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Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
DOINGS IN AND ABOUT SEELEY

ily, were guests of Mr. and Mrs
R. N. Best during the past 10 days.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lucas and
children from the coast were Visi-
tors at the Wade West home re-
Gently. Mrs Lucas is a sister OF
Mrs. West.
Those attending Easter sunrise
services from here were Mrs. T. A.
Howard, Katherine Howard, Mrs
Florence Williams, Gladys Wo-
mack, Reverend Spencer, katherine
and Beth Spencer and Miss Eunice
Sprinkle, the last three partici-
pating in the program.
The Easter program Sunday
evening at the ,Seeley church con-
sisted of a program Of pieces and
songs by the promary department.
Mrs. Florence Williams, teacher
at West Side, was a guest over
Saturday and Sunday of Mrs.
T. A. Howard.
Mrs. j. C. Gordon of Newport
Beach, mother of Mrs. C. E.
Tracey, and John Fl. Gordon, a
druggist of Pasadena and brother
of Mrs. Travy, were weekend visi-
tors at the Tracy home recently.
C. E. Tracy is planting five acres
more asparagus. This will bring
the acreage up to Is.
Rev. j. G. Spencer Is i'll Catalina
for the conference Of Congrega-
tional ministers of Southern Cali
fornia. He left Sunday evening
and will return Friday.
The West Side Country club held
its regular meeting at the home
of Mrs. George Cannon, Thursday,
March 25. The tables were beau
tifully decorated and dainty Easter
fayors lent beauty and color Those
present were MesdamcS Dieh!
Westmorland. Dickson, Klump.
Curtis, Sheldon, Rich, Schultz,
Green, Gallaher and the hostesses,
Mesdames Cannon Lowe and Hig-
gins. Guests were Mrs. Elizabeth
Robinson and Addie Kunkler.
On April 5, members of the club
are invited to spend the day with
Mrs. George Cannon at her
mountain home at OakWilde.
Rev. and Mrs. j. B. Soules of
Ocean Park are guests for the neXs
few days at the J. c. Spencer home.
They expect to return Friday.
Charles Havens spent Saturday
at Perris in the judging contest OF
livestock.
Mrs. Delmar Patter entertained
at dinner Easter Sunday Guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. Delmar Up
ham and family of Plaster City
Mr.. and Mrs. S, Mayfield and
daughter of Ell Centre. Afternoon
visitors at the Potter home were
Mr.. and Mrs. r. j. Wright and
family and Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Potter from Westmorland.
Mrs. Mary Scola of San Diego
is now residing at the Mrs. James
Howard residence.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
BY LOUISE ROBINSON
Press Staff Cnrresnnndent

