The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 1934 Page: 3 of 8
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Harrold School
Miss Moss Sings
Soprano Sunday
In Oratorio
average visitor spent only $1.17 a day
inside the grounds. Chicago’s beauti-
ful June weather makes that month
an opportune time to visit the entirely
completed Fair and see it while It Is
fresh.
One of the most successful school
entertainments held in this vicin-
ity in recent weeks was a “Cake
Walk” and carnival given for th jj
benefit of the County Line sch.ol at
County Line, Friday night. A largo
crowd was in attendance and a
number of county and district can-
didates for office were present.
Miss Thelma Moss sang the so-
prano lead in the oratorio, “Elijah”
by Mendelssohn which was present-
ed at the First Methodist church at
Lubbock, Sunday, May 13, by a
chorus of ’eighty voices. Miss Moss
is a daughter of Mrs. J. R. Moss
of this city and is popular in musi-
cal circles throughout this section.
She is attending a business college
at Lubbock and is also continuing
voice study began two years ago in
Texas Tech College in that city.
BARWISE CLUB
Mrs. E. W. Brown was hostess to
the Barwise club on Wednesday,
May 9, at her home northeast of
Electra. Mrs. Henry Eggenberg
gave a report on the cookie demon-
stration held at’ Weeth school housa
and plans were discussed for ar-
ranging exhibits for the annual
Wichita County Fair to be held this
fall at Iowa Park. Miss Ethel
Louise Webb, home demonstratioi
agent, gave a demonstration on
orange bread, jelly rolls and dough-
nuts. The articles made were serv-
ed to the following members and
visitors: Mesdames , W. J. Flippen*
Sidney Patterson, J. C. and R. IL
Denny, L. H. Kliqkerman, H. Eg-
genberg, W. E. Vaught, B. M. Phil-
lips, C. W. Aiderman, H. Lalk, IL
C. Obenhaus, Sidney Patterson and:
Mistf Bernita Detmer," members and
Miss Rose Reid, a guest.
COUNTY LINE
The County Line home demon-
stration club met Tuesday at the
home of Mrs. M. R. Hall. Miss Ethel
Louise Webb, home demonstration
agent, demonstrated the making of
doughnuts, jelly ro’ls and orange
bread. The finished products were
served with lemonade and grapo
juice to Mesdames Charles Gilbert,
R. L. Proud, J. M. Knight, T. J.
Kidwell, Hawkins, Miss Webb and
the hostess. Mrs. Proud was named
as hostess for the next meeting rt
which time she and Mrs. Gilbert
will give a cookie demonstration.
COUNTY LINE CLUB
Members of the County Line club
met Thursday at the home of their
president, Mrs. Charles Gilbert and
quilted a quilt which is to be sold
for the benefit of.the County Line
school.
A group of members attended the
cookie demonstration at Weeth
school last week.
Mrs. R. L. Proud who was Coun-
ty Line club pantry demonstrator
for 1932-33, was among the first
to start filling her family’s canned
food budget for the coming year,
having already put up a number of
cans of spinach and English peas.
Mrs. Jodie D. Smith, teacher of
music and Mrs. J. F. Clayton teacher
of expression in the Harrold schooh,
presented their students in joint re-
cital last Monday night at the Har-
rold high school auditorium. The
program detail interspersed piano
solo and duet numbers with read-
ings, dialogues and specialty acti.
Mrs. Smith presented Dot, BiUy and
Keen Doris Parmer, Dorotha Belle
McGrhi e. Myrtle Turpen, Mary
Ruth Taylor, Ray Nell Cummings,
Sue 1'eiry Holt, and Johnnie Lou
Rook in musical numbers and M's.
Clayton presented Dorothy Nowlin,
Mary Enloe, Jimmie Ruth Scar-
borough, Johnnie Lou Rook, Patsy
Ruth and Billy Joe Culver, Sammie
Joe Vaughn, Jimmie Weatherbee,
Billy Kennedy and Billy Jo Gil-
lespie in various speech arts num-
bers.
Both Mesdames Smith and Clay-
ton will close their term work in
the Harrold schools next week. Both
have been re-employed for
coming year, it is said.
