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-12 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: MONDAY, MAY 2i, Bridegroom of Saturday Engagements Announced D. A. R. Chapter Has Elected New Officers Reports at Fort Niagara A SATURDAY BRIDEGROOM, John Hestwood this morning for service at Fort Niagara. VJ1 He and Miss Elizabeth Braddock King- ra-.

Margaret Sellman Is Fiancee Of Captain in Army By Anne Ryan Lesh The Elizabeth Gilmore Mrs. FredencK juason xvuig ui iew pa 1943 Etna Group Ends Year Of Service The Chalfant House Women's Club will close its season with a luncheon In the College Club on June ninth, and Mrs. W. Wayne Smith, the newly elected president, will assume her duties. This month the club completed its twelfth year under the leadership of Mrs.

D. C. Lewis, and highlights of the season were a talk i iy.lr in tho Tist Prpshi'tsrian ton, by Dr. William P. Rossell, and the reception took urest Country C'ub HP ODAY, Margaret Graham Sellman's birthday, is the day inr.

iviuier, a sor. v. rthur Parker VJ' Arthur Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution has elected the following officers for a term of two years: Regent, Mrs. George C. Blair; vice regent, Mrs.

T. R. Watts; treasurer. Miss Anna Welch; recording secretary. Miss Sara Braden; corresponding secretary, Miss Margaret Young; chaplain, Mrs.

Mary Davis; registrar, Miss Eva Hench; historian, Honor Guest At Luncheon Kensington, is cersbure dent in Cornell until his cf a chosen for the announcement of her engagement to Captain Frederick Carl DeTroia of the United States Army Medical Corps, son of Mrs. Mary Louise DeTroia of Newark, New Jersey. Miss Sellman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Oliver Sellman of Kentucky avenue, are making the announcement.

service came. The bride fraiuaiM 5a Miss Margaret Lowry directors, in Ellis School Miss Alice Davis and Miss Jessie by Mrs. Nancy Smith on her experiences as an ambulance driver find Pi- Young. i College. For her a in England and a discussion by The bride-elect is a graduate of a gown of ivory a fitted bodice i a sk Dr.

Robert D. Gregg of Carnegie Institute of Technology on "Our Adversary in the Pacific." Dunne the year the memoers that ended in a -i qued with satin Sowers. a juliet cap made of have given time and effort in selling war bonds and stamps, soliciting blood donors, keeping the cookie jar filled in the Keystone U.S.O- servine: on the rationing were white bouvarl NorthweGtern University where she was a member of Delta Gamma sorority, and she received her master's degree at Columbia University. At present she heads the child development department of East Carolina Teachers' College in Greenville, North Carolina. Dr.

DeTroia attended Fordham University and Jefferson Medical School. He has been on duty In the Pacific for sixteen months, and i3 now studying to become a flight peas, stephan board, doing air raid duty, plane There vs ere la--i spotting and assisting the bride sister. berculosis League. The Red Cross sewing groups have given a total of two thousand three nunareu btephens College and xL Comstock Mnier. srA and ninety-five hours and the ui luegroorn, who u-s.

v. i -hv I'- 2 1 knitting group one thousand and Allegheny ColX- identical ten hours. Assistance was given at the baby clinic and members have made surgical dressings. carried cascade boun.2? pansies and were r-" r-3y Others have taken home nursing and nutrition classes. edged with pansies." s-: -wnci t.ri The welfare committee, of which Kerr Werkheiser, Miss Marie Elizabeth Wallace has been chairman, has given ortho and Mrs.

Hsmj rK'i? net, a miniature Cf f-a pedic shoes, milk, glasses, a brace and bedding to underprivileged children and paid for a tonsillectomy and dental work. Contributions were made to the maias- cresses and in hr coronet of pansies SN pansy garland. "r-et The best man was AW Hutchinson, the bndpCTOo-' neU classmate. tC T-' Zoar Home, Veterans Hospital, Heart House, Salvation Army, rr rnw, im 3 hi, mr ft 1 1 wr It I A 'S3 Tr- liililSBIilllHI Community Fund, Red Cross, Etna Librarv. Chalfant Founda tion and the recreational fund of Camp Shenango.

