Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1939 — Page 4

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Bali Today; Junior League Director of

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By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON

Mr. and Mrs. James B. Nelson and their daughter, ~ Mrs. Julia Jean Rudd, will leave Miami today for a motor trip through the South before returning to Indianapolis the first of April. Mr. Nelson and Carl G. Fisher, formerly of Indianapolis, attended the annual outing of the “Committee of 100” last week at Miami.

| David MacKibbin, who has been at Asuncion, Paraguay, for 18 months, has sailed for home and will arrive here early next month to “ visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. McKibbin. Mr. and Mrs. McKibuin’s daughter, Miss Jean McKibbin, is back in New Vork after

a cruise to Nassau.

-Mesdames Louis H. Haerle, Herman C. Wolff, Thomas ¥ -rvey Cox and Clarence Efroymson are home from a 10-day motor trip to the Bellingrath Gardens near Mobile, Ala., the Jungle Gardens near New Orleans and the Natchez Pilgrimage. Mrs. Maybelle Taylor Dean is back from a six-week stay at Clearwater, Fla., with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Morgan of Columbus, O. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Retter returned yesterday from a vacation at Miami Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson G. Trone and their son, Peter, are home after spending a month at Golden Beach, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. William Cooper Kern and Mrs. John W. Kern are in Florida for three weeks. Dr. Irvine H. Page will leave Sunday to spend a few days at New Orleans. Mr. and Mrs. Stacy B. Lindley and their daughter, Laura, will leave Wednesday for a motor trip to Washington. Their other daughter, Miss Sarah Lindley who attends Swarthmore College, will join them for her two-week spring vacation. Several luncheon parties will precede Mrs. Branson DeCou’s illustrated lecture on “Alluring Bali” at 2:30 p. m. today at the Propylaeum. Mrs. Benjamin F. Hitz will entertain 10 guests and

, . hostesses for smaller groups include Mesdames Paul Lee Hargitt,

Ralph Spaan, Edward H. Knight and Miss Anna Spann. Play Director to Speak Miss Virginia Lee Comer of Kansas Cily, technical director of children’s theaters for the Association of Junior Leagues of America, is to address members of the Civi¢ Theater affairs committee and guests at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the theater. A discussion period will follow her talk on “Summer Theater in Relation to Community and Civic Theater.” 2 Miss Comer, who attended the Junior League Children’s Theater Conference March 6 through 10 at Portland, Ore., is to stop here en route to the Junior Leagues’ New York headquarters. She will be the house guest of Miss Eunice Dissette. Miss Comer, who last year was director of the summer theater at Milford, Conn. is a graduate of the Yale School of the Drama. : Mrs. George Ziegler and Mrs. George Fotheringham, local delegates to the Portland conference, arrived home Saturday after visiting friends in San Francisco and Los Angeles. » ” ” 8 ” ”

Hohn Sloane Kittle Jr. to Wed

A wedding of interest to Indianapolis friends will be solemnized the evening of April 15 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Montclair, N. J., when Miss Elizabeth Richmond Mills of Rome, N. Y., formerly of Montclair, becomes the bride of John Sloane Kittle Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John Sloane Kittle of Indianapolis. Miss Mills is the daughremus Lewis Mills. ? : tee A y James T. Lodge assisted by the Rev. Paul Stevens Oliver, rector of Zion Episcopal Church of Rome, will read the service. Following the ceremoney a reception for the families and a few friends will be held at the Marlboro Inn. a - Miss Mills has chosen as her matron of honor her fiance's sister, Mrs. Burton Hart Jackson of Greenwich, Conn., formerly Miss Rosamond Kittle. Bridesmaids will be Miss Elizabeth S. Lodge of Montclair, Miss Margaret Greener of Glen Ridge, N. J, Mrs. Rogers Stopford Ames of Rochester, N. Y., and Mrs. William Brewster Winston Montclair. : ot ye William Losse of St. Louis will be Mr. Kittle’s best man. Ushers will be William T. Mills, brother of the bride-to-be; George W. Holley Jr., Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.; David F. Sanders, Evanston, Iil., and George S. Smith, Chadwich, N. Y. Mr. Kittle will give

a bachelor dinner April 14 at the Chanticleer in Montclair.