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. . CURB SERVICE . .
When You Drive
Out on the Harrold
Highway . . .
. . . Refresh Yourself at our
Fountain.
Miss Connie Le Gard of Muskegon,
Mich., who ruled for a week over the
blossom festival in Benton Harbor and
St. Joseph.
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Mrs. Lee Ancell Is
Party Honoree
Mrs. Lee Anceil was the recipent
of a lovely surprise shower of gifts
from a group of friends last Tues-
day afternoon at her home west of
town. A musical program was en-
joyed and* refreshments were served.
Those present or sending remem-
brances were Mesdames M. D. Rown,
J. 0. Teel, C. V. Morris, Buster
Williams, L. D. Mosley, G, M.
Wagner, Newt Roye, Ben Marshall,
Herman Barrow, Marion Bowery,
J. D. Robertson, Guy Weatherly, A.
AL Rose, Ralph Weatherly, Frank
Croom, Ben Enloe, T. L. McCrack-
en, V. E. Kilgore, Henry . Coopei;
Miss Bianca Hale, Inez and Jimmy
Earl Mankins.
Harmony Club
“Mothers Day”
Program Sunday
Close friends and members of
their families were invited guests
Sunday afternoon, when members
of the Harmony Club presented a
delightful “Mothers’ Day’’ program
at the home of their president,
Mrs. E. D. Kelly. The club held its
regular meeting Monday evening at
the Kelly home anti studied “Scales
and Chords.” Demonstrations
given by those appearing on
program.
Messrs. and Mesdames
Nail, K D. Alexander and J
Namara of this city were
guests at the dance gixen
Methodist W. M. S.
Mesdames C. R. Roberts, mission
superintendent and H. H. Whitmir®,
superintendent of “World Outlook”
for the Northwest Texas Methodist
Conference were visitors
regular meeting of the Methodist
Women’s Missionary Society here
Monday afternoon. Both ladies live
at Henrietta.
Airs. J. P. Hamilton, president,
presided over the opening exercises
and Airs. Roberts offered the open-
ing prayer. Mrs. C. M. Harvey led
an interesting devotional service
and Mrs. C. W. Coffey sang a solo
with Mrs. Stella Moad at the piano.
Airs. 0. A. Basham introduced the
visitors and each gave splendid ad-
dresses, Airs. Mhitmire speaking in
behalf of the missionary magazine
and Airs. Roberts speaking on
“Women of other Lands.”
About 25 members were present
and refre.-hments were served dur-
ing the social hour.
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Kappas Pledge
New Members
The formal pledge
’ UM
al
was admin-
istered to five new members at the
regular meeting of the Kappa Phi
Omega fraternity, Monday evening,
at the home of Buddy Brown on
East G’isson avenue. The new mem-
bers are Billy Chaffee, Oren Wat-
ers, J. W. Alexander, Larry Ray
and Glen Minton.
Bill Jennings, president, presided (here,
over the business session and Cha •-
les B. Harrison was named as host
for the next meeting.
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Six o’Clock Dinner
Mrs. Bertha Aven, 812 North
Mam street entertained on Mothers’
Day with a six o’clock dinner. Co\-
ers were laid for her mother, Mrs.
Mary Phillips of Dallas; her son,
C. L. Aven, Jr., and wife of Vernon i Carter
and Air. and Mrs. R. J. Hensley of
this city.
Electrans Are
Honored At Parties
At Fort Sill
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Coates and
daughters, Barbara and Jewell
were honor guests at a series of
delightful social affairs given by
members of the Fort Sill American
Legion post during the week-en I.
They were entertamed at a dinner
and dance Saturday night, the dance
being he’d at the Law ton Count rv
club, a fishing party and picrnc
Sunday morning and an open house
reception and program Sunday af-
ternoon from three to five odock.
Mr. Coates is commander of the
’Legion post here and he and Air-.
Coates w’ere gracious hosts to a
large number of the officers of the
Fort Sill post on recent occasions
Hataway-Carter .
Bascom Ilataw’ay and Miss
were united in marriage
Friday afternoon at Frederick,
Oklahoma, the Rev. Moser pastor of
the Church of Christ officiating in
the ceremony. Witnesses were Mrs.
