Social Happenings on the North Shore by Ruth Risley
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- Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 22 Aug 1918, p. 5
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- Ruth Risley
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- Extract of a letter from Miss Elizabeth Thorne of Lake Forest regarding the work at Arden Shore summer camp. Contributions in support of the fresh air camp for city mothers and children may be sent to Mrs. Willam G. Hibbard, Jr. in Winnetka; Miss Edith Boynton of Highland Park and Mrs. Charles Thorne of Lake Forest.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Colegrove announce the marriage of their daughter, Gevilla Esther [Colgrove] to R. H. Kurt Keukranz, son of Mrs. Marie Neukranz of Denmark, on Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at their home, 730 Tenth Street. Reverend Francis Stifler read the service.
Ladies cleaning house are urged by the Red Cross to conserve their waste materials. Soiled papers on pantry shelves should be tied in bundles to sell to the junk man for Red Cross coupons. Folded newspapers bring forty cents per hundred pounds. Medicine bottles bring four cents a dozen. Old letters and picture postcards can be sold at 30 cents per 100 pounds for mixed paper. Old childrens shoes bring 3 1/2 cents per pound. The Red Cross has a goal of $500,000 a year from salvage.
Ravinia Park will be kept open until Thanksgiving for men in uniform to enjoy hospitality of local groups.
Children's Day at Ravinia is Thursday, August 29. A special prgram will include Miss Cox's pupils perfoming dances and a ventriloquist plus the usual program by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Children under 12 admitted free.
Miss Addie M. Crowe of Owosso, Michigan, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Burt A. Crowe, 1109 Chestnut avenue.
Next Saturday evening a canteen will be opened in the Brown building for the boys in service who come to the village for supper, preceding the dancing parties being given in their honor at the Woman's Club. The committee in charge includes Mr. Melville Brown, Mrs. Jacob Greiner, Mrs. G. B. Morrison, and Mrs. C. H. Deuchler.
Lawrence Schaefer, 1501 Washington avenue, is visiting his sister, at Random Lake, Wis., this week.
Bethany jane Crowe, age 8, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burt A. Crowe, 1009 Chestnut avenue, gave a birthday party last week for twenty children.
Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer B. Skinner and assistants will be in charge of the Army and Navy Club dance at the Womens's Club on Saturday evenings.
Among those visiting sisters and daughters at the Maria Immaculata Convent this week are Mrs. Charles Affolter and daughters Helen and Bertha of Rome, New York; Miss Iseneker of Rome, New York, Miss Sommers, Miss Theresa Steffens and Miss Theresa Schwab of Minneapolis.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B Seibold, 723 Washington avenue, and Mr. and Mrs. William J. King of 611 Forest avenue, have been traveling in New England.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Lincoln of St. Louis, Mo., traveled to Wilmette to visit their relatives, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Wade, 101 Sixth street.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rathbone and Mrs. Parsons, 710 Central avenue, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thomas in Montclair, N.J.
Mrs. C. D. McCallum, 1222 Hill street, returned from the Evanston hospital this week following surgery. Mrs. Joseph J. Kutten, 914 Eleventh street, will have a card party next week to benefit the Villa de Chantal Alumni for war relief work.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Mack, 707 Central avenue and MRs. C. C. Carnahan, 700 Central avenue, will return Friday from an extended outing in Gull Lake, Mich.
Miss Loretta Killackey of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., is visiting her brother, J. K. Killackey, 1711 Elmwood avenue.
Miss Rose Goldsmith of New Orleans, La., was a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Youngquist, 211 Fourth street.
Miss Ruth Ebersole of Monmouth, Ill., was the guest of Miss Bernice Shurtleff, 815 Lake avenue.
Mrs. B. F. Brown, 606 Washington avenue, will return Saturday from a visit in Pontiac, Mich.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Brewster and family of 1112 Greenwood avenue have moved to 1258 Ashland avenue, Hubbard Woods.
Mr. W. C. Shurtleff, 815 Lake avenue, spent Friday of last week with his son, Howard, at Rockford.
C. A. Watkins, 1322 Greenwood avenue, has gone to Aberdeen, S. D. on a business trip. - Date of Publication
- 22 Aug 1918
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Colgrove, Gevilla ; Neukranz, R. H.
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- Wilmette.News.289445
- Language of Item
- English
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