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a a a a a a a a a SOCIETY DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW Sunday, October 3, 1943, MRS. CHARLES WILLIAM VERKLER Irene Jones Bradish, English in Westminster Presbyterian teacher in Johns Hill school, parsonage by Rev. Owen W. and Charles William Verkler of Pratt. They will live in Peoria.

Woman's Council to Hear About Present Use of Soybeans "Present Uses of Soybeans," a subject of increasing importance as soybeans take the place of scarce and rationed meats, will be the subject of Dr. R. E. Greenfield tomorrow. when he speaks at the first meeting of the Woman's Council, at 2 p.

m. in the Y. W. C. A.

Dr. Greenfield, assistant general superintendent at Staley's since 1935, has done much to develop soybeans and promote their use. He was graduated in 1914 from the University of Kansas, and took his master's degree at the University of Illinois in 1916 and his doctor's degree there in 1921. During the first World War he was a captain in the army sanitary corps, serving in France. During this war, his two sons are serving, one in Naval Reserves medical corps, the other a second lieutenant in in the air corps.

He Staley's in 1926 as a meteorology, water purification engineer. Minerva Club Meets Minerva club will go to the home of Mrs. Vernon M. Long, 428 South Westlawn avenue on Monday at 2 p. m.

Members are mothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity men. Jr. Woman's Club Making Scrapbooks Junior Woman's club members are to take 10 cent scrapbooks and old magazines to meeting Thursday at 7:30 p. m. in the club building.

Sheriff's Secretary Weds Deputy Sheriff Miss Loretta Hunter, daughter of Mrs. Maude Hunter, of the East Wood street road, and Wendell E. Wantling, of rural route 3. were married at 7:30 p. m.

Saturday in Central Christian church parsonage by Rev. Carrel. W. Flewelling. Attendants were Mrs.

Rachel Alvis, a sister of the bride, and Donald Wantling, brother of the bridegroom. The single ring ceremony was used. Miss Hunter is secretary in the office of Sheriff Emery Thornell, while Mr. Wantling is a deputy DECATUR MONUMENT CO. "Rock of Memorials 757 GREENWOOD AVENUE Day Nursery Open 2 Days Mrs.

Howard Millard. executive director of the Day Nursery, announces to persons anxious to see the new quarters that open house will be on two forthcoming days, first on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 17, and again on Monday night, Oct. 18. Everyone interested is invited to come in then, and the staff and board members will be on hand to serve as guides.

It will take from now to Oct. 17 and 18 for the Day Nursery to get completely settled into its big new quarters, and ready for company. The children and staff went into the house in a flurry of confusion, as First United Brethren church wanted the old house to put it in readiness for a parsonage, and not quite everything was ready in the new one. There are still some plumbing details to be finished up, and various other jobs such as always hang over the moving householder for a few weeks. The children are pretty well acclimated by now, although at first they were overawed by the size of their new quarters, and clung tightly to staff members.

One little boy, accustomed to crowded smaller rooms, said it was "lonesome' in the big house. Kaisers Go South Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. who have been at the St.

Nicholas hotel all summer, left recently for Sarasota, where they have a winter home. They are, however, taking a cottage this winter in Paul Derringer Court. Marybelle Patterson and Peggy Dick, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Patterson and Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Dick respectively, have gone to the University of Illinois for the week end to attend a house party in the Pi Beta Phi house. Fortnightly Classes Open on Thursday The mothers committee of the children's Fortnightly Dancing classes in the Decatur club is busy this week trying to reach by telephone any family that may not have received notices, and all former patrons of the classes. First classes will meet Thursday in the club ballroom, the afternoon class from 4:30 to 6 p. m.

to give the children plenty of time to reach. the club by bus after school. Evening class will be 7-9 p. m. as in previous years.

This year both classes are to be balanced, with partners for everyattending in order that each boy and girl may take part in the new dances taught, and consequently receive more instruction and pleasure than is possible in an unbalanced club. Mrs. John Crocker, Mrs. R. C.

