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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1944
Page
2
A fragment describes recruits at the firing line testing at 250 yards then 200 yards with orders to fix bayonets. It includes letters about addressing Christmas packages, a reader revealing a melody origin and a plea to feature Buffalo Gal, plus notes from Mrs. Nieman and the South Plains Dahlia Society.
fragments describe Mrs. Doyle Oswalt of South College hosting an afternoon gathering. Miss Clara and A Powell are mentioned with notes about wall paper, woodwork, and Oswalt serving as club delegate to a federation.
Mrs J L Teal spoke on Books for Children to the Junior Sunshine Child Study Club at Lora Tucker Tea Room. Hostesses Mesdames Raymond Painter and John Nugent presented a corsage. next meeting set for Oct 26 at Red Cross with social at Mrs June Roberts home.
Mrs Ivy Savage guest speaker discusses The Ideal Kindergarten for AAUW Child Development Unit 2. Meeting held at Mrs Peeble Talley s Tea Room with hostesses Mrs M K Cooper and Morris Cox and members including Hollis Allen Lennis Baker Grady Davis Bryan Edwards C F Henry J W Jones Eugene Knox John Mallory Belverd Needles Preston Smith Eldon Trego Fred Youree and Dr Agnes True.
The Needle Club Bee met with Mrs. M. K. Simpson to plan a Thanksgiving luncheon at Mrs. H. A. Scarbroughs home 1924 Seventh. Next social will be 3 p m Oct 24 with Mrs. Fraser Moore 2010 Twenty-fourth. Two guests were Mrs. Earl Burnett and Miss Geraldine Marrs of Plainview. Members included Mesdames Bowron Eubank Edler Hughett Lovelady Scarborough and Simpson.
Mrs W H Place spoke on public health to the Lone Star New Comers club in Lubbock County at a luncheon session in the Hilton hotel. Mrs A L Woodfin attended as a guest with 34 members present and the group voted to work with the Red Cross on the first Wednesday of each month.
At a Tuesday night gathering in Temple, the CES Past Matrons club donated to the fund for gifts to wounded veterans at McCloskey General Hospital. Mrs Grover C. Mitchell hosted at 2001 Twenty-sixth, with Mrs M M Page as assistant hostess and 18 members present.
George R Bean Parent Teacher Association met at the school with Supt. R. W. Matthews delivering The Obligation of Citizenship. He urged support for church, government and school as paths to a better life. Sixth graders sang national anthems of China England Russia France and America with remarks by Keith Norman.
Mesdames H. W. Johnson and Buford D. Allen hosted an open house at 710 Ave. E on Tuesday afternoon to honor their mother Mrs. Dovie Bessent for her 62nd birthday. Dahlias and roses decorated the event and gifts arrived from Mrs. G. C. Williams of Roswell New Mexico and Mrs. Tom Taylor of Oakland California. Coffee and cake were served to numerous relatives and friends listed among the attendees.
An afternoon covered dish luncheon for Pioneer Needle club members featured stories of early South Plains life and old-time songs. Attendees recalled gatherings at Miss Mae Murfee's home in 1923 plus the presence of many local ladies and gentlemen listing P B Penney W J Morris Mary F Hinton and others.
The Fellowship club will be entertained at 3 p m Friday in the home of Mrs Pebble Talley at 1510 B Ave. Hostesses will be Mesdames J B McCauley and T Bascom Smith.
A striking Chanticleer inspired headdress features pheasant feathers arranged as flying birds. Josephi of Saks Fifth Avenue crafted the piece for fall dresses and formal frocks, mounted on olive green felt with earth tan satin ribbon loops.
Mrs. Tom Fedrick returns from Oakland to visit her husband a hospital apprentice second class in the Navy. Capt Aubrey McCarty of Pyote Army Airfield visits his father Rev C J McCarty pastor of Calvary Baptist. Mrs. Robert H Tiernan leaves for Dodge City to join her husband first lieutenant Tiernan a student officer at the Army air field.
Mrs G W Jones of 304 Avenue VU entertained the 1934 Needle club Tuesday with three new members Mesdames J J Mayfield D H Hatchet and Roy D Martin joining longtime members Lloyd Nelson Pasker Peak John L Sullivan Lorena Wilson A S Allen and George Hall. Next meeting set for November 14 at 3 p m with Mrs George Hall 602 Avenue W.
A musical program was presented for Energetic club members at the home of Mrs. Earl Hobbs in Monroe with hostess Mrs. Flora Nutt. Highlights included a piano solo by Joyce Hamilton a vocal duet by Ruth Tarver and Betty Smith and a piano duet by Imogene and Betty Fortenberry. Attendees listed include Exa Ewing Lorena Walker Jessie King C Murphrey Joseph Knight H O Waters Roxie Craushay Flora Nutt and R C Hopping.
Mrs Hicks led a Grooming discussion for the Sunshine Child Study club as members met Tuesday afternoon at 2105 Seventeenth Street, Mrs Joe Bald ridge hosting with Mrs Clay Anderson assisting. A social hour followed with refreshments for D Montgomery Tatum Bass Head Brock Langford Sandlin Bartlett Tatum Ryan Woody Gammill Perryman Sanders Kittrell.
The Opti-Mrs club social heard Miss Blanche Gibson of York shire England as the guest speaker Tuesday night. The meeting at the Youngs home included co hosts Mesdames Smith Waldrop Henderson and Parker. President Scales appointed fall committees and birthdays in September and October were celebrated with cake and coffee.
Mrs. S. O. Callahan III hosted a dinner at the Hilton in honor of Miss Frances Baron bride elect of Lt. Jack Lobingier of Cushing Oklahoma. The reception was attended by Mesdames Riordan Shropshire Hall and others with several young women guests.
In Pek a Kansas prisoners will not celebrate V Day with outside events. A county jail officer says prisoners have already celebrated enough to land behind bars.
The power light and machine department has operated for more than 18 years without a lost time accident, marking Safety First as a proven fact at Pullman Co in Chicago.
A dense schedule lists meetings and activities across multiple groups. Highlights include Shangri-La Chapter of Nomads at Hilton hotel at 7 p m, Betsy Ross Needle club at 3:30 p m, SPAAF Junior Matrons league at 3 p m, Rebekah Lodge at IOOF hall, Homebuilders club at 3 30 p m, Colonial Needle club at 1 p m, and a Big Sister Little Sister dance 5 30 to 9 30 p m at Tech gym.
Mrs. Claude Keeton will host the Dramatic Unit of AAUW at 7 30 p m Thursday for their regular meeting.
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