Social Club Activities Include Christmas Parties and Luncheon
The Happy Hour club of Ainsworth met at Mrs. C. E. Buckley home with a gift exchange and three course luncheon. Piano pupils of Miss Edith Boileau held a Christmas party at Mrs. Ferne Rozier’s home with performances and a gift exchange. Fortnightly club’s music department held a study of Gluck Mozart and Rossini with refreshments.
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Happy Hour Club
Ainsworth
C. E. Buckley
Otis Mas Exchiah Ze Rand & Gelms
Edith Boileau
Migs
Ferne
Rozier
Mary’ Elen Lytle
Wendolyn Hunter
Cathryn Magson
Helen Masson
Joan Keeley
Patricia Keeley
Lou Jean Stewart
Margaret Alice Stewart
Helen Helmick
Mary Juliet Lemmon
Betty Stephen
Ferne Crozier
Wilda Bus
Maurine McLaughlin
Elizabeth Fisher
A. E. Atchison
C. A. Speer
Fife
Gluck
Mozart
Rossini
Masson
Carolyn Hamilton
Sarae Grimes
Helenw Harvey
Helen Mgunningham
Néle Trippamd
Alice Meek
West Main Street
Christmas Recipes From Fortnightly Elf Members
Several ladies contribute palatable recipes for the Christmas dinner menu. Included are directions from the Fortnightly elf home economics section for whipped cream potatoes and almond cookies, detailing steps, ingredients and serving notes for festive dishes.
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Section 3
Home Economics Department
Elf
Caroline B. King
Gelatine Mold Dessert With Nuts and Candied Fruit
A vintage recipe describes soaking gelatine in cold water then dissolving in boiling water. Fold in heavy cream, chopped nuts, stale macaroons, marshmallows, and candied cherries with vanilla. Chill in a mold and serve with angel cake or a cake with a frosting topping.
Egg Yolks Sifted and Creamed with Butter Lesson
A cook describes pushing two hard cooked egg yolks through a fine sieve and creaming them with about one half cup of butter to form a smooth mixture for a dish.
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Mary Hamilton Talbott
Local group salutes Miss Ross Conger retiring president
In a year ending summary the group credits Miss Ross Conger with untiring efforts as retiring president. A joint installation with the post is planned for the afternoon of January third.
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Ross Conger
Local calendar overview shows Christmas events across communities
Regular meetings and Christmas programs fill the week. The Pytte ian Sisters hold a Thursday 8 PM gathering while Rebekahs host Christmas Eve dinner. Churches like Bethel and West Chester host socials and Christmas programs. DeMolay dances and box socials appear at armory and church venues. other schools plan programs and community socials.
Christmas events at Straw College and Prairie Flower School
Straw college school hosts a candy social and Christmas program on Wednesday December 22 with a note to bring boys. Sandwiches and coffee served. Grace Bostart is the teacher. Prairie Flower School plans a Christmas program and candy social at Prairie Flower church on Thursday December 23 at 7 30 PM with lunches for sale. Esther Booth is the teacher.
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Straw College
Boyes
Grace Bostart
Prairie Flower School
Prairie Flower Church
Esther Booth
Old Fashioned Jello Mold With Prunes and Nuts Recipe
Dissolve lemon Jello in 1 3 4 cups boiling water. Stir in walnut meats prunes citron and cinnamon cloves and salt. Cool then mold in a wet chilled mold. Refrigerate until stiff. Serve with whipped cream or pudding sauce.
Lettuce Nests with Cranberry Jelly and Cottage Cheese
Prepare tender inside leaves of head lettuce Mould cranberry jelly in a shallow pan and cut it into dice Mix lightly with small balls of cottage cheese Arrange lettuce nests and garnish with halved nuts
Recipe for Whipped Cream Seasoning Mix
Whip one cupful of heavy cream to a stiff froth. Fold in one teaspoon powdered sumar half a teaspoon paprika and a quarter teaspoon salt. Finally add two tablespoons lemon juice.
Fondant Preparation Notes and Cocoa Toppings
Mrs. M. E. Dicken shares a simple fondant recipe: mix 2 cups sugar 1 cup milk and 2 tablespoons butter cook to soft ball stage. Cool twenty five minutes then beat. Roll in a wet cloth until hard then coat with coconut. Slice when needed.
Christmas events and community notices posted for December
A collection of local notices lists a social gathering and Christmas programs at churches including Florence Thomas’s lunch event and a 7 30 program, Sunshine Community Club meeting with Christmas exchange, Pythian Sisters and Shrine No 10 activities, a Sunday school social and Christmas tree, all dated December 21 to 22 with attendees advised to bring boxes and dishes.
