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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1967
Page
3
A reader shares a low budget strategy for retired parents: buy one or two favored canned foods on grocery days to create a stocked, comforting shelf. Additional tips include giving frozen steaks, using shoe card as heel protector, and organizing envelopes sealed with plastic bags inside cabinet doors.
Social calendar lists events at Golden Shrine White Shrine of Jerusalem Masonic Temple and Sawyer hall on Friday December 15. Includes Past Presidents LA to B of RT We Who Club Wilson class First Methodist Church Neosho Valley EHU Laurel Mothers Club and a Sunday Kansett Club family Christmas dinner with host Mrs Kenneth Cumings at 711 S Allen.
Athenaeum met at Mrs. H. C. Miller's home 211 Central Tuesday. Mrs. Miller presided and spoke on St. Francis of Assisi works. Members voted to gift a family for Christmas as Ruby Sharp read two stories. Santa Claus handed out gifts and popcorn balls. New Year's tea set for 1 30 p.m. January 2 at Mrs. W. E. Lewis's home.
Thirty eight members and guests attended the Zion Lutheran Walther League Christmas party Sunday evening at Diane Lassman’s home 909 N Allen. Games were played and refreshments served. Sponsors Mr and Mrs Charles Reaves the Rev and Mrs R C Greene David and Steven and Mr and Mrs Irvin Lassman and Kenneth also attended.
The Women’s Arts and Craft group will hold an angles and collages lesson from 9 a.m. to noon at the Central Park Community Building on Monday. Attendees should bring scissors glue a ruler a large needle and three detergent bottle bases plus 40 or 50 cookies and the recipe for the cookie exchange. Forty eight women attended the last meeting and there will be no meeting January 1.
Four First Baptist Church circles gathered yesterday afternoon. Grace Hill met at 920 S Centra. Marjorie Sharp circle met at 123 N Forest. Edith Thompson circle held a 1 pm luncheon in the educational building. Charlotte Worley circle met at 229 W 4th. Each group prepared Christmas boxes for shut ins, service members, and home missionaries. gifts were exchanged and prayers offered. The circles included members from Montrose and local households with devotions and lessons led by named members.
Mrs. A. C. Wink hosted the Sorosis Club Christmas party Tuesday afternoon at 415 W. 4th. Mrs. Ida White read the Christmas story and donations were given to SEK Tuberculosis Hospital. Mrs Ernest Stemple shared a Christmas story and gifts were exchanged. The hostess, aided by her sister Mrs. Una Threlkeld of Colony, used Christmas symbols in decorations. The January 16 meeting will be at Mrs. L. CO. Funk’s home, 319 S. Santa Fe.
Mrs Dwight Olson opened the Midway PTA meeting with a holiday reading. Devo tions were by Y Teens. The high school girls chorus and a flute trio performed. The Christmas Cantata and grade school programs were announced. The sixth grade won the room prize. Murray Hill School also held a Christmas program directed by Mrs Margaret Hollen shead with PTA gifts.
The Zion Lutheran Service Guild held its annual Christmas party in the church Tuesday night. Mrs. Harold Storck and Mrs. Everett Olson told a Christmas story followed by group singing. Mrs. Ralph Burghardt led entertainment before the gifts exchange. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Harold Watts, Mrs. Storck and Mrs. Olson. Yuletide decorations adorned the tables.
Sixty five boys and girls from 4 to 8 years old attended a traditional Christmas party hosted by the High School Kayettes in Hutton School gym. After singing and games Santa Claus visited. Barbara Bringle chaired the event with assistants Randi Vaughn Diane Perley Connie Valliere Alice Boaz and Elaine Cook. Club sponsors are Mrs. Robert Holtzman and Mrs. Virgil Atkins. School nurse Mrs. Margaret Wood provided guest names.
Mrs. Lester Lawrence of 106 S. Plummer hosted the Modern Study Club’s Christmas luncheon with assistance from Mrs. Gordon Bender. Gift exchange featured Mrs. Merle Kelly as Santa. Christmas program by Mrs. Ed Ranz and Mrs. Lawrence. The January 9 meeting will be at Mrs. Rhodes Danehouer’s home.
Hulda Parker chapter of the Order of Eastern Star elected new officers including Mrs. Jack Groves as worthy matron and John Groves as worthy patron. Memorias were read, charter draped in memory of two members, and substitute officers were recognized with gifts. Open installation set for December 26 at 8:30 p.m. Christmas decorations and refreshments noted.
An organizational Citizens Band Radio Club meeting and covered dish dinner were held Tuesday evening at the Wayside Club and Diner. Twelve couples and their families attended. The Jan 9 meeting and dinner will be at 7 p.m. in the Wayside Club and Diner, one and a half miles south on Highway 169. Election of officers will be held.
Ladies of the GAR met Tuesday in the Memorial Building with eight members present. They re elected the 1967 officers for 1968, held a Christmas party and gift exchange, and door prize winner Edith Ackerman was announced. The January 9 meeting will be in the Memorial Building.
The Tribune seeks Christmas dinner plans and reunions from Cha nute and area families for a Dec 22 feature. Include guest names and addresses and hosts. Submit by Dec 19 by mail or phone HE 14100.
Mary Martha Guild gathered Monday evening in the Presbyterian Church parlor. Dinner for 11 members and six guests was served at 6 30. Goss offered the invocation and Mrs Neinzie presided. The covenant was read, Christmas program led by Rev Myron Slater with carols and poems, closing prayer.
Two circles of the Grant Avenue Baptist Church met yesterday in members homes. Hannah circle gathered with Mrs Blaine Marks and Ruth circle with Mrs Vernon Youngberg. Gifts, devotions, a mission program, and refreshments were shared among 12 members plus one guest.
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