The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 20, 1953, Page 7

Saturday, June 20, 1953 THE COLORED COMMUNITY NEWS WINIFRED SANDS JOHNSON, Editor KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 7 Leggett-Thompson Nuptials Are Celebrated Saturday One of the most beautiful wed- dings of the season took place Sat- urday, June 13 at 5 o’clock in the | evening at Newman M. E. Church when Miss Olga Leggett became the bride of Herbert Thompson. This double ring ceremony was performed by the Rev. Jackson of Daytona Beach, Florida assisted by Rev. James E. Murray of Day- tona Beach and Rev, Leroy Dell. of Key West in the church which was decorated with assorted flow- ers, ferns and candles. The bride is the daughter ‘of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Donzel Leggett, Sr., 200 Truman Avenue. The groom is the son of Mrs. Emma Thomp- son of Daytona Beach, Florida. Miss Sarah Evans, vocalist, sang “Ave Maria” and “At Dawning” with Mrs. Evelyn MeGee Robbins at the piano. The bride was escorted to the altar by her father. She: chose as her wedding attire a formal gown with a cathedral train. The gown which was of nylon tulle was made with long sleeves; the bodice which ‘was of tulle and Chantilly lace was mounted by a delicate yoke with beautiful rhinestones. Covered but- tons ran from the back neckline to the tip of the waist. The skirt which ended in an elaborate cathedral train was made up of rows and rows of petal shaped ruffles. The entire costume was worn over Skin- ner’s slipper satin. The beautiful bridal veil was worn over a coro- net of satin and rhinestones. Her only ornament was a single strand of pearls, gift of the groom, Her bridal bouquet consisted of tube roses on a satin puff with an orchid center. The. beautiful. olive- skinned bride presented a picture of true beauty. ‘ Her bridesmaids were Miss Mir- fam Davis, Miss Ernestine Adder- ly, Miss Mercedes Hannibal and Mrs. Janice Thompson Leggett. ‘These lovely ladies wore ballerina length dresses of nylon. tulle over taffeta. The waists of the dresses “were bodice shaped and the elab- orate circular skirts were covered with daisy appliques. The colors used by the bridesmaids were or- chid, aqua and maize, The lovely ladies. carried nosegays of match- ing carnations. To complete their costumes earmuffs’ of tulle and rhinestones were held in place by back head bands. The maid of honor was Miss Peggy Flowers of Haines City, Florida, college roommate of the bride. The matron of honor was Mrs. IDEAL TOGS Corner Southard Street $34 DUVAL STREET PLAY CLOTHES and SUNSUITS All the Best for Cooling Comfort ‘at ‘Usual Low Prices CHILDREN’S BEST IN KEY WEST AT IDEAL TOGS “We Fit The Hard To Fit” 510 FLEMING ST. Sale On Ail Ladies’ Dress Shoes THRU JUNE 26 Shenanigans Heydays Life Stride Buxkens FULL LINE OF MEN'S and CHILDREN’S SHOES PRICE RANGE $1.99 to $18.95 When In Miami Visit Our Store ft 90 NE. Ist St. Cornish Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church WHITEHEAD and ANGELA STREETS SUN. "OOH, 9:45 “Moo V.CE, 7 PM. Worship 11 4M. and 8 P.M. Prayer and Class Meeting Tues ay, 7:30 P.M. THE CHURCH WITH A WELCOME FOR You Rev. A. Franklin Hooper, Pastor Florence Mayes of New York City, | cousin of the bride. The junior bridesmaids. were So- jnia Faye Allen.and Bonita Dian} Allen of Ocala, cousins of the bride. | They were dressed in yellow tulle over taffeta with matching acces- | sories. The flower girls were Patricia Ann Winder and Donna Marie Leg- gett who wore orchid tulle over taffeta. These youngsters carried beautiful baskets from which they sprinkled flowers over the bridal path which was yards of muslin. Little Donna Marie is the niece of the bride. Best man for the groom was Bernard Smith of Daytona Beach, Florida, Ushers were Gilbert Leggett, St. Petersburg, Florida, cousin of the bride; Donzel Leggett, Key West, brother