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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
6
The Amarillo County Club hosts the first family night of the season with dinner at 7 30 pm, a kids picture show with cartoons, a putting contest for adults, a second match for children, and prizes. Reservations for dinner are due by noon. The pool will be open and the lights will be on for post dinner swimming.
Potter County 4 H clubs celebrated Achievement Day with dressmaking and sewing projects. Miss Pauline Lakey noted benefits in grooming, budgeting, planning outfits, and self understanding, while Miss Marie Ludwick judged scrapbooks and displayed clothing items, prizes awarded across three groups for hats, bags, bonnets, aprons, and dresses.
Meta Lindemann and Clarence Narrell wed at Providence Lutheran Church Kress with Rev. Earl C. Mahring officiating. Marie Maynard and Wayne Gaines marry at Maynard home in Dalhart. Margaret Allen and R L Marshall Jr wed at home south west of Plainview.
Americ an embassy staff of three arrive at Chateau de Cande near Tours, in a former royal residence later linked to Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. The report detail s German withdrawals, destruction, rail and bridge damage, and refugee movements as Paris to Tours fronts shift.
The letter writer laments a wife who dominates home life and monitors him constantly. Dorothy Dix reframes the concern, arguing that excessive control strains marriages and that many husbands seek personal freedom rather to escape love or responsibility.
On Monday afternoon Mrs Eugene Bagwell formerly Miss Jean Nell Best was honored with a miscellaneous shower at the home of Misses Novel la and Nora Lee Luttrell. Hostesses included Misses Margaret Sewell Pauline Dorige Oleta Cobb Mary Jane Kerr and Luttrell. The program featured musical numbers and readings by Misses Kerr Cobb Dodge Sewell Joe Frances Worley and Wanell Church.
Dimmitt Book Club elected new officers at a luncheon hosted by Mrs. T. A. Singer. President is Mrs. Woodson Brown, vice president Mrs. M. B. Benton, and secretary Mrs. Ray Cowsert. Twelve members and one guest attended the year end meeting. A review of "Mother of the Smiths" was presented by Mrs. Noel Gollehon.
Nurses at the Veterans Hospital will be honored at a chicken supper tonight hosted by District 2, Texas Graduate Nurses Association. The event begins at 7 o'clock on the lawn of the Northwest Texas Hospital Nurses' Home. city nurses are invited.
Announcement of the forthcoming marriage of Miss Mary Jane Corbin of Claude to Woodrow McDaniel of Temple was made at a breakfast hosted by her sister Mrs Frances Hood. Miss Corbin, daughter of O L Corbin, is a Claude High School and Mary Hardin Baylor alumna. McDaniel, Temple High School and A and M College graduate, works for Lone Star Gas in Temple. The couple plans a July 13 wedding in Temple.
The Little Circle met at Miss Geneva Shelton home and elected officers president Geneva Shelton vice president Beth Stoddard secretary Earline Trimble and treasurer Jeanetta Shelton. Refreshments served to Geneva Shelton Jeanetta Shelton Stoddard Trimble Thelma Woody and Mrs Earl Trimble. The next meeting is at 2 PM next Wednesday with Miss Stoddard at 2410 West Fourth Avenue.
Mrs. Joe A. Wessendorff of Richmond president of the Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers will represent the State Congress at the National Regional Safety Conference in New Orleans June 25 and 26. She was named a member of the Texas Traffic Safety Legislative Committee and will join Austin meetings in July to discuss safety legislation with public safety and highway departments. She spoke at Texas A and M on PTA cooperation and attended the UT Institute for Professional Relations as the Texas Congress sponsor.
Amarillo Country Club hosts its first junior dance of the summer with music by the Collegians. Children of members may bring up to two guest couples or two individuals for 50 cents each, with chaperones listed and refreshments available at moderate cost.
In Skellytown on June 28 Mrs. E. E. Crawford hosted two guests to discuss a school auditorium ice cream and cake supper benefiting the Sunshine Home Demonstration Club. Special guests are the candidates with music by John Rush and his Rusty Eight Orchestra.
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