M. Kraabel or Mrs. R. J. Murphey will be answer completed any inquiries.

a few Lists days and any who have not registered are asked to do so. A.A.U.W. Study Groups Two study groups of the Ameri- can Association of University Women meet this week. Recent graduates group will meet Tuesday at p. m.

with Miss Patricia Cavanagh, 558 South Taylor avenue, to plan the year's program and appoint a committee for the fellowship program in November. Evening book review group will meet Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. with Mrs. Carl Rybolt, 155 Home avenue, for a review of "Angel Mo' and Her Son Roland Hayes" by MacKinley Helm, reviewed by Mrs.

Mervil Askins. Pi Phi Arrow Club To Meet Saturday Arrow club, mothers of Pi Beta Phi sorority members at Millikin, will meet Saturday at 2:30 p. m. in the chapter house. Following business, Mrs.

A. B. Jones, Mrs. W. J.

Geoffroy, Mrs. C. E. Hall, and Mrs. Otto Kyle, will be in charge of the social hour.

Elks Women Elks Women Elks Women's club will have a card party Monday at 2 p. m. in the clubhouse. Johns Hill Teacher Marries Saturday Mrs. Irene Jones Bradish, 122 West Leafland Johns avenue, Hill who taught English at junior school, and Charles William Verkler of Peoria were married Saturday at 4 p.

m. in the home of Rev. and Mrs. Owen W. Pratt, 185 North Summit avenue, before the fireplace banked with white asters.

roses, button chrysanthemums, and palms. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Jones of Shelbyville, wore a Lincoln green suit with seal brown accessories and a corsage of orchids.

Her attendant, Miss Blanche Oliver of Decatur, was in wild grape with black accessories with Johanna Hill roses. Best man was Henry Verkler of Danville. The 24 wedding guests attended the reception afterwards given in the home of the bride's aunt, Mrs. Charles Lucas, 1258 North Main street. After Oct.

15 the couple will be at home in 916 Linn street in Peoria where the bridegroom is with the Verkler-Peyer company. Mrs. Verkler attended the University of Illinois and is a member of Delta Zeta. She was graduated from MacMurray college. C.

D. of A. Plans Party Catholic Daughters of America glee club will rehearse at 7 p. m. Tuesday in K.

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The wedding will be Oct. 10 at 12 noon in St. Paul's Lutheran church. Attendants will be Miss Iona Wilkey and Leland Wright. Miss Strahle is with Schudel's, and he is with the Decatur Cartage company.

Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Strahle, route 6, announce the engage- NARICE ELOISE PEASE Mr.

and Mrs. C. E. Pease, 868 North Monroe, announce the engagement of their daughter Narice Eloise and Seaman Second Class Clarence J. Tull, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Tull, 1860 North Van Dyke. He has just completed boot training at Great Lakes Naval training station and assigned to radio school at Oceana Field, Norfolk, Va. The wedding will not take place until after the war. Miss Pease is with Kresge's.

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Brooks, 1320 West Forest, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles M.

Brooks, who reside three miles southeast of Stonington, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversaries at a potluck dinner today in the home of the latter couple. Thirty-five guests will be in attendance. The two men are brothers. Mr. and Mrs.

Stephen Brooks were married October 5. 1893 in the home of the bride's parents near Moweaqua. Their entire married life has been spent at Decatur, where Mr. Brooks has followed the occupation of a carpenter. They have one daughter, Mrs.

Fairilee Braden of Decatur, and one granddaughter, Charlotte Merry, Decatur. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brooks took place October 4, 1893 in the home of the latter's uncle near Stonington. They have always lived in the Old Stonington community.

They have one son, Brooks of Harrisburg; two grandchildren Mrs. Myrna Pollock, California; Charles Brooks, Harrisburg, and one great grandchild. Two Brothers Celebrate 50th Anniversaries Together Today Harry Van Orman to Galveston Hotel Harry Van Orman, who has been on the desk at the Abraham Lincoln hotel in Springfield for several weeks, was home last week for a few days with his mother, Mrs. Harry Van Orman at the Orlando Hotel. He has now gone to Galveston, to be night manager of the Jean Lafitte hotel there.

