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4A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, February 22, 195 Earle - Shuck Ceremony Held in Hilts Church Hilt A double rir g cere mony held February 11 at 7 pjn. in Hilts Community church married Linda Lee Shuck and Robert Frank Earle, Grants Pass. Pastor John Shaw officiated at the ceremony which was attended by members of the family only.' The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Shuck and the bridegroom's parents are Mr. and Mrs. James Earle Grants Pass. 4 The bride, given in riage by her father, wore a white lace street length sheath dress made by the bride groom's grandmother. Her fingertip length tule veil was held in place by a small flow ered headband and she wore long white gloves. Her double strand of pearls with match ing earrings was given to her by the bridegroom. She car ried a nosegay fashioned of white carnations centered with a white orchid. Miss Pat Hossick of Yreka, the bride's only attendant, wore a champagne sheath dress with matching head band and gloves and carried a bouquet of white gardenias. Candlelighter was Miss Judy Moore, also of Yreka. She wore a light blue net waltz length dress with match ing headband and gloves and wore a gardenia corsage. Best man was the bride groom's brother, Thomas Earle, Grants Pass. The bride s mother wore a two-piece chocolate brown wool suit and the bridegroom's mother was attired in a black velvet suit. Both wore orchid corsages. Traditional wedding music was played by Mrs. Harry Burns. Candles and spring flowers decorated the altar of the church. A reception was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Barron immediately following the ceremony. A bouquet of daffodils centered the table from which the wedding cake and punch were served. Miss Judy Moore cut and served the cake, and Miss Pat Hos sick presided at the punch bowl. Miss Moore was also In charge of the guest book. The newlyweds will make their home in Sacramento where the bridegroom is sta tioned with the Air Force at McClellan Air base. The bride attended Yreka High school and graduated with the class of 1958. For the past several months she has been making her home in Sacramento and is employed with the Allstate Insurance Company. Mr. Earle attended school in Grants Pass. Out-of-town guests attend ing the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. James Earle and Mrs. Earle's mother, and Thomas Earle, Grants Pass; Mr. and Mrs. Lee Staley and Gerald Staley, Dunsmuir, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Erling Hjertager and sons, Harold and Raymond, Callahan, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Gorden Bray, Yreka; Mr. and Mrs. William Wiley, Horn brook and Mrs. Ben Dawson Jr. Ashland. 'A shower was given at the Community center Friday, February 13 for the bride by Mrs. Arthur Hartman, Mrs. Warren Fox, and Mrs. W. Snook. The Valentine ' motif was used for the table and room decorations. Games were played. Present were Mrs. Melvin Barron, Mrs. Ben Daw son Jr., Mrs. Joe Foggiato, Miss Lena Foggiato, Mrs. M G. King, Misses Phyllis and Barbara Alphonse, Mrs. Harry Burns, Mrs. Vern Burns, Mrs. Edward Staley, Mrs. Frank Graves, Mrs. J. R. Smith, Mrs. Harry Black, Mrs. Italo Marin, Mrs. John Shaw, Mrs. Ozzie Bernheisel, Mrs. Robert Good win, Mrs. David Sage, Miss Dorothy Fox, and the bride's mother, Mrs. Tom Shuck. . Mrs. Richard Green Honored at Party Ashland - Mrs. Richard Green, 422 Siskiyou blvd., was honored February 12 at a surprise shower given by Miss Sally Lane and Miss Ca mille Thompson. Pink and blue decorations were used tnrougnout tne rooms and a cake was served which had been baked and decorated by Mrs. Mary Thompson. The event was attended by 21 relatives and friends from Medford and Ashland. When the Oregon legislature met in 1914, Miss Marian Towne served as representative from Jackson county - the first woman to be elected to the assembly and the second in the United Slates to serve as a state legislator. While in Sal em, this portrait was made of Miss Towne by W. H. Parker. Salem photographer. Today Miss To ne is again living in Phoenix after spending the intervening years in law school, working for the state of Washington in Olympia. and in San Francisco. In California she was with the Women's Division of the San Francisco Welfare department, was at one lime with the California Bar association and also worked as a research assistant at the University of California. Newlyweds Home From Honeymoon Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eugene Bobbett are now at home to their friends at 506 Kenwood avenue