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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1916
Page
23
With Lent ended social life surges in Quincy as brides of the season take center stage. The Country club opens May 6 for a men and women tournament and a dinner for the losing team. Several locals travel for Easter and spring moves, with many returning students and visitors shaping a busy list of gatherings, visits, and parties across town.
Mrs Wells Trowbridge of Deming New Mexico visits Quincy with daughter Donna to reunite with former friends. Mr and Mrs Richardson and daughter Adelaide travel to Chicago for the weekend. Miss Ina Tiarber returns home to Bloomington after visiting Mrs Chester Wilcox. The Universalist King’s Daughters plan a dancing party at Knights of Columbus hall with Lyman Noel orchestra. Mr and Mrs Hr B Crawford host a dinner for Mr and Mrs T T Goff and daughters Myrtilla and Virginia, plus Mr and Mrs G W Blair and daughter Virginia. Dr and Mrs Rooney dine with AS Otis Johnson before traveling from Los Angeles to New York for post graduate work.
The visiting group paused in Quincy for a day at the narrator's old home, then continued their trip, leaving Friday night for Chicago.
Monday offers round table on American sculpture with Mrs. Duncan and multiple bridge clubs led by Mrs. Morton Mrs. S Ehart and Mrs. Shantz. Tuesday features literary events by Friends in Council Atlantis and Shakespeare and card clubs plus several others. Wednesday through Saturday list O E, bridge and crochet clubs plus various social groups and a Pinochle dinner event.
Quincy friends report a memorial fund created for Rose Esterly a former Kansas City shop owner who died after a minor operation. The fund was left by her friend Miss Clara Jessy, who later died, and Esterly had supported a Mercy hospital ward for crippled poor children. Esterly, born in Quincy, lived with Miss Hessy, a lifelong friend. Mrs. John O Hare of Quincy is Esterly’s sister.
P. L. Dickhut sold for the heirs of John C. Roberts on Saturday a 70 by 250 foot lot on Vermont street near Fourth, containing a double brick house and a six room frame house. Thomas E. Thompson bought through Dickhut property at Twenty fourth and Vine streets owned by heirs of Mrs. M. B. Holyoke of Chicago, and plans to erect modern homes though no definite plans are set.
The Weather Bureau forecast a generally fair Easter Sunday for most of the country. Showers were expected only in New England and interior New York, with overcast skies across the Great Lakes region, the upper Ohio Valley, and the Middle Atlantic states.
Miss Julian Vasen, an instructress at a North Shore kindergarten in Chicago, is in the city for Easter with her parents Mr and Mrs B G Vasen at 918 North Fifth Street. The old saying about marriage is noted in a local quip: when it is silks with the wife it apt to be sulks with the husband.
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