Edna Blair, Miss Powell and Mr.
Claude Rodawalt who accompanied
them to Frederick. Airs. Hataway is
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. D.
Carter, G09 East Bryan avenue.
She graduated from Electra high
school in 1932 and is popular in the
young peoples department of the
First Methodist church.
Air. Hataway was reared at
Greenville, but has lived in Electra
I for some time. He is proprietor of
the Electra Coffee Shop in the
Grand Theatre block on North
Waggoner street.
R. L.
T. Me-
special
at the
Country club at Law’ton Saturday
night, in honor of Mr. and
Coates
or
the
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Harrold Trims ]
3D Team Sunday
Thompson P.-T. A.
Closes Year’s Work
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Million Glasses
Of Jelly Is Goal Of
Legion Auxiliary
One of the objectives of the Le-
> of America
and for the installation night piu-
gram in June. Four tables were ar-
world” in a single day. The new Fair
will have 84 miles of free exhibits.
Music, fireworks, free public specta-
cles and free entertainment will be
attractive features. Cost to visitors
will be less than last year, when the
Russell,
over a
Party Friday At
Schlaffke Flome
Alessrs. and Mesdames
Schlaffke and S. B. Marchant were]
joint hosts at a delightful party at
the Schlaffke home Friday evening.'
subject of the lesson was “Music
and its relation to character de-
velopment” and Mrs. W. R. Skin-
nei, president, presided over the
short business session. Mrs. W. P.
Slaton brought the devotional and
Miss Lucille Hobbs presented a drill
in music memory given by a group
of pupils. Final reports were given
on various projects and Miss Nettie
C.ampsey’s room was awarded th«*
attendance prize.
Hidelbaugh,
Myrtle Russell,
Mesdames | Wann, Oklahoma, accompanied Mr.
i Cannon,'a at the convention then go to
Ackerman will
relatives before
rejoining her husband at Tulsa to
return home.
• Mrs.
' C. Bratton, Eddie Rowe, Leonard V|s»t briefly with
, R. L. Williams, Newton
i Lee, W. E. Smith and the hostesses.
i and Jack
Thompson Ward
Association, the
last meeting of which was held at
The Harrold baseball team beat
the Waggoner Refinery • team Sun-1
day at Harrold, 16 to 1. The game ‘
-was one of the scheduled matclje^
in the Texas-Oklahoma baseball I
league which was organized two
t weeks ago. |
into
suite. Miss Myrtle
president, presided over a brief' veteran hospitals, Airs. G. T. Mc-
business session during which plans' Gann, president of the local
Every member of
being
Windmills, dikes and canals of the
Netherlands will be reproduced in this
Dutch village of the new World’s Fair
which opens In Chicago May 26. It Is
one of fifteen "foreign villages’* which
will offer the visitor a “tour of the
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Mrs. W. A. Gault Is
Party Hostess
Mrs. W. A. Gault, club mother,
honored members of the Business
and Professional Women’s club
Thursday evening at her home on
West Glisson avenue at a delight-
fully informal party. Little Miss
Mary Jane Cole served delicious ____ ___________
punch to the guests as they were gion Auxiliary units
ushered into the flower bedecked for the year 1934 is to secure a mil-
cla >s lion glasses of jelly to be used in
brief (veteran hospitals, Airs. G. T. Mc-
' :.....- unit’
were made for the club’s partici-' announces. Every member of the
pation in the Century of Progress auxiliary is being asked to put1
pageant to be held Friday, Alay IS, aside a certain amount of jelly -
jam during the annual jelly making
season to be given through the aux-
ranged for games and Aliss Linnie iliary here and every w'ornan in this
Spearman delighted the assembly vicinity will be privileged 'to join
with piano numbers. Refreshments in this worthy movement by giving
were served after the games to one or more containers of jelly or
Mesdames Alattie Hannah, Earl ] jam. Women who cannot make jelly
Stewart, Rosemary Alintcr and N. foi; the project are asked to save
D. Cooper; Misses Catherine Hah- all their salad . dressing jars or
burton, Viola Hidelbaugh, Eun ce empty jelly or relish containers for (
Griffith, Myrtle Russell, Grace'the auxiliary to fill. Those willing (
> donate glasses of jelly, empty
or fruit suitable to make |
and the ] jehy will please call Airs. McGann
or Airs. W. P. Grisham, secretary
of the auxiliary.
