Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1941 — Page 23

Capt. and Mrs. H. G. Thomas Miami, Fla, an- Miss Alice Jeanne Ratz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. nounce the marriage of their daughter, Betty, to W. A. Ratz, will be married to William H. Lynch in Robert A. Conly, which took place July 12. an early October service. (Randell photo.) and Robert Spurrier ushered.

.O.P. _ .-|Chloe Jackson Is Wed : 0 Women To Robert Ward A sevevtion af, She Fome of the nnounce

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ward are|mony. : Committees

at home at 4001 E. Washington St. Mrs. Ward was Miss Chloe Jack-| Gretchen Myers Wed in New York Committees for the year were announced yesterday by the Indian-

A wedding ceremony performed Sept. 3 united Miss Mary Evelyn St. Clair, daughter of Mr. and Miss Virginia Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. - Mrs. J. M. St. Clair, was married to Paul E. Tillett, Clyde Brown, and William Thomas. (Holland phoo.) son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tillett, Aug. 9.

Allen W. Kuhn, Miss McDonald To Be Married

The 20th wedding anniversary of

-1 man and Roy Wheasler, Anderson,

Society—

Propylaeum Clb Will See Films

Mrs. Lawrence Edwin Corlette was Miss Dorothy Louise Nikirk before her recent marriage. (Porter photo.)

The Bridal Scene—

son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Campbell, 3821

Fletcher Jackson, before her marriage Sept. 12. Mr. Ward is the E. 38th St., are in New York, where

son of Mr. and Mrs. Norval Ward.

"will talk on

At First Buffet Supper of Season

THE FIRST OF THE

monthly Sunday night buffet suppers will be held Oct. 5 at the Propylaeum. A feature of the evening will be a showing of pictures of Indiana parks and highways by Frank N. Wallace, State entomologist.

Another “first” of the season will be The Players’ opening performance on Nov. 1 at the Civic Theater, followed by the usual

dance at the Woodstock Club. Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Adams

for the first production, assisted by Messrs. and Mesdames Samuel Runnels Harrell, Howard J. Lacy II and Hugh Carpenter. officers this year are Raymond PF. Mead, president; Mrs. Ralph W. Boozer, vice president; Mrs. Harry V. Wade, secretary, and Ralph

Vonnegut, treasurer.

The Christamore Aid Society will begin its season’s activities with a luncheon meeting Oct. 14. Officers serving this year are Mrs.

William C. Griffith, president; Mrs.

Mrs. E. Havens Kahlo, secretary, and Mrs. William L. Fortune,

treasurer.

Mrs. J. Perry Meek's Team Leads in Theater Drive

: COMPETITION for individual sales records in the Civic Theater’s 27th annual membership drive grew keener as workers pushed their sales for the second report luncheon held toddy at the Spink

Arms Hotel: The divi

drive as the luncheon opened with

and Mrs. Fred Luker whose combined efforts have netted 30 per

cent of the division’s sales.

“Colonel” Helen Coffey, whose division was in third place at the last report meeting, is keeping her team in the running by selling 35 per cent of the division’s total of membemhips sold. The sales of the team captained by Miss Eldena Lauter have helped to maintain the strong lead of Mrs. Meek’s division. This team, composed of Mesdames R. F. Mead, George A. Smith and E. M. Sellers, Miss Sara Lauter and Wallace O, Lee, lacks only 10 per cent of doubling its required quota. The standings of the divisions as they were to report at the luncheon were: Mrs. Meek, first; Mrs. C. C. Robinson, second; Miss Coffey, third; C. Hollis Hull, fourth; Toner M. Overley, fifth, an

Mrs. William T. Finney, sixth, Junior League Provisionals to

THE 19 PROVISIONAL MEMBERS of the Junior League who, next Tuesday, will begin a training co teer service work include ‘Mesdames/John Carey Appel, Burford

Danner, William Fortune, Hen:y

Richard Lee, John S. Pearson Jr., Earl C. Randles, Edward L. VanRiper, Walton M. Wheeler Jr. and J. I. Cummings. Others are Misses Eliece Aiman, Mary Catherine Wright, Nancy Campbell, Anne Davis, Susan Gatch, Barbara Hickam, Judith Preston

and Janet Sinclair.

