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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1940
Page
6
The public is invited to a recital by piano pupils of Men Jenkins at Myers Music rt at 8 o clock Friday night. The program will include ensemble numbers piano solos and two readings by speech pupils of Miss Mattes McClurkin. It is estimated that 850000 inflammatory farm laborers have entered California since 1935.
Calendar items list Chapel Choir picnic at home era and many gatherings including H C Wives Club at Adams Street, Agnes Graham Circle at First Baptist, A B C Auxiliary at Aronson Tea Room, and Les Eleves Club luncheon at Amarillo Country Club plus band recitals and student concerts at local venues and homes with dates and times noted.
Mrs. T J Wagner entertained with a morning coffee honoring Mrs. Lang Wagner the former Miss Margaret Woodruff at 1723 Monroe Street. Seventy five guests called between 10 and 12 arriving to a receiving line and flowering centerpieces with garden and silver iris decor.
Agnes Graham Circle of the First Baptist Women’s Missionary Society meets at the church at 6 30 Friday night for a review of the book Missions in the Bible by Mesdames E O Jordan and B I Foster and A Woody 1414 Hayden Street all day. Moslem religion still flourishes in Yugoslavia a relic of Turkish conquests.
Elaine Johnson leaves this weekend for Camp Waldemar near Kerrville as Amarillo hosts art talks with Grant Reynard at the Rose Bowl. Reynard, from New Jersey, will be artist-in-residence at Palo Duro School of Art for six weeks after exhibiting with American art groups. Tonight, dances occur at the Amarillo Hotel hosted by Catherine Manning and others. Sub-Deb Club officers are elected for six months, and a sunrise breakfast is planned after a spring formal. A PFE chapter dinner closes its season at Mrs. L. J. Vick’s home with plans for next year’s yearbooks and Sept. 24 meeting.
The Helping Hand Sewing Club will meet all day Friday at the home of Mrs. 8S. A. Woody, 1414 Hayden Street. Mrs. Garland Pearce hosted the Congenial Nine Club at her 501 North Polk Street home. Members gave gifts to the hostess and to Mrs. Dee Fry as sewing provided the afternoon’s diversion.
Jackie Fyfe was honored on his sixth birthday as his mother Mrs. Jack Fyfe hosted a Monday gathering at 1802 Lincoln Street. Glenaana Dowie and Margaret Jean Herbert told stories and games were played with guests including Sandra Tarkington Eloise Ann Benton Bonnie Schumaker Jerry Cash Neal Hawkins Jerry Brown Marilyn Lewis Rob Roy Beeman Sue Whitaker Bruce Everett Weaver and Mary Yvonne Weaver.
In Mrs J H Chandler s home a review of the novel How Green Was My Valley was led by Miss Smith. A long list of attendees included Mesdames Sugg Rosenwald Gosnell Wallace Mason Snyder Thompson Scott Fischer Erhard Chandler Vick Jordan and Macbeth Lawson along with many guests. Holland lent the United States 3 600 000 between 1782 and 1789.
Delegates Mesdames T H Rodgers and Josepha Birge and alternates Mesdames Mattie Henry and Clara O Dell were elected to attend the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary encampment in Galveston June 16 to 19. The group voted to present 100 brick to Panhandle Plains Historical Museum and will place flowers in Veterans Hospital rooms this afternoon. Hospital chairman Mrs Joe Scroggins reported 20 visits and 19 games given to patients along with flowers and magazines. Mrs Lucille Warner was welcomed as a new member.
Ellis B Hall will present his B and C Band classes Friday at 8 PM in the Academy of Music Auditorium. The program includes solos duets trios and band selections with pupils such as Robert Norman Edward Norman Robert Scott Horace Hewett John Henry Hedspeth Melvin Little John Cavin Raymond Jewett Arthur Jewett and several others. Public invited. Mary Frances Russell daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter G Russell will be presented in a junior high school piano recital at 7 30 PM Saturday at the Musical Arts Conservatory of West Texas.
The program features a duo marimba number by Mary Frances and Jane Everline on ton's Day and a "Souvenirs" solo by Stephen Foster. The News-Globe staff adds, Edna Ruth Hamblen and others assist with the one act play "My Lady's Dressing Table" and Miss Conoley's pupils join in ensembles.
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