Teddings and Engagements Teddings and Engagements
Margaret Edith Myers and Charles Coonce of Lincoln Illinois plan a double ring wedding at Maple Avenue Christian Church on Friday December 23. The couple are supported by families, with Myers a Lincoln Bible Institute senior and Coonce a Metcalf High School graduate who preaches near Palmyra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Edith Myers
Charles C. Coonce
Lincoln
Ill
Maple Avenue Christian Church
Miss Myers
Oscar L. Myers
North Fourteenth Street
Mr. Coonce
Charles Coonce
Red Boiling Springs
Tenn
Neil L. Kuns
Dolph Cross
Thomas Myers
John M. Ruszler
Linda Lou Davis
Cynthia Jean Ruszler
Susie Mae Myers
Bill Coonce
Don Reed
Keith Myers
Ray Mallison
Coonce
Lincoln Bible Institute
Blooming Grove Christian Church
Palmyra
Metcalf High School
Metcalf
Garfield High School
Terre Haute Council weighs 134835 dollar transfer
The Terre Haute City Council plans a regular meeting to discuss multiple ordinances. A 134,835 dollar transfer from the parking meter fund funds salaries and patrols in 1956. Additional measures seek 428.58 from Dresser Drive resurfacing to street gas tax, funds for rewards and indemnities, and a traffic signal at Fourth and Eagle streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Joan Bretlinger
Dresser Drive
Fourth
Eagle Streets
West Terre Haute Post 6574 Installs Officers in December
Special West Terre Haute Post 6574 Veterans of Foreign Wars was instituted with officers installed led by Past Sixth District Commander J. E. King. Ernest R. Hoppingarner and others received obligation. The post, 25 members strong, aims for 50 by January with meetings on the second and fourth Fridays. Local merchants aided the ceremony at the Degree of Pocahontas Lodge on Paris Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Terre Haute
Ind
J. E. King
Indianapolis
Ernest R. Hoppingarner
Don Donnelly
Harry
Dolly) Newburn
James P. Hughes
Charles
Buddy) Frost
Sidney Campbell
Fay Brandenburg
William Newton
John Hennessey
James Fears
William Brackall
Robert Delpes
Crawfordsville
Raymond Spears
Nice
Pocahontas Lodge
Paris Avenue
Christmas Lecture The Parable 1955 in Terre Haute
Mrs Vera Patterson presents The Christmas Parable 1955 an annual Theosophical Society lecture in Terre Haute in the Y W C A Y Teen Room starting at 8 o clock She is president of the Indiana Theosophical Federation and a charter member of the Terre Haute Theosophical Society
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera Patterson
Theosophical Society
Terre Haute
Y.W.C.A
Patterson
Indiana Theosophical Federation
Church Societies Plan January Meeting and Holiday Events
The Loyalty Class of Second Avenue Evangelical United Brethren Church will meet January 28. The December session included a Christmas party with hostesses Laconda Huston and Pearl McCann, and the class sent toys to Otterbein Home for Children. They also bought a public address system. The Dorcas Class of Grace Methodist will hold a Christmas party at Bertha Warren's home, 1423 South Fourth Street, Friday at 7 30 p.m. Attendees should bring a 50 cent gift for the exchange.
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Second Avenue Evangelical United Brethren Church
Laconda Huston
Pearl McCann
Otterbein Evangelical United Brethren Home For
Dorcas
Grace Methodist Church
Bertha Warren
South Fourth Street
Carlisle Ind. Public Library to close for holidays
Carlisle Indiana reports the public library will close for Christmas vacation from December 26 to January 3. Local residents and visitors are noted with several brief social updates including visits to Vincennes Indianapolis and South Bend and various family trips and arrivals.
Enlists in Army at 18 in three-year term
Odis Chastain aged 18 of 328 North Thirteenth Street enlisted Monday in the U S Army for a three year period, announced by M Sgt John McLin local Army recruiter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odis Chastain
North Thirteenth Street
U. S. Army
John McLin
Socials and clubs host open house and New Year events
The Garrards hosted an open house at 322 South Thirty-first Street with Christmas decorations and 6 to 8 pm visiting. Phoenix Country Club plans a New Year’s Eve dinner dance at the clubhouse with cocktails hors d oeuvres dinner a Les Knowles orchestra floor show and 12:30 am breakfast led by Tex Rich. The Wabash Valley chapter of the American Gold Star Mothers holds a Christmas party at the Kriefenstein American Legion Post with 6:30 pm covered dish and a 50 cent gift exchange. Christmas boxes were sent to Veterans Hospital in Indianapolis. The Golden Age Club meeting was canceled. the next birthday party will be Dec 30 at 7:30 pm at the YWCA. The Matherettes Home Demonstration Club meets Tuesday with a gift exchange and covered dish or candy. Poets Study Club meets Tuesday at 7 pm at Fairbanks Memorial Library. Esther Alman and a Free Verse lesson are on the program.
