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THE CORAL GABLES RIVIERA

FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1942 - THE CORAL GABLES RIVIERA - PAGE 3

Miss Murdock, Hugh McGough Are Wed

Miss Margaret Edith Murdock became the bride of Hugh McGough at 6 p. m. last night in a simple ceremony at the Methodist Church. The Rev. Carlock Hawk officiated. For her wedding Mrs. McGough wore a heaven blue silk jersey dress with matching off-the-face felt hat and short veil. Accessories were in a matching shade and she wore an orchid and lillies of the valley corsage. The bride is a native of Rutherford, N. J., and a graduate of the Packard Secretarial School of New York. She has been the guest of Mrs. Franklin Brooks, 642 Velarde Avenue since her arrival. Mr. McGough is an officer in the police department Coral Gables. After a short wedding trip to Lilly, Ga., Mr. McGough's home, the young couple will reside in Coral Gables.

Mrs. Shikany Heads P.-T. A. At St. Theresa's

Father Thomas Comber was guest speaker at the regular monthly meeting of St. Theresa's Parent-Teacher Association held Monday in the Music Room of the school. Annual election of officers was held with Mrs. S. A. Shikany elected to serve as president; first vice president, Mrs. B. C. La Pointe; second vice president, Mrs. D. J. Heffernan; secretary, Mrs. C. H. Trotter; Treasurer, Mrs. C. V. Cross; historian, Mrs. James A. Bennett; Parliamentarian, Mrs. George R. Veeder. Elementary School children presented a program with the following pupils taking part: Jean Tierney, Peggy Cranston, Betty Brown, Mary Ann Trotter, Mathilda Lomaistro, Joan McQuaide, Irene Roethel, Dolores McEnany, Nancy Turcott, Joan Eckert, Grace Charron, Florence Foesy, Jean Meacher, Craita Carballo, Anne McVeany and William McCrick. The School Band, under the direction of E. A. List played.

BEMBERG SHEERS STYLED BY Lynbrook

$7.95 Also VOILES and other sheer fabrics 650 to 950 NEW Slips and Gowns of Crepe or Cotton 159 195 295 Mother's Day Cards 5c to 25c DANIELS Opposite Gables Theatre

Gablesgrams

BY HELEN REYNOLDS "A streamlined board" to direct the affairs of the Coral Gables Woman's Club next year is the aim of the incoming president, Mrs. Evan D. Roser, who will be installed Monday as the twelfth president of one of the Gables most important clubs. She is no newcomer to the presidency. From 1939 to 1941 she was club president. In 1935 she was elected president of the Coral Gables Garden Club, a job she held until 1937. This year she is rounding out her first term as first vice-president of the Dade County Federation of Women's Clubs, in which she served also as Defense chairman and Garden leader, and for many years church soloist, the new president will bring to her members a wealth of valuable experience. Saying farewell today is Mrs. Charles J. Susong, retiring president of the Woman's Club, whose large tea this afternoon honors her retiring board. As first director of the club, Mrs. Susong hopes she'll find more time to devote to her beloved Red Cross work and to her family. Last year when war demands necessitated the opening of a surgical dressing unit of the Red Cross in Coral Gables, Mrs. Susong took on the responsibility of the chairmanship of that unit, a post she held faithfully through the hot summer days and for eight long months. Mrs. Susong's Red Cross days date back to her club days in Chattanooga. There she was also a member of the Tennessee Pen Women's Club. Her thoughts turn these days to her son, Charles, Jr., an army air pilot stationed at Bradley Field, Texas, and to Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Colville (Betty Susong) and their two young children, Douglas and Susan, in far away California. * * * Shaping the destinies of the Junior Department of the club next year will be Mrs. W. O. Mehrtens, who will also be installed at Monday's May breakfast. Mrs. Mehrtens will return tomorrow from Fort Worth, Texas, where she is representing all the juniors of the State of Florida at the General Federation of Women's Clubs in session there. This is the second time Mrs. Mehrtens has been chosen delegate to the general federation. Last year, as delegate, she was invited to ride upon the Florida float at Atlantic City. As head of this energetic group of young matrons, Mrs. Mehrtens brings proper preparations. She has served as corresponding secretary of her club, cabaret chairman (last year), and was named chairman of defense registrations for all club women in Dade County by Mrs. Sidney Weintraub, state chairman and president of Dade Federation, when that Herculean task was attempted last year. * * * It will be a real farewell for Mrs. Dana McLendon, retiring president of the Juniors. The McLendons are leaving bag and baggage for Georgia, where Mr. McLendon has been appointed principal of the senior high school at Albany. Mrs. McLendon, who will spend the summer with her mother in Beaufort, Ga., says leaving Coral Gables is no easy task, and after three years she finds the roots of friendship deeper than she thought. Mrs. McLendon took presidency of the club with war clouds hovering - swung it through to a very successful closing, with the annual cabaret playing to standing room only Saturday night, and, most important, netting the club a tidy sum for their very worthwhile welfare project. * * * Easter lilies and yellow roses were combined in pretty decorations for the bridge tea and linen shower Mrs. Richard B. Roberts, Jr., gave Wednesday for her future daughter-in-law, Miss Rosemary Hartnett, whose engagement to Richard B. Roberts 3d was recently announced. * * * Mrs. James Macfarlane is entertaining twelve for luncheon and bridge today at her home, 1709 Granada Boulevard, and invitations were in the mail this week for an at-home on the tenth at Lieutenant-Commander and Mrs. Lewis Painter Clephane's, 2301 Columbus Boulevard. * * * Miss Adelaide Mayhew, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Howard Mayhew, 1212 South Greenway Drive, has named May 29th as the date of her marriage to David C. Prillaman of Atlanta. Miss Barbarajane Mayhew, her sister and freshman at Duke University, will be the only attendant. Miss Mayhew is a graduate of Duke University. The wedding will take place in the Mayhew residence and will culminate a college romance begun when both Miss Mayhew and Mr. Prillaman were students at Duke University.

