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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1938
Page
5
The Tuesday Study Club opens its season with the first meeting at 3914 Cheyenne home of Mrs. Harry Hatcher. Co hostesses include Mrs. P. L. Bottoms. Mrs. S. Hudson directs the lesson.
A shower honoring bride-elect Miss Bethine Williams, of Wildorado, was hosted by Mrs. Loyd E. Roberson and Mrs. Guy Smyth at 3608 Polk Street. Guests toured a green and white display of gifts, heard a brief program, and refreshments were served. Williams and Truman R. Miller are to wed September 23 at the First Baptist Church.
The La Costura Club celebrated three member birthdays this week at the home of Mrs. C. R. McAfee on Tyler Street. Honor guests included Mesdames C. A. Robertson C. S. Hatchett and May Brummett. New officers were introduced with Mrs. Robertson as president and other roles named.
Margaret Wills P T A postponed the annual tea to September 26 due to the Tri-State Fair. The event will honor teachers and new PTA members. A library expansion update notes 1409 volumes after adding books by Mabel Williams and Marcia Dalphin.
Mrs C L Jinkins entertained Circle No of Polk Street Methodist Church at 3304 Van Buren Street Wednesday afternoon. The Mexican lesson was presented by Mescames O Duntiven H W Clutter B F Bennett and Aubry Cousins. Members and visitors included H W Clutter F Morris S D Rodgers B F Bennett D Watkins R Boulware MR Fain C L Duniven Aubrey Cousins O L Jinkins R R Winningham and A Pryor. A social hour followed the meeting and refreshments were served by the hostess with help from her daughters Mrs Winningham and Mrs Mava.
Mr and Mrs Crouch entertained friends with a hobo party at 4220 West Fifteenth Avenue. Prizes were awarded to Norman Protter and Oned Mask for best costumes. Attendees included L P Hoare Jack Mendricks Ari Kelly Marois Smith Carlton Mask Paul Proffer Audrey Mask Norman Proffer Oeel Mask and others. Local club luncheon plans and society notices follow including D A R and D S groups with meeting dates and hosts.
The MacDowell Fine Arts Club gathered Wednesday evening at Miss Maxine Ratcliff’s home 1011 West Eighteenth Avenue. Mary Louise Shaw read an original poem and Maxine Ratcliff played a piano selection. Attendees included Mrs. Leander Campbell, and Misses Carro Lou Stone, Betty Ward, Mary L. Shaw, Lady Jane Gouldy, Mary Ellen Causey, Pat Devine, Marjorie Welch, and Jimmy Lee Williamson.
Mrs. A H Willborn and Mrs F T Dunaway hosted the Lena Lair Circle of the First Baptist Church at the Willborn home on Wednesday afternoon. Special music was provided by Mrs J L McLaughlin and the devotional was read by Mrs Dunaway. A mission talk was given by Mrs W N Durham.
Amarillo Music Teachers present a group of pupils in a Sunday recital at 3 pm in the Blue Room of the Amarillo Hotel. Public invited.
The Prophetic Bible conference at the Church of the Open Bible ends tonight with a 7:45 service. Speaker B O Phillips presents an illustrated message on the Second Coming of Christ. Phillips, field representative of the Biblical Research Society, has drawn large crowds in Amarillo and invites local Jews to attend.
A sacred concert is planned Sunday at 4 PM from the Singing Tower in Llano Cemetery. The event, the second in a fall series, is led by Tenth Avenue Methodist Church under Ocie Davis. The public may also visit the Mausoleum, open as usual.
Tens of thousands of American Legionnaires descend on Los Angeles ahead of the twentieth annual national convention. Detachments arrive by air and rail, including 100,000 attendees, with Detroit and Miami 40 and 8 groups contributing boxcars. Local organizers describe the heat, 93 degrees, and parade chatter fills intersections.
El Popular the organ of the Mexican Workers Confederation predicted the Mexican Supreme Court would deny the appeal of American and British oil firms against the expropriation decree of last March and said the ruling would be handed down soon.
In Toms River Judge Percy Camp sentenced Leon S. Clayton to one to two years in New Jersey state prison for obtaining money by fraud. The judge, who called the sentence the hardest he would ever pronounce, noted that Camp and Clayton were boyhood chums raised on adjoining farms.
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