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THE ENQUIRER AND NEWS Battle Creek, Mar. 12, 1946 Society Frances Shimer Alumnae Dinner Is Planned A Frances Shimer college reunion dinner was the of plans made by a dinner committee which met in the Hart hotel grill for a 6:30 dinner Monday evening. Mrs. Leila Wright, a Frances Shimer representative from Chicago, was a special guest. The reunion dinner will be held Thursday eveninthe March 26, in the league Hart, and the distinguished guest list will be headed by Dr.

Albin C. Bro, president of the college, who will show colored films of buildings, scenery and life en, general with his own commentaries; also Mrs. Stoddard Lane, dean of girls, and Dr. L. Albert Wilson.

dean of the college. Floyd W. Parsons will be toastmaster. Mrs. A.

Jason Bloomberg is serving as general chairman for the event. Mrs. Robert R. Thomson is is ticket chairman; Mrs. Parsons, social chairman; Mrs.

Richard Whalen, decorating chairman; Mrs. Clifford W. Brainard, membership chairman, and Mrs. J. E.

Dodge. publicity. Also assisting with reunion plans is Miss Julia Cole, a 1945 graduate of the college. Mrs. Parsons is also an alumna.

The rest of the committee consisting of mothers of recent Frances Shimer. at Mt. Carroll, is one of the older girls' schools of the middlewest, having been founded in 1853 as an academy and in 1907 becoming a junior college, which it continues to be. enrolling girls from the 11th year through the junior college. Mrs.

E. J. Zimmerman of 307 North Thirty- second street entertained at a farewell dinner party Monday night for Mrs. Ralph Hall of 3012 Dickman road. The Halls will move Friday to their new home in Kalamazoo.

St. Patrick's day furnished the ideas for the table decorations. A gift was presented to Mrs. Hall. Guests were Mrs.

Buckner, Mrs. A. P. Petersen, Mrs. Clarence MacLeod, Mrs.

Marvin Rush, Mrs. Elmer Lane, Mrs. Bruce Randolph, Mrs. Harry Buckner and Mrs. Clinton Collins.

Mrs. Ida Matteson's birthday anniversary was celebrated Sunday with dinner at Farrin's Bib and Tucker for the family, which later gathered at the Matteson home at 33 Wren, where a buffet lunch was served. A birthday cake centered the buffet table and spring flowers decorated the home. included Mrs. Matteson's daughter, Mrs.

Florence Landauer of Dayton, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Matteson, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Guist, Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Johnston and son, Billy, of Kalamazoo and Mr. and Mrs. Irl E. Gillespie and children, Kay and Jerry, of Bellevue.

Mr. and Mrs. Horace Wright of 44 Oneita were hosts at a party at their home Saturday evening complimenting Mrs. Bessie Adams of Harbor Springs who is visiting her nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs.

Claude Aldrich. Besides the Aldriches those present were the Wright's sons-in-law and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Lawrence and Mr. and Mrs.

Delmar French. Bridge was the diversion and prizes were won by the Frenches, Lawrences and Mrs. Adams who also received a guest prize. Refreshments were served afterward. Mr.

and Mrs. Leroy Knighton, who were married recently, surprised by a group friends at their home at South Twenty-Second street Sunday evening. There were games and refreshments, and a hand-painted dinner set was presented to the newlyweds by the group. The guests included Mr. and Mrs.

B. F. Miller. Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Elder Harris. Mr. and Mrs.

A. R. Morris and Mr. and Mrs. Milton Childs.

Mrs. Knighton is the former Mrs. Quincy Johnson. Mr. and Mrs.

Jacob Lloyd of 81 Kirby will observe their 50th wedding anniversary Thursday. Both were born in Ergland where they were reared. They came to the United States in 1912, settling in Battle Creek. They have lived in and near the city since. Of their three children, one daughter survives, Mrs.

Howard (Iva) Keller, who resides with her parents. The Lloyds have nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Due to Mrs. Lloyd's health, the couple will spend the day quietly at home. Never wear wet shoes longer than necessary as the thread rots and wear is faster when leather is wet.