‘headed by Mrs, J. Perry Meek was still leading the

PROPYLAEUM CLUB'S

2 = 2

are chairmen of the committee

Club

Philip B. Reed, vice president;

individual honors going to Mr.

Begin Training

se of several week in volun-

Gibson, Paul W. Scheuring,

Clubs— oy Late Book Club Luncheon Will Be Tuesday at the Marott; LT.S.C. Chapters to Meet

A President’s Day observance

planned for early next week.

THE LATE BOOK CLUB will

at.12:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Marott Hotel. Charles W. Jones, general superintendent of the William H. Block Co. will talk on “Merchan-

dising Problems.” Mrs. Stowell C. Wasson is the new president and other officers are Mrs. Anne Borgman, first vice

. president; Mrs. Ernest S. Wheaton,

second vice president; Mrs. G. H. Deck, secretary; Mrs. E. Kirk McKinney, corresponding secretary; Mrs. M. L. Mendenhall, treasurer, and Mrs. A. C. Wills, historian. Mrs. Laura E. Ray has been appointed Seventh District, Indiana Federation of Clubs, delegate with Mrs. Fred Sanders as alternate. Mrs. Henry W. Ker will be Indianapolis Council of Women delegate with Mrs. Fred J, Brown as

- alternate, and Mrs. Wills will be

delegate to the Riley Hospital

: Cheer Guild, Armazinda Chapter.

Committees include Mrs. Harry A. Weaver Jr., chairman, with Mesdames W. W. McBeth, W. P. Hartz and T. R. Booth, program; Mrs. - Wheaton, chairman, with Mesdames C. J. Renard, William D. Vogel and

: McKinney, book; Mrs. C. V. Rule

and Mrs. C. J. Trapschuh, li-

brarians. Also Mrs. J. W, Beasley, chairman, and Mrs. Borgman, flower; Mrs. H. R. Davis, chairman, and Mrs. Ker, sick committee, and Mrs. Herbert Sawyer, chairman, Red Cross Sewing. . Hostesses Tuesday will be Mrs. E. A, Sheffield, chairman, with Mrs. Deck and Mrs. Mendenhall.

Mrs. Charles Blume, 2332 Coyner Ave., will entertain the DULCET CLUB at 1 p. m. Tuesday. Officers elected for the year are Mrs. Maurice Morgan, president;

Mrs. Fred McNeeley, vice president, and Mrs. J. R. Robertson, secretarytreasurer.

MAYFLOWER CHAPTER, IN-

- TERNATIONAL TRAVEL-STUDY

DLUB, will meet Tuesday at the jonis Tearoom with Mrs. Elmer aub and Mrs. Annah E. Core as Mrs. Petrache Velesscu “Panama.” Its first meeting of the season will by the VENETIAN C.

| Jesse Moore. Mrs. Dorsey King

is a highlight of club meetings

hold its President’s Day luncheon

Alfred Kahle and Mrs. S. T. Sutherland, will be hostess. Luncheon will be at 12:30 p. m. Mrs. John Thornburgh will lecture on “Panama.”

A luncheon will be held by ARABIAN CHAPTER; I. T.-S. C. at noon Tuesday in St. Matthews Parish House, 27 S. Ritter Ave. Mrs. Baxter McBane will speak on “Panama” and hostesses will be Mesdames W. A. Lyon, Alfred Sweetman and George K. Vestal.

A noon luncheon will be held Wednesday at the Colonial Tearoom by HAWAIIAN CHAPTER, I. T.-S. C., with Mrs. Oral Breedlove and Mrs. Claud A. Crum as hostesses. Appearing on the program will

be Miss Roberta Wallace, reader|

and pupil of Miss Grace Eaton, and Miss June Floyd, singer, accompaBled by her teacher, Virgil Phemer. :

Mrs. Tressa Kirk will entertain members of the ALENE VEY CLUB and their husbands with a “pitch in” dinner tomorrow night at her summer home on White River.

