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MONDAY EVENING HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JUNE 24, 1940 Jume Weddings Mold Their leteest in News 12 Loretta Smith Tells Engagement Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Smith, 1901 Bellevue road, have announced the engagement of their daughte Miss Loretta M. Smith to Charles B.

Hendricks, son of John E. Hendricks of Penbrook. Miss Smith is a graduate of John Harris High School and Mr. Hendricks attended Tamaqua High School and is now employed by K. C.

Miller of New Cumberland as a painter. Meet Tuesday The Colonial Park W. C. T. will meet Tuesday evening, at 7.45 o'clock, at the home of Mrs.

G. Allen Kauffman on the Ridge, back of the golf links. Mrs. J. Ralph Davis will lead the devotional period and the subject "Character Education," will be discussed by Miss Kathryn Bolton.

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Elevator and janitor service. Beautiful view of river. Apply S. Wllhelm, Superintendent on premises. Phone 8 5816 4 Phone JL 3 1404 LEBANON OFFICE, 1245 CHESTNUT ST.

It's Fun to Wear Old Clothes While Fishing! B' 1 LOOK YOUR BEST AT HOME In business it pays to look well dressed. Goodman Cleaners will keep your summer clothes neat and clean and will you any fancy prices to do so. Goodman Cleaners PHONE 2 3004 OFFICE AND PLANT: 1418 II. 6th ST. Pupils to Give Two Recitals Violin and Piano Numbers Will Be Heard in Church Elementary students of Noah Klauss and Russell E.

Sheetz will be presented in a recital of com positions for violin and piano, to be eiven the auditorium or tne First Baptist White Temple, Sec ond and Pine streets, at 8 o'clock, tonight. The following students will be heard: Eugene Ellis Fisher, Rich ard L. Keys, Daniel Donavon, Betty Jane Finney, Robert M. Gast. Dorothy Rutherford, John Thompson, Nancy Brown, Ronald D.

Goodman, Joanna Russ, Geor gianna Brown, Paul Brown, Karl Zentmeyer, Louise Mildred Sellers, Adelia Mease, Rose Anna Ge feroff, Elma Jane Breidenstine, Eugene Rote, Marilyn Teskey, Florence Salinger, Gilbert Johnston, Raymond Mazza, Mae Moyer, Margaret Rote, Eleanor Mazza, Glenn Sullivan, Lucille Kepner, Carl Rossi, Ivan Plecker, Virginia Smith, Jack Cliffe. The following intermediate and advanced students will be presented tomorrow evening at the same time. Donald Rumney, Samuel Gingrich, Charlottee Browne, Clifford Walton, Ruth Ar lene Sheetz, Margaret E. Smith, John Enterline, Winifred Bower, Elizabeth Peterson, Madeline Pease, Betty Townsend, John Laverty, James Keys, Marian Louise Roming, Stanley Doe, Marian Kiefer, Leland Townsend, Ruth Elizabeth Reiff, Michael Pestelek, Jane Feehrer, Christine Hain, Vernon Latham, Charles Baker, Ralph Leiby, Ellen Espenshade, John Lebo, assisted by Ruth Parrett and Margaret Wormley. Special Meeting Tribe 60, Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, No.

174, will hold a special meeting tonight at 7 o'clock at the Brotherhood Building, Sixth and Maclay streets. Hostesses for the social hour following the meeting are Mrs. Gladys Scheifer, Mrs. Lucy McAllister and Mrs. Mary Snyder.

Annual Picnic Blue Mountain Division No. 137 G. I. A. to B.

of L. E. will hold its annual picnic Wednesday afternoon and evening June 26 at Community Park, Eighteenth and. Verbeke Reunion The Nell reunion will be held Sunday, June 30, at Willow Mills Park. Dlsease t'arryin Vermin ROACHES, BED BUGS, rkEHO, Mil Id, llHId MilfC Don't Tolerate Exterminate i CALL 1 107 MARKET HARRISBURG not charge Men's Suits and Ladies' Plain Dresses 65' Men's White Suits Slightly More On July 1st Anthracite Prices Advance Only a few more days to buy Anthracite Egg, Stove, Nut and Pea at low June prices.

