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MRS. GEORGI H. ADLER ond her youno daughter, Sheila, are Interested in the suc
cess of the annual Doernbccher brldne tea to be given by the Klamath Falls Woman's
Library club at the Willard on February 16. Mrs. Adler Is tea choirman of the
vent.
Gudcrlan Pictures.
Hotel Opening
Remembered
A little illver box, 1111001)1 to the touch and bearing the crest
of the White Pelican hotel which wn deiitroyed by fire October
18, 1926, was presented to 111 thlt week end now becomes one of
ur choicest possessions.
Made by Reed and Barton of New York, allverimlthi who de
signed the special silver service which was ordered at the time
the White Pollcan was constructed, the boxes were presented to
each lady guest at the formal opening banquet of the hostelry
n Sunday evening, December 3, 1011. '
The cover of the little box Is
naravad with the Pelican cen
tering an ellptlcal crest around
which the words, "The White
Pelican" are engraved. On the
back of the box, "White Pellcim,
Kalmath Kails, special silver
arvlca desiuncd and manufae
tured by Reed and Barton Co.,
New York." The misspelling of
the name Klamath is not un
usual, even In this day.
Tho opening of the White
Pelican, probably tho gayest and
most elaborate occasion In the
history of Klamath county,
brought together prominent peo
ple of the Pacific coast. We will
touch only on the social aspect
hero.
Going bnck to the little boxes,
the Horald of an earlier duy
prints this:
"Inadvertently tho Herald, In
Its account of the While Pelican
banquet, forgot to mention
favors which were distributed to
the guests. To tho women were
given small silver bon bon boxes
wrapped In tissue paper, tied
with white ribbon, with a sprig
of holly spread tastefully over
the lid.
"To both men and women
were given booklets designed by
Chief Clerk E. H. Lnuscr of the
hotel, containing the poem
called, "The Answer," a Thanks
giving toast read by its author,
G. X. Wendllng, vice president
of the Klnmuth Development
company, at the bnnquct.
"The Illustrations of the
verses, a scries of pictures of the
Jubilant white pclicnn enjoying
various phases of life, by L. C.
Mullgardt of San Francisco, who
whs one of the guests at the
White Pelican opening, are well
conceived."
Ladles In their best and their
escorts aartorlally elegant, -filled
the White Pelican that eventful
night. From another story:
"The decorative scheme which
lont its efficient aid to the
launching of the hotel in Its
. course of hospitality was pre
pared with rare taste by A. R.
Fredericks company of San Fran
cisco, which furnished the house
generally. Outside, over the
oor, the justly proud feeling of
the hotel promoters was ex
pressed on a large striking sign,
''We Made Good." while inside
the door, at the left of the hall,
atood a very healthy looking
atuffed bear, giving a silent
greeting to all comers.
"In the lobby the panels and
pillar were draped with pen
nants of the hotel's own private
design, relieved by some bor
rowed from the Klamath Falls
Lodge of Elks.
"Over the big, cheerful, Invit
ing fireplace, where logs blazed
merrily the evening long, there
was a solid bank of sheafs of
wheat and other grange products
- Indigenous to the local country
which' the hotel company . is
dojng so much to forward. The
centor piece of the whole decora
tive scheme of the lobby was -a
pair of large white pelicans,
atuffed, which were a very apt
crowning piece for the ornamen
tation." Although we were not present
for the gala opening of the White
Pelican hotel, we did cover the
story of the fire which ended the
lS-y ear-fame of the hostelry,
known from coast to coast as the
finest hotel In Oregon If not In
the northwest. It stood, for the
benefit of the newcomer, directly
across from The Herald and
News where Balsiger Motor com
pany Is now located. We old
timers mention the White Peli
can with nostalgia.
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Scheduled
Klamath musle lovers have
.two treats In store for them,
one In February, the other in
March, when the Klamath Com
munity Concert association pre
sents programs as scheduled on
their winter calendar.
Jean Watson, contralto, whose
voice Is said to be one of the
loveliest heard in years, will
sing at the Pelican theatre Wed
nesday, February 27.
On Wednesday, March 20,
Bartlctt and Robertson, duo
pianists, will present a long an
ticipated program of piano
music. This will also be at the
Pelican.
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Luncheon
Attending a luncheon honor
ing Oregon girls at the Stephens
College Country Club Saturday,
at Columbia, Missouri, January
19, wero Marjorle Anne Clark,
Edna Joy Kent, and Maxine
Maude Llskey, all of Klamath
Falls.
Miss Clark is a senior student
and the daughter of Mr, and Mrs.
S. G. Clark, 2012 Main. Miss
Kent, a senior student, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Kent, 737 Pacific Terrace. Miss
Llskey, also a senior student, is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Dave W. Liskey, 1045 Auburn.
