Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1941 — Page 5

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' SATURDAY, SEPT. 27,

Bride’s Great Uncle Will Read Service

Rose Dowd to Be Wed

To James R. Hiner

The bride’s great uncle, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis B. Dowd, will officiate at the wedding of Miss Rose Dowd to James Richard Hiner this afternoon. :

The immediate families will attend the candlelight ceremony at 5 o'clock in the home of the bride’s ‘mother, Mrs. Frank Dowd, 121 E. Maple Road. Mr. Hiner’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ward B. Hiner, 3040 N, Pennsylvania St. Miss Jeanne Sanford, harpist, will play for the service. The ceremony

will be read before an arrangement|

. of greenery at the living room fireplace. A background of ferns will he flanked by palms, gold seven-way candelabra and white chrysanthemums and pompons, The bride, entering alone, will “descend a stairway decorated with » greenery and white flowers. Her ¢ gown is of bridal white slipper, satin : fashioned with square neckline, long sleeves and a fitted midriff above a full skirt which forms a long train, A tiara of pearlized orange blossoms will hold her fingertip veil and she will carry a shower arrangement of white roses and gardenias.

Sister to Be Attendant

Her only attendant will be her sister, Miss Margaret Dowd. Her gown is of hickory velveteen with a scalloped and buttoned bodice, short scalloped sleeves, sweetheart neckline and a long full skirt. Her scalloped cap of matching velveteen will be worn in halo fashion and she will carry an arm bouquet of Talisman roses. Robert L. Hiner will serve as his brother’s best man and the bride's brothers, Frank, Joseph and Alfred Dowd, will be ushers. Mrs. Dowd, mother of the bride, will wear royal blue lame and Mrs. Hiner has chosen a navy sheer with matching accessories. Both will have gardenia corsages. After a small reception for the families, the couple will motor east on their wedding trip, the bride traveling in a deep brown costume suit with chartreuse jacket, brown accessories and a gardenia corsage. After Oct. 10, they will be at home here. The bride is a graduate of St. Mary’s-of-the-Woods College at Terre Haute.

Jane Hamilton, Ralph Schofield Wed Tomorrow

In a ceremony at 3:30 p. m. tomorrow jin .the Memorial Presbyterian Church, Miss Jane Hamilton will become the bride of Ralph Ayres Schofield. The Rev. W. Marcus Kendall, Greenfield, assisted by his father, the Rev. W. H. Kendall, will officiate. Ferns, palms, white gladioli and seven-branch candelabra will decorate the altar at which the ceremony is read and the family pews will be marked by white ribbons. Mrs. William Duthie, organist, will play the wedding music and Bernard Constable will sing “Calm As the Night” and “Through the Years.” : Miss Hamilton is the daughter of Mrs. Marguerite Hamilton, 5403 Broadway; and Harvey S. Hamilton, and Mr. Schofield is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Schofield, 4177 Ruckle St. The bride will enter on the arm of her father, wearing white slipper - satin with a square neckline of lace, long flowing sleeves with wide cuff bands of lace, a long bodice and a shirred skirt falling into a train. Her veil will be that worn by Mrs. Charles Hutchings, matron of honor, at her wedding. It is of illusion bound with white satin and has a tiara of seed pearls. Her bouquet will be of white chrysanthemums. Mrs. Hutching’s autumn blue frock has a long basque of velvet with sweetheart neckline and short sleeves while the full skirt is of faille taffeta. Her headdress will be a tiara of yellow chrysanthemums matching those of her bouquet. ‘ The bride’s niece, Donna Jean Hamilton, will be flower girl. She also will wear autumn blue, the taffeta frock made with lace in- - serts, and will carry a colonial bouquet of yellow chrysanthemums. Both attendants will wear tiny gold lockets given them by. the bride. Mr. Hutchings will act as best man. Norman Peine, Richard Peine, Virgil Magruder and William Hamilton, the bride’s brother, will be ushers. The bride’s mother will wear a chocolate brown dress with tucked bodice and skirt, brown accessories and a corsage of chrysanthemums. Mrs. Schofield also will wear chrysanthemums with her teal blue crepe and brown accessories.

