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ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1941. THREE Society and Clubs By LOTUS KNIGHT PORTER THIMBLE CLUB HAS POTLUCK LUNCHEON MEETING ON MONDAY The Neighbors of Woodcraft Thimble club held its regular nicotine following a very enjoy able one-thirty o'clock politick luncheon Monday at the home of .Mrs." Hattle Lucas in the Kohl hagon apartments. lAmjiintnri tlin hticinncc mnrtMnu I which was followed by a social hour of sewing and visiting. Those present were Mrs. 13. W. 1 Taylor. Mrs. Alfred Neal, Mrs. Clifton Hooper, Mrs. A. D. I lawn, Mrs. R. L. Hounshell, Mis. Henry Erskine, Mrs. A. H. IVrrin, Mrs. Harry Lohr, -Mrs. L. B. Krogel, Mrs. J. O. McCuan, Mrs. Liston Darby, Mrs. P. E. Beaver, Mrs. Pete Crummett, Mrs. Thurman Smith, Mrs. Cora Dourte, Mrs. James Medille, Mrs. Q Hattie Lucas, members and a guest, Mrs. Hooten. The next meting will be De cember 22nd at the home of Mrs. Krogel with Mrs. Lohr as hostess. This will be the annual Christ- mas party. MISS HELEN CASEY TO HAVE CHARGE OF HOLIDAY PROGRAM FOR CLUB Miss Helen Casey will have charge of the Christmas program for the Roseburg Woman s club next Tuesday at two o'clock at i the club house. Miss Casey has secured Mrs. Louis Albert Banks, one of Roseburg's leading writ ers, as guest speaker for the oc casion. Members will exchange inexpensive Christmas gifts. No ollc.ill speakers will be on this program. Mrs. Homer Grow, music chair man, ban arranged for Mrs. Floyd Lewis to sing vocal numbers on the program. Mrs. A. S. Coen and Mrs. Charles A. Edwards will have clifFcc of the treat to be served id the close of the pro gram. Mrs. Harry F. flnlfleki. president, will conduct the busi ness session. All members are urged to be present. FRETA HENDRICKSON INVITES FRIENDS TO DELIGHTFUL PARTY Freta Hendrickson invited a group of friends to a very delight ful party Friday evening at the attractive home of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Chamberlin on Court street. Tall red candles and Christmas greenery carried out a pretty mo tif for the table and rooms. Games were played; popcorn was popped and the group also enjoy ed makinc candy during the pleasant social hours. Later in the evening Mrs. Chamberlin served delicious re freshments to Patricia Murphy, Ruth Ilcck, Lou Helen Strange, Virginia Roselund, Jean Ash worth, Ed Moran, Ernest Hodson, Mark Jones, Darrell Gadway and I he hostess, Freta Hendrickson. BRIDGE-SUPPER CLUB IS ENTERTAINED AT WADE HOME WEDNESDAY A row of tall lighted red tap ers arranged with sprays of holly graced the beautifully appointed table used by Mrs. C. B. Wade Wednesday evening, when she entertained her bridge club at a charming seven o'clock supper at ' her lovely home on South Kane street. Covers were placed for Mrs. Paul Helweg, a guest, and Mrs. Clair K. Allen, Mrs. D. B. Bubar, Mrs. Chesler Morgan, Mrs. Guy Cordon, Mrs. Kenneth Quine, Mrs. J. R. Wharton and the hos tess, Mrs. Wade. High score for the evening's contract bridge play was won by Mrs. Morgan with Mrs. Bubar winning the table prize. EAGLES AUXILIARY PLANS CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR TUESDAY The Eagles auxiliary met Tues day evening at the hall and made plans for the annual niisinms party to be held at 8 o'clock next Tuesday night, December 16, at the hail. Inexpensive gifts will be exchanged. I Plans were also made for the ' annual Christmas tree and prof-ram to be held December 22nd n't S o'clock at the hall. The ladies are working on "comfort kits" for the soldiers as a part of their Red Cross work. Clara