The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1940 Page: 2 of 12
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Marry la ft Warth
Pauline Morris and Russell
of Elfin, Illinois, were
In Port Worth Sunday
at dx o'clock In the home
Rev. James P. McOraw.
of the Nasarene Church
Per McOraw, who was for-
of the Church of the
here and an Intimate
friend of the groom's, read
the impressive single ring cere-
The bride wore a frock of soldier
Mae alpaca made with side
drape/V which hung from the
MmuMer and trimmed with plaited
braid of the self material. The
only ornament was a gold pin at
the plain neckline Her small hat
bag were of navy and soldier
blue and her gloves were gold. She
la the daughter of Mr and Mrs.
J. H. Morris and a graduate of the
Ballinger High School. She
attended Bethany-Penlel College
at Bethany, Oklahoma, tor two
years and for the past year has
been an employee of the AAA
Office here
Mr. Anderson is the son of Mr
and Mrs H Anderson, of Elgin
Following his graduation from
high school there, he received his
degree from Bethany-Pemel and
returned to Elgin, where the
couple will live following a two
weeks' honeymoon In the Ozarks
He Is owner of the coal and ice
company there and manages a
grocery.
♦ ♦ ♦
Shakespeare Club Hears Talk
on Marlin foundation
The Ballinger Shakespeure Club
had as guests Junior Woman's
Club members and club women
from Winters and Paint Rock last
Thursday afternoon In the City
■all auditorium
Dr. H E Hlpps from the Marlin
Foundation for Crippled Children
was scheduled as guest speaker
He was unable to come and Miss
Buby Laurance hospital super-
visor. and Mrs. Hipps came
Instead
TO illustrate Mm Laurance s
comprehensive talk on the ho*-
pitai plant and the work bring
done there, numerous moving
pictures were shown Patients
under 21 years of age, who are
unable to pay. receive free surgery
asid treatment It Is one of the
thirty-five such institutions receiv-
ing state approval Of especial
Interest to the club women, were
pictures of the swimming pool
given by the federated Clubs of
Texas Only Texas children ar»
treated
Out-of-town visitors were times
V. O Bedford and John Carlisle
of the Winters Literary and her
vice Club, and Miss Pearl Currie
Mrs. Bhultx Hartgruve and Mrs
Boy Currie of the Paint Root
Study Club
Mr» Kdgnr Boelsche
pears Club president was mistress
of ceremonies
• ♦ ♦
Mrs. T. H Cracketi m hewing Club
Hastes*
Mrs T H Crockett was hastes*
to her sewing club last Thursday
afternoon in her home m Filth
i
Reese, Stanley Price, Prank
Cameron, J. L.
Stowe. Rd Lengefeld. BUI Ueckert.
C. B. Maedgen. J. A. KUlough.
Dick Ayres. Bell, and John Castor.
Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Boeiuchr. Dr.
and Mrs. Oren Chandler.
Orlndstalf. Toney. Moody. La'
Malcolm Morgan,
and Hathaway;
mon, A. A. Wallace. Toy Duels
and Albert Morgan. MIm Hodge-
ktss: Virginia Claire Smith, LaRita
Price. Cynthia and Dtan Tuckey.
Arabella Toney. Jlnuny RndncoM.
Everltt James Ortndstaff and Rev.
and Mrs Clarence Morton.
♦ ♦ ♦
No-Hostess tuneheun fee Sew Gay
I
Sew Oay Pals enjoyed an all-
' day meeUng last Friday in the
home of Mrs
Murrell Avenue
Jack-o-Ian ten
boU of the
used about room
them u ms In an
flanked by black
the dining table
cups containing
and
and other
while chrysan-
• range bowl
tapers centered
Hallowe'en
and black
marked
Sewing was dona la the early
afternoon boon and beano played
for pal gifts. New officers elected
were: Mrs. R. F. Lawless, presi-
dent; Mrs. Stanley Price, secretary-
treasurer: and Mra. O R. Howell,
reporter Others present were:
Mmea Halley Otheon. Jack Brid-
weli. Albert Morflaa. Clyde Oab-
bert. Frank CaaMCtm and A. R
Davis
Mra George Holman and Mrs
_itaa Lynn were assisted by Mrs.
