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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1950
Page
13
Miss Grace Unzicker of Washington DC linked with the Public Health Service was the guest of honor at a luncheon hosted by Miss Nell Fitzgerald yesterday afternoon at her Dixie Highway home in Yankee Road.
Walter H. Funk of Philadelphia has arrived in Middletown to attend the wedding of his daughter Jeanne Funk to Herbert Geary on April 1.
Mr and Mrs William H Shideler of Oxford C E are dinner guests this evening of Judge and Mrs Clinton Boyd Mrs Shideler was guest of Mrs Boyd this afternoon for the Guid ed Study Club tea
Miss Mary Hallowell daughter of Mr and Mrs J J Hallowell of South Main Street returns home for spring vacation from Masters School at Dobbs Ferry New York.
Last evening Mr and Mrs Floyd Starr of Hamilton Leba non Road celebrated their wedding anniversary in Dayton with family and friends attending the quiet observance.
Mrs. Ralph Mull and Mrs. Charles Bailey attended the district meeting of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the First Methodist Church on Tuesday at the Dayton YMCA.
Mr and Mrs Sam Tutt and Homer Mauselman of Hauselman Transportation Company Middletown attended the annual Ohio Trucking Association convention yesterday and a banquet at Deshler-Wallick Hotel in Columbus.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs Walter Evans of Fernwood Street hosted a tea for her houseguest Mrs Arthur Rodger of Milwaukee Wisconsin. Twenty friends attended to visit and renew old acquaintances.
Last evening student nurses and Verity Hall residents enjoyed a skating party at Midway Roller Rink after gathering for refreshments and television. Senior class members Miss Gladys McPeek Patsy Bowling and Marjorie Lentz served on the committee.
Julia T. Roth presided over a Craw ford Street gathering of past councilors on Wednesday evening. Prize winners included Mrs. Walter Stephens Mrs. E. F. Reed Mrs. Ira Sickle Mrs. Arthur Richardson and Mrs. Harry Richardson Sr, with Mrs. Ernest Lamphier assisting at the social hour.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Schraffenberger hosted a bar shower at their South Main Street home honoring Miss Nancy Buford and her fiancé Mr. Wilson Breiel. Guests from Cincinnati and Chicago attended, bringing spring bouquets, cocktails, dinner, and generous gifts for the couple.
The Oneida Busy Bee Sewing Club elected new officers: president Mrs Clyde Brandenburg vice president Mrs Bill Simpson secretary Mrs Frank Barker treasurer Mrs Fred Wipters activity chairman Mrs Daniels and instructor Mrs Albert Fee. The meeting time moved to 7 30 pm and from Wednesday to Thursday. Mrs Fee won the prize. Next meeting set for Thursday April 6 at 7 30 pm with Mrs William Simpson.
The Once A Month Club met at Mrs. Marvin Penick’s Yankee Road home yesterday with six members present. Mrs. Penick hosted the event and Mrs. Kenneth Steele will host the next meeting on Christel Avenue.
Middletown hosts 53 Ohio Music Education Association junior high students for auditions at McKinley Junior High and the high school. Judges from Dayton to Cincinnati cover woodwinds brass vocal piano strings and percussion with open public auditions from 8 30 a m to 6 30 p m. Curtis Dunbar and Bobbie rumfield join a Middletown contingent including Rebecca Koeppel Jack McLaughlin John Watson Peter Carruthers Louise Hall Ronald White Richard Jones and more in solo and ensemble events with an added 75 pupil orchestra for comment.
Mrs. Herman Laubach hosted a Twelve and One Club gathering on Yankee Road with guests and members. The gala handkerchief shower honored birthday girl Mrs. Hargus Barker, with prize winners Mrs. Barker and Mrs. Edward Winder, Jr. and refreshments served by the hostess to a long list of attendees.
The Women of the Moose met in Moose Hall for a business session. Recorder Mrs Edith Arpp presented a Sunday conference report while Mrs Scott Cooley praised committees for a successful event. Next chapter meeting is set for April 12 with no meeting during Holy Week.
Seventeen members and fourteen guests of the Progressive Garden Club toured Cincinnati yesterday by chartered bus. They attended Ruth Lyon's Morning Matinee, dined at Skyline in the Terra Plaza Hotel, visited Fashion Frocks Factory, and toured the Coca-Cola plant. Committee in charge was Mrs. John Smith, Mrs. Clarence Gerber and Mrs. Everett Bake.
Mrs Paul Wilch Sr of Carolina Street hosted the Suburban Card Club gathering last evening. Prize winners were Mrs Louis Stultz Mrs John Strait and Mrs Leo Wilch Clyde Ohio. Later a luncheon was served to the prize winners and several members.
LaFayette Lodge No 37 Knight of Pythias will confer page ranks at a weekly meeting Friday at 7 30 p m The local degree team directed by Virgil Webster will handle the ceremony Woodrow Wilkinson chancellor commander will preside The following day a square dance party will be held by Pythian Sisters in the hall.
Mrs. Mary C. Paquin, 86, owner of the Norka Beverage Company, died at her home after a year of illness. She took over the firm after her husband Jacob Paquin's death in 1934, the business he founded in 1924.
Mrs. McConaughy welcomed the Current Literature Study Group of the American Association of University Women to her Princeton Avenue home. Mrs. Klein reviewed Westward Expansion and The Way West while Mrs. Lingrel discussed Jesse James Was My Neighbor and Mrs. Hill covered The Peabody Sisters of Salem. Refreshments by the hostess and assistants closed the evening.
Colin Gardner of the Gardner Board and Carton Company was elected to the Board of Directors of the Folding Paper Box Association of America at the association's annual convention in Chicago. M. G. Fessenden of Ace Carton Corporation Chicago was reelected president.
The report notes temperatures from 28 degrees at 9 a.m. to 37 degrees at 2 p.m. with a 6 a.m. low of 23 degrees. Tonight will be fair and cold with a low of 22 to 28 degrees and Friday is expected to be fair and milder in the afternoon.
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