WELSH'S Call 2-7966 for Steel Slat VENETIAN BLINDS 7 DAY SERVICE Masonic Center Presents Awards At Dinner For their wartime services as cadette hostesses at the Masonic service center, 26 girls were presented with certificates issued by the Masonic association of the United States at Washington, D. following the dinner hour at the center Sunday evening. D. L. Peterson.

field agent for the Masonic Service association, officiated: as toastmaster, and Mrs. Peterson distributed the certificates. The cadettes thus honored were Miss Evelyn McKee, Miss Katherine Cooper, Miss Beverly Garms, Harriet Brandli, Miss Patricia Demaray, Miss Marion Romig. Miss Beulah Fisher, Miss Margaret Hicks, Miss Louise Standley, Miss Donna Moon, the Misses Dorothy and Helen Steckle, Miss Claudia Hoddek, Miss Juanita Demery, Miss June Robinson. Miss Edith Reese, Miss Juanita Kethley, Miss Dena Henry, Miss Mary Ann Stevenson, Miss Jeanne Cross, Miss Voleta Hiatt, Miss Barbara Hughes, Miss Donna Jones, Miss Polly Boehm, Miss Caroline Doherty and Miss Gertrude Newman.

Several of the group are charter cadettes, having served since the center opened in 1942. Recognition was also given to others who have contributed to the success of the center with special entertainment. These were Peter McLean, Mrs. Jane Caldwell and Mrs. Grace Jones.

Everett Kromduke was cited for his artistic decorating jobs, while Mrs. Dorothy Squier was similarly honored for her work as coordinator between the Michigan O.E.S. association and the local chapters who have taken their turns serving dinners and doing duty at the snack bar. Mr. Peterson presented a certificate to George B.

Dolliver who served throughout the war as a member of the Masonic war council of the Grand Lodge of Michigan. Sunday night's dinner was served by members of the Tekonsha chapter. It featured creamed chicken and home-made biscuits, cakes and ice cream. Besides the cadettes and the other honored guests about 80 service men and women with their guests and friends were present. Chaplain Harold E.

Doty Percy Jones Hospital Center and Mrs. Doty were special guests. Serving on the dinner committee from Tekonsha were Mrs. C. A.

Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Leatherbury, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jenkins, Mrs.

Donald Johnson, Mrs. Belle Cook, Miss Hester Dickinson, Mr. and Mrs. E. D.

Dickinson and Mrs. Hugh Ivey. Robert Drow, photography instructor at Fort Custer's educational reconditioning section, took pictures of the party. Assisting at the snack bar last week were Mr. and Mrs.

George Galletley. Good Taste Today BY EMILY POST To find oneself alone and ignored among strangers at a supposedly social gathering is an unhappy experience that we are all at some time likely to encounter. One to whom this has befallen asks: "Is it permissible to go up to two or more persons who are talking. so as not to stand alone, or is that considered as bad as interrupting a tete-a-tete? I am referring to the awkward situation of as a newcomer at a large had arriving, no more than a 'How d'you from the hostess and then quite alone entered the living room among strange people! The roof of the hostess' house is said to serve as an introduction. How does one become a part of a Imagine yourself an invisible onlooker.

Walk about slowly and look for another guest who seems to be situated as you are. Stand or sit near by and after a short pause, ask if she (or he) is a stranger. Whether the answer is "yes" or "no." there is a probable opening. Or if not greatly encouraged. go on slowly into the dining room for something to eat.

make your way out again and go home! This is the worst that can happen. Ordinarily you will find someone whom you can rescue or who will come to your rescue. Unless Aunt Is Nephew's Age Dear Mrs. Post: When I heard of my nephew's engagement, I wrote to fiancee, expressed pleasurewhich I indeed felt -and also a wish to meet her soon (I could not go to see her because distance makes that impossible.) When she answered my letter, she began, "Dear Miss Smith." although I had written as "Dear Later, when she wrote to invite me to the small wedding. she again began, "Dear Miss Smith." And now.

in acknowledgement of my wedding present. once more she writes. "Dear Miss Smith." I always have begun "Dear Mary." Her letters sound friendly enough, except for this cold way of addressing me. I should like to have an opinion from you. Answer: Your calling her "Mary" was correct, but the suggestion that she call you "Aunt Mary" or possibly "Mary" should come from you.

To call you "Miss Smith" until you tell her what you would like to be called is probably no coldness on her part, but merely showing proper behavior. Correct forms for letter writing are found in Mrs. Post's booklet 502. "The Etiquette of Letter obtainable for 10 cents in coin and a 3-cent stamped, self-addressed envelope sent to her in care of this newspaper, P. O.