Howard Braddock from the Loomis Herbert W. Marsh of Fon ler, N. James Hay HW" Pittsburgh and A. PeaVcJfr of Tenafiy, N. j.

At the bridal tab were Mr. and Mrs. Ward who were married earlier "-t day in the country home and Mrs. Glenn H. ii, Greensburg road, and the- ding party.

Present at the cerecv On Wednesday night at eight o'clock, the Northside Woman's Civic Club will have their annual election and hear reports of officers, department directors and chairmen, with Mrs. Ruth Bowers Gibson presiding. They will meet in 708 Arch street. MRS. ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN In honor of Mrs.

Alexander Laughlin of Beaver road, Se-wiekley, president of the Sewick-ley Fresh Air Home, president of the Sewickley Valley Council of Republican Women and past president of the Federation of Allegheny County Councils of Republican Women, there was a luncheon on Saturday In the William Penn Hotel. Mrs. Jesse G. Roberts, newly elected president of the council, presided. Serving on committees assisting with preparations were: Arrangements, Mrs.

Frank Goll-niar, Mrs. Edna Palmire, Mrs. Edith Miller, Mrs. Daisy Fleming and Mrs. I.

G. Ziegler; decorations, 5Irs. Oliver Lutz, Mrs. R. 3L Chantler, Mrs.

3Iame Pat-ton and Mrs. Georgia Clark; music, Mrs. Harold Ewens and Sirs. Susan Ackerman. surgeon in the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Texas.

The wedding is planned for the near future. OlBrien Engagement The engagement Is announced of Suzanne Marie O'Brien, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald G. O'Brien of Wallingford street, and George W.

Frey son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Frey of Niagara Falls, New York. Miss O'Brien is a graduate of Winchester-Thurston School and Carnegie Institute of Technology.

Mr. Frey, too, Is a Carnegie Tech graduate. Ben Avon Tea Mrs. Maurice B. Cohill of Walnut road, Ben Avon, gave a tea on Saturday, to announce the engagement of her niece, Muriel B.

Cohill, to Gerald N. Weyandt, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Weyandt of Erie, Pennsylvania. Miss Cohill attended Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.

Mr. Weyandt graduated from the University of Pittsburgh! Both are residents of Ben Avon. State Leader OfW. C.T.U.U Guest Speaker Mrs. Ella B.

Black, Pennsylvania state president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, will be guest speaker at the meetinr MARGARET GRAHAM SELL3LN Mr. and Mrs. Charles Oliver Sellman of Kentucky avenue, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Margaret Graham Sellman, to Captain Frederick Carl DeTroia, United States Army Medical Corps. Following the business session the ways and means and social committees will sponsor a card party. Miss Bertha Bromme will serve as chairman.

The proceeds will be used to purchase war 1 bonds for the club. unuegroora cousin, arj Wherry from Washington Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Tas'saW son of Titus ville. y.

Mrs. Rolland Bethke of Wos Mr. and Mrs. Morrj X. man of ML Pleasant.

v. The Coraopolis Century Club According to CULBERTSON will meet on Thursday night in JL Airs. Arthur HaU of wasizrt the club rooms in the Y. M. C.

A. The subject for the evening will D. Mr. and Mrs. Robes Top score was won in the fol be "Know Your World Today," Mrs.

I. E. Willison, Mrs. G. B.

isecKer or Baltimore. Mr. cd Xi H. J. Stewart of Buffalo.

Winsor and Mrs. F. O. Deurling lowing manner: The spade king was permitted to hold the first B. 5.

Pocock of Shreve, 0, The group will make surgical dressings for the Suburban Gen and ten-minute talks will be given as follows: "Iceland," by Mrs. G. F. Colvin; "Aleutian Islands," by Mrs. Frank Gramm; "British Isles," by Mrs.

