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The News-Herald from Franklin, Pennsylvania • Page 10

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THE NEWS-IIERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2iC: Flotoer Exhibit Will Feature Meeting of Belles Lettres Club MAN KILLED ON HIGHWAY AT RENO IS BURIED IN 27. JOSEPH'S CEMETERY A bleb mati of requiem in memory of Nicholas Burke, who wag fatally scDOEiry WOMEN'S NEWS PERSONALS CLUBS Elisabeth Pollard Blank, Editor Offlc 4360 Residence S656-R. church, will present a program of IN HOMES WHERE LITTLE CHILDREN LIVE ENE02AI EEL EC IT ID DC Can Be Relied Upon To Protect Their Health The food they eat, the milk they drink always pure, fresh and clean. Refrigeration that will constantly stand guard Over their health day and night. Hundreds of delicious frozen deserts so pleasing to children can quickly and easilv be made.

One Out of Every Three Is a General Electric FROM the tiny cottages on MnpTe Street to the mansions on the hill from the little crossroad hamlets to the thundering, roaring cities in every type and class of home everywhere! out of every 5 electric refrigerators is a General Electric Think of it! In five short years the preference of the buying public for General Electric has been so marked that it has won its place in 1 out of 3 homes having modern refrigeration a gleaming record seldom equalled in sales history. One out of 3 homes your neighbors know a General Electric Refrigerator is the finest investment they ever made know its peerless, uninterrupted service its proved economy and the multiple savings it has brought to their homes. Tomorrow you can join the fortunate "1 out of 3." A few dollars sums this sterling refrigeration service in your 1 own home. Make this splendid and lasting investment notv for you need I it now and forever! There's size to -fit your needs a price and payment clan to fit your purse. w3r iafa 'A A.

DCWN Injured when etruek by automobile on the Reno-Oil City highway, near the ball field Labor Day, wm cele brated at 0 o'clock this morning In St. Joaonh'i church. The pastor, Ker. V. A.

Lynch, officiated. Music for the mam was sung by the church choir, with Mrs. Mary Hreene presiding at the organ. At the blessing, Mri. Itlchard Foley sang "To Thee Heart of Jesus." Burial was made in the new St.

Joseph's cemetery, with the following acting as pall-bearers Henry Rhode, Harold Conrad, Emanuele Gonzales, Robert Kramer, Anthony Martone, and Lee llazlett. The following out-of-town relatives and friends attended the services Mrs. C. rarilloa and son, A. Hose, J.

Rose, and 1). Kelch, of Glrard. Pa. M. Farletta, of Toronto, Canada Mrs.

Annie Jimmy and Annie and Ralph Jimmy, of Greenwood. and Mrs. Mary Altier, of Archibald, I'a. speaker said, in explaining the value of the new to Oil City. With advanced learning becoming more necessary, additional equipment is necessary to house the increasing number of pupils.

The laying of the cornerstone was declared to be an important step in the advancement of the educational life of this city and vicinity because of the fact that the new annex will le the cornerstone of a greater and more fficient school svstem in il City. The building will be a big factor in the pre paring of future genet a inns to meet life's problems, he said. The members of the school board and officials of the Y'. Holmes Crodhy architects drawing plans for the structure, and the L. O.

Bompun contractors in charge of the building work, were present, in addition to teachers and others. The present hoard composed of R. M. Stanton, W. H.

Flann. H. A. Manheim. George Ebert and A.

S. Turner. City police and lire departments as. Fisted in preventing any traffic diffi culty at the site during the ceremony. The following articles had previous-been placed in the stone, upon which some person had written "1931 the last year of the great depres sion Directory (names, addresses, sub- ects.

grades taught by teachers, 1931- 1932. including names of Board members, school calendar). Directory, 1030-11)31. Organization of September 932. Organization and Registration, Sep tember IS.

1931. Results of State Department of Pub lic Instruction Oues- ionnaire of September, 3931. List of teachers, showing salaries, experience and certification, 19.31-32. 'Sheet describing standards of living, ndustries, wholesale and retail trade outlets, population, of Oil Citv. Descriptive pamphlet of Oil City.

