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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1917)
THE MORNING OREGOMAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1917. MB UWllt, "i- BY GERTRUDE. F. CORBETT mBm viiinjinmniiii ooooooooooooooeoocbcpOfidoaooeosoeooooASOOsoeaooaoaaoQOO o 00 the ooo lODAT the wedding of Miss Mary E. Cellars and Dolph E. Phlpps will be solemnized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Cellars, parents of the bride-elect. It will be a simple ceremony, with only about 70 of the younger contingent present, owing to the recent illness of Miss Cellars. Her brother. Lieutenant James H. Cellars, stationed at American Lake, will attend and will be best man. Miss Mignon Allen, of Astoria, is to be maid of honor. Both Miss Cellars and her fiance are graduates of the University of Oregon, and they have hosts of friends among the college set. Mr. and Mrs. David E. Phipps, par ents of the prospective bridegroom, will arrive this morning from Medford to attend the ceremony. Miss Cellars is a charming young pirl. and is one of the most popular among Portland's younger set. The news of the wedding comes as a big surprise to the friends of the couple, only a few of whom were permitted to ehare the secret of the coming nuptials. Miss Irene Strowbridge entertained Monday in honor of Miss Cellars with a charming luncheon and handkerchief shower, her guests including sorority sisters of the bride-to-be. Mr. and Mrs. John Kollock and little daughter, Mary, are spending a few weeks with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Kollock, 625 East Broadway. Mr. and Mrs. Kollock will be at home in their own residence on Council Crest after November 1. Beginning tomorrow night, the Thursday Night Riding Class will open for the season at the Portland Riding Academy. The class has been arranged by prominent members of the Hunt Club, and everyone who is interested in riding, beginners or advanced riders, is invited to join. The class will meet each week, and following the drills, under command of H. M. Kerron. all who wish may indulge in practice polo. This class was formed last year and proved one of the most popular diver Dions among the devotees of the saddle. Honoring Miss Nellie Mae Dalcour, Miss Jean Richardson entertained a number of friends with a 500 party Sat urday evening at her home. 888 East Washington street. During the evening . Miss Dalcour's engagement to A. Lester Meyer, Jr., was announced. Miss Dal cour formerly lived at Duluth, Minn. Mr. Heyer is from New Tork, and he is connected with the Pacific Power & Light Company. Both young people have a host of friends in Portland to whom this announcement comes as a ueugntiui surprise. The date of wedding has not been selected. Society will divide its attention to night between the grand opera and the lecture by Colonel S. S. McClure, who arrived yesterday and gave his first talk last' night at the Lincoln High School. He is admirably fitted to talk on the European war and on Japan and his talk last night on -The War in the Orient" was one of the most interest- .. ing ever given on that. subject in this city. He had a large and appreciative audience at Lincoln and tonight's gathering, which will be held in Wash ington High School, bids fair to eclipse its predecessor. The lecture tour in this city is under the auspices of the Drama League. m w m Among the line parties at the Orpheum Monday night was: Mrs. Solomon Hirsch and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Frank and the Aaron Franks. A Charming affair of yesterday was the tea given by the members of the Fruit and Flower Mission to mark the Fall opening of their new quarters at Madison and Tenth streets. This day nursery is the chief charge of the mis sion and the 60 babies in the nursery yesterday were attired in their best frocks and took an especial pleasure in being talked at and fussed over by the hundreds of women guests who at tended the tea. Mrs. William H. Skene is president of the organiza tion, and, with her numerous as sistants, devotes a great deal of time during the year to this work. The rooms were bedecked prettily for the occasion and the tea tables were presided over by Mrs. Loyal B. Stearns, Mrs. E. t. Mears, Mrs. Ferdinand E. Reed and Miss Louise Blckel. The melting pot is quite a feature of the Red Cross Superfluity Shop, the formal opening of which will take place this morning. The shop has been running for several days, under the management of Mrs. William L. Wood and her corps of assistants and the contributions of everything under the heavens continue to pour in. The melting pot is a new feature of the shop and will be used for old gold and silver. A box is temptingly placed in viting the