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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1959
Page
13
A Sunday 3 to 5 pm reception at the Dawson home celebrated Miss Barbara Ann Mittell and Jerald Holden Womack. Pink and white decor featured a manzanito tree with wedding bells, magnolias, and a crystal punch bowl as 125 guests called.
A. G. Robinson and Decia Martin Robinson family members gathered for a picnic at Olin Paper Mill Park on Sunday. Dozens of relatives from West Monroe Monroe Grayson Chatham Winnsboro joined Mr and Mrs Robinson and extended family for the annual reunion event.
South leads in a seven trick contest with hearts as trumps. North and South aim to secure all seven tricks against any defense despite the challenge posed by the dummy problem.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Guerriero hosted a buffet supper at Tallulah Country Club after the Guerriero Webb wedding rehearsal at Dalkieth Plantation. Attending were members of the wedding party with their spouses plus many relatives and friends, with floral decorations and gifts to attendants.
A bridesmaids breakfast Tuesday morning at the Old Southern Tea Room in Vicksburg honored Miss Webb. Hostesses were Mrs. William J. Emrich and Mrs. Charles R. Wright. Daisies and hydrangeas decorated tables. the bride wore a white cotton batiste dress. Guests included Miss Webb, Miss Annie Webb of Atlanta, Miss Mary Lynn Purser, Mrs. Sam Bartling of Jackson, Mrs. George M. Webb, Diane and Peggy Webb, Mrs. George W. Webb of Tallulah, Mrs. A. M. Guerriero of Monroe, Mrs. Warren White of Met Rouge, and Miss Mary Jane Jackson of Vicksburg.
Entomologists advise mid summer spray for evergreen bagworms using two to three tablespoons of arsenate of lead per gallon of water to control the pest.
Mrs Theo Terzia and family meet Miss Sarah Terzia in New Orleans before a brief return trip to Monroe. Newcomers Harold Talbert and daughter relocate to Edgewater Garden, Monroe. A series of weddings and guests are reported with trips to Gulfport, Nassau, Hot Springs, and Bull Shoals for Fourth of July and summer plans.
Mrs. Henry A. Pipes and Mr. Henry Pipes Jr hosted a dinner at The Farm in Atlanta after the rehearsal for Caleb Pipes and Miss Jane Barfield. Guests included the Barfields, Grace Swan, Lynne Blumberg, Carolyn Carter, Nancy Dreger, Buddy Edwards, Eugene Gatlin, and others from Atlanta.
A list of attendees includes Mr. and Mrs. John Huey of Auburn Alabama, Mr. and Mrs. John Snyder and Miss Mary Zoe Snyder of Winnsboro, plus Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Rolfe and others from Oak Ridge. Also present were Miss Mary Sterling Rolfe, Jimmy Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Mott, Neil Mott Jr., and Miss Melba June Pipes.
The brightly striped blazer beloved on campus appears in summer lines for girls as feminine versions. White and colored sharkskin and linens feature brass buttons and an embroidered breast pocket emblem. Fall line expands to woolens and silks.
The Sterlington Home Demonstration Club met at Mrs. D. Wilkes home for its June session with Mrs. D. Glenn absent and Mrs. D. H. Manhart presiding. A May Council report was shared, a booth plan for the Parish Fair was formed, and efforts for a Sterlington Picnic Area were discussed. Reports on Citizenship and family life were given, plus a kitchen care demonstration. Hostesses served refreshments to six members and four children.
The regular Delta Kappa Pi Sorority meeting is set for Monday at 6 30 p m at Miss Deanna Fur low's home 213 Hamilton West Monroe Members are urged to attend A Young People's Duplicate Bridge Game follows at Kirk Fisher's N 3rd Street Host table lineup includes Hirschel Abbott Tommy Caldwell Allen Foster and Kirk Fisher Six tables have been invited
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