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The Marshall News Messenger from Marshall, Texas • 9

The Marshall News Messenger from Marshall, Texas • 9

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COND SECTION MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER SECOND SECTION IXTY-FOURTH YEAR MARSHALL, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1941 NUMBER 198 ounger Set Johnette Steele Has Dance for Juniors At Country Club Miss Johnette Steele members of the younger social set Friday night from 8 to 11:30 o'clock at Marshall Country Club. Narcissi and japonica were arranged effectively in the club rooms, where dancing was enjoyed throughout the evening. Delicious frosted punch and cookies were served. Chaperones were Mr. and Mrs.

John Steele, parents of the hostess, Mr. and N. L. Howard and and Mrs. P.

L. Grundy. Guests included: Winifred Howard, Mae Margaret Poorter, Alice Curtis, Lynne McGee, Octavia Granberry, Elise Kennedy, FranSimmons, Nell Harter, Mimi Key, Jerry Jones, Nancy Bibb, Shirley Armstrong, Claire Hansard, Mildred Howard, Joy Rose Michaels, Gloria Kercheval, Barbara Purnell, Barbara Cook, Minette DeLoach, Minette HarkridWilma Kirkpatrick, Martha Jane Grundy, Mary Jane Dinwid- Town Hall Lecture By Archeologist Well Received Pointing to the fact that history repeats itself in that Italy is battling today to gain the African, lands for which she struggled in Cleopatra's time, Count Byron de Prorok, archaeologist, gave an illustrated lecture to an appreciate audience of approximately 150 Town Hall members and guests Friday night in the Woman's Building. His moving picture films showed him party exploring in the Sahara, in Utica, along the southern shores of the Mediterranean. His discoveries in ancient Carthage, and his findings in the tomb of the Queen of Sheba were vividly pictured by word and film.

He declared the expedition had found proof that the Semites sacrificed hundreds of children to Baal. de Prorok, who gave his birthplace as Normandy, said that Balbo was the only Fascist that he has ever liked. Other news worthy acquaintances were mentioned by the count, including Duval, Haile Selassie, and many others. He paid tribute to the Greeks for their bravery. The -speaker said his work had frequently been sponsored by governments of the major powers and by.

noted scientists and universities. War has. caused the count to leave his explorations, and he declared it to be his belief that the English will attempt to make short work of clearing up the situation in Africa, that the fleet may be near to defend the British Isles when. Hitler's forces attack, probably within 60 days. A.A.U.W.

Group to Study Far East Thursday The International Relations Group of the American Association of University Women will meet Thursday night at 7:30 in the home of Mrs. Joe Hirsch, instead of its regular day, Tuesday, it has been announced by Dude Neville, reporter for the organization. The day of the meeting was changed because the Rotary Club is presenting its first in a series of lectures here on Tuesday. Mrs. William Josephs, program chairman for the meeting of the International Relations Group Thursday, has announced that four speakers will be presented on the program on "The Far East at 1 End of 1940." Mrs.

Cecil Smith, recently returned Presbyterian missionary to China, will be the guest speakers er on the program. Other for the evening will be Miss Ellen Carnes, Mrs. H. L. Land, and Miss Margaret Harper.

Junior High To Meet Tuesday E. N. Dennard, Marshall school, -superintendent, will speak on "The Dignity and Worth of Useful Labor" Tuesday afternoon when the Junior High School ParentTeacher Association meets in the school. According to Mrs. W.

T. Mitchell, president, important business will be discussed at the meeting, and 100 per cent attendance is urged. Teensters Have Movie Party Members of the Teenster Club held a brief business session Friday night in the home of Miss Amelia Goldberg. Hot chocolate and cookies were served the members, and the party' of eight left immediately after the meeting to attend a moving picture show. Enliven Week -End Rho Alpha Tau Gives Dance for Members And Their Guests die, Sam Wood, Louis Kariel, Scotty Baldwin, Edward Spencer, Burke Gelling, Jack Moore, Robert Spoede, Simmons, Y.

A. Tittle, Billy Gelling, Rufus Zachry, Edgar Allen, Byron Gillory, Albert McPhail, Bill Wainwright, Lew Bates, Joe Carter, Cameron McElroy, Dan Rudd, Dan Carroll, Freddy Warren, Harry McGee, Frank Cariker, Chester Young. Calvin Pate, Arley Justice, Billy Dinkle, and Bill Clark. Guest Speakers On Program For W.M.U. Mrs.

Marshall Craig, of Dallas, will lead the devotional, and Mrs. R. L. Speight, of Longview, will review the mission study book, "Stewardship and the Parables of Jesus," at a meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union to be held Monday, beginning at 10:30 o'clock in the morning, at. the First Baptist Church.

