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Pikes Peak RegionYesterdavsBy DORA FOSTERSlt;Mrsiam;to JThis week we will continue our stories of newspaper workIt is just possible that last week Jthis column forgot to tell that thejcigaret smoke in the little office on the third floor of the Gazette building often became so dense that the society reporter found it necessary to go out and walk up! and down the dingy hall while head and lungs were partially: cleared out Other times when courage ran high, I had the boys open the one large window while 11 insisted that it remain open for several minutes even if the cold; winter wind was howling over the roofs. I have since marveled at(their good nature during suchjtimes. ;i The society page was supposed to have at least one picture eachweek but occasionally we were allowed to have two The cuts required two days to be made ready by Saturday morning when the page was made up. Stewart Brothers, 0. W and B. H . had thatAStatCodthei't -fa- -• mi%sheath dresses, or at least they Tex wore dresses that were made m {ra! long straight lines, and only the slender ladies looked as they thought they did Mrs. Paul Lennox, who was living in Manitou at that time, appeared in a beautiful white silk, very stunning. ;Pr°f and since she had just been mar j St ried not long before, was the grai object of much admiration and cele attention. iT-23I recall Mrs. W. Arthur Perkinv‘was resal in a shimmering green satin. Mrs. Francis W. Goddard t onchose black and white for her sign party outfits and her long white! thro kid gloves were purchased, she Stra ioid me, in boxes of a dozen eagh tary direct from Paris. Mrs. Allen T JsGunnel! was lovely in black lace AirQuoting from an early Gazette;J,rau The clubhouse was handsomely ■»ar decorated for the occasion with crj* Christmas trees, balsam, fir. poinsettlas and holly. Lohman Dji ius* orchestra from Denver play-, ed. In accordance with the cmwork The photographs often came \jNORMAN M CAMPBELL tom of the club the wives of the inlt;from the studio of Charles Epast presidents of the board ofS.'Emery at 31 N. Cascade Ave. dren a play called. The Dancing trustees were invited to compose tj.a. where his sister, Mrs. Deana E Doll ’ This was given in Cogswell o»e receiving line including Mes- oai; Tobey, was the bookkeeper. .As Theater and the children in the dames, Horace Gay Lunt, George va,d -he handed me the photograph. parts were; Owls, Miss Kobina \ Fowler. Henry Hine, Eugene ‘ he was sure to remind me to in Webb 'and others*; Mother Owl. p shove. H. Alexander Smith. Ed-sert below the caption. Photopy Helen Drummond; Magpies. Ger- Win p. Solly. J. Arthur Connell. inde C. E. Emery.** Several tunei*i aid Webb (and others'; Gbone Ashton Potter. Francis W. God-forgot that important to her. George Drummond; Fairies, Les- dard. Lewis Gibbs Carpenter. ^tlt;1 httie line and after her sharp re- he Drummond, Marcia Webb. Bet-jE*rl a. Swenson. Leonard E. Cur- ‘ ‘marks concerning my forgetful- ty Hungerford (and others:itis. Alfred H. Hunt. Ralph 0 Wlthj. ness, Ellsworth Overholt, city edi- Harvest Moon, Elizabeth Hamlin; Giddmgs. Charles M. McNeil and Pac)tor. said to tell her it dropped Mmme BooHoo. Elizabeth Postle- Holland*•i.off in thOur prize beauty at those balls GovHarrison ofcomposing room Her waste. Tadpole. Gerald Webb; Old d jerisive little snort when 1 rlt;s Medicine Man. S. F. H Mary. jt^ephlaved that information told me a Mary Quite Contrary. Dorothea w ,, Mrs Tobey was a widow Drummond; Ulttto BoPeep. Glad- dr roofn afl to herself andand roomed at 410 N Weber St. ys Burns The were wUh door c!a^ too Nexer* One fine thing that helped me made by Mrs. Alberta Benson. \wf ^ (oId l0 about htTto fill up my Sunday’ page wasard, . . _ . D or rather my page, had a magnificent gowns, nor even to;* a large lead cut of a size that boost one day about that Uroe speak to her. as she swept past’ I oft*0 wished were several times by having handed