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Show Gold Star Mother's Tea Well Attended Here On Monday Afternoon More than 50 mothers from St. George, Washington and Santa Clara were guests Monday afternoon after-noon of the Women's Auxiliary Lester Keate Post No. 90, of the American Legion, at their annual Gold Star Mother's tea held in the reception room of the McQuarrie Memorial halL Mrs. Mae A. Pace presided at the piano and introduced intro-duced the several numbers which made up the variety program of entertainment. Following the presentation of the Colors, prayer and community singing, a patriotic tribute to mothers was given by Mrs. W. J. Reichmann; Mrs. Mamie Paxman sang two vocal solos, "The Story of Old Glory", and "Liberty Bell Rings On"; Alvin Cottam responded res-ponded with two excellent . readings, read-ings, "Victory", a serious challenge chal-lenge of the Allies in the battle for freedom, and in a light mood, "How We Sing the Star-Spangled Banner"; violin solo, "Tales of Vienna Woods", by Irene Everett; a patriotic stunt, "We're Going to Kill A Skunk", by Edith Milne, Roma Snow, Helen Sn ow and Verda Pace; a poetic tribute, "A Mother's Hand", written by Ann Woodbury Hafen and read by her sister, Mrs. Mattie W. Ruesch; and a vocal duet, "Fairy Bell", by Stephen Foster, sung in costume by Marie Pickett and Esther Judd, with Mrs. Howard Judd .accompanying. .accomp-anying. The room was artistically decorated dec-orated with blue' and white larkspurs lark-spurs and red and white sweet peas, a large bowl of these flowers flow-ers centering the serving table, at 1 which past presidents Mrs. Vivian Milne in cerise taffeta and Mrs. I A. R. Barton in tan moire taf-' taf-' feta, poured, while members of the organization served the dainty " refreshments. At the conclusion of the program, pro-gram, many of the group visited the museum exhibit on the upper floor of the building. Among these visitors was Mrs. Martha Averett, former weaver from the Washington Washing-ton factory, who was delighted with the exhibits of textiles from that one-time busy center, and the linsey and other fabrics which she had helped to fashion. |