Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1949 — Page 19

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sta : NOBLESVILLE, Inds May 6— Miss Elizabeth Ann McMahon and George M. Wolverton will be married at 8 p. m, today in the First Methodist Church here. The Rev. Wallace Deyo of the Noblesville church and the Rev, Lewis Douglass, Ripon, Wis, brother-in-law

3 : of the bride, pastor of the Ripon Mrs, A. J, Verplank To Address State {The brides the daughier of , Day Event For Delta Zeta Members Noblesvile, and Mr. Wolverton 18 Mrs. A. J. Verplank, Crown Point, will be the guest |the son of Mr. and Mra. Clatr speaker at the 32d annual state day luncheon for the mem- dsr 3907 Farcline, AVR, bers of the Delta Zeta Sorority. The event will be May 14

in the Travertine Room of the Hotel Lincoln.

The speaker is editor of the Lake County Star and ane also edits the Lamp, the. national magazine of the sorority. Mrs. Verplank is chairman of the National Panhellenic Editors Conference and a member of Theta Sigma Phi, national journalism sorority. Honor guests at the luncheon are to be Mrs, A. J, Hayes and Mrs. J. M. Coleman, founders; Miss Irene Bougton, national executive secretary; Miss Pearl Bartley, Connersville, province director, and the presidents of the three active chapters in the state, Miss Colleen White, DePauw; Miss Phylis Stewart, Indiana, and Miss Jean Baldus, Franklin, , ? Miss Jean Johnston will preside at the luncheon. Mrs. Harold K. Harding, program chairman, and Mrs. Kenneth E. Lemons, Clubs— president of the Indianapolis Pan-|

Rellenic Association, will also be WwW If Cl b ‘atthe speaker's table, Awards eirare u for scholarship and activities wi $ be presented. Miss Frances E. S M Westcott, past national president, ets ee Ing Will give the awards, Luncheon Event

Members of the acfive chapters will present a skit. There will bel Planned Monday The Welfare Club will meet at

a dance that night in the Travertine Room. Miss Ellen Kroll is

Mrs. Albert Hedrick and her grandson, Robert Hedrick, like to

tened to Story's political discussions for two generations. The bench was installed by the store's previous awner, who "fetched" it out of his old Dodge, the first automobile in Brown County,

By RUTH- ANN HAMILTON THERE'S A good Hoosier story down in the tiny Brown County hamlet of Story, Ind. {population 11), It's the story of a real old-

tramp the wool down when we packed it,” he grins. “It was easy to get them to help, because the oil in the wool softened up their tough leather shoes.”

chairman. Other committee heads are Mrs, Cortland V. Carrington, decorations; Miss Mary’ Elizabeth thumma, program; Mrs. Robert) Platte, arrangements; Mrs,! Thomas E. Grinslade; hospitality, Miss Charlyn F. Murray, reservations, and Mrs. Helen H. Furman, publicity. \

Officers Named

New officers of the Indianapofis Alumnae Club, Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority, will be installed Monday night at a meeting in the home of Mrs. Earl Conway, 4805 N. Illinois St. Plans will be discussed for a picnic in June, Delegates to the national convention to be held in Roanoke, Va. will be named: They are Mrs. John Swan, province vice president, and Mrs. Lytle Freehafter, president. The officers to be installed include Mrs. Freehafter, president; Mrs. L. C. Peterson, vice presi. dent; Miss Helen Noble, secretary; Mrs. William J. Shive, treasurer, and Mrs. E. Leo Smith, Pan Hellenic representative.

‘ The Indianapolis Alumnae Club of Alpha Delta Pi’ Sorority will have a founders day dinner at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday in the Can*ary Cottage. Mrs. Herbert C. Lorenzen will speak ‘and Misses Ruth Goodlet, Lois Brenn, Frances Eickhoff and Ruth. and Alice McNally will present a skit. Mrs. Frank Owings will install the new officers. They are Miss Eickhoff, president; Miss Alice Jones, vice president; Miss Helen Adoyla and Mrs. Edward Vaughan, wcorresponding and recording secretarJes; Miss Paulie Rathert, treasurer, and Mrs. Paul Butt and Mrs, Thomas McGuffey, Pan Hellenic delegate and alternate. Mrs. Vaughan is chairman of decorations for -the dinner and Mrs. Richard Aikman is in charge of reservations.

The annual luncheon meeting of the Epsilon Sigma Omicron Sorority will be held at 12:15 p. m. May 14 in the Hotel Claypool. Mrs. W. D. Keenan will preside. Mrs. Cogley G. Cole, president of the Indiana Federation of Clubs, will speak. “Glimpses of

{Street Branch of the Merchants {National Bank.

