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Newspaper
Stamford American
Location
Stamford, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1930
Page
7
Mrs Gordon Haynes hosts a Christmas party with lights wreaths and a toy Santa table scene. Westminster Guild holds a turkey dinner and a doll-adopt donation as T. E. L. Sunday School class shares festive games. Dorcas class entertains with carols tea and a Christmas program.
Mrs Gordon Haynes entertained Tuesday afternoon last week at her East Reynolds Street home. Green and red decorations featured chrysanthemums and roses with a snow scene and a lit Christmas tree. Guests enjoyed a chicken salad course at holiday tables, with silver Christmas trees as high cut prizes. Mrs S Cooper received a high score prize for a decorated pot plant.
A long page of Santa Claus requests from Stamford area children and families. Letters list desired dolls trains footballs dishes fruit candy and nite items, with many signoffs from Route 1 Box 2A Stamford and other local routes. Residents include Melba Clements Jean Hurley Patsy Neller and Virginia Aklos Ment among others, dated December 1900 through 1950s notes.
Mrs and Mrs Fred Hudson entertained with a Christmas bridge dinner Wednesday evening at their Reynolds street home. Guests enjoyed an orchid and yellow chive blossom decor, mistletoe and red lights, a Venetian dining table, gold reflector centerpiece with American beauty roses, and a turkey dinner. Prizes included onyx-based water glasses for high score and a double deck bridge set for H G Andrews. Guests listed include Dr and Mrs Turner Bynum and others.
Circle B of the Baptist W M U gathered at Mrs J B Wovl Mordey's home with a devotional by Mr W E Dobbins and a lesson from The Royal Service. Mesdames Claude Lyons H Moore J A Elliott J E Duncan A A Warren A 38 Hamilton H FE Bailey Frank Heflin S J Roberts M Gamblin and W E Dobbins attended as hostess served tea. Circle A hosted by Mrs A D Thompson with Ruth lesson by Mrs R A Bible and a relief shower for Mrs George Connell whose home burned. Attendees included FE D Glenn Alton McClellan Pitt Walton D F Prewit L R Rose A L Rogers Emma Yantis E O Morgan and Miss Lilias Penick.
Mrs Bran don Curry entertained the Forty-Two Club and guests Friday afternoon among fall flowers. A salad course with cookies and hot tea was served to dames Perkins Elliott Hepler Rodgers Swanson Astin Brady Pierce Owens Rutherford Buster Davenport McDonald Dyer Bunkley Moody Pennington Elliott Penick.
The Junior Bridge Club met last Friday with a Christmas motif carried out in pretty fashion, reflecting holiday spirit.
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