The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1938-04-22
SOCIAL NOTES

weekend trip to Seattle and Ia
coma with his team to meet COM
petition of Washington colleges.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Allen, who have
returned from California where
they have been for several months
will make their home here. Miss
Muriel Fletcher accompanied
them.
The Young Peoples Fellowship
picnicked at Dodge Park Wednes-
day during their Easter vacation.
Soft-ball, fishing, and hiking furn-
ished plenty of good shots for the
numerous candid-camera enthusi-
asts in the party There were 25
in the group. The same day about
twenty-five or thirty young peo-
pie frolicked in the park at Port
lands inactive volcano, Mt. Tabor.
Baseball and tennis were the main
diversions.
Mr., and Mrs. Henry Myles en-
tertained at dinner Sunday.
An effort has been made to or
ganize a local Youth Council of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People. A
temporary chairman and secretary
were appointed at the first call
meeting held recently. Mrs. Harry
M. Duncan, who is organizer of the
Youth group, considers that only
brief time will pass before a
complete working organization will
be active.
Mr.. William Gilmer and Mrs.
Waldo Boyle were dinner hosts
Friday at the Medley hotel.
Members of the Triangle depart
ment of the Oregon Association of
Colored Womens club were spon-
sors of pretty silver tea Easter
Sunday at the Y. Associated club
presidents were asked to pour dur
ing the reception hours, as was the
O.A.C.W. president, Mrs. Pollyann
Reed. Other club women assisted
about the rooms. Yellow and white
was the color scheme used. Many
EXPLANATIONS of praise were sound
ed over the beauty of the tea table
with its cleaning silver.
The Triangle department is a
grouping of three active depart
ments of the Association, namely:
Art department, Mrs. Jennie JAM
ieson, chairman; Better Homes de-
partment, Mrs. Henrietta Marshall,
chairman; and Negro Achievement
department, Mrs. Frank Adams,
chairman.
The members of the Rosebud
Study club met last week with
Mrs. Pearl c. Stewart at her home
on Main street. After the clubs
study of current events for that
meeting had been finished, pro-
gram numbers were given. Among
: the latter was a poem read by
Mrs. Leonard Crosswhite which
had been written by her son, Ro-
; bert Crosswhite. The poem was
entitled Peace. Robert is maxi
ing name for himself as a bud
ding artist and cartoonist, though
he has not yet entered his teens.
The next meeting of the Rosebuds
will be with Mrs. Bonnie Boyle.
Mrs. William Johnson, Mrs.
James Cantrell and Miss Florence
Cantrell motored to Eugene, Ore
gon on Monday and carried with
them huge birthday cake and
other party markings to surprise
two of university students, Miss
Lena Hilsman and William Tor
renee, whose birthdays occur only
few days apart. The young peo-
pie were grateful for the visit and
expressed the wish that more Ne
groes would visit the college towns
NOR often.
NEWCOMERS TO THE MED
LEY: e. Slaughter, Denver; ]. A.
Jones, Chicago; H. Dummar, Salt
Lake City; M. p. Davis, Spokane;
M. H. Conan, Omaha; H. Murphy,
Kansas City.
A new club of bachelors and
young married men has been form
ed and named, "Esquires" Meet
ings are held each Friday eve
ming at the members homes. The
young men are banding themselves
together to better contribute to
community welfare either by aid
ing individual needy cases or as
sisting some established worthy or
ganization. Meanwhile they are
not overlooking possibilities for
fuller social contacts. The club
roster shows, Holman Crawford,
president; Eugene Garden, vice
president; Robert Allen, secretary
!. treasurer. Members are: Prentiss
Price, Clifford Jackson, Samuel
Blanchard, George S. Miller, Ivan
Patterson, Duke Jackson, and Ste
ven Wright