Red Cross Drive At Local Theaters Draws Support
The Local Theaters hosted Red Cross events with Mrs. Eugene Senseny of St Louis speaking on food conservation as a wartime duty. Proceeds from performances at the Orpheum Belasco Quincy and Star benefited the Red Cross with women ushers and entertainers contributing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Senseny
St. Louis
Orpheum
Red Cross
Belasco
Quincy
Star
Dorothy Morehead
Dorothy Selmer
Roman Arnold
Senseny
Fashions for Americans in summer frocks with taffeta and organdy
The illustrated sketch shows a navy blue taffeta and white embroidered organdy summer dress. Details include an organdy under skirt, a taffeta bodice with organdy sleeves, and a two inch puffed edge finish. Black taffeta with embroidered organdy and batiste accents appear in several smart frocks. The piece notes taffeta frocks regain favor over satin and faille, and ends with a remark on love and lighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batiste
Gym Classes Entertain Big Crowd At Y
Patrons of the YWCA and YMC A enjoyed the program by gym classes Thursday evening at the Y. M. C. A. Miss Gertrude Frame and Sam Gabek led. An opening pantomime The Lamp Went Out featured four YWCA girls with reader Margaret Reed. Dances by Dorothy Rogers and Thelma McDole followed. A wand drill, Japanese dance and a spring pageant accompanied by helpers filled the program, ending with a business men's volleyball game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Frame
Sam Gabek
Margaret Reed
Dorothy Rogers
Thelma McDole
Dorothy Morehead
Dorothy Sellner
Margerete Reed
Forse
Johnston
Wich
Buddie
Meyers
Y. M
Y. W
Rome Bockenhoff
Thelma McCote
Government Worker Positions Open in County
A notice seeks names of registered statistical file and index clerks for county jobs paying 1203 to 1800 annually. Information on civil service exam data is available from local examiners in Quin cy Illinois Chicago and Washington DC offices. Also reports a trip home from Alton and Clayton visits and social gatherings in St. Louis and Flamesburg Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Jarrett Wood
Civil Service
Quincy
Irene Warren
Auditorium Building
Chicago
Civil Service Commission
Washington, D. C
BRIEF PERSONALS AND LOCAL EVENTS IN QUINCY
Mrs. Tober Leindecker improves slowly after illness. Clarence Messick visits his aunt Mrs. Liebman from Chicago. Mrs. Cora Robinson has joined Flora Doon concert company. Lambert lodge Masons held regular meeting. United Commercial Travelers delegates head to Decatur for state convention led by Harry Gray and others. Elaborate Roofing Co. Blind Boone concert at Vermont Street Methodist church tonight on his fifty fourth birthday. Pleasant Hour club host this afternoon. Red Cross meeting at St Antonius church featured talks by Meador and Moriarty. Dr Stannus ENT office listed. Lummis and Giegerich left for drainage district work. Eva Lovell and Lovell Knox visiting in Pittsfield. Lawrence Jochem to Tulsa to visit brother Alphonse before May 22 draft. William B. Bull arrives for extended visit. Gardners and Dingersons travel to Waterloo, Ind. St John Lutheran picnic set for June 20 at Christ Congregational lawn with supper and music. Edith Dale visiting Burchs. George Schumacher and family from Detroit visiting. Schumacher notes many Quincyans in Detroit factories.
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Tober Leindecker
South Fifth Street
Clarence Messick
Chicago
Charles Liebman
North Sixth Street
Cora Robinson
North Ninth Street
Flora Doon Concert Company
Pendleton
Stern Bldg
Lambert Lodge of Masons
Masonic Temple
United Commercial Travelers Association
Decatur
Order
Harry Gray
J. E. Dorsey
J. B. Menke
C. R. Poole
C. B. DeJean
W. E. Dorsey
Elaborate
Blind Boone
A Simple Lesson on Giving During Hard Times
Daily chit chat recalls a widow with a comfortable income noting higher costs mean less to give. She argues rising prices reduce aid to Red Cross, YMCA, K of C, and starving children. An Armenian consul reports street starvation, underscoring the burden of need and the difficulty of turning away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. of C
Armenia
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J. E. Stewart
Majestic
New York
Neysa McMein
H. M. McMein
France
Miss McMein
Saturday Evening Post
McClure's
the Congregational Church
Blessing Hospital
C. W. East
State Board of Health
Pittsfield
Dan Cover
Miss Laird
Mrs. Cover
Red Cross Sale
Prairie School
Broadway
Esther Reeder
Ellington Presbyterian Church
Red Cross Fund
Warfield
John Warfield
Kate Graves
Kentucky
Arthur Pfeiffer
J. A. S. Ehart
Kansas City
Chile
Alex Raffety
Jolly Club
L. W. Stiers
D. Balzer
J. Sterling
E. Groff
John Dennison
Balzer
Base
Spalding
Boys
Ozark
F. T. Brenner
Smal Son
W. F. Kirtley
Alton, Ill
Russell Brenner
Western Military Academy
Jefferson Barracks
Clayton
W. O. Shank
W. T. Hamilton
John Mast
North Twentieth Street
Loretta Fischer
Edith Fischer
Mary and
Allie Fischer
Flamesburg
Mary Fischer
Pleasant Hour Club
F. R. Morgan
Hampshire Street
Julius Gardner
Louis Dingerson
State Street
Waterloo
St. John Lutheran Church
Christ Congregational Church
Edith Dale
Galesburg
A. G. Burch
South Seventh Street
George Schumacher
Detroit
Brecher
Schumacher
Steinbrecher
Quincy. Ill
Milan
Japan
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Duewwyu
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Copenhagen
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