Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1937 — Page 19

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THURSDAY, JULY 22

Club Finds Ohio Frolic Salty’ Trip

Just Right Seasoner for Jaded Males, Say Roust-a-Bouters.

By MARJORIE BINFORD WOODS You know these grim, cigar-chew-ing judges and attorneys whom you see in the local courts of law? The big bad wolves of finance . . . and the foxes of industry about town? Jolly good fellows—docile as lambs —they become at the toot of an Ohio steamboat whistle and the prospect of a three-day outing of the Mark Twain Roust-a-Bouters. At least that's what Judge Dan V. White says in describing the spirit of comaraderie which prevails on these Ohio River boat trips which are becoming an annual institution among Indianapolis professional and business men. “Bvery summer for four years we have steamed down the Ohio River, from Cincinnati, in a combination freight and passenger boat,” SAYS Judge White, who is now called Commodore of the club. “This year, on Saturday Sept. 25, at least 100 Indianapolis men will walk up the gangplank of our own chartered + boat, the S. S. Gordon C. Green, and we'll set our course for Louisville and points south.”

Recalls Old River Boats

Although Judge White approves of this large excursion vessel he is t00 much of a seaman not to mourn the passing of the old-time cargo-and-passenger boats which have been familiar to him ever since childhood days when he lived on the Ohio River banks. Judge White was the founder of this unique male club which he catalogs as “an unorganized organization.” “It all came about because of my inherent love of the “Beautifal Ohio,” he explained. In 1938 he inviegled a crowd of his cronies, 19 in all, into taking a steamboat trip. It was so successful from the standpoint of relaxation and good fellowship that by the grape-vine route the good word was passed around and friends begged to join the group. Now it's a yearly outing and “Purser” Charles Babcock is besieged with steamboat reservations.

Membership Open to All

Mark Twain's great love for the Ohio River inspired the prefix to the club's name and the good fellowship enjoyed on board ship made Roust-a-Bouters a natural addition. Now, the club, which has no dues, no ritual and no scheduled meetings is open to any man who craves good company and a scenic steamboav trip down the famed river. “This club trip is one stag event of which even the wives approve because it sends their husbands home in a good mood,” Judge White laughingly said. It is the sort of informal good

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Miss Joan Casey (left) has as

spend long hours planning for gay

Miss Sarah Smith, Chattanooga, Tenn.

her house guest The girls times when they

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return as seniors They attended the Stephens alumnae luncheeon recently in the Columbia Club.

Times Photo. to Stephens College, Columbia,

ing pictures. Tt would necessitate getting up browsing about the Butler campus.

saving time,” members say. Before eight o'clock every morn-

time which Judge White and his , assistant commodore,” Judge Wil-| fred Bradshaw indorse as a devel- | aper of a better community spirit. | When these jolly good fellows get | together on board, impromptu musical programs and dancing stunts turn the puffing steamer into a typical “Show Boat,” according to these Ohio River enthusiasts, Oscar Hagemier and Charles Holder, as entertainment chairmen, are guaranteeing to send the “old-timers” into a jig—and the “young-uns” into tap dancing when they signal the old-fashioned string band to start up a tune. Such antiquated songs as “Lop Eared Mule,” “Cotton-Eyed Joe,” and “Billy inthe Low Ground,” are typical of the favorites.

Trip Is Scenic One

The memorable Ground Hog dinner with its Kangaroo Court, inaugurated by the club last February, is the only other scheduled event held by the Roust-a-Bouters. The season's itinerary will take the boatmen steaming past the “Switzerland of America,” so characterized by old-time Swiss settlers and the Government lock at Fernbank. After leaving Louisville, where the boat puts into port for a short interim on Sunday morning, it enters Portland Canal, goes on to West Point, Ky., then swings around and heads back to Cincinnati, It's a simple three-day trip,” Judge White summarized. “Just long enough for the men to get on friendly terms... but not long enough for them to get into political controversies and start tossing each other overboard.”

Norma Bellows Engaged Mr. and Mrs. Ross Bellows announce the engagement of their daughter, Norma, to Morris Eugene Ferguson, son of Mrs. Anna Ferguson. The wedding is to take place

ing you may catch a glimpse of the women as they arrive one by one, via bus or motor, loaded down with painting paraphernalia. “We may look like picnickers with our ‘camp stools and shoe boxes,” they laughingly admit, ‘but the usual fare of hard boiled eggs and bananas is sadly lacking.” Instead, the shoe boxes disclose tiny tubes of vari-colored paints, bottles of water, brushes, sponges and cardboard ‘‘canvases.” Under the direction of Paul Hadley, John Herron Art School instructor, each artist selects her inspiration for painting, parks on a camp stool and goes to work. A rustic bridge, interesting tree trunks, a lily pond, rusty implements found lying about an old tool shed . . . all are material which the class has utilized. Average Picture Daily

A picture a day is the average output for each artist, in spite of the time taken up in fighting mosquitoes and chiggers. “Because of the improvement in property around town,” Mr. Hadley explained, “it is difficult to find tumble-down shacks and mellow building tones which are an artist's real inspiration.” Most of the class of 10 are art teachers in the public schools who hope to develop technique to pass on to pupils. Two of the young women who are taking tiie course are college students who are eager to learn painting. Likes IMustrating

Miss Marguerite Bernatz, St. Mary's of the Lake student, is an enthusiastic member who has aspirations of becoming a magazine illustrator. Miss Frances Breeding, who graduated from Hanover College last spring, has more difficulty naming her paintings than she has executing them.

