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Newspaper
Swarthmore News
Location
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1920
Page
1
A Saturday club event in the Club House featured a short play by the Junior Section. The house was full and attendees enjoyed upbeat music by the college orchestra. Mrs. Charles Seymour Meloie Dolman filled in for Miss Alice Adams at short notice with a clever performance.
Swarthmore News announces a special Christmas robe feature funded by advertiser support. Readers are urged to patronize local ads to cover high annual costs, with the cover promoting gift ideas and guiding where to shop for holiday needs.
A plea for gifting Kerthmore News subscriptions starting December 17 to former Swarthmore residents, promising weekly home stories and more reading than letters. The note highlights 15,000 troops at Camp Dix and sailors abroad needing reading matter, with Mrs H Onyx collecting donations for “the boys” and contact details provided.
The program features contralto Mrs Arthur J Jones and a chorus with bass Burt McKinnie and baritone George W Warren. Soloist George W Warren joins Edward Hitchcock and Mrs Julia Yarnall in a dramatic reading of The Pilgrim Mother and related scenes from The Courtship of Miles Standish. The event includes a vocal duet Dest Thou Love Me and a reading The Pilgrim and the Puritan in American Life. The Players' Club lease for Borough Hall is under consideration with Boy Scouts as ushers and social time led by Mrs W A Jacquette.
A playful verse describes Santa Claus in an ice-bound palace near the Polar Sea preparing for a Christmas morning voyage. Elfin helpers knit tiny coats and toys as bells ring and Santa calls to his reindeer wishing all a merry Christmas and a good night.
The Golden Rule Society of Swarthmore will conduct religious services at the Central Police Station in City Hall on Sunday afternoon December 12 at 4 30. Charles Kurtzhalz Y M C A Southwest District secretary will speak and Mrs Gerald H Effing will sing. All interested are invited.
Swarthmore Home and School Association presents a December 13 program at the Woman’s Club celebrating the 300th anniversary of the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock. The program includes Pilgrim songs, signing of the Mayflower compact, readings of The Landing of the Pilgrims, a cantata, and a Pilgrim-related reading.
A packed week of church luncheons card parties lectures and gown exhibits fills Swarthmore social pages. This report lists events from December 10 to 16 including a Ladies' Aid luncheon a Far North lecture and Ward Gown displays at Ingleneuk plus league meetings school association gatherings and church notices.
The club debt is gradually diminishing and officers hope to finish by December 24 with a jubilee celebration. Members are urged to fulfill pledges and send money to Mrs. William Landis promptly. This final roundup calls for a long steady pull from all contributors.
An illustrated talk on the Far North by noted explorer Donald B. JacMillan is set for Friday night at the Men's Club. The program promises Arctic views and tales from exciting polar adventures.
The manager of the News requests all in arrears to settle bills promptly to balance the books by the first of the year.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs R Sheppard on the birth of a son at their home on Yale and Vassar avenues.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church meets at the church today. A sale of fancy Christmas gift articles will be held and lunch served at the usual hour. Members are urged to attend and bring newcomers.
A regular meeting of the Swarthmore League of Women Voters will be held at the home of Mrs. A G Thatcher 216 South Chester Road on Monday December 13 at 2 30 p m.
The committee appointed to run the poor children's Christmas program at City Hall is led by Mrs. George Cantrell of the Woman's Club Haddonfield New Jersey with representatives from suburban groups, reflecting a collaboration among Philadelphia residents and area organizations.
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