of the bride; Attorney Hor- ace Hill, Daytona Beach, Attorney Graves, Miami, and Mr. Hall of Daytona Beach, and Mr, Douglass, The bride’s mother wore rose net with a blue iris corsage. Her ac- cessories were navy blue. The groom’s mother wore a blue flowered nylon with a white carna- tion corsage. Her accessories were navy blue. . Miss Leggett, the bride, complet- ‘ed her high school course at Doug- lass where she had a very high scholastic record, She is now in the senior class at Bethune-Cook- man College, Daytona Beach. She will complete her college course in the summer of 1954 and then teach in the public school system of that town. Her major is elementary ed- ucation, The groom, Herbert Thompson, is the son of Mrs, Emma Thomp- son of Daytona Beach, Florida. He completed his academic training in the schools of Daytona and did college work at the University of Minnesota, He is a leading mor- tician of his city and well known in social Circles around the country, Following the ceremony, a re- ception was held at the Commun- ity Center. Friends and relatives were present to see the traditional cutting of the wedding cake on a table decorated with flowers and garden ferns, * Walnut Street, attended the affair. Daytona Beach; Mrs, D, A. |lass, Mrs, W. A. Mr. and jor. Mrs. Ss George W. Key West Garden WE SUPPLY YOUR NEEDS | Ph. 26912 — Fleming & Margaret Vogue Cleaners One - Day Service 1106 Duval Street PHONE 2.5141 205 JULIA STREET Will Always Satisfy Hat Cleaners 714 Thomas Street Key West, Fla. Hats Made and Seid PANAMAS and FELTS Blue Heaven Billiards — Bar 723 Thomas Street Newly-Wed+ i i THE BEAUTIFUL Olga Leggett , the arm of her groom, Herbert is shown leaving the church on Engram, The couple is now spending a|Mrs. J. week's honeymoon at the Lord Cal-| and Mrs, G. H. Leggett, uncle and vert Hotel in Miami, Florida, At| aunt of the bride, St. Petersburg, the expiration of this time they will| Florida, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford return to Daytona Beach. They will | Jenkins, Daytona Beach, Dr. and be at home to their friends at 3f| Mrs. H. E. Bartley, Daytona Beach Mrs. Franka Blackman, aunt of Hundreds of Key West friends|bride, New York; Mrs. Florence Mayes and: Warren Blackman, cou- Among the out of town guests | sins of bride, New York; Mrs. Flor- were Mrs. Emma Thompson, mo-|ence Crompton, aunt of bride, Oca- ther of-the groom, Daytona Beach; |la; Mrs. Antoinette Owen and Mrs. Mrs. Thelma-Hall, Daytona Beach;|La Rena Allen, cousins of the Mrs. Hiram Marshall, sister of the| bride, Ocala; Mrs. Martha Cole- groom, Daytona Beach; Mrs, A, L,| man, Ocala, Mrs. Lucille Riou and Townsend, sister of the groom,|Mrs. Alice Hawkins, Miami. Doug-| The bride and groom were the Patterson, Jr.,| recipients of many beautiful and Carol Engram, George Engram, | yseful gifts. Bernard W.| he bride’s gift to each of her attendants were pearl necklaces with matching earrings. The groom’s gift to each of his attendants was a pair of cuff links. Navy wives are giving a pre- holiday block dance at Fort Tay- lor, July 3. MEAT and GROCERIES PHONE 2.6122 3? PETRONIA STREET Phone 2-9400 Sr., Daytona Beach; A. Butterfield, Miami; Dr. | | Prelate } | Samuel H. Rolle — District Grand eit aaa M. E. Church, Saturday, June 15, ceremony performed at Newman Thompson, after the wedding | Citizen Staff, Finch. = = zZ 5 Mrs, Laverne Stallings; p ; of the Navy Wives can, oondek St. John’s Lodge Holds Grand the Navy Wives Club Convention Lodge Convention | zt Staitnes, te Negro present, learned much the various activities of the The Grand United Order of St. ; clubs, John, incorporated, held its 32 grand lodge converition at the tem- ple, Sunday, June 14 at 3 o'clock Pp. m, The sermon was delivered by Rev, James Butler who took his} text from Revelation, chapter I, the eighth verse—‘the beginning an the end.” ‘ Regular sessions were held Mon- day and Tuesday, June 15 and 16. These sessions were well attended and a spirit of purity, friendship and love prevailed. Following is a list of officers elected to serve for the ensuing year; Arnold A. Roberts Grand Master Deborah Darsette Grand Associate Matron S. W. Kelly — District Deputy Grand Master —_ Carey — Associate Ma- |last regular meeting held the elec- Victoria Greene — District Grand | pomaigrntinnimaenigpivein. ed ne. retary The following were incoln C. Wallace — District Bain Vice President — Mrs. Irene Hannibal | Secretary — Mrs. Venora Mingo Conductor | Recording Secretary — Mrs, George O. Dean — District Grand | Eliza Austin Marshall Treasurer — Mrs. Ella Albury Willie Summers — District Grand Chaplain — Mrs. Agnes Albert Inner-Guard } — } Samuel J. Bastian | Grand Counselor Owen Catlin — District Guard | AE, Kelly was the installing ficer for the occasion. Roosevelt Sands, Sr., Members Beatri zette James and V: vatafion. Mrs. G! T cour: éfs‘at Charles! Mrs. Rachel Pinkett was Chaplain of the club. She is | @ wonderful job, i | E The Navy wives welcome all | wives who are living at Fort Ta: lor. You are asked to join the ; and play an active part in all co: munity affairs, — District District ge 8 * REE Dn RE The Woman's Civic Club, at its rf : 8 4 3 |Grand Treasurer } Arthur Bamus — District Grand ti of- MAN! PEREZ — Prop. 316 Petronia Street Phone 2-9272 Values to $12.95 Appelrouth’s Shoe Center 34 DUVAL STREET Service Cenier Program In Week’s Activities Many and varied were the activi- ties. at the Service Center in the Past week. § The first event of note was “The Boys” of the month birthday party. This. event Was a grand success, Nine homemade cakes and two sheet cakes were donated for this gala affair. : The donors of cake were the U. S. Navy Wives Club, Mr. and ‘Mrs. Wallace Coleman, Miss Jean underway at 5:00 p. m. on Sunday. The program began by the rendi- tion of the Star Spangled Banner and America by the pianist, Mrs. Alemenus Dean. The audience join- ed in singing. Wallace Coleman was master of ceremonies, Rev. Waiter McLain delivered the invocation and Mrs. Marie S.. Welters introduced the speaker - Chaplain Roy A. Tyndall. Chaplain Tyndall selected for his subject “The History of the Ser- vice Center.” Here are some of the highlights of his talk: chaplains about the need of some Place for young people, service men and teenagers to go to besides a8 a5 = E ste gE A fl a i ag 2 £ Z i i a ei i z i & z & A L : F a3 : : Ft i i e ? = | i li Bs F " ‘| 2 4 : g : F ili Fs 55 r j Ey a i : i Be = j ; é § 5 i 7 ; fi i wa 5 i E i E : f z sel ni il Eg-Ee : H = ?¢ i e Fy : i E oBE fie A A $f i if wee x & tii Now $6.95 Has Varied Meeting is now held once a month instead of twice a month as at first. After the history. of the club, Father Reece installed the follow-| ing officers: Lillian Robinson, pres- | ident, Marjorie Rolle, senior vice | president, Matilda Roberts, jumior vice president, Shirley Roberts, | secretary, Doretha Pratt, treasur- er and Georgianna Clarke, histor- Georgianna Clarke read a paper! In conclusion Father Reece gave} the benediction after which re- freshments of orange sherbet, gin- ger ale punch and cake were serv- Many enlisted men attended the affair. Among the visitors were) Mrs: Agnes Albert, Miss Dorothy Evans, Mrs. Naomi Saunders and} Samuel Welters. It is to be regretted that so few) parents attended. The formal dance on Monday, | June 15, was a grand success. Music was furnished by Chip-| chase and his boys. There will be a “Pedal Pushers Dance” on July 1. Refreshments were taken to some | of the boys in the Naval Hospital on Sunday Night. Those in the} group of visitors were Marie Wel- ters, Melba Sears, Georgianna Clarke and Harry Joyes. Joyes is taking over the duties) formerly performed by Bolden who | is now a patient at the hospital. Many