Assist at Reception

The reception following the ceremony will be in the church parlors. Friends of the bride who will assist are Mrs. William Nail, Louisville; Miss Virginia Stringer, Mesdames William Hamilton, Magruder, Louis Ziffrin, Norman Peine and Richard Peine. After a short wedding trip the couple will live in Indianapolis. As her going-away costume the bride has chosen a gold rabbit's wool dress with brown accessories and a gardenia corsage. Out-of-town guests at the ceremony will be Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ralston, Nineveh; Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Vliet and Mr. and Mrs. George Bradtke Jr. Chicago; Mr. Nail, Louisville; Mr. and Mrs, William J. Schultz and Miss Gladys L. Schultz, Cincinnati; Messrs. and Mesdames Sam Schofield, Lowell Green, Rex Horn and L. H. Walter, Miss Eleanor Green, Miss Mary Jane Walter and Samuel Green, Washington, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Murray, Donald and Robert Murray, Wheatland: Mrs. Nellie Sette, Mr. and Mrs: James Lester, Miss Alice Seymour, and Morton Lester, Seymour; Mrs. Matilda Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn B. Lewis, Miss Cecil Quinn and Miss Olive Sanders, Bloomington; Roy Humbaugh, Plainville; Charles S. Biddle, Remington, and Mrs. A. s Russell-Lindsay, San Antonio, X. = Mrs. Hamilton will entertain this evening at the Sun Dial Tearoom with 8 bridal dinner before the wedding rehearsal. With the be-

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Osborn-Foster Service to Be

In Tipton

Times Special

TIPTON, Ind., Sept. 27.—The marriage of Miss Phyllis Foster, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Louis Foster of this city, to Richard Osborn, Indianapolis, will take place at 3 p. m. tomorrow in the Kemp Methodist Church here. Mr. Osborn is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Osborn, Winchester. Dr. C. B. Croxall will read the single ring service at an altar decorated with palms and ferns backed by a white lattice covered with huckleberry foliage. Five large white baskets filled with white gladioli and chrysanthemums and two sev-en-branch candelabra will stand at the altar while the family pews will be marked with white ribbons, greenery and white asters. A 30-minute program of organ music will be played by Mrs. W. D. Mayne before the ceremony. Included will be the Theta Prayer and Sweetheart songs, “At Dawning,” “Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms” and Schubert’s “Serenade.” E. H. John, Bellevue, O., will sing a group of songs, “The Sweetest

.| Story Ever Told,” “Beloved It Is

Morn” and “Because.” Bride’s Attendants The bride’s attendants will be Mrs. Warner Paige Jr., Terre Haute, matron of honor; Miss Jeanne Wills, Indianapolis, and Miss Betty Adau, bridesmaids, and Claudette Ramsey, a cousin of the bride, junior bridesmaid. Blue slipper satin will form the matron’s of honor and bridesmaids’ gowns. The frocks have square necklines, short sleeves, lace insertion in the skirts and fitted bodices of the lace. They will wear Juliet caps with halo veils of blue illusion and will carry pink roses tied with wide pink satin bows. The junior bridesmaid will wear the same shade of blue in illusion over satin, made with a bouffant skirt, puffed sleeves and a sweetheart neckline. Tiny shell pink velvet bows trim the bodice front and a wider pink velvet bow at the waist has streamers. Dr. Foster will give his daughter in marriage. She will wear white satin fashioned with sweetheart neckline, long sleeves, full at the shoulders, a back yoke -and midriff of lace and lace inserts through the train, A tiara of seed pearls will hold her full-length veil of illusion with lace inserts. Her bouquet of white bride’s roses will have white satin streamers. ? : Donald Osborn Jr. Dayton, O. and James Osborn, Winchester, brothers of the bridegroom, will be attendants with Jack Ramsay, cousin of the bride, and Robert Peoples, Princeton. : Reception Follows The bride’s mother will wear an ensemble of romance blue and navy with a matching hat trimmed with silver. Mrs, Osborn’s navy gown will be worn with matching accessories. Both will wear pink rose corsages. A reception will be held at the home of the bride following the ceremony. Assistants will be Mrs. A. R. Ketcham, Detrojt; Mrs. Ralph Rieberger, Cincinnati Mesdames W. A. Compton, Ernest Rosenthal and Denjil Burton and Miss Fritz Nicholson. As she leaves for a motor trip through the Great Smoky Mountains, the bride will wear a cos-