ANNOUNCEMENT Boys Camp - Cedar Mountain, N. C.

Y. M. C. A. SUPERVISION - $14 WEEKLY Season June 22nd to August 16th MRS. JOHN GAJSLAY, Jr., Representative Write Box 542 Coral Gables Phone 4-2490 Evenings

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST

LeJeune Road and Avenue Andalusia Sunday Morning Service, 11:00 - Sunday Evening Service 8:00 Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. - Wednesday Evening Meeting at 8:00 Free Christian Science Reading Room, 144 Avenue Aragon Open Daily Except Sunday 12 to 5 - Monday and Thursday Evenings, 7:00 to 9:00

Miss 'Rosadora' Will Preside At Doll and Toy Tea Tomorrow

"She's 80 years old and made of wax, but she's just as good as the day she was born." Thus spoke Mrs. Lillian Lamar Giddings, president of the Miami Branch of the National Doll and Toy Collector's Club. Mrs. Giddings was speaking of "Rosadora," her prize doll in her collection of 52. The Miami Branch, of which Mrs. J. Fritz Gordon, of 1706 Country Club Prado, is vice-president, is having a doll exhibition and silver tea tomorrow afternoon and Sunday afternoon from 3 to 6 at Mrs. Gordon's home. Proceeds from these two events will benefit the Service Men's Club and Russian and Chinese Relief. The club, organized 3 years ago, has 18 members and includes an 8-year-old girl. The club meets once a month at the homes of various members and each member brings one of the dolls in her collection and tells the history of the doll. Continuing about "Rosadora" Mrs. Giddings says the doll was a gift from Mrs. Ida Lamourax of Manilus, N. Y., and came to her through a fan letter written to the New Yorker, who is an avid doll collector, some years ago. Rosadora was dressed as a bride, complete with corset, long pantalettes, and the like, in the style of the 80s, when she arrived. She is American born and is still in her natural state, with real leather arms, hands, and fingers; body stuffed with sawdust. Her eyes have been replaced but once. Another guest at the doll and toy tea will be the Kewpie Doll, the original carried by Rose O'Neal, its creator, and now owned by Miss Dolly Gamble. Miss O'Neal, whose kewpies decorated many an advertisement a few years ago, carried this particular doll all over the world with her in a suitcase. In addition to the hobby of collecting dolls, the club makes tiny toys called pocket toys of calico. More than 4,000 of these pocket toys, which include animal dolls, have been sent to England in the last few years during the war.

Junior Woman's Club Hears Splendid Reports at Final Meet

Winding up official business and hearing reports from the chairman for the year constituted the business of the last meeting of the Junior Woman's Club Monday at the clubhouse. Most gratifying was the report of Mrs. H. G. Lesley, welfare chairman. Mrs. Joseph T. Cox, chairman of the dental clinic, reported accomplishments of this vital committee were long and full. During the year the dental clinic served five schools, including Ponce de Leon High School, Coral Gables Elementary, St. Theresa's, Merrick Demonstration and the Coconuts Grove Elementary. A total of 336 sittings were made, 104 extractions, 53 treatments, 56 orthedomia and 10 prophylactics. The cost was $738.92. The club also expended $722.57 for other miscellaneous welfare. Six rooms of students at the Gables Elementary were given a 100 per cent rating for dental hygiene. Mrs. Lois Thomas, chairman of the eye clinic, reported 1,000 children's eyes were examined by the portable machine during the year. Mrs. S. Hill Gordon gave a detailed report of the Florida Federation meeting held recently in Jacksonville.

