Mountain, N. C. ered little Nancy Sue Watkins, daughter of Mrs. Charlie Watkins,; of Swannanoa, last Friday night' at the home of Mrs. J. C. Aycock. Games were played and prizes awarded. The grand prize being awarded to the mother of the re cepient. Those present for the evening were: Mrs. J. I. Cook, Mrs. Harry Austin, Mrs. Alvin Creasman, Mrs. Davis Propst, Mrs.! Watkins, Mrs. Floyd Smith and daughter, Christine, Mrs. Oscar Norton, Mrs. L. N. Ritchie, Mrs. Bessie Atkins, Mrs. S. S. Thomas, Mrs. Roy Taylor, Mrs. J C. Kearns Mrs. McElrath of Vance Ave-, Mrs. Ray Nichols, Mrs. Frank Melton, Mrs. J. C. Aycock. Mrs. Grace Garland Dies At Her Home —o j Funeral services for Mrs. Grace Garland, 63, who died last Wed nesday at her home on Montreat road here, was held Friday after noon at 2 o’clock in the chapel of Harrison funeral home. The Rev. H. Grady Hardin officiating and burial followed in Tabernacle cemetery. Active pallbearers were John Brittain, B. J. Owenby, Troy Fort ner, Garland Stepp, Finley E- Stepp, and Roy Stepp. Mr. and Mrs. Garlnad were in the show business for a number of years and Mrs. Garland for several seasons was costume de signer for a John Robinson cir cus. Surviving is her husband, Wal ter G. Garland and a sister, Miss Bessie Van Dorn of Westport, Conn. The average person in the Unit ed States uses about 150 pounds of fresh vegetables a year. Phone 3481 RIDGECREST Major and Mrs. Owen W. Mor an recently visited Ridgecrest and planned the work of remodeling their summer cottage “Idlewild,”| preparatory to its occupancy dur ing the summer season. Major Moran saw service as chaplain in Italy. He is a former pastor of the Ridgecrest Baptist Church. Mrs. Moran and her mother, Mrs. Julian A. Smith, formerly of Dur ham, maintained residence in Asheville during Major Moran’s absence while he was in Europe. Rev. Wesley W. Lawton preach ed at the Ridgecrest Baptist Church on last Sunday. Mr. Law ton is a former pastor of the Ridgecrest Baytist Church. Mrs. j Lawton and their two daughters,' Ina Belle and Becky Lou, accom panied him to Ridgecrest. For three and one-half years he was pastor of the Oakhurst Baptist Church in Charlotte, N- C., and is a former president of the Meck lenburg County Baptist Pastor’s Conference. He has resigned his Charlotte pastorate and will fill engagements for the Foreign Mis sion Board of the Southern Bap tist Convention this summer and then return to his mission field in China. o Rev. and Mrs. Deaver Lawton and daughters, Carol and Gwen dolyn, returned to Ridgecrest last week from Berkeley, Calif. Rev and Mrs. Lawton are missionaries of the Southern Baptist Conven tion. Mr. Lawton returned to America on the Gripsholm after three years of imprisonment, by the Japanese in China. For the past eighteen months they have been making a special study of Chinese language in a Mission School in Berkeley. They ex pect to return to China at the end of this summer. At present they are cocupying his mother’s cot tage. o The officers and teachers of the Ridgecrest Baptist Sunday School plan to hold a teacher-training class next week. Books to be used are “Baptist Distinctives,” “The Baptist Faith,” and “The Way Made Plain.” The study will cen ter around doctrines and evange lism. Classes will begin on next Sunday afternoon and end on Thursday night- o Little Paul Allison has been ill for several days but is now im proving. o Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Pate re turned last week from a business trip to Raleigh and Morehead City. o Miss Mary Ward of Brevard and teacher of Rosman School was Sunday guest of Mrs. Perry Mor gan. During the summer months Miss Ward is director of dramat ics and social recreation at the Ridgecrest Baptist Assembly. o Mr. J. A. Kale has returned home from a stay with Mrs. J. A. Kale who is a patient at the Mercy Hospital in Charlotte, N. C. MONTREAT NEWS Sgt. Henry Burke, of the U- S. Marine Corps, recently returned from China, spent a few days here the guest of his fiance, Miss Mil dred Bobb. They are now visit ing at their homes in Honea Path, S. C. Miss Bobb will return in about a week to resume her chem istry classes in the college. o Miss Gladys Babson Hannaford, the representative of a diamond company in New York City, gave a very interesting and instructive lecture on diamonds in Anderson Chapel Saturday night. o The Business Woman’s Circle of the Woman’s Auxiliary met with Miss Roberta