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Oscar Rhudie Speaks At Woman's Club GatheringFirst meeting of LaFayette Woman’s club of the 1949-50 season was held Tuesday evening, September 13, at the home of Mrs. Alice Grimm with 20 members and three guests present. A pot luck chicken supper was served cafeteria style at 6.30.The president, Lolabel Taylor, presided and the secretary, Harriet Now-lan, read minutes of the last meeting. Roll call was answered with “Women In the News.” Sum of $5 was voted to the polio fund, and Mrs. Louise Har-land was received into club membership.Oscar Rhudie was guest speaker and gave a travel talk, in which he told of his experiences when at the age of 21 he got a job on an army transport and went to Manila, Philippine Islands. From there the ship sailed for Japan to get coal for Honolulu. Returning to Honolulu he remained a month before returning to the U. S. He then took up the study of engineering and made three trips to the Far East, being promoted as an officer on a cable ship off the coast of Alaska,After working there one year Mr. Rhudie returned home and took a job on a liner to Hong Kong, Manila and Japan. Later he was employed by the Coast Guard in the Philippines and was commissioned first lieutenant in 1905, visiting Borneo and many other islands.After the death of his father, he went back to the Philippines where he remained from 1913* to 1934. While there he was married to Miss Ada Ingels, of LaFayette, an army nurse. At Bataan Mr. Rhudie was engaged in an iron smelter business and after two years they returned to the Philippines, where he was engaged in cocoanut oil business. In 1933 he and Mrs. Rhudie went on’ a world tour, spending a month in Germany, seven days in Stockholm and visiting points of interest in Norway.They were in the Philippines at the start of World War H and were captured by the Japs. They were in prison camp for three years, being rescued June 2, 1945, and came back to the United States. After arriving in San Francisco the Rhudies went to Tacoma to visit Mrs. Rhudie’s brother, Sherman Ingels, and then to LaFayette, where they have since resided.Next meeting of the Woman’s club
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Galva News
Galva, Illinois, US
Thu, Sep 22, 1949
Page 10
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