Delights at 600 party honor Misses Albright Hawker and Burton
Social notes record a home gathering hosted by ISL ENID IRELAND at 1033 Maine street Friday. Guests included Miss Eunice Albright, Miss Helen Hawker visiting Mrs. Lightfoot, and Miss Pearl Burton visiting Mrs. Griffith Barnett. Helen Hawker won guest prize, Ethlyn Ebert first, Virginia Fry consolation. Luncheon followed with garden flowers in decor. Many local friends listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ISL
Elizabeth Oakley
Ruth Pumpelly
Marie Bowen
Ruth Enlow
Alice
Ruth Brown
Wilma Buckles
Grace Beeler
Virginia Reticker
Virginia Fry
Florence
Tillie Egan
Marguerite Behrenesmeyer
Althea Halligan
Helen Struck
Mildred Henry
Dorothy Werner
Elizabeth Klarner
Dorothy Hokamp
Anna Klarner
Erma Gerdes
Charlotte McCarl
Mother's caution and Cassandra plight amid teen years
A reflective piece weighs the sadness and hope of mothers guiding daughters through adolescence. It argues mothers often foretell harm from experience yet see their warnings go unheeded as daughters seek independence. The essay urges patient, loving restraint and timing to avoid long walls of misunderstanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cassandra
Fashions for Americans two fall hats in millinery styles
The article surveys late fall and winter millinery emphasizing two strong points: height and fabric variety. It notes military influence in colors and shapes, velvet and satin hats, rough rider and motor styles, and the popularity of panne velvet, ribbons, feather bands, quills, and veils with sheer net and colored velvet embellishment.
Grace Miller hosts Grace M. E. church group
Miss Grace Miller entertained the Standard Bearers Missionary society of Grace M. E. church at her Cedar street home Friday night a social and business meeting was held with refreshments. Postal cards were collected for a post card shower for Miss Boggett of Lucknow India. Miss Elma Crawford read Trabhu's Secret and short talks were given. Miss Marguerite Lusk returning from Clear Lake Iowa. Mr and Mrs Carl Lauder and daughter Margaret and Leila Sullivan drove to Carthage Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Miller
Cedar Street
Standard Bearers Missionary Society
Grace M. E. Church
Miss Boggett
Lucknow
India
Methodist Church
Elma Crawford
Trabhu
Mobilization Day in Pike Expected to Draw Big Crowd
Sept 1 Pike county prepares for a historic mobilization day in Pittsfield with a countywide parade including schoolchildren, a courthouse park barbecue for draftees, and efforts to run extra Wabash trains. A state utilities hearing on the Wabash case is postponed to Sept 11 as citizens plan events. Local notables attend meetings and travel, while the draft calls push sixty more men and hats transition from straw to winter styles loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsfield
Pike County
Court House Park
Wabash Railroad
Wabash
State Public Utilities Commission
Wabash Railroad Company
Elizabeth Leeds
Elizabeth
Moline
Elizabeth Penstone
Armine Wills
Ross Linville
West
Walter Morgan
National Jewelers’ Association
St. Louis
Belle Bradburn
Cecil Nelson
Barry
Loring Hanscom
Fred Hanscom
Sioux Falls
S. C
Red Cross Work Shop Opens September 5
The Red Cross workshop and office will open Sept 5 in the Chamber of Commerce building. Mrs E J Parker chairs the hospital supply committee and will oversee gauze work. Mrs Joel Benton handles garments and muslin bandages. Mrs D L Musselman leads knitting instruction. Quincy women plan to knit one thousand sweaters and one thousand pairs of socks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Chamber of Commerce
E. J. Parker
Joel Benton
D. L. Musselman
Quincy
Cheerful Home welcomes visiting staff in September
Miss Lyla Biddinger visiting nurse will return to the Cheerful Home on September 8. Miss Gay Braxton head resident and Miss Rebecca Crew kindergarten teacher will arrive mid September. Miss Braxton has been in Lexington Kentucky. Miss Marjorie Southwick friendly visitor for the Associated Charities will return the first week of September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyla Biddinger