trothed couple guests will be the|tume suit of

’| president, will preside.

First Friends Church to Sponsor Book Reviews to Benefit

War Relief Work Abroad

“They are nice, those Americans, to stint themselves for our sake.”

after having eaten a meal of good

The meal was one supplied through the school canteens maintained in unoccupied France by the American Friends Service Committee. The Committee again this winter will carry on its program of caring for children, offering refugee services and aiding in rehabilitation of

French and refugee families. Gathered into Quaker Colonies,

. children are given complete care,

including food, clothing, education, and, most important, a home. More than 50,000 children in 400 schools will receive supplementary rations for the mid-day meal. The supplies—rice, cocoa, sugar, dried vegetables — supplement the soup provided by the local committees and are a bulwark against inadequate rations at home. The American Friends Service Committee has a staff of 56 workers in France. Goods purchased go directly into Committee warehouses and are distributed by these accrediteds ‘workers directly to the needy and under adequate American supervision. In recent months, vitamins have been distributed to 180,000 children over a period of weeks and under medical supervision. The Committee hopes that additional vitamins may be sent this winter. As its contribution to the Committee, the Women of the First Friends Church here will present a series of book reviews this season by Mrs. Kathryn Turney Garten. The entire proceeds will go to the American Friends Service Committee. ” The first of the reviews will be at 8 p. m, Oct. 7, in Caleb Mills] Hall at Shortridge High School. Subsequent reviews, at the same hour and place, will be on Nov. 4, Feb. 3 and March 3. The reviews presented in the series will be the only night programs at which Mrs. Garten is scheduled to speak this year.

Needlework | Guild Meets Wednesday

The state conference of the Indiana branches of the Needlework Guild of America will be held Wednesday at the First. Friends Church, 1241 N. Alabama St. The morning session will open at 11 o'clock. ' Luncheon will be served at 12:30 p. m. followed by an afternoon session. Mrs. Robert P. Cordiner, president of the Ft. Wayne branch, and Mrs.

R. Hartley Sherwood, president of the Indianapolis branch, will give reports of the national meeting. * Miss Josephine Brown of the Public Health Nursing Association will speak on “The P. H. N. A. in Relation to the Guild” at the afternoon session. Mrs. Oscar L. Pond will preside. She will be assisted by the following committees: Mesdames Lyman B, Whitaker, Malcolm Moore, John R. Sentney and H. A. Baker, hospitality; Mrs. T. S. Kuhn and Mrs. Mark W. Pangborn, registration; Mrs. George B. Elliott and Mrs. Lyman R. Pearson, exhibits; and Mrs. Cecil K. Calvert and’ Mrs. Charles. A Reeve, luncheon. Reservations for the luncheon must be made with Mrs. Pangborn by Monday. The meetings are open to the public.

Child and His Friends Is Subject of Talk

“A Child and His Friends” will be the discussion subject led sby Mrs. Norman A. Geyer before the Mothers’ Club of the 49th Street

Kindergarten of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society when it

the kindergarten. Mrs. Harold C. Ochsner, new Other new officers are Mrs. J. Howard Alltop, vice president; Mrs. Eugene J. McGarvey Jr. recording secretary; Mrs. James D. Strickland, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. John C. Miller, treasurer.