Teachers' Manual, Oil City Public Schools. A brief statistical report for school year of 1930-31 (average daily attendance of pupils, analysis of costs, pupil failures). Commencement program, Class of 1930. Commencement program, Class of 1931. List of bonds outstanding, 1931.

Pamphlet "The Facts Regarding the Proposed Bond Issue to Carry on a School Building Program" (1931). Copy of of Oil City schools, conducted by the Department of Public Instruction, 1030-1931. Copies of local newspapers giving account of bond issue, details of awarding of contracts for new buildings, etc. Three photographs 'Senior High School Girls' (Wee club, 1931-1932; Senior High School Boys' Glee club, 1931-1932; Senior High School Orchestra, 1931-1932. A daughter was born to Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Kelley, 153 Colbert avenue, at the Oil City hospital this morning. an V. for 2 18 and 24 Months to Pay the Balance Keystone Public Service Co. FRANKLIN OIL CITY TITUSVILLE Shakespeare Scenes Are Presented.

Three hundred members and friends of the Belles Lettres club of this city were the guests of Mrs. A. C. Morck, it hep summer estate. Chomor, "Wed nesday evening, and were entertained with dramatic presentations of scenes from three of Shakespeare's famous nlavs.

"As You Like It," "Twelfth Night" and "The Tempest." The plays were presented under the direction of tMrs. Anna W. Chambers In the (beautiful gardens at Chamor. Appearing in the Boene from "As Xou Like It" were Polly Egbert as "Rosalind," Miss Sally Chase as 'Celia," and Miss Mary Louise Robin son as Orlando. Mrs.

Helen Saltumann Moran Inter preted the role of "Olivia" in the ecene from "Twelfth Night," included In the cast were Miss Eleanor Lay as "Viola," Miss Ruth Ramage as "Maria" and Leah Merrltt, Dorothy Shields, Nancy Brown and Jane Rob inson, as attendants. Misses Elizabeth iSelden, Lillian Robinson, Augusta Morck and Eliza zeth Hart presented the scene from "The Temnest." with Miss Mart, as "Ariel," interpreting the graceful dance in the act. Interspersing the scenes, music was nlaved hv an orchestra under the di rection of (Major Olmes. Mrs. NoruMin II.

MeCorrniek entertained with several violin solos, accompanied by Mrs. Raymond Henry. Forty-six members of the Shakespeare club of Warren were guests at the affair, and included among the Belles Lettres club guests were two charter members of the club, Mrs. "William H. Wise and Mrs.

W. R. Barr. Expect Large Crowd at Dance. The farewell dance which the entertainment committee of the Oil City Boat club at Rockmere will sponsor next Saturday evening, in honor of students who leave soon for schools and colleges, is expected to attract a capacity crowd, and every detail is being arranged for one of the season's most successful and enjoyable social affairs.

Sk-ores of prominent schools, col leges and universities are expected to be represented Iby local alumni, and pennants and banners of their respective alma irxater will be displayed by the guests in the grand march, which wilt inaugurate the evening's program. Ted Williamson and his orchestra have been secured to furnish the musical inspiration for the dancing, and the band master sftrs that he has arranged a medley of catchy and popular college tunes in honor of the col-legiate occasion. Decorations will be appropriate, and Miss Betty Irwin has been named as chairman of the committee to arrange artistic decorative background for the dance. The affair will be for members of the club and their invited guests. Din ner will be served at the club preced ing the dance.

P. Society Meets. Mrs. Thomas Braham, Mrs. Philip Davis and Mrs.

Lulu Davis were hostesses for the tureen dinner served at noon Wednesday in conjunction with the. all-day meeting of the Women's Missionary society of the UDited Presbyterian church. Covers were laid 12. The business session followed at :30 o'clock and was opened with prayer by Mrs. lEHeanor Hays.

Mrs. Ethel Frank led the devotional period and the questionnaire was con ducted by Miss Anna Love. Activities for the fall and winter were discussed and announcement was made that the next meeting will be held on the first Wednesday in Oc tober, with Mrs. Burchfield, Mrs. Mary Firster and Mrs.

