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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1951
Page
3
Community youths gather at Highlands First Baptist for a two day meeting. Organizers hope Hoon and young attendees join Monday and Tuesday sessions starting early at 5 30 am. Representatives plan annual reports and discuss church activities for the year.
Abell will lead a weeklong drive at St. Jude's Catholic Highlands next month with a Rosary Society meeting at Ir caandler's home. Tobin, president, led flower and bake sale planning for the event. Parish activities included devotions and a study session on Danforth's book I Believer.
The Auxiliary of the Sterian Church holds a meeting Monday at 1 pm in the church hall. Johnston will preside and the program includes the fits. The user for the refreshments is McHugh and Mrs. ALS.
Alberta Joaquin will speak at both sessions of the Mexican mission church event with youth from 20 churches. Mrs EE Slagie and Mrs Charles Gates will lead youth and meditation sessions. A devotional by Mrs Hans Busch and a memorial service for WATU members will close the day with sandwiches and a nursery provided.
The Goose Creek Order of the Eastern Star marks its 25th anniversary with a 7:30 pm closed meeting at the Masonic Hall honoring charter members and past patrons. Originating in October 1925 with 20 charter members, about 12 may attend. Orchid and silver decor honor the founders.
Washington reports President Truman acknowledged love has existed long before and will endure. Asked about a grant to Dr. Robert E. Winen of Northwestern University to study unconscious factors in courtship and mate selection, he admitted he could not define the thing and quipped that it has been going on since Adam and Eve and will likely continue.
Mrs EM Pitts of Highlands hosted a party Thursday honoring her grandson Charles Pitts on his 11th birthday. Ice cream and cake were served to 17 playmates with refreshments. Out of town guests included Mr and Mrs D L Wilson and their child of Columbus Texas.
The Women's Missionary Society of First Congregational Methodist Church presents an amateur program Monday night at Horace Mann Junior High. The show features quartets, duets, a special arrangement by Rev. Walter Bailes and a three act play Soup Sand and Sagebrush. Cast includes Miss Jarvis Eastman Evelyn Robinson LaVerne Davis Ruth Robinson and Rev and Mrs Lewis Norris among others Admission is 15 cents for children and 35 cents for adults.
Four P T A Halloween carnivals will be held this weekend at DeZavala Cedar Bayou Anson Jones Lamaris and Anson Jones Elementary. Each will offer dinners auditorium programs dances coronations and games with activities ranging from a Mexican supper and live music to a hillbilly number and a womenless wedding. Admission 35 cents for adults and nine cents for children.
The Friendly Acres Home Demonstration Club voted to observe United Nations Week by collecting clothing for Korean children up to age 26 for shipment. At 10 am October 23 the group meets at Mrs. S. J. Stubbs home, 705 Hast Humble, with a box-boxed demonstration on bed springs by Mrs. Frances McCullough and a covered dish luncheon. Members to register for home nursing courses. guests and members attended a recent meeting at Mrs. J. Norton’s home on Market Street Road Ryals with a large guest list and party decorations
Goose Creek calendar lists Order of the Eastern Star at Masonic Hall at 7 pm Newcomers Club at Community House at 8 pm St Anne's Guild of Trinity Episcopal Guild Room at 6 30 pm Woman's Auxiliary of First Presbyterian church at 7 30 p.m. Woman's Auxiliary of American Legion Legion Hall at 3 39 p.m. Seth Ward Class Cedar Bayou Methodist parsonage at 7 30 pm San Jacinto PTA executive board at school 2 30 p.m. Wresteyan Service Guild Grace Methodist church at 7 30 pan.
The engagement of Miss Lucille Johnson to Merle Edward Sparks of Corrigan was announced. The bride-elect, a Robert E. Lee and Lee College graduate, works at Hoffpatur's grocery. Sparks, a Corrigan graduate, served 2 1/2 years in the Army Air Corps. The wedding is set for early November.
The snippet identifies the sole reptile native to Ireland as a lizard. It notes the species type without naming specific varieties or habitats.
Baytown Sun offers pattern No 2471 for skirts and weskit options in multiple sizes including 16 with fabric yardage details. Also features No 2369 and No 2333 blouses with yardage, prices, and mailing guidance plus the Fall Winter Fashion Book and pattern orders via Baytown Sun Pattern Bureau.
Mrs Ferris Wilson returns to Eureka Springs Arkansas after visiting in the home of her brother Victor Goodwin and sister Mrs T C Saxon. Mrs Wilson is accompanied back by Mrs John Brunson and Mrs A E Alford for a week at the Wilson home. Parents return home after two weeks with L S Grimes and R J Grimes and daughters Mrs C Futch and Mrs H S Broom. Mr and Mrs S D Grimes return to Magnolia Springs. A group of Presbyterians will travel to Waco for the Texas Synodical and Texas Senate meeting led by Rev and Mrs M E B McPhail and others leaving Monday and returning Thursday. Mr and Mrs H B McKee host Home Brooks of Caldwell Idaho visiting with relatives in Houston during their Texas trip.
National Education Association code of ethics was explained to members of Delta Kappa Gamma on Thursday night at the Community House. The program urged proper efficiency through studying and exercising ethics with Miss Eula Pottre as program chairman. After a business meeting led by President Mrs. Lucile Waddell, refreshments were served by Mrs. Jack Hart, Mrs. M. Simmons, Miss Annideen Bateman, and Miss Davida Thorepson. The sorority will meet November 2 in the home of Mrs. B. L. Gunn. 13 West Hunnicuth
Lamar PFA scheduled a Monday carnival opening with a Mexican supper served at 3:23 p.m. General chairwoman is Mrs. L. G. Sanders. New features include jeep rides and a ducking pond, plus a country store, fortune telling, fish pond, plant sale, moving pictures, games, and multiple refreshment stands offering hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream, candy, and drinks.
Club members were reminded they must reserve by Monday noon for the first dinner meeting on Tuesday. Dr. Vernon Nash, a Missouri Rhodes scholar, is scheduled as speaker to discuss What Does History Teach Americans Today. The dinner will be at Robert E. Lee cafeteria at 7 p.m.
Parents and guests will enjoy a circus at 7 p.m. Monday at Trinity Episcopal Kindergarten. Smokey the papier mache horse will appear with two special acts. John Harold Chamberlain is ringmaster with Timmie Morrow giving the official welcome. Refreshments of popcorn and soda will be served from a decorated booth.
The Baytown Garden Club cancels its Tuesday gathering as members attend the School Five meeting in Houston the same day. The club plans to meet October 2 in its regular venue Grace Methodist Church.
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