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fHE PLfiTTSWIOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Monday, March 14, 1949 ! Society. : Just Dial 241 Permanent Youth Council is Formed Sunday evening the young people of the Christian, Meth odist and Evangelical churches met with the Youth group of the Presbyterian church to form a permanent youth council. The following officers were elected: President, Manfred Moritz; Vice-President, Audrey Dow; Secretary, Shirley Humeric kouse; Treasurer, Joan Cecil. The Rev. Charles Tyler, pas tor of the Hillside Presbyterian church of Omaha, delivered a most inspirational address on "Racial Relations." All that the colored race asks, he said, "is the privilege to develop to the utmost, the intellectual and moral powers with which the Lord has endowed them", a privilege due to every human being. The Rev. Tyler has a keen appreciation of humor and proved himself an able speaker. He brought with him several of the young people of his church. At the close of the meeting - 8 P.M. - NEW 40 '& 8 ROOMS Above Journal Office PUBLIC CORDIALLY INVITED (No Children Please) BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WALT DISNEY WITH gMSMW WHITE and the SEVEN IS NOW ONE Of THE 8 BIG PRODUCTION NUMBER of th 9th Great Edition T was tz r m i-yjv rill 40 i$ I l j$M tu IV FrlASL ORDERS NOW Field. Omalia. Ncbr . cnclosina a slf cKcck or money order mode poyoblo jrare numcer ana pnee or tickets AK-SAR-BEM COLiSEUM-OMAHA SPRING TIME IS NEAR! BEAT THE RUSH' It may be winter today but Spring cleaning time is near. Wise house cleaners can beat the Spring rush by bringing in curtains, bed spreads, blankets, drapes and Spp'njr clothes for dry cleaning now. Have your Easter clothes cleaned now. Plattsmouth Cleaners ALTERATIONS HATS CLEANED Free Pickup and Delivery Phone 4193 309 Main .Personal the young people enjoyed a so cial hour, during which delicious refreshments were served by Mrs. T. I. Friest, Mrs. Edgar Glaze and Mrs. W. II. Schmidt mann. Wedding at Court House Saturday On Saturday forenoon at the office of County Judge J. A. Capwell was held the wedding services for Miss Mary Ruth French of Omaha and John D. Place of Milford, Iowa. The wedding services was read by Judge Capwell and the witnesses of the ceremony were Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Fehlok er, of Omaha, friends of the young people. Following the wedding the bridal party returned to Oma ha to enjoy the bridal reception. j Mr. and Mrs. Neil Cutting and I family of Omaha were guests j here this week at the home of ! Mr. and Mrs. B. H. G. Eiting. misuse PAHTY! wait till you see Ci? "DOPEY" on SKATESfqf DWARFS j;w 7fi;,i w w l i jx 41 Tfeesr. "-'m. i Address orders to the Omaha I "n!irnm Cam L r- T 1 ... avify n Ml yell -ndAretA ctnmnsrl o.l. to the Cmoha Coliseum Corp. I and dote et performance desired. CLEANING JAB Cass County Salon of 8 & 40 Instituted Tuesday evening at the club j rooms of La Societe des 40 i Homines et 8 Chevaux, Cass ; County voiture No. 1218, a new salon of the 8 and 40 society i was instituted in this city in a ; very colorful and interesting , ceremony. The new group has been designated as Cass County salon No. 441 and is ine nrst organized this year in the northwest district of the United States. The main hall of the club rooms had been very attrac tively arranged and decorated for the occasion with settings of green and white in keeping with the St. Patrick's day theme. The serving table was arrang ed with colorful display of green and white, white tapers tied with green ribbons being used, and the table centered with a large bouquet of white carna tions. The smaller tables at which the members were seated for the luncheon that followed the installation, were arranged with white tapers and at each tabls a red rose vase was placed. These with the glittering silver, crystal and china made a most attractive picture. The new salon was instituted by Mrs. Vesta Thomas, la chap eau departmental, of Nebraska City, who was assisted by many of the state officers and a large group of distinguished members of the organization from over the state. Cornelia Dcdds, la secretaire cassiere, was present to assist in the organization of the new group. The new salon selected the officers for the ensuing year the following: La Chapeau Mollie C. Gob elman. La Demi-Petite Chapeau Pre mier Alpha Mauzy. La Demi-Petite Chapeau De uxieme Mary Nelson. Secretaire Caissiere Agnes Walling. La Sureintendant Helen Gayer. La Consierge Vera Lewis. La Archivise Martha Cuth rell. La Aumorier Sophia Wolever. Each of the members of the new salon were presented with a large and beautiful red car nation by Mrs. Thomas as a J part of the installation cere monies. Following the installation of officers the members of the group were served a very de licious luncheon arranged by the local group. Many of the distinguished visitors present were introduc ed and gave short remarks. The salon is a part of the American Legion Auxiliary and composed of those who have served in the organization fcr a number of years and have held offices in the organization or performed outstanding service in the past years. Among the visitors here for the occasion were: Mrs. Vera