Kelly was ap pointed outside guard and the group pledged to help the veter ans facility Christmas cheer fund. The date of the bazaar has beeni indefinitely postponed, CHRISTMAS PARTY TO BE HELD BY B. P. W. C. AT SPENCER HOME The Business and Professional Women's club members are in vited to enjoy the annual Christ - mas party next Monday evening at 8 oclock at the home of the president. Mrs. L.L. Spencer, on North Jackson street. A delight ful evening has been planned. CLUB HOLIDAY PARTY TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY The annual Christmas one o' clock turkey luncheon and party of the Roseburg Art and Emhrol deiy club has been announced for net Wednesday to be held at the home of Mrs. Cluck. The mem bers will exchange inexpensive Chiistnias gifts during the social hour. CHARMING SHOWER PARTY GIVEN FOR MRS. TED ROADMAN - j at one of the most charming par ties of the week, when she in vited a group of friends to he'r home Tuesday evening to enjoy a seven-thirty o'clock dessert-supper and to surprise Mrs. Ted Roadman with a lovely shower. Holly corsages and a center piece of holly sprays graced the serving table. Miniature soap carved angels, placed in front of a blue mirror and flanked by tall lighted tapers, graced the radio, Mrs. Thiele has soap-carving as a hobby. Covers were placed for Mrs. Roadman, guest of honor, Mrs. Paul Smith, Mrs. E. A. Pearson, Mrs. L. K. Fies, Mrs. Clifford E Smith, Mrs. J. E. Henbest, Mrs. Waldo Campbell, Mrs. Adrian Bowen and the hostess, .Mrs. Thiele. Beautiful gifts were presented to Mrs. Roadman and the diver sion of the pleasant evening hours was contract bridge with Mrs. Henbest winning the high score and Mrs. Pearson winning the second high score. STUDY CLUB HAS INTERESTING MEETING VONCALLA, Dec. ' 10. Mrs. Sam Walkinshaw graciously en tertained the members of the Yonealla Women's Study club at her home Thursday afternoon. A one-thirty dessert luncheon pre ceded a very interesting program. Roll call was answered to by "items of interest." Mrs. Slocum Chapman gave a report on art. She is preparing an art exhibit for the next meeting which will be the Christmas party of the club. Mrs. Hugh Warner, defense chairman, reported on the pur chasing of defense bonds by the club. Mrs. Dare Kingery gave a condensed article from October's Readers' Digests, by Miss Freda Utley. Mrs. Jess Lasswell gave an answer to the article by Wil kie, "Let's Plav Ball." Mrs. Frank Madden read a very interesting paper on "National Defense, via Blood Building vs. Blood Shed ding." Those present included the new member, Mi's. J. M. Housley and Mrs. Lillis Brawn, Mrs. Sher man Chapman, Mrs. Harvey Cockeram, Mrs. Dare Kingery, Mrs. Jess Lasswell, Mrs. Frank Madden, Mrs. Lcona Merk, Mrs. Kenneth Mulkey, Mrs. Fred Reeves, Mrs. Edgar Richards, Mrs. Hugh Warner, Mrs. J. H. Witt meyer, Mrs. Leslie Chapman and Mrs. Sam Walkinshaw. MISS GLADYS H. STRONG PRESENTS PUPILS IN CHARMING RECITAL On Monday evening, a very in teresting piano recital was given by pupils of Gladys H. Strong at her home on South Main street. The program was given by be ginners as well as advanced stu dents. They played well and showed a great deal of poise par ticularly as it was their first ex perience of an impending "black out." Their numbers were well chosen and were played with good tone and with pleasing style and interpretation. The following were presented Shannon Van Valzah, Donna Jean Ellison, John Marvin Rob ertson, Carolyn Groves, Harriett Booth, Shirley Ann Helweg, Rod erick Newland, Jacquelyn Cars- tens, Joyce Bartley, Shirley May- Woods, Tom Carter, Donald Brand, Patricia Savage, Eleanor Micelli, Jonathon Shepherd, Mary Alice Wolford. At the close of the program, Miss Strong served refreshments and a social hour was enjoyed. SOCIAL MEETING IS ENJOYED TUESDAY AT LEWIS HOME The Green P.