Dance Slated
The refreshment and check
room booth for the annual
March of Dimes dance at the
Klamath armory this evening
will be handled by members
of the Klamath County Busi
ness and Professional Women's
club, with all proceeds going to
the campaign fund.
In charge of the booth will
be Dcna Backes, chairman
Annls Struthers. Myrtle Cald
well, Gertrude Tollc, Ellen Upp,
and Bernlce Brltt.
Members of the American
Legion will assist at the doors.
Music will be provided by
Baldy 1 Band.
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AAUW Speaker
Chaplain Graham Gilmer of
the Marine BarracKS proves an
interesting speaker when he ad
dressed the Klamath chapter,
American Association of Uni
versity Women, at the luncheon
held last Saturday in the Willard
hotel Blue Room.
The officer discussed his work
among the men at the Barracks
as a navy chaplain and told a
number of interesting stories in
connection with the oince.
Mrs. O. K. Puckott. vice presi
dent, presided In the absence of
Mrs. Robert r. jsuingson jr.
It was announced that AAUW
would- staff the USO Sunday,
February 10. The next meeting
of the chapter will be held Feb
ruary 16, at which time a mus
ical program win De presented.
At Saturday's luncheon Mrs,
Don Zumwalt accompanied Mrs,
Sam Ackerman who sang. "I
Love Life" and "The Brown Bird
Singing."
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Dessert Bridge
Mrs. Irving C. Burke asked a
group to hor home on Melrose
street Wednesday evening for
dessert and bridge at 8 o'clock,
High score in cards went to
Mrs. L. E. Juniper, low to Mrs.
E. B. Goeckner. Other guests
included Mrs. Carl Nelson, Mrs,
John Robinson. Mrs. C. M. Lol-
coma, Mrs. Ray Cowlcs, and
Mrs. Troy cook.
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Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Weldler
of Chicago will be guests of Wil
liam Spangler this coming
week. They have many friends
in Klamath f ans where tney
have visited frequently.
Knife and Fork
Banquet Slated
One of the outstanding affairs of the month of January is
the dinner arranged by the Klamath Knife and Fork club honor
ing Dr. Will Durant, world famous traveler, historian and phil
osopher, who will address the organization next Tuesday night at
u:o o'clock at tho Willard hotel.
Dr. Durant needs no introduction to the average reader who
nas lounci nis way through at least one of his books. His visit
here is being keenly antlelnated. '
Members of the reception committee for next Tuesday night
are Mr. and Mrs. Walter Beane,
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall E. Cor
nett, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hicks,
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Hcnzel, Mr.
and Mrs. Dick Rcedor and Mr.
and Mrs. DcLos Mills.
Those making arrangements
for the dinner are Mr. and
Mrs. W. J, Kesslcr, Mr. and
Mrs. Emll Albrecht, and Mr.
and Mrs. E. M. Igl. Dress will
be informal, it was announced,
The speaker will be intro
duced by Phil Hitchcock. Dr,
Durant will be mot in Medford
and accompanied to Klamath
Falls the afternoon of his ap
pearance here by John Eblnger
and John Ashley.
The dinner meeting this com
ing week is expected to be one
of the largest arranged by the
Knife and Fork club.
SOCIETY
By LOIS STEWART
Valentine's Day
Around The Corner
Valentine's Day Is more than two weeks away but just as fast
as Christmas and New Year's cards were stored away for another
holiday season, out popped the Valentines In full color. The shops
report a lund office business, especially among the younger set,
and Valentine making has been going on for quite awhile now.
Society editors always greet the Valentine season with ,a
whoop and a holler. Because red hearts, lace ruffles and spring
flowers lend themselves to gay decorations, there is always quite
a bit of entertaining planned.
At Shasta school the other
night, the long tubles in the
cafeteria were decked with
clever red flower pots which
held hearts and cupids dangling
from the end of white pipe
cleaners. ' Quite pretty.
Major Marvin Nerscth is now
on terminal leave and greet
ing old friends after an ab
sence of three and one half
years and 13 days in the United
Stutcs army medical corps. Dr.
Nerscth whs relieved from his
duties at Fort Ord, California,
on Thursday morning and was
home that night at 2027 Del
Moro, Joining his wife and chil
dren, Gail and Marvin, who
have been here for the past
month or two. He will open
his offices early in February.
Lydla Fricke Howard, who
has been Identified with the
Klamath County health depart
ment for the past 25 years, was
the honor guest at an informal
coffee porty Friday of last week
when her fellow workers hon
ored her. The staff presented
Mrs. Howard with a bouquet of
daffodils in remembrance of
her long years with public
health nursing In the county.
Mrs. Howard came here from
St. Louis, Missouri, January 10,
1921.. She has really seen the
town grow up.
