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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1950
Page
2
McKinley Street couple returns from a three week trip visiting kin in Mobile and Clearwater Florida with Havana detour. Other travelers from Dixie Highway to Kentucky report Miami Hollywood and Tampa vacations. Kent State education tour student in New York sees shows and UN building. Community circles host meetings with plans for spring events and awards. Omega Phi Tau Sorority holds March social with gift prizes and luncheon.
Gala showers progress for bride elect Doris Watson as Flori day House hosts a mixed party. Mrs Ger hard Murka and Miss Virginia Muller preside with pastel blue and yellow decor. Prize cards to Mrs Thomas Fenton and others. Suburban Card Club hosts a separate event with prize winners. Women of the Moose plan four member initiations with Cincinnati and Dayton guests.
The Atlanac Club convened for its monthly gathering at Miss Jane Doebler’s East Central Avenue home. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Jack Williams and Mrs. Harold Tewell. Plans include a weekend in Columbus Ohio for a fashion show and sightseeing. A luncheon was served to attendees including Mrs. Owen Kash and others. Utah 1949 wheat production reached a record 9,440,000 bushels.
Beta Psi met at the Girls' Club for its monthly social with a short business segment led by president Mrs. Robert Raine. Plans were set for a rummage sale on Saturday March 26 to aid the cancer drive. prizes were awarded to multiple members and a white elephant sale was conducted by Mrs. Voliette. lunch followed, prepared by a committee chaired by Mrs. Paul Crane.
A crew of Canadian Caughnawaga Indians arrives with rivet hammers to work on a major bridge span across the Delaware River from Wilmington to New Jersey. Fred Montour, a 27 year old veteran riveter, describes their roles, gear, and long tradition of bridge building.
In Plainville Indiana a recent oil boom has 700 residents poised to share profits from 15 new drill rigs within a two mile radius. Landowners sign a 10 acre share alike agreement ensuring royalties from wells, while early production runs about 200 barrels per day with 1/8 of output going to landowners.
Mrs Irene Semple of near Ludlow Kentucky won a common pleas court judgment for 50000 against Cushman Motor Delivery Company of Cincinnati. The suit grew from an accident a year earlier in which her husband was killed in a collision with a Cushman truck driven by Shirley Smalley of College Corner Ohio. Parish priests blessed potato crops in Ireland.
The Avant Club gathered last evening at Mrs. Earl Beard's home on South Sutphin Street. Miss Esther Kerschbaum presided over a regular business meeting with the topic Food presented by Miss Emma Wenzel. Mrs. Edna Flattery and Mrs. Anna Adrian read papers. Moe Wae was chairman. prayer closed the session. lunch followed hosted by the hostess and Miss Wenzel.
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