July 31 in the Olive Branch Christian Church.

landscape view which “picture within a picture” is the

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‘Outdoor Watercolor Class | Gets Up Early to Go to Work| ‘Wedding Trip,

Somebody should paint a picture of the summer art students paint-

early some morning this week and The John Herron outdoor watercolor

class, which has been painting landscapes in the city’s various parks

for several weeks, is on “daylight &

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only piece of work which she has named, Other class members who may be found hard at work every day include Misses Lois Clark, Martha Moore, Nelle Kaser and Dorothy Segur and others. Broad Ripple with its canoes and merry-go-round is to serve as inspiration for the class next week —the closing session of the season.

Woman’s Group

Of Hoosier A. C. To Stage Dance

Miss LaVerne Phillips is chairman of the roof garden hop to be held Saturday night by the Woman's Athletic Club of the Hoosier Athletic Club. She is to be assisted by Miss Helena Wanner, Miss Pearl Teckmeyer and Mrs. Gladys Hawkihs. Dr. Thelma Kernel is chairman of the decorations committee, assisted by Miss Marylou Bates. Music is to be provided by the Al, Andy and Doc's orchestra. are to be decorated with gladioli and delphinium. A fur show is to be held during intermission, Among reservations listed to date are, those of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Allison, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wallace and Dr. and Mrs, G. L. Young.

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| Mr. and Mrs. William B. Palmer (are on a wedding trip and will be at home after Aug. 1 at 3108 College Ave. | Before her marriage in the East | Tenth Street Methodist Church | Tuesday, Mrs. Palmer was Miss Clara McCloskey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira J. McCloskey. Mr. and Mrs. William A. Palmer are parents of the bridegroom. The bride wore a white net gown fashioned on princess lines, and a fingertip veil. She carried-a colonial bouquet of red roses. Miss Mary Helen McCloskey was maid of honor and Miss Betty Walden and Miss Jane Howard were bridesmaids. Joan Wagner and Andrew Kleinschmitz, Cleveland, were junior attendants. Russell Walden was best man and Jack Canatsey and Francis Dankleman ushered. Music was provided by David Neafus, organist, and Miss Jane White, vocalist.

Sorority Holds Meeting Members of Alpha Xi Delta sorority held a call-meeting at the home of Miss Matty May Engle recently. Miss Katherine Lewis and Miss Engle, delegates to the national convention of the organization held recently in Yellowstone National Park, made reports.

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80 to Make . Club Tour

To Entertain Group From Here.

More than ‘80 members of the Art Department, Woman's Department

Club, are to make a tour of th e Wayne County Historical Museum in Richmond, Wednesday. They are to be guests of Mrs. William Wallace Gaar, president and donor of the museum. Mrs. Gaar is to be hostess at a luncheon ne Richmond-Leland Hotel at \.n, Mrs. Irving Blue, art tour ¢ : omInitiee chairman, and Miss Pearl efer, vice chairman, are t - duct the trip. - The museum, one of the most complete in Indiana, contains valuable paintings and reproductions of period rooms in American interior decorating history.

Portrait Displayed

Among the paintings on display is a life-sized portrait of Mrs. Gaar painted by Wayman Adams, Elizabethtown, N. Y., last year, Mrs. Gaar was honor guest of the Art Department at the preview dinner of the Hoosier Salon in April, Other tours announced by Mrs. Walter S. Grow, Art Department chairman, include a trip to the recently refinished James Whitcomb Riley home in Greenfield: a vist in the studio of Ernest Foster. Southport, and a trip through the D. A. R. museum, Franklin, in the Johnson County Court House. : Other tour committee members include Mesdames Hugh Baker, H. J. Berry, Charles Breece, Alvin T. Coate, Eugene Foley, Phillip A. Keller, George J. Mess, Edward L. Pedlow, Louise B. Pohiman, George A. VanDyke, Merritt E. Woolf, Miss Amber Kiefer, and Roy Hodson, Coatesville,

Of Museum

Mrs. William W. Gaar|

Miss Eva Mae Lynch is already making plans to confer with members of the six Indianapolis chapters of Pi Omicron Sorority on arrangements for the 1938 national convention of the organization to be held here next July. Miss Lynch was elected national vice president of the sorority at the biennial convention held recently in St. Louis,

Photo by Plowman-Platt.

