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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1931
Page
6
Amarillo residents stayed up to watch the Perseid meteor shower around midnight. Meteors, faint mostly but sometimes bright, streaked across the sky as families and children observed the annual event. The Perseids, linked to the constellation Perseus, have crossed skies for about a century while Earth travels through their path each year.
Fred W Mangelsdorf of Atchison Kansas leads a move to form a cooperative marketing group under the federal farm board act for Sudan grass seed growers in the Panhandle. He says 90 percent of US Sudan seed acreage lies in a triangle around Lubbock Clovis and Amarillo. Crop forecasts rise to 30 million pounds with 6 million carried over, glooming price prospects around 1 50 per bushel, far below the ten year average of 4 80 per hundred. The plan seeks government loans to stabilize the market and save the Panhandle up to a million dollars.
A mounted corps of 28 frontier nurses operated from nine centers within a 700 mile district in Kentucky aids mothers and babies. Founded by Mrs Mary Breckenridge the service models Scotland’s Queen’s nurses and charges a five dollar fee or equivalent in labor for prenatal postnatal care and delivery services. Over six years the program has handled over 800 maternity cases with a single maternal death.
The U N E E D A B Y P U of the First Baptist Church enjoyed a delightful picnic at Bishop's Lake Tuesday evening with out of door games and songs around a large camp fire Attending were Mr and Mrs Taylor Joiner Mr and Mrs Henry B Kinslow Mr and Mrs Lloyd West Mr and Mrs Frank Joyner Mr and Mrs Guy Bradley Mr and Mrs Gilbert Campbell Mr and Mrs R B Burnett and son Bobby Lee Burnett Miss Geraldine Davis of Lubbock Mrs E S Burnett and children Melba and Bobby Ray Burnett of Seymour
The second judging in the annual Yard and Garden Contest will be completed this week. Mrs. P. J. Wooldridge, chairman of the judges, reports the entries are beautiful and in good condition making final selections difficult. Final judging occurs early September with prizes awarded after the last entry visit. The Wesley Fellowship Class of San Jacinto Methodist Church will host a lawn fete at 203 North Independence Street Friday at 8 p.m. All class members and guests are invited for games and music.
Paris dispatch notes Mme Jean Charles Worth among blonde Parisians backing brown and beige styles. She attended Auteuil races in a beige malgache sports look with tuck insertions, a three quarter coat, brown scarf, and matching accessories. Also reports Mrs Paul Ellis returning from Dallas with guests Mrs Phillip Ellis and Mrs S Fiedler. later headed to Colorado Springs.
Miss Dorothy Kirchner of Kansas City Missouri is the guest of Miss Doris Wells at 1006 West Seventh Avenue. Mr and Mrs G L Puckett who came to Amarillo for the Lynch Boone wedding have returned to Denver. Mrs Mozelle Cherry and Coach Blair Cherry of the Golden Sandies have returned to 410 West Sixteenth Avenue after extended visits in Fort Worth Dallas and other points. Mrs F E Woodruff of 1605 Harrison Street has returned home after studying in Chicago for several weeks. She studied voice with Franz Proschowski at the Chicago Musical College and received the Proschowski scholarship.
Ladies' day at Amarillo Country Club begins 8:30. Queen Esther Club hosted by Mrs L Q Bennett with assistant Mrs J W Britt at 508 Harrison Street 8 o'clock. Buchanan Street Methodist Church 8:30. Unity Study Club meets in Green Building room 9 with lesson What Are You and Prosperity Silence at 8. Public invited. Le Mirage Club led by Mrs Ralph Roush at 312 Alabama Street 10. Thursday Thimble Club with Mrs Irving Kerns at 311 B East Seventeenth Avenue 2 30.
The Hobby Club met at Sanborn Park for an early drive to Cliffside for a sunrise breakfast. Guests included Virginia Rittenberry Willie Mary Nunn Beatrice Paschall Jamie Rogers and Mary Belle Caraway of San Antonio. Members present were Anna Belle Cade Cecile Parsons Camilla Wheatley Elizabeth Rainey Imna Kelly Jake Williams Rose Mary Slover Gladys Art and two listed ladies.
Dorothy Popence of the Society of Woman Geographers spent two years in Honduras. In 1929 she directed excavations in an ancient graveyard 15 to 17 feet below ground, opening fourteen graves. Bones and artifacts were sent to Harvard’s Peabody Museum for study. She now explores painted pottery sites in the country.
Mr and Mrs J D Porterfield hosted Blue Bonnet Needle Club members and their husbands at 902 Mississippi Street Monday evening after a 7 o clock dinner. Guests included Mr and Mrs J D Smith Lake Comant Miss B R Bagley Tunica Miss, and many others with bridge and 42 as entertainment.
Red Carnation Lodge No. 345 will hold a Friday morning meeting at 8 30 in the Odd Fellows Hall. Initiation service and discussion of Tri-State meeting set for August 27 28 are on the agenda. Full attendance requested.
Paris fashion notes describe bead scarves designed to complement hats with curved brims. Hats feature bright bead embroidery in small wooden or china beads, with matching scarves. Also, a birth announcement reports Dr. and Mrs. M. G. Mullins of Eldorado Kans welcomed George M Jr. yesterday.
An advertisement from Hills Bros. Coffee highlights a patented Controlled Roasting process that roasts evenly, a little at a time, ensuring uniform flavor. It contrasts with bulk roasting and promotes vacuum cans to keep coffee fresh. Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc. Kansas City, Missouri. 1981.
Salem reports that radio broadcasting in Oregon is subjected to the same libel laws as newspapers and other publications, aligning broadcasting with print in legal standards.
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