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WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS. WILMINGTON. DELAWARE. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 TEN Birthday Party Given At P. O.

of A. Session Little Theater Club Is Host to Minister The Terrib'e Terrors," the Junior little theater group of the Cath-dral AMONG LOCAL FOLK Jacob Weldin Family Will Hold Reunion Dean H. R. Bennett To Address Clan On Thursday Senior Class To Graduate At Hospital 1 2 Will Receive Diplomas From St. Francis School Kennett Club Opens Season On Wednesday Committee Chairmen Are Announced By President MISS ROSA P.

LAIRD, of "Wind-mar," who with Miss Sophie ShoumatofT, of Locust Valley. L. I left this city Aug. 5 for a trip around the world by airliners, expect to leave Manila today for Honolulu. The young women have been in ManL'a for the past week.

Their record of Mrs. Anna Savage, Mrs. Helen Scott, and Mrs. Nellie Webster wsre honored at a birthday party given with the meeting of Camp No. 1, P.

O. of on Tuesday evening. Refreshments were served during a social hour. Miss Mamie Jones, chairman of the social committee, was in charge of arrangements. Announcement is made of the election of Mrs.

Louis V. Grant, a past president of Camp No. 2. P. O.

of as delegate to the Pennsylvania Funeral Benefit Association convention to be held Sept. 20 in Philadelphia. Mrs. Grant is also an alternate to the P. O.

of A. convention to be held late this month in Atlantic City. completely encircling the globe by air was broken when they were forced to go from Hongkong to Church of St. John, entertained on Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. R.

Blair Myers In honor of the Rev. Joseph C. Wood, who left yesterday to make his home in Richmond, Va. Mr. Wood was one of the advisory members of the club.

Miss Jean Mears, the president, presented a leather key case to Mr. Wood in behalf of the club. A social hour was held under the direction of a can mi it ee including Myers. Mrs. Harold P.

Talley. Miss Mears, Miss Edith Rach, and Miss Suzanne Myers, Other guests included: Dean and Mrs. Hiram R. Bennett, Mr. Victor D.

Hanby. Mrs. Jciin Willi-am Sheppard, of Mt. Vernon, N. Misi Betty Morgan, Miss Lois Leahman, Miss Mildred Reed, Miss Anne Leonard, Miss Gertrude English, Miss Eleanor Scott, Mr.

William Sheppard, and Mr. R. Blair Myers, Jr. The club will resume its regu- lar meetings in September. Diplomas will be awarded to 12 members of the senior clais of the St.

Francis Hospital Training School for Nurses in commencement exercises next Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Raskob Memorial Hall of the Ursuline Academy. The Most Rev, Edmond J. FitzMaunce. Bishop of the Diocese of Wilmington, will preside over the exercises at which the principal address will be made by the Rev. Joseph M.

Manila by steamship. Air transport schedules had been disrupted by Japanese army restrictions. Miss I Laird and Miss Shoumatoff have made stop-over visits in Southamp- ton, Athens, a small town in India; Hongkong, Manila, and will remain Eastern Star Unit to Meet Mizpah Chapter, No. 2, Order of the Eastern Star, will meet tonight in the Jr. O.

U. A. M. Hall. 907 Tatnall Street, when plans will be made for fall work.

Miss Carrie L. Gemmill, worthy grand matron, Mr. Frank L. Harrar, worthy grand patron, and their staff will make an official visit to the chapter on Oct. 6.

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bentley M. Jamison will wed Mr. John Phillips, son of Mrs.

Carl Woods of this city, in Asbury M. E. Church on a day, Sept. 23, at 3 o'clock. The Rev.

Henry M. Parks will 1 Mrs. Joel Moore Walton, president of th Kennett New Century Club of Kennett Square, has announced chairmen of standing committees for the second year of her term of office, which will open with an official board meeting next Wednesday. They include: American hemes and citizenship. Mrs.

Walter Wol-laston, assisted by Mrs. Paul Han-num; conservation and gardens, Miss Elizabeth Mitchell; education, Mrs. J. Merrian Petterson. assisted by Mrs.