William Foster as hostesses. Mrs. Exley Will Broadcast Ethei iMiller Exley, 206 Bishop avenue, well-known piano sollst and teacher, and organist of Trinity M. E. BY GOLD GOLD VYHILH A STATESMAN -1 A STATESMAN That is another thino- A STATESMAN IS A MAN WHO CfT expects, to do SOMETHING FOR xjtl i.iLirv1.

1 as I piano numbers over WLBW this eve- nmg. The program will begin at 8 :45 o'clock and continue for a l'5-nilnute period. Mrs, will play four numbers, by famous composers. They are as follows: "Midsummer Dusk," Muerter. "Liebestraume," No.

3, Liszt. "Ducks in the Pond" (Bam Dance) Rogers. "Romance," Schumann. Mrs. Exley's friends in this city will ne pleased to hear that she will broad cast a program over the Pittsburgh station, KDKA, on Tuesday, Septem ber 20, from 3 :15 to 3 :30 o'clock.

Her numbers for the out-of-town broadcast have not yet been announced. 16 Golfers at Club Today. Today was ladies' day on the eolf links of the Wanango Country club and l'ti women golfers took part In the qualifying matches for the President's cup. Luncheon was sorted at the club at noon. Lee Korker entertained at dinner at the club Wednesday evening, honoring Merrick Phelps, who will leave soon to locate In Texas.

Covers were laid for IS, and out-of-town guests were Miss Kathleen Robinson, Miss Eleanor Maybe and Miss Clarice Davis, of New Haven. Conn. Theodore Averv. of Pony, Randall Cox, of Boston. and Mr.

and Mrs. Heirrv F. A11- dretta, of Hartford, Conn. Forty-six women of Warren, mem bers of the Shakespeare club of that ciyt, had dinner at the club last eve ning, and later attended Belles Lettres club affair at Chamor to witness the Shakespearean dramatic presentation. C.

D. of A. Holds First Meeting. The fi.rst fall meeting of the court of St. Rita, Catholic Daughters of America, was held in the Knights of Columbus home Wednesday evening, with a good attendance.

Miss Josephine Plante, grand regent, presided at the meeting. Plans were made for a series of private social af- fai.rs to be held during the fall and winter months to raise money for meeting the community fund obligations. Definite plans for the parties will be announced later. Aid Has All-Day Meeting. An all-day meeting and their September business session was held by the Ladies' Aid society of Bethel M.

E. church in the parlors of the church on Wednesday. A tureen luncheon was served at noon, with covers laid for 2. Mrs. Ethel John, president, presided at the business session during the afternoon, and devotions were led by-Mrs.

C. C. iMohney. The next meeting will be an all-day quilting session in the church in two weeks. Westway Club Picnics.

Fifteen members of the Westway club attended the annual picnic which was held Wednesday afternoon and evening at Hasson park. A picnic dinner was servel at 5:30 o'clock, with Mrs. Harriet Hiwdller chairman of the committee. It was announced that the next regular meeting of the club will be held Tuesday evening in the home of Mr. Ethel Balph, of Hoffman, avenue.

Will Entertain Garden Club. The regular meeting of the Garden club will be held in the home of Mrs. Eugene Liebel, 11 West 3rd street, at 2:30 o'clock next Monday afternoon, September 12. The guest speaker for the afternoon will be Rhea F. Ellioet, president of the Elliott Nursery company, who will speak on "Plants and Their Proper Handling." Rebekahs Will Meet.

The regular meeting of Ella Rebekah lodge, No. 36. will toe held in the Odd Fellows temple at 8 o'clock Friday eve ning. Mrs. Lina Williams, noble grand, will conduct the lodge session, which will be followed by a social hour and team practice.

E. C. SEGAR CRNLY. THW'S WrtWI V. an at at of the An exhibition of summer garden flowers, featuring the artistic arrangement of flowers nnd a display of the finest specimens of dahlias, zinnias and gladioli, will be held by the Belles Lettres club, in conjunction with their first regular meeting of the fU Bt'a" sou, in the Holies Lettres ciuu nouse on West First street Friday afternoon.

The meeting will open at 2:30 o'clock with the president, Mrs. Arthur Seep, presiding. There will be a short business session, and delegates will be chosen to attend the convention of the State Federation of Pennsylvania Wo. men, to be held in Philadelphia during the week of October 10. England has been chosen as the top ic for this season's study program, and the subject of "English Gardens" will be treated at this first meeting.