donation of coins and games will inveigle nickels and dimes out of the patrons of the shop. Jams, jellies, antiques, clothing, jewelry, fruits, flowers, canned goods, laces, linens, silks, anything and everything will be Acceptable to the shopkeepers. . It all helps the Red Cross fund to jtwell and will be of untold service to the men abroad in the fighting lines. The junior members of the Irvington Ciub will give their next dance Friday at the Irvington Club, and the affair is creating a great deal of interest among the Irvington set and their friend. s Patronesses for Friday's party will be Mrs. John L. Bowman, Mrs. E. H. Hartman and Mrs. N. Reno. Many of the wives and relatives of the Portland physicians are entertain ing the women relatives of the out-of-town physicians who are here attend ing the Tuberculosis Conference at the Multnomah Hotel. Luncheons and din ner partiee are part of the programme, and while the medical men attend the evening lectures the women are en tertained at the opera, at the Audi torum. and Orpheum parties. A num ber of the visiting "M. D.s" and their wives are at the Multnomah for the week. flP (1 ' " 4wF -V ' 111 I i i 'J" . -.B-i s - - who has been visiting Mrs. R. C. Bald ing, of Dayton Apartments, this city, the past two months, has returned to the "Zenith City." Miss Sweet enjoyed her visit in the Rose City to the extent of closing her interests in Minnesota and extending them to Portland, where he soon will make her permanent home. Ben Hur Society, Court No. 9, will give a card party Thursday night in Alisky Hall. A Dr. and Mrs. E. A. Pierce entertained at an elaborate dinner on Monday night in Multnomah Hotel in compli ment to Dr. and Mrs. Christen (Juevli. of Tacoma: Philip Jacobs, of New York; Mrs. Bethesda Reals Buchanan, of Se attle, and Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, all of whom are prominent among the dele gates attending the Northwestern Tu berculosis Conference in the rose ball room of the hotel. Mrs. Dunbar, who Is the local executive secretary, enter tained several visitors at luncheou in the gold room yesterday. Dr. and Mrs. Quevli. the former being one of the most prominent physicians in Taconia. are registered at the Mult nomah. Mrs. Quevli has many friends bere. with whom ehe is renewing friendships. Miss Lillian Freeman, a charming belle of Nashville, Tenn.. Is spending a few weeks at the Multnomah Hotel as the guest of the Misses Gage, who make their home there. Another newcomer to Portland, who will make her home at the Multnomah, is Mrs. Lofgren. wife of one of the Vnited States Army officers, attached to the commissary department at Van couver. Miss Delia B. tiweet, of Duluth. Minn., LL the women's clubs are doing Red Cross work. No one can say the clubs are made up of "slackers." Yesterday the Portland Woman's Research Club held a busy session in Olds, Wortman & King's tearoom. Red Cross sewing was the order of the day. The W. C. T. U. and their friewids sent to Fort Stevens last Saturday 400 dish towels, sending 100 to each of the following- companies 1, a, 3, and 4. There is needed about SOU more of the dish towels and they will appreciate the toilet kits for holding shaving set, comb, brush and other small toilet articles. Patterns may be secured at the W. C. T. U. headquarters, 310 Sell ing building. Do not forget the home missionary work for our boys, those who are guarding our own safety should have our love and thought as well as the boys in the far-away land. A letter from Dale Russell from "somewhere in France" urges us to save everything, waste nothing, as everything will be needed. We are asked to save even the twine strings; every bit of cloth of all kinds. Th Portland Woman's. Club will do Red Cross work Friday morning in the Multnomah Hotel tearoom. Mrs. Lucia Faxon Additon is in Se attle attending the Washington State W. C. T. U. convention and last night she gave an address on "Conservation of Food." The Oregon W. C. T. IT. has received a letter from Chaplain Gilbert telling of the good health of the Third Oregon boys and how much they appreciate and use the housewives furnished by the Oregon W. C. T. V. and they ask for 200 more for the four companies that were out at Camp Withycombe. The Pennsylvania Woman's Club will meet in the blue room of the Portland Hotel on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. All of the members are requested to be present. A meeting of the Field Hospital Auxiliary will be held this evening at the Public Library, room F. Owing to the meetings taking place only on the first and third Wednesdays or eacn month, it is requested that all mem bers attend. Something new to send the boys will be the main subject of the evening. Women of the Westminster Presby