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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1928
Page
4
Amarillo Athletic Club members and friends enjoyed a lavish dinner dance last night marking the new dining room opening. Zackie Moore's orchestra provided music while spring colors and pink carnations decorated tables.
The piano pupils of Margaret Keirsey Woodruff and Mary Miller Beard will perform a recital tonight at Fellowship Hall Central Presbyterian Church. The program features multiple piano solos readings duets and a rhythm orchestra with works by Edgar A. Guest and others.
Mrs. E. A. Simpson entertained a group of young matrons with a bridge luncheon at the Amarillo Athletic Club yesterday afternoon. Pink and green decorations featured a green bowl of pink coronations and pink tapers. In auction bridge, Mrs. Gordon Inman won high score while Mrs. Joe Dooley took consolation. Attendees included Mrs. E. A. Ford, Mrs. L. P. Herndon, Mrs. Julius Dorenfield, Mrs. Ed Mayer, Mrs. J. Dooley, Mrs. M. E. Savage, Mrs. Cris Pearson, Mrs. Ross Rogers, Mrs. A. C. Pipkin, Mrs. H. EB. Westmoreland, Mrs. W. B. Stevenson, Mrs. Harry Holland, Mrs. Co. F. Collier, Mrs. William Frost, Mrs. Gordon Inman, Miss Marie Machovec, and Miss Allease Skillman.
The Triple Four Bridge club will entertain with a party honoring their husbands at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Glover on West Thirteenth Street.
Milton Reece general agent for the Missouri State Life Insurance company has been called to the St. Louis home office for a special meeting of general agents. Reece notes his 1927 production placing his Texas agency fifth in the state.
Detroit publisher George G. Booth with Ellen Scripps Booth funds Cranbrook Foundation a 6.5 million trust creating a 12 million educational cultural center at Cranbrook Bloomfield Hills Michigan. The project includes Christ Church Cranbrook school for boys and a girls academy and arts schools. The not-for-diversion educational purpose funds 225 acres of rolling terrain atop Rouge river branches. The Booths aim to train youth morally religiously and intellectually amid architecture and world art. Booth leads Detroit News and Booth Publishing with eight Michigan dailies.
Mrs Cora J Burberry travels to Lubbock for Sunday theater lecture. M J Sayer of Magnolia theatre trip to Boisey and Hooker Oklahoma. Mrs Allen Wilbury Jr visiting Perryton this week. Mrs Schantel recently returned from Des Moines Iowa after a three week visit. Mr and Mrs Ersel Dunn back from Sherman after attending grandmother's funeral. KF W Kerr of the Moore hotel is noted in the piece.
In Los Angeles, Thomas Ball and wife Mary staged a dramatic first alimony hearing. Mrs Ball won temporary alimony of 150 dollars a month and 260 dollars in attorney fees as Ball seeks a divorce. He accuses her of nagging and mounting bills from his hospital stay for injuries from an automobile wreck. Mrs Ball blames relatives of Ball for alienation of affection. The couple ended with a tearful embrace and Mary pleading for the judge's forgiveness.
Ball testified that after physicians and his wife removed with her husband he has not seen him since. He said he lacked money and lived on friends' charity while working as a telephone operator at Magnolia Petroleum. Mrs Hicks of Houston arrived to visit her sister Mrs Hart. The name Audrey is noted as an oft used term and Miss Louise Bell is described as having a noble threatener origin.
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