R. A. F. Member Will

Address Forum

A member of Great Britain's Royal Air Force who has flown bombers in the present European war will be the speaker before the Adult Forum of All Souls Unitarian Church tomorrow morning. He is'D. E. Smitl: and his talk will be at 10 o'clock €entral Standard Time.

Schedule Tea will

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be. held at 2:30 p. !

meets at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at|

A tea and “get acquainted” meet-| §

J. O'Donnell. (Kindred Photo.)

Mrs. T. C. King of Anniston, Ala.

Paul C. Carpenter. Mr. Carpenter (Photo-Reflex Photo.)

Couple to Take Wedding Trip To Chicago

ton Ave. will become the bride of

Clyde Foster McClain at 8 o'clock this evening in the Irvington Methodist Church. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ambrose Waltman of Long Beach, Cal.,, and Honolulu, Hawaii, and Mr. McClain is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. McClain, 40 N. Brookville Road. The Rev. E. L. Hutchens will read the service and Robert Burford, organist, will play. Robert O. McClain, who is to be his brothers best man, also will sing several bridal airs before the service. The bride will wear a bittersweet costume , suit, trimmed with blue fox, with black accessories, and will carry an orchid corsage. Her uncle, V. C. Waltman, will give her in marriage. She will be attended by Mrs. Thomas Arrall Theard, matron of honor, and Miss Louise Klinge and Miss Rose Hawkins, bridesmaids. They will wear lightweight wool dresses in blending shades of beige, beige-gold and gold. Ushers will include Robert Amick and Howard E. Armstrong. Following the service, a reception will be held at the home of the bridegroom’s parents after which the couple will leave on a short wedding trip to Chicago. They will be at home Oct. 11 at 4317 E. Washington. Out->f-town guests who will attend the wedding are Turner Powers, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. McClain and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Foster of Ladoga; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sigler and Mrs. Elizabeth Tribby, Yorktown; Mr. and Mrs. George Hummel and daughter, Mary, and Robert Bensing of Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. O. J. Bruce, Crown Point; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wesley, Towanda, Ill, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bruce, Crawfordsville.

Alpha Zeta Betas Install Officers

The new officers of Alpha Upsilon Chapter of Alpha Zeta Beta Sorority were installed recently following a dinner meeting at the Canary Cottage. The new officers are: Mrs. Patrick Shannahan, president; Mrs. Lawrence Fulmer, vice president; Mrs. Edwin Hughes, treasurer; Miss Pauline Mann, -corresponding secretary; Miss Ann Pfortner, recording secretary; Mrs. Harry D. Thompson, marshall; Mrs. H. Kenneth Whitsett, guard, and Miss Margaret. Salladay, Opheleo-editor. Plans for a steak fry Oct. 11 at the home of Miss Salladay for members and guests were discussed.

Note Anniversary

The 25th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Guerrini will be celebrated tomorrow with a reception at their home, 924 N. Graham.

1. Mrs. Helen Lampke announces the engagement of her davghter, Lorayne, to John Francis O’Donnell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Terrence

2. Wedding bells will ring the first of the year for the couple pictured above: Miss Joan Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton * Taylor, and her fiance, Dr. Thomas Cobb King Jr., son of Mr. and

Miss Taylor attended John Herron

Art Institute. Dr. King attended Darlington Prep School, Rome, Ga., . and was graduated from the University of Virginia, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic fraternity. 3. Mr. and Mrs. Russell S. Bosart announce the engagement of their daughter, Peggy, to Walter N. Carpenter II, son of Mr. and Mrs.

(Hibben Photo.)

is stationed at Camp Shelby, Miss.

Co-ed Dance Tonight AtY W.C A.

The Co-Ed Dance Committee of the Y. W. C. A. has invited all young men and women to be their guests at the first dance of the ‘season tonight from 8 to 12 p. m. Throughout the winter these dances will be held on alternate Saturday nights under the direction of the Co-Ed Dance Committee. Miss Thelma E. Alfcrd is chairman. Other members are Bill Lull, Chuck Haley and Harold Williams, and the Misses Cecelia Bastian, Virginia Creamer and Alberta Watz. Miss Lillian Preston and Miss Florence Morris of the Health Education Department of the ¥Y. W. C. A. are advisers.

