Social Affairs notes and club meetings in ME region
Informal tea hosted by Henry Whipple for her daughter Mrs. C. C. Spencer with guests including Eleanor Ellis Ruth Appleton and several others. Dinner plans in Hotel Newcomb. Women’s clubs meet Tuesday and Thursday for sewing, papers, and readings. Naval service updates include Newcomb Stillwell enlisting and Charles Lee Weems awaiting call. Family visits wrap the week as residents travel to St. Louis and Newport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Whipple
C. C. Spencer
Eleanor Ellis
Ruth Appleton
Dorothy Boswell
Georgenna Cottrell
Helen Rethch Jr
Eleanor Nielson
Newcomb
Local social events and meetings span a busy week
Alice Marston hosted a Tuesday afternoon gathering with 25 guests all knitting, while the Historical Society met for routine business. The parliamentary practice division of the Women's Forum held a Tuesday session led by Mrs. Frank Wood, with admission open to members. Several residents plan visits, showers, and a Red Cross benefit, and a Knights of Columbus 500 party honored Mrs. Daniels and Miss Stroot with prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women's Forum
Forum
Frank Wood
Knights of Columbus
K. C. Hall
John Daniels
Rosalia Stroat
John Kerkering
Herman Freiburg
Daniels
Miss Stroot
Invitation to Write for Free Medical Advice
Readers are invited to write Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts for free medical guidance addressing women's ailments. Letters are answered by women and kept confidential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
High School Notes and Social Plans This Week
The High School Girls' Student Council meets today at the YWCA for a short business session followed by a Patriotism talk by Mrs. John T. Inghram and a social hour with refreshments. Bonita Urban hosts a knitting party Friday afternoon for friends, Fredericka Crane hosts a Country Club dance next Friday night. Report cards were issued yesterday with many on the honor roll despite some discomfort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. Inghram
Bonita Urban
Fredericka Crane
Y W C A Notes Tuesday Bible Class Supper
The Tuesday Bible class held its regular supper in the association on Tuesday evening followed by the lesson after the meal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Association
Cheerful Home to Host Home Economics Class
Miss Muriel Brasie, assistant to Miss Ethel Irwin at the Virginia Irwin Memorial school, will teach a home economics class this afternoon at 2 30 in the Cheerful home, located in the settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muriel Brasie
Miss Brasie
Ethel Irwin
Virginia Irwin Memorial School
Jubilee: is closed at St Mary's forty hours
Closing day exercises of the forty hours devotion and jubilee at St Marys church began with mass and exposition at 6 am. Altar Society and Young Ladies Sodality received communion. High Mass followed at 9 am. Rev Father Brennan delivered The Real Presence sermon urging belief in the Eucharist and praising past and present pastors as St Marys marks its 50th milestone. Solemn procession and benediction ended with Te Deum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary’s Church
Altar Society
Young Ladies’ Sodality
Father John Brennan
St. Rose of Lima
Father Brennan
St. Mary’s
St. Mary's
Father Zurbensen
Brady Stranton wedding in Chicago links Quincy and Wichita
Thomas Brady formerly of Quincy and now in Wichita Kansas married Miss Lot ta Stranton of Chicago in a Chicago ceremony Tuesday. Brady serves as secretary treasurer of Wichita Wholesale Grocery company and visited Quincy briefly en route without informing friends there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brady-Stranton
Thomas Brady
Quincy
Wichita
Kan
Loretta Stranton
Chicago
Brady
Wichita Wholesale Grocery Company
Church events and fundraisers across local parishes
At a St. Vincent Home meeting women from Catholic churches set October 18 for a Whist fundraiser with twenty prizes. Central Baptist Church committees plan first 7:45 pm Friday meeting to elect officers. Alliance circles will serve dinner while members sew for Red Cross Thursday. Modern Neele Picket club enjoyed costumes and a speaker. St John’s Dramatic Club rehearses The House Next Door for month end show. Ladies’ Aid of St John’s and St Jacobi Lutheran host dinner October 28 for Reformation visitors. officers named for event planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Vincent
