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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1932
Page
5
An Amarillo Globe Pattern ad promotes Pattern 2394 for sizes 36 to 46 with 39 inch fabric and lace needs. It touts slimming lines and new lace necklines, invites orders by mail with price details for catalog and pattern combined, and lists the fashion department address in New York City.
The Legion Auxiliary in Perryton hosted a party at the Legion Hall in honor of Mrs Van W Stewart department president. Guests included Mrs Will Benton and Mrs M L Buller with gifts and a past president pin for local president Mrs Fuller. More than 100 guests attended with dancing and bridge prizes as part of the evening event.
The Amarillo Conservatory of Musical Arts leases Congregational Church at 1800 Harrison Street for part of its activities while maintaining the 1500 Polk Street studio. Interior changes aim to boost terpischore and theater work with classes by Elsie Little Mary Alice Walden Hall Axtell and Harriet Payne. Recitals and social events will occur at the new site with Polk parlors also in use.
Announcement of the marriage of Miss Cornelia 5 and Mr Bill Britt at the First Baptist Church in Clovis New Mexico. Rev J Nix officiated with Miss Ricchie Zumwalt attending. The couple will reside in Ruidoso New Mexico where the groom works.
The chamber of commerce budgeting committee appointed last Friday will meet the board of directors at 4 o clock Thursday afternoon to discuss the revised budget intended to absorb back indebtedness. Committee members include John K. Boyce chairman Wilbur C. Hawk Roy Cullum Earl Fuqua and N B Griggs.
The Tri-State Fair grounds will be sanitized to prevent disease spread under Dr H O Van Rosenberg of Parke Davis Company a longtime sanitizing partner for Dallas State Fair. Parke Davis will operate a booth in the Merchants Building during the fair from September 19 to 24.
For the first time in weeks Amarillo's city jail is empty on a Tuesday morning. The desk sergeant notes a sudden slump after period of crowded nights with sleepers hitching rides to visit relatives or seek work.
A Royal Neighbors of America unit No 4452 will hold a business meeting Thursday at 2 30 PM in Odd Fellows Hall. District deputy Mrs Emma Brannon will speak on The Value of Family Insurance. Visitors from other Royal Neighbor groups are invited.
City inspector Tuesday revised the Amarillo Country Club permit for a new home to an estimated value of 27000. A separate basement project, sized like the original plan, was valued at 11000 upon recent completion.
Mrs H E Billingslea and family visit in Garnett Kansas before traveling to Kansas City. Mrs W F Chapman visits Los Angeles and Honolulu plans with her husband. Mrs G H Mattik and daughter visit Kansas City. Katherine Cobb returns from Houston and Austin. Will D Gilvin hosts cousins from Shreveport. Adkisson family returns from El Paso and Old Mexico. S Tucker and Chrystine visit Jet Oklahoma with Regina Miller from Oklahoma City.
Miss Jean Sanders now living in Denver has had her musical play An Evening of Mozart accepted by The Etude. She is a charter member of the Amarillo Mozart Society and the play is dedicated to that group. Plans to present the play next fall were decided at the Mozart Society meeting at Mrs. B. V. Blackwell’s home 1222 Harrison Street with Mrs. Blackwell elected president and other officers named.
Elsa Thorpe of Richwood New Jersey runs a correspondence club that connects people seeking marriage. For 36 years she has united about 5000 couples annually, with teachers and nurses among the top applicants seeking husbands.
A magazine feature touts Ethel Clayton’s claim that Lux Toilet Soap preserves youth and beauty. It notes 686 of Hollywood’s 694 leading actresses use Lux and that it is the official soap in big studios.
Grace Morrison Poole, new president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, returns from travels to launch a "these United States" movement. She urges about two million women in 14,600 federated clubs to go to city or town halls and demand to see how public funds are spent.
Miss Betty McCully entertained Ace of Clubs members at her Pleasant Valley home. Scores went to Roberta Cohen and Inez Hill. Players included Maxine Jordan Ruth Holland Ruby Frances Hill Madge Cohen Helen Immile Roberta Cohen Alice Tuell Mardell Brock Jonnie Jonkle Norene Cohen and Betty McCully. Next meeting at Alice Tuell’s home.
The Amarillo Council of Parents and Teachers board of managers will meet Thursday afternoon at 3 30 in Room 104 of the senior high school building. The board comprises council officers and new P A presidents.
Amarillo merchants present the Fall Style Window and Automobile Show Monday night featuring latest car models and wear displays with living models. The Globe News will provide a band for the downtown event touted as the greatest style fete in Amarillo history.
Arraignment of Jack Phillips Howard, 27, of California on theft charges for shoplifting silk hose from Sears Roebuck was postponed when Judge E. C. Nelson Jr. was unavailable. Howard claimed he would endure hunger rather than risk a cold winter, and police fingerprint expert Ed Holloway said his prints matched those at the Panhandle location.
Burglars battered a safe at the Star Lumber Company office 505 Jackson Street during a Tuesday night break in. Police reported the entrance gained by prying open a window and the raid was noted Wednesday. They also raided Mother's Kitchen at 314 Taylor Street that same night.
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