Installation of New Officers Will Feature Lodge Sessions

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Initiation and installation ceremonies for new Hembe:s and Jocentty ted officers will claim the attentions of members of women’s lodge ee, at meetings this week. A grand officer of one organization will be honored at a special dinnér meeting Thursday. - One Eastern Star chapter installed officers at a recent service. Two groups will sponsor

card parties.

: Yrvington Chapter 364, O. E. S,, will hold a reception for new members at the stated meeting of the group tonight at the Irvington Masonic Temple, 5515 E. Washington St. Degrees will be conferred. Mrs. Martha Bechtold and Ralph Guthrie will assume their duties as worthy matron and patron of the chapter following public installation services at 8 p. m. Wednesday at the Temple. Other officers who will be inducted are Mrs. Gertrude Rennoe, associate matron; Edward Rennoe, associate patron; Mrs. Edna E. Pauley, secretary; Mus. Mary V. Stamper, treasurer; Mrs. Nell M. Polk, conductress; Miss Mae Martin, associate conductress; Mrs. Lillian Siegesmund, chaplain; Mrs. Edith Haugh, marshal; Mrs. Nell M. Walker, organist; Mrs. Doris Esta Oster, Adah; Mrs. Mary Fulton, Ruth; Mrs. Benita Kaye, Esther; Mrs. Bessie Randall, Martha; Mrs. Christie Holland, Electa; Mrs. Margaret Askren, warder; Mrs. Edith Hoerman, sentinel and Mrs. Frances Botkin, soloist. Mrs. Christobel Carey and Dr. O. C. Neier are worthy matron and patron.

luncheon Thursday noon at her home, 2813 E. Michigan St.

Mrs. Clydis A. Brown and Alfred C. Brown will assume their posts as ‘worthy matron and patron of Daylight Chapter 553, O. E. S., at an

installation ceremony at 1:30 p. m. Friday. The meeting will be in the Ionic Room of the Masonic Temple, Illinois and North Sts.

Other officers who will be inducted are Mrs. Mary E. Betz, associate matron; William A. Boyce Jr., associate patron! Mrs. Edna E. Fancher, secretary; Mrs. Magdalene E. Boyce, treasurer; Mrs. Ruth- R. Denison, conductress, and Mrs. Lillie V. Gauker, associate conductress. Mrs. Daisy M. Crist, grand secretary, will be installing officer, assisted by Mrs. Nellie M. Young and Mrs: Oma E. Reynolds.

Newly elected officers of Oakland Chapter 159, O. E. S., were inducted into office at a recent meeting in their hall. Mrs. Millie Gilmore, worthy matron, was in charge assisted by Mrs. Mona Thomas, marshal; Mrs. Monnie Negley, chaplain; and Mrs. Pauline Smith, or-

Mrs. Martha Sterling, Erie, Pa. grand dean of the “academy af friendship” of the Women of the

' Moose, will be honored Ry the local

chapter at a dinner at 6 p. m. Thursday in Moose Temple. Mrs. Sterling is making her official tour of Women of the Moose chapters, instructing them in program development. Initiation services will be conducted during the evening for a class of 40 candidates. The group will be inducted as the “class of the grand dean.” Mrs. Esther Hansford, senior regent, will preside, . Miss Gertrude Bopp, chairman of social service committee, will be in charge, assisted by Mesdames Clara Thompson, Ella Vice, Jean Butze, Edith Magenheimer and Faye Wilbur. Mrs. Mildred Beck, chairman of the library committee, will be in charge of the card party for Women of the Moose Thursday afternoon in Moose Temple. Assisting her will be Mesdames Cleo Moore, Opal Fredenberg, Linda LaPlant, Alvine Negley, Mildred McCullough and E.