Mr.. and Mrs. J. R. Haley, Mra.
J. W. Smith, Mary Lou Smith,
Beverly Tramnell, Robert Foster
and J. 3. Harvey motored to Julian
by way Of Carrisso creek, Sunday,
returning the same evening after
visiting with friends there.
Jack Arnett of the U.S.S. New
/ York at San Pedro, visited The past
week with his sister and family,
Mrs. Elmer Walker.
Budd Griggs was a visitor over
/ the weekend in san Diego.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. r. N. Best and
daughters, Mildred and Eleanor
spent the weekend with relatives
in Perris.
Miss Freda Hynrs returned to
San Diego, Sunday, after jolly
vacation the past week with her
mother. Mrs Tom White.
Miss Mary Westmorland of Lam
tana was a guest of Miss Freda
Hyers, Friday night and Saturday.
| Mrs Wilcox entertained her
brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs.
/ Lund, from Los Angeles, over the
weekend. Her mother, who ac-
companied them, will spend two
weeks with her daughter before
| returning.
Mrs. c. Knight was a passenger
on the train to San Diego, Friday,
returning Saturday.
Mrs. Laurence Campbell enter
tanned at dinner Easter Sunday.
Guests were George Campbell, Mr.
and Mrs. 7. NJ. Adams and daugh-
I ters, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Ellis and Mr..
and Mrs. Sid Trammen
Mrs Addic Kunkles, Ethel Bor-
cen, Beulah Sheldon and Mrs
( Earnest Mackey left for Ramona.
/ Friday. Mrs. Kunkles and Miss
Borden spent Easter at the Shell
/ don home Miss Sheldon will stay
a month or so with relatives and
( Mrs. Mackey will visit two weeks
with her mother, Mrs. o. A. Kirk
MI. and Mrs. Herbert SWayze
were callers Thursday evening at
/ the =. T. Robinson nome.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. P. Pierce and
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Morrison and
/ daughters enjoyed picnic Wednes-
! Gay on the desert at Occatillo.
Friday, at the Seeley Union
/ school trustee election, Mrs Ed
/ Diehl and Mrs. Jack Williams were
/ reelected
The ladies aid held a special
( meeting at Community hall,
/ Wednesday, with 80 ladies present.
J The affair was a surprise shower
for Mrs. Jesse Meadows. Many
beautiful and dainty gifts were ar
ranged in a novel way. After the
I packages had been opened, the
ladies' II ; seated at the long
tables VI BIZ had been prepared in
an artistic way and delicious home
made ice cream and cake were
: served. Present were Mesdames
Knight. Roberts. Murphy, Rich,
/ Ross Best, w. c. Best, White, Nc
Hone, Ferguson Womack, oftelie
Long. Nelson, T. Howard, j.
Howard, Higgins, Hayens, J. Will
lianas, Robinson, Hull, West, Shell
don. Melvin Sheldon, Kunkler,
Borden, Mackey, the Misses Seeley
Oftehe, Freda Hyers, Marion
stearnes. Mae iMcHone and Buelah
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
]Of Interest to Women
Churches
Schools
BRIDGE SUPPER
HONORS VISITOR

Mrs. L. TdcGough of Los An
geles who is visiting her sister, Mrs.
E. ka Clements. was guest of honor
ct a 6Adae supper last night at the
Clemens home. 5O3 Len Rey ave-
nue..
A plofusion of flowers decorated
the house giving a colorful and
spring-like effect Mrs. H. c. Diller
won the high score prize at bridge
MIS-. Fred Kenyon. the low, and
Mrs. McGough received a guest
prize. At the conclusion of the
card game a tempting supper was
served by the hostess.
Guests were Mesdames H. c.
Diller. Dozier Dawson, Fred Ken
yon. Warren F. Fox. John B. Nc
Neece. Percie Thaeker, Marion
Buckholtz. w. a. Tondro, Dale
Ramsey. /. L. McGough and Miss
Irene Mccoy
Mrs. Clements is expecting an
other sister, Mrs. c. A. Nelson, to
arrive tomorrow for the weekend.
Mr.. McGough will also arrive at
that time.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
AZTEC REUNION
PLANS COMPLETED

Plans have been completed for
the Aztec club reunion which will
take place in the California hotel
on Saturday, April >. and to which
all former students of San Diego
State college are invited.
Those in charge have made inter-
esting and unusual plans for the
evenings entertainment and prom
ise plenty of amusement for the
club members.
Dinner viii be served at 6:30
o'clock and the club members are
anticipating an enjoyable evening.
Special invitations have been sent
to san Diego Aztecs and it is eX-
pected that a number Of them will
be present for this reunion.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
Harding Mothers Club
viii Meet On Friday

Election of officers is the special
business to cone up at the meeting
Of the Harding Mothers club which
will take place tomorrow afternoon
Friday, April /. at 2:30 O'Clock in
the school kindergarten. All men,
bers and patrons are urgently re-
ouested to be present.
A particularly interesting pro-
gram has been planned. Mrs.
josephine NJ. Woodford Of Los An
geles, world traveller. Will give a
short talk on her travels abroa 1
and the meeting will conclude
with songs and recitations BY
groups of Harding school children
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
FAREWELL PARTY
FOR .H4XINE SPEAR

