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Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 16

Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 16

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Sunday, June 24, 1934, DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW, PAGE SIXTEEN Olivia Brennan Is Bride Of Thomas Messick I show Memorial Day. Already, a veteran driver, Betty Jane will appear in state fair lists as well as in the Christian county fair horse show here July 30 to Aug. 4. Winifred Boyd Is Going Abroad Casey Dr. and Mrs.

Rhyne jj, Boyd will accompany their daugh. ter Winifred Boyd to Chicago tr, day. With her sorority sister, Uisj Harriet Page of that city, she viu join a party and leave for New York city. From there they jj sail on the S. S.

Westernland of the White Star Line on June 30 for a six week's tour which win include England. France, Switir. land, Belgium, Holland and Gtr. many. Miss Boyd is a graduate of Im.

nois university and is a teacher in-school faculty here. Mrs. Carl Bergeson honored her with a "bon voyage" party in yrhidi she was the recipient of a "shij load" of lovely handkerchiefs. Mr. and Mrs.

Ophir L. Lang and Mr. and Mrs. William Lan6ber left Wednesday on an automobi: trip to Wildrose, for 10 davj of camping and fishing. This 'i, their third consecutive visit to thii camp.

The Night Owl Embroidery dab and special guests, Mrs. Hattie Cal. lahan, Mrs. Andrew H. Lee and Mrs.

John L. Brewer spent a pleasant evening with Mrs. Bess Garner as hostess, Tuesday at her none ca Alabama avenue. Next Tuesday evening the club will motor to th country home of Mrs. Bess Yana-way for an enjoyable meeting.

Ramsey Mrs. J. H. Strobel irai hostess to members of the Ben Hur Literary club Wednesday Roll call was answered by "Timely Topics." The program on "Washington The Evergreen State" was in charge of Mrs. R.

Wright and Mrs. B. E. Smith. Mit J.

E. Easterday conducted the to-cial hour. Following a potluck luncheon ta the home of Mrs. B. E.

Smith on June 27 the club meetings will be discontinued until the first Wednesday in September. Vandalia Miss Maxine Good-tjrake, daughter of Mr. and Mn. J. M.

Goodbrake, of this city, win graduate June 25 from the Dixon State Hospital School of Nursing. Vandalia H. B. Craycroft left Vandalia Thursday for Redwood, where he will Join his wife and daughter Harriet, who have been there for several weeks with another daughter, Mrs. Robert P.

Monteith. Mr. Craycroft is driving a new car through for his son-in-law, Dr. C. Monteith.

He expecti to be gone three or four weeks. FIREWORKS On Sale Next Saturday, Jane 30th mCtCA Nor-- Taylorville Betty Jane, 8 years old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Kennedy, shown with Silvertips, 8-year-old pride of the Kennedy pony farm.

Betty Jane won. the combination pony driving award in the Springfield horse brey L. Yantis, and Miss Isabel Casey Thelma Whitney and Clem Shreve of Asher, were married June 1 1 in First Methodist church, and after an automobile trip will live in Asher, where the bridegroom is in the oil business. to roam at large on the roads and they present quite a hazard to motorists. Argenta The Argenta Garden club met Wednesday afternoon in the high school gymnasium for its June meeting.

Mrs. Walter Flora of the Curtis Jewelry Co. gave a demonstration of "Proper Table setting tables for various occasions and using dishes from their own stock. Two -weeks ago the club was the guest' of Harristown Garden club. They recently visited the Allerton gardens, being one of the three clubs in the state of Illinois to be entertained there this year.

Mrs. Lulu Heinle is the club president. Bethany The following Chil dren's day program will be given in the Methodist church at 8 p. m. Sunday: Prehide Mrs.

Williard Winings. Selection Junior choir. Invocation Rev. E. Mallinson.

Selection Harmonica band. Welcome Harold Gerard. Song Primary department. Vocal duet Patricia and Robert Garrett. Boy Helper Jack Foster.

Dialog Charles Graham and Anna Margaret Willmore. Dramatizaticn Moses in the Bullrushes. Piano duet Mrs. Williard Winings and Joan Winings. Selection Junior choir.

