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Newspaper
Swarthmore News
Location
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1920
Page
1
The Commuters of Swarthmore stage The Players Club comedy in acts at the regular club meeting Monday evening December 6 and a public performance Tuesday December 7 at 8 15 o clock directed by J J Gould Admission to the public performance 55 cents including war tax.
A meeting will be held in the Chamber at the Borough Hall under the Golden Rule on Thursday evening at 8 o clock to appoint a committee for a large Christmas work aiding 1,000 children. Everyone remembers the place and time: Borough Hall Thursday December at 8 p m.
ter Haviland of Lansdowne Pennsylvania and Friends' Foreign Mission Association discusses The Work of and Their Opportunities in Japan in an illustrated talk at Whittier Church on the eighth day of the twelfth month. Mrs Frank Morris Gilling announce the birth of Katharine Philip Eugene Howard Jr in Germantown.
The Junior Section will stage Twig of Thorn a play by Marie Josephine Warren on December 4 at 8 p.m. at the Woman's Club directed by Mrs. John Dolman with a cake and candy sale and dance to follow. Cast includes Alice Adams Alice Barber Alice Fricke Grace Stockton Louise Downs Florence Green Betty Temple Paul Alger Wallace Butterworth Ralph Stockton Thomas Downs Jr Leonard Sawyer Harold Calvert.
Swarthmore College selects Carl Geiges, quarterback and Swarthmore alumnus from Camden High School, to captain the Garnet for the upcoming season. Seventeen team members, coached by Dr. Leroy Mercer, earned varsity letters with names including Larkins Butterworth Dudley Valentin Cordell Nichols Josephs Kemp Geiges White Carter Earp Asplandth Jackson Stowe Clancy Yarnall and Manager Kolb.
The Fortnightly Club will meet on Monday afternoon December 6 at Mrs. Philip E. Howard's home. The program is organized by Mrs. Robert C. Brooks, Mrs. H. C. Goddard and Mrs. H. Chalmers Stuart.
Edward F. Hitchcock was elected a member of the Swarthmore Publishing Co. board to replace C. Percy Webster. The board includes Dr. John W. Adams, E. A. Stockton, Thomas Simpers, Hitchcock, and Mrs. Hazard. The 25th anniversary of Swarthmore Presbyterian Church, celebrated November 27–28, marked a historic milestone since its 1895 founding, with a highly regarded program and strong community turnout.
The Woman's Club with local groups plans a Health Center in the congested mill district by Ridley Creek below the Tod Morden estate at Wallingford. It has long engaged in welfare and Americanization work for Russian and Polish families, supporting a school for children and outreach to foreign women.
On November 22, Mrs Olivia Sny der, formerly of Sellersville, Pa., married Mr S S Snyder of Swarthmore. The ceremony occurred at the parsonage of Rev C C Snyder of Reading, Pa. They departed for a honeymoon trip to Niagara Falls, New York.
The last issue misdated the Players' Club show The Commuters. The event remains scheduled for next Tuesday December 7th, not Tuesday as previously listed.
Lansdowne High defeated Swarthmore High 25 to 21 in a Thanksgiving football game that drew about 2000 spectators. Swarthmore sent part of its delegation by 8:46 train and others by auto. Lansdowne welcomed them with a band and marching music.
The annual barrel packing and Christmas party of the Society of Friends will be held on December 18 from 4 to 9 PM.
Mrs Laura Allis mother of Mrs A F Jackson died Wednesday after a brief illness. She fell and broke her hip a week earlier and never recovered, with pneumonia hastening her death. Funeral services and burial will take place in Pittsburgh in the family plot.
The notice requests all in arrears to settle bills promptly to balance the books by the start of the year.
A truck owned by Howard B. Green caught fire at Morton a few days earlier. On Wednesday a rapid response from Media dispatched fire apparatus to the scene but no water was available, resulting in a total loss of the building as firefighters could not prevent the fire.
The column lists December events in Merion and Swarthmore including knitting at the Gift Shop, a play at the Woman's Club, religious services, Fortnightly Club meeting, and a public performance by the Players' Club. It highlights local social activity, neighborhood visits, home papers, and school outreach with Woolman School children visiting the Friends Neighborhood Guild.
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