12:30 p, m. Monday in the 38th

Hostesses * for the luncheon are the Mesdames B. Lynn Adams, George H.' Kistier, J. E. Pohlman, Russell Fuller, Raymond Thorpe, Edmond Wyatt and. Floyd Schorn. Plans will be made for the June garden party in the home of Mrs. E, E, Martin, Wynnedale Road. Women from .the home for the aged will be guests of honor. oe At Monday's meeting the club will welcome two new members, Mrs. George Shank Jr. and Mrs. Lowell Fisher,

The annual birthday breakfast of the Delta Gamma Mothers Club 6f Butler University is set for 10 o'clock Tussday morning in the chapter house. Presentation of candidates and -election of officers will follow the breakfast. Mrs. Locke Bracken is chairman for the affair, assisted by Mrs. B. H. Bowles and Mrs. Clarence P, Bernhart. Mrs. E. C. Sanders is in charge of entertainment. . :

The Fall Creek Kindergarten Mothers Club will attend the “S’'prize Party” at radio station WIRE Tuesday morning. After the progtrafn, the group will meet for luncheon at 1 p. m. in the Warren Hotel. There will be a short business meeting.

A talk on civic and social problems in Latin-American countries will highlight the meeting: of the Indianhpolis Business and Professional Women’s Club at 8 p. m. Thursday in the Women’s Department Club, : Miss Mary Cowger, outgoing president of the organization, has beén elected to the post of district director. She succeeds Miss

Blanche Penrod. The Bridal Scene—

Late Spring Activities Are Crowding Calendars of Indianapolis Brides-to-Be

fashioned general store that's been serving Brown County folks for more than a century with everything from patent medicines to buggy harness. Now owned by the Hedrick family of Story, the forerunner of Indianapolis’ modern department stores was built a hundred or more years ago by “ol’ Doe , Story,” for whom the town was named. As far as anyone can remember, Doc 8tory’s original emporjum was a one-room affair about 20 by 60 feet, backed up against the rolling hills of what is now the southern rim of ‘Brown County State Park.

Wings Added

Subsequent owners added a wing here and a wing there to accomodate the store's growing department business as the 19th century drew to a close. Among them were Philip King, ancestor of the Indianapolis warehousing family, and Alra Wheeler, who bought the first automobile in Brown County from a traveling salesman. A retired Nashville man, Tom Ayres, probably recalls more about the store’s history than anyone else. As & school teacher in Story at the turn of the century, he worked during the summer holidays as a clerk in the store, which was then owned by Mr. Wheeler. “We did more business then,” he recounts, “than the whole town of Nashville—sometimes as much as $400 worth a day. We sold two carloads of wagons a year, and we were the wool-buying center for the whole country. : Mr. Ayres recalls the seasons when folks from all over Brown County drove their wagonloads of wool to the store for sale.; Mr. Wheeler, in turn, packed it up and hauled it to the woolen mills at Seymour, Ind. “I used to let the schoolboys

Fire Destroys Store

End of an era for the general store came in 1918, when a flue fire burned it to the ground. | Mr. Wheeler built the store up ‘again and sold it to a combination known as Mdrrison and Kelly. Twenty-five years ago the store changed hands again when it was bought by the late Albert Hedrick and his son, Ralph Hedrick. Many of the items in stock today—pleces of old buggy harness, shoes antedating the first World War and coal ofl lamps—were on the shelves when the Hedricks bought the store. Today the principal 8 behind the counters are Ses dies in sunbonnets and calico. They're Story’s leading business women, 79-year-old Mrs. Albert Hedrick and her daughter, Miss Clothe Hedrick. The “general merchandise” sign out in front means just what it says, for the stock list includes groceries, eandy, feed, drugs and medicines for humans and livestock, hardware, dry goods, shoes, harness, 1ingerie, rugs, ready-to-wear, dishes, tobacco, gas and ofl, garden implements, ice cream and soft drinks, oll lamps, shoe strings, fly paper, shotgun shells, rat killer and fish hooks. But the heyday of the Story store is over. When so many Brown county families were forced to move out of the state park area in the early 1930's, they took their business with them to Nashville and other large towns. Families within a 10-mile radius of Btory still depend on the general store to supply their staple needs. And tourists, passing north or south on state road 135, pause there to glance over the mellowed walnut cases in tribute to a bygone era.

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] “There are no authenticated liFT. WAYNE, May 8~—Research,y,,,y records for a modern pic.

ture,” he said. “We have to appast 15 or 20 years is more dit-| roach the actual location indificult than research for costume cated, wherever it may be. We productions, Harold Hendee said o today at the 34th annual state| 55 the names Nt people om convention of the Indiana Indors-|CéFned, names of firms, products, ers of Photoplays. {telephone numbers, street adThe research director for RKO dress, even license plate numbers. tures discussed the little . Radio Pie . Mrs. Robbins Presides

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talk on “Making the Movies the Real McCoy.”

Amusing complications of film research which he has encount-

Mrs. Hedrick is chief saleswoman in the general store. The | high shoes, of black kid with toothpick foes and Baby Louis heels, have been on the shelves as long as anyone can remember and retail for $1.50. Oil lamps are 95 sents.