Isn't it nice to see coffee
back in tin cans and the glor
ious whiff that spurts out when
you wind the last bit of metal
from around the can?
Capt. Victor E. Newman,
United States army chaplain,
now in charge of St. Paul's
church In Rome and formerly
of St. Paul's here. Is pictured
in this week's issue of Life
magazine in which Archbishop
Spellman is shown visiting a
group of chaplains and soldiers
during a war-time visit on the
Italian front. The picture is
on Page 106.
Committees Named
For Benefit Party
Chairmen and committee members are working diligently to
ward the success of the annual Doernbecher bridge party and
tea which will be given Saturday, February 16, in the Willard
hotel ballroom. As usual, the sponsor group is the Klamath Falls
Woman's Library club, and again we repeat that all funds de
rived from .the affair will go toward the Doernbecher hospital
for children in Portland.
Mrs. George H. Adler is tea chairman and Mrs. Walter Brown
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Named on the tea committee
are the following women: Mrs.
F. Cecil Adams, tea table; Mrs.
Marvin Nerseth, cookies; Mrs.
Howard Listoe and Mrs. Percy
Murray, assisting. Charlotte Car
ter and a group of the younger
set will serve during the after
noon. They will be announced
later.
Mrs. Brown has named the fol
lowing as her main committee
and sub-committees will work to
ward the completion of party
plans from this group: Mrs.
Myrle C. Adams, Mrs. Warren
Bonnet, Mrs. E. D. Hamacher,
Mrs. R. E. Hooker, Mrs. K. A.
Moore, Mrs. Jack H. Schulze,
Mrs. Carl Schubert and Lucile
Tweed.
Cards will be played from 1:30
o'clock on and tea will be served
at 4 o'clock. Those not wishing
to play cards are urged to drop
in for tea. J
InvlUd To
Smarty Party
Invitations t o "Classroom
Capers", sixth annual Smarty
Party sponsored by Mortar Board
senior women's honor society,
have been extended to junior
women who are scholastically
eligible on the Oregon State col
lege campus, for Mortar Board.
They must have an accumula
tive grade point of 2.75 or
above: Among those invited to
the affair is Virginia Ellen
Smith, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James E. Smith, 222 N.
5th.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dunham are
planning to leave soon on a mo
tor trip which will take them
south, Including a visit with
their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Don
ald B. Dunham and two chil
dren, Don and Susan, at Lemon
Cove, California. They will be
gone several weeks.
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COMPLETING PLANS for the annual Doernbecher benefit bridge tea Is Mrs. Walter
Brown who will serve this year as chairman of cards. All money derived from tht
party will go to Doernbecher hospital for children in Portland.
Wednesday Club
Seven tables of bridge and
two of pinochle were in play
at Wednesday .club, St. Paul's
parish house, Wednesday eve
ning of the week when a win
ter sports party was arranged
for members and guests.
Hostesses were Mrs. O. E.
Powell, Mrs. James H. Wallin
der, Mrs. A. G. Wiggins, Mrs.
James Patterson and Mrs. L. R.
Thompson.
Guests of the evening were
Mrs. Fred Burgoyne and Mrs.
Walter Eschebeck, and in
bridge honors went to Miss
Orpha Hudson and Mrs. Eric
Majors, and in pinochle, Mrs.
W. R. Elliott held high score.
The club will meet February
6, in the parish house.
Mr. and Mrs. Allan A. Bynon
of Portland were guests this
week at the home of their
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Neal Stewart. En
route south they visited their
daughter Ailsa, first year stu
dent at the University of Oregon.
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A LOVELY JANUARY BRIDE was Maxine Haley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Perry Haley,
who exchanged vows with. Lt. Comdr. Merle E. Bossart, USNR, ot the Klamath. Lutheran
church Saturday afternoon.
Kennell-Ellis.
Malin Girl Bride
Of Navy Officer
MALIN Before an altar graced with calla lilies, white car
nations and lighted altar candles, Maxine Haley, youngest daugh)
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Perry Haley, Malin, became the bride at
high noon, January -19, of Lt. Cmdr. Merle E. Bossart, United:
States naval reserve. The double ring ceremony was read in the
Klamath Lutheran church by Rev. S. M. Topness In the presence
of one hundred relatives and
friends of the young couple.
The bride, given in marriage
by .her father, wore a gown of
brocaded oyster white satin,
with cowl shoulder line, mar
quisette yoke and full train. Her
three tiered white finger tip
tulle veil was caught about her
head with a Juliet cap of the
same material. She wore a sin
gle strand of pearls and carried
a white prayer book, and two
lavender orchids.