Maxine spear, who Is soon to
leave El Centro to make her home
in Long Beach was guest Of honor
at a farewell party given last night
by Roberta Barratt. 692 Wensley
avenue.
Pink and yellow flowers decorated
the dining table at which covers
were laid for Ethel Pearl Cross.
Annie Lee Rapson, Georgeane
SoneS, Frances Sleber. Lucille Hen
derson, Mildred Roberts, Maxine
Spear and the hostess.
The guest Of honor received at
tractive Gifts from her friends and
after dinner the guests spent the
evening in playing bunco
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
Child Hygiene Expert
To Hold Conferences

Child hygiene conferences will be
{ conducted tomorrow, Friday, April
!. by DR.. E. I. Hainsworth Of The
state department Of public health
under the auspices Of the county
health department.
DR.. Hainsworth will follow her
usual routine. devoting morning TO
conferences on the East Side in the
community club house, and the aft
ernoonS, TO conferences in the
health department offices at the
court house.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
ANNUAL Y. ". {. 4.
BANQUET MONDAY

Annual meeting of the Imperial
Valley Young Women's Christian
association will take place Monday
evening, April 4. at the Barbara
Worth country club.
An innovation in the program
will be presented this year in the
shape OF a unique and interesting
play written by Mrs. w. w. Nc
Euen. This play will present the
events in the Y. w. c. A. program
as they have occurred in the valley
during the past year.
Another feature of the program
will be installation of new officers.
In addition, Girl Reserve clubs of
CaleXico, Holtville, East Side, El
Centre are having a share in the
program.
The meeting will begin with a
dinner served at 7 o'clock. Hus-
bands as we'll as wives are invited
to share in this gala event of the
county Y. W. c. A. and tickets
may be secured from any member
of the Y. w. c. A
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
GOLF CLUB SPORT
DANCE TOMORROW

Much interest is being evidenced
in the golf club sports dance to be
given tomorrow evening, Friday,
April !. in the Barbara Worth
country club under the auspices of
the social committee of the Women's
auxiliary.
Sports clothes will be in vogue
for the evening and that theme will
prevail in decorations and special
numbers. Good music has been Sc
cured and the committee has made
every effort TO provide entertain
ment for the guests. Judging by the
interest that is being shown, the
dance will be unusually we'll attend
ed.
Dancing will begin at $50 o'clock
and all club members and friends
are invited.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
WORLD BRIDGE
TOURNAMENT TO
START TOMORROW

NEW YORK, March 81. U.R) -
The world bridge Olympic tour
nament with $4,000 players in the
four corners of the earth will start
promptly at 8:0i p. M. Friday
Sixteen hancs, most of them
tricky. have been mailed out to
game captains in every state OF the
union and Shanghai, Manila and
Timbuctoo. At the appointed hour,
the players VIII sit down, tie 1000
game captains will start play and
at the end. $50 gold and silver
trophies will be awarded.
Ely CulbertSon, bridge expert
who recently triumphed in $50 rub
bers with Sidney Lenz, and a sort
of super-referee of the Olympic,
was not even disturbed today by
report that samples of the I6 hands
had drifted into the wrong
hands.
He declared that most bridge
players could study the hands for
a week and still not know the right
way to bid and play the l6 hands
ways supposedly known only to
Culbertson.
Culbertson'S troubles will begin
just when those of the tournament
players are over, around IL p. m.
There will be 100000 individual
scores to be sorted and totaled,
One pair from the $4,000 players
is to be selected as recipient of the
first prize trophy, a gold cup with
names of the winners and sample
hand engraved thereon.
Then 349 other pairs must be Sc
lected for the remaining cups, u
task which would challenge In
genuity of an income tax expert Or
insurance actuary.
Meanwhile the $4,000 contestants,
having duly paid the entry fee OF
81 apiece, and arranged to play
under the watchful eye of one team
captain or another, will be called
upon to look the other way if
temptation should befall them be-
fore Sol p. m. Friday and lead
them to undue brilliance in bid
cling and play.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
MRS. ERNEST UTLEY HONOR GUEST At
BRIDGE DINNER GITEN LAST NIGHT