Jack McGregor Tuesday afternoon
In entertaining First Presbyterian
Juniors with the anneal
given at the Hallowe'en
Wieners and marshmallows were
roasted over an open fire In City
Perk following games
Preant were: Mary Catharine
•targes, Hetty Anne Sharpe. Mary
Brian Woody. Martha
Virginia Henniger. Billy
Troyes O'Neill. Joanne Olover. Vir-
ginia Baker and Owen Morgan.
♦ ♦ ♦
Dr. and Mrs. Be Bey Am Herts
Dr. and Mrs. C. P. Balky were
hosts to their contract club Tues-
day evening lb their home on
Fifth sum
Vases of shaggy purple chrysan-
themums were placed about
spacious rooms where Mr and
Mrs. Ross Murchison were winners
of high roujtle score prise
Others Included: Dr and Mrs
C. W Cheatham. Messrs and
Mmes W B Woody. Robert Bruce.
Jack Rudd. Oeorge Kirk. Arthur
Oteeecke and Alex McGregor
♦ ♦ ♦
Mrs. Dewey Campbell Hostess
To 8. 8. Class
Mrs. Dewey Campbell was hostess
to her Sunday school class of the
Eighth Street Presbyterian Church
and added guests In her home on
Tenth Street Tuesday evening
Hallowe'en games were played
In rooms decorated In the season's
colors and multi-colered balloons.
Mrs BUI Erwin and Mra.
Allen assisted in serving sand-
wiches and doughnuts with bdt
chocolate to: John and Ruth Mi*
Minn. Loyd Bell, Margaret Routh.
Elisabeth Tyson. Bobble Jean BeU,
Mary Martin. Mary Ann A lit a.
Billie Louise Blair. WUIIdene and
Winfred Campbell.
Additional society item* on
next pace
W R. Salyer has accepted a
position with the Weeks Drug
Store and will be In the prescrip-
tion department Mr Salyer Is a
graduate of the University of
Chicago and an experienced phar-
macist
m
Asrrlru Art »rrk will be »b-
srrvrU November 1 to T. Mi«» »1or-
erne tirees isbsvei Is salioul it-
rector of the American Artlsto Pro-
feamtonal leaf or. which apaaaara It.
autumn leaves and fruits with a
large pumpkin was arranged for1
the dining room table Tallies and 1
score pad sets were In the jack-o- !
lantern theme.
Yellow amnia* and jack-o-lan-
terns used to decorate n»>tr<
tied the Halloween motif
in the salad plate served
With coffee and in favors
Included were Uir.n Hugh
Parrish Lyle Currie. Paul Best O
C. Sykes Ruth Bankston. K E
White. A. O Bartlett. Weldon
Howell. E S Cox. S M Jonas and
Hubert Parrish
♦ ♦ ♦
tasrheww far Ace of (lab*
A prettily appointed luncheon at
the Cactus Coffee .Shop, followed
by Contract games in her SUth
Street home was the social cour
tosy extended Ace of Clubs mem
bora by Mrs J D Forman on
Thursday of last week.
A crystal basket of bronse daisy
nums centered the
and name cards attached to
of these same blooms
places The menu was
In three courses.
Giant bronse mums were placed
boat geese rooms of her home
ad an attractive centerpiece of
" Relief
Exploited to Women
a let sf suffering!
the fart that bead
cramp-ilk* pain
ef fumdioml
tei
1
Mrs Bailie Cordlll was winner
of high score prue and Mrs
Edward Sommer and Mrs W F (
Moss of bingo awards Others;
were Mmes. R o t h a 1 O'Kcliy,
Royal Bishop. Roy Miller, E C
Orlndstalf. H O Agnew and MikeI
Wright
* * *
Mr*. Bees* Entertain* turty-Tww
(lub
Mrs M B Wardlaw was included
by Mrs John A Weeks as the only
added guest Friday afternoon
when she entertained her forty-
two club in her home on Eighth
Street
Lovely ruses and orchid and
yellow chrysanthemums were used
about the entire living room suite
and in small vases centered quar-
tet tables at the tea hour when
Mrs R W Earushaw assisted in
serving a salad course with tea.
