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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1970
Page
6
A fashion column urges girls to embrace beauty glasses as a wardrobe staple. It lists frame shapes for square long round and oval faces with tips on color tint and lenses and argues glasses can enhance appearance like makeup. It recommends seeking a skilled optometrist to find flattering, prescription lenses and frames.
In Malente Germany a 600 year old oak known as the bridegroom's oak acts as a local marriage broker. Residents say it has matched 50 couples in 50 years with letters delivered daily by a postman and kept at the tree until a match is found.
Job's Daughters announce meetings on the first and third Saturdays each month at 10 a.m. in the Commercial Building instead of the usual Monday sessions.
Mr and Mrs Jack Diefenbach will share presidential duties for the Coterie Dance Club this year after a steering committee meeting held at the Trenton home of Mr and Mrs Robert W Hughes. Other new officers include Mr and Mrs Charles Walsh vice presidents, Mr and Mrs Hughes secretaries, Mr and Mrs Gary Coutts treasurers, and Mr and Mrs Eugene Fisher historians. The outgoing presidents are Mr and Mrs Fred Finney. The next club dance is set for April 25 at the American Legion Home with hosts Mr and Mrs Hughes and Mr and Mrs Finney.
Reservations are open for the Middletown AAUW social luncheon on February 14. Tickets are $2.25 per person and must be reserved by February 10 via Mrs. Donald McCormick. Committee members include Mrs. Charles Revelos Mrs. Terry Roberts Mrs. Lee Weitzenkorn and Mrs. P F Johnson who will oversee the evening program. The luncheon starts at noon at the Women's Center on North Broad.
Initiation of new members of Ida Morningstar Chapter Order of Eastern Star will be held tomorrow at the Commercial Building 63 S Main St. Mrs Jack Crocker and Robert Baker will direct the meeting with Mrs Harry Lacey in charge of refreshments and Mrs Joseph Minor overseeing decorations.
The Civitan Club will host a noon meeting on Tuesday at the Manchester Motor Inn to honor local clergymen as Clergy Week. Rev. Bob Copeland of Dayton will speak and four local clergy will attend. note that Clergy Week runs Feb 1 to 7.
The column records several birth notices including boys born to Lawrence Parker on Leibee Street and Lawrence Hatten on Buena Avenue and others to Daniel Taulbee Garfield Street, Douglas Barker Gratis-Jacksonburg Road Summerville, and Paul Barker Moreland Drive Franklin. Dismissals list multiple residents discharged from Hospital, with names and streets such as Schraub Mill Road Botts Trenton Franklin Road Ivey Trenton and many others across Franklin Tremont Clayton Creekview Drive and Monroe.
Five local Beta Sigma Phi chapters sponsor the Sweetheart Ball at the Manchester Motor Inn from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Coronation of queen and princess set for 10 p.m. A five-member panel judges six candidates after a pre-judging party hosted by Mrs. J. B. Gividen. Finalists announced the ball night. Mrs Dean Prushing chairs with Mrs Herbert Greathouse co chair. Proceeds benefit YMCA equipment.
Mr and Mrs John Snyder of Rose Marie Drive chair the Valentine Dance sponsored by Hunter Hills Swim Club set for Saturday February 14 at 8 p m in the Knights of Columbus Hall The Decades of Miamisburg will provide music Reservations run to February 12 with contact persons Mr and Mrs Robert Stevens Mr and Mrs Snyder Also helping with dance arrangements are Mr and Mrs Orville Wright Mr and Mrs Donald L Smith and Mr and Mrs Jim Werk
Robert Sicker and Mariann Julliard, piano students of Mrs. Gerald Squire, gave solos at a recital held yesterday at the Taft Art Museum in Cincinnati. The event was sponsored by the Southwest District of the Ohio Music Teachers Association.
Cotillion Dance Club hosts the Sweetheart Swing on February 14 at the Manchester Motor Inn with Bruce Brownfield Orchestra. A cocktail hour precedes dinner at 8 p.m. Planning committee includes Mr. and Mrs. Noblet chairmen and other members. reservations close February 7 with Dr. and Mrs. Swisher.
Miss Linda Gay Steigerwald and William Ronald Heflin chose Saturday March 21 for their wedding. The double ring ceremony will be at 7 30 p m at St Pauls United Church of Christ with a reception in the church social room. The bride is daughter of Paul Steigerwald Jr and his wife of Monroe. The groom is son of H William Heflin and his wife of Morgan Street.
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