Pfeiffer Vaudeville Show At Highland Park Fundraiser
A Red Cross benefit vaudeville in Highland Park features C A Pfeiffer original songs Wait for Your Honey Boy He ll Come Back to You and Say Nuffin It s for the Best with Miss Dorothy Dayton Pajama Girls dance and a sketch An Interrupted Rehearsal The program includes a large cast, home made candy, books, a fish pond and prize dances Part of park amusements profits go to the Red Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Arthur Pfeiffer
Ways and Means Committee
the Red Cross
Highland
Park
Rome Arnold
Mr. Pfeiffer
Red Cross
Red Cross Seals Sale By Junior Society
Red Cross seals will be sold by Junior Red Cross members to raise funds, availability at the Y W C A and via Sunday school representatives. Seals cost one cent each and are not Christmas seals. Local events include a fishing pond fundraiser at Highland Park and a vaudeville show by the ways and means committee.
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Red Cross
ED Cross
Highland Park
Ways and Means Committee
Red Crossa
Vadeville
Y W C A NOTES AND CHURCH SOCIETY MEETINGS
The Y W C A membership committee met Monday with tea and wafers after the business session. Ida Stewart read a national board letter on a million dollar war fund. The M W B club knit and prepared a Christmas quilt for sale. Friendship clubs from Emerson, Berrian, and Trving schools meet this afternoon. St Peter's aid society set October 7 bazar dates at K of C hall with Mrs Ed Dowd named bazar chair.
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Association
Ida Stewart
National Board
M. W. B. Club
Emerson, Berrian and
Trving Schools
St. Peter's Aid Society
C. Hall
Ed Dowd
The Growing Girl Ad
The piece warns about teen girls facing a critical life stage and the risk of health decline or death. It promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a faithful tonic for healthy development and preservation of womanly health.
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Roper
Nothng
Lydim E. Pinkham
Library Directors Discuss War Fund Campaign
The regular monthly library directors meeting discussed the War Library campaign and reported gifts including volumes from Rev. W. C. Cone and others. Monthly circulation reached 8414 with 8745 visitors to the reading room and 15 Sunday visitors, while daily peaks and lows are noted.
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War Library
W. C. Cone
F. W. Pendleton
W. C. Odiorne
F. W. Rummenie
Emily Beckwith
Martha Ohn 1
GC. A. Wells
Elizabeth Arcy
Stanley Sapp
Christ Klein
Elizabeth Fortkamp
Lina Jones
William L. Schauf
Women’s Alliance of the Unitarian Church
E. J. Parker
L. E. Emmons
Bingaman Elected President of Quincy Federation of Churches
Rev. J. W. Bingaman was elected president of the Quincy Federation of Churches at the annual meeting held Monday evening in the Y M C A. Other officers named include First vice president Rev. W. O. Shank and Second vice president Rev. G. A. Buttrick. Recording secretary G. H. Lyford and Treasurer H. F. Lummis. Executive secretary G. B. Cawthorne. Standing committees to be appointed later by the president and secretary.
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N. W. Bingaman
Quincy Federation of Churches
W. O. Shank
G.A. Buttrick
G. H. Lyford
H. F. Lummis
G. B. Cawthorne
High School Senior Party Date Change Considered
The senior class may move their auto party from Friday to Wednesday afternoon. About thirty students joined a botany hike to Southpark Lime Kilns and Fern Hollow, cooking dinners at the kilns. Ten couples rode the hay rack to Homan Falls Friday evening, toasting marshmallows and returning around 10.
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Putnam Springs
North Thirieta Street
Southpark
Fern Hollow
Homan Falls
Birth for Bonfoey Family at Blessing Hospital
In Blessing hospital on Saturday night a son was born to Mr and Mrs Lawrence Bonfoey marking a joyful addition to the Bonfoey family.
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Lawrence Bonfoey
The
Blessing Hospital
Shipping Strike Averted in New Orleans Port Return to Work
In New Orleans on September 25 striking Negro freight handlers and longshoremen agreed to resume work and submit grievances to a local adjustment committee. The decision ends the dispute as workers pledge to follow the committee’s review process. A man who has something to say always knows when he has said it, then he shuts up.
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New Orleans
Church Activities and Meetings Across Local Congregations
Local church groups report active schedules across denominations. Central Baptist B Y P A hosts morning meeting at 124 South Sixth. Epworth League hay rack party postponed to Thursday. First Congregational Woman's Guild to hold its first regular meeting Wednesday at 2 pm. Patrols and rallies observed at the Presbyterian church with patriotic decor and sermon by Rev R H Hartley. St Pauls Evangelical Young People held a monthly business session. Sunday school teachers meet Thursday. Rev L C Mauck spoke on Prayer at East End Christian church. vocal duet by John Barton and Sr Hunsaker delighted attendees. St Jacobi Lutheran mission festival drew large attendance and largest offering yet. Rev Charles Rehahn preached German and English sermons. First M E church to host pastors Wahl reception Thursday at 7:45 pm in church parlors. Rev H W Trueblood, Mrs Maud Spry, and Mrs Waggy left for Bloomington for United Brethren conference. Mum Luncheon by Ladies Aid Friday at 7:30 pm. Christian Endeavor at First Christian elected officers Merle Killam, Evelyn Woodworth, Deta Maupin, Otis Wolfe, Nell Reed. meeting to follow Wednesday evening. Vermont Street Methodist reports top attendance classes Wells, Sinnock, Sims, Thrush. social Friday evening to honor Mrs Wells’ class.
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H. W. Trueblood
United Brethren Church
Maud Spry
Waggy
Bloomington
Ladies Aid
The
Quincy Scouts Plan Burton-Troop Hike Saturday
Quincy's Pulse Hike to Burton Troop Two of the Boy Scouts will travel to Burton Saturday. They met Monday night to finalize plans and will depart at 2 p.m. fully equipped with meals for three, reach the cave by 6 p.m. to cook supper, spend two hours exploring, sleep overnight, attend Burton church after breakfast, then hike home after dinner. Wood Arraignment Today in Brass Theft Case. John Wood, held by the government for stealing brass valued at $400 from a freight car, will be arraigned today before U.S. Commissioner Martin Tindale. he was to appear before Federal Commissioner Moray. South Eighth Repairs: L. L. Bover awarded contract to John E. Mehaffy for resurfacing and oiling.
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Burton
Boy Scouts
Generosity and selfishness in gift giving contrast
In daily life some generous people hoard praise and small tokens while others freely give formal gifts. The piece contrasts two types of generosity, noting a friend who always brings little gifts yet rarely writes, and another who fulfills formal duties but neglects small, casual presents. The author prefers informal don’t-have-to-be gifts over rigid formal giving.
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Molly
South Eighth Street contract terms published
The contract covers one mile of South Eighth Street from the city limits to the bottom road with crushed stone priced at 2.1714 dollars per ton and oiling at 9.78 dollars per gallon.
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South Eighth Street
Marblehead Station Burglary Reported Saturday
Marblehead, Sept. 25. The railroad station at Marblehead was broken into Saturday night or early Sunday by an unknown intruder. A window was tamped with the woodwork token beneath it. the thief appeared unskilled with a jimmy and managed to prise the window. Only a few pennies were taken as cash is usually removed by the agent at night or when away, a precaution the burglar did not know.
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Marblehead
Nisk
Nigat
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Country Club
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Phoenix
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Sox
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