Mrs. Ray Carter, mission study chairman, will be in charge, A covered dish luncheon will be served at noon. An executive board will be held shortly it has been anmeeting, nounced by Mrs. Coy M. Turlington, reporter.

MRS. LOYD PUGH Ex-C. O. M. Club Is Formed in Denton; Lois Smith President Miss Lois Smith, daughter of "Mr.

and Mrs. Morton Smith, has been elected president of the "ExCollege of Marshall Club" in Denton, according to word received here. Other officers of the organization are, vice president, Thomas Kemper; secretary, Miss Mabel Williams; treasurer, Haggard Shepherd; reporter, Miss Mozelle Jordan; chairman of the entertainment committee, Miss Sue Crawford; chairmap of the program committee, Miss Lucille Boyd. Membership of the club, a social organization, is composed of former College of Marshall students now attending State College for Women or North Texas Teachers College. Chartering members are Miss Helen Wyatt, Miss Dorothy McNeill, Miss Arjyra Wood.

Miss Lois Stuart. Miss Frances Bradford, Miss Mable Williams. Miss Lois Smith, Miss Sue Crofford, Mozelle Jordan, Miss Lucille Boyd, Miss Jean Rogers, Miss Doris Platt, Miss Mary, Rose Rosborough, Miss Anne Marrs, Miss Fay Dell Holiday, and Haggard Shepherd, Thomas Kemper and Claude Guthrie. The club was organized January 9 and the next meeting will be held February 4, when plans Rho Alpha Tau fraternity held a dance night at Rosborough Springs. Members of Theta Kappa Omega and Delta Phi Omega fraternities and their dates were invited guests.

A delightful evening was spent in dancing and punch and cookies were served at intermission. Couples present were: Miss Margaret Sellers and Roy Redfern, Miss Louise Mathis and Al- IC. S. Pace Observes 60th Birthday With. Dinner C.

S. Pace is celebrating his sixtieth birthday anniversary Sunday with a family dinner at his home. on Pace, a Highway native 154. Texan, has been a resident of Harrison county for 36 years. Mite a former railroad man and farmer.

All children are expected. will be laid for Mr. C. S. Places around the festive, board Pace, Mr.

and Mrs. Clinton G. Pace and children, of Harlingen; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Pace and son, of Marshall; Mr.

Mrs. Herbert Pace, of Marshall; Mr. and Mrs. J. E.

Haynes, and children, of near Marshall; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Friday, of Talco. MISS MARGERY PARKER Bundles for Britain Announces New Needs; Public Urged to Aid An urgent request for baby clothes and "Dorothy bags" was received Saturday at the local Bundles for Britain headquarters in the old Hotel Marshall lobby. Edmund Key, chairman of the work here, pointed out the organization keeps in touch by cable with English send authorities so that it may quickly British the things most needed.

Especially heart-tugging are the needs now made known, officials say. Necessities for babies are being made in the sewing room at headquarters here, and the local workers are desperately in need of more money, but have not time to stop their Creative work to raise funds through entertainment. More workers asked to report to the offices in cutaraid ting and sewing. The offices will be. open in the afternoons next week, as well as in the mornings.

Rummage is needed, too. Even children or the busiest person, though he or she may be, ignorant of sewing science, can make the "Dorothy bags," Mrs. Key declared. They are to be hung at the foot of hospital beds to, hold the personal belongings of the patient, since, in most cases, there is no other place to call their own. The bags are approximately ton Willis; Miss Lillia Rosborough and Angus Potter, Miss Wilma Clark and James Skipworth, Miss Melba Laney and Wendell Beaty; Miss Corinne Milner and James Bellamy; Miss Elizabeth Redfern and Otto Ritter; Miss i Muriel Cox and Jack Clayton; Miss Peggy Jane Stolp of Jefferson and Garland Saxon; Miss Nelle Hood Jefferson and Carl 1 Prothro, Miss Thelma Medine and Buford Craft; Miss Marcelle Adand Luke McGowan; Miss Taylor and A.

L. French; Miss Mratha Bruhn and LeRoy Tilley, Miss Maurine I Dodd and Earl Porche, Miss Ruby Annette Campbell and J. R. McDaniel, Miss Mary, Robinson and J. B.

Pyle. Stags present were, registered as follows: Dan Carter, S. E. Clark, Wayne Watson, Dallas Wilson, Robert Henderson, Billy Ayers, N. Sloan, Liles, J.

