St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-12-04

guest gifts. Guests included Messrs.
and Mesdames Woodford Mills,
Sylvester Carter, Huron ]. Shelton
Jr., Louis Mason, Paul Thomson,
Misses Nilee Nyan Luche, Corinne
Powell, Jessie Sonion, Louise
(Dickie) Bradshaw, Lydia Jones,
Messrs. Junius Powell, A. J. Lewis,
Victor E. Galloway, Robert Schoff-
ner and Bunny" Stokes.
Visitors at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. F. Wilson, 697 St. Anthony
avenue, during the past week were
Russell and George Keen of De-
troit, Michigan, Mr.. E. M. Mason,
Director of the E. M. Mason Fun
eral Home, Inc, S642 Oakland ave-
nue., Detroit, Michigan, and several
of the members of Jimmie Lunce-
ford's Band including Omer ST.
neon of Chicago, Dan Grissom,
Ben Waters, Robert Mitchell, Ber-
nard Shivers, Teddy McRae, Con-
ME Lunceford, Trummie/ Young,
Fernando Arbelo, all of New York
City, Roosevelt Orr, Spokane,
Washington, Tom Copeland, Du-
luth.
The Mothers Club of Phyllis
Wheatley House entertained with a
Stork Shower on Friday, Nov. 26,
to honor Mrs. Richey Adams, 100
E. 25th St., who gave birth to twin
boys on Monday, Nov. 80, at Abb
bott hospital. An attractive color
scheme of pink and blue was car
ried out in the shower decorations.
Bingo was the form of entertain
ment with first prizes being won
by Mrs. Claudia Chatham and Mrs.
Geraldine Merritty, second prizes
by Mrs. Opal Stone and Miss Mary
Smith, and the BOBBY by Mrs. Idella
Grigsby. Guests included Mesdames
Opal Stone, Idella Grigsby, Gerald
inc Merritty, Irene Harvey, Lillian
Jackson, Polly Young, Gertrude
Smith and Leona Patrick. Mes
danes Rose Booker, Beryl Cockrell,
Beatrice Grigsby, Evelyn Mcneil
and Corinne Pope brought gifts but
couldn't attend. Miss Dorothy Hall,
Director of the Phyllis Wheatley
Nursery School and Miss Martha
McWatt, her assistant, were also
present. Mrs. Adams, the honoree,
was a former assistant to Miss
Hall.
Miss Ikaline Moore, former Min
neapolitan, is now working for the
Western Electric Company in Chi
cago as secretary to one of the ex-
ecutives. Miss Moore is a graduate
of St. GATHERINGS College.
The Two O'clock Bridge Club
met in semi-monthly session on
Saturday, Nov. 81, at the home of
Mrs. M. Leo Bohannon, 3736 9Th
avenue south. First club prize was
won by Mrs. James Oliver, second
by Mrs. Cornelius H. Mobiley and
the third by Mrs. George o. Berry,
Jr. The next meeting will be Sat-
urday, December 5, at the home of
Mrs. Norman H. Howell, 953 St.
Anthony avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Garland Hunter,
1853 St. Anthony avenue, are re-
ceiving congratulations on the birth
of baby girl.
Mrs. John M. Patton is sporting
one of the classiest hats with a
capital c. that we've seen this sea-
son. 1t really rates the name of
"chapeau" and is a large black felt
of the one-of-a-kind variety. With
Mrs. Patton's black seal coat it is
swelegant.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. POgue of
Topeka, Kans., who came to st.
Paul to attend the funeral of Mr..
Pogue's grandmother, Mrs. Eliza
beth Honey Pogue, has returned
home. Miss Bertha Pogue of
Kansas City, Mo-, daughter of Mrs.
Pogue, who also came to attend the
funeral, will make her home in st.
Paul with her sister, Mrs. Lucille
M. Ellie, 3S1 N. Western Ave.
Possibly the largest number of
our group to ever witness a Marian
Anderson recital attended the
Thanksgiving concert that Miss
Anderson gave in her usual inimit-
able style in the Concert Bowl of
the Minneapolis Auditorium on
Tuesday evening, November "a.
Miss Anderson was regally attired
in a gown of cerise chiffon velvet
with a twelve-inch band of gold
taffeta around the bottom and trim
ming the neck. She was presented