- J. Albers. .

New members of the Brightwood Chapter 399, O. E. S., will be initiated and honored at a reception

ganist. Officers of the group are Mrs. Mary Fisner, worthy matron; Bernard Bogart, worthy patron; Mrs. Janice Sparrow, associate matron; Charles Kellerman, associate patron; Mrs. Lela Fenter, conductress; Mrs. Nellie Moore, associate condustress, Mrs. Cora Plummer, secretary; Miss Louise Appel, treasurer; Mrs. Maude Apple, chaplain; Mrs. Laura Negley, marshal; Miss Amy Beverland, organist; Mrs. Dorothy Bogart, Adah; Mrs. Rosemary Sargent, Ruth; Mrs. Katherine Cain, Esther; Mrs. Beatrice Stoner, Martha; Mrs. Jessie Teter, Electa; Mrs. Anna Combs, warder, and Mrs. Lora Schmidt, sentinel.

Sommen

Plans Made Here for

Plans are being made by members of local Needlework Guild of America units to attend the national convention May 4-6 in Philadelphia. Mrs. R. Hartley Sherwood, acting national president, will preside. At a recent executive meeting of the Indianapolis branch at Mrs. Sherwood’s home, three new sections were reported. New units include the Auxiliary to the Sahara Grotto; Upsilon Chapter, Alpha Omicron Alpha Sorority and the junior sec-

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week-end of showers and parties. parties. Miss Jeanne Reed, daughter of

Mrs. Karl W. Behr entertained at a miscellaneous shower Saturday night for the engaged couple at her home, 3729 N. Chester St. Guests included Mrs. R. M. Jordan, Messrs. and Mesdames W. E. Beck, L. J. Williamson, E. R. Jcrdan, Lynn Williamson, Robert Behr and C. 8. Jordan and their daughter, Rosalie and Miss Marian Bunten. Decorations were carried out in shades of pink, with miniature bridal couples. Miss Slater was hostess recently at a miscellaneous shower for the bride-to-be at the Slater home, 826 N. Wallace, Ave. le om om

Miss Anne Farrell, daughter of James Farrell, 465 Goodlet Ave., whose marriage to Don Poinsette will be April 15, has chosen members of her bridal party. Miss Thelma Poinsette, a sister of the bridegroom-to-be, will be maid of honor at the wedding. Miss Colleen Cook will act as bridesmaid and Miss Patricia Farrell, a sister of the bride-to-be, will be junior bridesmaid. John Rice will be best man. ” ” 2 Miss Virginia Carson, whose marriage to Howard F. Wright will be April 2, was entertained yesterday at the home Mrs. Robert L. Prettyman, 3537 N. Pennsylvania St., with a silver shower. The bride-to-be is a daughter of W. R. Carson, 5131 Otterbein Ave. Miss Carson will be graduated in June from Butler University where she is a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority. Mr. Wright was .graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University and attended Indiana University and the University of Michigan where he received his M. A. degree. He is a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. - Guests at the shower yesterday

guest, Misses Mary Anne McCoy, Ula May Wright, Mavilla Rainey, Elsie M. Hall, Fern Warren, Jane Bosart, Betty Jane Fouts, Helen McCollum, Mary Jeanette Seller and Mesdames W. R. Carson, Charles Martin and Harry C. Sanders. 8 ” 2

Another week-end prenuptial fete was the cocktail party Saturday given by Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Tyler, 3761 N. Meridian $t., for Miss Betty Conder and G. Q. Biegler Jr., who will be married next month. The party preceded the Kappa Kappa Gamma state dance at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Guests with the engaged couple included Miss Virginia, Fosler, Robert Gruen, Messrs. and Mesdames H. M. Cumberworth, George Hayes, Richard Conder, E. C. Badger Jr., Thomas J. Blackwell Jr., H. H. Harlan, L. L. Umphrey and K. E. Kinnear and Dr. and Mrs..J. A. Nicolai. 2 2 ”

