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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1974
Page
3
Karen Marie Sartain and Martin Samuel Kleinsorge married November 2 at 4 p.m. in Star Hope Baptist Church near Elsberry. The ceremony featured a double ring rite, with family and friends in attendance. The couple will reside in Martinsburg after a reception and dance at the Fairground Building in Montgomery City.
Listings show multiple events from November 23 to 26 across Rush Hill Mexico and surrounding areas. Bazaar and turkey supper at Rush Hill Community Center, Messiah rehearsal at Mexico United Methodist Church, Garden Club program at Audrain Historical Museum, Emmanuel Shrine birthday party, Happy Circle luncheon, PEO meeting, and League of Women Voters unit meetings with venue details and times.
Chautauqua Circle members met at Mrs. Andy Runge's home to discuss Karl Menninger's Crime of Punishment and Joseph Lash's Eleanor and Franklin. Reviews cover rehabilitation versus punishment and Eleanor Roosevelt as a pivotal reform figure. Next meeting set for Dec. 3 at the library.
The DAR chapter met at the Monterey Restaurant with Mrs. Thurman Stallings as hostess. Mrs. Hal Randolph presented the federal gun control report, Mrs. Clarence Sievers presided, and gifts for veterans in Columbia’s Veterans Administration Hospital were requested for the December meeting.
Hawthorne PTA explored Mathematics in the Elementary School with a Thursday night visit to three classrooms. Second, fourth, and fifth grade teachers collaborated with aides from adjacent grades as parents toured, asked questions, and celebrated top ticket sellers with small awards.
Mr and Mrs Henry Nichols celebrated their fiftieth anniversary on November 10 at the Educational Building of the United Methodist Church. The couple married November 15 in Fulton, with Rev Robert McIlroy officiating. They moved from Columbia in 1932 to Mexico, later living at 1326 North Olive for 42 years and now at 1406 Falcon Junior with their son Charles Nichols. Mr Nichols retired from International Shoe Co in June 1963 after 32 years. Mrs Nichols has been active in church affairs, the Rebekah Lodge, and serves as District 21 Rebekah president and as special deputy sheriff of Audrain County for 13 years. Family and friends, including out of town guests from St Louis, Columbia, Centralia, Pekin, Martinsburg, Benton City, Cassville, and Mexico, gathered for the celebration with a lace cloth table, a four tier cake, and various family helpers and hostesses assisting throughout.
Mr. and Mrs. W W Todd of Smiley Texas are visiting his brother Jim in Paris at 609 N Clark. Todd, a World War II veteran, moved to Smiley after the war and went into the feed business and broiler chicken production.
The Wednesday Club met with 17 members present. Mrs. H L Beynon reviewed Party Chief by Koenig and Mrs. John M Boyce discussed The Shadow of Blooming Grove by Francis Russell. Edith Wharton s The Age of Innocence was reviewed by Mrs. Walter G Staley Jr and Mrs. Sam Vaughan presented current events.
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