The T. O. P. S. CHAPTER, SUB- ;

DEB FEDERATION, held a slumber party recently at the home of Miss Betty Bruner. Attending were Misses

Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. McDonald, 1828 Sugar Grove Ave. will be marked today by the marriage of their daughter, Helen Louise, to Allen Walter Kuhn, son of Mrs. Adam W. Kuhn, 3150 N. Gladstone Ave. : : The ceremony will be at 8:15 p. m. in the Unity Methodist Church. The altar at which the Rev. J. Ray Stanton, pastor of the church, officiates will be decorated with an arrangement of palms, ferns and candelabra behind a bouquet of fall flowers. Miss Betty Ruth Roller, cousin of the bride, will sing, and Mrs. Edgar Roller, the bride’s aunt, will play. The bride, given in marriage by her father, will wear white satin with a fingertip’ veil banded with satin and caught with clusters of pearls: Her bouquet will be of white roses with a shower of ribbons knotted with sweetheart roses and adiantum. Miss Elnora M. Kuhn, her only attendant, will be in pale blue satin in full skirted style. In her hair she will wear Briarcliff roses matching those of her round bouquet. Alvin C. Wormus is to be best man. A reception at the home of the bride’s parents for the wedding party and the immediate families will follow the ceremony. The couple will be at home after Oct. 1 at 1325 Burdsal Parkway.

Omega Nu Tau Dance Is

This Evening

Several parties have been planned to attend the dance given by Lambda Chapter, Omega Nu Tau Sorority, tonight at the Southern Mansion. Ayars LaMarr’s orchestra will play for dancing from 9 p. m. tol a. m. : : Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cheesman will have as guests Messrs. and Mesdames William F. Ruscher, Vernon Radcliffe and E. O. Stark. In Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Paul's party will be Misses Mary and Harriett Tague and Elsie White, Robert Nickelson, John Shireman and Clifford Tague, With Mr. and Mrs. Landis Godwin will be Mr. and Mrs. Gene Green=wood, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Clancy, Miss Thelma Steele and Marshall Joyce. Mr. and Mrs, Roy Hill's guests will be Mr, and Mrs. Jack Jenkins and Mr. and Mrs. Major Moberly. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Holmes will be Messrs. and Mesdames Thomas Cisco, Herman Sparks and Paul Cowgill and Miss Mary Margaret Love. In Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Franck’s party will be Messrs. and Mesdames E. J. Kiser, William Green, John Sample, Ralph McIntyre and Frank Cobb of Terre Haute. > ; The committee in charge of reser vations included Mesdames Cheesman, Ruscher and Holmes,

To Visit Here

Mrs. W. I. Hoag and her daughter, Miss Carrie M. Hoag, 2627 W. Washington St., will have as their weekend house guests Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fling Jr., Peoria, Ill.; Richard A. Fling and Dr. Wayne Sutter, Tiskilwa, Ill.; Mrs. Naomi Newton, Wyoming, Ill, and Miss Elizabeth Sanders, Danville, Ill, After leaving Indianapolis the group will go to the Great Smoky Mountains before retu ome.

. Engaged

Mary Jean Funk, Marcia Hanison,| i

Charlotte Meyer, Thelma Pfaffen-

berger and Marie Ellen Trout.

Church Group Hears. :

Missionary ‘Miss Mary Irene Orvis, who has served as a missionary to Mexico, Argentina and Paraguay under the United Christian Missionary Society of the Disciples of Christ, spoke yesterday before the Women’s Christian Missionary Society of the Third Christian Church. : Devotions were conducted by Mrs.

as the

pretion’s first fall}

field, 4177 Ruckle St. :

uming| Detroit Convention

soon to become brides.

her mother, Mrs. I. Webster Riggins, will be Mesdames Palmer F. Padgett, Myron T. Watson, Lyman D. Eaton and Robert Hensell, Misses Mary Alice Free, Mary Alice Oval, Jean Seiglee, Eloise Welsh, Mary Matheson and Rosemary Shank. Miss Riggins is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Riggins, 5658 Central Ave., and Dr. McKinley's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Arthur ' D. McKinley, Muncie. The wedding wi be at 8:30 p. m. in the Broadway Methodist Church. 8 8 &

Mrs. Roy Gale and Mrs. John C. Utley will be hostesses Monday evening at a kitchen shower given in Mrs, Utley’s home, 3551 N. Capitol Ave. for Miss Jane Hamilton who is to be married to Ralph Ayres Schofield in a 3:30 p. m. ceremony, Sept. 28, in the Memorial Presby terian Church. + Miss Hamilton is the daughter of Mrs. Marguerite Hamilton, 5403 Broadway, and Mr. Schofleld’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Scho-