Wallace j. McClelland winning thG
attractive high score prizes and
Mrs. Lee Nuffer and Harry Horton
the low.
Guests were Nfr. and Mrs. Lee
Nuffer. MI and Mrs. Harry Horton.
Mr.. ana Mrs. c. B. Smith. Mr.. and
Mrs. H. w. Judson Of Los Angeles.
Mr ana Mrs ". j. McClelland.
Judge and Mrs. Vaughn N. Thomp-
sen. Mrs. Evalyn Boman WeSter-
field. Ms. A. c. Finney. Mrs. Leta
Mae Bryan, Miss Frances French.
Miss Clara H. Feustel. Miss Glyna-
dene Utley. r. 1. French, Walter
Worden. f. A. FDanugh. Robert Be-
man Of San Francisco. NJ. Penn
Phillips Of Los Angeles, Louis Lieb-
erman of Los Angeles. the honor
guest, Mrs. Uuey, and the host
Ernest r Utiey.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
Valley Chambers
Meet Tomorrow

d.. F. P. Woeliner of U.CL.A.,
will be the principal speaker at
the Associated Chambers Of Com
merce meeting at the fair grounds
Friday night.
He recently returned after a trip
around the world and is said to be
well informed upon world condi-
tions and international problems.
All teachers and school officials
are invited to join chamber men,
berS at the session.
Matters of present interest will
be discussed by Ben Hulse, presi-
dent Of the Imperial County Fair
board, while O. G.. Horne, local
chairman of President Hoover'5
withdrawing committee, will dis
cusS "Hoarding"
The meeting is scheduled to be-
gin at o'clock.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
p. E. O. Officers Meet
To Plan Work For Year

Mrs. ". J. Clements entertained
the officers of Chapter AV. P E.
O., al luncheon this noon at her
home. G70 Olive avenue.
Plans for the coming years work
were discussed and those present
were Mcsdamcs 0. J. Bradshaw, F.
H. AIcIver, Henry L. Loud, Harry
Horton. L C. House Vaughn II.
Thompson, and Forrest f. Kutz.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
LADIES DAY At
GOLF CLUE IS
POPULAR EVENT

Ladies Gay yesterday Al the Bar
bara Worth country club proved as
popular as preceding events, many
women being present to enjoy the
delicious luncheon and games of
either bridge or golf.
The golf club womens team has
been selected and Mrs. Allen P.
Nuffer OF FL Centre. Mrs. W. Ernest
Beal of Holtville and Mrs. w. Burke
Of Holtvine VIII represent the Bar
bara Worth club.
Saturday the local team will play
the WOmens teams from the BraW-
ley Del Rio and CaleXico Interna-
tional sell clubs, and on Sunday
the three teams viii play in Cal
eNlco. Inc final match will be
played on the local courts ana the
victorious team Will be awarded the
handsome plaque which was won
last year by the team from the Bar
bara Worth club.
II addition 10 golf, bridge was
sponsored by the committee in
charge of the day. Mrs. Clarence
Bierke o. Los Angeles Won the high
score prize at contract and Mrs. J.
A. Straub that for auction while
Mrs. Percie Thacker received the
low score prize at auction.
Among the hosteSses who enter
tanned friends yesterday at the club
were Mrs. Sem Bacon and Mrs. J.
D. Huston. Mrs. BaCon's guests
were Mrs. z. L. Carson, Mrs. Carle-
ton D. Joy and Mrs R. T. Estes, jr.
while Mrs. Huston had as her guests
Mrs. Clarence Bierke, Mrs. John
F. Andrews. il, and Mrs. ". c. Cos
lello.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
Society
Clubs

A charming dinner bridge was
given last night at the Barbara
Worth hotel by Ernest L. Utley III
honor Of his wife's birthday. The
party was planned as a surprise
for Mrs Ut.cy anu proved to be a
great success as she had no ink
ling OF the affair until she reached
the hotel where she was greeted
by the guests.
Dinner was served in the private
dining room where the guests were
seated about a long table beautiful
y decorated with colorful sweet
peas. The women's places were
marked by exquisite corsages Of
daffodils and violets.
During the course OF the dinner a
handsome birthday cake with light
ed candle was brought in and
placed before Mrs. Utley.
Followine the dinner. bridge was
enjoyed Mrs. Leta Mae Bryan and
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
STARTS NnxInLs FISH WAR