Elwood art, Mrs. J. Warren Marshall, assisted by Mrs. Hjalmar T. Lundquist; drama.

Mrs. Reed Ewing, assisted by Mrs. George Ladley; music, Mrs. George A. Lenkel, assisted by Mrs.

B. Frank Miller; international relations. Mrs. James R. Miles, assisted by Mrs.

Roland S. Grubb; press and publicity, Mrs. Herbert S. McKinstry, assisted by Miss Keturah R. Donalson; scouts, Mrs.

Earle Rupert, assisted by Mrs. Russell P. Brewer; health and welfare, Mrs. Joseph Mitchell, assisted by Mrs. Edward Hannum; house, Mrs.

Edgar Cleaver, assisted by Miss Elizabeth Mitchell; reciprocity, Mrs. D. M. Scudder. assisted by Mrs.

U. G. Clifford; juniors. Mrs. D.

Duer Reynolds, assisted by Mrs. C. G. Hazlett; membership, Miss Mary D. Lang, assisted by Mrs.

Knowies R. Bowen; scrap book, Mrs. I. Eugene Chandler, assisted by Mrs. John H.

Voorhees. Plans for the first fall meeting of the club will be announced following the executive board session. The club calendar for the year also will be announced at that 7bw) FALL In Wide Selection at Mitchell's Invitations have been issued for the seventeenth annual reunion of the Jacob Weldin family to be held at Maplewood Farm, on Weldin Road, next Thursday at 2:30 o'clock, daylight saving time. More than 100 invitations have been issued to members of the family hut old friends and those interested in the family are urged to attend. Cars will meet the boulevard trolley at the end of the line at 2:15 o'clock.

Dean Hiram R. Bennett of the Cathedral Church of St. John will be the speaker. Mr. Harry M.

Weldin, president of the family association, will preside. Miss Ella W. Johnson of Newport is secretary and Miss Edna M. Bullock is treasurer. A program of hill-billy songs will be played and sung by John Scott and a number of other musical events and sports will be features of the program following the family meeting.

Missionary Society To Give Garden Party The Women's Missionary Society of Hanover Presbyterian Church will hold a garden party next Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 4 o'clock at the church manse, 1804 Baynard Boulevard. The party will open the fall ac-tivties of the society, of which Mrs. Frank H. Hanby is president. Mrs.

John Herrick Darling, wife of the pastor, will be assisted in receiving by Mrs. Robert P. Robinson and Mrs. M. W.

Sheppard. Decorations will be arranged by Mrs. John Peoples and a committee. Mrs. E.

F. Metzger is chairman of refreshments. "The Voice of the Women." a missionary play, representing women of many lands, will be presented. Other members of the general committee are: Mrs. Darling, Mrs.

Hanby, Mrs. Herbert S. Drew. Mrs. W.

W. Swayze. Mrs. C. S.

Elliott and Mrs. Horace W. Porter. Dougherty, O.S.A., dean of science at Vill-anova College, Villanova, Pa. The graduates are: Betty Marie Rossi, Margaret Mary Van Veen, Dorothy Gertrude Bradley, Elizabeth Helen Wolhar, Mary Berneda Rogers, Marie Catherine Truselo, Elizabeth Mary George, Grace Marie Conner.

Ruth Elizabeth Eskridge, Katherine Frances Winfree, Barbara Mary Kardos, and Lillian Agnes Marie Boland. The exercises were postponed from early summer, awaiting the return from Europe of Bishop FitzMaurice. Commencement Day is a busy one for the graduates, beginning at 9 a. m. with high mass celebrated in the hospital chapel by the Rev.

Lawrence McCarthy. O. S. F. S.

Breakfast will follow, and at 1:30 p. m. the young women will be entertained at luncheon by members of the hospital staff. Following the exercises, the class will be honored guests of the Alumnae Association of the hospital at a supper on the lawn at 6 p. followed by a meeting.

