Wives of Soldiers Attend Amarillo Club Christmas Party
Women of Amarillo Army Air Forces Technical School and Army base wives join about 60 guests at the Amarillo Federation of Women's Club Christmas gathering. Hostesses showcased holiday decor while Mrs I D Cole shared a report on the Texas Federation convention. Cpl Weldon Bryant Pvt Irvin Ilmer and Pvt Barney Easton performed music for guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Army Air Forces Technical School
Amarillo Federation of Women’s Club
Federation Club Rooms
House
I. D. Cole
Texas Federation of Women's Clubs
Austin
W. N. Stokes
W S. Izzard
Seventh District of Women's Clubs
Amarillo Field
Cpl
Weldon Bryant
Irvin Ilmer
Barney Easton
Community Organization Schedule Tonight and Thursday
The calendar lists numerous meetings tonight and Thursday across Amarillo. Groups include Gamma Kappa Beta Sigma Phi at the sorority rooms, Palo Duro Assembly Rainbow for Girls at the Masonic Hall, First Christian Women Council, Women's Golf Association luncheon at Amarillo Country Club, Altruta Club at Capitol Hotel, Atlantida Spanish Club classes, Neoteus Choir at the First Christian Church, Rose Bowl Tea Room at Athenaeum Club, and Christmas parties hosted by several clubs with times from 1:30 to 7:30 p.m. plus additional events at the Woodmen Circle and other local rooms.
Victory Club Plans Christmas Luncheon
Mrs. W. D. Kerns hosted the V for Victory Club with discussion of a Christmas party at 11 a.m. next Tuesday at Mrs. E. W. George home 305 North McMasters Street. Members present were Mesdames Fred Killion E. R. Walker George Hugh Williamson and the hostess. The group finished an afghan for the Red Cross. A note on rattlesnakes mentions scientists proposing using rattles as a mating-season cue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Kerns
North McMasters Street
V For Victory Club
Red Cross
E. W. George
Fred Killion
E. R. Walker
George
Hugh Williamson
Bid
Mrs Reeves Heads Red Cross in Canyon Chapter
Mrs T W Reeves head of the Bureau of Public Service at West Texas State College was elected chairman of the Canyon Red Cross chapter for 1943. Ruth Lowes was elected vice chair, C L Thompson re elected executive secretary, and Levi Cole treasurer. Executive committee named included Black W C, Wooten W J, Knott A K, Oliver W T, Byars Lonnie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Harp
J. B. Speer
Novella Goodman
Robert P. Jarrett
Ruth Cross
T. H. Brasher
Red Cross
Clyde W. Warwick
Bessie Melton
T. H. Knighton
Roll Call
R. B. Davis
C. A. Murray
W. C. Black
W. J. Wooten
A. K. Knott
W. T. Oliver
Lonnie Byars
Ada Belle Williams Weds Sgt Joseph R Wilmot at Air Field
Announcement of the marriage of Ada Belle Williams of Fort Worth to Sgt Joseph R Wilmot of Amarillo Army Air Field. The ceremony took place November 28 in the air field chapel with Lt Callahan and Sgt Jack Riley in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada Belle Williams
Fort Worth
F. J. Williams
Denton
Joseph R. Wilmot
Amarillo Army Air Field
al Wilmot
Alameda
Calif
Air Field
Callahan
Jack Riley
Amarillo
Sergeant Wilmot
Pearl Harbor
Wake Island
Women Are Feared by The Enemy
A collection of wartime vignettes praising women who resist Nazi repression and urging American women to fund war bonds. It cites acts in France Norway Yugoslavia and Holland, highlighting courage of Moquet Kerival and others, and ends with a light note about a California car collision with a horse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chateau Briant
Moquet
Kerval
Mme
Kerival
Norway
Mrs Hayman Honored In Twin Shower Toasts
Miss Abbie Ruth Hayman is to wed E A Jacobson of Shreveport. A turkey dinner and a shower at the home of Mr and Mrs G B Reed at 4237 West Tenth Avenue featured guests including H G Hatch and many others with gifts from a long list. A second shower hosted by Leta Johnson at 700 West Seventeenth Avenue drew additional attendees and presented further well wishers for the bride to be.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. B. Reed
West
