Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-08
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

ana carl Er1ckSOn, son or Mr.. ana Mrs.
Gust Erickson, 917 Nineteenth avenue,
were quietly married at 2 o'clock We'd
nesday afternoon at the parsonage of
the Swedish Lutheran church, the Rev.
A. F. Bergstrom performing the cere-
mony. Miss Edith Moll, sister of the
bride, and AXel Erickson, cousin of the
bridegroom. attended the young people.
The bride wore a white taffeta gown
with georgette crepe bodice and a cor
sage bouquet of lilies of the valley.
Mr.. Erickson has a position with the
Velie Carriage company. The bridal
couple departed on an afternoon train
for short visit with relatives and
friends in Rockford and will be at
home to their friends at 1856 Ninth
street, after Sept. Is.
Miss Violet Swenson of Chicago is a
guest at the J. z. Berndt home, where
she will remain for a fortnight visit
ing relatives and friends. She arrived
Tuesday, coming by automobile with
Mr.. and Mrs. Berndt and son, Wallace,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Roseman,
who motored to Chicago for Labor day.
Swedish Lutheran mission society
met in the church parlors yesterday
afternoon when the regular devotional
exercises incident to the meeting were
followed by a social hour, with Mes
DANES Peter Munson, Gust Lutsy and
Adolph Gustafson entertaining and
serving refreshments. There was a
large attendance. Next hostesses will
be Mesdames Charles Johnson, Charles
GOOdmansOn and John Peterson.
Philanthropic board of the Woman's
club met at the Lunch and Rest rooms
yesterday with a fair attendance and
reports and routine business took up
the time of meeting. The extremely
hot weather of the summer has been
hard on the workers at the Rest rooms
as well as on the general public, but
plans are being made for a big in
crease of business. The department
wishes its friends to remember that it
is still doing business at the old stand,
with noon dinner and supper served
each evening, except Sunday, and also
that afternoon parties may order re-
freshments and may hold meetings at
the rooms. This is one of the much
appreciated places in Moline, especial /
ly by the working women and those
from the country and it is growing in
usefulness.
Announcement is made of the birth
of a son to Mr.. and Mrs A L. RAY !
their first-born, who arrived at the ma
ternity hospital Tuesday evening.
Ladies' Aid society of the Swedish }
Methodist church met yesterday aft /
ernOOn in the church parlors, elected
officers for the year and enjoyed a
good old-fashioned social time follow /
ing the business session, Mrs. Hannah J
Kneberg acting as hostess and serving !
refreshments. Officers elected:
President-Mrs Emil Nyquist.
Vice President-Mrs. Richard Pear !
son.
Secretary-Nrs. L. P. Nelson.
Treasurer-Mrs. Alfred Blomberg
Flower committee = Mrs. Frederick |
Nyquist, chairman.
This was the last meeting of the So |
cIety before thepastOr, Rev. c. J. Mel /
son, who has been in Moline for three |
years, leaves for his new work in Chi |
cago.
Emmanuel Lutheran Sunday school !
will be closed for the time being,
owing to the infantile paralysis scare.
The attendance at the Sunday school |
last Sunday was so small that it SEEM
ed advisable to take this course.
Women of the first Baptist church
as well as men are asked to be present
at the prohibition meeting this even
ing at the corner of Fifth avenue and
Fourteenth street
Martha Aid society met yesterday
with Mrs. G. L. Lindstedt of East Mo-
line, when 10 members were present !
PlanS for bakery sale to be held in
October, were formed, Mrs. Emma Sea-
land to have charge. Rev. Sigfred
Blomgren and bride, the former a
nephew Of the hostess, were guests,
this being their last meeting before
leaving for Rajamahendri India,
where they will be missionaries. The
conversation during the afternoon
naturally turned to missions and the
great possibilities for work After en-
Toying the delicious refreshments
served by the hostess. the ladies adj
Iourned to meet in two weeks with
Mrs. Philip Johnson, 5420 Fourth
street, Moline.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Setter of Port
3yron are the parents of an eight
pound boy, born at the Lutheran hos
'ital. Mrs. Setter before her mar
iage was Miss Mildred Adams of East
Ioline.
The Moline Woman's club program
Committee, Mrs. E. B. McKeever, chair
nan, has decided to bring Mr. and Mrs
Herbert Butler OF Chicago here for
he music day of the club, in Febru-
~. The printing committee has al
eddy placed the year book in the
ands Of the printers and 1t was nee
ssary to make an immediate decision.
lr Butler is a violinist with a wide ,
nd wonderful reputation and his wife I
an exceptionally fine pianist Word j
as also been received that Miss Geor-
lana Faulkner of Chicago will be here
January for storytelling after
Don.