Gleaners Class
Has Kid Party i
Mesdames Jack Smith and Ray I
Johnson were joint hostesses at a
delightful party for members of the * <■ mm
Gleaners class of the First Baptist Attend Oil IVleet
Sunday school, Thursday evening at* Ax. 'T’lilca OL-lo
the Smith home at 105 East Lin- / . 1 ulsa>
coin avenue. I
Numerous interesting games pro-j Ackerman, superintendent of
v ided diversion throughout the evei-'thc Ryan Petroleum Company lease
mg and Mrs. Kenneth Cannon was I on the Nance ranch on Beaver
awarded first prize on having the i ( l£>ek» left Tuesday for Tulsa,
cutest juvenile costume, the whole I Oklahoma, where he will attend the
theme being carried out in “kid annual oil exposition and the
: party” style. Tne c’ass colors of'American Petroleum Convention be-
orchid and gold were used in the I •n£ there. Mrs. Ackerman and
dainty refreshment plate served I ) lie1’ sister, Mrs. Laura Utzler of
the following members: ?r ’ Hv™
Ross Stubblefield, L. H. Barker, | Ackerman to Tulsa and will spend
Clyde O. Hicks, Kenneth C_______
L. W. Sanderlin, E. R. Graham, L. | Wann where
C. Bratton, Eddie ]
] Gillum, R. L. Williams,
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I Mesdames Ray Johnson
Smith.
___________ ______ ______ _________ Mrs. J. Wood Paiker served as
Pot luck supper was served .on the I LiJstallinjg officer in seating offi-
lawn and dancing was enjoyed after-*cei s w^° Serxe ‘luring the com-
ward. i ,n” >*ear ,n Thompson Ward
The guests included Messrs, an J Parent-! eachers
Mesdames J. D. Bright, M. R. Kirk- ’ -
land, W. C. Stewart, Hubert Stew- the.school^ Thursday at 4 p. m. Th.-
art, A. L. Robb, H. F. Smith, T.
H. Parmley, Al. O. Turner, Otto
Lambert, S. B. Marchant, U. G.
White, G. F. LeBus, Frank Fisher,
F. V. Brasfield, G. C. Downtain, C.
P. Engelking, L. P. Sadler, and Dr.
N. E. Leonard
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C. C. Auxiliary To
Give Benefit Dance
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| The Ladies Auxiliary to the
E ectra Country club launched a
; ticket sale Tuesday morning in be-
' half of a benefit dance they are
• giving Saturday night at the Coun- 1
, try club ballroom. Mesdames Larrv
Padden and W. H. Aliskimins arc in
charge of the arrangements and
they are being assisted by other
members of the auxiliary. Mrs. J
H. Alarriott, is offering an attrac-
■ tive prize to the member selling, the
most tickets. I
Hagin, Ethel Golden, Verna Forbes,! to
Adele Moser, Linnie Spearman, Ida containers
Lee Falls, Eva Williams
hostess.
BEAVER CREEK CLUB
Mrs. Jack Byrd was hostess
Thursday afternoon to the Beaver
Creek Home Demonstration club in,
its regular bi-monthly meeting.
Aliss Ethel Louise Webb, home de-
monstration agent gave a demon-
stration on orange bread, dough-
nuts and jelly rolls. Mrs. Roy Ack-
erman’ was named as hostess for
the next meeting. The c’ub welcom-
ed as guests, Mesdames Churchman,
Dobbe and Vest, members of tha
Valley View club. Members present
were Mesames Si Byrd, Hart, Henry
Avant, Roy Ackerman, Clarence
Roberts, T. E. Cosscy, King, R. J.
Bradley, Sr., the hostess, Aliss
Webb and the Valley View visitors.
THE ELECTRA NEWS
THURSDAY. MAY 17, 1934
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The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 1934, newspaper, May 17, 1934; Electra, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1238142/m1/3/: accessed May 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Electra Public Library.