Box 99, Station New York 19, N. Y. Camp Fire Activities Janet Goucher was elected president of the Dakonya Camp Fire Girls at a meeting Monday with their guardian, Mrs. Donald Gault, of 53 Surby. Other new officers are Mary Winifred Bromley, vice president; Sandra Lang, secretary; Mary Jane Belt, treasurer, Gail Perrett, scribe.

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Miss Cummins Is Wed To William H. Jenks The chapel of the First Congregational church was the setting for the ceremony in which Miss Mary Ann Cummins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H.

Cummins of 197 West Rittenhouse avenue, became the bride of William H. Jenks, son of Harold M. Jenks of 68 West VanBuren and of Mrs. O. W.

Johnson of Lansing, at 3 o'clock last Saturday afternoon. The Rev. Oviatt E. Desmond read the marriage service in the presence of the immediate families. The couple was attended by the bride's aunt, Mrs.

Charles Rea. as matron of honor, and Laurence M. Jenks, the bridegroom's brother, as best man. A beige wool dress with black accessories and a corsage of red roses was worn by the bride, while her attendant was dressed in aqua with navy blue accessories and a corsage of yellow daffodils and snapdragons. Both Mr.

and Mrs. Jenks are graduates of Battle Creek high school. Mrs. Jenks is employed by the Clark Tructractor division, and Mr. Jenks, who was recently discharged from the navy, is employed by the H.

B. Sherman Manufacturing Co. They are residing with the bride's parents for the present. Church Societies Mrs. Ray Ball will entertain the Women's Society for Christian Service of the Upton Avenue Methodist church at her home 16 Grandview court at 2 p.

m. Thursday. Mrs. J. W.

Kay and Mrs. Milton Setterburg will be in charge of the program. The Clark unit of the WSCS of the First Methodist church will meet at the church Thursday for a 12:30 p. m. paid lunch.

Members are to take table service and are also asked to come early prepared to sew. Mrs. Raymond Dawson of 683 Northeast Capital avenue will entertain the Betsy Williams circle of the First Congregational church at her home for a dessert lunch Wednesday at 7:30 a. m. A program will follow.

Assisting the hostess will be Mrs. Russell Sly. Members of the Clara McDermid circle will serve as hostesses for the 1 o'clock luncheon of the WSCS of the Base Line Methodist church Thursday afternoon at the church. Mrs. Howard Wing in charge of the meeting which will follow, with Mrs.

Marcius Taber in charge of devotions and Mrs. Thomas Nelson as program chairman. It will be special guest day, and Mrs. Arthur Platsis, in native Greek costume, will give a talk on Greece. Add a little marjoram or dried mint to chopped spinach for added flavor.

Look at Latin America Train Ride Through a Jungle Is Like Traveling in Tunnel. The GI reporter finds that travel in the drowsy tropics doesn't run on time- ahead of time; nevertheless nothing offsets the overpowering feeling that you're at the end of the world. BY R. N. BRANSON morning ENTRE RIOS, -Because the trains in Guatemala are SO punctual that they often leave ahead of schedule, we hurried down to the station in Guatemala City this morning a half-hour early.

The train was already there, puffing impatiently in the station shed, and the engineer was drinking a last cup of coffee in the cab of his engine. The sun was still low and frosty behind the the rooftops of the city. We bought our tickets BRANSON quickly and climbed into a first class coach. At 7:25. five minutes before official departure time, the train could wait no longer.

It tooted a final warning to those foolhardy enough to believe in timetables and we rolled out of the station on the nine-hour downhill run to Entre Rios, a jungle village located only a few miles from the Atlantic on the tropical coastal plateau of Guatemala. There were three of us-Dr. Ben Horning of Battle Creek: Don Jose Palacies, a Guatemalan law student; and myself. The trains here are like toy trains. They run on narrow gauge track and the cars and locomotives seem about half the size of those in America.

The cars, painted a bright lemon yellow inside, are as clean and neat as everything else in Guatemala- the S' cond and class coaches where shoeless Indians ride to market with baskets of vegetables. On each open platform between cars stands a soldier with a carbine. presumably to prevent banditry and other mayhem. Through the train passes a vendor of cold drinks and sandwiches. At every station there are dark women selling boiled eggs and hot tortillas from baskets on their heads.