m to me a us in majesty 1 had thought shelarger. It was always inserted on picturr of Miss Margery Reed. was a but her husband;* th* W under the society head- lhe daughter of Mr and Mrs was llstelt;t m’u»e city directory* ;ng and showed a fine slender Verner Z Reed of Denver, who a{ that date 1914. She had four' lady st and mg before a full length was l0 ti* city as the house guest beautiful daughters and one son mirror with hat and coat all ready ^ Mr. arkj Mrs clarence Clark Jo^ph Jr , aUbo i Mw theto go out for a walk A long lean Hamlin, Miss Reed was here to ^hound do2 was standing in back attend the annual ball of the El Butler Williamson of Broad-of her with his forefeet on the PaM) nub. I had been a school- moor a retired gentleman ofe rug and his h;nd feet on the floor mate of her mother, May me John Kreat' popularity and Secure wav it All very elecant and chic. oc when she and her sister, { think. her escort to these af-n For months my name was not Florence, rode to school each fairs but of that I am not too (j to be seen anywhere in the paper, morning on the Rock Island train sure was jajj arKj slerxrk’r 7 not even was the te'ephone given that came down from Roswell. awj nmbabiv knew how to trace d Queer, but the city directory had her father being a conductor on thlt;. ba''room floor At a late hour* me listed as society editor of the the train. The Margery Reed ^ Allen and i %ould min. t0h Gazette, sa I must have beer Nurses Home is named in her the Gazette office where we wouldhonor, named by her mother, our Tories and compare ourFor nearer 10 years before Mrs Mayme Johnson Heed r«**s, send them to the composLk? -/ Aden became society Another wonderful piece of news ing room and then betake our-. l f broke about that time, the an selves to the Acacia Hotel whereorous ta k had been pertormea rK)Uncf.rnent of the engagement of we would take a room on the* * ..r* K eif5lt;i . ~ * ams' Mrs. Spencer Penrose's daugh Tejon Street side of the bu Iding™. [ crowned Dy the tef GUldys McMillan. The news to hear over and over again the“fDTL* 0 ««l tv 0.1 for LS, picture hclpol Mmc old doore niosic beingHondrcd hn ... d.ond and court- . ,ot ^ groubd out bv the Denver oned uo.,1 her ^jeo.v« .erejb McVfflM dou-h chenr. th* never fwhered ..mo*, .on. out Mr, Allen .omed «« s,n„me against such a danger and opencer renruse. .made me a I.nI of society eaders whose appn^chmg wedding on was late, or rather early, maae me a ilsi oi society teaoer. mierest 40(1 *** dancers too sleepy lt;?who had given her much help r ~ ^ m „__ .A,.At the head of her hvf written Wllh **** fnendl just now. She know lt;** 'r08m Motherme twavt of her I; ritffl Count Paul Comet of N^xt week we will try to shed* SSL Srer’.t, wTwSS — w. on e*,y rociety u,long yellow list out. but never did J08* arf ,U1 ”°wMrs. Campbell fail when the m- ^ in for t|'e wedding^Miss McMillan is beautiful andaccomplished and has a host offriends She wa- educated ;n Dresden and is as much at hometiIBtricacies of the social world threatened to engulf me.The Zebu Ion Pike Chapter ofthe Daughters of the American . , ..Revolution, beaded by Mrs Eliz a a' ' f !S m nativeabeth Cass Goddard had a fullquota of members. Its ranks were Dn tfc at san e page, I insertedfull But a number of younger a bit of my own gathering “Mrwomen a ho were eligible for and Mrs David Elliot w ere host membership and who wanted to awl hostess Friday at a dinner be DAK Ladies too, organized, for 10 guests at their home, 28 the* January, the Kinnikinnik E. Colun.i .a St. The guests Chapter, with Mrs. Campbell as Rev. and Mrs Samuel Garvin, its regent. So was launched upon Rev and Mrs Robert Bruce Wolf, the social world of the city of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. R. Stole and Color ado Springs a new DAR with Mrs. Frank Gotten.Mrs. Campbell s picture on my Tie El Paso Club’s annua! ball. Sunday page. always a great event, wls heldOne morning while at.11 pretty in the club-house