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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 34

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Oakland Tribunei
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Tribune, Sunday, Sept. 10, 1944 Aqua and maize net and lace frocks were worn by the attendants upon Mrs. Frank W. Spear Jr. the former Frances Marie Williams, when she was married in the Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley.

Left to right in the picture are Miss Marion Daniels, maid of hortor: Mrs. Spear Miss Laverne Andresen and Miss Jeanne Scott. -Richard Edwards photo. Hospital Branches Plan Fall Teas and Exhibit Summer at an end, the busy branches of the Children's Hospital of the Eastbay are getting ready for Fall teas and other activities from which they derive funds to carry on their end of the hospital work. The annual exhibit tea is the goal of all members, this to be held as usual at the Hotel Claremont during the Christmas season.

Garden Branch members have sewed two days a month on precious stutted animals. To their toy collection this year, they are adding dolls. A new feature. is the costume jewelry. which is being made by Mrs.

Russell Baker, a member, and this, too, will go on exhibit. Redwood Branch have given their time to the fashioning of clever kitchen aprons. Linden Branch is maintaining its salvage shop on Saturday afternoon as well as all day Thursday. Orinda and Willow have lined up rumage dales for the month. Madonna held a barbecue supper last evening in the gardens of Mrs.

Clarence Loomis in Berkeley. Husbands were the guests and there NEWLYWEDS NOW AT HOME Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Spear Jr.

have returned to Berkeley from the Russian River. The bride who was Miss Frances Marie Williams, has returned to the University of California from which she will receive her degree in October. "Her husband who was with the Army 'Air Transport Command at Fairfield, has returned to his duties there. and returning week-ends to the Bay area. Mrs.

Spear Jr. is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Emery Williams of Berkeley. Back From Tahoe Summer homes at Lake Tahoe are being closed this month for the Winter, Mr.

and Mrs. R. Stanley Dollar are back from the lake, where they have had with them, their daughter, Mrs. Joseph Hickingbotham. Mrs.

Hickingbotham accompanied the Howard Hickingbothams to New York this week. Major Hickingbotham is overseas. Patents Collection to make you look prettier! $17.95 Baby Calf $16.95 Alligator $16.95 FRANK WERNER Suedes 1960 Broadway Top flight fashions by America's great in the most in demand leathers $15.95 Buy more War Bonds Autumn Nyla Widell Is Affianced The engagement of Miss Nyla Elaine Widell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F.

Widell of Dover Street, and. Ens. Earl Paullus, United States Merchant Marine, has been announced to their friends. Nyla was graduated from University High School, and her fiance, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Wallis Paullus of Mountain View, attended San (Jose State College. Lieut. Clifford Widell, U.S.M.M., is brother of the bride-elect, and Lieut. Floyd Paullus, U.S. Air Corps, only brother of the future benedict.

No date has been set for the wedding. MISS MILLER BETROTHED The engagement of Miss Marinell Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leffler B. Miller of Berkeley to Johnny Rufus Coleman U.S.N., has been announced.

The bridegroom-elect who recently returned from duty in the South Pacific, is the son Mrs. J. Rufus Coleman of Albin, Texas. Miss Miller was graduated from University High, where she was president of Theta Gamma Club. She has a sister, Mrs.

Headley Brown of Berkeley, and a brother Stephen Miller. Wedding plans are indefinite, pending cessation of the war. In the interim, the future bride will continue her education. She left Thursday for Pullman, Washington, where she enrolled at Washington State College. Miss Nyla Elaine.

Widell, whose engagement to Ens. Earl Paullus, U.S.M.M., has been announced. U.D.C. to Observe Founding Day The 50th anniversary since the founding of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will be. by the S.

A. Cunningham Chapter on Tuesday. The meeting will take place at the home of Mrs. L. H.

McCauley of 294 Garland Avenue. A luncheon will be served at 12 noon, and a business meeting will follow, with the president, Mrs. Rozelle Williams, presiding. 1919-1944 Silver ADELPHIAN. CLUB PLANS PARTY Miss Ryberg Weds Officer Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley, was the scene of the Tuesday evening ceremony.

at which Miss Marie Ryberg became the bride of Lieut. (jg) Leland MeCutcheon, U.S:N.R. with the Rev. Laurance L. Cross officiating.

The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Ryberg of Vincente Avenue, was a student at, the University. of California.

She is a memof the Delta Delta Delta Sorority. Lieutenant McCutcheon, son of Mr. and Mrs. McCutcheon Sr. of Thousand Oaks Boulevard attended San Francisco Junior College before entering the service.

