Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls Being Organized Here
The Woman's Waterchurch Committee sponsors Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls in this community. Sophie Pergeter leads the Girl Scouts with Frances Stewart as assistant. Seventeen girls met to plan and will hike with a picnic at sunset park. The Campfire Girls are led by Carol Forgy with Helen Wiley as assistant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Waterchurch Committee
Girl Scouts
Girle
Sophie
Pergeter
Frances Stewart
Jast
Bether Rittes Ronuse
Erther Wolary
Grace Askea
Mildred Pieter. Snyder
Dorothy Dowell
Flor- Brookhart
Lucile Younk
Mary
Iemna Walker
Verna Asksees
Raley
Mildred Crone
Annas
Te Bational Organ
Girl Guides of England
Boy ‘Bocouts
Regis- Scouts
Krow
Kote
Woman's Interchurch Committee
Mire Carol Forgey
Helen Wiley
Washington County Camp Fire Girls Club Begins
A page details the first Camp Fire Girls group in Washington County with members Mary Roberts Elizabeth Sherman Martha Mc Creedy Ruth Hedges Dorothea Thompson Barbara Miller Lillian Jows Fertie Duncan Josephine Bailey Evelyn Gibson and others. It explains Camp Fire aims Seek Beauty Give Service Pursue Knowledge Be trustworthy Hold on to health Glorify Work Be happy and outlines ranks Wood Gatherer Fire Maker Torch Bearer plus elective honors in home craft health craft camp craft hand craft nature lore business Patriotism and transferability of membership between cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Roberts
Elizabeth Sherman
Martha McCreedy
Ruth Hedges
Dorothea Thompson
Barbara Miller
Lillian Jows
Fertie Duncan
Josephine Bailey
Evelyn Gibson
Prince Hammer
Sevilla Boles
Carolyn McClery
Blair Law
Ruth Eggers
Dorothy Clark
Helen Beal
Bank of Wood Gatherer
Fey
Ageniereh
Birthday Parties and Legion Auxiliary History Highlighted
The article recounts child birthday celebrations in Davenport with detailed menus and guests, notes Mrs. F. Sechler’s Madison trip, and celebrates a family gathering. It then extols the Women’s Auxiliary of The American Legion, detailing its origin in 1919, growth to 4000 units, state organizations, and vast service to veterans and communities led by Pauline Cunningham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women's Auxiliary
The
American Legion
Red Cross
National Organization of the American Legion
Committee of Thirty-Four
Minneapolis
of the Legion
Women’s Auxiliary of the
Legion
Cleveland
Women’s Auxiliary
California
Connecticut
Florida
Fana’ Tows
Kansas
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minniesota
New Jersey
New Sam
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklhoma
Island
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Montana
Kentucky
Maine
Illinois
Wisconsin
Missouri
Nevada
Colorado
Georgia
Auxiliary
Pauline Curnick
Nat'l Ex
Sec
American Legion Weekly
Thanks for kindness during illness and death of Lois Rankin
Mr and Mrs BE W Hummer and family express sincere appreciation and heartfelt thanks to friends for thoughtful deeds and words of sympathy during the sickness and at the time of the death of their daughter and sister Lois Rankin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lois Rankin
BE. W. Hummer
Severe but Effectual at Tibetan Wedding Feast
The Miami Herald notes a harsh practice in some Tibetan communities where a bride's mother is consumed at weddings as a drastic solution to family tensions. The report frames it as severe yet seen as effective by some observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Miami Herald
Tibet
Breakwater Planned For Fort Madison Iowa Riverfront
Army engineers recommended Congress build a 456 foot breakwater along the Mississippi near Fort Madison Iowa at a cost of 31000 and to improve Launch Harbor at a further 10000, proposal announced in Washington D C on June 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Army Engineers Today
Congress
Mississippi River
Fort Madison
Iowa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Washington County
Kathleen O'Shea
Davenport
George Dowell
Mary Jurging
Gertrude Hammer
John Harold Barham
Lewis Jones
Pilotsburg
Etta Jones
Girard
Mise Jones
Edison
F. ¢. Sechter
Lorence
Myrtle Jones
P. R. Birchfield
Linden
Mise Etta Jon
Garard
Ida Rustoi
Panora
F. C. Lechter
Aura Turnipseed
Fred Kilockentager
Franklin Jones
Wellman
John J. Lang
Clara Fisher
Ernest
Legion Auxiliary
Kimonas
Georgette and Silk
Uvonaire
Rothschild’s
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Palm Beach
Rein
Washingto Lowe
Madison
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