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Newspaper Page Text; PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10", 1939. . mnz dUUhlY AND LLUB 1W WS Ut THE WbbK By CLARA MARY DAVIS Dr. Sleeter to Wed California Girl in 1 Holiday Ceremony The engagement of Miss Pearl . Fawcett, member of a well known and pioneer Vallejo, Cal., family, to Dr. Robert W. Sleeter of this city, was an nounced Informally by her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Faw cett In Vallejo last week. 1 Miss Fawcett, who has visited ' in Medford frequently the past ' .ew months, is a graduate of the Vallejo high school and of the ' University of California in Ber ' Ueley where she was affiliated with Alpha Chi Omega sorority, serving as president In her senior year. She completed her curriculum in social service and ' has been employed for the past two and a half years as a medi- ' cal social service worker at the ' Sacramento county , hospital. Dr. Sleeter is the son of Mrs, ' Ralston W. Sleeter and the late ' Dr. Sleeter. His only brother, Richard, is a student at the Uni- '. versity of Oregon. He is a grad uate of the University of Ore . gon Medical school in Portland where he was affiliated with nitv - Nu Sigma Nu medical frater- His pre-medical training was repeived at the University of .. Oregon where he was a member of Phi Kaona Fst social frater nity. Dr. Sleeter lrterned at the - Sacramento county hosDital and last year received graduate work at the University of Penn sylvania in Philadelphia. He is now practicing in this city. The wedding will be an event Cal. Perry Home Scene Of Luncheon Event 1 Past Matrons of Reames chap ter were entertained at the home of Mrs. J. A. Perry last week at dessert luncheon and a meeting. Hostesses were Mes dames Katheryn McDonald, Bes sie Lumsden and Rose Bishop. ; This also marked the club's annual Christmas party. Pres ents were distributed from a beautifully lighted tree and each matron gave a present for a child to be turned over to a local .organization for distribution at 'Christmas time. Save With Our LAUNDRY SERVICE Wea Coleman HIS E. 11th. Phone 97 design, with an enduring I Mil m ;- wws last through all the years to come. Whichever style you prefer, you will find a Towlb pattern to interpret It in truly delightful fashion. It is surprising how easily you may acquire this fine Ster ling. Buy the Place Service a usable unit at a time. It's easy on the budget A Place Service (knife, fork, salad fork, teaspoon, butter spreader, and cream soup spoon) in any of these lovely patterns Is only about $16.75. Fewer piece. In your Kleaion, from $6J0 Lawer Carrying th tarn high quality mtrchandlse found in best ilorei In larger cities, much more fod-rately priced. Elks and Friends -To Dance at Large Ball December 30 One of the most prominent social activities of the holiday season will be the Elks annual charity ball to be held in their temple Saturday night, Decem ber 30th. Due to the fact that New Year's eve is on Sunday, the committee has decided to hold their dance Saturday night, and in lieu ef the midnight frolic, special entertainment is being presented, according to Secre tary Ernest L. Scott. Archie Legg's orchestra will provide the music and the atten dance, will be confined to Elks and guests admitted only on invitation cards which may be secured from the secretary. Several cocktail parties are being arranged in advance of the dance and it is the belief of the committee that an unusu ally large crowd will be in at tendance. " i Club to Assist In Light Contest Hotel Medford wan the crene of the regular meeting of the Meaiora ttarden club Thursday. Mrs. Elmer Wilson presided in the absence of 4h nrMlHmi Mrs. J. W. Jacobs. It was annmmrerl nt tha eaa. slon that the club will assist the Chamber of rnmmnrM in carrying out the Christmas home-lighting contest which i. an anticipated affair eorh von r in this city. A guest