Personal Notes

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Runnels Harrell, 3221 N. Pennsylvania St. are to entertain a number of their friends at an informal buffet supper tonight at their summer cabin on Stony Creek. The honor guest is to be Mrs. Robert H. Morse, Dallas Tex., who is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William S. Beck. Mrs. Gustave H. Dongus, 3015 N. Meridian St. is spending this week at Bass Lake as the guest of her mother, Mrs. A. Don Lewis. Mr. Dongus is to join them this weekend at Mrs. Lewis’ cottage. Miss Nora Elizabeth Bowes is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gareth Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Fisher and their son, Robert Lilly Fisher, are to leave soon for a motor trip to Yellowstone National Park and points West, Mrs. William Henley Mooney is visiting Dr, and Mrs. Roy Krigbaum, Columbus, O. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Rush have as their house guests Mr. and Mrs. William Bauman and daughter, Harriet, Los Angeles, Cal.

Mrs. Frank E. Brewer, Ft. Pierce, Fla., has been the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Mehring. Mr. and Mrs. Earl W, Lewis have left on a month's trip to Alaska. Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Rogers and rons are taking a trip through the West, Misses Helen and Mary McGrath, 429 N. La Salle St, are spending the week at the Hotel New Weston, New York. . Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Cassell were recent guests at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Atlantic City. Misses Mary Ethel Middaugh, Mary Ellen Spellman, Dorothy Schulz and Mrs. Frederic Bronson have departed for a tour through Juarez, Mexico, California and the Canadian Rockies. They expect te visit Lake Louise.

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Oashon are cochairman of the Riviera Boosters Club dance to be held tomorrow night at the clubhouse. Two hundred couples are expected to dance te tne music of Gaylen Goodwin and his orchestra.

Shower Tonight T'o Be Given for

Edith Forsythe

* Mrs. C. E. Morrison is to entertain for her niece, Miss Edith Forsythe, this evening with a linen and kitchen shower at her home, 3620 N. Capitol, Miss Forsythe is to be married Aug, 3 to Albert R. Rehling in the Washington Street Methodist Church. Decorations for the shower are to be in the bridal colors, pink and blue, Guests are to include Mesdames Allen Matthews, C. E. Oldham, V. F. Forsythe, 8. E. Daniel, B. W. Spencer, M. G. Forsythe, R. E. Rehling, J. E. Simmons, Harold Simmons, LI. B. Forsythe and Misses Ruth Rehling, Pauline Adair, Pau= line Osborne, Kathleen Spencer and Mildred Forsythe, Miss Mildred Forsythe is to be her sister's only attendant for the wedding. Arthur Rehling is to be his

Garden Club Picks Dunes For Outing

Fall Pilgrimage to Be In October, District Meeting Decides.

The annual fall pilgrimage of the Indiana Federation of Garden Clubs is to be made to The Dunes, it was announced at the Indianapolis Diss trict luncheon yesterday in North

Methodist Church. The decision was made at the meeting of the state poard held pres ceding the luncheon in the home of the president, Mrs. Walter P. Mor= ton, 3434 E. Fall Creek Blvd. The event is to be held two days in Oc» tober. Prof. R. B. Hull, Purdue Unis versity, is pilgrimage chairman. - The Indiana Garden Club Federas tion state convention is to be held in May in Marion, the board also decided. Reports by committees concluded the session. Novel decorations were a feature of the luncheon served at 1 p. m, The junior garden committee table, decorated by the Marigold Club, was centered with a landscaped yard and greenhouse, Road Portrayed

The Woman's Department Club arranged a long road through the center of the roadside development committee table, portraying necess sity of roadside improvement. A small lodge In the center of ats tractive grounds was arranged for the garden center committee table by the Spade and Trowel Club, Other tables were laid with fall flowers, Mis. Minnte Dudding, Greenfield Garden Club representative, spoke on the redecoration of the James Whitcomb Riley home, following the luncheon, State officers present were intros duced. They included Mrs. Morton, Mrs, Nelson Richey, Ft. Wayne, Miss Bertha Strickler, Middleton; Mrs, Rex P. Young, Indianapolis; Mrs, Frances K. Heeb, Connersville; Mrs, WwW. D. Hamer, Indianapolis; Mrs, Harper Hale Muff and Mrs. E. C, Cline, Richmond; Mrs. Minor 8, Goulding, Indianapolis: Mrs. O. B. Baker, Marion, and Mrs. Clarence Hughel, Indianapolis,

Dramatic Arts

To Be Offered

Teachers in dramatic arts are to be added to the faculty this fall at the Irvington School of Music, ac= cording to Mrs, Clell T. Rice, acting director. Kindergarten work is also being considered. Kindergarten classes were held a few years ago. Pupils were given preschool training in ad= dition to musie, singing and dancing games, Signorina Adelaide Conte, school director, and Miss Alice Cooper are vacationing in the East. The summer class in dancing i# concluded and Miss Hanna K. Beck, instructor, left this week for Hilltop Camp in Brown County, where she is to teach dancing for the second half

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