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Carlisle
Ind
Carlisle Public Library
Betty McCann
Vincennes
Sylvia Wilson
Isaac K. Beckes
Vincennes University
Arthur N. Smith
Mike
Julia Kay
Peoria
Ill
Arthur F. Smith
Betty Montgomery
Bobby
Betty
Tuscon, Ariz
Ocelia Earlywine
Indianapolis
James Earlywine
Herb Hoggett
Bruceville
Lloyd Booker
Ed Beezley
Mexico
Cecelia Dreiman
Gary South
Thomas Ryan
Earl South
Connie Sims
Arthur Smith
Jesse Bedwell
Sullivan
Elmer East
Ralph Bedwell
Bucktown
Huldah Dunn
Good Samaritan Hospital
Sallie Sims
Becky Sims
South Bend
Edwin Schu
Evansville
Charles Stevens
Robert Garrard
South Thirty-first Street
Phoenix Country Club
Les Knowles
Tex Rich
Wabash Valley
The
American Gold Star Mothers
Kriefenstein
Golden Age Club
Y.W.C.A
Matherettes Home Demonstration Club
Poets’ Study Club
Fairbanks Memorial Library
Esther Alman
Christmas cantata at Sullivan First Baptist Church
Sullivan Ind December 19 special The First Baptist Church of Sullivan presented its annual Christmas cantata Sunday evening directed by Mrs Virgil with a 30 voice choir. The program included The Prophecy The Fulfillment The Star and The Song The World Wide Christmas. Pregnant notes mention Mrs Imo Drake Fairbanks recovering from surgery at Union Hospital Terre Haute and visits by Mrs Hazel Rowngs of Indianapolis. Birth announcements at Mary Sherman Hospital list a Sandborn girl Lolly Renea born to Mr and Mrs Dwight Gould.
Local residents move in and attend holiday events year-end
Dewey Hayhurst Jr and others move to Sullivan and nearby towns while visitors travel via St. Petersburg and Indianapolis. Moves include Gambill to Nicholson apartments and Hash visiting Sullivan en route to Princeton. Christmas plans include Dewey Bevis family in Gary and Brenton visit to Indianapolis. The Democratic Woman's Club hosts a Christmas party at 6:30 p.m. at the 4-H Building. Births, licenses, and school conferences noted, with a Winter Conference at Purdue January 3–7 and various community updates across Sullivan County.
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Dewey Hayhurst, Jr
New Lebanon
Norman Wayne
Billy Lynn
Sullivan
Debra Jean
Thomas Fulford
Farmersburg
Kathleen Ann
William Killion, Jr
Nancy Ann
Reed Leach
St. Petersburg
Fla
North Court Street
John Gambill
Shelburn
Nicholson
Gus Hash
Carmel
Ind
Oscar Thayer
Jane
Becky Buzard
Vincent
Jeff
Princeton
Dewey Bevis
Gary
Jack Buhar
Buhner
Esta Brent
Richeson
Joe R. Crowder
Crowder
Jesse M. Batterton
Lebanon
Batterton
Indiana
O. K. Anderson
Sullivan County
Purdue University
Earl Engle
James N. Watson
Terre Haute
Janet C. Hastings
James Chubb
R. R
Patty Raley
Harold Dean Alumbaugh
Sharon Yvone Hale
Arnold W. Chambers
Thomas Rodney Arnold
Crane Naval Infirmary
Chambers
Patricia Garrett
Crane
U. S. Navy
Norfolk
Michael Wayne
Ivan Marts
Teal Whitaker
Oldsmobile Agency
Boca Raton
Sullivan Agency
Cincinnati
Carleton Franks
New Central School
Ned Smith
Indiana University
Carroll Hanson
U. S. Office of Education
White House
Connie Doyle
Paxton
Dugger
Ola Burdge
W. T. Mellett
New Orleans
Ruth Booher
Betty Estes
Elaine
Hymera
Herbert Smith
George Tennis
Foster Bastain
Andrew Shaw
Hazel Coogan
Harrison Worth
Holiday travels and family notices across Terre Haute
Personal mentions record RS William Myers Jr departing for Arlington to spend the holidays with her mother Mrs Edward McKee and sister Miss Margaret Mc Kee, with plans to visit Pittsburgh before returning to Terre Haute. Also noted are visits, births, and travel plans of local residents and relatives amid Christmas season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Myers JR
Deming Hotel
Arlington, Va
Edward McKee
Margaret McKee
Pittsburgh
Terre Haute
Other Man Weds Pretty Brunette in Reno
Ford D Fine 21, the other man in the Enoch Arden case, wed Ellen Irene Asher 18 of Redding California after obtaining a license at the county clerk office. They refuse to discuss romance. Schmidt returned from China to find Una married to Fine. Una claimed she wed Fine in Mexico believing Schmidt dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno. Nev
P—Alford D. Fine
Enoch Arden
Daniel Schmidt
Fine
Federated Congregational Presbyterian Church
Ellen Irene Asher
Redding
Calif
Miss Asher
Schmidt
China
Una
Mexico
High Sierra
Danny, Jr
Nude silver paint dance shocks London crowd
Prime Minister Anthony Eden received nude photographs of Shirley Crawford a 20 year old dancer in silver paint and a single feather performing at a stag party in a Treasury owned building. MP Arthur Lewis sent the pictures claiming the act unsuitable for government property. Shirley defended the performance as artistic and refined saying it lasted about three minutes and drew shocked cheers from the audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Anthony Eden
Mail
Arthur Lewis
Her Majesty
Eden
Shirley Crawford
British
Treasury
Lewis
Shirley
Dance Acts Feature Christmas Program
Students from Nancy Sowers School of Dancing performed at the Grotto and Kerman Caldron Christmas party at the Grotto home. Twelve acts showed merit as Harry Kohn served as master of ceremonies and Herman Strassler gave the welcoming address. The Grotto band accompanied carols during the social hour and Santa Claus visited with surprises for the children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Sowers
School of Dancing
Grotto
Kerman
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