Photo Indorsers Hear Harold Hendee

Miss Mary Jane McMahon, sisjp ter of the bride, will be the maid iof honor. 8he will wear sky blue taffeta, The bridesmaids, Mrs. jRobert Goodwin, aister of the {bride, and Mrs. Harold McMahon ‘Jr, sister-in-law of the bride, will have dresses of the same color.

Trip to Follow The wedding gown is of tradi tional white satin, With it the bride will wear a finger-tip illusion veil and carry a bouquet of white roses, valley lilies and stephanotis, | Sam Newman, New York, will ibe the best man and the ushers will be Richard Grayson, Chicago, jand Kennedy Wolverton, Lafa|yette, and Philip Wolverton, Ine | dianapolis, brothers of the bride,

groom. ! The reception will be in the {home of the bride's parents. ered in his 25 years with the in-| The couple will live at 17 W, dustry wers recounted by Mr. 21st St. Indianapolis. The bride

Hendee. Actual production of all ple

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attended MacMurray College, | Jacksonville, Ill, and is a graduate of Indiana University and ; the University of Michigan. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Fra-

has been responsible for the au. SFHitY ang Kappes Kappa Kappa thentication of such pictures as! ar Wolverton attended Wa“Beau Geate,” “Cimarron,” “Little bash College and is a candidate Women" and “The Informer.” for a degree from the Indiana Mrs. M. E. Robbins of Indian- University Medical School in June. apolis, state president, was in He 's a member of Kappes Sigma charge of the sessions. { Fraternity.

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* Late spring bridal act y " l : Lingerie English Royalty” will be discussed crowding the in gra hy a : oy Engagement Announced : by Mrs. John W. Thornburgh, series of pre-nuptial events willl eon and towel shower Wednesday| Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Vassar 16 and president of the Woman's De- honor Miss Mary Jane Coleman|in the Indianapolis Athletic Club | Peck, 4403 N. Capitol Ave. an2° partment Club. Mrs. Ruth Morell| whose marriage to Howard Rob-| for the bride-totbe. An informal| NOunce the approaching marriage / ave Hicks of Indiana University will inson Meeker will be June 11 in| afternoon party will be given| Of their daughter to John Harry : discuss Great Books. |the garden of the home of her| Thursday by Mrs. Robert M. Lin-| EiX, son of Mr. and Mrs. William There will be a workshop after parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert D.|gle. Mrs. Howard R. Meeker, | EiX, 6620 Broadway. 1% the luncheon. Coleman, 8110 N. Illinois St. mother of the prospective bride-| The ceremony will be read at and 7, ; | The engaged couple will be the |groom, will give a tea for Miss| 7:30 p.m. May 21 in the Advent Movie Group to Meet {honor guests at a: party to be|Coleman on May 18. Episcopal Church, The Indianapolis Unit, Indors- given Saturday by Mr. and Mrs.| Mrs. David E. Powers Jr. and] Miss Marilyn Peck, sister of the s. Tal ers of Photo Plays, will meet at James L. Murray Jr, The party rs. Patrick L. Grady will give a| future bride, will be the maid of 10 a. m. Tuesday in the Meridian will be in the home of Mrs. Mur- | miscellanous shower the night of | honor and the bridesmaids will be 69 to 14? Room, Colonial Furniture Co. New ray’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl | May 19. On May 23 Miss Gloria Miss Martha Lunt and Miss Marofficers will be elected. M. Guepel, Williams Creek. | Attkisson, assisted by her moth-|ilyn Roehle, . ’ rn rsvnen er, Mrs. Merrill Attkisson, 5620] Paul Fix, twin brother of the Hh J . { N. Pennsylvania 8t., will give a prospective brigsgroum, Wo 2 {linen shower and luncheon in| the best man while another brothgore, Mother Loves Pretty Gifts + | their home for the bride-to-be. | er, Willlam Eix, and Gordon Vas- “ | Mrs. Edward K. Hawkins and| sar Peck Jr, brother of the bride: r Black. 178 | Mrs. James E. Loser will have a|to-be, wil be the ushers. And She'll | luncheon May 25 in the Propy-| Miss Lunt, 3951 N. Delaware sserne laeum for Miss Coleman | 8t., will give a dinner and houseAdore | A personal shower will be Biv-| hold shower May 15 for Miss Peck | en by Miss Patricia Hagedon, 945| and Miss Roehle is planning a This | W, 58th 8t., in her home on June, luncheon and linen shower for | 4. Mrs. Robert ¥, Curran, Mar-| the future bride. “Whopper” ion, will entertain June 4 in the! Mrs. Preston Woolf, 4153 Cenhome of her parents, Mr. and tral Ave, entertained recently in Coffee Mrs. Richard M. Bruning, Indi- her home with a crystal shower : anapolis, "for the bride-to-be. Cup For Coffee, % Tea, Soup, or @ Pretty \ ‘ Ivy Plant YOUR FURS il RR] \ | | - Z “gn | | ; | |

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