W. Byrd, Thomas Chastain, Sam B. Hall, Harold Taylor, Sammy Barkett, Gene Park, Joe Hughes, Sam Mack, G. S. Ellis, Truett Ousley, Billy Harrison, Sam Armstrong, Phil Taylor, Gene Lynch, Sam Lindsay, T.

J. Barnes, James Truett Bowlin, Jeff Davis, Billy Harris, Lawrence Minton, Marshall Gearhart, Billy Gordon, Perman Grundy, Jack Wyatt, Billy Bowers, Hugh Huckabee, William Rogers, Billy Barnes, and Arch Jarrot. MISS LOIS SMITH In the Pictures Miss Lois Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morton Smith, 1302 North Grove street, has been elected president of the ex-College of Marshall Club, a social organization of former College of Marshall students now attending Texas State College for Women and North Texas State Teachers' College.

Miss Smith is a member of the Student Council at T.S.C.W. and is active in young people's. work of the Baptist church. At the College of Marshall; she was a member of Sigma Iota Chi sorority and of the Honor Society. She is majoring, in Spanish and English.

Mrs. W. J. Hardy, Wanda Courts, was both honoree and hostess during the past week. Monday her husband surprised her with a dinner-bridge party celebrating her birthday anniversary, and Friday she entertained with an informal morning coffee, complimenting her use -guest, Mrs.

John Moore of Winnsboro, Texas. Mrs. Loyd Pugh former Miss Mary Sue Wise, has been tertained with several parties since marriage Dec. 24. Mrs.

Pugh, the daughter of Mrs. G. C. Wise, is 4 graduate of the College of Marshall and attended Sul Ross College in Alphine, Texas. The engagement and approaching marriage of Miss Margery Alynne Parker, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Parker, to Leroy Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Young, is announced Sunday by the parents of the bride-elect.

-The wedding will take place. at 8:30 o'clock on the morning of Sunday, January 26, in the First Christian Church. Since her graduation from Marshall High School the bride has been an employee of the Rosborough and Monterrey Colonial Architecture Studied By Belle Maison Monterrey colonial architecture, was discussed when the Belle Maison Club met in the home of Mrs. E. N.

Dennard Friday afternoon. The subject continued the architectural theme chosen as the study course for the year, Mrs. Ferd Pelz talked first on the Monterrey house dating its origin between the years of 1830 and 1840, when Monterrey, a seaport, was -capital of California. These first houses, built for comfort and convenience, were so constructed that, at some during the day, the sun "would shine into every room in the house. The patio, which has always served California as an outdoor living room, was a distinctive and essential feature.

Walls of the houses were generally thick adobe, whitewashed once a year to protect the surface from rain. "Although we think of the Monterrey houses as two-story structures, with an upstairs there were also the one-story Monterrey houses, built with many wings. They, too, have their deepshaded verandas. There have been only a few changes made for the modern Monterrey house. The outside appearance is still the same.

Modern insulation has eliminated the heavy thick walls; however the atmosphere Old Monterrey is still -present." of, Mrs. Edward Peteet discussed the furnishings and accessories for a Monterrey house. In doing so, she stressed the fact that it is one type of home in which any type or period of furniture desired can be used. It lends itself nicely to modern living, and, besides being comfortable, has dignity as well. Mrs.

Peteet described the fnterior of an historical old Monterrey house of California, comparing it with some modern "types found in California and Texas. MRS. W. J. HARDY, Wrought iron balconies and grilles, red roofs, white walls, rows of potted plants and open terraces are all characteristic of the Monterrey type.

Gay potteries, bright glassware, ornate silver, rich tapestry hangings, heavy Spanish furniture or the old family wash stand may all be used effectively in the Monterrey house, she said. Mrs. Peteet concluded discussion by showing many illustrations and examples of Monterrey homes. the close of the program, a salad course was served the members and three guests, Mrs. John Moore, Mrs.

Guinn Moon, and Mrs. W. J. Hardy. Student Revival Slated at C.O.M.

Jan. 20-24 The Baptist Students' Union of the College of Marshall has completed arrangements for the annual 'student revival which this year will begin Monday, January 20, and continue. through Friday, January 24. Dr. Marshall Craig of the -Gaston Avenue Baptist Church, Dallas, will conduct the services.

He will be assisted by Jimmie Ray, evangelistic singer of Henderson, Texas. "During the week of the revival Dr. Craig will hold. two services daily, preaching in the college auditorium at 10 o'clock in the morning and again at o'clock in the evening. Mrs.

Craig will accompany Dr. Eraig to Marshall. They will be guests wat Mr. and Mrs. J.

