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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1917
Page
5
Social affairs note the Red Cross Ways and Means Committee will abandon a homemade candy sale at the Highland Park festival to aid sugar conservation per Hoover. Members organize booths for books fishing pond and food while auctions and private selling follow afternoons. Catherine Behnen to wed Leo Braumer in October.
Miss Helen Fuhrman daughter of Frederick Fuhrman and Theodore McPheeters were married Tuesday night at St Jacobi church parsonage by Rev G D Hamm. The couple plan a two day honeymoon before he returns to his ship the Kansas. A wedding breakfast and reception followed with about 75 guests and the couple will reside at 640 1 2 North Twelfth street.
Alma Wavering and Joseph Berter will be married at St Francis church this morning at 9 o'clock by Father Didacus. The ceremony will unite the young couple in a church service with family and friends in attendance.
A reader reflects on why certain blunt truths and breaches of etiquette feel offensive. He argues that some acts are not wrong yet violate social norms, such as airing a troubled family member’s misdeeds or pressing an elder too hard. The piece links this to Phillips Brooks on ceding certain rights as a mark of breeding and higher ideals.
A local man, son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Weiss, traces his family to Arizona where they moved twelve years ago. He is the grandson of Mrs. J. D. Robinson of 613 Washington street and has other relatives in town.
North Eighth street residents joined by Mrs. P. H. Garwick and Mrs. I. T. McNutt for their first knitting lesson while Miss Gertrude Pease reviews Nessima. The club plans a meeting on Oct 13 at Miss Katherine Crewdien's home, labeled a Spinster's social.
London dispatch reports a successful raid by British naval airmen on a Flanders air hangar. Details are sparse, but the mission is described as accomplished with returns of aircraft and matériel. Additional information on losses or impacts was not immediately available.
An official admiralty statement confirms plans for a German airdome at Varesenaere to be carried out on Monday. Reports also describe a clash between a naval air patrol and a German squadron in which one German aircraft was destroyed and another driven out of control, while all British machines returned safely.
Miss Daisy Vincent daughter of Mr and Mrs C Eugene Vincent of 708 Adams street and Thomas T Williford of Chicago son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Williford from Mt Vernon Ill were married at 8 oclock Tuesday evening by Rev F A McCarty in the parsonage of the Vermont Street Methodist church. Attendants were Miss Laura Vincent and William Williford. The bride wore a taupe coat suit with matching hat. After a social evening Mr and Mrs Williford left for Chicago to reside.
Lilly Pearte Weems and John Ater of Champaign were married at 3 o clock Tuesday afternoon by Justice J L McCully in his office.
William R. Weiss of Clifton Arizona formerly Quincy and Miss Gladys A. Butters of Denver were married in Denver on September 12. The couple will reside in Clifton where Weiss holds a position with the Clifton company.
Miss Ella Adair and C. E. Shupe of Ursa were married in Keokuk Saturday by Rev. A C Ament. The couple traveled by car to the ceremony and returned home to Ursa to begin their life together, unnoticed until their return.
Miss Nellie Graves of Wapello Indiana and her assistant Miss Mary Alexander run the Cheerful Home kindergarten and day nursery. About 37 children attend with Grandma Middendorf still in charge and all previous staff retained. Next week all branches of activities resume.
Members of the First Christian church Aid society are urged to attend a Wednesday afternoon meeting in church parlors where officers for the year will be elected. The Young Ladies' society of Central church met Monday evening at Miss Hattie Collins's home, 326.
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