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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1937
Page
8
Emmitsburg club met in the firehouse with a children’s program arranged by Mrs Daughterty and others. The event featured singing, dancing, recitations, and skits, followed by a business session with committee appointments, a bronze tablet plan for Constitution Grove, and a benefit for the Children’s Aid Society. About 75 visitors attended. 33 members present.
A trim white clapboard cottage on the fringe of Plainfield’s residential area features a combined dining room and living room as a single space. The living portion is screened from the road by the garage, opens to a rear terrace, and is praised for its desirable open plan. Architect Alden de Hart designed the home. the plan was selected by the Architectural Forum in New York.
Laytonsville scene notes Mrs F L Ransome arrived in Washington after weeks in Geneva with Miss Alice Paul of the National Woman's Party. She will visit her Laytonsville daughters before returning to Pasadena. Other local mentions include Mrs Blanche Howes’s expected home from Rapid City and dinner guests of the Cashells and Spriggs family visits in the area.
Mrs W W Matthews says visitors to the former Duchess of Windsor home in Baltimore on Biddle street sit in the bathtub for lunch. The hostess described an Englishwoman starting the practice after a museum visit, noting the habit may or may not continue.
Mrs Matthews recalls a superstition about sitting in tubs once owned by famous women. She mentions trying tubs across Europe, including those linked to Cleopatra and Marie Antoinette, saying it was good luck.
President Roosevelt arrives in Hyde Park New York from Washington at 4:30 am. He will stay four or five days to rest and regroup.
Regular services were held at the Lutheran church led by Rev. C. M. Huddle. Communion is postponed to Sunday afternoon October 24 at 2:30. Pauline Haover visits Washington DC. Howard Buhrman of Baltimore spent the weekend here. Bessie Ridenour of Washington DC spent Sunday at her Foxville home. Parent-Teacher Association met at the schoolhouse last Thursday and plans were made for the Halloween social on October 28. Ants are noted as the dominating creatures of tropical forests.
The Urbana Women's Club met at Mrs Charles T. Dudderar’s home on October 7 with fourteen members and two visitors. Mrs Lew Roelkey presided. Music by Miss Juanita Dudderar. Reports on Tri-County meeting and book review of Storm over Eden. Donations to the Children’s Aid Society and a prize awarded in recreation. The Harmony Grove Club gathered Friday at 4:30 pm at the homes of Miss Willette Worman and Mrs Samuel D Thomas with Miss Ethel Thomas presiding. The gathering featured songs, historical paper submissions, fair committee notes, and a Tri-County summary by Mrs Samuel Thomas.
Twenty members attended with several guests as the club voted $250 for the Children’s Aid Society. Home demonstrators Mrs Austin Rhoads and Mrs Hugh Dean outlined fall bulb and shrub planting for spring bloom. Mrs William Powell led recreation with a flower guessing contest won by Mrs Austin Rhoads. Lewistown and Harmony Grove join Federation exhibit at Frederick fair. Mt. Pleasant Club hosted twelve members and three visitors led by vice president Mrs George Holland. creed and song opened the meeting. The group contributed $750 to the Children's Aid Society with Miss Pauline Etzler winning the prize. Demonstrators Helena Stauffer and Nelson Stauffer spoke on fall planting for spring bloom. Next meeting at Mrs Gertrude Cramer’s on October 25.
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