at the meef'waa Bert Porter Hampson; who talk ed' reffardinff the hpiiffia.oainn project at the old fairgrounds, which is occupied by CCC units. The Garden Huh will .;,( i. the landscaping and planting of me grounds. Mrs. C. A. Meelrer . Interesting aCCOUnt Fit the Arnrt. ous gardens she visited while on a recent trip east. She men tioned Mt. Vernon; the restora tion at Williamsburg, Virginia, and the gardens at Rockefeller center. , F.L. Club to Meet Monday F.L. club will convene Mnn. day evening at 7:30 o'clock at the- homo of Bessie Thompson, (U3 west inn. street. St. Mark's to Meet Tuesday Women's auxiliary of St. Mark's will meet Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Horace Gates, 325 West Third street. interpretation of the finest In modern quality of artistic merit to ence s Orva Stevens to -Wed Mr. Taylor In Near Future Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Stevens of 839 Taylor Street recently announced the engagement of their daughter, Orva, to Theo dore L. Taylor, son of L. C. Taylor and Mrs. Blanche M. Taylor. The bride-to-be is a graduate of the Medford high school and is now attending the Southern Oregon College of Education in Ashland. . Mr. Taylor Is also a graduate of the Medford high school, later attending Oregon State college. He Is now associated with the Pierce Allen Motor Company of this city. No definite date for the wed ding has been set. Hotel Holland Is Scene of Dinner Toastmlstress members . con vened last week for a dinner session in the Hotel Holland Miss Valeria Whitney, president. presided and Bessie Long was toastmlstress. Topic was "Women In Busi ness," with the following tak ing part: Yesterday, Betty Vilm; Today, Catherine Ford: Europe, Margo Boyle; Tomor row,; Rhoda Iden. Delbert Burke acted, as. critic. Fifteen members and guests were present. Next session will be held December 20 in the Girls' Community clubhouse, Calif ornians Here To Visit Friends . Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Crause ac companied by Mrs. Crause's mother and aunt, were recent visitors here at the home of Mr. Crause's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Crause. The group resides in southern California. While here the visitors were shown numerous scenic places of Interest and enjoyed a dinner cooked by Beck's bakery. They were greatly Impressed with the valley and expressed the thought to visit here again next summer. B.P.W. Dinner Is Thursday Event The Business and Profession al Women's cluh heM their reeni lflr mnnthlv riinnor mnetincy at the Hotel Holland, Thursday evening. Rose Houston, president, pre sided at the hiiRinpRs meeting The session was later turned over to Gladys Robinson, chair man of the publication commit tee. The nroeram consisted nf several people telling the stories oi six oi our most popular Christmas carols after which Jean Griesbv sana a verse nf each carol. Miss Robinson was assisted by Dorothy Christian and Eva Rv- olok. Ever-Ready to Meet Tuesday ' The Ever-Ready circle will have its annual Christina mu Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. E. L. Hen- nlnger, 1000 West Main street. Party Wednesday For Chrysanthemum ' , Chrysanthemum circle num ber" 84,' Neighbors of Wonrierafl will have a Christmas nnrtv nnrt exchange of gifts for members ana tnelr families at the regular meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the K. P. hall. 4 Here's a practical present! A gift of year round use! Just send your laundry to us and give yourself 32 holidays a year In which to do the things you've always longed to do! n Dr. Robert Lee's Engagement to Miss Martin Told Mrs. Louise M. Kaser of Port land announces the engagement and forthcoming marriage of her daughter, Miss Maxine Mar tin to Dr. Robert E. Lee of this city. The bride-elect is a native of Oregon, having lived all of her life in Portland where she re ceived her education. Dr. Lee, prominent Medford