The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 23, 1949, Image 7
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FOR A BRIGHT AND MERRY
CHRISTMAS GO OUT TO
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Annual Costume Ball Of Camden
Cotillion Club Colorful Affair
:
The Annual Costume Ball giv
en by The Camden Cotillion Club
was danced on Saturday evening,
Dec. 17, in the Recreation Hall at
Woodward Airport, from 9 until
1 o’clock.
One hundred members and
their guests attended and were
costumed in every conceivable
outfit There were cowboys and
girls, convicts, nurses, policemen,
Spanish
chen
Fomily Gathering r
On Christmas Day
dancers and senors, Kit-
Queen and Headwaiter,
ky Colonel and His Lady,
Minuet dancers, s surgeon com
plete with bag and stork,'Klu
Klux Klanners, a Fairy Queen, a
Christmas Tree, Daniel Boone
and his fur cap, farmers, grand
ma with a bonnet and pipe, a
Puerto Rican planter resembling
Groucho Marx with his mustache
and black cigar, little boys and
girls with their sand pads and
lolly-pops, Apache dancers, Swiss
Yoddlers, Beauty Queens, one in
particular whose banner in front
said M Miss Idaho-hum,” and cm
the back “I Can Dream, Can’t I?”
The flapper age was well rep
resented with their short tight
evening gowns, long, dangling
earrings and Spit curl hair-do.
An Indian Chief and a pirate
looked fierce enough to battle,
and the grand prizes for the best
costumes ware won by Harold
McNinch, first prize, who was a
typical hill-billy in a goatee, and
‘‘com likker jug” swung over his
shoulder. Second prize by Mrs.
Ralph Little who came as a Chin-
nese lady and third prize to Bob
Kunzler for his Mae West cos
tume.
The Recreation Hall was beau
tifully decorated for the occasion
with Christmas wreaths on each
door, huge arrangements of red
gladioli on each mantel, a light
ed Christmas tree and garlands
of cedar and smilax festooned
around the wall.
Two hundred balloons were re
leased during the evening and the
finders obtaining ones paving
numbers in them were given
elaborate prizes. Thirty of these
prizes were given away during
the evening. At 11 o’clock a buf
fet supper catered by Hotel Sars-
field was served after which
dancing was resumed until 1
o’clock. Music was furnished by
Bill Bums and his orchestra.
Many of the club members had
out-of-toWn guests and a number
of small parties were given be
fore and after the dances.
Mr. and Mrs. John A Hagins
entertained with a “Drop-In’ T at
their home on Chesnut Street, be
fore the dance, and Mr. and Mrs.
James W. Stuart gave a “Coffee”
following the dance.
• a * •
BIRTH
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rabon an
nounce the birth of a son on Dec.
7. He bss been named Albert
Richard Rabon, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Gobbei
will have as their guests for din
ner on Christmas Day, the mem
bers of Mrs. Gobbel’s *
Dinner will be
from the table in the dining room,
which will be centered with poin-
r, uic IUCIU-
family.
.served buffet
te dining
sred with
Christmas Meeting
D.A.R. Chapter
Held On December 16
(By Florence Barnes)
The December meeting of the
DA..R. was held at the nome of
the Regent—Mrs. E. C. vonTresc-
kow—on Friday afternoon, De
cember 16th, the Regent presid
ing. v
. After the opening ritual the re
ports from the officers and com
mittee chairmen were read. The
treasurer, Mrs. Booker, listed her
expenditures and balance with
settias made from magnolia leaves the Tamassee Fund, the school
painted white and sprinkled with i for mountain children supported
silver. by the D.AJI. Registra, Mrs.
A lighted Christmas tree and Wall, noted nearly twenty pap-
a Nativity scene mingled with
pine, spruce and holly will com
plete the house decorations and
place will be laid on card tables
in the spacious living room for
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Barr of Flor
ence, parents of Mrs. Gobbei, Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Sumner of Harts-
ville, grandparents, and the fol
lowing uncles and aunts with
their families: Mr. and Mrs. Ern
est Van! and children, Gena,
Danny and Harry; Mr. and Mrs.
James Drennan and children,
Jimmy, David and Tommy, all of
Columbia; Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Sumner of Charlotte, N. C., and
the Misses May Delle and Edna
Barr of Greenville.