thanks to Mr. Dion in see- ing that we not only got one piano, | but two. It is Mr. Fred Dion of whom we speak. “Thank You” is also in order for Mr, Ramsey for his reduced rate for hauling the piano and to Mack’s Used Furniture Store for its kind consideration. Floyd Culmer ‘/Spends Vacation With Parents Airman 1-c Floyd Culmer is in the city spending a short vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Culmer of 708 Windsor Lane. Cuimer, a graduate of Douglass School class of 51 has been in the service for a period of two years, twelve months of which was spent in French Morocco, Africa. Culmer is now stationed at Craig Air Force Base, Selma, Alabama. Culmer had an opportunity to pay a visit to Douglass School while here, and give a lecture to the pupils of the ninth grade, tell- ing them of his observations in Africa. He said that conditions there are miserable. Starvation and ignorance are to be seen every- where, He told the children that they should thank God for being citizens of the greatest country on the face of the earth—America. Culmer will leave tomorrow for his station in Selma, Alabama, Oliver Butler In Fatal Plunge A most tragic death was that of Oliver Butler, age 29, who plunged to his death from a ship's mast Monday at Albury Docks, Miami Beach, when a line snapped, huri- ing him 25 feet to a deckhouse. Butler was greasing the shin's main mast, with Matthew Line,! familiarly known as Nassau, siso of Key West, whet a line support- ing a plank on wiich the men were seated suddenly snapped. Butler was a crewman aboard th two-masted sailing cable ship West- / ern Union of Key West. | Line (Nassau) managed to save! himself but Butler fell and died; Butler is survived by his father, | ¥ two sons, Henry, Jr., one sister, Evangeline Butler Car- ey, and three brothers, Vincent Butler, Lionel Butler, and William services will be conduct- Sunday at Trisity Wesleyan! Church at 3:39 p. m. W. Allen will officiate. bod; of his arnt, *t- $3 Pauline Lane, | Burial will be wm i.« ity Ceme-/ Hy rily j DHS. Alumni Cives Program | For Initiation The Alumni of Douglass School presented a program during the |commencement season. The occa- sion was the initiation of the class | Of °53 into the circle. The afiair listed on the com- mencement program as Alumni Night was somewhat misleading. to many of the commencement goers who had planned attending the pro- gram on June 2, in the auditorium of the school. The event was in the form of a Teception. Tables for the occasion were beautifully decorated. Of es- Pecial note was the table used by the graduates of~'53 which was draped with a beautiful white lin- en tablecloth and a candle holder —the full length of the table on which were twenty green and white candles representing the School colors and the ‘number of graduates. A second table in the center of the auditorium was decorated with a lace tablecloth, a large basket of Rees in the center and poin- settia blooms around the the table. a Green and white - the school colors, were used in the cake, pa- per napkins and mints with a large bowl of fruit punch to com- Plete the ‘decoration and to draw the Alumni closer to dear Alma Mater. After the rendition of a short Program, the candidates in the per- sons of Dorothy Williams, Barbara | Brantley, Barbara Lennon, Paul- ine Edwards, Valderine Saunders, Georgianna Clarke, Hortense Han- nibal, Bloneva Valdez, Shirley Ro- berts, Maria Roberts, Melba Sears, Eloise Fisher, Alice Winters, Char- les Clarke, Kenneth Carey, Alfred Saunders, Anthony Gibson, Natha- niel Ingraham, Willis Knowles and Hilton Williams, were initiated in- to the club, The final number was the serv- ing of refreshments which consist- ed of ice cream, punch and mints, All present reported having had @ most enjoyable time. Re-Enlists In Army Miss Valderine Saunders, deggh | ter of Mr. and Mrs. James {