optometrist and member of the Masonic lodge, has resided here for the. past ten years and is widely known In the valley, The couple's marriage will take place on December 23 in the Methodist church in Ash land. They will travel to south ern California and northern Mexico on a wedding trip and will return here to reside at Dr. Lees country home, Lee- Rancho. Mrs. Guches New Club President The Travel Study club met Mondav at thp hnmp nt Mm A J. Hanby. Lovely white chry- samnemums Irom Mrs. Hanby's gardens decorated the rooms The study of the day was hernial America, tne republics of - Honduras. SnlvaH Nicaragua being discussed by i-irs. a. a. urewer. Compara tively little is known of these countries, but they are excep tionally fertile anH hn ,., possibilities for future develop ment. The House in Ar,tiaV V... Lewis Adamic. was reviaurori k . ' mrs. n. u. Brown; who present- ea in a most charmino wnu ui- history of a three hundred year urn nouse. Antigua is about eight miles frnm -- - uuB,ciuam City, and the capital was orig- umuy located there. Many earthquakes destroveH the so many times, Spain ordered the capital moved to its present location. This Verv Inrern hn,,- has been restored, as nearly as puBsioie jo copy the plan and architecture nf thp nr-iii j. sign. It has taken six years of irareiui study and research by Dr. Wilson Popenoe, avacado and banana experiment agent, iu nuve inis work completed, but Mr. Adamic nrpspnte It n n marvel of the ages. ew officers elected for 1940 are. Mrs. Chet r-.,,i, dent; Mrs. Harold Larsen, vice- 4Mueni; Mrs. K. S. Daniels secretary. The next mepiitirt n u i..,-. January 8th at the home of Mrs H. L. Brown, 105 Geneva. Miss Elizabeth Burr and Mrs. S. L. Divine have the program. Dinner Party Is Friday Evening Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Fi tsnn (vara hosts Friday evening at their nome on Hillcrest road for a delightful dinner party. Guests included Dr. and Mrs. Walt E. Hoppe, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kittle. Miss Isnhel Stuart Dr. Buhrl GilDin and Mr. and Mrs. Russell D. Davis. Cards were en loved after the buffet supper. -fftbe a- I Dial The gift Vf of a yhri MIDAUION , -J--A Smart t v tnW "Vi2 -MI..CAN LARRY SCHADE Your Favorite. Jeweler Holiday By Mrs. Alexander George AP Feature Service Writer The Christmas pudding crowns the feast. Here we present some of the best old-timers and some ultra moderns so you can take your choice for your Yuletide festivities. Old-Fashioned Plum Pudding Often called English or suet pudding; chockful of fruits and spices; needs time to ripen. This is a favorite old Pennsylvania Dutch recipe: Soak 3 cuds ot bread crumbs 10 minutes In 7 cups of riot milk, uu In 1 cup dark brown sugar, 1 cup granulated sugar, a teaspoons cinna mon, 1 teaspoon each of clovea, nut meg and mace, 1', teaspoons salt, 4 egg yolks. 3 cupa chopped beef auet, I'f, cups each of dates, tigs, currants and raisins, cup each of chopped citron and candled fruit peels. Add 2'i cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 cup grapejulce or cider, and 1 cup broken nutmeata. Mix all Ingredients thoroughly and lightly mis In 4 egg whites, beaten, nu buttered moulds two-thlrda of the way. cover tightly and steam 8 hours. Cool, wrap in waua papers ana store in covered Jar In cool place. x Fig Pudding Not so heavy as a suet pud ding, put a delicious finale for a holiday dinner: Mix 3 cups graham flour, 2 cups white flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 tea spoons baking powder. I ft teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 14 tea apoon each of clovea and nutmeg, 1-3 cup brown sugar, Vi cup molasses. eggs, 3 cups chopped figs, ft cup choped nut, 4 tablesoons fat, melted and 1 1-3 cups of milk. Halt-till greased pudding moulds, cover tight ly and steam 3 hours. Steamed Holiday Pudding 3 egg 1 cup dark brown sugar, packed 1 cup grated carrots 1!4 