Miss Kathryn M. Mealey, directress of nurses, will entertain the class at a picnic at Hack's Point Beach, the following week. Another party planned in their honor is the dance Friday evening. Sept. 8, at Archmere Academy, Claymont, with members of the junior class at the hospital as hostesses.

1.98 Hats perfectly suited to the new costume suits bustles, postilions. illboxes, turbans and in Honolulu for about a week, returning to Wilmington the middle of next month. The Rev. Dr. and Mrs.

Walter E. Gunby have returned from a motor trip through the White Mountains and a acation spent in Woodstock, N. H. Miss Sara Revelle, this city, and the Rev. and Mrs.

Earl M. Shockley, Dover, were guests of Dr. and Mrs. Gunby for a few days during their vacation. Dr.

Gunby, the Wilmington district superintendent of the Wilmington Methodist Conference, preached each Sunday during August in two churches in New England. Mr. Byron Curtis has returned to his home in Atlanta, after a visit with Dr. and Mrs. James K.

Hunt, in Brandywine Hills. The young man will resume his studies at the Georgia Military Academy this month. Congratulations were extended to Mr. Robert E. Fisher, son of Mr.

and Mrs. George Fisher, on his twenty-first birthday anniversary yesterday. Mr. William E. Nye, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert C. Nye, is in Selings-grove. this week taking part in the National Officer Training School for Phi Mu Delia, national social fraternity. The school is being held in the Mu Alpha Chapter quarters on Susquehanna University's campus at Selingsgrove.

Mr. Nye is president of the Mu Alpha Chapter and a senior at Susquehanna University where he is enrolled in the pre-theological course. Mr. and Mrs. J.

P. Kelleher were guests at Chalfonte-Haddon Hall while in Atlantic City. N. this week. Mr.

and Mrs. J. Paul Braun and their son, J. Paul Braun, are occupying their cottage at Rehoboth Beach for the remainder of the season. Mr.

and Mrs. Mslvin Weaver and I daughter, of Newark, were recent visitors to the New York World's Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Broad-bent motored to Vermont and Massachusetts this week.

Scotch types. Wearable hats to please the conservative wearer. MISS SUE JAMISON Family Dinner Party Held at Port Penn 3-98 Black Awry Broun 4r Grapeirine Most Leaf Folly Red jr Blackberry, etc. 54 ENROLL IN NURSING CLASSES AT HOSPITALS Complete Range of Ileadsizes The Delaware and Homeopathic! Hospitals yesterday received new classes whose membership totals 54. Another large group is expected toi Mr.

and Mrs. William Ellis of Port Penn entertained at a family dinner party on Sunday. Their guests were; Mrs. Nellie Fortner of Brooklyn, Mr. Charles Yearsley and Miss Margaret Yearsley of Baltimore, Mr.

and Mrs. Howard Fortner and sons. Howard, Jack and Edward; Mrs. H. Clarence Fritz.

Mr. Alison Fritz, all of this city, and Mr. A. V. Years-ley and Mrs.

Ethel Yearsley of Port Penn. Mr. Charles Yearsley and Miss Margaret Yearsley, who spent the past two weeks with their uncle. Mr. A.

V. Yearsley, have returned to their home in Baltimore. arrive today at the ummgton Gen- eral Hospital. Representing various; towns in Delaware and adjoining states, the young women will begin a i DOLLAR HAT BALCONY AJl the styles new to Fall in high-priced hats find replicas in mode and color in this mod- est-priced group at only MISS GOIjDIE JUNE SHIVELY MR. FRED TAYLOR WAGNER The marriage of Miss Goldie June Shively of Lewistown.

and Mr. Fred Taylor Wagner of Mil-roy. Pa, took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald M.

Pine In Denton, on Aug. 27. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Lawrence E. Wimbrow, pastor of First Methodist Church.

MISS ELIZABETH M. DERRY MR. LEROY H. MITCHELL Miss Elizabeth M. Derry.

daughter of Mrs. Helen E. Derry and the late Mr. Albert H. Derry of 611 West Nineteenth Street, has chosen tomorrow for her wedding vri- TRov H.

