Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-08
BY AUDIEN ROGERS
Press Staff Correspondent

Ellis on Wednesday afternoon. The
motif was carried out very attract
lively in pink, blue and white. Those
being present for the occasion we're
as follows; Mrs. Bob Amstead, Mrs.
Carl Brown, Mrs. Tom Rogers, Mrs.
/ Charles Acker. Mrs. Homer Daley,
Mrs. Lambert, Mrs. Fern Carey,
Mrs. H. A. CroWell, Mrs Bill Weeks,
Mrs. Grady Weeks, Mrs. Clifton
Scroggins; Mrs Schultz; Thelma
Scroggins. Juanita Bashaw, Fran
els Schultz, Wilma Himshaw, and
the two hostesses, Mrs. B. B. Perritt
and Mrs. Alton Ellis
DR. and Mrs. George Graeser and
Mr.. and Mrs r. N. Claiborne and
daughter, Patricia, motored to San
Diego and Aqua Caliente last Sun
day.
Mrs. H. B. Graeser has returned
from a visit with her sister Mrs B.
S. Allen and her son, Frederic Grae-
ser who arein Claremont.
Miss Viola Butterfield and Miss
Evelyn Jardin spent the weekend
of last week in Los Angeles.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kilgore mo-
tored to Banning on Saturday of
last week to spend the weekend.
! President c. F. Kamm of the
Holtville Chamber of Commerce,
Mrs. Kamm, F.. Roy Thompson,
James Mackie, Jr., and w. H. Mey-
er, attended the dinner at the De
ANA hotel in Calexico Monday eve
ming in honor of Leonard Read,
western division manager of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce.
Mr.. and Mrs. Graham S. Rogers
and baby, Jeanne, and Stanley Ro-
gers were dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. B. Jones of Ell Centro Sun
day.
Howard Jones has returned to
Holtville after spending few days
with Mrs. Jones at La Jolla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Brodie moved
to Ell Centro the first of last week,
making their home on Commercial
avenue. Brodie, who is employed by
the SafeWay company, was trans
ferred from the Holtville store to Ell
Centro. F.. E. Boone of Calipatria
has been transferred here to take
his place.
Mrs. James Mackie, Jr, Mrs. j. K.
Fahring, and Mrs. j. R. Snyder were
guests of Mrs. Clark Woodland of
Calexico last Wednesday.
The Girl Reserves of the sixth,
seventh and eighth grades of the
elementary school, under the super
vision of Mrs. John Kavanaugh, pre-
sented an entertaining program at
the Woman's club on Friday after
noon. Wearing costumes represent
ing flowers, the girls sang "An Old
Fashioned Garden" with Lois Lee
Cole taking the solo part and Flora
history and purpose of the organi-
zation were explained by one of the
girls and the entire group repeated
the code and sang Girl Reserve
songs.
Mrs. Maude Glasby of CaleXico
county federation president, ano
former Y. w. G. A. secretary, spoke
on Girl Reserve work.
Mrs. H. T. Miller and Mrs. Res
Maddux were hostesses during the
social hour and presided at the tea
table which was appointed in green
with q bouquet of spring flowers in
pastel shades as an attractive center
piece and flanked by tall lighted
taperS.
A farewell dinner was given in
honor of Miss Ruth Gay by her mo-
ther, Mrs. Anna Gay. Those present
included: Dr. T. B. Turner, Mr.. and
Mrs. George White of Ell Centro, C..
w. Rowland and F.. D. Cragg. The
evening was spent playing bridge.
On February 9 the literature sec
ton of the Womans club will pre-
sent a play THE Woman's Lounge, y
for women only, at the high school
auditorium. The setting of this hu-
morous mystery play is the Wo-
mans lounge in a Pullman car. The
cast includes colored maid, Mrs. A.
P. Shibley; an elderly lady, Mrs. Ira
Feldman; young woman, Mrs.
Dean Richmond; two flappers, Cert
and Mayme, Mrs. Anna Gay and
Miss Myrtle Mcdonald; a foreign
mother, Mrs. Robert Bolin; Mrs.
Chucklebody, Mrs. H. T. Miller; Mrs.
Dummer, Mrs. C. l.. Shaw; Elsie,
her child, Ida Belle Miller. Music
will be furnished by the high school
orchestra.
Honoring Mrs. Dave Vencill on
her birthday anniversary, Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Vencill entertained
with surprise party Friday even
ing at their ranch home. Progress
sive games provided the diversion
and dainty refreshments were serv-
ed at the close. Those present were
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Vencill, Mr.. and
Mrs c. F.. Kamm, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
P. Chambers, Mr. and Mrs. Alex
Meyer and Miss Helen Rumsey.
Mrs. Mark A. McClelland, preSid-
ed at a prettily appointed shower
last Thursday afternoon at her
home on Cedar street, compliment
ing her daughter -in-law, Mrs. Ray
McClelland. The afternoon was
pleasantly passed in unwrapping the
dainty gifts and visiting and re-
freshmentS were served at the close
to the 40 guests.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Westmor-
land will be interested to know that
she was the winner of the Frigidaire
which was given away at the cook
ing school of the homemakers bu-
reau of the Safeway stores on Fri
day Mr.. and Mrs. WeStmorland are
former residents of Holtville, he be-