Jane Johnson To Be Married This Afternoon

The marriage of Miss Jane Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Johnson, 5530 E. Michigan St., to Theodore G. Steinkamp, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Steinkamp, 6205 E. Maple Road, was to take place at 2:30 p. m. today in North Methodist Church with Dr, C. A. McPheeters officiating. Mrs. J. Russell Paxton, organist,

was to play. As she entered with her father, the bride was to wear a princess style white satin with a fingertip veil. Her bouquet of roses and gardenias was to have a shower of sweetheart roses. Her attendants, Misses Jane Howe, Mary Edith Lawson, Dorothy Mae Jones and Ruth Campbell, were to be in bouffant style satin frocks of pink and blue and were to carry colonial bouquets of pink and blue flowers. Raymond Bowman, Anderson, was to be best man and ushers were to be Stephen Wood, Kokomo, Thomas Henry and Fred Quaite. A reception was to be held at the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority House at Butler University. The couple will leave for a wedding trip to the Great Smoky Mountains, the bride traveling in a black crepe dress worn with a cream coat collared with white wolf, and black accessories, They will be at home after Oct. 15 at 4815 E, Washington St. The bride attended Butler University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority and Mr. Steinkamp attended the Indianapolis College of Pharmacy.

Club to Hear Talk on ‘The Good Old Days’

Mrs. Richard Fielding will speak on “The Good Old Days” at the guest day tea of the Tuesday Afternoon Study Club when it meets next Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Hanly Blackburn, 5402 N. Capitol Ave. Mrs. Everett Van Matre and Mrs. R. M. Hiatt will be assistant hostesses,

Mrs. Max Seltenright was Miss Mary Jane Bachelder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Bachelder, before her marriage Sept. 13. Mr. and Mrs, Seltenright are at home in South Bend.

Wed in Recent Ceremony

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Sororities—

At Mrs. Robert

Mrs. Forrest L. Watson, 2035 Dexter St., has been elected first alternate from RHO CHAPTER of SIGMA BETA SORORITY to attend the national convention, Oct. 11 and 12, at the Netherlands Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati. Mrs. Watson will be guest of honor tomorrow evening at -a party given by Mrs. Gene Adams, 2751 Central Ave.

Presentation of jewel pins was made last night when GAMMA ALPHA SORORITY met for dinner in the Pine Room of the Canary Cottage.

UPSILON CHAPTER of SIGMA PHI GAMMA SORORITY will open its fall season tonight with a guest party at the home of Mrs.

In charge of the party is Miss Gertrude Wachs, chairman, Miss Betty Lou Harrison, Miss Betty Kelly and Mrs. Carlotte.

Mrs. Jack Lowe, 5840 N. New Jersey St. the president, will en-

- | tertain the ALPHA PHI ALUMNAE

CHAPTER at 7 p. m. Monday. She will be assisted by the Mesdames Robert Horn, Merrill Esterline and W. W. Summers. Other new officers of the group who will take over their duties are Mrs. Ray Northway, vice president; Mrs. Lowe, secretary; Mrs. Arthur Dixon, treasurer, and Mrs. Wendell P. Coler, quarterly correspondent. Mrs. Charles Josey is Panhellenic representative with Miss Halcyon Mendenhall, Chairman of the program committee for the year is Mrs. Edgar F. Diederich; publicity, Mrs. J, Mason King; telephone, Mrs. Robert Seastrom and Mrs. Merrill Esterline, and ways and means, Mrs, Horn. Under the chairmanship of Mrs. Burton Beck the group will continue its Red Cross and war relief work this winter. Mrs. James Ruddell will supervise the sewing and Mrs. John H. Clymer, the knitting. The Alpha Phi International] War Work Project, which is sponsored by the Canadian chapters of the group, will be carried on by this group under the leadership of Mrs. Richard J. Boatman. At this meeting and at all other meetings this winter members will bring needles and wool to knit squares for the afghans that Alpha Phi nationally contributes to British relief. The local philanthropic work of the ‘group at the South Side Social Center will be discussed under the leadership of Mrs. Coler, chairman. Mrs. King, treasurer of the Alpha Phi Chapter House Committee at DePauw University, will report on the financial progress of that committee during the last twelve months. A digest of the chapter activities and results of rush week will also be presented.