We rode down-hill all day, dropping fast around long curving sides of mountains, swaying and clicking with downward speed. At a stop called Zacapa we shed our coats in the noon heat and ran to eat lunch in a station dining room which reminded me of restaurants you find in the hotter parts of India-high ceilinged, heavily screened and shuttered against the insects and the sun, with ancient electric fans revolving slowly overhead. The waiters sprinted about like a college track team. snatching away half-finished bowls of soup and delivering two courses at a time because the train allows its passengers only 20 minutes for eating. In the middle of our dessert it tooted.

We dropped everything, paid our check and ran back our seats as the toy wheels began to turn. At a backwoods station whose name we did not discover, one of life's mysterious coincidences was enacted. We rolled up to a stone platform in such a manner that a man in a blue suit with a long cigarette holder was standing directly under our window when train stopped. Dr. Horning and the man stared at one another.

"Why, hello there, Ben." said the man. "Hello Jim." said Dr. Horning. "What are you doing down here, of all places?" "I've been in business down here for year. What about yourself?" "I'm just on a vacation.

What an odd way to meet. The train gave a jerk and started to move. "Well, goodbye!" "Goodbye!" "I haven't seen that fellow in 25 years." said Dr. Horning when the station was out of sight. "I can't even remember his last name and I don't believe he remembered mine.

but we used to be good friends somewhere in the States." The heat mounted as our altitude dropped. The humidity of the jungles seemed to magnify the power of the sun the way a burning glass does. The foliage grew dense and steamy--vividly green, splotched with heavy red and yellow fruit. Occasional alligators floated in the turquoise water of the Motagua river under our window, and there were birds with long reptilian necks which The cup that Picks you up. AT YOUR GROCERY OR MONARCHS MARKET.

ORANGE PEKOE BLACK! TEA REID MURDOCH MONARCH FINER TEA OUR MEAT DEPARTMENT is overstocked with cured and smoked meats, direct from our smoke house. Come and get it. Smoked Picnics, Slab Bacon, Bacon Squares, Smoked Hams. FULL LINE GROCERIES, FRUITS and VEGETABLES Visit Our Bargain Counter CLEMENTS' GROCERY Telephone 2-9339 Aubie and Corner Post Blanche and Grenville Mrs. Robert Fraser Elected PTSO Head Duties of School Board Members Discussed at Meeting.

Function and duties of school board members was discussed by Dr. Clyde M. Campbell of Michigan State college at a meeting of the Battle Creek high school PTSO in the high school last night. Development of the community school is a process from the cradle to the grave, Dr. Campbell told his school board should be inaudience, declaring, he believes terested in both adults as well as children.

Last night's meeting also was for election of PTSO officers, with Mrs. Robert Fraser being elected president; Mrs. John Dawson, first vice president; Edgar Harden, second president; Mrs. E. J.

Traut, third vice president; Mrs. Stanley Skidmore, treasurer; Mrs. Wardwell Montgomery, secretary; Mrs. Charles Hawk, historian, and the Rev. Oviatt Desmond, chaplain.

A discussion followed Dr. Campbell's talk and there was 8 social hour with Mrs. M. G. Corlett in charge of refreshments.

Patriotic Clubs The Mothers' Service club will meet at 8 p. m. Thursday at the YWCA. A demonstration program has been planned. KEEP YOUR DOG AT HIS BEST! KIBBLES Millers 80 PACKAGE 3b Dog Food Service League Hears About Youth Council Mrs.

Wendell H. Stadle, prestdent of Battle Creek Youth Guidance council, talked to members of the Service League at their monthly luncheon meeting Monday afternoon in the Hart hotel ballroom. She described how the council started in Michigan, giving its history and background, and how it was set Governor Kelly. Mrs. Stadle also outlined the history and background of the local council, was created following a sharp rise in juvenile delinquency.

The pattern behind delinquency, she said, is inadequate home supervision, especially in families where the mother was employed in defense work during the war. The local council, Mrs. Stadle said, is strengthening its old plans and formulating new ones for the youth of Battle Creek. Mrs. Charles V.

Perrett, league president, called on various committees for monthly reports. It was announced that tickets for "Soldier's Wife." which the league will present to benefit its welfare fund, are on sale. The Kalamazoo Civic Players will give the at 8:15 o'clock Saturday, March in Ann J. Kelplay, logg auditorium. Tickets may be exchanged for reserved seats March 25 at the Squier Music store.