Benediction Rev. Eugene Mallinson. Postlude Mrs. Williard Winings. "2'hany The Junior Wroman's club held a picnic in Wyman park in Sullivan Tuesday night.

Those attending were: Eleanor and Anita Fulk, Cptherine Garrett, Marjorie Scott, Naomi Smith, Williamson, Dorothy Craig, Gwendolyn -n elen Wilkinson, Bradbury, Milbra Williams, Esther Leitch, Opal Rule, and Evelyn -vTafnnn Miss Olivia Gould Bren- nan, daughter of Mrs. Kathrine Gould was married vo Thomas 1Vllmor Messick, of Charleston in the home of the bride's mother here at i p. m. Wed nesday. The marriage was performed by Rev.

Horace Batchelor of Mattoon Presbyterian church in the same room in which the bride's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Gould, were married in June 1868. Mrs.

Messick wore white lace and carried gardenias. Miss Harriett Rose of Mattoon played "Speed Thee My Arrow" and the Lohengrin wedding march. There were no attendants. Following the ceremony Mr. and Mrs.

Messick left for a short motor trip after which they will be at home at 404 Wabash avenue, Mattoon. Messick. is a graduate of Mattoon high school and the University of Illinois, and also attended Goucher college at Baltimore, Md. She is a member, of Pi Beta Phi. For the last several year's she hs taught in Mattoon schools.

-i Mr. Messick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H.

Messick of Charleston. He attended Purdue university, was graduated from Bradley Polytechnic Institute at Peoria, and is a member of Sigma Alpha Ep-silon. He operates a finance company in Mattoon. 0it of town guests included Mr. and Mrs.

H. H. Messick; Rev. John Childress, Mr. and Mrs.

Hardy F. Hill, all of- Charleston; Mrs. Mary Lewis Crawford and William E. Schmidt of Terre Haute, Samuel Haight of Mendota; Miss Gertrude Clendenen of Elkhart, Mrs. Sarah C.

Schmidt, Mrs. Emma Schaub, Miss Florence Schaub, and Mr. and Mrs. A. L.

Schmidt, all of Indianapolis, Miss Lucy Foust, Mrs. Sarah G. Foust, and Miss Lucy George, all of Chambersburg, Mrs. Louise Martin and Curry Martin of Chicago, and Philip Turner of Shelbyville. Taylorville Women's Progressive club of Decatur met here Wednesday in the home of Mrs.

C. C. Holland, 913 West Vandeveer street. Mrs. Holland.

Mrs. C. E. Collins, Mrs. Luvicia Johnson, Mrs.

Esther Banks, Ruth Jones and Mrs. S. W. Madison presented a varied program of entertainment. Besides Taylorville members and Mrs.

Lottie Fields of Palmer the following persons from Decatur attended: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. John Brown, Mrs.

Sabe Vanderburg, Rev. E. Mason, Ruth Johnson, Tom Glass, Robert Pierson. Maudelle Tolliver, Dr. Ellis and B.

F. Bond. Darrell Foster, Piatt county clerk and Fred Plunk returned here Saturday from a week's fishing trip near Border Junction, Wis. After arriving in their camp in Wisconsin Foster and Plunk discovered that C. A.

Wilson and his family of Monticello were occupying the cabin next to theirs. Both men reported large catches of -muskies, bass and other game fish. The only trouble encountered on the trip was a collision between Foster's car and two cows on a Wisconsin highway. The cows were unharmed but the car was badly damaged. Foster said that due to the drouth and shortage of pasture and feed cows are allowed in a irietv of Model Farmer City Girl Marries Frances Harper, Juilliard School Graduate, Is Bride of Navy Man.

Farmer City Miss Frances Harper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Harper of Farmer City and Lieut.

James F. Walsh of San Diego, were married in Champaign Thursday by Rev. C. Bonn of the Baptist church. The bride is a graduate of the Farmer City high school in 1928, later attending the School of Music in New York City.

For two years she has taught in the Mansfield schools. Lieut. Walsh is the son of Mr. and Mm. Gus Walsh of Farmer City, and he is also a graduate of the local high school.