following their return from a two weeks wedding trip to Southern California. Mrs. Bobbett is the former Miss Barbara Ann Edwards, 1122 Morrow road. The couple were married recently in a nuptial mass at Sacred Heart Catholic church. Attending the bride at the wedding was Miss Pat Callo way. She wore a frock of red satin fashioned with balloon skirt and carried a bouquet of white carnations encircling red carnations. Mr. Bobbett is in business with his father, C. P. Bobbett, at the Medford Battery shop. Speaker Named By Rose Society Victor Boehle, Grants Pass, will speak for a meeting of Medford Rose Society to be held Monday, February 23, in the Jackson county court house auditorium. Mr. Boehle, who wins many prizes on his roses, will speak on pruning. A sale will be held during the evening and members are asked to take articles forthis. Perennials, slips, rooted cut tings, roses, herbs, bulbs and plants of all types will be wel comed, it is stated. It is also suggested that vases or usable garden equipment will be sold. Plants should be labeled if possible, it is stated. Visitors will be welcomed at the meeting. 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Miss Towne, born and reared in Jackson county, re cently returned to Oregon from San Francisco and is liv ing in Phoenix with her sister Mrs. Anna Smith. The house is one which their father, William Frank Towne, con structed about 70 years ago and used by family members ever since. Last week Miss Towne re called the circumstances which led to her decision to run for the legislature. Ore gon gave women the vote in 1912, and at that time Miss Towne was working as an as sistant to the county clerk of Jackson county, Will Cole man. One of her duties was to read and file copies of bills passed by the legislature which would affect the coun ty and county government or procedures. After a time, Miss Towne came to the conclus ion that many of the bills were poor ones and she decid ed that with even her small knowledge of government, she might do better. Not long after this, Miss Towne talked with Judge W. H. Canon, who was also Med ford's mayor at the time, and she asked his advice about her idea. Mayor Canon said "Good, go ahead and run." The prospective candidate al so tried out the idea on George Putnam, then editor of The Medford Mail Tribune, and he also encouraged her. So she filed on the Democra tic ticket, and was electedr She commented last week that it didn't take so much time, money and oratory to get elected to office back in 1914 as it does now. ' Colleagues React A few of the men elected to serve in the same assembly didn't mind the idea of a woman colleague - but more of them did. One outspoken opponent was Ben Selling, who served as Speaker of the House. Nevertheless, Mr. Sell ing kept fresh flowers on the desk of the representative from Jackson county through out the session. She never was quite sure whether he did this out of kindness, or to indicate that all a woman le gislator was good for, in his opinion, was to tend flowers and look beautiful. She also recalls that for i some reason, most of her col leagues had thought she would be a large, flomlneering, Amazon-like creature with bold manners and a loud voice. What they found was a tiny woman (today Miss Towne weighs less than 80 pounds and wears size 3Vi shoe) with a soft voice and pretty features. One legislator in particular bitterly resented Miss Towne's presence, let it be known at every opportunity and boast ed that he never spoke to her. After the session had been op erating for a time, someone asked Miss Towne "Is Repre sentative So-and-So speaking to you yet?" "To tell the truth, I had been too busy to realize his ani mosity," she recalled last week, "So I said I hadn't noticed he wasn't speaking to me. Miss Towne does not re member that any world-shaking bills were passed during her term in the legislature, but added that education, po litical reform and social leg islation has been her main in terests. She reminded her in terviewer that Oregon pio neered initiative, referendum and recall legislation. Speak ing of current issues, Miss Towne said she had been upset to read time and tune again that citizens had voted down seemingly necessary school fund bills and added "It must be that we are fearful of get ting too deeply in debt." Studied Law She did not consider run ning for a second term, but instead went to the University of Michigan and studied law for a year. Leaving school be cause of poor health, she rest ed at home for a time and when this country entered World War I she joined the Yeomanettes. She worked hard at the duties assigned to her