Bright Spots in The Prairie Dog Era Social Scene
Community notices cover club pool hours and member events including June 7 games party at 8 p.m. with 7:30 p.m. buffets, June 12 and 26 family nights, and June 10 and 24 bridge luncheons. Frances Richards moves to Amarillo for The Prairie Dog, rhubarb featured as fruit, plus beauty tips and cactus pins from The Prairie Dog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Bridge
C. A Clemmons
E. H. Klein
Guy Owens
W. G. Gunn
Prairie Dog
Frankhoma Pottery Company
Sapulpa
Oklahoma
Evening schedule of piano recitals and club meetings
Tonight piano pupils perform at 3504 Polk Street and Myers Music Mart with recitals from 7 to 8:30 PM. Also events include Needle Club luncheon at 12 30, Sunnyside Home Demonstration Club at 2, Lone Star Roller Canary Club at 2 39, and multiple lodge and club gatherings at various venues through 8 30 PM. Public lecture by E M Sweet Jr at Polk Street Methodist Church open at 8.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonita
Order of the Eastern Star
George Stapleton
West Fifteenth Avenue
Emily Hertner
W. P. Moreland
C. C Pangle
Small Twister Drives Plank Through Wall at Masters Home
A quick hard twister struck the A. L. Masters home at 85 North Independence Street around 6 PM yesterday. A long plank was hurled through the garage wall, with debris from the yard scattered into the street and front area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masters
A. L. Masters
North
Independence Street
United States
Summer House
California
Miss Berry Honored At Farewell Luncheon And Slumber Party
Miss Virginia Hess hosted a farewell luncheon at Schneiders and a later slumber party at her home on Monroe Street to honor Miss Beverly Berry now moving to Wichita Falls. Guests included Mary Stone and Jean Wilson. Activities featured dancing games a midnight matinee a buffet supper and a butterfly breakfast. Other attendees at the slumber party were Cecile Brown Phylis Burnet Margaret Eckel Nancy Everline Nell Matthews Mary Stone and Jean Wilson. COIN-IN-SLOT TYPEWRITERS Patrons of Berlin's postoffice insert coins in the slots of postoffice typewriters to use them for 10 minutes. California apiary notes mention swarms sent to the Sierra region for the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Hess
Beverly Berry
Wichita
Schneider’s
Mary Stone
Jean Wilson
Berlin
Postoffice
Public church talks and meetings in Amarillo
M Sweet Jr will discuss and show Congo pictures at Polk Street Methodist Church Fellowship Hall on Tuesday at 8 PM. Flora Foreman, Amarillo missionary, is featured and a free will offering goes to her Africa work. AMOMA Class meets at 1 PM Tuesday for luncheon and business at First Baptist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist
M. Sweet, Jr
Belgian Congo
Africa
Polk Street Methodist Church
Amarillo
Miss Flora Foreman
Miss Foreman
Mission Board of the Methodist Church
AMOMA
First Baptist Amoma
Manicuring Rules for Girls Aged to Twelve
The column urges girls up to age twelve to learn basic nail care with parent supplied kits. It lists components like cuticle oil and buffer, cautions against colored polish, and prescribes weekly buffing, gentle cuticle pushing, careful shaping with emery boards, trimming hangnails, and daily cuticle oil to soften hard spots.