DELTA CHAPTER OF PSI IOTA XI will have its annual autumn guest bridge at the home of Mrs. Robert M. Stith, 3755 Washington Blvd, at 8 p. m. Monday. Mrs. Robert E. Gray, chairman, will be assisted by Mesdames Robert H. Seward, Charles Clamer and Robert W. Nelson.’ 2 Mrs. Stith, the chapter's president, has named the following committees for the season. They include Miss Mildred Bacon, program; Mrs. N. B. Tichenor, charity; Mrs. Robert W. Nelson, assistant charity chairman; Ms. Harry Reisser, ways and means, aided by Mesdames Robert E. Gray, Charles B. Wylie and William I. Coons; Mrs. Tichenor, Symphony tickets, and Mrs. Gray, telephone, assisted by Mrs, Hatsel Harris and Miss Marie Barton.

The INDIANAPOLIS ALUMNAE CHAPTER OF PI LAMBDA THETA, honorary educational organization, was to be entertained at a tea in the home of Mrs. P. R. Hightower, 344 Blue Ridge Road, this afternoon. She was to be assisted by Mrs. G: W. Barker and Miss Mary Ronk. Reports of the recent biennial council meeting at Excelsior Springs,

|Mo., were to be made by the Misses

Ronk, Maude Dome, Freda Herbst, Gladys Teel, Hightower; Eller and Barker Miss Byrl McClure is presient. Out-of-town members who were to attend include Miss Teel and Miss Frances Kinsley, Greenfield; Miss Essie Hallowell and Miss Ruth Dickinson, Pendleton; Miss Mary Kline, Peru, and Miss Lutie Young, Plainfield.

OMICRON CHAPTER OF OMEGA NU TAU will install officers Wednesday night at the home of Mrs. Donna Montgomery. . Mrs. Vera Cook, the outgoing president, will install Miss Clara Wilhelm, president; Miss Maralou Baer, vice president; Mrs. Helen

|Suhre, representative; Mrs. Kath-|Minn

retary; Mrs. Vera Cook, Miss Kitty Foutty,

alternate.

Psi Iota Xi to Have Guest Bridge

Stith’s Home;

Alpha Phis Meet Monday

Among sorority activities for the coming week are a guest bridge of Psi Iota Xi and the opening fall meeting of Alpha Phi.

Larry Carlotte, 3450 N. Capitol Ave. |S

Mrs. Watson

geant at arms, and Mrs. J. H. Kaylor, historian,

The hostess chapter for the 14th annual national convention of the RHO DELTA SORORITY will be the Epsilon Chapter of In(dianapolis. The convention will be at the Spink Arms Hotel next Thursday and Friday. Assisting with arrangements are Miss Edna Ingmire, chairman of the reception committee; Miss Dorothy Thompson, president of the chapter, and Miss Alliene Thompson, publicity chairman and editor of the Rho Delta yearbook. Convention activities will begin with registration in the north lobby of the hotel at 7 p. m. Guest of honor at the dinner at 8 o'clock will be Mrs. Henry Luedeman, national Rho Delta sorority mother, who was instrumental in organizing the first chapter. Mrs. Rudolph Stempley will be toastmaster. Bill Hart's orchestra will play for dancing in the ballroom at 10 o'clock. : Friday morning brunch will be served at 11 o'clock in the Valencia Room, followed by a business meeting and election of officers. Installation of officers at 3 p. m. will be followed by a tea. Mrs. Robert Drew and Miss Beechie Kunkle will pour. Miss Evelyn Sue Brothers, accordionist, will play. Rho Delta Sorority was first organized in 1927. In 1936 it became national] with the Alpha, Beta, Delta and Gamma Chapters. Since then: Alpha Alpha, Epsilon and Sigma Chapters have been added. Charter members who will attend this convention are Miss Schumaker, Mrs. James Kersey and Mrs. Merle Denny.