Mrs. Howard G. Campbell and Mrs. George W. Horst Jr., entertained Saturday at the Colonial Tearoom with a luncheon bridge and crystal shower in honor of Mrs. Dwight Stiles who was Miss Helen Carver before her recent marriage. The hostesses were assisted by Mrs. W. S. Akin and Mrs. Donald H. Graham. Guests included Mrs. Harry R. Carver, Chicago, and Mesdames Edward Troy, Clarence Wacker, Dana Hannan, Lee Carter. Frank Keppen, Charles Boswell, Melvin Robbins, Robert E. Gilkison and the Misses Wilma Aulenbacher, Louise Troy, Hilda Thomas, Marie Holmes, Lucille Morrison, Dorothy Dauner and Margo McLaughlin. 8 5 2

Miss Jean Beale and Miss Ellen ‘Fitzgerald entertained recently with a miscellarieous shower at Miss Beale’s home in honor of Mrs. Harold Thompson, formerly Miss

included Miss Carson, the honor|

Showers, Parties for Brides Fill Week-End Calendar as Wedding Plans Are Completed

Prenuptial activities for a number of Indianapolis brides-to-be include announcement of several bridal parties and an unusual heavy

Two recent brides were feted at

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Reed, N.

Tacoma: Ave., has chosen Miss Mary Louise Slater as bridesmaid for her wedding March 23 to Frank 8. Jordan, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Jordan, | Indianapolis. William Morris will act as best man.

Irene Henderson. Decorations were|’

carried out in blue and white with a table centerpiece of sweet peas and lighted white tapers. Among guests were Mesdames Donald O. Thomas, Harry Sharlow, Dominic Lozzo,r Lawrence Knight, Luther Sanders, Harold Cooper, James E. Lashbrook and the Misses Veva Hedrick, Marguerite Weddle, Sally Passo, Dorothy Sears, Violet Kruse, Ida Logan, Mae McClintock and Nova Cox.

Paddock Saddle Club Picks Aids, Plans Activities

Committee chairmen and assistants had been announced today for

the Paddock Saddle Club and a variety of spring activities is being planned. ; Howard Jessup is events ‘chairman, assisted by Ray Blocker, Glenn Wiese, Wilford Wilson, J. C. Thomas, Kenneth Weghorst, Robert Burrows and Roy Pedigo. The entertainment committee will be under the direction of Mrs. Kyle Herder, assisted by Mesdames Harold Martyn, George Pattison, Robert Burrows, Gordon B. Sutton, Ray Blocker, Miss Mary Cummings and Miss Dorothy Shepard. Bon O Aspy is membership committee chairman, assisted by Mrs. Roy Pedigo and Harold A. Martyn. The finance committee includes Kyle G. Herder, chairman, and Clyde Ford and Charles Wenz. Bloor Schleppey will act as chairman of the law and grievance committee, with Ray Blocker and J. Ray Martz, assistants. ; Harold A. Martyn will head the clubhouse committee, assisted by Blake Wilson, Herder, George Pattison, Burrows, Aspy, Judson Moschelle, Miss Madelyn Ulrich and Miss Retha Hogue.

Sorority Books Musical Meeting

Miss Ruth Elizabeth Graham, organist of Franklin, will speak at 7:45 p. m. tomorrow before members of Kappa Chapter, Mu Phi Epsilon, national music honor sorority, at Odeon Hall. : Miss Graham will discuss “A Rapid Survey of the Composers of Organ Works.” She has been named recently. to the music faculty of Hanover College where she will assume her duties next fall.. She has been studying in New York. Mrs. Bernice Fee Mozingo will read a paper on “Historical Organ— Illustrated by Chorale Treatment,” using the chorale “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” as transcribed by the composers Walther, Bach, Brahms and Reger. Other organists who will appear on the program are Miss Charlotte Moore, Mrs. Mabel Pruitt Duncan and Miss Rebecca Shields. Miss Shields is program chairman. The event is open to the public.