Gay Braxton
Rebecca Crew
Braxton
Lexington
Marjorie Southwick
Associated Charities
Pike County News Sold 70 Times Consolidates With Times
The Pike County News plant is sold to the Times Printing company, consolidating two local papers in Louisiana Missouri. A. C. Gansz, in charge since 1892, will retire from the newspaper business as the Times expands its operation. Automobile prices rise, but used car bargains appear in The Whig Want Ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pike County News
Louisiana
Times Printing Company
Times
A. C. Gansz
Women Gather Up Unused Vegetables in Melrose
Mrs. F C Moorman Mrs James Riggs and Mrs G Kramer visited Melrose to collect surplus produce for the Woodland Home on Friday. They received donations from Mrs G Lepper Mrs Valentina Kiem and Mrs William Kinsemeyer with vegetables including potatoes tomatoes onions apples and cabbage. The group plans to visit other areas later in the summer to gather fruits and vegetables not being conserved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F.C. Moorman
James Riggs
G. Kramer
Melrose
Food Conservation Committee
Council of National Defense
Woodland Home
G. Lepper
Valentine Kiem
William Kinsemeyer
August Iluseman
Edward Mann
Fred Burgtorff
W. L. Lindsay
Suitors Dissatisfied With Court's Verdict
James McKinnay and Mrs Anna Stutenberg filed appeals in the circuit court Friday. McKinnay appeals a justice court ruling in a $150 claim against S P Osgood for commissions on a real estate sale. Stutenberg sues Charles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James McKinnay
Anna Stutenberg
Circuit Court
McKinnay
Judge Bonney
Justice Court
S. P. Osgood
Bonney
Stutenberg
Charles
Housekeeper Appeals County Court Ruling
W Musick appealed a $22 award from Justice J L McCully claiming $108 for housekeeping services. County Court closed early as Judge McCarl left to speak at the Old Settlers picnic in Clayton.
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John Loop
North Fourth Street
Blandinsville
Mary Harness
Miss Harness
Springfield Y. W. C. A
Friendship Clubs
Indian Mounds Park
Lois Potter
Elizabeth Castle
Maine Street
Edith Baker
Helen Richardson
Sapulpa
Okla
Anna Whitney
Harriet Wells
Robert Halbach
Billy
Emery Lancaster
Virginia
Estes Park
Colorado
Thomas Quinlan
Mrs. Quinlan
O. Rulye
F. Rulge
Marblehead
Anna Corbin
Kansas City
Brison Stillwell
P. Langhurst
Payson Avenue
Ladies’ Aid Society
St. Peter's Church
Elizabeth Jansen
Dean Richardson
Highland Park
Mich
E. H. Castle
Geneseo, IL
Casper Dittmeyer
Rochester
Minn
Mr. Dittmeyer
Mayo Clinic
Frank Whitney
Miss Anna
Richard
South Eighteenth Street
Carthage
Cassandras
Ruth Cameron
Mary Dutcher
Ruth Gunlock
New Canton
Geneva
Jennie Dorsey
Ethel Ruff
Mildred Fichter
Miss Fichter
Willis Richards
Montana
Richard Morris
Cleveland
Ohio
Constance Ellis
Jeanette Burrows
Thomas Dunn
Virginia Ware
Russell Gross
Russell
G. I. Gengel
Meyers
Ed. Tyson
Frank Dissler
Jake Meekes
Joseph Meyer
H. Stevens
Philip Funke
George Meyers
O. D. Smith
A. F. Odell
S. A. Scranton
Hannibal, Mo
Jack Ellis
Nellie Hampton
North Seventh Street
Amema Ois
Missabel Warren
Nettie Chappman
Cecile Hoyte
Emmia Iler
Ida and
Eva Feith
Nellie
Mattie Jackman
Hannah Finley
Luella Blessing
Pansey Schuerman
Mabel Warren
Dollie
Emma Ller
Miss Warren
W. C. Powell
Ladies’ Social Union
Vermont Street Methodist Church
Albert Stone
Edith Crane
Mt. Sterling
Frank Crane
Crane
Mary Graham
Chicago
G. H. Wilson
Graham
Blessing Hospital Nurse Training School
J. F. C. Schott
Herr
Schott
A. F. Cruttenden
Robert Wray
Los Angeles
Helen Weiner
Cottrell
Lillian Pierson
Elizabeth Channon
Norman Cottrell
Junior Duker
Thomas White
Weiner
W. R. Lockwood
South Sixteenth Street
Margaret
Monticello Seminary
Pioneer Butter
Pioneer Creamery Co
Spring St
Quincy, Ill
Marguerite Lusk
Clear Lake
Iowa
Carl Lauder
Miss Margaret
Leila Sullivan
Pike
Wicker Ware
Fulper Pottery
Uptown
N. 6Th Ave
Bth
Adama
Solomon Grundy
Bayshore
Sally
Scvlomon Grundy
Lee
Gunther Hardware Co
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