Shower Is Given For Helen McKay

Mrs. Harvey McKay and Mrs. Bryant Crump were hostesses at a miscellaneous shower recently for Miss Helen McKay, who will: be married tonight at 8 p. m. to James Gilliam at the home of Rev. Joseph R. Flannigan. : Guests included Mesdames Benjamin Sublett, John Hampe, Ralph Goode, Lynn Everett, Violet Garsnett, Alvin Nye, Nettie Backus, Dean Robinson, John Kantner, Marvin Roberts, William Spaulding, Elmer Florian, Blanche Taylor, John Cox, Valley Strafford, Helen Mitchell, Mary Leslie, Arthur Kimber, Irwin McKay, Thersa McKay ad Wiliam Hafer and Miss Irene unt.

Map Sorority

Convention

Mrs. J. R. Sentney, grand president of Alpha Omicron Alpha Sorority; Mrs. Charles Kuhlman, treasurer; Mrs. Charles Bowes and Mrs. J. W. Hill were in Cleveland, O., yesterday to install Alpha Theta chapter of the sorority. Mrs. H. E. Turley of Cleveland, Ohio State chairman, took part in the ceremony. The new chapter will send delegates to the national convention at the Hotel Lincoln, Oct. 10-12. Mrs. J. R. Robertson is chairman for a smorgasbord and informal party Oct. 10, opening convention event. Mrs. Henning Johnson and Mrs. Robert Richey will assist her. Business sessions will be held all day Saturday when the chapters will report on their varied philanthropic activities. At the Saturday luncheon, short talks will be made by Mrs. Timothy Baldwin, Chicago; Mrs. Clarence W. Bylund and Mrs. G. F. Kielhack of Minneapolis, Minn. ; Mrs. Arthur 'J.gStahr of St. Paul, .; Mrs. Fred J, Smith of

Muncie; Mrs. Charles Harris of Co-

lumbus and Mrs.

PAGE § Helen Riggins To Be Wed to Dr. McKinley

Reception to Follow at Riggins’ Home

Dr. John ¥. Edwards, pastor of the Broadway Methodist Church, will officiate at the 8:30 p. m. cere= mony today in the church uniting Miss Helen Bough Riggins and Dr. A. David McKinley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. McKinley, Muncie, The bride’s parents are Dr. and Mrs, I. Webster Riggins, 5658 Cens

tral Ave. Before the ceremony, Mrs. John English, organist, will play a proe gram of bridal airs including “Ich Liebe Dich,” “The Bells of St, Mary’s,” “To a Wild Rose,” “O Promise Me” and “The Sweetest Story Ever Told” as well as the wedding marches. Ralph Coble will sing “At Dawning,” “I Love You Truly” and “Because.” Decorations at the altar will be palms, two seven-way candelabra holding white tapers and two bas= kets of white gladioli and chryse anthemums. : Ad The bride’s attendants will wear pale blue velveteen gowns with long, full skirts, short, puffed sleeves, square necklines and tight bodices, They will have silver slippers and double strands of pearls given them by the bride. Mrs. Charles F. Bredehoeft, St, Louis, her cousin's matron of honor, will carry American Beauty roses and the bridesmaids, Miss Rebecca E. McKinley, Mishawaka, sister of the bridegroom, and Mrs..Palmer F., Padgett, will carry pale pink roses, Flowers in the attendants’ hair will match those of their bouquets, Given in marriage by her father, the bride will wear white satin with long, tight sleeves, a square neck« line edged in lace and a waistling fitted with an insert of. the lace, The bodice of the frock buttons down the back to a low waistline and the long full skirt extends into a train with lace inserts. i Her fingertip tulle veil will fall from a crown of pearlized orange blossoms and she will wear a dou= ble strand of pearls given her by the bridegroom. Her bouquet of white roses and gardenias will be tied with a bow and streamers of white tulle. :

