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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1956
Page
6
Society items welcome including personal news, club activities, parties, lodge and church notices. Contact Ann Toney, Society Editor at phone 277 for submissions and updates.
Quapaw Tribe No 143 meets at 7 00 p m at the hall with initiatory work for Columbian Chapter No 140 O E S at 7 30 p m. Christmas party with a 50 cent grab bag. Sunset wranglers meet at Con-
A holiday advertisement offers Christmas gumdrop cookies and fruit freeze desserts using Holland products. It notes weddings in June, the lammergeier’s size, the first U.S. patent to John Ruggles for a locomotive, and November waterfowl migration as seasonal facts.
The notice lists a 7:39 p.m. meeting of an observation club, a 8:00 p.m. creet by Women of Moose chapter 19 at Moose home, and a 7:30 p.m. choir practice at Saron Evangelical and Reformed Church.
Bonnie Corbin and Frank Branson wed at 7 30 in Willard Potters Switz City home before a pink and white chrysanthemum altar. Attendants Claude Corbin Jr and Mrs Harry Wade. Bride in a black gabardine suit, Wade in French blue. Post ceremony reception for close friends. They will live at 302 R Street Bedford.
Reader pattern offer from Linton Daily Citizen Household Arts Dept for a knitted helmet and mitten set in girls sizes 4 to 14. Includes crocket flower trim and colorful details. Send 25 cents plus 5 cents per pattern for first class mail to New York address. name address zone and pattern number required. Two free patterns from Alice Brooks Needlecraft book offered.
A fragmented notice offers pattern 7341 with 12 motifs for towels and pillowcases. It details transfer sizes from 13 by 5 inches to 53 by 53 inches and includes a 5 cent first class mailing surcharge. requests name and address to Linton Daily Citizen Household Art Dept in New York.
Mr and Mrs Stariin Combs of Jasonville route one celebrate 60 years of marriage on Sunday December 23 at the home they have lived in 53 years. Mr Combs a retired railroad worker and both natives of Greene county will host five children ten grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren along with siblings for the family event. Cards and telegrams are requested.
The National Geographic notes Washington DC's White House grounds as a bird haven. Roosevelt, a keen watcher, documented nests of red-headed woodpeckers redstarts flickers thrushes catbirds screech owls and sparrow hawks. Also mentions early Assyrian steel files circa 670 BC and bird traits of the African pin-tailed whydah and aracari.
Lyons club of Women’s Social and Benevolent group met at Mrs. Elmer Benham’s home for a Christmas gathering. Welcome songs and pledges opened the program. New member Mrs. Bernard Sappenfield was welcomed as the group planned nominations for the coming year.
Mrs. Howard Siegeman of Sandborn announces the Second District’s honor roll for the federation’s get out the vote drive. Thirty five clubs achieved 100 percent or higher membership voting in the November 6 election, with Linton’s Alpha Delphian Elite and Qui Va La among those named.
The report lists honor roll clubs including Lyons Tuesday Afternoon and Woman's Social and Benevolent days, Newberry Progressive club, and Sandborn Progressive Arts and Women's clubs as honored groups.
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