This is an esjHHdally appropriate discussion, held as it is in conjunction with the annual flower exhibition. Mrs. Edward R. Gnade will present the topic of "Romance of English Gar dens," and the afternoon's musical program will include two piano solos. 'Lotus (Cyril Scott) and 'Country Gardens" (Percy Grainger), by Judson E.

Trax. This will be an open meeting, and members of the club are privileged to nvite guests. Miss Augusta Morck, chairman of he garden committee, and Miss Vir ginia eaoh. vice chairman, are in barge of the flower display, ami W. li.

Smith, of the Oak wood Hose Gardens, has been secured to judge the displays. Prizes will be awarded for the best arrangement of flowers in both large and small bowls, the most artistic arrangement of flowers in large and small vases, and for the finest specimens of dahlias, zinnias and gladioli. The flowers used in the dis plays in the bowls and vases need not be grown by the exhibitor, but the dahlias, zinnias and gladioli must be the products of the exhibitors' gardens. At the conclusion of the afternoon's session a social hour will be held and tea will be served, under the direction of the entertainment committee. Mrs.

Frank C. Hutchison is chairman of the committee, and Mrs. B. Wood Is vice chairman. For the convenience of those who are unable to attend the meeting, the flowers will remain on exhibition in the club auditorium from to 8 o'clock, and after that hour will be sold.

IW BCBEf A daughter was born this mornin? to Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Hanksou at their home at 202 West street.

Mrs. Ethel Miller Kxley. teachey of piano, announces registration for fall classes beginning 7. Plraire 3393. Marjaret Downing McGuire, of 32i.nl and Cascade streets, Erie, has tiled a divorce in Erie county court against" Martin McG-ire, of Oil City, alleging desertion.

They were married July 3, and separated September 5, 1928. William Anderton, of Oil City, was one of the five students from the Erie diocese attending the American college in Rome who were presented to Pope rius at the Vatican City on AVednes-day by Bishop John Mark Gannon, of Erie, Ta. Private funeral services in memory of Miss Amanda Groser will be conducted In the Ose-nider chapel at 2 :30 o'clock Friday afternoon. Dr. Norris A.

White, pastor of Grace M. E. church, will officiate, and burial will be made in the Rynd Farm cemetery. The first fall meeting of the Oil City Ministerial Association will be held at the Y. M.

C. A. at 10:30 o'clock on Monday morning when Dr. Benjamin Bunn Royer. pastor of thf.

First Presbyterian church at Franklin, will present the paper, "The Revival of Worship." Iean Ilollenbeck, of Clapp Farm, had three fingers severely lacerated when the jack with which he was raising a car slipped at the Chevrolet garage on Main street where he is employed. It was first feared that amputation would be necessary, but he is reported as improving. An opportunity will be afforded this evening for all veterans, whether or not members of the Veterans of Foreign AVars, to register for work on highway jobs at the open meeting of the Francis B. Pritchard post of the F. W.

which will be held at the armory this evening. City Engineer B. B. Weber delivered address on "Drake Memorial Park" the regular meeting of the Oil City Kiwanis club on Wednesday. Guests the 'meeting included Frank Robinson, of Findlay, O.

F. II. Hayes, of JMilwnukee, Wis. James B. llaskins, Howard1 City, Rev.

J. C. Malloy, of Oil City. The following patients have been admitted to the Oil City hospital within past 21 hours William 212 East Fourth street Louis Knarr, 10 Mylan street; Mrs. Arthur Kelly, 153 Colbert avenue; Mrs.

Douglass Barber, J033 West Second street; Mrs. Harry Small, 330'2 Seneca street; George Williams, 4fi West Fourth street. Patients discharged were: Mrs. William IMtchell, Cooperstown Ruth Knight, Knox; Mrs. DeRoy Lewis, 1013 East Second street; Sadie Dyson, Rouseville.

PERSONALS Mrs. W. E. K. Bartlett and son.

Jack, of Glenvlew avenue, have returned from a month's vacation at Georgian Bay and other points in northern Canada. 1 Major nnd Mrs. William H. Ward-Tell, of Montreal, Canada, are visiting Mr. and Mrs.