Alpha Chi Mothers Alpha Chi Omega Mothers club will have its first meeting of the fall season Wednesday at 2 p. m. in the chapter house in West William street. Lane Bryant for Dright color at the throatline repeated for emphasis on the tapered pockets Grosgrain ribbon- bound surplus front for added grace. Black rayon crepe with gold or fuschia.

SIZES TO LANE BRYANT SHOP NEWMANS 135 N. Water St. D.A.R. Invites Nearby Chapters To Oct. 11 Luncheon Members of Stephen Decatur chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, have invited chapters from surrounding towns to join them for luncheon at 1.

o'clock on Oct. 11 in the Decatur Club, when the new state regent. Mrs. J. DeForest Richards, will be speaker.

Members will attend from Clinton, Lincoln, Shelbyville, Assumption, Waynesville and Monticello. Mrs. O. B. Pace of Farmer City, third division director, of the state, will conduct a table class at 11 a.

before luncheon, for officers and committee chairmen of the Decatur chapter and these other chapters. South Side Bridge South Side Country club's bridge association will have luncheon Tuesday in the club, followed by bridge. Reservations are to be telephoned Monday morning to Mrs. John Kuhns. Past Matrons Meet Past Matrons club of the Eastern Star will meet Tuesday at 2 p.

m. in the small lounge of Masonic temple. Kathryn Fitzgerald And Bob McDermott Marry Saturday Miss Kathryn Lucille Fitzgerald, daughter of Mrs. Lucy Fitzgerald, 1351 North Edward, and Robert J. McDermott, son of Henry McDermott, 256 West Cerro Gordo, were married at 7 a.

m. Saturday in St. Thomas Catholic church by Rev. Fr. Andrew Smith, with a reception afterward in the St.

Nicholas hotel for about 30 guests. After a trip to Chicago, they will live in 354 West Main street. Mr. McDermott is in the classified advertising department of the Decatur Herald and Review. The bride wore white satin trimmed in seed pearls, made princess style with a long train.

Her finger tip length veil was held by a shirred halo trimmed in seed pearls, and she carried a white prayer book with a pearl rosary and a shower or white roses. Miss Margaret Mary Tueth, her cousin, was her only attendant, in pale blue taffeta with a matching veil and pink roses. Teresa Fitzgerald, the bride's niece, was flower girl in blue taffeta with a wreath of pink roses, and Tommy Fitzgerald, a nephew, was ring bearer in white satin. Robert C. O'Neal was best man, and ushers were Wayne Campbell and Robert Warren.

Music was by Mrs. Anna Howley, organist, and Mrs. Michael Ryan, soprano, who sang Echubert's "Ave Maria" and "Sweet Sacrament Divine." The altar was decorated with white roses and palms. Elaine Towne Is Wave Miss Elaine Towne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Towne, 1751 East North street, enlisted in the Waves in St. Louis on Sept. 30 and is awaiting orders to report for training. She attended Millikin two years, and is now employed at the Caterpillar Military Engine company. Strickling Guests Mr.

and Mrs. Harold D. came from Larchmont, N. yesterday for several days with Mrs. F.

E. Strickling, 145 West Court Manor place. Mrs. Ackley and Mrs. Strickling are sisters.

Margaret Gill On Michael Reese Staff Miss Margaret Gill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Gill, 294 North Taylor avenue, has finished her internship as student diatician at Michael Reese hospital in Chicago, and has been appointed to the staff. She will be assistant supervisor and buyer for the main kitchen. Miss Gill was graduated from Millikin before she entered Michael Reese.

Continental Dinner Continental club will have dinner at 6:30 p. m. Thursday in the Decatur club, followed by bridge. Reservations are to go to Mrs. Victor Potts, Lake Grove club.

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