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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1949
Page
1
George W. McCormack announced the opening of The Treasure Shop at 118 East Main Street on Saturday October 22.
The remodeled shop now offers a full line of Indian craft including silver jewelry bead work baskets pottery and copper articles. Zuni Navaho Pima Papago items and five tribes pottery will be shown along with crochet pieces by Mrs. McCormack and sisters. McCormack invites customers to request items not in stock. He has 19 years in the Valley and 15 years running Tempe cafe.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Smith entertained Sunday with a small dinner at their home. Guests from Tempe included Mr. and Mrs. Don Hudson, Mr. and Mrs. Marion McKinley and son Robert, plus Miss Joan Book of Phoenix. Cleve Summitt and Alvin Brown parties returned from a Kaibab forest deer hunt with one deer.
The Camelback Inn pool hosts the Phoenix and Maricopa county YMCA Aquatic Institute on Saturday October 22 open to all interested in water safety teaching and testing. The day includes demonstrations on aquatic theory safety lifesaving and watermanship tests with a faculty including Robert L. Golay Kent Branwell and Jack Frau. Reservations by mail to Dixon Fagerberg with a $2 fee and a $1 dinner charge.
Cast members rehearse for the annual Helldorado three day program in an 1880 atmosphere opening October 21. Rodeo Sunday afternoon and dances on all three nights are planned, with director Joe Grill promising the finest program yet.
The Women’s Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church met Wednesday afternoon at Wesley Hall for a pot-luck luncheon and meeting. Co-hostesses were Mesdames Charles Williams and Archie Robbins. Mr. Burson Donn is on a business trip in southern Arizona this week.
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