Social Happenings on the North Shore
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- Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 5 Dec 1918, p. 5
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- Ruth Risley
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- Friday, December 13, a Melting Pot will be held at the Chicago and Northwestern Depot. Old silver or brass ornaments can be turned in to buy War Savings and Thrift Stamps. Wilmette has a quota of $180,000 of which $25,000 must still be raised before January 1. Mrs. H. J. Richter is chairman of the committee in Wilmette. Assisting her are Mrs. Joseph Kutten, Mrs. Arthur Boylston, Mrs. Leroy A. Rand, Mrs. Burt Hardenbrook, Mrs. L. J. Hopkins, Mrs. Robert Ricksen, Mrs. Philip Huguenin, Mrs. H. J. Burbach, Mrs. Amos W. Hostetter, Mrs. S. M. Singleton, Mrs. John Clark Baker.
Civic and Legislative department of the Woman's Club announce postponed open meeting wil lbe held Wednesday, December 11. Speakers will be Felix Streykmans, Belgian, Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Nations and Professor J. J. Zmrhal, Bohemian, principal of the Theodore Herzy school.
Marriage is announced of Miss Musa Salisbury of Battle Creek, Colorado, to Harold J. Burbach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Burbach, 1020 Linden avenue, on Thanksgiving Day, November 28. Mr. and Mrs. Burbach contemplate residing at Battle Creek, Colorado.
Economy Shop solicits articles for resale to benefit Wilmette Charities.
North Shore Catholic Woman's league auxiliary are furnishing two K. of C. huts for the Sixteenth and Seventeenth regiments at Camp Luce. Commembers are Mrs. Robert Mehren, Miss Margaret Hayes, Miss Bernice Hubesch, Miss Helen Williams, Miss Mary Anderson, Miss Kathleen Kreger, Miss Bessie Dopfer, Miss Gertrude O'Brien, Miss Ella Kreger, Miss Jewel Gordon
Friday, December 6, is Red Cross Day at St. Augustine's parish house. The following week will be a luncheon hosted by Mrs. Reed, Mrs. George Phillips, and Mrs. R. E. Kenyon.
Woman's society of the Baptist church will meet Friday December 6 at the home of MRs. W. J. Weldon, 1340 Greenwood avenue.
Mrs. C. Percy Skillen, 714 Ashland, has received word from Mr. Skillen from Liverpool. He is enroute to Paris to work as recreational director for the Y.M.C.A.
The "H. and W." club will be entertained at dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCue, 631 Washington avenue, next Tuesday evening.
Next Monday will be Tag Day to benefit crippled children. Mrs. C. Percy Skillen, 814 Ashland avenue, is the chairman.
Miss Alice Shurtleff, who is teaching in Milwaukee, spent Thanksgiving at her home, 815 Lake Avenue.
Miss Genevieve Schaefer, 1501 Washington avenue, is ill.
Another of the Friday Bridge clubs will meet with Mrs. F. H. Cornell, 1110 Ashland avenue, this week.
Mrs. Jacob Greiner and her committeeincluding Mesdames Philip Hugenin, Buy N. Morrison, Wallace Kerr, C. H. Deuchler, and Herbert Leach [unclear], have resigned from the Army and Navy Canteen in the Brown building.
Miss Elizabeth Stuart of Kenilworth sailed for overseas work with the Junior League unit. Miss Harriet Stuart accompanied her sister to New York.
Mr. and Mrs. William Fitch of Kenilworth have closed their home for the winter and will be at the Shore Crest hotel for the next few months.
Sergeant Howard Shurtleff of Camp Grant, spent Thanksgiving and the week-end at the home of his father, Mr. W. C. Shurtleff, 815 Lake avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. James Hoffman 1510 Washington avenue, announce the birth of a son, Wednesday, December 4.
Mrs. George Schrader, formerly of Elmwood avenue, now of Mount Auburn, N.Y., is stopping at the Evanston hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCue, 631 Washington avenue, entertained at dinner on Thanksgiving day.
Mrs. Fred Cain of Hubbard Woods, formerly of Wilmette, left Sunday to spend six months in California with her mother, Mrs. Forrester.
The Fortnightly Bridge club was entertained Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Charles E. Lord in Edgewater.
Mrs. Charles Sanford Blake will be hostess to the Friday Luncheon and Bridge club this week at her home, 526 Washington avenue.
The Philathea class met Tuesday at the home of Mrs. B. E. Marsh, 466 Chestnut avenue, Winnetka.
The Men's Whist club met Wednesday with Mr. Richard Jordan, 630 Central avenue.
Mrs. Samuel H. Roberts, 613 Central avenue, returned Sunday from Toledo, Ohio.
Mrs. R. E. Pattison-Kline, 1311 Greenwood, is convalescing at the Chicago Union Hospital.
Mrs. Albert Gregory of Peoria, Illinois, is a guest at the home of Mrs. Theodore Breyer, 725 Washington avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Crossley, 600 Washington avenue, spent Thanksgiving Day in Elgin, Illinois.
Mr. C. C. Mitchell, 819 Linden avenue, is hunting in Beardstown, Illinois.
The Bunco club will meet at the home of Miss Theresa Schaefer, 1501 Washington avenue.
Mr. Claude Fitch, 1033 Elmwood avenue, has received his appointment as a major in the ordnance department. - Date of Publication
- 5 Dec 1918
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- Wilmette.News.290696
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- English
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