Broadway office at Portland is glad to welcome Miss Lillian Foley and Miss Florence Carlo, who have been absent several weeks on account of illness. Miss Abina Pendergast, our Broadway office supervisor, who recently underwent a serious operation, is convalescing very nicely, and we hope to have her with us soon. Miss Laura Jorgensen, supervisor at the Salem exchange, is making a tour of the Eugene district, introducing the new operating practice in connection with restricted repetition. Miss Jorgensen is renewing many old acquaintances, as a number of former Salem operators are employed in different exchanges in the district. Mrs. Mary Pyron, chief operator at Roseburg, attended the state banquet of the Business and Professional Women's Club given at the Osburn Hotel Palm Room, Eugene, on the evening of September 25 (1926). Many interesting sidelights on the national convention at Des Moines, Iowa, were given by delegates who had attended. Miss Olive Kreader, one of the pleasant and efficient attendants at the private branch exchange switchboard in the Seattle business office, has undergone a painful operation for the removal of two imbedded wisdom teeth. It will be only a matter of time until she will be able to return to her place on the switchboard. The girls of our Proctor office, Tacoma, gave two showers in honor of two recent brides. Mrs. Cuthbert Carr, nee Phipps, was given a shower at the home of Miss Zella Boyd, and Mrs. Clara West entertained in honor of Mrs. Jack Salitick, nee Demick. Miss Fae Jurstrum of Proctor office, Tacoma, recently announced her marriage. Mrs. Ida M. Marshall, our operator at Bend for the past two years, has recently resigned. She will be missed by her fellow-workers. Miss Faye Smith, our cashier and clerk at Bend, has returned to her duties after spending two weeks at Newport, Ore. W.S. Wade and C.E. Jordan, both of Portland, were recent visitors at the Bend exchange. Miss Mary Peck and Miss Loretta Varley have resigned from the operating force at Salem to enter college. Miss Peck will attend Willamette University, and Miss Varley has registered at the University of Oregon. Mrs. Ruby P. Mull, one of our local operators at Salem, has resigned and will leave within a few days for an extended visit to Kansas. Mrs. Edith L. Griffin, who is leaving to make her home in Tulips, Wash., was the honored guest at an old-fashioned taffy pull held recently in the Centralia restroom. Large baskets of flowers and ferns made a very pretty setting for the occasion. Just before serving the refreshments, the girls showered Mrs. Griffin with a host of dainty handkerchiefs. We have sometimes heard the expression that one's "eyes were as big as saucers," but we think this was hardly adequate to describe Mrs. Bernice Newbern's eyes when she returned from lunch the other day and saw a beautiful coffee urn reposing in her position at the Seattle business office p.b.x. switchboard. Mrs. Newbern was, until recently, Miss Bernice Scaggs. Mabel Taylor, recording supervisor in our Seattle long-distance office, is leaving for a three months' furlough to be spent in Southern California. Miss Amanda Daniels, night chief operator in the long-distance office, is enjoying a three weeks' vacation in Minot, N.D. Helen Ryker, Seattle long-distance operator, left Saturday for a visit to her home in Portland, Ore. John Schlarb, Jr., of the Tacoma commercial department has been transferred recently to that department at Aberdeen. Before leaving Tacoma, Mr. Schlarb and Miss Henrietta Bretz were married. The best wishes of their friends at Tacoma go with them in the establishment of their new home in Aberdeen. Frank T. Pihl will be Mr. Schlarb's successor in the business office at Tacoma. The following girls of our Kenwood office, Seattle, have recently returned from their vacations: Miss Catherine Wallace, who had a delightful trip to California; Misses Sylvia Hemmingsen spent an enjoyable vacation in the East; Miss Esther Bogstad visited Bremerton and Bellingham; Miss Mary Niles had an enjoyable vacation at Hood's Canal; Miss Agnes Willoughby enjoyed the scenery of the Olympia Peninsula, Port Angeles, and Victoria. Mrs. Birdine Fry returned from a two weeks' vacation at Mount Tacoma and reports a wonderful time, but admits she is glad to get back to the Centralia telephone office again. Miss Pauline Hurworth and Mrs. Elizabeth Ferris have also returned from a joyous vacation, which was spent camping at Lilliwaup Falls. Mrs. Ethel Anderson, central office instructor, Madison office, Tacoma, has recently returned from a vacation trip to California. Needless to say, she reports a wonderful vacation. Miss Altha Hendricks, stenographer in the manager's office at Eugene, Ore., who was maid of honor to Queen Susanna at the Trial-to-Rail celebration Eugene, has received additional honors. On September 28 (1926) Miss Hendricks was royally escorted to Salem to be a guest of honor on Derby Day at the Oregon State Fair, where she placed a wreath of flowers around the neck of the horse that won the Derby. Miss Hendricks was given this distinction by the Radiators Association of Eugene, a local booster organization.