Mitchell of this Shower Honors Bride-to-Be Miss Anne C. Vassallo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Vassallo, of Union Park Gardens, whose marriage to Mr. Pasquale M.

Michini, son of Mr. and Mrs. Humbert Michini, of 608 North Union Street, will take place in St. Thomas R. C.

Church on Sept. 9, was given a shower and dinner at McConnell's. 218 West Ninth Street, last night by Miss Angela Nercante. There were 21 women guests. V.

Wilmington; Hazel Mark, Glen Mills, Mildred Martone, Wilmington; Arlean McDonald, Wilmington: Verna McGrath, Penn's Grove, N. Eleanor Moore, Millington; Margaret Murray, York-lyn; Gladys Pierce. Wilmington; Eleanor Razga, Granogue; Pauline Reed, Newark; Jeannette Santillo, Jeanne tt Shafer, Wilmington; Genevieve Shaw, Glenolden, Lillian Smock, Mildred Staats, Louise Teoli, Anna Thompson, all of Wilmington; Betty Trout, Deepwater, N. Helen Warren, Baltimore, Doris White, Carney's Point, N. Mae Sutton, Richardson Park, and Mary Hammond, Milford.

The St. Francis' Hospital Training School welcomed a class of 18 women earlier this week, and a large class is expected today at the Wilmington General Hospital. probationary period during wmcn they become better acquainted with the hospital and their profession. The new class at the Delaware Hospital was welcomed by Miss Lu-cile E. Dug an, superintendent of nurses, other members of the hospital staff, and upper classmen at an Informal reception last evening ac the nurses' home.

Members of this class are: Hnn Elkton Residents Visitors Here Emerson R. Crothers. of Elkton, f- Iff deputy clerk of Cecil County Court and nephew of former Gov. Austin L. Crothers.

of Maryland, ac- companied by a friend, Lewis A. Seth, of Elkton, former sheriff of Cecil Delaware Hospital Class Doris Adkins, SelbyvOle; Jean Al-jbers. Elsmere; Emma Bower, Wil 728Marketrst. County, visited nere yesterday. Tney mington; Elizabeth Bane, Wilming-j Dorothy Brown, Marshallton; called upon J.

Wirt Willis while in Wilmington. Marcella Kane, Wilmington: Jose-! phine Collingwood, Wilmington; Miss Janet Lipscomb is visiting friends in Dayton, O. Mrs. Herman H. Keen has re- turned to her home in Denton, after a 10-day visit with her pa- rents.

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Patterson, of this city. I Mrs.

John F. Hazel has been "so ms my ym cs? sso goop citv. The ceremonv will be performed at 9 o'clock in Hanover Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. John Hrrick Darling officiating. Mr.

Mitchell and his bride will make their home in Woodcrest after a wedding trip. MISS DOROTHY M. PETERS MR. JAMES M. OTIS Miss Dorothy M.

Peters, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Peters of Chicago, and Mr. James Otis son of Mr. and Mrs.

Elmer H. Otis of Bridgeville and New I York city, were married at St. John's Methodist parsonage in Sea-ford Wednesday night by the pastor, the Rev. John L. Johnson.

The bride had as her maid of honor, Miss Mildred Butler of Bridgeville. Mr Ralph Collison of Bridgeville was best man. The couple will live In New York city. I'VE OFTEN HEARD OH, WE ALL SWEAR BY UPTONS AT THIS HOUSE! ITS GOOD ECONOMY, TOO MORE THAN 200 issi Li Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Paula Swift, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Norman Swift of Cranston Heights, to Mr. Thomas Gillespie of Lin-wood, son of Mr. and Mrs Thomas Gillespie of Chester. The wedding will take place on Oct. 7.

The announcement was made at a party given by Mr. and Mrs. Swift in honor of their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert C.

Swift of Cranston. Before her recent marriage, Mrs. Swift was Miss Alma Foracker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Foracker.

Other guests at the shower were: Mr. and Mrs. William Swift, Miss Jeannette Swifc of Boothwyn, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Morgan, Miss Amanda Foracker, Mrs.

