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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1920
Page
12
Miss Elsie Hughes daughter of Charles E Hughes attended a New York benefit ball for an East Side settlement house. The evening featured a Melting Pot dance performed by debutants representing several nations in a French fashion tableau.
The World-Wide Guild of the Baptist Church held a Tuesday evening meeting at the church parlors to plan a May party set for April 30 and May Day Eve. Mrs Newburn directs the guild, Miss Nandine Ghaffain hosted, and light refreshments followed the business session. Winifred Stuart departs tomorrow for a California vacation, joined by Winterrowd for several days with Mrs M H Hartung before heading to Los Angeles.
Contracts for the Pershing memorial markers and a large granite shaft to mark General John J. Pershing s wife and daughters graves have been awarded to Greeley Monumental Works. The main shaft plus grave markers will be produced with another Greeley firm making a Warren cemetery monument. Pershing supervised the work while in Cheyenne last winter and the monuments are to be in place by Decoration Day if plans materialize.
In rural England, especially Yorkshire, a curious belief circulates among boys claiming that mentioning lightning just after a flash will cause their trousers to be torn. The superstitious idea links words spoken to imminent wear from lightning events.
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