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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON'. THURSDAY. AUGUST 9. 1940. PAGE THREE Society a"d Clubs By Clara Mary Davis ed an opportunity of viewing many interesting sight! in Chi cago when she spent a week end with Mr. and Mrs. Bgrnard Massoth, her long time friends. Harold Hunt to Attend Festival Opening Friday When William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor" opens the sixth annual Shake spearean Festival in Ashland's outdoor civic Elizabethan the atre tomorrow night, one metro politan paper of Portland will be personally represented. Harold Hunt, drama editor on the Oregon Journal, is sched uled to arrive here via United Airlines tomorrow evening for the premiere showing. This will mark the third year that Hunt has attended the fes tival. Skeptical at the possible results of amateur and inex perienced players, old clothes muslin and dye for costumes, he has become one of the staunchest supporters of the fes tival and his annual trips to southern Oregon for this event are now becoming a tradition. Festival officials will meet him at the local airport and convey him to Ashland for the opening plays. Theta Rho To Meet Tonight Mrs. Helen Keesee will en tertain Theta Rho Girls at her home at 28 South Peach street at 6:00 o'clock this evening. After dinner members plan to attend the theater. Plans will also be formulated for a picnic to be held at Jack son Hot Springs in the future. Lawrences Hosts To House Guests Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Badgley of Bellingham. Wash., with their two daughters, were re cent guests at the home of their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs Fred Lawrence on Euclid ave nue. The Lawrence's son. Harry, returned to Bellingham with the visitors while one of the Badgley daughters, Rosalyn, re mained here for a month's visit. Mrs. Lawrence was a recent hostess honoring the thirteenth birthday of Rosalyn. Guests were Ruth and Andree An drews, Bobby and Curline My ers, George Barba. Jerry Green Allen Rogers. Kenneth Deger ness. Joan and Charles Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bryan. Taylor-Johnson Wedding Takes Place in Church The Church of Christ In this city was the scene of the wed ding last Sunday at 9 o'clock in the morning of Miss Kenamae Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Allison and Russel John son. The Rev. W. E. Stram officiat ed at the Impressive ceremony prior to which Mrs. Stram sang "I Love You." accompanied by Miss Maxine Pierce at the piano. The bride wore a navy blue suit with matching accessories. She carried a bouquet of ' pink roses and blue flowers. Miss Geneave Johnson, niece of the bridegroom, was her attendant. She also wore a navy blue suit and accessories of white. Harold Bigelow acted as best man for Mr. Johnson. A wedding luncheon was served at the Allison home on Spring street to members of the bridal party and immediate families. Among out-of-town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Earl Turin, arr1 cnn n, PrrtiAft Pitv Calif.. Harold Taylor of Central' fust at,end University of dollar fellowship to the insti- Two Will Arrive In City Sunday Miss Dorothy Price and Miss Eleanor Throckmorton plan to arrive In Medford Sunday from Oregon State college where they have been taking advanced work on their master's degree. Miss Price will be ihe house guest of Miss Throckmorton during her stay here after which she will leave about Au- Shakespearean Play Schedule Shakespearean plays will open Friday evening and con tinue each evening thereafter until Saturday, August 17. All plays will be held in the Ashland civic Elizabethan theatre and will start at 8:30 p. m. - Scheduled plays and dates follow: Friday, August 9, "The Merry Wives of Windsor." Saturday, August 10. "Much Ado About Nothing." Sunday, nothing scheduled. - Monday, August 12, "The Comedy of Errors." Tuesday. August 13, "As You Like It." Wednesday, August 14. "The Merry Wives of Wind sor." Thursday, August IS. "Much Ado About Nothing.' Friday, August 16, "The Comedy of Errors." Saturday, August 17, "As You Like It." SCHOOL OPENING DATES ANNOUNCED Opening dates for a number of Jackson county rural school were announced today by the county school superintendent's office, as follows: Monday, September 2 (Labor Day) Sams Valley, Antelope Watkins. Tlail, North Phoenix, Neil Creek, Applegate, E!k Creek, Agate, Derby, Shady Cove, Antioch, Lake Creek and Little Applegate. Tuesday, September 3 Pro volt. Brownsboro. Willow Springs. Liberty, Anderson Creek. Ruch. Reese Creek. Bell view, Oak Grove, Griffin Creek Independence, Evans Valley and Table Rock. Monday. September 9 Pine hurst. Talent and Howard (Medford). L S New Vndtr-arm Cream Deodorant safely Stops Perspiration Valley, Calif. The couple will make their home on Newtown street in' this city. Miss Gill Is Party Honor ee Miss Bernice Gill of San Fran cisco was honored last evening at a no-hostess dinner party at the Hotel Holland. Those participating in the en joyable affair were Mrs. D. R Wood, Mrs. Alta Pruitt, Mrs. Jack Gill Miss Beth Watson Mrs. P. G. Humphrey. Mrs. Mary Crosfield, Miss Thelma Moore and Mrs. Weldon McBee Following dinner the guests went to the home of Mrs. McBee 1. Does not rot dresses, does not irritite skin. 2. Nowaitingrodry.Canbeuted right after shiving. 