and after a time came up with another idea. Miss Towne applied for a commis sion in the Navy. She still laughs aloud over the aston ishment and displeasure which her superior officers displayed over this-one cap tain in particular declared ' vehemently that "no woman would ever be an officer in , the Navy." j Following the close of the ' war Miss Towne returned to ' the West coast and ror a time , worked in Olympia, Wash., j as secretary of the state com- ; missioner of health. Later she : went to San Francisco where she lived for many years, working at first one position and necessity dictated. She was employed by the Califor nia Bar association for a time, and during the depression of the Thirties, was employed in the Women's Division of the San Francisco Public Wel fare department. Musing over this last week, Miss Towne said "Nothing else ever influenced my thinking and mylife as much as what happened during those months. People were disheartened, and humiliated. Men and women who had al ways been secure in their lives and their jobs found everything taken from them. Our office was in a building which had been a large home -from my desk I could see women approaching the door, knowing that they were ap plying for public aid. Some could scarcely bring them selves to come in-others would approach and at the last minute, turn away. Per haps the next day, or the day after, they would return, be cause they were desperate. Luncheon Slated By DAR Chapter A covered dish luncheon will be held at Girls Commu nity club, 229 North Bartlett street, by Daughters of the American Revolution on Sat urday, February 28, at 1 p.m. The speaker will be Dr. L. T. Haines of Southern Ore gon college. Hostesses will be Mrs. G. O. Taylor. Her assistant host esses are Mrs. E. Earl Brad fish, Mrs. R. E. Green, Mrs. W. W. P. Holt and Mrs. E. Ronald Rice. See Exhibit Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Stew art and children, Jonathan, Janice and Joel, 317 Maple street, are in Portland today to view the works of the art ist, Vincent van Gogh, at the Portland Art Museum. The show will continue at the museum until March 1. Others were the exact oppo site, aggressive and demand ing. Some were real rebels." Thinking back over this pe riod of U.S. history Miss Towne said at length "People of my generation have lived in two worlds. The world as we knew it when I was a child simply doesn't exist any longer." She said the depres sion years and her work had brought the realization that some sort of public assistance is an absolute necessity if people are to retain their self respect and dignity in times of stress and disaster. But Miss Towne believes that the pendulum may swing too far in the other- direction and sighed over the fact that young people now often find life too easy and are too ready to believe that "the world owes me a living." Well Informed Oregon's first woman legis lator is still keenly interested in almost everything around her. She enjoys reading in the field of social welfare, archeology and anthropology, is well informed on political developments on both the na tional and international level, enjoys music and concerts and hopes before long to join Med ford or Phoenix groups which will help her become oriented again in the county in which she lived as a child. . Still a staunch Democrat, Miss Towne believes that Franklin D. Roosevelt was a great president. She- dislikes both Senator Lyndon Johnson and Representative Sam Ray burn and believes that the rich oil interests of Texas are exerting a bad influence in this nation. She is interested in John Kennedy, however, and plans to hear him speak when he visits Jackson coun ty next month. When her health permits. Miss Towne wants to return to the field of research. As far as Miss-Towne is concern ed, life is too short to do ev erything interesting and fruit ful which waits to be done. -O.S., Courtesy Girl Night Planned by Chapter Courtesy Girl Night for Nevita chapter, Order of Eastern Star, will be held Tuesday, February 24, at 8 p.m. at tne Masonic tempie, Central Point. The Courtesy Girls will be in charge of entertainment, refreshments and decorations.' 'TIS THE SEASON TO LOOK LOVELY! Spring '59: the season for the new feminine look in suits. Who does it better than Lilli Ann here in an elegant and supple fashion. Sculptured and shaped jacket has a sunburst of intricate draping. Gives it that "dressmaker look" you love. $69.95 Sold Exclusively at Where Credit Is Welcome. jaclleys J 17 South Central w D'-QWNTOWN MEDFORD, 6th St. at Central! i - Hundreds of Brand New Easter Hats . . 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