He has served 18 months in the South Pacitic and was in the East only recently. As he expects to be stationed in Merced, that city will in all probability be their home, In the bridal party were Miss Thurid Behrens, Mrs. Jeffry Smith and Mrs. Beverly McCutcheon, sister of the bridegroom. Lieut.

(jg) Bob Sinley, U.S.N.R, was best. man and brother officer of the bridegroom who seated the guests, ANNE TRUAX. TO WED HERE Miss Anne Truax and Irving L. Kitait, of Oakland Uncle Sam's artist Air and Corp, ex-ser- are to be married at 2 o'clock this atternoon at Temple Sinai, with a reception following at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

J. B. Rogers at Durant Avenue, Berkeley. Attending the couple will be Mr. Mrs.

Phillip Fox as best man and bridesmaid, respectively, The -elect is a member of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Oakland and of the Oakland Advertising Club. She was formerly a member of the Glendale News Press. MISS BOWMAN BECOMES BRIDE News of the marriage of Miss Adele Bowman and Mr. Harold George Cornsweet, former Army Air Force pilot and graduate of Ohio State University, has reached their friends in the Bay region. The couple were married at the home of Mrs.

Maurice Rogers, sister of the benedict, with Rabbi Bernard Harrison officiating. Mrs. Cornsweet is the daughter Mrs. Samuel G. Cornsweet and of the late Mr.

Cornsweet of Hollywood. Mrs. Rogers was matron of honor and Miss Verona Steele, maid of honor. Pierre Janet was best man. Mrs.

Harold George Cornsweet was Adele Bowman of Hollywood before her marriage in the south. Fall Meeting First meeting of St. Elizabeth's Mothers Club for the Fall will be held Wednesday at p.m. in the social hall. Mrs.

P. J. Barone, president, and club officers will be hostesses for this informal event which will feature refreshments and tea. mothers of children attending St. Elizabeth's School are invited.

FURS RUSSIAN KOLINSKY SCARFS Specially Priced $15:00 Per. Skin Plus Federal Excise Tax GEORGE BENIOFF 1733 Broadway (Directly Opposite Orpheum) Favorable Terms, of Course Adelphian Club in Alameda will entertain Tuesday afternoon "with a dessert card party which will have Lits in the clubhouse at 12:30 fo o'clock. Mrs. Arthur L. Nield, chairman for card parties, will be hostess for On Wednesday the draina section will resume its 3 regular meetings at 10 a.m., with Mrs.

Don McMillan the curator. a The Adelphian board Building of directors Company of has the a this affair, which. will assemble meeting slated for Thursday mornmembers and guests. ing at 10 o'clock. SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND ART MATERIALS For quality workmanship in school, let us fill your requirements.

We have mechanical drawing sets, T-squares, drawing boards, triangles, architect scales, thumb tacks, erasing shields, sandpaper pads, loose leaf binders, dictionaries, filler paper, etc. Everything for the classroom. ASOCIATED St. Higat: 6900 BETWEEN BROADWAY FRANKLIN were games and concessions, the profits from which will go to the hospital, Cedar Jrs. (all high school graduates) are behind a new branch to be made up of Piedmont High School girls which will have the name of Magnolia.

Cedars' new doll house is of the eighteenth century French Manor style and will go on display for the first show time at the Children's Hospital on Friday, September scores of matrons will model, Mrs. Harold Ellis is general chairman of arrangements and will be assisted by Mrs. William Parks. Mrs. George Creary of Olive is chairman of hostesses and Mrs.

Lloyd Models Truman, chairman of have been chosen from many.of the branches with Hill Jr. in charge. Summered in Sierra The Allen Chickerings of Piedmont are home from Soda Springs in the Sierra, where they have an attractive lodge and have been staying for the greater part of the Summer. Years ago to-day IN SEPTEMBER, 1919, a small Oakland shop was born. At first, like "the crew of the captain's gig," all responsibilities were vested in a single individual, Mrs.

Mabelle Kennedy. She managed. bought, sold and did the advertising. The business grew rapidly, and in a short time it was obvious that larger quarters were needed. It was the proverbial "luck of the Irish" that secured a building for the shop practically next door to the original location.

In 1922, Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy made the first of their many. European buying tri at the beginning of the era of the demand for Paris gowns. 8 In 1931, The Gray Shop moved into its present location to occupy the beautiful building constructed especially for this shop.

(Today, the, achievement in which Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy feel most pride is that they have re tained their old friends while making hosts of new friends. And that many of the personnel, now numbering have been with them almost since the shop's beginning. limit rad We are September Monday Greeting forward to help Eleventh Tuesday Silver Jubilee celebrate our Twelfth Twenty- Five of Informal in Business Years Modeling Music The hop 2,000 BROADWAY OAKLAND.

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