Following a long time custom of anthracite mine owners, price advances are scheduled for July, August and September. Coal prices follow the law of supply and demand. In warm weather demand is light and prices down. You save money by buying in the off season. What a glorious feeling when Jack Frost eomes, to know you filled your coal bins when the cost was low.

UNITED ICE COAL CO. Telephone 6121 4J Ensminger Studio. MRS. ROBERT K. CULVER before her marriage Saturday morning in Wormleysburg United Brethren Church, was Miss Jeanne Schelhas, of Wormleysburg.

Miss Ruth Mark Wed to Dr. Klitch The marriage of Miss Ruth Anna Mark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mark, Hagerstown, and Dr. George M.

Klitch, son of Mrs. Minnie Klitoh, 1406 Market street, was performed Saturday afternoon in Christ Lutheran Church, Hagerstown, with the Rev. Fesperman, pastor, of ficiating. The wedding music was played by Mrs. Ernest' Shultz, of Cash town, organist and Mrs.

E. D. Miller was soloist. The bride was attended by Miss Catherine Wagner, of Hagerstown, as maid of honor, and the bridesmaids were Miss Margaret Byer, also of Haeerstown. and Miss Rita Shultz, of Gettysburg.

Marilyn Jo Shultz. of Shepherdstown, was flower girl. Ehert Klitoh. of this city, at tended the bridegroom as best man and the ushers were James Stone. Daniel Mark, and George Draper, of Hagerstown, and L.

P. Clements, of Annville. The home of the bride parents was the scene of a reception following the wedding and Dr. and Mrs. Klitch left immediately for a wedding trip through the New England States.

Mrs: Klitch was graduated irom Hagerstown High School and T.ehanon Valley College, while Doctor Klitch, who was also graduated from Lebanon Valley College, is an interne at the Polyclinic Hospital, after his graduation from Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia. Thev will be at home after June 27 at 1404 Market street. Evelyn Kapp Is Married in Church ThP Church of Christ. Lemoyne, was the scene Saturday morning of the marriage of Miss fcvelyn Kann. dauehter of Mr.

and Mrs. Harry Kapp, 818 Hummel avenue, Lemoyne, to George F. Wright stone, son of Mrs. Edith Wright stone. Shiremanstown.

with the pastor, the Rev. Clarence H. Schnars, officiating. The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, wore a white lace gown with a shoulder veil of net falling from a shirred halo, and carried a shower bouquet of white roses and lilies of the valley. Miss Doris Kapp attended her sister and Albert Wrightstone was his brother's attendant.

Mrs. Robert Lytle, New Cumberland, aunt of the bride, was hostess at a reception following the ceremony and Mrs. Wright stone chose a green chiffon ensemble for her wedding trip. The bride was graduated from Lemoyne High School while Mr. Wrightstone was graduated from Mechanicsburg High School and is employed by the Works Progress Administration.

Will Present Pupils in Concert The beginner and intermediate piano pupils of Naomi G. James will be presented in recital tomorrow evening at the Phyllis Wheatley Branch Y. w. C. A.

The following will participate Byard Dorsey, Charles Johnson, Lettra Freeman, Arnita Curtis, Edward Slade, Dolores James, Calvin Macon, Carolyn Ann Warrnick, Alice Frye, Leonard Dixon, Esther Johnson, Kathenne Spradley, Clara Frye, Rosamund Johnson, Betty Walker, Sylvia Duffan, Eleanor Duffan and Ophelia Banks, Christine Nelson and Leila Clarke will be aides. Return Home Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mast, Mrs. T.

J. Harvey and Mrs. Ben Harvey have returned from a week's tour of the New England states. Stork News Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Keen, 2033 Whitehall street, have announced the birth of a daughter at the Har risburg Hospital, June 21, 1940. Mrs. Keen was formerly Miss Mary Parker. Mr. and Mrs.

John F. Twomey, 50 Taylor boulevard, have an nounced the birth of a daughter at the Harrisburg Hospital, June 21, 1940. Mrs. Twomey is the former Miss Helen Bayer. Community Theatre Ball Goses Successful Year DEAR MARIAN: The Harrisburg Community Theatre dance on Saturday night was a great success with large attendance and a number of parties before the ball.