The young couple will live at Long Branch. N. after Sept. 1. Windsor Miss Rosemary Hampton and Kenneth Stevens were married Sunday night by Rev.

D. B. Mallinson, pastor of the Methodist church. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.

Glenn Ferell of Windsor. Allenville Rev. and Mrs. Fred Hoskins and sons Robert and Theodore, of Bridgeport, arrived recently at the home of Rev. Mr.

Hoskins' parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hoskins, to pass the summer. Windsor Mrs.

H. M. Gleason of Baltimore arrived recently for several months visit with her sister, Mrs. G. W.

Rogers. Vandala Mrs. George L. Haus-mann was hostess' Wednesday afternoon to members of the Desert Bridge club and a number of extra guests. Mrs.

Roy Woods of St. Louis was an out-of-town guest Prizes for the afternoon high scores were awarded to Mrs. Earl Frank, Mrs. Woods and Mrs. Myrtle Dawson.

Vandalia Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Barkley left Tuesday on a vacation trip through the south and to the eastern coast and enroute will visit Statesville, N.

C. where Mr. Bark-ley was born. They expect to be gone about three weeks. Their first stop will be at Ft.

McClellan, where they will visit Mr. Barkley's cousin, Major H. L. Freeland. They will also spend snme time in Virginia with Mrs.

Barkley's relatives. Vandalia Mrs. F. A. Thomure, who will leave Vandalia soon to make her home in Alton, was guest of honor at a bridge luncheon ard miscellaneous gift shower Tuesday given by members of the Wednesday Night- Bridge club.

Luncheon was served at the American cafe followed by play in the home of Mrs. Hal Curry. Prizes for high scores of the afternoon play were won by Mrs. Mike Miller and Mrs. W.

Allison. Farmer City Miss Dottie Grin-dol of Decatur and Fred Shaffer of Farmer City were married at Argenta Sunday by Rev. F. E. Blimline, a former pastor.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Grindol of Decatur and the bridegroom is the son of Mrs. Frank Shaffer of Farmer City. They will reside at Farmer City where Mr.

Shaffer is in business. Clinton The tenth Stone family reunion will be held in Kelson park, Decatur, Sunday. A large crowd from Dewitt county will attend. Sullivan Miss Margaret Garrett was hostess to the Girl's Circle Monday night in her home as the oh'b celebrated its first anniversary. The new officers for the year elected Monday night are: President Jrnnie Sent.

Vicf-prejldcnt Mabel Lerts. Snrrnary Mardaret Garrett. Traurer Dons Seitz. Pianist Wanda Stroll. Division leaders Alta Elder and Da.Try.

The next meeting will be held in the home of Misses Jennie and Doiis Seitz July 16. Hillsboro Miss Kva L. Webb and I-rstor Simmons of Litchfield were married in the court house in Hillsboro Tuesday afternoon, by Judge Clark R. Messimore. Witnesses were Clyde and Jeanette Simmons, both of Litchfield.

Monticello Mrs. Edith Zeigler and daughter Madeline of Hinsdale were guests last week of another daughter, Elaine Zeigler and of Judge and Mrs. T. J. Kastel in the latter's home here.

andalia Announcement was made here this week of the secret marriage of Miss Pearl Bonnie Richards of Sharon township and Torrence (Tony) Cheshler of this on Sept. 9, 1933, in Pincknev-vilK The bride is the daughter of Mr and Airs. C. L. Richards and until recently was employed by the Bell Telephone company.

Mr. Cheshier is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Selby Cheshier of this city. He is a graduate of the Vandalia high school class of 1934 and is well known for.

his athletic record in Vandalia high having been a star on the basketball team. They will make their home here. Clinton Miss Maxine Bowling, daughter of C. M. Bowling, formerly of Clinton, now of Danville was married at Danville June 2 to Lowell Roth, son of Mr.

and Mrs. E. R. Roth of Danville. The ceremony was performed in I he Christian church at Paris.

The bride wore blue with white accessories. Mr. Roth is with the Musheck Shoe company at Danville where the couple will make their home. The father of the bride was Such A Convenience! Vandalia Miss Mildred Griffith and Burr Hackleman are to be married within the next few weeks. She is a graduate of Deaconess hospital in Lincoln and now is with Mark Greer hospital.