Daniel on Tuesday evening in the lobby of College Hall. The subject of study for the week was Steward ship. Mrs- John Nesblt gave some very telling illustrations of giv ing among the Koreans on our Mission Field, bringing home to her hearers the wonderful bless ings that come from faithful stew ardshiy. o A letter from Mrs. Nan Foster, states that she and Miss Elizabeth McE. Shields, plan to return to! their home in Montreat about the' first of March. They have had a pleasant stay in Punta Garda, THE BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS RAMBLINGS Mrs. George H. Holman has been ill for several days. o Mr. and Mrs. Logan Turner an nounce the birth of a son, Marvin Lewis, on Saturday, Feb. 16. o Mrs. Pearl Perkins has return ed to Ridgecrest from Smithfield, N. C. , o The W. M. S. of the Ridgecrest' Baptist Church held its February meeting at the home of Mrs. Per ry Morgan. Mrs. S. C. Gill, pro-' gram chairman, presented a very interesting program, “Signs of Spiritual Awakening.” o Dr. Wm. L. Hatcher has recov ered from an attack of influenza. o Frances Murphy spent the week-end with her parents in Bel mont, N. C. She was accompan ; ied by her cousin, Lt. Madge O’- Daniel of Moore General Hospital. o Mrs. W. W. Lawton, Sr. and daughter, Olive Lawton, mission i aries to China are spending the winter in DeLand, Fla., where ! Miss Olive Lawton is filling a field engagement of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. o The Baptist churches of Bun combe County are cooperating in a united effort in “Launching a Century with Christ” with twenty six thousand Baptist churches in the South. Last week Perry Mor gan, Manager of Ridgecrest Bap tist Assembly; Rev. Tom E. Walt ers, pastor of the Ridgecrest Bap tist Church; and Dr. Hight C. i Moore, Sec. of the Southern Bap ! tist Convention; and Chaplain A. , V- Bradley of Moore General Hos i pital formed one of the fifteen teams of three in the county hold ing meetings at Black Mountain, Kerlee, Mountain View, Wilkie, and Swannanoa Baptist churches. The meetings were well attended, j Plans were made to add some new teachers and classes, conduct Va ! cation Bible Schools, adopt train ! ing programs, visit absentees and prospective members, and to send J delegates to the Statewide Sun , day School Convention at Winston Salem, April 2,3, and 4; and to enlarge the attendance for the Sunday School Conference to be held at Ridgecrest in July. Mr. Morgan states there are nine hun dred and thirty district associa tions and twenty-six thousand churches with a Sunday School membership of more than five mil lion in the twenty states and the; | District of Columbia during the I first half of February. An effort was made to hold a “Launching a Century with Christ” meeting in each of the churches. To reach the churches it required five thousand teams of three or fifteen thousand leaders. o S/Sgt. Daen Willis, recently discharged from service after duty j in Honolulu, flew to Washington last Thursday and returned to his home on Sunday. Miss Estelle Lumpkin was the guest of Miss Leila Kirtland oil Sunday. Mrs. Lavillon Wilson, Betsy, Danny and Susan, were at the Inn Sundya also. We’re glad that they are all over the influenza. o Lt. and Mrs. Robert Guy were dinner guests at Assembly Inn Sunday. They were accompanied by their small son, Leland. ——o Mrs. C. Grier Johnson, joined Mr. Johnson at dinner Sunday at Assembly Inn where he is room ing at teh yresent. We hope she will soon be moving to Montreat o Dr. Cora Rieves’ guests were: Mrs. Elma Randall, Montreat, Mr. B. M. Hoffman of Last Resort and Mrs. Jean Carlson of Asheville They enjoyed the Sabbath with hre. o—— The monthly meeting of the j Auxiliary will be held at Assem bly Inn on Tuesday the 25th, at four thirty o’clock. The nominat ing committee will report at this meeting and the election of of ficers wjll take place. The aux iliary is making plans for its time of intensive Bible study and pray er on February 28, March 1 and 2, and also the next week, March 6th and 7th, climaxing in the World’s Day of Prayer on March Bth. All women in the vicinity are cordially invited to these meet ings. o Circle No. 1 of the Woman’s Auxiliary met at Miss Liddells on' Tuesday. Mrs- John Nisbet taught the Bible Study and Mrs. RobtJ Cort, the lesson on Stewardship, j Circle No. 2 met at Assembly Inn with Mrs. Dorsey, Mrs. Wood house and Miss Herrin as hos tesses. The Bible Study