M. Garner. and Mrs. Ray will be entertained in the home of Dr. and Mrs.

F. S. Groner, Wilma Kirkpatrick 'Is Luncheon Hostess Miss Wilma Kirkpatrick entertained with a three-course luncheon Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock in the home of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. C.

G. Kirkpatrick, Perry Drive. The table was colorful with centerpiece of iridescent shells filled with multi-colored spring flowers. Antique button-and-daisy glass hats in pastel. shades were used for serving the first course, and shell condiment dishes added color to the daintily appointed table.

The affair was first planned as a birthday compliment to Miss Jane Dinwiddie, who was unable to attend because of illness, SO the group visited her and Miss Kirkpatrick presented her with a lovely biege bag, before the party proceded to a picture show. The luncheon guests were: Misses Ann Vinsant, Jane Lee Cook, Betty Rodefer, Betty Ann Bryan, Maurine Kartel, Ida Louise McClary, Mary Nell Harter, Mary Joyce Gerlach. Recent Bride Favored With Shower Mrs. J. I.

Bernard, Mrs. Chatlotte Bachus, and Mrs. Sam Miller entertained Friday night in the home of Mrs. Miller's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

W. McGibbony, Port Caddo Road, honoring Mrs. Raymond Martin, who was Miss Alice McNamee before her recent marriage. After each guest had registered in the bride's numerous games were played. The bride received many attractive' gifts.

Angel food cake, hot chocolate, and mints were served to approximately 20 guests. T.E.L. Class Is Entertained by Mrs. Tom Post will be completed for the remainder of the year and a social hour will be held. Junior Music Club Holds Meeting The Junior Marshall Music studied "Music in the Radio World" at a meeting held in the home of Miss Alicia Smith Wednesday afternoon with Miss Shirley Handler as hostess.

In the business session, Miss Mary Faye Dunn reported on the caroling by members Christmas. Program leaders were Lillia Rosborough and Tommy Agnor. Miss Rosborough made a talk on the subject of the afternoon, namhighlights of the season's radio. schedules, and Miss Martha Ann McLeod rendered two popular numbers at the piano. Tommy Agnor explained situation, telling B.M.L/S side of the controversy.

Miss Peggy Franks sang several popular VOcal selections, accmpanied at the pian by Miss McLeod. Delicious refreshments were served by Mrs. W. Hobert Rickles, Mrs. J.

Wesley Smith and Mrs. George Handler. Candles lighted the lace-laid table, Which was appointed in silver. by 11 inches, with tape running through the top, and are made of printed or plain material of any sort: should have a small blank label sewn on the outside of each, for the patient's name. Mrs.

J. L. Fitch. Is Honored Honoring Mrs. J.

L. Fitch, Mrs. Charles Bolls and Mrs. Calvin Jennings were hostesses for a pink and blue shower in the home of Mrs. Bolls Thursday afternoon.

Bingo was the diversion of the afternoon. The following were present: Mrs. Aaron C. Smith, Mrs. Frank McQueen, Mrs.

J. Leonard, Mrs. H. F. Miller, Mrs.

George Morris, Mrs. A. R. Fitch, Mrs. Lambright, Mrs.

L. F. Flemmons, Miss Daisalyn Hatley, Mrs. Robert Jennings, Mrs. T.

M. Bolls, Mrs. J. T. Morris, Mrs.

Robert Cox, Mrs. Dessye Bingell, and the hostesses and honoree. the close of the games, refreshments of hot cocoa, sandwiches and cakes were served. Those who sent gifts but were not present were Mrs. W.

L. Finigan, Mrs. Katherine Lamb, Mrs. Luther Britt, Mrs. A.

C. Jennings, Mrs. Norman Hart, Mrs. Ralph Whitis, Mrs. R.

M. Jennings. The T. E. L.

Class of the First Baptist Church met Thursday afternoon in the home of Mrs. Tom Post. The meeting was opened with prayer by Mrs. Forman Cook. Mrs.

N. D. Long presided over the brief business session, and Mrs. Cook introduced Mrs. Cecil Smith, who spoke on conditions in China.

Mrs. Smith recently returned from China, where she was a missionary. The hostess served delicious refreshments to 16 members and one guest, Mrs. Smith. Bridge Club Is Entertained Saturday Dr.

and Mrs. C. G. Kirkpatrick entertained members of their bridge club Saturday evening in their home on Perry Drive, A dessert course was served before the games. Players were: Mr.

and Mrs. Joe Marion Swann, Mr. and Mrs. T. T.

Westmoreland, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hatson, Mr. and Mrs.

Tom Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. George Walker, Mr. and Mrs. R.

R. C. Hargrave, and the host and hostess..

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