3. Instantly stops perspiration for 1 to ) dayt. Removes odor from perspiration. 4. Apure,white.greueless,sttia less vanishing cream. 5 Arrid has been awarded the Approval Seal of the American Institute of Laundering for being harmless to fabrics. 23 MILLION far of Arrid have bees sold. Try a ju todayl ARRID 4(J , At all Morca cilia t.kt gmmi OyCaiS ( , In in mvJt 5, ) tution. An outstanding student on the campus, Miss Price has been on the honor roll during her entire college career. Miss Throckmorton plans to leave September 1 for Astoria where she will teach in the home economics department of the Lewis and Clark Junior high school. Both former coeds giad uated from the northern college in 1939. Miss Price's home is in Klamath Falls. Lodges Enjoy Recent Meets Bonnie McClure Enjoys Party Little Miss Bonnie McClure celebrated her fourth birthday Tuesday afternoon when her mother. Mrs. W. H. McClure entertained at a party. Small friends of Bonnie's who were present at the natal day fete were Sandra Lang Bever ley Jean Hogue. Harriet and Richard Morris, Bruce Langs ton, Mary Lou, Delores Mae and trnie Rae Lind, Gayle and Carol Lynn Sutton, Terry Walther and the honoree's sister, Lassie. Mothers attending were Mes dames Arthur Lang, Russell Hogue. John Morris, Lloyd Langston. Ernest Lind, Harold Sutton, Lyle Walter and the honoree's grandmother Mrs. J. W. Hoyt. Bonnie received numerous lovely gifts and refreshments were served. Pictures were taken during the afternoon. Pocahontas lodge enjoyed a recent meeting, after which on South Grape street for in members went to the home of evening of visiting. Miss Gill, former popular Medford resident, is a nurse at the Franklin hospital in the bay city. She plans to return south about August 18. She is the house guest here of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gill on Cot: tage street. S25.00 REWARD Will be paid by the manufacturer for an? Corn or Calloua GREAT CHRISTOPHER POSITIVE CORN SALVB cannot remove. S5o at Your WESTERN THRIFT Store. M rs. Prentice Is Home From East Mrs. Harry R. Prentice re turned yesterday by train from a three week's trip to the east. In Chicago, where she spent the majority of her time, Mrs. Pren tice received accordion instruc tion from three outstanding In structors: Galla Rini, Sydney B. Dawson and Paul Miners. She was also present at the formation of the National Ac cordion Teachers association with members from all parts of the United States and Canada. Mrs. Prentice said that Mr. Rinl has made a tentative pro mise to stop in Medford in the winter when he tours the west coast. Harriet Watson at Central Point for a watermelon feed. Bridge and pinochle were played dur ing the evening. Assisting the hostess were Dick Singler. Mary Jones and V e r n a Webb. Entertainment committee for the month in cludes Carrie Millies. Pearl Stevens, and Georgia Burnham Wenonah club met for a recent covered dish luncheon and bus! ness session at the home of Maude Abbot near Lake Creek. Forty-five members were present. Assisting the hostess were Laura Wicker, Mary Lou Wat son, Peggy Grimes, Esther Dooms Gladys Dooms, Esther Hobbs,' Ethel Haertle, Nellie Purdin and Bertha Mae Mills. 9 The packing irhool sponsor ed by the Traffic association and Jhe Fruitgrowers league opened yesterday in Pinnacle plant No. 2 with 120 pupils. Twice that many have register ed, and arrangements will be made for their study periods soon, it was announced. Sixty of the freshmen pack ers work In the morning, and the same number in the after noon, under the present pro gram. More enrolled than was anticipated. Purpose of the school is to train local and county people as packers, and provide work for home people during the fruit season. Alderman Halfnrd Wilson, sponsoring appointment of the resolution -drawing group, de clared: "For many years a far-sighted group has watched a situation develop which would menace the safety of our people. "That situation exists today just as it did years ago, except that there are far more Japan ese here than there were at that time. They have given ns support to our war effort and have made few donations to the Red Cross." Brazil, largest of South Amer ican countries, has an area of 3.275.510 square miles. JULY TRAFFIC DEATHS U Las Vegas. Nev.. Aug. 8. &) Six dead were identified today as physicians fought to save the lives of nine other victims of a gasoline explosion which rock ed a residential district here yesterday. Five of the dead were the wife and four children of Thomas Myers, gasoline distrib utor, and the other victim was a neighbor child. Myers and two more of his hildren