Social Happenings on the North Shore by Ruth Risley
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- Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 5 Sep 1918, p. 5
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- Ruth Risley
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- August 31 and September 1 were Wilmette days at the Navy Club in Waukegan. Two committees from Wilmette served with Mrs. B.F. Brown, Chairman. On Saturday Mrs. C. E. Cole, Mrs. Willis Hutson, Mrs. M.R. Barker, Miss Grace Packard, Mrs. M.O. Hopkins and Miss Eleanor Ambler assisted in serving refreshments. On Sunday Mrs. S. T. Lewis, Mrs. T. Breyer, Mrs. E. C. Butz, Mrs. Belle S. Pitts, Mrs. Hopkins, the Misses Urbain and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Shellman were in Waukegan. About 600 servicemen were served in the two days.
Wedding of Miss Orleta Lewis, daughter of B.F. Lewis and Lieutenant Edwin James Clampitt, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Clampitt of 1121 Central avenue. There ceremony was performed in the home of the bride, 900 Central avenue by Rev. Charles Stewart of Garrett Biblical Institute. Two ribbon stretchers were Mrs. Gerald Hoyt, formerly Miss Eleanor Snider, and Miss Catherine Borcker, were the only attendants. Lieutenant Clampitt will be stationed in Fort Worth, Texas for the next three months.
School children sked to save seeds from fruit and the shells from nuts for the manufacture of gas masks. Charcoal is made from the pieces.
Yesterday was Red Cross Day at the War Exposition exhibit. Mr. Henry P. Davison, chairman of the National Red Cross War Council was in Chicago and a parade was organized of Red Cross workers.
Great Lakes quintet will give concert Saturday evening at the Glen View Golf Club for the benefit of the Navy Relief Society. Mr. Hermann Felber, Jr., director, was formerly a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mrs. William Troupe, formerly of 1329 Greenwood avenue, now residing in California, has a broken hip.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Gould, 1130 Forest, received a cable Monday announcing the safe arrival of their son, H. A. Gould, Jr. in France.
Mrs. Peterson has had a serious accident, and consequently the Food Conservation lectures will not be resumed until next week.
Mrs. Frank L. Telman, 1030 Greenleaf avenue, spent weekend at Grand Haven, Mich., visiting Mrs. J. C. Mannerud, of Oakwood avenue, who is summering there.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Kibby, 835 Lake avenue, accompanied by their niece, Clara Gage, and Miss Margaret Couffer, will return the next week form an outing at Lost Lake, Wis.
Ensign Lysle Smith has returned to New York, to await transfer on a transport, after a furlough at at his parent's home, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Smith, 1325 Greenwood avenue.
Dr. Everett Moulton has gone to a camp in Georgia in service. Mrs. Moulton and her son, are staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Gates, 1126 Wilmette avenue.
Bruce K. Brown of 606 Washington avenue, is at Camp Hancock, Va., taking training at the Machine Gun school located there.
Lieutenant Lawrence Tower has arrived safely in France. Mrs. Tower is staying at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Balmer, 1132 Forest Avenue.
Lieut. and Mrs. Rogers Franklin Peterson, 518 Forest avenue, announce the birth of a son, on August 24.
Ladies' Aid society of the Methodist church held its first monthly cafeteria luncheon of the season.
Guernsey Clarke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sanford Clarke, 526 Washington Avenue, has enlisted in the Signal Corps, and is stationat Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
The Army and Navy center, located on the third floor of the Brown building, will continue to be open every Saturday evening to men in uniform. Villagers who can make room for one or more men in uniform to stay over night in their homes, or who will take men for Sunday dinners, should get in touch with Mrs. Henry B. Gates.
The family of W. H. Thayer, 610 [unclear] Central avenue, has returned from an automobile trip to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.
Mrs. George Bird was hostess to one of the Tuesday Luncheon and Bridge clubs this week at her ome 600 [unclear] Washington avenue.
Miss Marjorie Windsor, who has been the guest of Mrs. E. J. Kiley, 314 Greenleaf avenue, has returned to Hartwick Seminary, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Cole, 911 Greenwood avenue, spent several days last week with relatives in Michigan.
Samuel Cohen, 1231 Forest Avenue, will return Saturday from the Business Men's camp at Camp Steever, Lake Geneva, Wis.
Prentiss Couffer, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Couffer, 903 Lake avenue, is in training at the Ensign school at the Muncipal Pier.
The First Division of the Methodist church will hold an all-day meeting at the Red Cross Shop on Monday.
Tuesday evening last week the Philathea class met at the home of Miss Adelaide Harvey, 2527 Thayer street, Evanston.
Miss Bertha Lodge of Chicago, was a weekend guest at the Dr. C. G. Smith home, 1325 Greenwood ave. - Date of Publication
- 5 Sep 1918
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- Wilmette.News.289763
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- English
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