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Florence Thomas
Christmas Program At Bethel Church In Ohio
West Chester Methodist Sunday school hosts a Christmas program Friday night at 7 50 with a tree and light refreshments at Bethel Presbyterian church north of Woohington. Associated Presbyterian church plans New Year dinner and meeting on New Year’s Day. Methodist choir rehearsal Wednesday at 8 20 followed by prayer service led by Jesse J Miller.
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Juanita Ellis
The
Baptist Church
South Marion Avenue
Nina Ellis
Wellston
Prairie Blower School
West Chester Baptist Sunday School
Priday
DeMolay and Jolly Pitty Club
Armory
Lexington Church
West Chester
Bethel Presbyterian Church
Woohington
Associated Presbyterian Church
Methodist choireeRehearsal
Jesse J, Miller
Wiiston School Christmas Program and Social Set
The Wiiston school plans a Christmas program and social Thursday evening. Ladies are asked to bring popcorn balls and Rome made candy. Everyone is welcome.
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Wiiston
Rome
Insects Guided by Smell to Food Plants
The article notes some insects never eat vegetation as adults but their young must. Mothers guide offspring to suitable plants by scent, depositing eggs only on hosts that provide the needed food. Experiments suggest olfactory cues largely direct this plant choice.
Walnut candy rolling method from a kitchen note
A fragment describes boiling water in a kettle then cooking to soft ball stage. It instructs to test walnut sized portions, cool, and add a teaspoon of vinegar? beat, roll into balls, and place walnuts on top as a topping.
Drop Cakes by Mrs Claire Bowey Recipe
A basic cake recipe by Mrs Claire Bowey uses 1 2 cup butter 2 cups sifted sugar 3 egg yolks 1 cup sour cream and spices. Add 1 teaspoon soda 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 cup nut meats then fold in 3 whites. For chocolate version omit spices or add 3 tablespoons cocoa yields about 80 small cakes or one layer.
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Claire Bowey
Christmas Poinsettia Sandwich Idea
A clever holiday open sandwich uses a round white bread slice topped with a red pimento cut into four petals to form a poinsettia. A spoonful of yellow mayonnaise sits in the center with finely chopped meat between the petals for a colorful, attractive snack.
Nut Bread and Date Fruit Loaf Recipe Fragments
A fragmented recipe describes mixing bread crumbs water and sugar with dates nuts and baking powder, steaming briefly. It lists brown sugar molasses butter raisins currants flour soda sour cream sour milk and spices including cinnamon nutmeg allspice and cloves.
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New Orleans
Baking powder and nut batter preparation note
A compact recipe fragment describes using 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup nuts with milk to moisten and place in pan. Let stand twenty minutes bake in moderate oven forty five minutes.
Old Recipe for Walnut Nut Brittle and Cherry Topping
A handwritten dessert instruction lists sugar corn syrup water and egg whites to form a brittle base with nuts and candied fruit. Steps describe boiling sugar syrup to a soft ball then beating with stiff egg whites before folding in the second syrup and returning to heat. The mix is folded with nuts and fruit and poured into a buttered pan to cut into squares.
Fondant Preparation Without Stirring For Soft Ball Stage
A kitchen note describes mixing two cups sugar one cup water and cream of tartar. Do not stir until a soft ball forms in water, then remove from heat and cool in cold water. Knead until creamy, set aside 24 hours to ripen, yielding fondant that keeps for weeks as a base for desserts.
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W. J. Masshn
Stone date confections rolled in sugar
A brief instruction describes shaping stone dates with fondant or soft fudge, optional nut meat or peanut butter, then rolling the pieces in granulated sugar for coating.
Walnut Fudge and Sugar Mixture Instructions
A recipe states melt butter and milk with brown and white sugars until soft ball forms. Beat until thickened then add walnut meats and pour into buttered tins to cut into squares. Mix milk corn syrup and coro with sugar and fold into the mixture.
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W. J. Masson
Recipe fragment for candy like loaf and jars
The text describes turning a mix into a bread like base with butter vanilla and nuts. It suggests letting it reach a soft batt stage and molding into candies or storing in a jar for weeks.
Potato Preparation Instructions From Fragmented Text
A reader provides steps to bake a potato then scoop and mash the interior until very smooth. The faded fragment mentions shaping into rolls about four inches in diameter and letting them rest, with notes on coloring sugar for different effects during heating.
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W. J. Masson
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Society
Liose
Rollins Hose
Rollins
Clark & Enslin
West Side Square
Angel Charlotte Russe
Tubrsday
Pytteian
Rebekahs
Christine
Hoskins
Exeonina
Straw College School
Watons School
Suns
Chiremcee Randall
ASDAY
Twilla McGinnis
M. E. Dicken
Lexington Chure
Sunshine Community Club
Clarence Rancall
West Chester Baptist
Bure
Pythian Sisters
Chocolate Furtee
E. M. Bridges & Co
South Side Square
Westphal
East Side Square
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