Mrs. Susong Is Hostess

Bright May Day flowers will feature the decoration at the tea with which Mrs. Charles J. Susong, retiring president of the Coral Gables Woman's Club, will honor her executive board this afternoon, from 3 to 6 at her home, 931 University Drive. In the receiving line with Mrs. Susong will be her mother, Mrs. Tillie Davenport; Mrs. C. C. Lee, Mrs. W. Dickie Oglesby, Mrs. Evan D. Roser, Mrs. George M. Corrigan and Mrs. Malcolm McDonald. Mrs. R. E. Bronson, Mrs. Ross Beckstrom, Mrs. William Hiles and Mrs. C. B. Certain will preside at the tea table, while Miss Betty Batcheller will assist Mrs. Susong's daughter, Jeanne, at the punch bowl.

Mrs. Skinner To Attend Conferences

Mrs. John L. Skinner, 3211 Anderson Road, president of the Miami Junior League, and Mrs. George Dane, welfare chairman of the branch, left Sunday for Kansas City, Mo., where they will attend the twenty-second annual conferences of the Junior Leagues of America. A unified plan, whereby leagues throughout the country may best serve their communities will be studied and election of officers will constitute the program. Prior to her election as president, Mrs. Skinner served as finance chairman

DELEGATES CHOSEN

Delegates from the Lindley De Garmo Post, American Legion Auxiliary, to the State meet to be held in Orlando, May 6-9, include Mrs. L. M. Duncan, Mrs. W. E. Burkins, Mrs. Carter Dillingham and Mrs. L. M. Stoutenburg.

C. W. PETERS FOR STATE LEGISLATURE

I Am Committed to the Protection of Our Schools I Am for the Protection of Property Owners From the Ravages of the Tax Shark Old Age Pensions Must Be Maintained (Paid Political Advertisement)

Re-Elect A CORAL GABLES MAN MARSHALL C. WISEHEART

1407 Lisbon Street Candidate for Re-election LEGISLATIVE GROUP NO. 2 Experienced Representation for Dade County Your Vote and Support Will Be Appreciated (Paid Political Adv.)

HUGH (Pat) PETERS FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER

DISTRICT No. 2 Subject to Democratic Primary in May Knows the County's Needs QUALIFIED BY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AS COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF DISTRICT NO. 2 A Full-Time Commissioner (Paid Political Adv.)

Elect a CORAL GABLES MAN Eugene B. HUNTER TO THE SCHOOL BOARD

(District No. 3) Insure the Best Educational Facilities for Your Children (Paid Political Adv.)

Frances Beauty Salon Represented in Show

Through error, the name of Frances Beauty Salon was omitted from the list of beauty shops who participated in the Kiwanis Style show last Friday night. Frances Roozen, proprietor, not only designed many of the models' coiffures but took an active part in the planning and staging

Barney COHEN CANDIDATE CONGRESSMAN- AT-LARGE

Barney COHEN CANDIDATE CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE Subject to Democratic Primary Your Vote and Support Will Be Graciously Appreciated (Paid Political Adv.)

HARRY LETAW Announces A New Policy

I have again taken over the operation of my own business at 219 Coral Way, featuring every-day CUT-RATE PRICES.-FREE DELIVERY SERVICE. HARRY LETAW, Drugs FORMERLY GABLES APOTHECARY 219 Coral Way Phone 4-6444

For Mother's Day . . .

Attractively framed Mother's Day mottoes - something that will be remembered the year round. 29c to $1.00 Beautiful Dress Flowers Well Made - Long Lasting 29c ea Boxed Chocolates Attractively Packed for MOTHER'S DAY 1 Lb. 29c :: JEWELRY TO DELIGHT THE HEART OF EVERY MOTHER :: 59c to $1.00 All Satin & Crepe Slips 98c All Silk - Full-Fashioned Hosiery $1.15 Pr. F. N. HOLLEY'S 5 & 10c STORES 217 CORAL WAY 2136 PONCE DE LEON BLVD. Home Owned and Operated

JAMES FRANCIS (FRITZ) GORDON AND FAMILY RESIDENTS OF CORAL GABLES

Ask for Your vote, support and confidence in this race for an important post in the State Legislature GROUP No. 1 Experience and ability are important in this position (Paid Political Adv. by Friends of James Francis (Fritz) Gordon)

Annual Sale Continues OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF Air Step Shoes for Women

NATIONALLY ADVERTISED AT $6.50 $3.95 to $5.50 HUNDREDS OF PLAY SHOES In a rainbow of colors and styles. Rubber soles or leather soles $1.98 and $2.45 Most Styles Roblee SHOES FOR MEN $5.00 and $5.85 Most Styles BUSTER BROWN SHOES For Boys and Girls of All Ages $2.95 & $3.95 Most Styles Also Inexpensive Play hoes and Keds The Bootery 248 Coral Way "Your Family Shoe Store"