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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1925
Page
3
Tuesday meeting at Woodmen hall for the W E A of the Maccabee Lodge, Christmas dancers and parties at Y M H A and hotels, plus New Year events. Includes the Parker Memorial class party, a reception for Rev. Marion Monk, and numerous student arrivals from St Mary's Dallas and Tulane.
A beautiful sacred concert is set for the Methodist church evening service tomorrow night. Monroe's favorite musicians perform a varied program including organ preludes, hymns, anthems, solo vocal pieces, violin solos, and a soprano tenor duet with a Christmas offertory and a benediction to close the service.
Incoming trains bring home students from Newcomb College, Randolph Macon College, Sewanee, and the University of Virginia. Notables include Rosalia Kaliski Mildred Levy Clara Guthrie Elizabeth Hopson Hulda Wexler Mary Vaughan Mary Moffet Louise Atkins Angie and Josephine Meredith and Emma Louise Biedenharn.
The gathering opened with 23 attendees including Mrs. McDonald and Mrs. White. Sara Joiner led a devotional and prayers. Thelma Hargus read a leaflet. officers reported. mission study from The Chinese Lantern was presented. Sara and Elvira Joiner paid pledges. Mizpah benediction and refreshments followed. Mr. R A Shotwell of Chicago visited relatives in town.
Kelley Dewberry Anna Louise and Vance Martin Kelley wed Thursday December seventeenth at the Presbyterian Manse. Rev. Wallace Clift officiated. The bride wore a blue traveling outfit with valley lilies and roses. They honeymoon with the bride’s mother in Birmingham and will reside at 205 Fifth Street with the groom’s parents upon return.
The Cedars home of Mrs. T. E. Wright hosted a Yuletide bridge party with a Marian candle glow and miniature Santa score cards. Guests included Mrs. G. C. Comstock and Mrs. Walter Lee Jones, with favors of brass bowls and sweetmeats.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Brown plan a Christmas visit with relatives in New Orleans traveling by auto tomorrow. Mildred Levy will host her friend and classmate Miss Anna Bodinsky of Selma Alabama.
Miss Genevra Washburn teaches in Pennsylvania and will spend Christmas in New York City as a guest of Miss Anola Priestly. Dr. S. D. Graves of Bastrop Louisiana visits the city on business. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Mitchell and children travel to New York to visit Mrs. Mitchell’s Brooklyn parents. Miss Lillian Blanche Jacobs, Opelousas Louisiana, LS A student, will arrive Tuesday and be hosted by Mrs. Minnie Rosenbloom and Mrs. I. Heinberg during holidays. The Browns plan to visit Fort Worth Texas. Mr. Brown will join later. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Wages will holiday with friends in Birmingham Alabama. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Smith return from a week in Atlanta Georgia.
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