P.-T. A. Group to Elect

Officers of the Shortridge High School Parent-Treacher Association will be elected at a meeting tomorrow at 7:45 p. m. in the school auditorium. Dinner in the cafeteria will precede the business meeting and Robert Shultz, will ‘direct the school band in a program at 8 o'clock. Teachers will be in their rooms to talk to parents from 6:45

p. m. until time for the election.

EVENTS

~ following their initiation at 8 p. m, tonight at the Veritas Masonic Temple. Mrs. Ruby Roesener and . . william T. Everett are worthy ma- Catholic Women tron and patron.

Members of the Sewing Circle of " “the- Myrtle Temple Pythian Sisters| Times Special

tion of Zephyr Zebs.

~ will sponsor a supper and card] LOGANSPORT, March 20. — The _ party at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday at|annual convention of the Logansthe Food Craft Shop. Mrs. Amelia port Deanery of the National CounMason is chairman, assisted by Mrs. |cil of Catholic Women was held here i JostenaY: Dili represented were Logansport, Delphi, Kewanna, Ko- _ Mrs. Mason will entertain the komo, Lagro. Lucerne, Monterey, Clifats Association of the|Peru, Remington, Reynolds, Rochesulaski

Elizabeth Smith.

ple Pythian Sisters at ater, Winamac, P

Hold Convention

SORORITIES

Phi Omega Kappa. 8 tonight. Mrs. Michael Garvey, 1037 Temple, hostess. Miss Mary Kruchton, assistant. Kappa Gamma Alpha. Tues. eve. Miss Janet Gasper, 210 Hendricks Place, hostess. Mrs. Albert F. Hoop, assistant, Lambia eal Delta. 8 p. m. Tues. Hotel Riley. amma Chapter, Theta Delta Sigma, 8:15 tonight. M en Howard, 1344 W. 35th, hostess. igs Owendelyn s

LUBS

Tokalon. Tues. eve. Mrs. W. O. Weber, 3856 Winthrop Ave., hostess. Mrs. H. J. Windt, “Portrait of a Chinese Lady.” Expression. 12:30 p. m. Tues. Mrs. L. C. Litten, 559 East Drive, Woodruff Place, hostess, Program, Mrs, W. G. Patterson and

Mrs. W. F. Holmes. CARD PARTY

Red Team, Naomi Auxiliary, O. E. S. 8 p. m. Wed. Talianapelis Power & Light Co. Mrs, Matilda Tschu . in ‘charge,

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1. Mrs. Jennie Scott announces the engagement of her daughter,

Martha, to John Farrell Wininger.

The wedding will be April 1 at the

home of the bride. (Ayres Photo.) \

2. An April 15 wedding will be that of Miss Thelma Boyer to

Jacob S. Koontz, Warsaw, formerly of Indianapolis. Miss Boyer is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Boyer, §269 Central Ave. (Bretz-

man Photo.)

3. Miss Dorothy Fulton’s marriage to Kenneth B. Young will be April 14 at the Woodruff Place Baptist Church. Miss Fulton is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Fulton. (Bretzman Photo.) 4. Miss Jeanne Reed’s engagement to Frank S. Jordan has been

announced by her parents, Mr. wedding will be Thursday.

and Mrs. Charles H. Reed. The

5. Mr, and Mrs. Harry Rose Knox, Graysville, announce the approaching marriage of their daughter, Doris Genevieve, to Laurel Lee Clayton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence R, Clayton, 1127 N, Hawthorne

Lane. The wedding will be April 2.

(Moorefield Photo.)

. 6. Miss Mary Elizabeth Wagner will be married to Herschel I. Wheeler of Peru on April 8 in Peru. Miss Wagner, 3722 N. Illinois St., is the daughter of Mrs. M. L. Wagner, Peru. (Ayres Photo.)