Camden District
Leads AH Others
Last January, the Capital Life
A Health Insurance Co. of Colum
bia, opened their Camden district
office.
by t
Wall,
ers out for new membership, with
the National Committee. Four
more were presented for mem
bership and voted in unanimous
ly and blanks given to them to
make out. The absent Historian,
Mrs. Gertrude Zemp, sent her re
port, on the history of the Lenon
family and their wills. Copies
of old wills are especially wanted
for D.AJL lineage files available
often from no other source.
The Recording Secretary, Mrs.
Barnes, reported her work on the
new Year Book and it was voted
to include all chapter names of
membership. Mrs. Davidson, Cor
responding secretary, told of let
ters sent to members who are ill,
and of business.
Of the committee reports, Mrs.
Montgomery was happy to state
that she had made contact with
every school in the county, as
Chairman of Junior American
Citizens, and that every school
now has its Good Citizenship
club. The Daughters of the
American Revolution especially
feature the youth contact. Its
annual Good Citizenship Award
Will Hove Family
Dinner Christmas Day
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie DeLoache
will give a family dinner on
Christmas Day fo rthe members
of Mr. DeLoache’s family here for
the holidays.
They are: Mr. and Mrs. Eu
gene DeLoache and daughters, El
liott, Nancy Gene and Lu
Baltimore, Md.; Mr. and
William G Faelten
Loache) of Hanaon, Mas*.: Mr.
and Mrs. Alan Goud (Ruthie De
Loache) and :hildrex, Alan, Jr.,
Elizabeth and Richard Blakeney
of Summerville; Mr. and Mrs.
John Fishbume (Virginia De
Loache) and children, Blakeney,
Virginia, John, Jr., and Jane
'ey of Sumter and Mr. De
le’s mother, Mrs. W. R. De
Loache, 1518 Fair street *
In naming the most progressive , . . . _
district in the state for the year here was won by IsabeUe Thomp
of 1549. Lester L. Bates, president son . ."if" ■phoql senior, which
of the Capital Life A Health Ins.
Co. recently announced that the
Camden office was awarded this
top ranking position.
The Camden district showed
greater than 50 per cent inceraes
in new policy holders and has more
than doubled the number of em
ployees.
H. D. Oreen, manager of the
Camden district has been named
the outstanding manager out of
the company's 26 districts through
out the entire state. Mr. Oreen
has stated that he feels certain
that the local office will be stye
to duplicate this accomplishment
in the coming year and sn]oy fur
ther expansion along with the
growth and progress of the City of
Camden.
Body Sumter County
Game Warden Found
The waters of Cooper River
have relinquished the body of
Perry A. Broughton, for ten years
Sumter County’s chief KSme war
den, after more than nine months.
makes her eligible to compete for
the coveted Good Pilgrimage
Award—the trip to Washington,
and the $100 government bond.
Over twenty names of the Chil
dren of the American Revolution,
now being formed under Mrs. Up
church and Hobkirk Hill Chap
ter, are recorded.
Mrs. Leslie Whitaker, speaking
of the power of music, introduc
ed Miss Dawson, who led the
singing of carols, accompanied by
Mrs. Whiting and her cello. She
said the Tamaasee Song would be
sung at the January meeting,
which is a feature the work of
this school of five hundred chil
dren dependent solely on the D.
A.R. sponsorship.
The guest of honor was Mrs.
Cheesborough, of the Mount
Pleasant Chapter, New York City,
who told of the activities of her
chapter, and praiaed. Hobkirk
Hill work highly.
Another guest was Mrs. Whit
ing's mother, Mrs. Evans Kel-
logue, of the General Francis
Marion Chapter, in Marion, In
diana,—named for our own Caro-
ina hero. She is a descendant of
Cotton Mather. Both mother and
daughter were invited to join this
chapter. Also Mias Ellie Zemp,
whose fifty years of work with
Camden’s children, made her
oubly welcome.
The meeting adjourned for the
social hour and refreshments,
ved by the hostess, and Mrs.
Wall and Mrs. Esther Mahaffey,
assisting at the tea table, dosing
on a note of Merry Christmas to
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