Frank O. Wardwell. school body which now numbers more than l.WO. Mr. Baum then introduced Dr.

Thomas Grier Koontz, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, who pronounced the invocation for the ceremony. As the bright morning sun shone down upon a crowd of students and their elders gathered about a mass of steel and stone which will within a lew mourns lie transformed into a headquarters for the installing of fundamentals which will be needed in the later lives of the students, the rectangular stone was slowly and carefully moved into place. Following the setting of the stone Mr. Baum spoke of the many local people who assisted in making the new-annex possible, and told of the bond issue passed several months ago whicn will permit the completion of a expansion program In the Oil City school district. Although many have played important parts in the preparing for and actual erection of the new annex, the superintendent aid, there is probably no one who deserves more credit for the most recent project than the president of the school board, Robert M.

Stanton. iMr. Stanton then delivered a brief address in which he spoke of the present school system. Because of the complications of modern life, it is necessary that educational facilities be more complex and more extensive, the GUMPS CHEERS School Superintendent R. A.

Baum and President Stanton of Board Speakers at Cere-, mony Crowd on Hand. MANY ARTICLES DEPOSITED Several hundred high school students, a large number of local residents, officials of the Oil City school district, members and former members of the hoard of education, and construction officials witnessed the laying of the corner stone of the new annex to the Senior High school at a brief but impressive ceremony today. The event took place at the Graff street side of the hnilding near the east side. The cornerstone will he een as a prt of the wall near the entrance to the new building. Classes of the Senior High school were dismissed for a short period in order to permit all students of the building to witness the ceremony, and the large crowd occupied practically all available space til the street, 0:1 the sidewalk, and in and around the partly constructed Oust think op Laid sines but.

dins: tor a wide radius. At o'clock Trof. K. A. Baum.

of the Oil City school district, opened the ceremony with a brief but meaty address in which he spoke of building of the present Senior High-school and the many who have received their high school training in the three-story building now in use. Thirty-three years ago the cornerstone of the old building was laid, Mr. Haum stated, and only three men who were instrumental in the erection of the present school remain to take part in the activities incidental with the providing of the and modern annex. The three men were present and occupied places on the platform with the present officials. They ore J.

T. Meals, builder of the Senior High school which was dedicated in 1S08, C. II. Weaver, chairman of the building committee of the school board at that time, and T. J.

Callanan, chairman of the teai hers commitee of the board in A generation has separated the dedications of the two buildings, Mr. liaum said, 1:1 speaking of the Senior 1 THE it, in I oon't THE WJPE Of THE I7V NOT IT BLINDLY-. 1-4 nyW WHERE ARE -vi-ne4V3 VW I ,1 rt Blew A UMm FROM THE GALLERY A POLITICIAN THAT'S. WHERE YOU'RE VslRONCr- BELIEVE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT 7A NOT ENTERING- INTO THI MEMMS TO BE -jj NX VfY Ai'-M jt-'-W gr PRESIDENT- I'M ONUV -SAYlM6i SUPPOSE I RAN AMD IT ISN'T THAT TWINGr AS. A That i object STATESMAN TO- ANDY BUT I DON'T THINK THAT YOU ARE THE TYPE OF MAN CUT TVPE-THERt DIFrtRENtS BETVNEEN A POLITICAN OF KNOW IT TAKES A UO-r OF VOTES AND MEAN5.

ANDk3iuvvs A LOT OF WOKN GrOINSa- IMTO OUT TO BE STATcSwAM' A POLITICIAN POLITICIAN ONE WHO 1 EXPECTS HIS COUNTRY TO DO IT? POLITICIAN- BUT A THE HIGHEST lli QUICK. POPEYeii HES THERE. A STRANdeR UINiCa ON, Ttt OE.CK A.M10SKIPS, At-0 HE'S jll V. sm FOR HIM I DON'T KH0W VJHE.RE. THfcTS COMIN FROM- I'VE SEARCHED TH SHIP FROM 5W TO 5T6RU AN TO0N.0 NOBODY 0 I OllPFftl THIMBLE THEATRE Starring POPEYE CRfXY'.

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