and les son were combined under the capable eatching of Mrs. T. H. Spence. Friendship Circle, com posed of the ladies who attend Presbyterian Chapel, met with Mrs. W. IL Armistead, at Webb wood. These are reported to have been very instructive and enjoy able meeting. o The Mountain Elf says: “I will lift up my yees to the hills From whence does my help come?” My help comes not from the hills themselves But from the creating One. —M. Robertson. Men’s Clothing Store To Open Soon Here o The new men’s clothing store will soon be open for business. Shelving and fixtures are being installed and Black Mountain will soon have a long needed enter prise added to our list of fine stores it now has. C. A. Dougherty is the owner of the store, and says he intends to carry a full line of clothing for men. Only one-half of the building is to be used for the store at pres ent. When the Western Union Tele graph Co.' moves to their new quarters, Mr. Dougherty will re move the petition and have a much larger store. The News extends congratula tions and a hearty welcome to the new enterprise. New Restaurant To Open In Near Future 0 Finley Stepp, Victory Cab own er, is planning on building a new building on the comer next door to the Northwestern Bank. The building will be about 25 feet square, and be equipped with all modem equipment. The establishment will have 24- hour service if business warrants it. Mr. Stepp says that the new place will serve mostly sand wiches, hot coffee, doughnuts, pies, cakes and short orders. TRY OUR . Running for You No cars won’t be available for some time. No need to let the “old bus” run auto service will keep your car in run- I ning order. Our expert mechanics can locate any trouble and do an A-l re * B air A slight disorder caught in M C MURRAY CHEVROLET CO. PRAYER FOR THE WEEK (It is suggested that you tear this prayer out and place it at your table to be used as a basis for family devotions each morning of the week.) Our Father, who art the giver of life, we are thankful te thee for all thy blessings. For the blessings of home and friends; for the opportunities of honest work; for the beauties of the world we live in; for the uncounted litUe things that bring us happiness and peace; for happiness in success and strength in failure; for joy in pleasant places and comfort in sadness we give thee our humble thanks. Open our eyes that we may see thee in all thy manifestations and our minds that we may know thine eternal will, through Jesus Christ. Amen. H. G. H. Parking Meter System In Asheville In Effect 0 Asheville’s new parking meter system went into effect Monday. Persons parking in the approx imately 400 spaces downtown where meters have been installed are required by law to deposit a coin or coins in the meter immed iately after pulling to the curb. When the time for which a de posit has been made has expired a red violation signal appears in the meter. Rates are from one cent for 12 minutes to five cents for one hour. An officer checking traffic will tag all cars where red violation signals are showing on the meters. Motorists having their cars tagged for over-time parking will be re quired to report to the police sta tion and pay a fine of sl. Refusal or failure to do this will subject the motorist to arrest and a fine in police court of not more than $5.00. YOU ARE INVITED TO THE METHODIST CHURCH STATE STREET AT CHURCH STREET H. Grady Hardin Pastor. SUNDAY SERVICES 10:00 A. M. Church School 11:00 A. M. Morning Worship 6:00 P. M. Sunday Evening Forum Page Five Join Ridgecrest Church O Sunday morning at the close of the worship service six were re ceived into the church; Rev. and Mrs. Deaver M- Lawton, Carol Lawton, Com. and Mrs. G. W. Greene and Billy Green, the first three by letter from the Golden Gate Baptist Church in Berkeley, Calif., where they have been studying for their return to China as Missionaries in a few months. The Greens were received on statement as the Baptist Church of which they were members in China has been scattered because of the war. Sunday evening 22 were out for Training Union at six o’clock- The Intermediate topic was “I Will Take Time for Daily Devotions.” Tuesday, at 2:30, at Mrs. George Allred’s home, the W. C. T. U. met. Mrs. J. H. Dew led our wor ship period on the training of our children, based on Proverbs 22:6. Business followed and refresh- J ments were served.
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