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Friday, March 23, 1945SOCIAL and PERSONALMr. and Mrs. C. W. Soule, 415 Second avenue south, will be host and hostess tonight to a fellowship meeting of the Bible class of First Christian church, ‘Fargo. A potluck supper will be served, followed by a devotional and study period.♦I1♦Coming Events !St. Mary’s Court, Catholic Daughters of America, will hold an initiation service for a large class of candidates in the St. Joseph’s hall Sunday at 2:00 p. m. All members and candidates are asked to attend Holy Communion at 7:00 a. m. Mass. Refreshments and a social hour will follow the initiation.TodayStated communication A. F. andA. M. in Masonic lodge rooms at8:00 p. m.Valley Rebekah lodge in Odd Fellows hall at 8:00 p. m., Martin Luther club in Northside chapel at 8:00 p. m.iPhi Iota chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national music sororitv, will present Signe Williamsen, Concordia, in a senior recital this evening at 7:30 o’clock in the ^hapter room of the college conservatory. A pupil of Misses Clara Duea and Thelma Halvorson, Miss Williamsen, Chicago, will appear in a combined piano and voice orogram She has studied two years at the Sherwood school of Music in Chicago and at Concordia was a member of the chapel choir and Mu Phi Epsilon. Her literarv society is Alpha Kappa Chi and she was also a member of the Mission Crusaders council.IGamma Nu sorority of MSTC presented a musical program over KVOX Thursday evening in the third of a series of sorority broadcasts.' The program included selections by Charlotte Heisler, Joanne Heisler, Joanne Curran, Ruth Schillerstrom, Winifred Clarke, and Elizabeth Christianson.A daughter was bom today atSt. John’s hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Aldahl, 1404 Fourth avenue south.Dr. Joseph Kise, department Americanism chairman of the Minnesota American Legion, will address the PTA at Fertile on Monday, April 2, on winning the war and maintaining the peace. ,Manuel ArechigaPi Mu Phi auxiliary will hold a regular business meeting and social hour Monday evening at 7:45 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Alfred Lewis, 610 Ninth street south.Declared DeadThe MSTC chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, international honor society, met this week. Dr. A. M. Christensen, chairman of division of education, showed movies pertaining to the college and some of the schools affiliated with it. Helen Jackel, Frazee, and Dorothy Hanson, Trail, were in charge of refreshments.Local Soldier MissingSince March, 1944The Martin Luther club will meet in the Northside Trinity chapel at 8:00 p. m. this evening. Tne tenthanniversary of the club will be observed at this time, with Reverend C. B. Runsvold as guest speaker. Members and their wives will be in attendance.Private First Class Manuel Arechiga, son of Joseph Arechiga, rural Moorhead, has been pronounced dead, having been listed missing inItaly on March 13, 1944, according to a letter received by Mr. Arechiga from the war department.He has been in service since February, 1943, and went overseas inDecember, 1943.He has three brothers and two cousins in the service, Private Thomas, New Guinea, Privates Benny and Joseph, in France, and Corporals Thomas and Ambrose Perez, in Italy. A sister, Mrs. John Rodriguez, lives in Austin, Tex.In TheThe YWCA at MSTC held its meeting Thursday evening in Ingle-side. Mrs. Jessie Askegaard, dean of women, discussed several of the 1 \ important phases of etiquette. A demonstration of each phase was provided by Adeline Greenfield,Maxine Carlson, Norma Isakson, ,Idola Oberg and a number of mu- I { 'ew9 °* Local Men and ffomrsical selections were presented by j J On Military Onty.Clara Salle, Gelaine Jenson and j Eileen Erickson.Special MoviesTo Be Held HereSERVICE»♦iChildren of ServicemenTo Be Theatre GuestsA Junior GI Joe and Jane show, consisting of 68 minutes of short subjects especially chosen for the enjoyment of youngsters, will be presented at the Moorhead theater on March 3i, at 1:30 o’clock, announces Clayton Reeves, manager.This feature is sponsored by the Moorhead theater in co-operation with the public schools and USO, and is for public and parochial school children and those of preschool age whose fathers are in service.Applications for tickets may be filled out by school children with the principals of their respectiveschool, while tickets for those ofpre—school age may receive theirs by calling Clayton Reeves at the Moorhead theater in the evenings. Mothers of children too small to attend alone may accompany their youngsters. Included in the program will be “Bugs Bunny” cartoons, Disney cartoons, “Three Stooges comedies and other selections.flSeveral prizes to the childrengram.will be duringpresenteethe pro-Clay County RuralSchool Music EventScheduled SaturdayMany parents are expected to attend the first annual music festival of Clay county rural school students t to be held in the Moorhead Junior £igh school Saturday at 2:00 p. m.A pageant, “I Hear America Singing, will be presented with several hundred pupils from rural schools participating. The pag-eant depicts var*™1®American history.entire group will day morning.Mrs. Obert Foss the event which is lie with no admisHamden TowiDftt/ir* amSuccumbs AtMrs. Nelmer Ai township, died at day following a Surviving are her children. Funers have not been corMOORHEAD DAILY NEWS. Moorhead- MMFt* ' T. • *.Annual ConventionAugustanaConference PlannedICHESTER WESTBERGTransfer Locali* iHallock Lutheran church, Hallock, will entertain the thirty-third annual convention of the Lutheran Augustana Red River Valley, conference, April 26-29. Host pastor is the Reverend Ervin C. Malm. The convention sermon at the opening service will be given by Dr. O. O. Gustafson, Alexandria, conference president.Guest speakers will be Miss Vivian Gulleen, missionary on furlough from Africa; Reverend- C. G. Anderson, Minneapolis, home' missoins director; Reverend Wilton E. Berg-strand, Minneapolis, executive Luther League director; and Dr. Edgar M. Carlson, St. Peter, president of Gustavus Adolphus college. “Building the Church of Tomorrow will be the convention theme.i!iI)JMan To Wahpeton j Last Rites HeldWill Be Manager ofTelephone ExchangesChester K. Westberg, 902 Third street south, employed in the Fargo business office of the Northwestern Bell Telephone company, is being transferred to Wahpeton, N. D., and will be manager of the Wahpeton, Wyndmere, Fairmount, N. D., exchanges and the exchange at Campbell.Westberg was born in Moorheadand attended public schools and MSTC here. He entered the telephone business at Fargo on May 20, 1929, and has served as assistant service foreman and in other capacities in the plant department since that time.Mr. and Mrs. Westberg and son, John, age three, expect to leave for Wahpeton about April 1. Mr. Westberg is a member of the Beth-esda Lutheran church and Mpor-head Country club.For D. KirknessFormer Lake Park ManDies In OregonRites were conducted at the Masonic hall in Lake Park today for Dan Kirkness, 55, who died in Grdfc-han, Ore., recently. Reverend W. J. Johnson, Detroit Lakes, officiated at the last rites.He was born in Lake Park on May 19, 1890; and spent mpst of his life in that vicinity until moving to the west coast about a year ago.Surviving are his wife and threechildren, Douglas, Claudia and Gary; three step sons, Clay an, John and Richard; four daughters, Mrs. Norman Steenerson, Mrs. Robert McLaughlin, Portland, Ore., Mrs.Roy Stenes, Hendrum; two sisters, Mrs. Jack Lund, Seattle, Wash., and lieutenant Helen Kirkness, Walla Walla, Wash., and four brothers, Oscar. Billines. • Mont.. Melfred,
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