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In our last few posts, we’ve been writing about Milton Loney, his first wife Edith Kennedy, and Edith’s family. Before we move on, we have one more newspaper article to share about Milton and Edith – this one from the 28 May, 1909 Walla Walla The Evening Statesman.
The article talks about a Central Christian Endeavor society event in Walla Walla and what appears to have been a friendly competition between the “Orange and Black” and the “Purple and White” divisions.
The Central Christian Endeavor society was an international, interdenominational Protestant youth organization founded in 1881 by Rev. Francis Clark, Portland, Maine, in an effort to involve more young people in his congregation. The society grew rapidly and soon spread to all of the states of the United States and many other countries as well.
The mention of “Jokes, Irish, Negro, and English” is an unfortunate sign of the times.
Listed among those present are Edith Kennedy and Milton Loney. Just a few days later (on June 3) they were together again – at Sarah Hasting’s Loney’s birthday party. Sarah was married to Milton’s cousin, Samuel Kasooth Bell Loney.