terian Church will meet today to sew for the Red Cross. Coffee and tea will be served but members should take their sandwiches. The Milwaukie Parent-Teacher cir cle will meet Friday afternoon at 3 oVlork in the high school building. Mrs. Handsaker will give an address on vocational training and there will be a programme of music by the sev enth grade pupils and by the school orchestra. On Thursday afternoon at o'clock the executive board of the Parent-Teacher -organization will meet in the office of the high school at 3 o'clock. Shakespeare Study Club will meet today at 10 A. M. in the East Side Club house to sew for the Red Cross. At 10 o'clock this morning the women of the First Congregational Church will meet for Red Cross service. mm In the First Congregational Church today at 2 P. M. the Woman's Mis sionary Society will meet in the parlors. A paper and letters written by Mrs. David K. Brace (Dorothy Walton), will be read by Mrs. O. A. Cook. Mrs. Brace writes of the work as she sees and enjoys it in and around Paotingfu, China. Mrs. John Willman, wife of the pastor of the First German Congrega tional Church of this city, will be the soloist. - Mrs. Brace "writes from her home in China where Mr. Brace is on the faculty of the Chinese Government Higher Normal College. She tells of many interesting experiences in this city of 100,000 Chinese and less than 40 foreigners and of many calls for services. Soon after her arrival she began the study of English with the native nurses in the Presbyterian Hospital at Paotingfu and also with group of young men students at the Y. M. C. A. Now she has taken charge of the large tatting industry at the Congregational mission. This work is sold at the Summer bazaars at Peitai Wo, the great Summer resort at the seacoast east. from Pekin. Mrs. Brace took charge of the Paot ingfu section and disposed of the year's output to the many European and Americans who Summer there. The proceeds are used in the education of Chinese girls and to give employment to poor women. The service is purely voluntary. Sumner Woman's Relief Corps has organized a Red Cross unit and will begin work on Thursday at its hall. 525 Courthouse, at 10 A. M. All mem bers are invited to be present and bring their lunch. One week from today Multnomah Chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution, will meet with Mrs. W. B. Gilbert at 490 Twenty-first street, Port land Heights. The Machine Gun Company Auxiliary will meet with Mrs. G. P. Clerin, 193 East Seventeenth street, corner Taylor, at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. "Please bring needle, thread, thimble, scissors and old linen or muslin for hospital supplies," is the note of in struction. The literature department of the Portland Woman's Club will meet in the Multnomah Hotel on Friday at 3 o'clock. C. H. Chapman will speak on French literature. Highland Parent-Teacher American Red Cross unit will meet tomorrow afternoon in the sewing-room of the Highland School from 1 until 4 o'clock. This is the first meeting of the sea son and all the women of the com munity are requested to attend and as sist In the splendid work they are doing. If any of the members cannot attend this meeting, they will be of great assistance if they will send 10 cents to purchase needles and thread for the workers. ' There will be an open meeting to night of the Woman's Co-operative League in the East Side Clubhouse, East Tenth and Weidler streets. Promi nent men will speak and gifted singers will contribute solos. An exhibit of home products will be a big attraction. At the last business meeting it was decided to change the name of the Ladies' Auxiliary to Company A, Ore gon Engineers, eliminating the word ladies" and making it an auxiliary for the fathers and brothers of the boys in this company, as well as the women. The next meeting will be in Central Library on Friday at 8 o'clock. Captain J. W. Carger, of the Canadian expeditionary force, will give an in teresting talk on "What "You Can Do for Your Boys at the b ront. runner Dlans are being made for entertain ments to swell the Christmas fund to purchase comforts for. the boys and all the members of the committee are urged to be present. The women or the auxiliary will meet at the home of Mrs. M. B. McFaul, at 120 East xweiitn street, corner Alder street, tnis aiter- noon at 1 o'clock to knit socks and wristlets for the boys, who are now stationed at Camp Greene. Yarn is being furnished. Members of the Shakespeare Club are urged to attena tne ntu iuod sewing meeting, to be held today at the East Side Clubhouse, iast lemn anu Weidler streets, taking a Broadway car. Those wno can spenu 1 1 " day are requested to Dring ineir luncheon. RED CROSS LUNCHEON HELD Less lied Tape and