-T. A. enjoyed a social meeting Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Vallic Lewis. Sewing and visiting were enjoyed during the afternoon hours. Plans for the annual Christmas meeting were discussed. Later Mrs. Lewis served a de licious luncheon to Mrs. Geo. Pip er, Mrs. John Hess. Mrs. Percy Myers, Mrs. Claude Parkhurst. Mrs. John Lander, Mrs. Carl Schmidt, Mrs. Agnes Telford and Mrs. Norman Fisher. The Christmas meeting will be held on December l(i at the home of Mrs. Geo. Piper, Members are asked to bring inexpensive pres ents to exchange. ! inter-SE STUDY CLUB TO ENTERTAIN HUSBANDS The InterSe Study club mem- hers and their husbands haveito he held next Thursday at the been invited to enjoy a very de-: clubhouse. The weekly contract lightful Christmas "party (with : bridge tournament nlav will b-v the exchange of inexpensive ' gin promptly at 9:30 o'clock, fol gifts) next Saturday night at owed by a 12:30 potluck luncheon. eight o'clock at the home of At torney and Mrs. Paul Gedrles in Garden Valley. The Sky's The Limit " r-1 !9?l-XSfr ... J 1- u'- Richard Arlen, Eva Gabor and "Forced Landing, showing. "3 On a Bench" Fred Mat-Murray, Mary Martin and Preston Foster in a scene from "New York Town," which opens Sunday at Hunt's Indian theatre. SIDE GLANCES COP11. 1W1 BV UFA StRVICE. WC. T. M. HCC U. 9. PT. OFf. ' ' t7.'f "Mukc liim look like an old mun, Grandpa lhun we arc!" RED CROSS TO BE AIDED BY LADIES OF ROSEBURG COUNTRY CLUB The ladies of the Roseburg Country club voted to do Red Cross work at the meeting Thurs day held at the clubhouse and Mrs. E. J. Rodgers and Mrs. W. M. Mc Eachern were appointed to have charge of the Red Cross work for the club members. Contract bridge was in play dur ing the morning hours with Mrs. H. C. Stearns winning the high score and Mrs. W. E. Ott winning second high score. Potluck luncneon was served at noon to Mrs. L. E. McClintock, captain, Mrs. W. J. Olmscheid, secretary, Mrs. Kenneth Quine, Mrs. H. C. Stearns, Mrs. W. M McEachern, Mrs. W. E. Ott. Mrs. E. J. Kndgcrs, Mrs. Arnold Davis, Mrs. Gene Greene and Mrs. J. M. Judd. Plans were outlined for the an nual Christmas party of the club The Christmas tree and an ex change of inexpensive gifts will be enjoyed, after which golfing Nils Asthor in a scene . from which starts Sunday at the Rose for a three-day By Galbraith -a lot older will be enjoyed if the weather permits. Plans were also made for tne dancing party to be sponsen d by the tournament committee for the Junior members of the club lo be held the evening of January 2nd at the clubhouse. This dunc w:l! be held unless national defense oiders are such as to conflict vhh the affair. VT-V? ii iWr TELEPHONE 88 NEW SERVICE LAUNDRY 324 W. Lane St. MISSIONARY SOCIETY HAS CHRISTMAS PROGRAM ON THURSDAY Mrs. C. D. Fies, Mrs. J. Roland Parker and Mrs. Fred Fisher were hostesses to the Presbyterian Mis sionary society Thursday after noon at the home of Mrs. Fies in Laurelwood. Mrs. W. M. Campbell, president, conducted the meeting, which op ened by the singing of Christmas carols. The prayer calendar on "Iran," "Messopatamia" and inter-mountain area, was presented by Mrs. Homer Grow, followed by the program announced by the chairman, Mrs. Morris H. Roach r& '.li-;'4ri....t-'V-a ' -; ni Troop Traveler" by Mrs. Earl Ull rich; "Wasaeh Academy in Min nesota" by Mrs. Homer Grow and the