The autumn season was suggested
in all game accessories
Others Included Mmes E C
B s s k i n. C P Shepherd. James
Wear, Hamp Byler E L Hagan.
Elmer Shepperd J F Curn*. Ed
OTtelly R W Bruce H W Lynn.
B C Kirk, snd J O Douglass
• ♦ ♦
AaaewtMte* Marne Xliuani Fragrant
fwt < hart h tusiliar*
Mm Barren Lynn, aecretary of
assemblies home missions of the
First Prrsbvterutn Womans Aus-
Uiary was leader fix' the program
given Monday afternoon In the
church parlors on Broadway
Ftiilowtng the devotional by
Mr* E B Stasney Mr* C K
Stephen* Mrs M E Boggeaa and
Mrs W B W.mdy gave exemplary
sketches of the lives and work
done by home and foreign mis-
sionaries who received their
religious training at the aaarm
biles training school Mrs George
Holman. Mrs Staanrv. Mrs P A
Cubden. Mr* F M Pearce snd
Mr* Este* Lynn gsve facta about
the school Itself
Mr* Dwight Sharpe snd Mr*
Wsrren Lynn are re social hour
hostesses Others present were
Mmes Chester Cherry R J Per-
sona. J Y Pearce ». A Trail. .Alex
McGregor. Harry Lynn. Tommie
Hall Paul Trimmier and Mike
Wright
• ♦ •
Music Club la Meet
The Ballinger Music Club will
meet Tuesday evening. November
5. at seven-thirty u dork In th*
home of Mrs R T Williams on
Broadway
♦ ♦ •
"Nutty" Affair fur Baptist Duceaa
In responae to lnvttatlona received
In nutshell* members of the Bap-
tist Dorcas Class assembled Mon-
day evening in the church base-
ment on Eighth Street for s
gathering of nuts” dressed in
nutty attire *
Decoration* for the large room
were varied fall flowers together
with symbol* of the different
sanuona. Funny g*me* and con-
test*. all cleverly using the nut
theme, self portraits In distorting
mirror*, and a nut parade In
which Mrs Then Bell was chosen
queen a n d J H Endarott. king,
gave hilarious entertainment
before the refreshment hour when
pecan pie eras served with coffee
Hostesses were: Mmes E C
Ortndrtaff. O T.
R. P. Lawless.
Malcolm Morgan. Gael
Bndaeott.
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Green Beans and Potatoes
No. 2
Can
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Your Ckict No. 1 Select
Beans
Baby Limas, Pinks,
Large Whites, Pintos
Sc
S£* * •- 25c
Tomatoes
No. 2 Can
Wm. Pena
Matches
• u 1 hlM 5c
Taaaa Suctions
Grapefruit
# Nu. 2 Can ££
Peanut Butter
. <* Ifc
Bisquick
U >"*• 29C
Salt
toe
Hominy
No. IVi Can 5*
Aspirin
St. Joseph 10c Size
5*
BrOOUlS Blue Handle, 4 String
Plymouth Coil
lee 225*
Radidns • •
4*lh* partincu 25'
Gold Medal Flour 48 *2* ‘l4’
OuSTcon Came 2 T*" f“* 2SC
Maca\ ft Spa*. | •» $c
OrtterBA
Tamales 2 TmU r— MC
2 •" Me
099MISIw
Chili Powder
Baking Powder 19C
Tomatoes f~k
a. $c
wen.« Onions
Yritew
2 5C
Spuds Mra. 10'B lSe
SSteTk* Spuds to«» 19c
Now Noxico Wineaap
Apples'" ISc $I.2S
Carrots, BeeU, Mustard
Turnips and Tops
3 bunches
w’ Tame & 19c b 90c
Apples 22fc
Plymouth Bacoa is
Isaa aad BassraMs,
•Heed daily la car
due. Grand wt-
lagaad a barf ala.
Hants H*“*r
Whole
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Roast cK3
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The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1940, newspaper, October 31, 1940; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1163372/m1/2/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.