Dr. Stanton N. Bordner, the new president, gave an informal talk, congratulating the players of the past season and predicting all kinds of good things for next year. The American ship Washington which brought so many refugees from war zones to this country, had among its passengers, in addition to those of whom I wrote you last week, a number of others in 'whom we are interested. The three greatgrandchildren of Mrs.

William H. Bradley, Front and State streets, now at her sum mer home, "Donegal," were among the "Washingtons passengers, coming with their nurse from England. They are children of Mr. and Mrs. Collaredo Mansfeld and grandchildren of Mr.

and Mrs. J. Gardner Bradley, and are with the Bradleys at their summer home, Welham, Mass. Mr. Collaredo Mansfeld, an Austrian by birth, is a naturalized American citizen and is in England on business.

Mrs. Collaredo Mansfeld is also in England. Mrs. Georse S. Smail and her son John, and dauehter.

Virginia, of Cairo, Egypt, who have been spending the winter bcotiand, were also on the Washington. Mrs. Smail, the former Miss Kathryn Wharton, is the daughter of Mrs. Richard M. H.

Wharton, Front and Locust streets, who is now at her summer home Rose Balcony near Boiling Springs. Thelma Neff Bride of J. R. Speidel Miss Thelma Neff, daughter of Samuel Neff, Grantham, became the bride of J. Ross Speidel, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Norman Speidel, also of Grantham, Thursday evening, in the State Street United Brethren Church, with the Rev. A. K. Weir, pastor, officiating.

Miss Viola Gardner, of this city, played the wedding music and ac companied Earl Miller, music director at Grantham College, vocalist. The bride was attended by her: sister, Miss Evelyn Neff, as maid of honor and the bridesmaids were Miss Pauline Speidel, of Lebanon, sister of the bridegrpom; Miss Betty Getz, Miss Mildred Donner and Miss Doris Albright, all of Mechanicsburg, with Miss Shirley Neff, of Grantham, and Miss Lois Engle, of Shiremanstown, as flower girls. Mr. Speidel was attended by his brother, Robert Speidel, as best man and the ushers were Robert Weber, of Mechanicsburg; Nicholas Ivanhoff of Steelton, and James Harr and Darnel Hall, of this city. Mr.

and Mrs. Speidel left after a reception at the home of the bride's parents for a wedding trip to Texas, and after August 1, they will be at home in Grantham. Mrs. Speidel was graduated from Messiah Bible College, Grantham and is employed by the Grantham Manufacturing Company, while her husband was graduated from Technical High School and Bennett Institute of Music, and attended the University of Michigan. Mihalcik Bortner The Rev.

Harold E. Keller of ficiated Saturday morning at the marriage in St. Francis Catholic Church, of Miss Agnes Marie Bortner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.

E. Bortner, 1503 Herr street, and George E. Mihalcik, of Jed nota. Mrs John E. Nangle attended her sister as matron of honor and the other attendants of the bride, who was given in marriage by her father, were Mrs.

David F. Zeiders and Miss Evelyn Rob inson. Mr. Mihalcik, the son of Mr. and Mrs.

George C. Mihalcik, had as best man. Joseph Mihalcik, his brother, and the ushers were Steven Matula and Joseph ine stock. A receotion at the home of the bride's parents followed the ceremony and Mr. Mihalcik and his hride left for a wedding trip to the Poconos by motor.

They will be at home after July 1, at zuw Herr street. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mihalcik were graduated from Catholic High School and he is employed at the Telegraph Press. Club Hostess Mrs.

William Parson. Redwood street. Proeress. will be hostess to the Mothers'' Club of Boy Scout Troop No. 79, sponsored ay tne Progress Church of God, at 8 n'rlnrk tomorrow evening.

Mrs. W. B. Kline will be in charge of devotions, the program wiu oe directed by Mrs. Parson and Mrs.

Ralph Wilhelm will be in onarge of the social hour. At Convention Miss Bettv Tvler. 2260 Boas street, Penbrook, left yesterday for Philadelphia, where she will serve as an assistant sergeant at arms, for the Republican National Convention. Mrs. Smail and John Smail remained in New York for hospitalization needed by John for ear trouble.