beautiful Christmas story, charmingly told by Mrs. W. M. Campbell with Mrs. G. C. Finlay playing the impressive back ground piano music. Committee eports were pre sented by Mrs. Earl Ullrich, Miss Margaret Clapp and Mrs. C. D. Fies. A beautiful lace cloth covered the tea table which was centered with a low white pottery bowl of holly with white pottery holders and tall candles. Mrs. Morris H. Roach and Mrs. W. M. Chalmers poured. Holly bouquets were us ed about the rooms. Guests present Included: Mrs. i G. C. Finlay, Mrs. Bull, Mrs. Laws Mrs. T. W. Thomason and Miss Feme Thomason. Members pres ent were: Mrs. W. M. Campbell, president, Mrs. Ida Bailey, Mrs. L. L. Bodie, Mrs. W. M. Chalmers, Miss Margaret Clapp, Mrs. C. D. Fies, Mrs. Fred Fisher, Mrs. R. H. Grinsted, Mrs. Homer Grow, Mrs. J. Roland Purser, Mrs. James Pinkerton, Mrs. Morris H. Roach, Mrs. H. G. Rulifson and Mrs. Earl Ullrich. The executive meeting preceded the regular meeting and program. The next executive meeting will be January 8 at two o'clock at the home of Mrs. W. M. Chal mers to be followed at 2:30 by the regular meeting at the Chal mers home with Mrs. George Brown and Mrs. James Pinker ton, assisting hostesses. The year book of prayer will be given by Mrs. George Sewell wltn Mrs. B. L. Eddy in charge of the devo tions. MRS. HENRY CHANDLER ENTERTAINS AT LOVELY SHOWER PARTY THURSDAY Honoring Mrs. Dale Owen, of Corvallis, a very charming show er party was given Thursday by Mrs. Henry Chandler, Jr., at her beautiful home on the South Pa cific highway. Lovely gifts were presemea to Mrs. Owen from: Mrs. David Hill, Mrs. Thomas Havens, Jr., of Marshfield, Mrs. Ray Asburry, Mrs. J. E. Henbest, Mrs. Darley Ware, Mrs. Gordon Ware, Mrs. Allen Moore, Mrs. Ralph Rodley, Mrs. Paul Lund, Miss Carol Car nes, Miss Beatrice Cooney, Miss Myrle Erickson and the hostess, Mrs. Chandler. Chrysanthemums were attrac tively used in the decorations for the nartv. Visiting anu sewing were followed by the opening of the manv lovely gilts, alter which the hostess served delicious refreshments. ELKS CHRISTMAS BARN DANCE TO BE HELD THIS EVENING Elks, their families and invited guests will enjoy the annual Christmas Barn Dance tonight, December 13, at the temple. J. V. Keel and his committee have charge of the affair, which prom ises to be one of the most enjoy able dances ever sponsored by the Elks. Good music has been se cured for the evening. Jap Fishing Boats Seized By Costa Rica, Mexico SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Dec. 13. (API The Japanese crew of a motorized fishing vessel flying the Stars and Stripes was in terned today, driven to dock at the Pacific port of Puntarenas by warning bombs which the Costa Rican government said were dropped by U. S. navy patrol planes. The crew was laKen inio cus tody under regulations imple menting Costa Rica's declarations of war against Japan, Germany and Italy. Mexico announced that two Japanese fishing boats had been seized on charges of Illegal fish ing off strategic Iiwer Callfor- Everyone h Laundry i Conscious Though your little girl may j do her dolly's wash at home, I she'll boast of her modern . -1 mother who sends the fam- lly's wash to us! nia, and similar seizures were re ported on Cuba's northwestern coast. Honduras, Panama and El Sal vador joined Central American neighbors in declarations of war against Germany and Italy, just as they previously had done against Japan. Copeo Employee Hurt in Collision of Trucks J. L. McCuan, Copeo line crew employee, was in Mercy hospital todav for observation, following a collision late Friday afternoon