Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-08-07
THE SALVATION ARMY
Home Service Work Being Established in
Custer and Outside Rural Districts
by the Salvation Army.

Formal acceptance of the personne
of an advisory board for Custer county
to cooperate with the Salvation Army
was announced by Mr.. II X. McCluskey
| field representative from the Salvation
Army office at Sioux Falls, where Mr.
A. C. Cramp is State Service manager
Tor South Dakota.
The Salvation Army with the an,
nounced intention of extending to rura
districts and communities the work
which for 40 years it has carried on in
he great cities has launched throughout
South Dakota it's 1920 Home Service
program.
This program is being simultaneously
carried on in other middle western
states and will be extended to all states
vest Of the Mississippi just as rapidly u
the limited personnel of the Army vii
permit,
For two score years the Salvation
Army, with the indelatigable courage
VI NhINh no "OihCi0 aIS huOhhi h"'
Deen laboring to heal the fostering
social sores of humanity in the great
metropolitan areas of the country.
A close analysis of a number of cases
with which the Army has dealt has con
yiuced it that many of these social
problems have their origin in rural
districts With this discovery the Army
decided to turn its attention to cause as
well as effect, hence its Home Service
program.
In every county in South Dakota ad-
visory boards composed of the most
representative citizens in their respec
tive communities are being organized
to cooperate with the Salvation Army
IN Systematically relieving distress and
endeayoring by study and application
to reduce the causes that are so pro-
ductiye of social disorders in the cities
In this work the Salvation Army aims
not to duplicate the activities of any
other social or religious agency. Its
purpose is the fullest utilization of the
vast machinery for social good which its
forty years of work has constructed.
Among the departments and agencies
which can best be utilized by the county
advisory board are: the emergency de-
partment, missing friends bureau,
Juvenile, industrial and agricultural
schools for delinquent, dependent and
orphaned children, boys friend bureau,
Young women's boarding homes, rescue
and maternity homes ana industrial
homes for men.
The following is the personnel for
Custer county advisory board:
5. +. Ainslie, chairman; w. j Rey.
nick, vice chairman; c. L. Smith, secre-
tary and treasurer; Miss Ethel Mont
gomery, Judge q. w Gaylord, F. w.
Sellers, boy Curas, DR.. NJ. Long, T. w.
Delicate, G. A. Kneeland
FAREWELL ENT.
On Thursday evening, July twenty.
ninth, very jolly crowd Of young peo-
pie were royalty entertained at a
Dinner and Dance given in honor Of
Miss Eva Wilson by the Misses Helene
Mclaughlin, Blanche and Elma Kirk,
Mildred Hitch and Myrtle Harris. AT
seven o'clock the guests assembled at
the Mclaughlin home, where the spaci-
GUS rooms were beautifully decorated
for the occasion. When all had arrived
a bat was passed around and each per-
son selected slip of paper upon which
was written part of word, the per-
son having the slip with the other part
of the word was the dinner partner.
Great fun was had in guessing the
words and finding the right partners.
When the guests were all seated deli
cious course dinner was served the
menu consisting of fruit cock tail, cream
ed chicken in fontage cups, riced pota-
toes, Parker House rolls, salad, ice
cream, cake, salted nuts, bon bons and
after dinner coffee. Beautiful red roses
formed the centre piece on the table,
and their rich vivid color in striking
contrast to the. snowy linen, the spark
ling cut glass and silver, the merry,
laughing group of young people made a
scene long to be remembered. Dinner
over, the guests were escorted to the
Kirk home, where after few moments
of pleasant visiting dancing was started.
Mrs. Enola Meyers, an old friend and
teacher of Miss Wilson's played for the
dancing, ably assisted by Mr.. Lewis
Godsey on the violin. During the
evening pretty, graceful solo dance
was given by little Miss Edna Charles,
of Kansas City, niece of Miss Margaret
Roy. At twelve O'Clock the merry
makers began to think of the good byes
that must be said and of the delightful
evening they had spent. And though
every minute had been filled with pleas
ure, yet through it all ran a strain of
regret and sadness that their old time
friend and chum was soon to leave
them. Many good wishes and happy
memories will follow Miss Eva to her
new home in California and many are
the hopes that the kind "Fates" will
some day bring her back again.
.
Charles McCatfree, the genial, smil-
ing, ever boosting Secretary of Immi-