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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1939
Page
4
The A W R Guild will meet at Mrs Flora Feathers home on Wednesday evening November 1. Dorothy Smith and Frances Gripe will be hostesses. Members are asked to bring gifts for the Christmas box.
The Logansport Tri Kappa chapter invites the Delphi chapter to tea Sunday from 3 to 5 at 85 East Market Street Logansport. The event honors Mrs. Henry Wolfe province officer.
P T A officials report the next meeting will be held Tuesday evening November 7 at the school house. Mrs Millard Quinn president says meetings occur on the first Tuesday of each month with Tom McCormick as program committee chairman.
Members of the Country Club will hold a dinner dance on Friday evening at 7 o'clock at the club house. Bye Smart and his orchestra from Frankfort will play. Committee in charge includes Mr and Mrs Paul Johnson Dr and Mrs Walter Gochenour and Mr and Mrs George Obear.
Mrs Fred Morrison hosted Hill Top club at her East Monroe street residence Thursday evening. Dinner followed by bridge with honors awarded to Mrs George Scarff, Mrs Clyde Robbins, and Mrs Fréd Griffith.
Members met Monday evening at Curtis McCain's cabin on Lake Freeman for an outdoor steak supper with coffee baked potatoes doughnuts and other accoutrements. They held a business meeting to plan a year of work and pleasure with Waltonians from Logansport as guests.
The Welcome In Grange met in Radnor with Lily Sheets in charge of a program that included an apple race a clothespin contest by Agnes McCouch intelligence questions by members and a report of the state Grange session by John Allen Elizabeth Frantz won the surprise package and Eunice Zook won the cake A Halloween masquerade party is planned for Friday evening October 27 public invited.
Members met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Lane for a Halloween themed chicken dinner. Dr. Hubert Gros spoke on Cancer Treatment and Dr. L H Smith covered several scientific topics followed by a round table discussion and group singing. The November meeting will be hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Will Smock with Mrs. Ralph Melvi and Mrs. Robert Van Natta planning an Art program.
The Charles Carroll chapter of the D A R met at Mrs. Joseph DeLong's Colburn home with several assistants. They decided to place a bronz marker on the park flag-pole, donate to the Penny Pine fund, dedicate Indiana D A R acreage to Mary Parke Foster, and report on state activities.
Mrs Reed Ziegler of Attica spent the weekend visiting old friends in Delphi. She was a frequent guest in the home of the late John Cartwright of Delphi and has many friends in Carroll County.
Mr and Mrs W W Zollman of Denver arrive Monday for several days with Mrs Blanche Cartwright, sister of Mrs Zollman. They are en route home after visiting friends and relatives in New Albany and Louisville.
Mrs Jesse Hite her son Kieth and Lawrence Wade of Ligonier visited Delphi guests of William Swickard and family during a fall sale event at Elless and Orr's Drug Store.
Mr. and Mrs. James Obear and family of Indianapolis spent the weekend at the Obear cottage on Lake Freeman. Mrs Obear's uncle Dr. Dudley Morrison of Cairo Illinois joined them. The group also visited Mr Obear's parents in Delphi.
Misses Ida and Emma Frushour and Mrs. Carrie Jones attended a card party and style show in Indianapolis hosted by Mrs. Georgia Roach at Ayres. Mrs. Roach is Sigma Chi housemother at Butler University.
Mr and Mrs Charles R Bradshaw will spend Saturday in Crawfordsville for Wabash college Homecoming. On Sunday they will visit East Chicago to spend the day with Mrs Bradshaws mother Mrs Paul Crund well and daughter.
Mrs Lee Shaeffer will entertain the Contract Bridge club at her home on Monday evening.
Mrs Waldo Smith hosted a group of boys and girls Monday afternoon for Shirley Ann Smiths eleventh birthday with an outdoor weiner roast games and a birthday cake enjoyed by the young guests.
Mrs Ralph Melin and nephew Billy Anderson depart for Chicago for a brief visit. Mr Melin will return Sunday to bring them back. Mr and Mrs Donald Kite relocate to Coldwater Michigan for work. Bert Studebaker and family visit Easton in Delphi. Clarence Wells hosts a birthday dinner for Wells and Fife with twenty relatives. The King couple of Chicago visit en route to Florida. Delphi young people attend a Purdue Union dance with Vincent Lopez orchestra. Mrs Glen Fisher and baby return to Delphi from St Elizabeth hospital Lafayette. Charles Owens returns home from Lafayette after a fall. S H Orr and Harriet Manon host dinner for Orrs. Katherine McDowell and Mrs John McDowell travel to Indianapolis for a state teachers institute. Miss McDowell will stay with Mrs Walter Hiser. Jean Myers of Yeoman is taken to Home Hospital Lafayette by Grimm Ambulance.
Squire Wells and Mr and Mrs Clarence Wells and their son Eugene spent the latter part of the week in Martinsville with Mr and Mrs John Wells. Grover Kite entertained the Four Times Four club and husbands at the Kite home on East Franklin street Tuesday evening. Dinner was served at the Methodist church. Mrs Victor Forter and Dr W W Gochenour were awarded prizes at cares.
Mr and Mrs Bert Evans of New Castle were guests of Earl Smith and Mrs Smith in Delphi. They attended the Purdue Michigan State game at West Lafayette and visited W C Smith and Glen Slenker in Monticello. With Lafayette friends they joined luncheon hosted by Mrs A C Clauser at her Lafayette home followed by a League of Women Voters fashion show and annual program at the Union building.
Mrs. Raymond Curry of Winslow Arizona and her husband Mr. Curry are on a two weeks vacation in California. They are in San Francisco attending the Exposition. George Lyon of Cincinnati spent days with his mother Mrs. Effie Lyon and Mrs. Jesse McPherson joined him for a short visit before returning to Delphi.
Mr. and Mrs. Quinn Lewis sold their property to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Orr of Flora. The Orrs and their three children will move to Delphi soon. Mr. Orr works for Clawson Chevrolet Sales. A cooperative dinner for seventeen guests at Paul Ashba’s home celebrated the twentieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cole.
Miss Hilda Bowen drove to Champaign Illinois with friends from Indianapolis to attend the Illinois Indiana game on Saturday. She also visited her brother Charles Bowen and his family. Mrs Nora Hemmig and daughter Edith spent Wednesday night in Lafayette with Mr and Mrs Kenneth Bowman.
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