Cousin to Usher

William. H. Minor, Muncie, will ba best man and the ushers will be G, William Doolittle, Ann Arbor, Mich., cousin of the bridegroom, and Dr, Veris F. McFall, Alexandria. Mrs. Riggins, the bride's moher,

lilac lace with a chiffon skirt. Mrs, McKinley's black transparent velvet also will be worn with tearoses.’

tion at the home of the bride’s pare ents following the ceremony. Miss Mary Spalding, harpist, will pldy, Assistants, Misses Eloise Welsh, Mary Alice Brown and Mary Alice Free, will be in pastel frocks. ; For a wedding trip southeast, the bride will wear a black wool jersey with scarlet blouse and jacket,

black ae and a gardenia

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corsage. home after Oct. 15 at 4905 W, 15th St., Apartment 1. id Guests here for the ceremony ine clude Mr. Bredehoeft and family, and Mr. and Mrs, Dallas Myers, St. Louis; Mr. and Mrs. H W, Clack and son James, Ft. Wayne; Mr, and Mrs. E. G. Decker and Mr. and Mrs. Ottis Fisher, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Logan Dant, Loogootee; Mr. and Mrs. George William

ter, Virginia, Saginaw, Mich.; Capt, and Mrs. Kenneth P. Burns, Des troit; Mr. and Mrs. George Ware necke, Bensenville, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Jess Morgan, Linton; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Riggins, Odin; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Combs, Bloomfield, and Dr. and Mrs. Martin L. Harshman, Colfax. Miss Riggins is a graduate of Butler University where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority and Phi Kappa Phi and Kappa Delta Pi honorary organizations. Dr. McKinely was graduated from the Indiana University Senool of Medicine and is a member of pal Rho Sigma Medical Fraterne Ye 5

Church News-— a To Hear Talk: On Alaska =

Luncheons, dinner meetings and guest days are planned by the women’s societies of several Ine © dianapolis churches. . “My Trip to Alaska” will be the subject of an illustrated lecture by Mrs. Grace Michael, : KING'S DAUGHTERS CIRCLE OF THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH meets next Friday af 7:45 p. m. for a dinner meeting. CE Hostesses will be Mesdames Wale ter Bass, June Thomas, John Hi ir H. L. Ayres and Charles B. Dyer, Miss Blanche Maine and Miss Kelsey Stone.

Clarence A. Jackson, Indiana State Civilian Defense director ahd executive vice president of the Ine diana State Chamber of Commerce, will be the guest speaker for the afternoon meeting of the WOMAN’ SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN SERV ICE OF THE IRVINGTON METHODIST CHURCH next Thursday. ; Rev. Robert E. Andry of the Downey Avenue Christian Church will lead devotions and Bob . Clain will sing, accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Clyde McClain. ; At 10 o'clock the executive board will meet, with a general business meeting of all departments at a. m. A guest luncheon will be served at 12:30 p. m. at which time presidents of the women’s organ izations of the sister churches of Irvington will be honored. Lunch= eon hostess is Mrs. Solly Schubach Circle 4. J The afternoon meeting will eo vene at 1:30 p. m. Mrs, Samuel is president of the society.

The annual guest day meeting the WOMEN'S MISSIONARY CIETY OF THE GETHSEM LUTH CHURCH, E. Michig and N. Wallace St., will be Wednesday. Mrs. Morton will speak on “Our World Tod What's Wrong”? A coveredluncheon will be served in # church parlors at noon, Mrs, | tha Dost Russell will present 4 song accompanied

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will wear tearoses with a gown of ]

Ninety guests will attend a recepe

e couple will be .at i

Doolittle Sr. and daughter, Miss Carolyn Doolittle, Cleveland; Mr, and Mrs. Walter Burns and daughe

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