Plans for White Cross Luncheon T'o Be Discussed

Plans for the annual luncheon of all Indianapolis White Cross Guild units will be discussed at meetings to be held this week. One unit has elected officers for the coming year. Officers of the organization will be elected at the annual luncheon May 11 at the Claypool Hotel. Gold and silver service cups will be awarded during the program. Mrs. W. C. Borcherding is general chairman of arrangements, assisted by Mesdames T. D. Campbell, H. L. Coyner, Arthur Fairbanks and Rolly Fitch. Mrs. J. W. Noble is retiring president. rs. William Hansman, chairman

of the nominating committee, will report nominations for officers at the meeting of the executive board at 10 a. m: Wednesday at the Methodist Hospital Nurses’ Home. Members of the committee include Mesdames Borcherding, George W. Dyer, J. B. Kaufman, Charles Nugent and T. J. Williamson. Members of the Plainfield Unit will meet today at Nurses’ Home headquarters. Other meetings will include Meridian Heights unit tomorrow, the Quaker unit Wednesday and Broad Ripple and Irvington units Thursday. : Mrs. Lee Nicholson will head the Alpha Omicron Alpha unit following her recent election. Other officers are Mrs. L. H. Noble, first vice president; Mrs. J. P. Parker, second vice president; Mrs. J. W. Hill, secretary, and Mrs. M. L. Faber, treasurer.

2 Couples Announce Recent Marriages

Times Special LOGANSPORT, March 20.—Two couples recently were married in ceremonies here and in Kokomo. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hedde are on. a wedding trip through the South following their recent marriage. The ceremony was performed in the home of Mrs. Emma Coff-

man, mother of the bride, who formerly was Miss Blanche Coffman, a superviser at Fairview Hospital, Laporte. Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Melton have announced their recent marriage in Kokomo. Mrs. Melton

formerly whs Mrs. Edith Stough, oranist in the Main Street Methodist

Current Knowledge Club Plans Meeting

Members of the Current Knowledge Club will meet at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow for a luncheon at the Colonial Tearoom. Dr. Rebecca Parrish will talk on “Women of the Orient” and Mrs. Mildred Jarvis will present a musical program, accompanied by Mrs. William R. Sieber, : Hostesses at the luncheon will include Mesdames Grace Linn Sandy, Alice Lowman and Sieber.

Dances Feature Ayres Exhibition

A number of folk dances and bag-

pipe music will be included on to-

day’s program at the International Exhibition of Handicrafts and Folk

Music at Ayres’ auditorium. The exhtibition will continue through Saturday, under the auspices of the Children’s Museum Guild. Mary Kocjan and Lavina Canant will present Slovak folk dances in costume at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon. Another Slovak dance is scheduled for 4:30 oclock and Tommy Blair will play bagpipe music at 4 o’clock.

Other events presented daily, which will be included on today’s program, are Miss Helen Hartinger’s “Hungarian Peasant Painting in Dirndl”; Rumanian chocheters in costume, by Miss Emily Rogozea and Miss Siliva Phillips; rug weaving; doll head carving, by Edwin Carey, pottery, basket and silver jewelry making and spinning. Members of the Orchard School Craftsmen will demonstrate stages of clay modeling from 3:30 to 5 o'clock.

City Music Leaders To Talk in Detroit

Times Special DETROIT, March 20.—Miss Ada Bicking, director of the Jordan Conservatory of Music, and Mrs. Lucille Lockman Wagner, piano instructor at the Conservatory, will take part in the Music Educators’ National Conference opening here today. Miss Bicking, who has been serving on the resolutions committee in charge of recommendations on educational policy, will speak Friday morning to the college and university section. Her subject will be “Teacher-Training From the Standpoint of the Conservatory.” Miss Bicking will preside at the general session that afternoon. Mrs. Wagner will discuss “Problems of Piano Class Teaching” be-

fore a sectional gr ‘Thursday |}

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