on Norfh Tt jon green at my job two grand lathes Street and for several years while swept into my presence to have Mrs A en was sSill writing some fill ray page with their news ciety for the Gazette she and I They were Mrs. James P. Burn* covered the affair, 1 only as an, and Mrs Arthur Lennox Drum- assistant. Those mg Ms she took mood. Mrs. Drummond just or- one door leading from one of the, dinary. but Mrs. Bums with a upstairs ladies dressing rooms' large picture hat on a proudly while 1 had another. Then as the held head was the most beauUlui ladies came forth into the halls woman I had ever seen. in all their splendor, we, withThey were promoting a benefit our pads and pencils would take play tor the Colorado Springs Day note of the gowns, being careful Nursery , and with Mr. Buna giv- not to miss anyone. The wearers, ing his new theater for the affair of the finery' were never in a bur-' wanted plenty of space on my ry to pass us and often stopped page. I agreed to all tne:r wishes to help in the descriptions, es-aad promised to go to Mi Drum- penally if the trimmings or the mood s home next morning at tabnc needed intelligent mention. 172* Wood Ave. to get my cop One year the ladies all wore It was a frosty but dear morning —--jwhen I left the Canon streetcar ... .at the 170© block to wander over (jQfYCTSftY Of DCflWamong the few scattered homeson the avenue to find the one 1 IftflVXpC Tliftlflfl... _* # yf . . • jl jk v HVInI w ®was to reach. How I wished Iwjls somewhere else. DEW ER (APv—The LDiversityiAll the way back to the officw of Denver announced Saturday while reading the copy, I fretted d* tuition rate will be raised to because Mrs Drummond had 83® per quarter or ©08 for the said. Now don't change a word school year next fall of this I want it to go in just Vice Chancellor Harvey D. WiU-•s I have written it ’ 1 was fear- son said a flat rate woule be sub-ful that if ! did as she had said stituted for the present $16 credit I might be ;n trouble for plagia- hourly rate and also will include rism How httie I knew. Many all student fees, now charged sep-a time since I have wished that araiely.someone would witiv uiy leads The average full-time studenti— payg iTjj {or the Quwe quar-Hn *5! *52 *53 '54•JYou con sae the Volkswofl hove hod lots of practice.beginning, they've put oH thei effort into the ooe bosic mefor me.Mr. Overbott calmed my feon ten, including ©3 ta and the capy went ti Jot was written and pleased the very much.Mrs. Drummond's toad read “A new play will be given at theBurns —There is a great treat astare for the children of ColoradoThe rate for itndants taking than 11 credit boors will go to $20 from $16.They learned to amfca eve•very ether part so wal, the VHeady air-tight. The angina 1Mf MCMniG om» wowdrive « new YW at top get VoBuwogen donmY chanfto nmhn it look different; only work better. When • dtangtVofkrwognn goes oid of ttGETS SHIP CONTRACTSAN FRANCISCO lt;UPD — Na-ttooal Steel and ShipboikH Co SfHhngs Saturday aiternoon. Feb.! (NAASCO * of San Diego has 21. at the Burns Theater. It‘s a awarded a $22 million contract toj play called The Papooses af budd two ships far the States! the Pikes Peak’ and was written Law of San Francisco and the: ^ . ■ £» eby Sidford F Hamp tor the cbil-Federal Maritime Board fTftiAfflnft 3DTIIdren for this special occasion. NAASCO President Edgar F. Kai-Sidfoni Hamp needs no in t roAic-i sat said the job will be the notion He has lived here many major shipbuilding job to be uoyean and written a number effdertaken from its inception by excellent beets fur bays ana hei NAASCO since new owners toes I has aksa written the plays tor the, ever the firm Iasi yea* .2353 EastPHono MGCtiomdo Springs’ ONLY AuthoiY
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Colorado Springs Gazette
Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
Sun, Mar 05, 1961
Page 14
Full Page
Clipped by
Pikes P.
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