Euton and Eyrone Donley Seventh Birthday Party
Twins Euton and Eyrone Donley were honored on their seventh birthday Saturday afternoon at 500 Jefferson Street. Their mother Mrs. Lewis Donley hosted a party with games, candy favors, ice cream, and cake for family and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euton
Eyrone Donley
Jefferson Street
Lewis Donley
Helen Marie Miller
Joycelyn Speers
Patricia Tisdal
Beverly Jo Tisdal
Helen Ruth Welch
Mona Byars
Naomi McClure
Algerina Spain
Rob Roy Beeman
John Dean Bailey
Robert Donley
Mesdames
Jess Tisdal
Davie Cates
Elephants Do Forget at Bronx Zoo in Radio Test
In New York on June 2, Alice a 44 year old favorite of the Bronx Zoo forgot during a coast to coast radio program. Keeper Dick Richards rang a telephone she learned 30 years ago for a memory test but she stood confused and did not answer. The test was abandoned after three tries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice
Bronx
Dick Richards
Richards
First Wedding In Palo Duro Is Announced
The first Palo Duro wedding festen is the Sunday morning ceremony of Palo Duro Park concessionaire Frank Miller and Miss Vivian Burleson daughter of Mrs J E Burleson of Silverton. Rev Johnson Baptist minister of Canyon officiated as yucca blooms and canyon wildflowers framed the altar at Coronado Lodge. Guests included L E Woods A Saunders Ralph Craig W G Rose and Bob Miller. Frank Miller is son of Mrs D M Miller of Quitaque.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palo Duro Canyon
Palo Duro Park
Frank Miller
Vivian Burleson
J. E. Burleson
Silverton
Coronado Lodge
Rev. Johnson
Canyon
L. E. Woods
A. Saunders
Ralph Craig
W. G. Rose
Bob Miller
D. M. Miller
Quitaque
Texas Second In 4 H Rank
Texas ranking second among states in 4-H Club enrollment for 1940 with 88 091 members. Alabama led with 115 193, Georgia had 82 962, and the nationwide total reached 1 420 297 with 4 144 in Texas. Extension Service notes show growth since 1939 and outline 4-H club activities and aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Texas
M. L. Wilson
Federal Extension Service
Washington, D. C
L. L. Johnson
Onah Jacks
Alabama
Georgia
Extension Service
Recitals Tonight at Myers Music Mart Feature Local Pupils
Mrs Leta Crudgington presents piano pupils in recital at Myers Music Mart tonight at 8 including Nancy Boxwell Newman Boxwell Joan Thrasher Mac Alsebrook Patsy Moore Charlie Steed Olive Steed Daphne Martin Bobbye Covey DeLois Utterback L B Thomas Patricia Thomas Barbara Boxwell Robert Frost Ilyne Floyd and Ernest Archambeau Jr Certificates awarded after a Sunday recital at Amarillo College of Music Auditorium with Ruth Courtney Phillips Max Helen Pickens Mary Lou Higgs Mary Browning Effie Tolleson and Frances Fay Blessen unable to attend were Dorothy Evans Betty Mae Cooper Charlene Mapes and Mary Ruth Evans Pupils on the program included Leona Robinett Ocelia Jo Perkins Audrey Fern Posey Betty Burkhalter Joy Cain Betty Anne Rapp Melba Morris Ruth Marie Rogers Pat Newby Doris Jean Cobb Dixie Hewett Dorothy Montgomery and Frankie Sewall T: Recitals Tonight at San Jacinto Methodist Church Set for 7 45 Local Pupils Listed with Certificates Also to Be Awarded
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Leta Crudgington
Myers Music Mart
Nancy and
Newman Boxwell
Joan Thrasher
Mac Alsebrook
Patsy Moore
Charlie
Olive Steed
Daphine Martin
Bobbye Covey
DeLois Utterback
L. B. Thomas
Patricia Thomas
Barbara Boxwell
Robert Frost
Ilyne Floyd
Ernest R. Archambeau, Jr
Lila Austin Myers
Amarillo College of Music
Ruth Courtney Phillips
Max Helen Pickens
Mary Lou Higgs
Mary Browning
Effie Tolleson
Frances Fay Blessen
Dorothy Evans
Betty Mae Cooper
Charlene Mapes
Mary Ruth Evans
Leona Robinett
Ocelia Jo Perkins
Audrey Fern Posey
Betty Burkhalter
Joy Cain
Betty Anne Rapp
Melba Morris
Ruth Marie Rogers
Pat Newby
Doris Jean Cobb
Dixie Hewett
Dorothy Montgomery
Frankie Sewall
R. M. Gardner
Wesley Friendship Room
San Jacinto Methodist Church
Johnie
Jackie Chomley
Carol
Phyllis Ely
Jean Gardner
Betty Tom Flack
Katherine Odell
Donald Lemons
Carol Ely
Patsy Thornton
Luanne Laughlin
Donna Jean Blair
Marjorie Saunders
Ann Arnett
Mrs. D. F. Cook Taken by Death
Mrs. D. F. Cook Panhandle pioneer died after a heart attack while en route to Midlothian Texas. Funeral services were held at 2 pm in Midlothian. She settled in Hartley in 1892 with her husband Frank Cook who died last year. The Cooks later moved to Amarillo. No immediate survivors listed.