Mrs. Wharton and another daughter, Mrs. Michael Eggar were in New York to meet Mrs. Smail, and Virginia Smail, returned with them to Rose Balcony. Mr.

and Mrs. Eggar and then sons of Alexandria, Egypt, are also guests of Mrs. Wharton. Mrs. Charles Wintour, the former Miss Eleanor Baker, who went to England only a few months ago to be married, returned to this country on the Washington.

She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Baker of Cambridge, formerly of this city. Mr.

Wintour, the son of Major General Charles Wintour is in the English army and has been fighting in France. Kitty Kunkel, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. Minster Kunkel, 120 State street, will leave about July 1 for Camp Red Wing for the summer.

Margaret Masters, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Masters, River Road, will also spend the summer at Camp Red Wing, and Frank M. Masters, will be in Camp Red Cloud.

W. Minster Kunkel, Jr. will be host tonight at a dinner party at the Harrisburg Country Club before the Seiler School Welfare Fund dance at the Civic Club. His guests will be Miss Emily Long, Miss Nancy Leighton and Miss Mary Ella Eckman of Lancaster; Dwight Ashby, William Shaffer and Fred Smoot. Council Installs New Officers Silver Star Council No.

130, Sons and Daughters of Liberty at a meeting in Malta Temple, 607 North Second street, Thursday evening nominated the following officers: Councilor, Oliver Fisher; associate councilor, Miss Mary Fisher; vice councilor, Miss May Swenson, associate vice councilor, Mrs. Grace Thompson; recording secretary, Mrs. Carrie N. Blymire; associate recording secretary, Mrs. Mary Craver; financial secretary, Mrs.

Catherine E. Gilbert; Mrs. Mary E. Bitner; guide, Mrs. Dorothy Long; inside guard, Mrs.

Catherine Stoner; outside guird, Mrs. Mary Swenson; trustee for eighteen months, Oliver Fisher; pianist, Mrs. Anna Weaver. Other officers are trustees, Mrs. Martha Gilbert and Mrs.

Mary Craver; representative to State Council, Mrs. Martha Gilbert and alternate representative, Harry D. Gilbert, junior past councilor, Harry D. Gilbert, and junior past associate councilor, Mrs. Elizabeth Keyser.

After the Council meeting a birthday party was held for the members whose birthdays are the month of June. Council will hold a picnic in the rear future and will attend the reunion of the Southern Middle Dis trict Visitation Association of Dau phin, Cumberland, Lebanon and Perry counties which will be held at Hoffer's Park, Middletown, on Saturday, June 29. Club lo Meet The Perdix Civic fClub will meet Tuesday at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. C. A.

Glaser, Perdix. WPA Quizzes Every Man on "Ism" Affiliations The WPA in Pennsylvania will send out at the end of this month questionnaires asking every man on work relief if he is a Nazi, a Communist, or a Fascist. An affirmative reply will cost the man his plan on the work relief rolls. The regulation is contained in the new Federal appropriation which becomes effective July 1. A spokesman for the WPA said the questionnaires Constituted the only move the organization could make since there is no investigating force or special allocation to pursue the process further.

Harrisburg Veteran Honored at Shamokin Don F. Manahan, member of Harrisburg Camp, No. 8, Spanish War Veterans since it was chartered January 17, 1905, was named senior vice commander of the Department of Pennsylvania at the recent encampment at Shamokin. He is a former commander and present quartermaster of Harrisburg Camp. Recently he was retired by the Pennsylvania Railroad after thirty nine years service, twenty five of which were as foreman of the mechanical department.

Music Course Opens Registrations and assignment of instruments were made today at the John Harris and William Penn High Schools for the annual Harrisburg Summer School of Music. Ulna F. Goodall, music instructor at John Harris, announced the six weeks' term, which opened today, will close August 2. Grace Church Nuptial Scene Rachel Tittle, Joseph Hoffman Are Married Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Tittle, 3224 North Second street, have announced the marriage of their daughter Miss Rachel Tittle, to Joseph Hoffman, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Charles Hoffman, of Hum, melstown. The ceremony was performed in Grace Methodist Church, Saturday, at 6.30 o'clock, and was followed by a large reception at the Penn Harris.