were among the most critically injured. The blast was in the Myers back yard. Myers said he was pouring gasoline from truck tanks Into small containers when sudden ly a "solid sheet of flame shot out In four directions." The e-x plosion shook adjoining houses and broke windows half a mile away. Stuarts Expect To Return Soon Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Stuart and two children, Richard and Gracia are expected to return tomorrow from San Francisco, where they have been vacation ing for a week. The family attended the Golden Gate Internatinnal Ex- The local woman was afford- position on Treasure Island. Salem, Aug. 8. (P) Twenty eight persons died In Oregon traffic accidents during July, the figure being the lowest for the month in five years. Secre tary of State Earl Snell said today. The total was three less than of July, 1939, and seven less than the June toll. Traffic accidents killed 189 persons during the first seven months of 1940, compared with 172 during the same period last year. i LASTT CALL ON SUMMER STYLES Everything goea in a gigantic Clean-up Sale To Make Room for New Fall Merchandise! IDIR15SSISS GOING AT A FRACTION OF THEIR WORTH! $3.98 & $4.98 Cotton Print Dresses, regular $1.00 to $2.98 Values 79c aund $1.29 each One Group Regular Values to $8.98. Sale Price Other Groups Sale Prices SUMMER SHOES! LOOK! 49c $1.00 $1.99 and $2.99 FRIDAY AT 2 O'CLOCK Funeral services for Mrs. Iso bcl Patterson will be ' held in the Conger funeral parlors at 2 p. m. Friday with Rev. Fred M. Weatherford officiating. In terment will be in the I.O.O.F cemetery. New Pott Office Washington, Aug. 8. (P) The public buildings administra tion awarded a S58.7Z4 contract to the Potucek & Matson com pany, Tacoma, of a new post office at Tilla mook, Ore. Navajo silversmiths learned their art from Mexicans taken captive about the middle of the 19th century. Berlin, Aug. 8. (Pi Britain is responsible for feeding the populations in countries occu pied by German troops because she Is responsible for their en. tering the war against Germany, Dienst Aus Deutschland, author itative commentary, observed today. The article said It was written in reply to British press asser tions that Germany was respon sible for the care- and feeding of persons in the occupied areas and that Adolf Hitler had de clared in his last speech that 'the feeding of Europe is as sured." "Hitler spoke not of an as sured European but of an as sured German supply," Dienst Aus Deutschland said. from strange land VChcrevcr the finest grows the "Spice Isles," Mexico, Madagascar there Schilling treks the choicest of rich spices and rare flavors. That's why Schilling Products ire to good Pepper fresh and pungent. Chili Powder full of tcstful flavor, pun Vanilla w ith that exquisite, delicate flavor which won't bake or freeze out Compare Schilling quality and Savor, famous for more than half s ctnrurjrl If iricil-1 ixriActt Schillins: seaJtcJt&S 7tL Wo& Jot jfihest flam ECONOMIC STEPS Washington, Aug. 8. OP) The American republics began formal consideration today of methods, to relieve, and develop the economy of this hemisphere under the broad program adopt ed at Havana and steps neces sary to carry them out. Sumner Welles, acting secre tary of state and committee chairman, said that it would canvass the field of existing and prospective economic problems growing out of the European war and the application of pro posed remedies. Heading the list was the mounting surplus of commodi ties of some Lutin American countries to which former Eu ropean markets have been clos ed by the war. VIVIEN LEIGH TO WED REAL SOON Hollywood, Aug. 8. UP) Wedding bells will ring "fairly soon" for Vivien Leigh, the Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind," and actor Laurence Olivier. A final decree of divorce from Olivier was obtained in London last Monday by Jill Es mond, British actress, and Her bert Leigh Holman, husband of Miss Leigh, is expected to ask for his final decree It a few days. "We are planning to marry fairly soon," said Olivier. PEACHES RIPEN FAST Ef Peaches of the Rogue river . valley are now ripening under uie warm August sun, ana buiiic general picking is predicted by August 15. In many orchards the peaches have started to "yellow." It was also reported not as many were falling off as last year. LIMITED TIME OFFER IAPS IN CANADA CAUSE OF ALARM Vancouver, B. C, Aug. 8. (P) After hearing charges that Japanese in British Columbia are "ferociously working for their own gods in far-off Japan," the Vancouver city council fi nance committee yesterday ap pointed a group to draft a reso lution of alarm at the presence of many Japanese. r: X err. m 49c ILN COVERS A v Al IIMN11U IN THIS FIRST QUALITY, GENUINE WEAR-EVER CAN YOU GET: 1. Smooth, flat bottom 2. Round, oasy-cUon corners 4. Cup markings tavo lima 5. Long, comfortable handlo 3. Eosy-to-cloan odgo 6. Two pouring llpt I SPG20&Q ft)fl7 &0 I HUBBARD BROS. 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