Tenth Avenue
Abbie Ruth Hayman
E. A. Jacobson
Shreveport
H. G. Hatch
Mesdames C. A. Roberts
W. C. Thornton
Marvin Judd
Rose Mary Radcliffe
Lillian Rogers
Thestle Newman
Lena Schorlemmer
Kitty Beth English
Hilda Segelke
Mesdames
Mary Lewis
Bertha Jupe
Margaret Johnson
Fred Post
Bessie Smith
Misses Estelle Farr
Iris Rawlings
Dixie Huggins
Hazel Miller
Bernice Brunnier
Rubye Capps
Roberta Barber
Lois Itschner
Lena Matheny
Peggy Nation
Amelia Miller
Miss Hayman
Leta Johnson
Seventeenth Avenue
Scott
Mesdames J. L. Scott
W. H. Hayman
W. W. Finch
Pearl Hammond
E. B. Perryman
Ettie Huckabay
Ruby Nelson
S. R. Conger
Guy Hastings
Inez Harrison
Porter Malone
C. E. Huckeby
82 year old Amanda King Peels 50 Buckets Daily
In Alexandria Indiana Amanda King age 82 answered a packing firm call to help with tomatoes and peeled 50 to 60 buckets daily. The firm halted her work to protect her old age pension. Also noted is a 1939 census figure of 1,193,085 privately owned trailers and semi trailers registered in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Ind
U.P
Amanda King
Orestes
United States
Operetta To Be Staged Saturday By Junior Players
Mrs Leslie Hills Bradford will present the Junior Players in a Christmas operetta A Near Thing Saturday at 8 pm in Fellowship Hall Polk Street Methodist Church. Cast includes Santa Claus Joanne Kelly and others with Miss Helen Jean Rippey reading The Cowboys Christmas Ball. Admission is free. A second note reports Mrs Juanita Ogden found a $44 purse from 1907 while sorting uncle Robert Eastham's effects in Knights Landing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Hills Bradford
West 15Th Street
Polk Street Methodist Church
Bradford
Santa Claus
Helen Jean Rippey
Larry Chittenden
Joanne Kelly
Jan Summers
Holly
Lela Hudson
Lera Hudson
Claudeene Pickett
Ann Watkins
Sara Kelly
Jéan Dammier
Velma Neal Davidson
Shirley Ann Felerabend
Lou Ethel Knight
Dorothy Sadderns
Ruth Woods
Maxine Merriman
Leon Hudson
Clinton Moore
Carlos Moore
Annie Clifford
Jan Rogers
Paula Ruth Fleming
Knights Landing
Cal
U.P
Juanita Ogden
Robert Eastham
We the Women by Ruth Millett Explains wartime family closeness
The war has tightened family bonds as mothers and fathers see their sons better. Dr Bernhard Stern notes increased loyalties in households separated by service. The essay cites Bill Smith as an example of how absence and danger forge closer families and forgive earlier quarrels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernhard J. Stern
Columbia University
Bill Smith
Smiths
Bill
Also Mentioned on This Page
Federation Club
Gamma Kappa Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Palo Duro
Order of the Rainbow For Girls
Masonic Hall
Business Women's Circle
The
First Christian Woman's Council
Dr. Shelton
Women's Golf Association
Amarillo Country Club
Altruta Club
Capitol Hotel
Atlantida Spanish Club
Furr Food Club
Fillmore Street
Neoteus Choir
First Christian Church
Rose Bowl Tea Room
T Athenaeum Club
Joe Shields
Forest Street
Will A. Miller
U.D.C
W. R. Irwin
Harrison Street
del Moron
Delphian Society
G. C. Nobles
Washington Street
Narcissa Whitman
Central Presbyterian Church
Fellowship Hall
Willing Workers Club
R. E Cantwell
North
Poplar Grove
Woodmen Circle
W.O.W. Hall
Royal Neighbors of America
1.C.C.F. Hall
Plerinn Club
L. A. Wells
Taylor Street
Woman's Club
R. B. Masterson
Polk Street
E. C. Shearer
van Buren Street
Victory Club Plans Party
Cretney Drug
Mrs. Reeves
R. GC
RAAF
France
RuDell
Paramount Theater
Navy
White & Kirk
Heydrich
Sklov
Yugoslavia
Roumania
Holland
Luftwaffe
Bulgaria
Germany
U. S. Treasury Department
Roseville
John Carter
Carter
Gowen Lewis
Ottoways
Maret
Ma Richardson
Lou Grace Erdman
Thelma Stolz
Llewellyn Deason
Alamada Wiley
Johnnie Pollan
Louise Orr
Katherine Metcalf
Gladys Davis
Mildred Jones
Beatrice Ellis
Walter Sikes
Mildred Copeland
Byrd Fahrner
Lucille Turnley
Ruth Evans Wright
Aubrey Stubbs
Annie Mae Helms
Ellie Rogers
Rosiery
Ruth Millett
A Polk
American Institute of Laundering
Arrid
Conall
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