Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 25

April 21, 1946. DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW SOCIETY 25 Voters League Groups Meet three groups of the newly organized Macon county chapter of the Illinois League of Women Voters will discuss the MacMahon bill for control of atomic energy. at forthcoming meetings. Any member may attend any meeting. One group meets in the morning.

another in the afternoon, and a third in the evening, to suit the convenjence of all. Any woman interested in nonpartisan instruction on civic and national questions may join by sending her dues, $3, to Mrs. John Kuhns. 1492 West Decatur. The afternoon group will discuss the MacMahon bill Tuesday of this week at 1 p.

m. in the Decatur Club, with Mrs. Charles Lippert leading discussion. The evening group meets Wednesday at 8 p. m.

with Mrs. Johnson Baker. 338 West Decatur, with Mrs. James C. Leigh as leader.

The morning group will meet at 10 m. on May 1 with Mrs. George Read, 135 Linden Place. with Mrs. Lawrence E.

Knuth leading discussion. Miss Blossom Redmon. the League's president, will go to Kansas City on April 30 for the national convention, and to Winnetka on May 23 for the state convention. The League, just organized in this country, has met with instant response from Macon women. Inquiries about membership come in daily, and membership is open to any woman who wants to join.

The League has three study groups, and the entire membership will meet several times a year. Dorothy Ellen Sims of Bethany Is Bride Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sims of Bethany announce the marriage of their daughter Dorothy Ellen and Forrest Elmo Christy, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Forrest Christy of Lodi. Cal. The ceremony was in the post chapel of William Beaumont general hospital at El Paso, with Chaplain J. Pugh officiating. Decorations at the altar were Easter lilies and palms.

The bride wore a light blue suit with white accessories and carried a white prayerbook with an orchid. Dr. T. W. Maddox of El gave her away.

Attendants Miss MonPaso, ette Cox of Lamesa, and H. O. Rose of El Paso. A reception followed in the Cortez hotel. The bride is a graduate of West Suburban hospital school of nurs-11 ing in Oak Park, and joined the Army Nurses Corps in 1945.

She has been at the Beaumont hospital for a year. Mr. Christy was released from the army recently and is employed in El Paso, where they will live. Triangle Club To Have Luncheon Triangle club for mothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon members will have a dessert luncheon Wednesday at p. m.

in the home of Mrs. Ray Lighthall, 411 East Stuart. E. A. Gastman P-T.

A. will elect officers Friday at 3 p. and have a program of music and poetry by fifth graders. Guests will be Mrs. Wheaton Allen, who will lead discussion of "Problems Home as Connected with the School," and Mrs.

E. A. Gastman. BRITISH BRIDE ARRIVES THIS WEEKEND Major E. Hastings Kenney, day or Monday.

Major Kenney, son of Mrs. Vernice M. Kenney, 335 West Main, and Daniel J. Kenney of Chicago, was married last Nov. 27 in Dominican Catholic church in Stone, Staffordshire, England.

to Edith M. Abberton. He returned Jan. 20 and has just completed his terminal leave, and his bride arrived in New York on Friday and is expected in Decatur to- Congregational Hollywood A Hollywood breakfast open to all women in Decatur is being planned for April 30 in Masonic temple with serving beginning at a. m.

Sponsoring group is the women's department of First Congregational church. Bushrod Sattley will be master of ceremonies and all the prizes will be given that are customary at these affairs, an orchid to the oldest person attending, the hat prizes, and the wishing ring. The hat prizes are for the most unusual but wearable hat, and for the most comical hat. A "good neighbor" will be named and nominations for this and the hats to 1 be entered should be taken or mailed to the church not later than April 27. Hats will be judged and the prize winning ones will be displayed in the window of Emerson piano house on the following Monday and Tuesday.

Tables will be reserved for groups and also for those busy persons who can only drop in during their lunch hours. Tickets are one dollar each and may be pur- Herbert Levy Classic Simplicity in half sizes for that well -groomed look you love. In refreshing rayon shantung with studded leather -like buttons and belt. Pastel or dark shades in sizes to $19.95 WOMEN'S FASHION APPAREL Shop 135 PRAIRIE AVENUE Catholic Nurses To Meet Tuesday National Council of Catholic nurses will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p. m.

in lecture room of St. Mary's hospital. Mary Connaghan, U.S. Army nurse, will speak on "Psychiatric Nursing" and Mary Lou Nelson, U.S. Air Corps flight nurse.

will speak on "Tropical Diseases." A social hour will follow. FRANCIS ROGIER Francis Rogier, Millikin voice graduate, is on his way home from service in Europe. and expects to return about June 1 to London to join the Clynbourne Opera company. Francis Rogier Joins Glynbourne Opera in London Francis Rogier, graduate of Millikin Conservatory of Music, who has been in service for four years, is on his way home from England for discharge, and will visit for awhile with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

F. J. Rogier, South Side Country club. Then he will return to London where he has a contract with the Glynbourne Opera company, to take part in a new opera by Benjamin Britton. It will be given this summer in England, and possibly will be taken to the continent later.

Britton is a young English composer whose earlier opera, "Peter Grimes." met instant favor. Excerpts and solos from it are heard frequently on U. S. radio programs. Glynbourne is famous for its Mozart Festivals and many famous singers have been heard there.

Mr. Rogier was a voice pupil of the late Grant Hadley at Millikin, and later studied two years at Juilliard Graduate school in New York. He was with Chautauqua Opera in the sumer of 1942, and entered service that fall. He had a contract for that winter with Columbia Concerts Assn. to take one of the parts in the Nine O'clock Opera company's production of "The Marriage of In the army, after special train- PHYSICAL THERAPY For Appointment Phone 2-3813 in Norma Larrick, R.

N. 609 Standard Office Building TO BE BRIDE Mr. and Mrs. Lee Pratt of Illiopolis, formerly of Moweaqua, announce the engagement of their daughter Margaret and Robert Gibbons, son 1 of Mr. and Mrs.

Clyde Gibbons of near Findlay. No date is set for the wedding. Miss Pratt is with Rath Packing company and Mr. Gibbons is farming near Findlay. ing in the German language and customs, he went to Europe with the 71st infantry which was part of General Patton's Third army, and served until the fall of Germany, at which time his unit was in Austria.

He applied for transfer to the American Military Government, and was in the Augsburg area, and later was sent to the Guild Hall School of Music and Drama in London, where he has been for months. He broadcast over RICE last February. He expects to be back in London by June 1. HAPPY EASTER ILLINOIS CLEANERS 241 N. Main Something to Sell? Try Classified 5151 nephew of Miss S.

E. Kenney, former Macon county abstractor, was overseas 25 months with a medical unit of General Patton's 3d army, and wears four battle stars. His bride was a member of the criminal investigation division of the Staffordshire police. and served in the Women's Auxiliary Police Force. They will live with his mother for the time being.

Women Take Breakfast to Temple chased from Mrs. Joseph F. Gauger, 278 Linden place, Miss Mary Munsie in the Citizens bank. Miss Helen Brundage in the Millikin bank. or Miss Margaret Shaffer in Haines and Essick's.

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Leeds, 1146 North Water, and LaVern O. Johnson, of Springfield, seaman second class, were married April 2 by Justice of the Peace Gregory Lannes in St. Bernard's parish in New Orleans, La. Seaman Johnson has been in the navy four years and has served in Europe, Afrrica and Asiatic Pacific theaters. He is now at Orange, Texas.

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