Personals F. Campbell Bowers and son David of 58 Woolnough avenue have returned from a vacation spent in Florida. They spent two weeks on the Keys fishing and enother two kees at Miami Beach and in Sarasota. Mrs. Charles Blackmore of Grover Hill, is visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr.

and Mrs. Walter W. Blackmore, their daughter. Betty, and the younger Mrs. Blackmore's mother, Mrs.

M. R. Smith, all of 32 Yale. Miss Margaret Ann Corlett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

M. G. Corlett of 92 Garrison avenue, and Miss Joyce Redner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Redner of 51 Elizabeth, are spending their spring vacation with a group of classmates in New York City and Philadelphia.

Miss Shirley Becker is flying spend the vacation with homeato ents. Dr. and Mrs. H. F.

Becker of 47 Woolnough avenue. All the girls are students at Randolph-Macon college in Lynchburg, Va. Margaret Billings, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.

E. Billings of 373 Main who are now in Hollywood, has returned to Purdue university after spending two weeks between semesters with her parents in Florida. She recently was elected to Omicron Nu, national home economics honorary association, and is also new chairman of the judicial board of Associated Women Students. As chairman, she will attend a regional conference of mid-western schools at Northwestern university early in April. Parent-Teacher The Prairieview Parent-Teacher unit in co-operation with the Calhoun County Medical society is sponsoring an immunization clinic for diptheria and smallpox at 1:30 p.

m. Thursday at the school. The clinic will be open to all pre-school children in the area. and Dr. Wilma Rorich will be in attendance.

The annual dress luncheon" of the Parent-Teacher phouse, unit will be held at 1 p. m. Thursday in the Post school gymnasium. As the name of the event implies, members are to wear house dresses. They are also to bring their own table service.

Afterward Miss Grace Carley, music supervisor of the public schools, will talk on "Music in the Schools." With the Lodges Victory hive of the Maccabees will meet at 2 p. m. Wednesday in Carpenters hall for a business session. The Grand International Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers will meet at 2:30 p. m.

Thursday in Carpenters hall for a business session. This will be followed by a 6:30 p. m. cooperative supper for which members are to take table service, rolls and a dish to pass. The Social club of Battle Creek chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will meet at the Masonic temple for a short session 12:30 p.

m. Thursday, after which there will be a 1 o'clock potluck luncheon. Cards will be played in the afternoon. Spring Beauty Blooms with Our New PERMANENTS Make Your Appointment Early COOPER BEAUTY SALON 16 Capital, N. E.

Phone 2-0754 looked like a bad dream. We seemed to be in dark tunnel, a tunnel cut through a thick stratum of living things. Every few miles there was a clearing with a tiny village set in it. We got fleeting. glimpses of wooden buildings perched on stilts, with dogs men asleep on their porches, and then we were swallowed up in jungle once more.

A little before five o'clock we arrived at Entre Rios, our destination. Waiting to meet us there were Mr. and Mrs. Ted Holcombe, who had invited us to stay at their plantation home. Pulled up alongside the main track was their private railroad car, a little 12-passenger combination locomotive and automobile, which carried us an additional six miles into jungle long a track owned by United Fruit Co.

thee There, centered like a mirage in an oasis of velvety lawns and gardens and tennis courts and clipped green hedges, was the Holcombes' house -a large, yellow cottage-type house set six feet above the ground on stilts and half-encircled with cool dark, of verandahs. drinks; then there dinner, was with dinner music provided by birds and insects and a choir of screaming baboons in the surrounding jungle. You feel as though you were at the end of the world down here, isolated in a sea of green moving foliage and unseen prowling shapes which press in upon you from all sides. You seem to be living in defiance of the power of the jungle. Ted Holcombe, now a plantation superintendent for United Fruit, has been in the tropics for 14 years and is still fascinated by the life.

I will have more to say about him and about Mrs. Holcombe, both of whom are wonderful and interesting people. With the Clubs The Raymond School Community club will meet at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the school.

St. Philip Library association members will meet at 8 p. m. today in the Parish social hall. A short business session will be followed by "Hat Chat" by Robert Stevens and a coffee hour.

Mr. Stevens will demonstrate how hats are made and will re-style old hats taken by the members. The meeting is open to anyone interested. Mrs. J.

J. Sweet's and Mrs. J. J. Smith's circles will be in charge.

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