Mr. Hackleman is in the nursery business. Foster, all of Shelbyville, and Mr. and Mrs. L.

Smysor of Windsor. Monticello Mary Alice McCIure and Beverldge Hodges, both of Monticello, were married Friday afternoon in Chicago according to an announcement made by relatives here. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Dotie McCIure Strawn. She grad uated from the Monticello commun ity high school with the class of 1929 and has lately been employed as a stenographer at the Pepsin company here.

Mr. Hodges is a son of John Hodges of Monticello and is em ployed in Chicago by the Walgreen drug company. The couple will make their home in Chicago. Argenta Rose Acacia chapter No. 266 Order of the Eastern Star at Maroa observed "Friends' Night" Friday night.

Stations were tilled by friends of the regular offi cers. A large number of guests were present from other chapters. A program was given at the close of the meeting followed' by refreshments. Officers were as follows: Worthy matron Nola Chenoweth Waynesville. worthy patron Harry Moothart, Argen- Associate matron Malta Erickson, Bloomington.

Associate patron, Howard Erickson. Bloomington. Conductress Ida demons. Clinton. Secretary fcaura Schrooder.

Maroa. -Treasurer Nellie Huston. Maroa. Organist Dorothy Longsdorff. Marshal Elvreda Alsup, Clinton.

Adah Edna Moothart, Argenta. Ruth ilate Vernor. Maroa. Esther Laura Machon. Bloomington.

Martha Carrie Hess, Waynesville. Electa Ella Grady. Maroa. Warder Mabel Smith. Clinton.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Longsdorff are Worthy matron and Worthy patron of Kooe Acacia cnapter.

Shelbyville 1 Marriage licenses were issued here Saturday to Al bert Peters and Wilma B. Lowery, both of Chicago, and to Herbert Meyer, 33, Palestine, 111., and Clover w. wortman, 31, of Shelbyville. Charleston A marriage license has been issued to Delhert- H. Chronic, 22, and May Maxine Dobbs, is, Dotn or Mattoon.

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Clinton Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Stivers, East Main street have' announced the marriage of their daughter, Ethel May Stivers to Harold Failes of Peoria, which occurred in that city June 16.

The bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stivers and is a graduate of the local high school in 1932. Mr. Failes is employed by the Keystone Steel Wire Co.

of Peoria where the couple will live. Clinton Woman's Catholic Order of Foresters held a pot luck supper in St. John's Paroachial school Tuesday night. All members were present. It was planned to hold a picnic at the July meeting which will be held Tuesday, July 10.

Shelbyville Miss Virginia Parr, of Tower Hill was married to Jesse Moore of' Pana by Justice John H. Kelly in his home here at 8 p. Wednesday. Accompanying the couple were Jesse Jones and Myrtle of Pana. Lake Citv Miss Ruth Powell left Thursday morning with her broth er Byron and Miss Anna Eckert for a trip through Kentucky and Tennessee.

Waynesville Word comes here of the marriage of Miss -Juanlta Folger and Walter Xiehaus, both of Deer Creek. The wedding took place at Deer Creek June 17 and the couple are now honeymooning in California. They will live at Deer Creek where Mr. Niehaus is a teacher in high school. The bride is a former teacher in Waynesville high school.

Vandalia Miss Irene Schenker and Miss Faye Ragland, teachers in the Vandalia schools, left this week for Boulder, where they will enter the State University for the summer term. Miss Isabelle Houston, daughter of Attorney and Mrs. George Houston, in company with Miss Edna Moore, Wilmington, also left this week for Boulder to enter the University. Both Miss Houston and Miss Moore are teachers in the Bement school. Vandalia Announcement of her engagement and approaching marriage within the next few weeks to Burr Hackleman was made here June 15 by Miss Mildred Griffith at a dinner party given for members of her-Sunday school class of the Methodist church in the home of Mr.

and Mrs. G. L. Hackleman, parents of the prospective bridegroom. The color scheme of pink and blue was carried in table and house decorations.