Central Baptist Church
Vermont Street
Woman's Alliance of the Central Baptist Church
Red Cross
St. John's Dramatic Club
St. John’s Catholic Church
Father Hohl
Rudolph Lubbering
Tohn Toebbe
Leona Sibbing
Louise Geers
Marie Ullman
St. John’s
St. Jacobi
Illinois Man Wounded In German Shell Fire
Paris dispatch reports Robert Lamon from Evanston Illinois and Henry Thompson from Greenville Delaware members of the municipal transport section of the American Field Service were wounded by a German shell on Sunday. Their injuries are described as not serious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Paris
Robert Lamon
Evanston, Ill
Henry Thompson
Greenville
Del
American Field Service
It Happened in a Friend's Home Domestic Irritability
A neighbor recounts a husband who snapped at his wife during an offer of help over a bill. He blamed nerves and claimed he did not want help, though her intentions were kind. The piece muses on how some people let small irritations erupt and ruin harmony and urges gentle communication instead of brutality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles P. Carroll
Kansas City
Charley Pat
William Kamp
Carroll
W. C. Guss
Hannibal
Helen Jones
St. Mary Academy
Kamps
Nerous
Court of Honor Installs Officers in Progressive District
About 200 people attended the installation of officers by Mrs. Mary E. Longan of St. Louis and helpers in Court of Honor No. 74. New officers include Miss Cora E. Ruths elect chancellor, Miss Elma Crawford vice chancellor, Miss Olga V. Ruths chaplain, Mrs. Bertha M. Eisenberg recorder, Mrs. Johann Heilwagen conductress, Ira Bourne guard, Myron Smith sentinel, Edmund Crawford director for three years, with Robert Nesta and George Herbert as hold-over directors. Olga Ruths sang a vocal solo. ice cream and cake were served, followed by a dance till midnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary E. Longan
St. Louis
George Menn
Mildred Dinkeller
Progressive District Court
Court of Honor
Cora E. Ruths
Arthur P. Nesta
Elma Crawford
Olga V. Ruths
Bertha M. Eisenberg
Johann Heilwagen
Ira Bourne
Myron Smith
Sentinel
Edmund Crawford
Robert Nesta
George Herbert
Olga Ruths
District ministers weigh endowment for retired pastors
Quincy district Methodist ministers and stewards meet at Vermont Street church to discuss a permanent endowment for retired ministers and gospel tent meetings. Dr H C Gibbs spoke on the endowment fund, with Rev A S Flanigan presiding. 100 delegates attended. Tent plans to be finalized at spring meeting. Endowment target near 500000 if churches contribute one year’s salary. The note adds Pennsylvania coal production context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chaddock Boys’ School
Quincy
Methodist Church
Vermont Street
Eva Frields
Chaddock School
H. C. Gibbs
Decatur
Gibbs
A. S. Flanigan
Ladies’ Social Union
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Tiss Maude Hessler
Adams County
Home Improvement Association
Percy Brown and Son
E. H. Castle
St. Agatha Club
Frances Anderson
Ninth and
Kentucky Streets
Euchre Club
Alice Bird
S. A. Hubbard
Shakespeare Club
George Gabriel
D. L. Musselman
Lawrence Wells
Helen Schultz
Mary Castle
Study Club
C. C. Jansen
Scott Club
Dean Richardson
Miss Adelaide
Stawana Club
Edna Schlipman
Washington Street
Ella Moshage
Mary Hyde
Caribbean
George Gardner
Americas
BE. F. Bradford
Polly Sumner
Arthur Glenn
Shittle
Mary Louise
Cincinnati
ISS
Alice Marston
Garrett Schueler
Henry Long
Jesse Wyckoff Marks
Miss Marston
The
Historical Society
Mary Bull
Catasauqua
Mr. Flanigan
J. Will Wall
Anne Wood
Friends In Council
Charles Spilker
Jefferson Street
R. T. Camerell
Erie, Kas
Charles Schrang
Camp Point
Rome Arnold
Erma Chambley
Grace Baumberger
Barry
J. Phil Bert
George Dashwood
A. A. Whipple
South Side
Mothers' Club
Mission Rooms
Leona
Irene Westman
Agnes Veile
Ralph Lansing
St. Francis Church
James Beatty
Houston
Tex
Capt. Beatty
Lowell, Mass
Margaret Quinn
Worthen St
North Haven
Conn
Ras E. Pinkham
Y. W. C. A. Notes
St. Rose Church
Church News
Neele Picket
Central Baptist Women
Catherine Crewdson
North Eighth Street
Sarah Gatwick
Lee Lewis
Ruth Cameron
United States
Pennsylvania
Gira
Caver
Man
Pioneer Butter
Pioneer Creamery Co
Spring Street
Quincy, Hi
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