Guests at the shower, with Miss Hamilton, her mother and Mr. Schofield’s mother, will be Mrs. Christian Heitz, Mrs. Charles Hutchings, Misses Betty Armstrong, Margaret and Pauline Schofield,

Miss Elfrieda Niemeyer, who will be married to Carl J. Rieck tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. in the Priedens Evangelical ‘and Reformed Church, has announced members of the bridal party. : Miss Jean Rieck will be the maid of honor and bridesmaids will be Miss Mary Roche, Miss Marie Cook and Mrs. Chris Krohne. Robért Unversaw will be Mr. Rieck’s best man and ushers will include - Vernon Elbrecht, Louis Kemmerer, Oscar Rosenbaum, Syisiian Schlensker and Alvin Breob. : Mr. and Mrs. Chris Niemeyer, parents of the bride-to-be, will entertain tonight at Holly Hock Hill with a bridal dinner, : :

Honor guest at a crystal shower given recently by Miss Betty Pittman, 5671 Washington Blvd., was Miss Ann Marie Rice whose marriage to Ensign William David Bradley, U. S. N. R., will be Oct. 4 in Honolulu. ~The hostess was as-

S. Pittman. Mrs. John T. Ward, 5163 Broadway, was to entertain today with a miscellaneous shower for the bride-to-be and tomorrow Miss Rosemary Feil, 804 E. Maple Road, will entertain for her. Assisting Miss Feil will be her grandmother, Mrs. Peter Schwartz. : A bridge party was given yesterday by Miss Mary Ritchie for Miss Rice. The bride-to-be will leave Monday for Honolulu.

Accountants Attend

Mrs. Ida S. Broo has been nominated for the office of national president of the American Women's Society of Certified Public Accountants which is holding its convention in Detroit today through Sunday in joint session with the American Society of Women Accountants. Miss Thelma Houser is a nominee for national vice president of the Society of Women Accountants. : A large delegation of the Indianapolis Chapter of the Society of Women Accountants, headed by Mrs. Marguerite MeCoun, president, is. attending. Several of the members also are attending the American Institute of Accountancy also convening in Detroit. Among at ‘the : Walsh, ‘presiden: 3 tan Mrs. president of the Federation of Women’s Clubs, ‘and Bob Hall, the Rhyming Reporter.

P.-T. A. Has Supper

Parent-Teacher activities for new year were inaugurated

Mary Alice Brown Will Entertain Tonight for Helen Riggins; Shower to Honor Jane Hamilton

Showers and parties are claiming the attention of young women

Miss Helen Bough Riggins, whose marriage to Dr. A. David MecKinley will be Sept. 27, is to be honor guest tonight at a party given by Miss Mary Alice Brown at her home, 5652 Central Ave. Mrs. J. R. Abbott will pour. Other guests with the

sisted by her mother, Mrs. Frank|

.}at 3760 N. Pennsylvania St. For

At Warren Central

bride-to-be and

Present Day * Club Schedules Luncheon

President’s Day will be observed Monday by the Present Day Club with a 12:30 p. m. luncheon at the Meridian Hills Country Club. Officers to. be installed at the meeting are Mrs. A. L.. Thurston, president; Mrs. Parke A. Cooling, first vice president; Mrs. Hulbert J. Smith, second vice president; Mrs. O. H. Greist, secretary, and Mrs. John 8S. Lloyd, treasurer. Mrs. Thurston has appointed the following committees for. the club year: Mrs. C¢V. Sorenson, chairman, with Mesdames W. R. Foltz, Ira M. Holmes, Smith and J. R. Spalding, program; Mrs. Edgar J. Ellsworth, chairman, with Mesdames J. W. Atherton, A. C. Crandall, Rena Kittle and Charles Neff, social. - After the luncheon greetings will be extended by the president and a program will be presented by Mrs. Ethel Ellsworth Peck and Mrs. Ellsworth, with Mrs. Clark Griffith as accompanist.