cupa ground auet. do not pack 1 oup canned unsweetened Hawaii an pineapple Juice SV4 cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon soda V4 teaspoon clovea H teaspoon cinnamon Vi teaspoon allspice 1V4 teaspoons salt cup raisins 1 cup chopped citron. Beat enRs well. Add Mio-nr n h. Add ftrated carrot And ut ait, Ingredients together and add alter nately with pineapple Juice, reserving a little to flour fruit. Add fruit. Pour Into a large greased mould, cover and steam four hours. May be made ahead and stored In a crock or tight container in a eonl ntna Ha,, h. fore serving and serve sliced with juur invunie aauce. This pudding will fill a two-quart mould 12 to 14 servings. Date Surprise A delicious new ntiHHincr fine as a dessert, evrpllent inr ra. freshments: Pour 3 cups of boning water over 3 cups ohopped datea, cool and mix in 1 cup flour, 3 teaspoons soda, 1 teaspoon salt. 114 citna licnt. hmn sugar, cup chopped candled pine apple, cup oroken nuts. 1 teaspoon VantllR. 3 ama tvi-itatn an a t.kl.. spoons of butter, melted. Pour Into a loaf nan lined with Q thia,nMa.. of waxed paper. Bake 14 hours In a siow oven 360 degrees. Cut In slices and serve vqrm. BURELSON'S fat ill" Give her a is flattering urious anc same time practical wearable, an ways welcome GOTHAM GOLD STRIPE &teatii Meeting Priced at 79c, $1.00, $1.15, $1.35 And Get Them at Her Favorite Shop BURELSON'S Ladles' Recipes About Sauces Heavy fruit puddings need tart sauces: Lemon, pineapple or orange, rather soft; but very creamy. Hard sauce is good for these, too; many persons like some of each. A foamy egg sauce, highly flavored also blends with fruit puddings. w nipped cream or hard sauce is Desi witn cnocolate puddings, Eggnog. Beat separately the yolks and whites of six fresh; eggs. Add i cup of sugar to yolks, while beating and '4 cup of sugar to whites after they have been beaten very stiff. Mix egg whites with yolks. Stir in ot:e pint of rich cream and One pink of milk. . Add 1 pint of liquor (or more, to taste) and 1 ounce of rum. Stir thoroughly. Serve very cold with grated nutmeg on each cup. This recipe makes 5 pints of eggnog. ' ' If you Want to remove pecan nutmeats in halves, cover the nuts with boiling water and let them stand IS minutes. Crack carefully and pick out the meats. Here is a Christmas gift idea that will make a hit bake fruit cakes in star-shaped moulds and give the mould along with the cake as a present. Or let the star shaped cakes help out with dec orating vnur hnlirinv tahlpe They carry out the Yuletide mom wnen oecKed with holly or other Christmas finery. -i If citron is very hard for the holiday cakes or cookies, soak it for 10 minutes in fnilt In cider or milk, then cut it into smau pieces. .. For extra flavor in dark fruit cakes, use cider or spiced fruit juices for the liquid, Sift spices with the' flour so they will be distributed proper ly throughout the batter or dough. Be sure that the fruits and nuts are- well distributed thru out your fruit-cake mixtures. Choir or arind them into uni form sized' pieces and sprinkle inem well with flour to prevent them from sticking together or remaining in one snot in the cake batter. , When steaming puddings al ways have the water boiling. It should come up to at least 2 inches from the-ton of the mould.' Replenish 'with boiling water to prevent the pudding from falling. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads It 1:30 p. m. Linens For Christmas A choice selection of embroidered linens from a convent In China - on view at 330 N. Holly. Apt. 8. Exquisite handwork on real Irish linen, from handkerchiefs and collar and cuff sets to bridge and tea sets, will make exceptional and lovely guts. Ready to Wear iWlW X ' - WO CURVEX V7A YlJ r M! CUBVEX DUCHESS 8 f (173 V yJr V 1 y W X IK m 17-iewel Precision move- T" t jT' ' C S-A Vfi ment. yellow or while gold V if I 1 'eT filled case. Come in, see it! L J B CURVEX CAVtT $ aw-n V J 1i?S55i 17-iewel Precision move- 4 1 Emm f ??r?'r menr. vol Inn.' nA fill -J . 