A. B. Sharpe; "Canada," by Mrs. Charles Pegg; "Australia," by Miss Olga Losa, trick and, when West shifted to the diamond queen, this was ducked! Declarer saw that if the era! Hospital, under the supervi At duplicate bridge, a mere extra trick, worth 20 or SO points, may be just as valuable as the more sensational exploit of bidding a slam or pf setting the opponent 1,000 points. In today's deal, taken from a recent eight-table duplicate game, an extra trick gave one team an advantage of ZV3 match points over all the other teams.

sion of Mrs. R. R. Dickson. diamond suit were to break 3-3, The annual outing will be held and "Islands of the Pacific," by in the Congress of Clubs on June eighth at twelve-thirty o'clock.

the ducking play wpuld be valuable in that he could later discard a spade on dummy's fourth diamond. There might, however, be an additional value in passing the Mrs. W. R. Hague.

Annual reports will be made, convention reports given and the installation of officers will be held. Swissvale Club Has Garden Flower She An impromptu Sower garden flower arrar.ge-?ra rj be held today at the teKKaZ meeting of the WoiririCSrfj Swissvale. The meet rl I held in the home of 5Li Tjj Walters in La Clair square. Mrs. Fred Mayhew, chairxi the garden group; Mrs.

J3 Nied and Mrs. Gordon Cre: SUZANNE MARIE O'BRIEN Announced by Mr. and Mrs. Gerald G. O'Brien, of Wallingford street, Is the engagement of their daughter, Miss Suzanne Marie O'Brien and George W.

Frey, Jr. of the Foster Union tomorrow The Beechview Women's Civic diamond queen. West had shown North, dealer. Both sides volunerable. North the king and queen of spades by The hostesses for the evenmg are Mrs.

William Walton and his opening lead. If he also had Mrs. Rhoda Wilson. Club has elected the following officers for its next club" year: President, Mrs. A.

R. Moore; first vice president, Mrs. Mjrtle Mascara; second vice president, Mrs. Frank Astorino; treasurer. Miss Hilda Erbe, and secretary, Mrs.

H. L. Beitzel. four diamonds, an interesting sit uation might develop. 8 7 6 5 A 9 8 2 A 6 4 A The Perm Hebron Garden Club has planned a dessert bridge to be held in the clubhouse in Jefferson will assist the hostess durjSn at two o'clock, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church, Sixth avenue.

Mrs. Alvin Sher-bine, national director, and Mrs. Helen Wilkins, state recording secretary, will also be present and bring greetings. Moving picturo-s wiU be shown. The Oakmont-Verona Union will meet in the United Presbyterian Church of Verona on Wednesday.

"Yesterday and Today" is the subject to be presented by Mrs. J. B. Hilliard and Mrs. G.

W. After West held the second trick with the diamond jack, he shifted to a low club. Dummy's tea hour. Engagement Told Of Pitt Graduates MRS. BESSIE L.

THIGPEN of Sheffield street, Northside, announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Sarah Jane Thigpen, to Andrew Mosko, son of Mrs. Anna Mosko of Du-quesne, Pa. Miss Thigpen is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh where she belonged to Beta Phi Alpha, Phi Alpha Theta, Sigma Kappa Fni West 10 6 4 9 8 7 6 road on Friday with Mrs. Ralph ace won, and declarer entered his Scherger as chairman. East 9 4 3 7 5 3 10 7 10 9 5 3 South own hand with a trump to the ten, The board of governors will to ruff a club.

The nine of hearts meet on Tuesday, June first, in the home of Mrs. J. C. Wilson of Forbes road. was overtaken with the jack and declarer's last club was ruffed with the trump ace.

Now the spade ace was utilized for an entry, and Petrie Jr. Devotions will be and Pi Tau Pi. In a conservation program the A 2 9 10 5 3 2 48,12 charge of Mrs. R. M.

