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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1920
Page
8
A roundup of society happenings in Quincy highlights luncheons for Mrs. L. R. Dutton in Jenkintown guests, club socials, and weddings. Mrs. Curtis Wynn hosts a card party. Mrs. Bingaman hosts a surprise for the pastor's wife. Duncan and Pendleton families host visitors. Families travel from Chicago and Los Angeles for holidays. local clubs plan sales and meetings. marriages and engagements noted.
Mrs Chubbuck formerly of this city now in Peoria was chosen State regent at the Illinois D A R State Convention in Urbana on Thursday A bright reception followed at University hall that evening Officers elected include Regent Mrs J E Chubbuck Peoria Vice Regent Mrs Frank O Lowden Springfield Recording Secretary Mrs Nevin C Lescher Galesburg Corresponding Secretary Mrs F J Bowman Sterling Treasurer Mrs N C Ettinger Sprayheld Historian Mrs C E Davidson Greenville Librarian Miss Effie Epler Jacksonville Chattain Mary Lee Champaign.
Speakers Mrs. Constance Ellis Mrs. Ella Gilmer Mrs. Eva Frields Mrs. J R Lambert and W D White led a High School Parent Teacher Association meeting on courtesy. They blamed parents for children’s lack of manners urged example over words and linked true courtesy to self control and the ten commandments.
Passion Week services at the Ken tuck Street M. E. church feature Rev. Carl Buch sermons on Repentance and Faith Monday evening and Christ Praying topics Tuesday through Thursday. Friday the choir presents The Crucifixion by J. Stainer. All services begin at 7 45.
Next Sunday evening Rev F A Mc Carty will start a series on Some Modern Religious Cults at Vermont St M E church. Topics include Mormonism on March 28 Easter Message April 4 Adventism April 11 Spiritism April 18 Christian Science April 25 all during the evening service.
A farewell banquet honoring dormitory men of the Y M C A who left the city was held in the association building Friday evening. Fifty attended with W I Grumman assistant general secretary as toastmaster. Speeches came from R R Potter general secretary and Charles Fichenauer president of the M O Co A board. Music was directed by J V Downing and Charles Bond.
Miss Mabel Wilkerson of the University of Illinois will teach sewing in Payson next week under Adams county Home Bureau. Delegates from each unit will attend, with Mrs Arthur Roy representing Quincy. Miss Taylor’s April meetings start April 5 with a Quincy unit class at 2:30 and a Child Care lesson at 7:30. The calendar lists Quincy classes and various open dates and office sessions through April 30, with multiple unit locations including Ursa Ellington Plainville Houston and Payson.
The annual reunion of the Salem Confirmands will be held in that church Sunday evening with a Cross and Crown league arranged program. Part I includes organ preludes, hymns, prayers, scripture, and an address. Part II features songs by various pastors’ confirmands spanning years, the Lord’s Prayer, and a benediction. Souvenirs will be distributed.
Palm Sunday services at Luther Memorial include morning confirmation of the class of 1920 and an evening sermon by Rev. L Bingman entitled Our Authority. Holy week services will run each evening with sermons on Our Message Our Passion Our Savior Our Faith Our Testimony and The Triumph of the Church. The class members confirmed Sunday morning are Adair Roge Breuer Buss Casparie Erke Ferguson Heusser Huechteman King Koch Kurk Lewis Lohmeyer Meek Newell Thesen Venvertich Zimmerman Zuckswert.
The ministerial association will meet at the Y M C A Monday at 10 30 A M with an informal discussion of the Interchurch Program and its relation to Quin cy and Adams County. All Adams county ministers are invited to attend with the Quincy ministers. Bake Bale members of the Woman's Industrial Society of the Unitarian church will hold a home cooking sale this afternoon at Miller and Arthur's Drug Store.
Ministers and laymen in Adams county gather to launch the united inter-church world movement. County director Henry Scarborough and city director Arthur F. Odell preside as subscriptions and prayers build toward the April 25 kickoff with a week of preparation through May 2 and a Friends list of donors.
R R Potter head of the local Y M C A has been named by the National Health board to run the Keep Fit program for public health in Adams Brown Pike and Schuyler counties. Exhibits from governmental headquarters will be shown in Quincy Rushville Mt Sterling and Pittsfield. E T Manchester will speak on electricity to Y M C A boys tonight.
Ruth Cameron discusses a teacher’s view on films shaping city and country children. She cites geography and history gains from screen exposure and boosts oral English as a key benefit, while noting dangers from violence in Wild West scenes and the need for parental guidance to harness films educationally.
Brown sugar advertised by Wamps Bakery 827 Maine while George Gille travels to Kirksville Missouri on business. Wilbur Detmers and John Baird of Golden visit Quincy. Free sweet pea seeds offered by Court House Pharmacy on March 27. Fred Wilson a University of Chicago student plans return to Chicago. Dr Stannus offers modern eye services. Mrs Roscoe Smith of Clayton shops in Quincy and Easter postcards offered. E J Grubb from Liberty visits Quincy. Dr Gabriel and E J Stannus attend local events. Mrs Marie Ball and Nellie Ball of Clayton spend Friday in town. Mrs Harry Morrison leads a community sing at Jefferson school. Court House Pharmacy lists seeds and supplies. Charlotte and Donald McCarl return from Lombard College to spend weekend with parents.
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