Iola Haley, eldest sister of the
bride, recently returned from
Nagoya, Japan, where she served
with the army nurses' corps
was maid of honor. Her floor
length frock was of shell pink
chiffon with bouffant skirt. She
wore elbow length gloves of the
same shade. The bridesmaids,
Thirza Is Five
Little Thirza Goeckner, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Goeck
ner of 345 N. 10th street, ob
served her fifth birthday anni
versary Tuesday, January 22, at
the family home when a group
of little friends shared her birth
day cake.
Games were enjoyed by Jo
Ann and Richie Bogatay, Peggy
and David McKay, Coletta Al
bee, Bill Coles, Bill Sproat,
Georgie Flitcraft, Judy and Can
dace Dorobis and Thirza and her
brother, Kent.
Mothers who dropped in for
tea in the afternoon included
Mrs. Frank Bogatay, Mrs. Don
ald McKay, Mrs. Marvin Albee,
Mrs. Ray Coles, Mrs. Robert
Sproat, Mrs. George Flitcraft
and Mrs. Matthew Dorobis.
Nile Club
The Klamath Nile club will
meet for the regular February
luncheon at the Pelican party
room Tuesday, the 12th. This
date is a change from the reg
ular time of February 6, and
members are asked to make a
note of the postponement.
The Nile ceremonial is to be
held in the Medford Masonic
temple February 6, and many of
the Klamath Falls women are
planning to attend. Supreme
Queen of the Supreme Temple
of Daughters of the Nile, Myra
Atkins of Davenport, Iowa, will
attend this ceremonial. The pro
gram will start at 2 o'clock and
in the evening there will be a
buffet supper for Nile members
only. A program will follow.
Dinner Guest
Mrs. Harry Stearns of Rose
burg, who visits here frequently
with her daughter, Mrs. Percy
B. Webb of Del Moro street, was
honored with a dinner arranged
by Mrs. David Bullls at her
home, 321 Alameda, Monday
evening.
Seated at the taable were Mrs.
Stearns, Mr. and Mrs. Webb and
two children, Joan and Jim, Mr.
and Mrs. Bums and two sons.
Later in the evening, Mr. and
Mrs. John Schubert and Nan
nette called.
Juanita Haley, San Francisco,
also a sister of the bride and
Mrs. W. A. Campbell, Santa Fe,
New Mexico, sister of the groom,
wore identical frocks of ice blue
lace and net with matching
gloves. All the attendants wore
halo arrangements of net about
their heads and carried old fash
ioned nosegays.
The best man was Albert A.
Radcliffe Jr., Frederick, Mary
land who came west with the
groom for the wedding. Both tha
groom and his best man also on
terminal leave rom the navy
were in uniform as were the
ushers. First Liutenant Barney
E. Gehrmann and Second Lieu
tenant William A. Mather. U. S.
Marine Corps, stationed at the
Preceding the cerememr
Mrs. Don Webster, TulelakeJ'sani';
uaaman s ' Because ana xn
Lord's Prayer" during the bene
diction by the pastor. The wed
ding marches were played by
the church organist.
Immediately following the
ceremony the wedding party re
ceived in the Pelican party room
where Lieut. Comdr. and Mrs.
Bossart cut their beautiful three
tiered white wedding cake with
the traditional navy sword tied
with white satin ribbon. The
weddinff cake. tODDed bv a minia
ture bride and groom, was en-
circiea wiin pinx rose duos ana
fern. Portions of the bride's cake
tied with white ribbon were
presented the guests from a sil
ver basket by the maid of honor,
Miss Haley. Pouring at the re
freshment table was Mrs. Clar
ence Hundley of Tulelake. Mr.
Charles Johnson of Malin served
the cake.
Mrs. Haley, mother of the
bride, chose for her daughter'i
wedding a street length aqua
frock with sequin trim and
brown and gold accessories. Her
corsage was of Talisman roses.
Mrs. Nellie Haley of Klamath
Falls, grandmother of the bride,
wore powder blue with black
accessories and a squirrel coat.
Her corsage was of pink roses.
The new Mrs. Bossart, a grad
uate on December nineteenth
last of the University of Tenne.
see at Knoxvllle and a member
of Alpha Xi Delta sorority, chose
for traveling an . RAF blue
dressmaker suit with black top
coat and accessories. She wore
orchids from her prayer book at
the shoulder. The young couple
will honeymoon in southern
California and the groom plana
to continue his interrupted edu
cation at the University of Cali
fornia. . The son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
E. Bossart, Ligonier, Pennsyl
vania, he was graduated from
the Pennsylvania State Nautical
school for merchant marine offi
cers, spent two years in that
service and then entered the
navy to spend the last five years,
mnst nf lt in tne macule, ne was
discharged December 4 in Phila
delphia. '
Out of town guests here for
the wedding were Mrs. Roberta
Lassen, Seattle, aunt of the
bride. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hat!-
gerty of Brookings, uncle and
aunt of the bride, and Mrs. Ag
nes Olseo 01 san jrranewco.