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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1929
Page
4
Paris reports Scotch influenced designs on display at French dressmakers with kilted skirts paired with crepe de Chine and striped jerseys. Outfits include navy mousse Cc with blue and white bands, a white silk reps tennis suit with raspberry jacket, and grey green striped shirts.
The Thursday Needle club elected four new members at a meeting yesterday afternoon in the new home of Mrs. John Armstrong at 2411 Ong street. New members are Mrs. J. A. McCaul Mrs. W. L. Land Mrs. J. M. Webb and Mrs. Jerry Ratcliff. Special guests included Mrs. Frank Gillette Mrs. Clay Thompson and several others. Members present were Mrs. R. M. Rose Mrs. J. E. Caldwell and others.
The Women’s Missionary Society of Buchanan Street Methodist Church held a 2:30 PM meeting at the parsonage to register four new members Mrs William McDowell was installed as president and new officers were installed at the church hour last Sunday plans for the coming year’s work were completed
Miss Lora Foreman, a Methodist missionary to Africa, has returned to Amarillo and will speak to the Wesley Friendship class of the San Jacinto Methodist church at their regular Sunday morning meeting. All members are urged to be present and bring a guest.
The Esther McCrory Chapter D A R meeting scheduled for Tuesday afternoon is postponed due to a bereavement in the chapter. The next regular meeting will be held in February.
The upcoming season features jeweled star decorations for evening wear with embroidered motifs. Enzel showcases star topped combs, polka dotted shoes and handbags in blue red and white, plus an oriental slipper. Rose Valois offers a ribbon turban with tucks and Alexandrine presents beige suede gloves with chenille embroidery. JOAN.
Dr Mellroy joins Peacock Beauty Shoppe in the Fisk building as chiro podist. Mrs Bill Cummings and son Billy are confined at 1 ho1 N Fillmore due to illness. The Tri-State Technical Society visited the smelter with about 40 attending. A. Y. Bell and R. L. Guilletine visited on school board business. Dr Neal Hall expected home weekend from Oklahoma City. Mr R C Walker confined to home at 800 Jefferson by illness. Claude Gray and two sons improving after flu. William Knapp of Ada Oklahoma visiting city. Mrs J D Thompson at 1300 Van Buren now up after pneumonia. Las Amigas B Y P U and Banner Union host social at 8 at Miss Lillian Giles 1907 Jackson. Dr R P Parcells left to visit Rotary clubs in Forty first district for six weeks. Pennie Wagner, five, to hospital for second operation on lungs from pneumonia. improving this morning.
Paris dispatch says Marshal Ferdinand Foch shows improvement in heart and kidneys after a two hour consultation. Doctors Laubry Hertz Boyer and Davenieres report the general condition is somewhat better with a slight heart and kidney improvement.
The high council of the Salvation Army met at Sunbury on Thames to choose a successor to deposed leader General Bramwell Booth and consider army administration reforms. Attendance was nearly full, with a decision likely delayed until tomorrow.
A Negro college quartet performed 30 minute programs at the Junior and Senior High Schools in Conroe this morning and again at San Jacinto and Buchanan Street junior high schools this afternoon. They will present a special recital tonight at 8 15 pm at Mt Zion Negro Baptist church with invitations extended to white attendees and reservations noted.
Forfor months an escaped monkey terrorized a London neighborhood nightly. Police appeals failed to halt the raids until the animal was finally trapped in a tree and shot by a police officer, ending the disturbance.
A newborn in Coventry area weighed 17 1 2 pounds one hour after birth. The child’s mother is a miner’s wife and the big birth was noted as a promising start toward a career in a circus.
The influenza outbreak, beginning on the Pacific coast in October, has rapidly expanded to cover nearly all regions. Officials urge prompt cold treatment to bolster resistance and prevent complications from flu or pneumonia. Vicks VapoRub sees surging demand with 375,000 jars daily and labs running around the clock.
In Congress just after she learned she had been chosen to succeed her husband as Arkansas first congresswoman Mrs W A Oldfield posed for an exclusive NSA Service picture the first in ten years.
The United States Customs Service reports in the 1928 fiscal year it seized 516 horses and mules used to haul liquor. This reveals bootleggers favored equine transport over motor vehicles in illicit liquor operations.
New York January 18 Alfred E Smiths radio appeal to raise funds to cover the Democratic partys 1 500 090 deficit drew an avalanche of pledges, checks, and telegrams. Hundreds of letters accompanied contributions ranging from five to 169 dollars to national chairman John J Raskob and James W Gerard.
W R Riggins of Groom Texas credits Orgatone with a dramatic recovery after four years of fatigue nervous insomnia and digestive trouble He reports improved appetite sleep energy and heartburn relief and endorses the remedy. City Drug Store Am arillo sells genuine Orgatone with mail orders offered at $1 25 per bottle or six for $6 25.
The treasurer of the national committee notes no totals have been made for the receipts. Virtually every contributor has requested from one to 100 copies of the book containing Mr. Smith's campaign speeches, which he announced would be given to each contributor who donated two or more copies.
An engine boiler exploded today injuring Engineer F. Wood 34 of this city and fatally wounding him. Fireman Fred Benton and brakeman Henry Cleveland were burned and Benton may not survive.
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