LANSING, Mich. UP,-T.he an
nual spring campaign against noX-
.ous fish in Michigan waters soon
will be started by the state depart
ment Of conservation. The OBJ
jectonaDle species-dOgfish carp,
garf.sh and others-Will be speared
by parties organized under the
supervision of the district conser-
yation officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
Long Illness
Fatal To Boy

Charles Andreotti, 15-year- -old
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Andreotti of
the district northeast of Imperial,
died at the family home yesterday.
He had been i'll about a month.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed as yet In the
meantime the body is at Lemons
undertaking establishment in Ell
Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
New Way To Hold
False Teeth In Place

Do false teeth annoy you by
dropping or slipping? Just sprinkle
a little Fasteeth on your plates.
This new fine powder holds teeth
firm and comfortable. No gummy,
pasty taste or feeling. SWeetens
a -
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-31
Social Breyities

Ell Centre Chapter No. 113, Wom-
en- of the Moose, will hold its reg
ular business meeting at 8 o'clock
tonight in the Moose home. All
members are urged to be present.
The local w. c. T. U. will meet
on Friday, April |, at 2:30 o'clock
with Mrs. Nellie Hester, GOT He'll
avenue. Mrs. Grace Walker of
Holtville will give a report on child
welfare and various matters of bus
mess will be discussed Mrs. EN-
ma wilkins, president, urges that
all members be present.
StaniSlaus county has 40,2l8
GARY COWS; San Joaquin, 28,664;
Merced, 34,590, and MADEIRA, 1906.
Evening star., 1932-06-26

as it is the humidity" without evoking
a Snicker. Old friends. meeting unex-
pectedly, agreed that it was a pretty
small world after all, and no one dis
puted the fact that a boys best friend
was his mother
But about 1907 Gelett Burgess pub
lished a book entitled Are You a Bro
mide?" which not only took the wind
out of Cousin Asher's sails, but Debated
polite conversation generally. The Bro
mide, according to Mr.. Burgess, "doeS
his thinking by syndicate. He follows
the main-traveled roads; he goes with
the crowd" And the specimen bromide
oms which were published in this treat
iSe skinned the cream of contemporary
comment. People became wary of re-
peating the aphorismS that once had
served to fill in the awkward pauSeS in
social intercourse.
Through fear of ridicule the life of
the party grew glum and taciturn. All
his little japes had been listed in the
Index Expurgatorius. When people
laughed, he could never be sure whether
they were laughing with him or at him.
But the old-faShioned social evening
was not ruined by cyniciSm alone.
Science has played an important part in
robbing conversation of its glamour Our
modern devices for disseminating infor-
nation are so speedy and efficient that
the old word mouth method has been
completely outmoded. With the tele-
phone, the radio, the news reels and the
daily papers in hourly editions, there is
nothing left to tell.
Evening star., 1932-06-26

What might have happened to society
during the last decade without cards
and cocktails is horrible to contemplate.
One can picture a parlor full Of guests
staring silently into space, each one try
ing to think of something to say that
hasn't been said before, each one afraid
to be the first to wiSecrack under the
strain.
Fortunately, this never occurs nova
days. Just as the guests are beginning
to feel the first symptoms of rigor mortis,
they hear the clatter of unfolding table
legs and a tinkle of cracked ice-two
sounds that are guaranteed to revive the
most moribund party. Bridge has been
made so complicated that it requires the
undivided attention of the players, and
cocktails have become so potent that
they quickly reduce the drinkers to hila-
riouS incoherence. Thus the obligation
to converse is evaded, the great silence
is foreStalled-and no one is the wiser.
But if the members of East Teabone'S
Slightly Older Younger Set really believe
that talk-for- the -sake-o is a thing
of the past, let them drop into the corner
drug store some evening to make an
important phone call And let them
wait, nickel in hand, while Eddie gives
Mabel "the old line" in his own inter-
minable manner.
They will discover, with mounting i'm
patience, that sophisleation has not
made the present generation inarticu-
late after all The art of conversation
may be looser than it used to be, but
it is not lost. You can find it in any
public telephone booth.
Evening star., 1932-06-26