truck and an empty logging truck driven by Joe Wright for the Brlggs company of Myrtle Creek. Seven other members of the Copeo crew were treated for bruises and cuts, but none was so- riously injured. McCuan suffer ed a badly bruised and wrenched hip and was kept in the hospitul for x-ray examination and further observation. Other members of the crew were R. L. Matthews, foreman; Ben Palm, driver; Bill Rutter, Norman Olson, Lisston Darby, Dale Simmons and Thur man Smith. Mechanical Work for Defense Is Available Roger C. Walsh, NYA youth personnel officer, reported today that several openings are avail able for young men from 17 to 25 years of age at the Albany Residence Center, where training is given in aviation sheet metal work. This is a 100-hour course, he states, requiring three or four weeks for completion. There also are a few openings at the Eugene Residence Center, where training is'given in machine tooling and gas engine repair for defense jobs. Young men interested are requested to contact W. M. Campbell, city superintendent of schools, or Scott Williams, NYA project supervisor. Yonealla Boy Scouts Will Make Paper Collection YONCALLA, Dec. 13. Starting the first of the year, the Yonealla Boy Scouts will start collection of wastepaper. At present the scouts are taking orders for Christmas trees and will devote the proceeds to local expenses of troop activities. Residents are asked to save newspapers, maga zincs, pasteboard cartons and boxes and all other waste paper, which will be collected soon after January 1. Catastrophe Reported From Peruvian City LIMA, Peru, Dec. 13 (API- First reports from Huaraz, pro vincial capital 174 miles from Lima, indicated that either a cloudburst or a volcano eruption had caused heavy casualties and wrecked a third of the city. The small Rataquenhau volcano near the city has been dormant many years. Large new FLOOR SANDER for rent at PAGES, (adv.) City oi Heartbreak . . . and Happiness! n iCs fl J 5!? You'" ,!ve you'" ,oy T fl J "I -fjaT!s& i'I CnTry ...you'IIUugh...withlh tJ cf's-L fc'fcrLl most amaxing popl you New Irk WM with Aldm TAMDtOFF . Lyme OVERMAN . Erie ILORE CT Shows 2-6:45 8:45 P. M. ' fei ' '' J - f 11c 30c 40c, Inc. tax . SJ ' i Cj c , -. r" Vr -- ) Porrlander Kills Youth Found Ransacking Home PORTLAND, Dec. 13. (API- Charles Bowman told police yes terday he had killed a man he found ransacking his house. The victim was Identified by papers as Dwalne Bural Tlmm, 21, Enumclaw, Wash. Bowman told Detectives C. G. Seri-y that on his return from town he saw Tlmm climbing out of a window, got a pistol, ordered Timm to halt and fired when the order was unheeded. Bowman was not. held. .. .. .... ....a itiMiu-j:'-!S',!S ' Douglas Residents to Be Paid for Traffic Blows WASHINGTON, Dee. 13 (AP) The house acted Wednesday on two bins authorizing payment to residents of Douglas county, Ore gon, for Injuries sustained in ac cidents with government automo biles. It passed and sent to the white house a bill for $5,000 to Ivan R. and Nellie Witcher, of Douglas county for the death of their son, William D. Witcher, a minor. sunday MONDAY TUESDAY v .:itl asthe wt Plus ' News and Short Subjects ENDS TODAY Your Last Chance SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY LAST TIMES TODAY WILLIAM HOLDEN CLAIRE TREVER IN "TEXAS" Plus frvlw Tonight Aftw Stqnd when a truck In which he was . riding was struck by a govern ment truck near Sutherlin on July 31, 1940. , The house amended and re turned to the senate for concur rence a bill for payment of dam ages to Walter M. 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