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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1944
Page
2
IAN'S ANGLE lauds the War Chest efforts in Lubbock and countywide meetings where businessmen reportedly aimed for record attendance. The note highlights sacrifice, financing aid to soldiers and allies, and a commendation from women for those driving the drive.
Mrs Ivy Savage reviews the book There Is One In Every Family for Clement Sorosis members. In the home of Mrs Fred Youree at 2411 Twentieth several guests and many club members attended the afternoon session. The dialogue touches on parrot shoe ads, starling birds, and light anecdotes about squirrels, uniforms, and a wrecked car. Buy A War Bond TODAY.
A Tuesday afternoon consign ment of 5764 garments weighing 4449 pounds including three dozen quilts foi war victims was dispatched from Lubbock. Churches First Baptist and First Christian sponsored the all church drive with aid from the Lubbock Ministerial association.
Miss Frances Baron bride elect of Lt. Jack Lobingier is feted by three events in Lubbock. A kitchen shower at Miss Gloria Sciance’s home features fall dahlias and cotton accents, a linen shower at Mrs. R. C. Young’s with guests including Mrs. Lee Sharpshire, and a bridge party where a crystal fruit bowl is presented.
A shower honoring Mrs Robert Millington was held Tuesday night at the home of Miss Maud Dee Sheen, 2319 Thirteenth. The pink and white color scheme featured rosebud corsages and fall flowers decorating the rooms as guests played forty two before the gift shower.
Alpha Delta Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi hosted rushees and members for a buffet supper at Yellowhouse Tea room. Decorations featured pyracantha branches and crested matchbooks. organizers included Mesdames Fulghum Zeliner and Rusing.
The Lubbock Woman's Forum held a guest day Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. R. H. Fulton’s Levelland highway residence. Dean James G. Allen reviewed The World of Washington Irving by Van Wyck Brooks before about 50 members and guests. Nell Verna LeMond played Czerny and Dett piano pieces while Mrs. Alfred Crosby led as president and program organizer.
A reception featured pink and blue decor as Mrs. Millington hosted guests. Her husband serves at the gunnery school in Harlingen, highlighting the military connection of the event.
The Lubbock-Crosby County Medical Auxiliary hosted a Tuesday luncheon in the Hilton Aztec Room for wives who accompanied their husbands to the Panhandle district Medical convention. President Mrs. Robert H. McCarty gave the welcome, a musical program featured the Dupre Gildes Watson trio and several ensembles, with many guests and members listed.
The page catalogs numerous club gatherings and meetings in Lubbock area venues including Needle clubs Army Wives society Red Cross and Junior Matrons with dates and hostesses. A closing note reports the Ohio river in flood stage at Cincinnati, a long-standing Civil War era threshold.
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