Bosley, Palaside, Nebraska, pres ident of the Nebraska Ameri can Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Eve lyn Mitchell, Exter, Nebraska, past president; Dorothy Sutton, Lincoln, secretary of the Ne braska American Legion Auxil iary; Mrs. Esther Jesperson, Lincoln, departmental chapeau passe; Mrs. Carol Mortensen, Ord, national chaupeau passe. Mrs. Mary Dana, Lincoln, de partmental chapeau passe; Mrs. Garnet Berenberg, Omaha, departmental chapeau passe; Cornelia Dodds, la secretaire cassiere; Ruth Jensen, Mable Ainson, Omaha, departmental constitution and by-laws com mittee; Marguerite Bosch. Marie Rohde, Omaha; Rose Goldins. Blanche Kittrell, Fern Stage, Lora OTiara, Mary Dana, Leah iiau, Lincoln; Clara Zastera. Syracuse; Irman Speckhals, Fern Mendelson, Nebraska City. Camp Fire Girls to Celebrate Birthday Each year Camp Fire girls celebrate the birthday of their National organization in the middle of March. Girls in Plattsmouth will at tend church as groups on Sun- iviiticu u. ttach year pro testant girls attend churches in turn, this being the Methodist church. Catholic girls attend one of their churches in a group. Birthday week also brings the Grand Council Fire of the year at which the girls pass their ranks and receive their various honors. This year due to weather and road conditions the Plattsmouth groups have postponed their Council Fire and Birthday page ant until April 7. To be held at the Central school building More than 60 girls between the ages of seven and sixteen will take part in both the Coun cil Fire and pageant which tells "The Story of Our Flag." Camp Fire girls learn and have fun by doing things to gether. Watch for their exhibits and atted their Pageant and Council Fire. The Navy's giant transport plane, Constitution, holds ns much fuel as a railroad tank car, 10,000 gallons. Calendar 1 Thursday, March 17 The Dorcas Circle of W. S. C. S. will meet at the Methodist church Thursday afternoon at 2:30. The Naomi Circle will meet at 1:30 p. m. Thursday with Mrs. Al Nierste. The Gleaners Circle will meet at the parsonage at 8 o'clock Thursday evening. Eagle Auxiliary meets at the Eagle Hall Thursday evening, March 17 at 8 o'clock. Monday, March 21 The Plattsmouth Garden club will meet at the Hotel Platts mouth at 2:30 p. m., Monday, March 21. Discussions on Pcr annials. Friday, March 13th Chapter F., PEO will meet Fri day evening at 8 o'clock with Mrs. Genevieve Haves. Tuesday, March 22 Meeting of the King Korn di rectors at the office of the coun ty assessor Tuesday evening, March 22. "EST" 9 mior w oman s Club Names Vera Lewis President The Plattsmouth Junior Woman's club had a very large ly attended and interesting meeting at the club rooms oi La Societe des 40 Hommes et 3 Chevaux, Monday night. The meeting was presided over by Miss Shirley Jacobs, president, with a most interest ing business session that em braced the election of the offi cers for the ensuing year. The following were chosen: President Vera Lewis. Vice-President Shirley May abb. Secretary Donna Rhoden. Treasurer Naomi Day. The program of the evening was most delightful and pre sented by a group of the young people. The program was pre sented under the direction of Mrs. Alt a Reade. dramatics teacher and Mrs. Jean Lockin. The members of the drama tics class of the high school gave a number of very interest ing sketches. Alice Ann Reade, Bonnie Mcisinger, Glenda Arn old, Marylin Stoeohr, Patty Ma son, and Shirley Humerickhous? were presented in short skits. Tom Carneal was heard in the dramatic reading, "Penny." Dar lent Spangler presented a hum orous reading "A Lady on the Fullman " The pupils of Mrs. Lockin were presented in dancing num bers, Jo Ncn Albin. Jeanine Newton. Wayne Lewis, Marilyn Arundel, Danny Lockin and Ja net Campbell presenting this feature of the program. The evening was closed with the serving of refreshments ar ranged in the St. Patrick's day motif, by the committee in charge that comprised Mrs. William Nelson, Doris Atkinson, Beverly Baker, Elaine Mussack, Auretta Weldon, Elaine Sland er, Eleanor York. Mrs. Alta Reade, Jean Lockin, Naomi Owens, Joan Minor, Alvina Zastera. Local Ladies Enjoy Trip to Southland Misses Mary Phyllis Soennich sen and Phyllis Kehne, are en joying a very delightful time in the deep south and the Gulf coast country. They departed Sunday by train for Chicago, where they enjoyed a stay of sev eral hours in sightseeing, later leaving by plane for Tampa. Florida, where they will enjoy the sights of that well known west Florida coast city and later going onto Miami, Florida, one of the most attractive of the south ern resort cities and enjoying the gay and interesting life cf the winter resort. They also are expecting as a part of the trip to have a voyage to Havana, Cuba, to enjoy the sights of that ancient city and its cosmopolitan life which makes it one of the show places of the western continent. Mrs. Lois Bestor and Children Here The members of the Bestor and Troop families had a very pleasant and unexpected sur prise givi them Tuesday when Mrs. Lois Bestor and children, "Butch", Kathleen and Billy, ar rived from the west coast where they have been making their home for the past few years. They are now living at Empire, Oregon, not far from their