Christmas club events fill Newton social calendar
PrEeVIEWS Ladies Reading Circle hosts annual Christmas tea at Mrs. Grove’s home. The program by Mrs. Toews titled The Message of Christmas. Various clubs plan Christmas gatherings, gift exchanges, and food drives across Newton with multiple hostesses and venues including Elks, VFW Auxiliary, PEO, and Delta Kappa Gamma meetings.
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Ladies Reading Circle
Cao
William E. Grove
Axtell
Irvin E. Toews
Luke
Delta Kappa Gamma
Alpha Alpha Chapter
First United Presbyterian Church
John Hutton
Betty Holderread
Alice Wagner
Miss Holderread
Luella Utz
Wagner
Jo Marmont
Sorority Christmas Party and Gift Exchange Planned
Beta Gamma Chapter ESA will host a Christmas party and gift exchange at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday at Edythe Wendt's home, 608 Columbus. Members should bring gifts for secret sisters. a brief business meeting precedes. Co-hostess is Ruth Dawson. Gamma Beta BSP Beta Sigma Phi plans a 7:30 p.m. Tuesday meeting at Mrs. Richard King’s home with co-hostess Mrs. Joe Gooch. The program features a silent auction with each member contributing one item.
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Eva Turner
Sunflower Club
SE 12Th
Chapter AG
P.E.O
Trinity Heights United Methodist Church
Lorraine Watkins
Randall Krehbiel
Bethel College Mennonite Church
Dana Cox
Jack Cannon
Richard Claassen
Mildred Cox
Twentieth Century Club
Lloyd Simpson
J. W. Coleman
E. A. Berry
Northview Opportunity Center
Winfield
ESA Beta Gamma
Epsilon Sigma Alpha
Edythe Wendt
Columbus
Ruth Dawson
Beta Sigma Phi
Richard King
Joe Gooch
Heart and Home
EHU
James Rinner
Muse
Art Enz
Happy Days
Friendly Acres
Happy Hours
B. J. Cannon
Walton Highland
Courthouse
Elmer Smith
Donald Gilchrist
Ed Kater
Ray Penner
Michael
Pauline
Penner
Gene Freeman
Mel Akin
Bethel College
Wendy Wentz
Kathy Wentz
Tari Qamar
Leslie Moser
Kevin Monroe
Nancy Ice
Mary Kirkpatrick
Ted Ice
Max Kirkpatrick
Newton Odd Fellows to Meet Tonight at 8 O'clock
Newton Odd Fellows Lodge No 100 convenes at Odd Fellow's Hall this evening with first degree work on the agenda. Newton Lodge No 142 plans to elect officers at the 7 PM Wednesday meeting at the Masonic Temple. Lions Club hosts annual Christmas party at St Mary's School with Paul Gilmore as master of ceremonies.
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Newton
Odd Fellows Lodge No. 100
Odd Fellow’s
Newton Lodge
Newton Lodge No. 142
Masonic Temple
Newton Lions Club
St. Mary’s School
Paul Gilmore
Dance Theater of
Kansas
Pleasant Homemakers EHU and 4 H Club Christmas events
EHU members and 4 H Campus Champions meet for Christmas gatherings across groups. Pleasant Homemakers plan a 6 30 p m supper at West Wend Cafe with families and friends. Campus Champions 4 H Club meets 6 30 p m Tuesday at Bethel College cottage for talks demonstrations and a flag salute.
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EHU
West Wend Cafe
Harold Borchardt
Church of the Brethren
R. V. Smith
Bev English
Newton
Bob Moser
Ken Lennox
Thornton Wilder Dies at 78 in Hamden Connecticut
Noted American writer Thornton Wilder died of a heart attack at 78 in Hamden Connecticut. He lived with his sister Isabel and was pronounced dead after being taken to St. Raphael Hospital in New Haven. Wilder won three Pulitzers for The Bridge of San Luis Rey Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth and wrote The Matchmaker which became Hello Dolly. He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963.
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Hamden, Conn
Thornton Wilder
Our Town
Isabel
Wilder
Amos Tappan Wilder
Bridge of San Luis Rey
Noted writer Thornton Wilder to be honored for literature
Thornton Niven Wilder born April 17 1897 in Madison Wisconsin endured a globe roaming upbringing as his father Amos Wilder edited papers and served as consul general in Hong Kong and Shanghai. He received the National Medal for Literature in 1967 for The Eighth Day and finished Theophilus North in 1973 detailing a young man’s 1920s Newport adventures.
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National Book Committee
White House
Wilder
Theophilus North
Seacoast
Newport
Thornton Niven Wilder
Madison
Wis
Amos Wilder
Hong Kong
Shanghai
China
California
No Nostalgia For The Fifties And Ann Landers Letters
A collage of Ann Landers Q A with readers debating female empowerment and male impotence, plus a note on British General Burgoyne celebrated for humane treatment of soldiers. The letters touch on sexuality, politics, family estrangement, and advice to reconnect with a mother. The World Almanac adds Burgoyne’s humane officer philosophy.
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Ann Landers
Don Juan
Don
Dearie
Johnny Burgoyne
Burgoyne
World Almanac
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Circle
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Progressive Women’s Club
Elden Smurr
N. A. Boyer
Harvey County Home Economics Club
Harold Schorn
Schorn
Andy Douglass
Lee Fent
Karen Jones
First Christian Church
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Main Streets
Tharran Gaines
Elks
Ladies of the Elks
The
Elks Lodge
Yule
VFW
Whitesell-Finnell
Peo
Relief Corps
Judson Kilpatrick Woman’s Relief Corps
Canton and Auxiliary Crescent No. 35
IOOF
E. T. Kristenson
S. A. Gough
Canton
Otto Rossman
Odd Fellows Lodge
Therran Gaines
Smada
Decorating Center
North Main
Benjamin ‘Moore
Flarsaye Katherine S
Norma Vincent Peel
Annah
P. O. Box 1400
Elgin, Ill
Field Enterprises, Inc
Unger’s
Merino & Reynolds
Lily
Lily Craft
E. Edwy
Lankins Jewelers
BankAmericard
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