The Rev. Dr. Wilbur V. Mal lalieu, pastor of the church, was the officiating clergyman and Harold Barker was at the organ. Cibotium ferns, palms and white gladioli! and Annunciation lilies were used for decorations.

Mr. Tittle gave his daughter in marriage. She was gowned in white lace marquisette made with tight bodice, high neckline out lined with tiny niching. The sleeves, puffed at the top, were long and the full skirt fell in a long train. The veil of tulle had a coronet edged in white rosebuds and the bridal bouquet was of white stephanotis, bouvardia and carnations.

Mrs. John Hollands was matron of honor and the bridesmaids were Mrs. Charles H. Rich, of Marietta; Mrs. William McClure, of Paterson, N.

Miss Martha Carl, Camp Hill; Miss Dorothea Ilgen, Miss Virginia Wilson and Mrs, Clarence Tittle. Their gowns of marquisette were in rose shades, Mrs. Hoi lands, very dark and the others ranging through medium shades to pale pink. They wore floral headdresses and carried roses, larkspur and carnations harmoniz ing with their gowns. Theodore Morgenthaler was the best man and the ushers were Clarence S.

Tittle, John C. Kelley, Washington; Edgar Schroyer, of Bronsville, N. James Bobb, of Hershey; John Mowery, of Me chanicsburg. Mrs. Tittle wore a gown of Alencon lace in an aquatone, and Mrs.

Hoffman was gowned in deep blue georgette. Their flow ers were orchids. Shower For Bride The Senior Choir of Messiah Lutheran Church entertained recently at a dinner in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Snavelv of Palmdale.

Before her marriage, last month, Mrs. Snavely was Miss Helen Lucille Fleisher, a member of the choir. Those attending Mr. and Mrs. Robert Snavely, Mi'ss Kathleen Oyster, Miss Marian Morris, Mrs.

Grace Fleisher. Miss Ellen Slothower, Miss Irene Bressler, Miss Jfidna Eggert, Robert Mathias, Miss Anna Coup, Mrs. Grace El ber, Mrs. Lottie Miller, Mr. and Mrs.

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Miss Sarah Margaret Zerfing, daughter of Mrs. Daniel F. Zerfing, of Dun cannon, became the bride of George H. Sollenberger, of Chicago, Saturday. Mr.

Sollenberger is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Sollenberger, of Greencastle. The ceremony was performed at 4.30 o'clock in the home of the bride's mother by the Rev.

Allen L. Bowe, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Walter Ewald, of Philadelphia, was matron of honor, Mrs. Richard Swank and Miss Marjorie Zerfing, of Duncannon, was bridesmaids.

Mrs. John A. Bellis, of Lam bertville, N. played the wedding music. Elbert P.

Carter, was best man. The bride was graduated from Wilson College. Mr. Sollenberger received his degree in Chemical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State College in 1937, and is now midwestem representative of the plastics division of the Rohm and Haas Company, of Philadelphia. They will reside in Chicago.

AOH Meet The Ancient Order of Hibernians will meet at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in Cathedral Hall, Church and North streets. The Auxiliary will also meet at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening, in the IPenn Harris Hotel is purchased in order that a certain lady may wear the acknowledged emblem of sentiment and betrothal. The purity brilliancy perfection and general fineness of that diamond should be worthy of the sentiment it expresses. THIRD ST. OPEN EVENINGS Sarah Crpntr Bensel SCOTCH SERVICE 49c Try this service it's the best in Harrisburg: at this low price.

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2H Sr 'i Ensminger Studio. MRS. KENNETH CAMPBELL the former Miss Erma Jones as she appeared at her marriage June 9 in the Progress Church of God. Mrs. Loewen to Address Club Mrs.

Helen U. Loewen will speak at a meeting of the Women's Republican Club of the Thirteenth Ward, at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, at the home of Mrs. Lena Pike, 1928 Kensington street. Mrs. Loewen, Mrs.

Henrietta Beck and Mrs. David Carr will be guests of honor at a covered dish supper, following the business session. Family Reunion The annual Rhinehart reunion will take place Sunday, June 30, at Willow Mills Park. Mrs. William Carroll, 106 Conoy street, is president of the family organiza tion.

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