La Pole-Burke Rite Is Tonight

Miss Jeanne Marjorie Burke will become the bride of Lester M. La Pole Jr., in a ceremony at 8 o'clock this evening at ‘the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Jones, 1309 N.’ Drexel Ave. The bridegroom: is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Stephenson, 842 N. Tecumseh Place. The Rev. Arthur L. Mahr, pastor of the —First United Lutheran Church, will perform the ceremony at an improvised altar of palms and white clematis. Roses will be used in decorations. ‘ Mrs. Stephenson will sing “O Promise Me” and the bride will be given in marriage by Mr. Jones. She will wear white satin with a full length veil and will carry white

roses. Her only attendant, Miss Dorothy Shanks, will carry roses with - her bouffant-style frock of apricot organza. Edward Ray Larrison will be best man. Mothers of the couple will weai rose corsages with their costumes— Mrs. Jones with a beige crepe and Mrs. Stephenson with green.

the bride’s parents, the couple will leave for a wedding trip to Chicago. They will be at home later

traveling the bride will wear a blue suit with wine accessories.

Y. W. Plans Class On

History of Costume

Mrs. Katherine Pierce again will be one of the instructors in the Adult Education Department of the Central Young Women’s Christian

Association. She will give a course in History of Costume on Monday

‘| Groninger, James Ogden and Grace

After a reception at the home of|

apolis Woman’s Republican Club at its opening fall meeting held in the Columbia Club. : - Officers are Mrs. Arthur R. Robinson, president; Mrs. Clarence R. Martin, first vice president; Mrs. Archie N. Bobbitt, second vice president; Miss Genevieve Brown, third vice president; Mrs. Glenn W. Funk, corresponding setretary; Mrs. Elmer Johnson, recording secretary; Mrs, Otto Klauss, treasurer, and Mrs. E. C. Rumpler, parliamen-

tarian. Committee appointments include: Program — Mrs. George Jeffrey, chairman, with Mesdames Taylor

Reynolds; publicity—Mrs. James W. Carr; houses—Mrs. Clarence Beach, chairman, with Mrs. Fred A. Sims. Auditing — Mrs. Leland K. Fishback, chairman, with Mrs. Joseph R. Tway and Mrs. Marjorie Roem=ler Kinnaird; membership. — Mrs. Gaylord M. Morton, chairman; with Mesdames James Given, John Bookwalter, Edson T. Wood, Walter T. White, Louis B. Berner, Max Norris and Charles E. New. Decoration — Mrs. Harper J. Ransburg, chairman, with Mrs. Arthur L, Gilliom and Mrs. Fred E. Shick; hostess — Mesdames Edward PF. Smith, Elias Atkins, Nellie Downey, Emsley Johnson Sr. E. J. Scoonover, Giles Smith, W. H. Swintz, George Wilson, Burrell Wright, C. D. Alexander, Robert Adams, Claude Behringer, Dan Hess, Dick James, Charles M. Dawson and James Tucker; tickets—Mrs. Lyman W. Thompson. Telephone—Mrs. Martha Sauley, chairman, with Mesdames Edwin Steers, Esther Horne, Maude Hobson, E. R. Reeves, James H. Drill, Frank Huse and Maude Smith; ways and means—Mesdames Walter Krull, Horace Coates, C. E. Kleder, James Bailey, Floyd Burns, William Kingdon, Ben Lieb, Wilbur Royse, Charles Shaw, Anna Blaine Selko, Adeline Toms and Frederick Payne. :

Mrs. H. J. MeDavitt Will Give Review Mrs. Howard J. McDavitt will review “The Sun Is My Undoing” (Marguerite Steen) for the Strassler Section, Memorial Presbyterian Church, at 8 p. m. today in the church, 1120 Carrollton Ave.

Tickets may be obtained at the door or through Mrs. Fred G. Eller-

they were to attend the wedding as noon today of their daughter, Miss Gretchen Myers, to .Arthur B&B, Wright of Chicago. 3 Mr. and Mrs. Wright will be at home temporarily in New York. He is a soloist with Sammy Kaye's ore chestra.

The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Roy E. Mueller in the Wallace Street Presbyterian Church. Miss Betty Keelen, cousin of the bride, was her maid of honor and

Miss Margie Akins, = bridesmaid. Roy Bryan was Mr. Ward's best

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