Davis. Mrs. Flora Jameson, retired spring flower show will be com of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Thomas of Old Farm road, Country Club declarer cashed the king and queen bined this year with the regular Heights, ML Lebanon.

i JfflfST I r-VA; H-6I3 SANOUSMST. 1 monthly meeting on Thursday, of hearts. On the first of these, West safely discarded his last club, At all tables the contract was four hearts, the bidding usually June third. Members will bring missionary from India, will speak at the meeting of the Perrysville Avenue Union tomorrow at two o'clock. In the Eighth United Presbyterian Church, on "Temperance their lunch.

proceeding: but on the second was in deep water. He could not give up the A Quaint Old Mrs. W. P. Place will be hostess to the home and book department in her home in Curtiss street on Tuesday, June eighth.

A book spade queen without establishing declarer's jack, nor could he let go a diamond without presenting in India." Mrs. Robert Hanna will lead the devotions. North East South West 10 Pass 13 Pass 3s? Pass 3 no trump Pass 4s? Pass Pass Pass The opening lead also was the Sergeant Thomas is 6tattoned at Hendricks Field, Sebring, Fla. Greenstone-Frankston Mr. and Mrs.

Abraham Greenstone of Darlington road have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Mildred Lillian Greenstone, to Corporal Mortimer M. Frankston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Frankston of Beechwood boulevard. Miss Carrie E.

Eggers, family dummy with three diamond tricks, supervisor, Lutheran Inner Mis review will be given by Mrs George Held. DUTCH COLONIAL HOUSE Entirely Devoted to the Display Not being sure who held the spade jack, and feeling that it was more same at all eight tables namely, Mr. Mosko graduated from the University of Pittsburgh school of engineering. The announcement was made at a party given by Mrs. Thigpen Saturday night.

Oakland Girl Engaged Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Tobias of Dawson street, Oakland, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Thelma Tobias, to Corporal Julie Goltz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mac Goltz.

Corporal Goltz is stationed at Camp Hood, Texas. Dormont Girl Engaged At a dinner given recently Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. McMillan of Key avenue, Dormont, announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Martha Elizabeth McMillan, to Sergeant Walter B.

Thomas, son important to guard the diamond The Home and Hospital Club of sions, will be guest speaker at the meeting of the Dormont-Mt. Lebanon Union, on Wednesday at one-thirty o'clock, in the Beverly Heights Presbyterian Church. Mrs. MEETING HOUSE MAPLE by Winehendon In authentic am drsJcn-Bed Rails are bolted to brad ajid font boards. Meeting Hoira Maple almo-t en-tlrely dove-lailcd.

Tbre-pieen Bfd liooni, Other suites start at t69.S0 the spade king. In most cases the South players permitted this to hold, hoping for a Bath coup (a spade continuation up to the A-J), MAPLE FUR HITBEE suit. West let go the spade queen. Declarer cashed the jack of spades and then collected the ace and king of diamonds, fulfilling the Bellevue will meet in the Borough Hall tomorrow at one o'clock. Mrs.

R. D. WTieeler is chairman of hostesses, assisted by Mrs. Edison Williams. Mrs.

R. C. Walker, but invariably, at the second trick, Samuel Palmer will have charge of Featuring World Famous West shifted to the diamond queen devotions. contract with an extra trick. Meeting House Virginia Hoysi Saft Box Seven declarers promptly put up Mrs.

Dudley Walker will be Friday and inriw Open Monday Wednesda. dummy's king, cashed the club ace, MMrl fcM hostess to members of the Knox-ville Union on Thursday, in her home in Comiston avenue, at two enierea tne south hand with a Tischler- Wechs ler Mr. and Mrs. A. Tischler of Ken-nett square, Oakland, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Frieda Tischler, to Technical Sergeant Sam E.

Wechsler, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wechsler of Center avenue. 33b trump, and ruffed a club.

They re 8 o'clock. The Reverend A. Gibson MINTON'S ENGLISH BONE CHINA will be the speaker. Mrs. M.

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