1.4, rrn A vimcm tKfmA State President W.C.T.U. Addresses Large Meeting Mrs. Necia Buck, of Salem, state W.C.T.U. president con ducted a workers' conference in the Presbyterian church parlors, Thursday. Representatives at tended from Ashland, Medford, Grants Pass and Reese creek. The morning devotional ser vice was conducted by Rev. G. G. Canfield, taking as his topic the Twenty-third Psalm. Mrs. E. J. Wine led the singing. In closing, Mrs. Canfield sang the Twenty-third Psalm. Reports were given by W.C.T. U. presidents and Mrs. Buck spoke on plans for the coming year, closing with noontide prayer. A luncheon was enjoyed by about forty guests. Mrs. E. M. Wilson gave the afternoon devotions, with an im pressive talk on "Blessings and Benefits." A solo, "Show Me My Task," by Mrs. Archie Pierce was enjoyed. She was accom panied by Mrs. C. C. Meeker. Stating that department work is the real work of the W.C.T.U., Mrs. Buck explained the pur pose of the twenty-two depart ments in W.C.T.U. work with helpful suggestions as to how each can best be carried on. Resolutions were passed to send messages of sympathy to the families of Mrs. Charles Davis and Mrs. J. C. Woods. Mrs. Woods and Mrs. Davis were active in Medford W.C.T. U. for many years, Mrs. Woods having also served as county president. Mrs. Buck went on to Klam ath Falls for another mnta,. ence. Next meeting of Medford W C.T.U. will he hoiH ti j-..' December 14 in the parlors of "e rirsx Methodist church. Mrs. J. C. Tnelrpp ahalm,.. -t the Children's Farm w -- "tllB VIC" j faiuuem win present the pro- si am ana guis will be brought to be sent to the hnmp Tttia a..:! - a.,,i0 w il, be an open meeting and gifts for the children or for the up keep of the home will be appre- i-icuea. Oso Mall Tribune want ads. tUf - : 4 " GRUEN "Addison ... Ytkl to h,,f.f3 , " ieweh.vellow .4 gold filled case, i ,eweli .0d filled" case, Guildite back.. WESTERN ELECTRIC , . When yon hay tour Chrttma ettasrMT irwri rn( watch from u, we test It for Car a5alLit.it a you on this precision lustra- MEDFORD, ORE. ment. This Is the surest safe guard f arrnrary foe complete ALWAYS FIRST Mtlsfarflnn. Rj with the Newest I I and Beat Edmonds-Conley Ceremony Held Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Erlene Edmonds, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Edmonds of Med ford, and Ben Conley, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Conley of Jacksonville. The ceremony was performed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lew Conley, brother of the bridegroom, at 6 o'clock Sat urday, with Rev. E. N. Mallery of Jacksonville officiating. Guests were members of the family and friends; Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Edmonds, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Conley, Mr. and Mrs. Lew Conley, Mrs. Myrtle Bur ton, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Simp son, Mrs. S. E. Edmonds, Mrs. Casebolt, Jimmy French, Har old Edmonds, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Conley, Dorothy Conley. The young couple are well known here. Electa Party ' Is Friday Event Electa Social club will have a Christmas party Friday after noon at 1 o'clock at the Girls Community clubhouse. Reames Chapter Will Convene Reames chapter of Eastern Star will hold a regular meeting Thursday evening in the Ma sonic Temple at 8 o'clock. Elec tion of officers and a social eve ning and program will be en- . joyed throughout the evening. 1 The December committee is in charge of the arrangements. Mrs. Lena Roseberry is chairman. (Continued on Page Five.) The Gift That Only YOU Can Give ' 12 lovely gifts for the price you might ordinarily pay for one. Personality Portraits 24 Hour Service is desired SHANGLE STUDIO V Medford Bldg. Phone 1308 BROPHY'S ASK YOU TO the VMliS Phone 21. Medford Bldg.