More Efficiency Needed, Says Speaker. More than 100 members of the Red Cross attended the conterence ana luncheon at the Hotel Portland yester day. "We need more speed ana eincieiii; and less red tape." said C. D. Stimpson. general manager for the Red Cross work Dr. K. A. J. Mackenzie, presi dent of the local Red Cross, spoke of the work being carried on by the asso ciation. He urged the purchasing of liberty bonds. Other speakers were F. P. Foisle, chairman of the civilian relief of the Northwest division: I. Lowengart, man ager of the local Red Cross depot; Jo siah Collins, of the bureau of develop ment of the Northwest division, and Mrs. Lucy Hilton, director of the wom an's bureau of the Northwest division. PERSONAL MENTION. G. E. Cooper, of Corvallis, Is at the Oreiron. t f-iifforrt. of La Grande, Is at the Piilane. w p. Mvers. of Culver, Or., Is at the Perkins. d tt -Rncklev. of Salem, Is at the Seward. Tnhn Medler. of Wasco, is at the Perkins. n raihert. of Brighton. Or., is at the Perkins. Tt Ft. Haines, of Roseburg, Is at the Imnerlal. John C. Bortle, of Seattle, is at the Nortonla. Mm R. P. Harrison, of Salem, is at the Ritz. . r-hoi-ies Fleeel. of Culm. N. D., Is at the Palace. J. M. Conroy, of Tygh Valley, is the Eaton. Pauline Sears, of Vale, Or., is at the Multnomah. Dr. W. H. Ellis, of Albany, Is at the Multnomah. Thomas B. Young, of Pendleton, Is at the Portland. n r. Hail, of Sherwood, Or., is at the Washington. Joseph CasterTof Lisabeula, Wash., Is at the Eaton. Fred C. McCrea, of Prineville, Is the Nortonla. O. .Terpen Olsen. of Yacolt, Wash., Is at the Seward. W. R. Wright, of San Francisco, is at the Multnomah. .Tudtre G. W. Phelps, of Pendleton, Is at the Imperial. Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Clements, of Salem, are at the Palace. George A. Walker, of Junction City is at the Imperial. Elizabeth Mitchell, of Wallowa, Or., is at the Oregon. J. N. Ginty. of Pendleton, is registered at the Washington. William H. Freeman, of Richmond, Ind., is at the Ritz. F. D. Hobbs, of La Grande, is regis tered at the Palace. H. Bayfield, of New York , Is regi tered at the Eaton. Miss K. P. Hudson, of Atlanta, Ga., is stopping at the Ritz. Edward T. Hooper, of Peoria, 111., Is stopping at the Ritz. H. V. Shell, of Grants Pass, is regis tered at the Seward. W. T. Smith, wife and son, are at the Palace from Sheridan. George E. Belott, of Pittsburg, is reg istered at the Portland. O. L. Lawson, of The Dalles, is reg istered at the Imperial. O. Wilson, of Flat. Alaska, is regis tered at the Cornelius. Mrs. A. W. Scott and Miss Shepherd. No! Not More Expensive ! Undoubtedly CO LUMBIAN service ought to cost more than ordinary opti cal service, but it doesn't. The CO LUMBIAN'S su perior equipment and superior ex perts cost the com pany more money, but on the other hand they bring a -greater volume of " business and equal ize the cost in that way, so that the customer never has to pay more and often less than at ordinary optical stores. Accuracy, promptness and courtesy at no greater cost. COLUMBIAN OPTICAL - CO FLOYD F. BROWER, MT. 145 Sixth Street. iliiimiiiiiimiiiiitiiimmmiiiiiii is of Camas, Wash., are at the Wash ington. . Mrs. A. J. Gillis. of Walla Walla. Wash., Is at the Multnomah. H. S. Huson, of Cornelius, is regis tered at the Multnomah. Mrs. J. B. Gregory, of Wallowa, registered at the Oregon. Charles Gill, of Skamokawa, Wash., registered at the Eaton. a Fred J. Bailey, of Port Townsend, Wash., is at the Cornelius. C. C. Whitten and Mrs. Whitten are at the Nortonla from Eugene. E. O. McCoy and Mrs. McCoy, of The Dalles, are at the Portland. Miss E. Seward, of San Francisco, is registered at the Nortonia. D. H. Stegman, of Centerville, Wash, is registered at the Perkins. Charles C. Holloway, of San Fran cisco, is registered at the Cornelius. L. J. Gordon and Mrs. Gordon, of New York, are registered at the Portland. Dr. Albert H. Featherstone, promi nent physician of Wallace, Idaho, has been in Portland several days visiting with Dr. J. P. Tamiesie. Dr. Feather stone has been in California for some time and is en route home. Xortlt Vakima's Total Grows. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Oct. 16. North Yakima liberty loan subscrip tions today totaled $350,600, bringing the total for the two days of the sub scription campaign to $437,150. The city's quota is $795,602. In today's tota are included $325,000 reported through the banks. Lofty trees once grew in Greenland and nearly all of the inhospitable Northern lands. Trees of the same sorts as are growing today are found as fossil remains in countries where the climate is now so harsh that scarce ly any tree will grow even a few Inches high. 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