Mildred Naumann and daughter Barbara, Miss Doris Swift, Miss Sandra Morgan, Mr. William Swift, all of Marshallton; Mrs. Dave Miles, Miss Edna Larrimore, Miss Helen Walls. Mr. and Mrs.

Earl Swift, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gabatt, all of this city; Mrs. Jean Duncan, Miss Eleanor Duncan, Mr. Earl Newman, Mr.

Robert Hughes, Mr. Alvin Stoopes, all of Cranston Heights; Miss Dorothy Gray of Elsmere, Mr. and Mrs. George Foracktr of Newark. Mr.

and John Swift of Mendenhall, Mrs. Esther MeCorkran and Miss Margaret MeCorkran of Greenville. Announcement has been made by Mrs. E. B.

Dalby of the engagement of her daughter. Miss Isabel M. Bottomley, to Mr. Gordon B. Williamson, son of Mrs.

E. M. Williamson and Mr. N. B.

Williamson of this city. Miss Bottomley is the daughter of the late Mr. W. W. spending several days at Kitts Hummock with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Ingram, and their mother, Mrs. Alexander M. Daly. Miss Frances Lowber will sail tomorrow from New York on a two weeks' cruise to Nassau, Miami, and Havana.

Mr. and Mrs. James Behen, Dover, are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son Wednesday morning at the Kent General Hospital. Mrs. Behen is the former Miss Mabel Driver.

GLASSES TO THE POUND, YOU KNOW lipton's flavor is smoother, and richer now know it! and its so refreshing, one glass makes me cnocT TUP UPAXUPO I ONE GLASS MAKES ME FORGET THE WEATHER Edith Evans, Bear; Pearl Jones. Elk-ton; Jayne Jones, Wilmington; Grace Jones, Seaford; Theresa Ka-pela, Wilmington; Ruth Anne Kell-ing. Frederica; Ma-rgaret Milano. Barbara Nibiett, Madeline Nurnberg, Margaret Richards, Daisy Swinney, all of Wilmington; Louise Thoring-ton, Delmar; Lucy Blanche Wessels, Ch 1 nco te a Margaret Wheatley, Seaford, and Irma Wilkinson, Wilmington. Other new arrivals at the hospital yesterday were members of the class of 1941 at the Delaware State Hospital, an affiliate of the local Institution.

The Hospital course provides the second year of study and nursing at the Delaware Hospital here. Members of this group are: Natalie Cox, Talmar Hughes, Helen Pollard, Rachel Sheridan. Lavada Sparks, and Fanecia Starling. Homeopathic Members The Homeopathic Hospital class, received yesterday by members of the first year class and Miss Irene Perry, superintendent of nurses, will be given an informal reception next Wednesday evening by the Student Association of the training school. This class includes Phyllis Bennett, Millington, Frances Corn-well, Rising Sun, Lyla Davidson, West Grove, Beverly Deitz, Salem, N.

Elsie Emery, Newport; Lena Goodman, Conowingo, Elinor Hance, Media, Hilma Harrington, Rising Sun, Eleanor Hobbs, Salisbury, Shirley Garrett, Wilmington; Lois Lindsay, STOCK UP FOR LABOR DAY Come In and See Our Labor Saving Specials SPAM Friendship Class Entertains Members of the Friendship Class of the Baird Memorial Mission, 400 West Second Street, held a "hot dog" roast Wednesday evening. Because of the storm, the affair was held at the mission. Miss M. Helen BufTington, superintendent of the mission, was a guest. Mrs.

J. Fisher is teacher of the class. 25' 12-oz. can R. R.

BONELESS CHICKEN Firemen's Auxiliary to Meet The Ladies Auxiliary of the Five Points Fire Company will meet on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock In the Community Hall. Mrs. Robert Maxwell, the president, will preside. Plans will be made for the annual banquet. Reg.

45c Can Mr. and Mrs. Lewis N. Gebhart have announced the engagement of their niece. Miss Dorothy M.

Gebhart, to Mr. George M. Kirkpatrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kirkpatrick of this city.

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