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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1919
Page
6
The Cheyenne chapter is asked to donate by June 1 as it has never failed to meet its required allotment. Members are urged to visit headquarters in the capitol building to help knit the yarn on hand, with Cheyenne women urged to devote spare time to Red Cross work. G. Gramlick is visiting friends Casper.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union will entertain at the Y gymnasium in Fort Russell Friday evening to honor boys arriving from overseas. Mrs. John Grainger will lead the musical program and attendees are asked to meet at the church at 1 o'clock. They will board the 7:20 train for Fort Russell. Mothers will bake cakes and the young ladies bring cookies and other dainties.
Mrs Henry Stubbs hosted a small gathering at her home Tuesday to mark her twenty fifth wedding anniversary. Guests presented a silver salad fork set and spring flowers decorated the residence. A luncheon for twenty followed at six oclock. Several visitors from out of town joined the event and others were noted in the report.
Cheyenne youth Miss Emily Johnston senior at Dana Hall earns honors in original story writing for the school annual. Mrs R Z McCoy formerly of Cheyenne visits from Denver. Mrs C H Hamilton visits Port Collins. Mr EM J Kelley departs for Chicago on business. Mr and Mrs J A Primeaux return from Denver.
The Knights and Ladies of Security meet at 7 30 in the I O O F hall for a social with an obligation class and orchestra selections. Since February 1 the group added nearly one hundred new members. Also noted are travels of Mrs Harry P Hynds and visitors Miss Elizabeth O Leary and Mrs Emily Nash. A Little Theater event by the Cheyenne Woman's Club is planned Friday evening at the Parish house with music by Mrs Don Forsyth and Wesley I Dumm, admission free with a silver offering to benefit the Y W C A fund.
Maj H J Robb of Camp Humphreys Virginia arrives in Cheyenne and stays at the Plains hotel. Mr and Mrs Lacey Laughlin will occupy Miss Emma White’s apartment during her absence. Dr G L Strader, recovering in Omaha, plans to return to Cheyenne with Mrs Strader. Matt and Jim Hibbard of Tisdale are en route to Omaha. Emma White departs for Los Angeles to spend months with her niece Mrs Roger.
The Y W C A drive closed but contributions continue reaching the total now at 15800 dollars. A recent gift includes a five dollar check from the Jolly Juniors east Cheyenne group. The board okayed temporary Y P B headquarters at the Carey building site until the main facilities are ready. Miss Bruce and Miss Harper, field secretaries, visit to assist the local committee. An applicant for a recreational secretary is sought for summer and a general secretary will be secured in fall.
More than 600 prominent women from across the United States attend the opening session of the National Women’s Suffrage Association in St Louis. Dr Anna Howard Shaw honorary president gave the invocation. A special meeting of the city federation of Women’s clubs is called for this afternoon at the Carnegie library auditorium. Delegates urged to attend for important business. Mr N C Carrico of Thermopolis is here on business.
Mayor Kiel and Mrs Walter McNal Miller hosted delegates from Missouri as Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt argued that the United States lags behind in granting women the vote. Mr and Mrs John D Clark entertained Dr Paul Emerson at their Thirty fourth Street home with a 6 pm dinner. Mr C P Bifining returned from Laramie and Miss Allie Jewell of Wheatland spent Wednesday in the city.
Miss Lois McKean celebrated her birthday with a surprise party at her home in Laramie hosted by school friends. The gathering featured music dancing and an abundance of dainty confections as Grace Abbott Maria Smith Arline Cameron and other classmates attended. Guest Henry Bingenheimer of Casper spent days visiting his brother John Bingenheimer recently returned from France and stationed at Fort Russell with Prof Albert Lukken also visiting after leading the university music department before enlisting in the navy.
The W B A club gathers this afternoon at Mrs. F W Snyder 2217 Van Lennen street with Mrs. Al Leslie and Mrs. McCabe as hostesses. The Coterie club meets at Mrs. Oliver Frey 612 East Twentieth street. Visitors Mr. H B Tucker of Akron Ohio and Mr. H Patterson of Omaha are in the city on business. Mr C Wilson of Wheatland noted. Anna Gordon W C T U activity continues.
After the armistice Professor Lukken left navy commissions to return to his well suited work. His brother John Lukken, also a music faculty member in Laramie, has been discharged and the pair have spent months studying in New York.
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