Centerpieces on the dinner tables were masses of talisman roses, baby breath and delphinium from which there were ribbons to each plate, where guests found booklets in which the news was told. At the other ends of the ribbons were individual corsages. Miss Griffith is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.

L. Griffith of this city. She is a graduate of Vandalia high school, and of Deaconess hospital in Lincoln in 1933. She is now in Mark Greer hospital as night nurse. The bridegroom is the only son of Mr.

and Mrs. G. L. Hackleman. He is a graduate of Vandalia high school and of the University of Illinois in 1933.

He is. a member of three honorary fraternities, Alpha Zeta, Phi Eta Sigma, Gamma Sigma Delta, and had the honor of Jiaving his name placed upon the bronze tablet for high scholastic records. Since graduation he has been in business in the Old Capitol Nursery. -Hindsboro Mrs. John Knapp, a recent bride, was honored with a miscellaneous shower.

Wednesday-evening in the home of Mrs. Minnie Clark at Areola. Farmer Citv Mr. and Mrs Wal do Huff of this place announce the marriage of their daughter, Ber-nice Huff to Delmas Mclntyre, son of Mr. and- Mrs.

Frank Mclntyre of Bellflower. The wedding was ormeq Saturday at Blooming- 7TD ASTOB iiD VISIT OUR displays: North Union Street SCHUDELS' PHONE 4275 That Include a nnd WwwvwwwwW ton Trinity Lutheran church by Rev. Walter Hohenstein. Following the ceremony the party was entertained in the home of the bride's grandmother at Bloomington. They will live in Bellflower.

Hillsboro A marriage license has been issued at the office of the Montgomery county clerk to Charles A. McCarnan of North Vernon, and Miss Dallyce W. Tobias, of Hillsboro. Camargo The lOftth anniversary of the founding of the first Methodist church in Douglas county will be celebrated here Aug. 19.

Rev. Arthur Miles, pastor of the First Methodist churches at Camargo, Murdock and Humboldt, will have charge of the observance. The first Methodist pastor in the county was Rev. James McKean, who held services in a barn on the farm of Ernest Whitley, located near the present site of Camargo. The first baptism recorded was that of Miss Martha Hammett, daughter of John Hammett, the first settler in Douglas county.

The baptism took place during the winter of 1833-34. Monticello The annual basket dinner picnic of the Prairie Chapel church will be held Sunday on the church grounds. Monticello A marriage license was issued here Saturday by Piatt County Clerk Harvel to Dean Gillespie and Clara Allison, both of Champaign. Clay City Officers of the Methodist church Queen Esther society FREE THIS WEEK ONLY Regular $14.95 ELECTRIC MIXER AND JUICER With Every Electrolyx (Gas) Wurlitzer (Electric) Refrigerator MOREHOUSE WELLS COMPANY Terms to Suit Any Budget Every Purse and Purpose AND TJP Delivered and Installed 17 MODELS 75 1 were elected and appointed at the regular meeting Thursday. They are: President Mrs.

C. TV. Black. Vice-president Mrs. L.

Crackel. Secretary Mrs. Nicholas Moseley. Treasurer Mrs. Roy Padtrett.

Chaplain Mrs. Stephen Stanford. Reporter Ms. H. C.

Sparlinc. Flower committee chairman Mrs. J. A. Bateman.

Cheer box Mrs. Burley Shock. Card committee Mrs. Earl Mcllvaln. Clinton Mrs.

E. Stanley Jones, wife of the world-famous missionary, will speak in the Clinton Methodist church at 10 m. Sunday, July 1. Congregations in other towns may have space reserved for them if they will write the Methodist pastor. Mrs.

Jones is on an extended stay in America. 1 Shelbyville The first of three projected informal summer dances was held from 10 to 1 o'clock Saturday at the Shelbyville Golf and Country club, with Mrs. T. C. Dove of Shelbyville as hostess.

The music to which the guests both from Shelbyville and from other towns danced was furnished by McAdow's orchestra of Greenville. Philip Turner, Shelbyville attorney was chairman of the dance committee and in charge of arrangements. His assistants on the. committee were Mr, and Mrs. Au- ook son 30 lears Experience in Watch Repairing Yes, We Can Save Voo Money On Din-uonrts.

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