ganized searching parties and set out
deliberately to find it. That is, they have
assembled for social evenings" uninter-
rupted by drinking, dancing or card
playing. And these evenings, it must
be confessed, were deadly dull
Yet most of us can remember dimly
the days when conversation was the
chief raiSon d'etre of the social affairs.
As children we were allowed to stay up
late when company" came; the drone
of adult voices and the rhythmic creak
of rockers induced a comfortable drowSi-
ness. AS children we were quite content
to play The part of innocent-and slight
ly Somnolent-byStander
We assumed that what the grown-ups
had to say was important, if not bril-
liant; we did not question the originality
of their mots or the logic of their opin-
ions. 1t was all new and true to us, and
it lasted far into the night without arti-
fetal stimulus. Not a drop was drunk,
not toe was tripped, not card was
turned. Yet the talk went on-and ap-
parently pleasant time was had by all
Guests did not come for the purpose of
themselves at his gaming table; they
came to hear and be heard.
That was in an era when polite con-
versation moved easily along prescribed
course, fabricated by what the irreverent
younger generation of today would call
banana oil" There were no wisecracks
to interrupt its progress, no disconcerting
deviations from correct thought. The
diScourseS were not without their lighter
side Standard witticisms relieved the
monotony, like raisins in bread pud-
ding-but there was nothing unexpected
about them; every one had heard them
before, and every one knew when to
laugh.
AT Sunday dinner one could count on
a routine of repartee as unchanging as
the croSs-talk of a vaudeville team.
Uncle Naboth would always ask for ''the
part of the chicken that went under the
fence last" Then Rev. Maulsby would
tell how, when he was a boy, his older
Evening star., 1932-06-26
BRIDGE and CocktaibMayHa7e Made HeA,t
of Con7et3atiou Looser, but 1t Is Not Lost
1t Can Be Found MAny Phone Booth.
By Weare Holbrook

brothers deluded him into believing that
the neck was the choicest portion of the
fowl. A few minutes later, during the
serving of the vegetables, Cousin Asher
would ask why some one had never
thought of inventing square peas that
wouldn't roll off the knife Each of these
sallies was good for general laugh; in
fact, the younger members of the fam
lily often suffered from prolonged fits of
hysterical giggling as a result, and had
to be reprimanded.
The second helping was the cue for
Rev. MaulSby's observation that, after
all, there was nothing like good home
cooking, and Aunt Eulalie's cynical as
Sertion that the way to a mans heart
was through his stomach. But the big
moment occurred when Cousin Asher,
after having been urged to take third
helping, announced despairingly that
he could chew but he couldn't swallow
That was signal for unrestrained mirth,
and every one had been waiting for it.
Any of the others present might have
appropriated the line, but Cousin Asher
had said it first and it was his to say
till the end of time.
Besides, Cousin Asher was a card"
The others were willing to let him pro-
vide the comic relief. AS Aunt Eulalie
often observed, it wasn't so much what
he said as the way he said it. The phrase
life of the party" had not yet become
a term of reproach, and Cousin Asher
could always be counted on to inject
note of stereotyped gayety into the most
solemn conclaveS.
He had an apt remark for every emer-
gency When entering the room with
lady, it was his invariable custom to step
aside with an exaggerated gallantry and
exclaim, age before beauty" When
some one tripped over rug or dropped
a tea cup, he always relieved their en-
barrassment by shouting, Drunk
again!" (But if this same accusation
was hurled at him, he parried 1t neatly
by replying, so am Il" You couldn't
get ahead of ASher) And he usually
sped the parting guest by saying, Here's
your hat-what's your hurry?"
IN Cousin Asher'S day, the reiteration of
the obvious was no crime. One could
assert that "it isn't the heat SO much