Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-13

- HE past week has been a very
quiet one as far as social affairs
are concerned. 1t is not that peo-
pie are growing less hospitable, but
more patriotic that social calendars
are so sparsely filled. Everyone still
has the desire to entertain but she
realizes that at present it is more uH-
selfish to spend ones time in war work.
There are so many kinds that one has
no difficulty in selecting something
sTktable to her individual tastes. For
those who enjoy the country and out
door life there are jolly camping par.
ties who go Ito the LOganherry fields
Then for those who can spend only
q part of their time there is Red Cross
work, knitting parties, which form the
double purpose of assisting in war
needs and of bringing friends together
for happy afternoon.
Years ago our grandmothers used to
travel to each Others homes in their
high old fashioned coaches to spend the
afternoon at a knitting or quilting
''bee. - There is a certain cnarm about
those parties as we read the stories
and see pictures Of these happy women.
The memories Of these simple, but en-
joyable, parties have been handed
down to US so that it is really mod
ern OutgTowth of this custom which
we are following in our gatherings to
do knitting, or other Red Cross work.
One Of the June weddings that came
as a surprise to her many Salem
friends was that of Miss Gertrude
Rosehe when she became the bride Of
Maxwell Payer of California. The we'd
ding was solemnized in st. Johns
church in Fresno, California, before
a small gathering of friends.
Mrs. Payer is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. f. ]. Rosche Of Salem. She
is a graduate of San Jose Normal
school and has been teaching in Cali
fOrnia for several years. Mr.. Payer is
a business man in California. This win.
ter the couple plan to spend in Honolu-
lu.
Mrs. Lola Turfman, accompanied by
her son, Oliver, motored down from
Seattle Thursday to spend vacation
of several weeks with her mother,
Mrs. s. f. Oliver, 334 South Winter
street. Mrs. Turfman is engaged in
work that is intensely interesting at
this time, for she is in charge of the
employment department of the civilian
relief organization of the American
Red Cross at Seattle. She says that the
organization is in touch with about six
hundred families, and new cases are
added continually The problem is to
help the members of soldiers families
left dependent to q large degree ON
their own resources. Mrs. Turfman's
work involves the difficulty of finding
work suitable for the disposition and
ability of each individual. However,
the business men Of Seattle have CO.
operated with the association in a
splendid manner.
Ceon B. Roc is the chairman Of the
civilian relief work in Seattle. The
third institutes, which trains people
Tor this kind of work has just begun.
There is a great demand for workers
hf this kind, so this institute is held |
FOR six weeks under the administration
of the University of Washington.
Among those leaving the first part
of the week for the coast are Mrs. Roy
Rice and her two sons, Dulbert and
Thomas FredriclS. They will be accom-.
panied by Miss Nellie Stewart, who is
a cousin of Mrs. Rice. Her home is in
Kansas City, Missouri, but she has been