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D. F. Cook
Panhandle
Midlothian
Tex
Pierce
Fort Worth Grain Meet Called To Ease Car Shortage
W C Clinger of the Interstate Commerce Commission announced a June Fort Worth conference of grain growers handlers and railroad men to address a possible freight car shortage. He urged Texas industrialists to keep cars moving. about 45 000 cars will be needed for the Texas Panhandle wheat crop and for national defense industries.
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Dallas
W. C. Clinger
Interstate Commerce Commission
Fort Worth
Texas
Texas Panhandle
National Defense Industries
Nab Convict Who Escaped Devils Island
EDINBURG Texas June 2 Julius Rene Lucien Belbenoit forty two who escaped Devils Island French penal colony near South America and wrote Dry Guillotine is jailed on federal immigration charges in ten thousand dollar bond. He was arrested May 26 at Falfurrias by U S Border Patrol during a routine bus inspection after a lookout was issued following two prior entry attempts. Belbenoit said he swam the Rio Grande near Brownsville to enter the United States and was arraigned last week before United States Commissioner J C Hall at Edinburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edinburg
Tex
Julius Rene Lucien Belbenoit
Devils Island
South America
Belbenoit
Falfurrias
U. S. Border Patrol
Immigration Service
Mexico
United States
Rio Grande
Brownsville
J. C. Hall
Edinburgh
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Frances Richards
Guy A. Carlander
Brooks Morris
White Deer
Pauline Lokey
Potter County
Lokey
I. FE. Graham
Elizabeth Spega Morris
Polk Street
O'Clock
Kate Ellen Gruver
Piret Baptist Church
Waitermi
Virginia Street
Atlantida Spanish Club
Amarillo Hotel
Earl G. Hamlett
Needle Club
Aronson Yea Room
Harrison Street
H. C. Cooper
Anne Clifton Summers
el Martes Needly Club
EB. L Smith
Fillmore Street
Sunnyside Home Demonstration Club
A. Bertrand
Lone Star Roller Canary Club
Emma Dodson
Center Avenue
Forest Hill Home Demonstration Club
BE. L. Davis
West
Eleventh Avenue
Howard Lauder
Grace E. Hamilton
Tyler Street
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Order of Eastern Star
Taylor Street
Wild Rose Lodge
Virgila Oglesby
Front Street
Amarillo Rebekah Lodge
C.F
Miracle Book Club
Lincoln Street
Terpsichorean Club
E. M. Sweet, Jr
R. M. Gardiner
Wesley
Miss Berry
Sumcilr
California Apiarista
High Sierra Region
Open
Mark
Earl G. Hamilett
Howard Lynch
Wesleyan Guild of
San Jacinto
Tussy
White & Kirk
Alicia Hartner
Euton and
Tanity
New York
U.P
Raymond Ditimars
Palo Duro
Arrid
American Institute of Laundering
Cash & Carry
B & M Cleaners & Dyers
Pearl Damron
Alamo
Coffee Folger’s
Schilling's
RINSO
Brooks
Oleo Maybelle
Armour
Cudahy
Swift
Pinkney
Johnson
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