form er home at Coos Bay, Oregon, where the husband and father, Robert H. Bestor, is employed. This is the first visit of the in fant son, Billy, to Nebraska as he was born at Coos Bay. The family will visit the rela tives and friends in this city and at Nebraska Citv, at the home of Mr. and rMs. W. C. Troop, par ents of Mrs. Bestor. The visit is one that has brought a great deal of pleasure to the members of the families. Popular Young People Married Early Tuesday The wedding of two of the popular and well known young people of the city occurred on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at the chapel of the St. John's church, when Miss Betty Jean Vroman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene O. Vroman, became the bride of Charles Eugene Ault, sen of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Ault. The marriage service was very quiet, but fittingly impressive as the marriage lines were read by Father John Kelly, assistant pastor of the St. John's church in the presence of a few of the relatives. The bride wore as her wedding gown a street suit of blue with brown accessories, wearing a corsage of bride roses. She was attended by Miss Joan Ault, sister of the groom, who wore a gray dress with navy blue ac cessories and a corsage of pink roses. Mr. Ault was attended by an old friend and associate, Bern ard Jackson. Following the wedding the bridal party motored to Omaha and from there will go to Chi cago for a short honeymoon before returning to Plattsmouth where they will make their fu ture home. The bride is a graduate of the Plattsmouth high school in the class of 1940 and in the past few years has been engaged in Flor ida and Chicago in the employe of the Delta air lines. The groom is a graduate of th class of 1935 of the Platts mouth high school and has long been an active figure in the athletic life of the community from his early school days to the present time. He- was a member of the Eagles baseball team here for a number of years, but this was stopped by his enlistment in the United THE STYLE Bags in a Spring mood . . . tup: Black faille for Easter Parade applause. Smart tiered detail. $2.98 and $4.38 bottom: Soft genuine lambskin in a pounched bag, with knotted handle. IHack or navy. $4.3C ..fc!V4: 1A "1 ..'yjr7fc. GYPSY MAGIC . . . This striped cotton swisisuit brings out that gypsy look. The softly-gathered bow-bra and the Matlelex back (a patented process of shirring v.ith Lastex thread) performs magic fcr teen figures. States army air corps where he spent three years, a part of this service being in the India Burma-China theatre of warfare. Since his return home he has been engaged in the employ ment at Offutt Field near this city. Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Naeve of Lincoln were here Sunday to visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Naeve, parents of Fred. Both Fred and wife are now en gaged with the Western Insur ance Adjustment Co., and like their work fine. A Classified Ad in the Journal costs as little as 35c. SHOP Brings this season's go-everywhere styles O finest gabardines, houndstooth checks, tweeds detailed workmanship, beautifully lined mm'; a; 111 f vt- f i w m 5 m :.v - . a. b. BIRTHS Son: Born to Mr. and Mrs. Elwin Coolman, Plattsmouth, a son, on Saturday, March 12, at St. Mary's hospital, Nebraska City. Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Brink of this city, a son, David Charles, at the St. Catherine's hospital, Omaha, on Wednesday, March 9, weight seven pounds. The grandparents are W. N. Brink of this city and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wineburner of Bellevue. Daughter: Born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wood, Union, a daughter, Satur day, March 12, at St. Mary's hos pital, Nebraska City. TWANKA CAMPFIRE The Twanka Camp Fire girls held a party March 14, at the home of Mrs. Harold Gaines from 7 to 9 o'clock. We invited Miss Meisinger and Miss Pfann who will be our new leaders. We had a short meeting, then we played games and sang our Camp Fire songs. Refreshments were served by Mary Lou Mc- j Carthy and Joan Mason. Jo- 1 ann Koubek, Scribe. Patronize Journal Advertisers. EAGLES GAMES PARTY Sponsored by Eagles Auxiliary PUBLIC INVITED EVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON At 2 P. M. 30 GAMES-50c GOOD PRIZES AWARDED You An Assortment of A p. r : k ?Z Aril Ah r -I , 1 iff S rl A ! , 1 springweight tweed coat with a collar. Blue or grey. Sizes 10-18. houndstooth check wool, gracefully flared back, to be belted or not, as you choose. Brown or blue. Sizes 10-18. $39.98 graceful gabardine in spring's loose falling coat . . . flange shoulder, stitched detailing. Grey or Navy. Sizes 12-20. $39.38 Legion Entertains Explorer Scouts On Monday evening the mem bers of the Explorer Scouts, Boy Scout Troop sponsored by the American Legion, were enter tained with their ladies at the club house south of the city. I The Legion club is closed for j activities on Monday and the j occasion was enjoyed as a danc ing party for the young people and their friends. Commander and Mrs. Leonard Brothers and Mr. and Mrs. Merle Stewart served as the chaperones of the group. 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