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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1922
Page
5
Mrs Hugh Roberson hosted the Bridge Club Thursday afternoon at Mrs M 8 Hudsons home. Four tables played with high score by Ms O J Bryan. Players finished by four to attend a reception at Mrs Kim Camps. Homemade candy and a salad course followed the games.
The Christian women hosted an all afternoon reception at Dr. and Mrs. Jim Camp’s home honoring Mrs. C A Johnson wife of the church pastor who had arrived from Indiana. Guests enjoyed floral decor, punch, music, a formal program, and refreshments in a yellow and white chrysanthemum setting.
About 150 ladies called during the afternoon as Mrs Betty Mack Mrs Dorothy Heard Mrs A J Bryant Mrs Jester Mrs C C Colwell Mrs Blake and Mrs Ed Otto assisted in entertaining the guests at the Christian church event.
The T E L class of First Baptist hosts Halloween night at Mrs Mable Beauchamp home with ghostly decor, games, ghost stories, apple dunking, and pumpkin pie. Attendees include Rev J M Garner, H H Johnson, Walter Browning, and numerous couples. Also notes Pecos Halloween partying by Christian Endeavor and B Y P U groups with assorted homes and hostessing.
The Home Makers Club hosted a masquerade for husbands at the Cavett home. Guests arrived in ghostly garb and enjoyed electrified greetings, fortune readings, bobbing for apples, and other stunts. A quartet performed, and pumpkin pie with whipped cream and hot chocolate followed.
People of Porterville and nearby areas enjoyed a Saturday masquerade party at Mr and Mrs D H Newtons home. Mrs F Goodrich helped host with Halloween decorations and colonial era costumes. The all night event featured hot coffee pumpkin pie and apples served periodically.
In a tense moment at halftime, players and crowd react as coaching staff question why the team is leaving the field early. Spectators express disbelief at the rough play and the potential for escalating violence.
Advertisement for Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic claiming to enrich blood improve digestion and act as a general strengthing tonic to help expel worms in children. Suitable for two or three weeks of regular use with a 60 cent bottle price.
An advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a tonic that purifies and enriches the blood, improves appetite, and adds color to the cheeks. It describes iron and quinine suspended in syrup, claims efficacy against malaria germs, and notes its appeal to both adults and children. The price is 60 cents.
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