The Ladies of the Round Table

Sign of the Kettle:
THE NAPPANEE ADVANCE NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1922
Only a week ago it was decided that Syracuse would have a Tea Room. It will be owned and managed by relatives Mesdames Zella Strieby Leacock and Irene Macy Strieby, and the room formerly occupied by the Quality Hardware Co. (on the east side of the first block of South Huntington Street – later Love Furniture Store), has been chosen for the location. It will not be open on Sunday. On Wednesday chicken dinners will be served; on other days salads, sandwiches and other-delicacies usually found in a tea room will be available. Home-made candles and baked goods will always be on sale and orders will be taken in advance lor them. The Beauty Parlor will be at the service of those who desire a manicure, with children’s hair being a specialty. Appointments will be necessary for this department. There will also be an Art Shop in connection, which will carry a full line of stamped goods. Probably the greatest feature of interest to our home people will be a Woman’s Exchange. If you make some bit of fancy work or art novelty which you think will sell, you can place it on exhibit here. And if you want a dress planned or to be taught how to make a silk lamp shade, someone will be there to help. These are just a few of the advantages open to you. Pot flowers will be carried, and orders will be taken for cut flowers. “At the Sign of the Kettle” will have its opening some-time during the last of May, the date to be “announced later.

Zella Strieby Leacock (1882-1964; buried Syracuse Cemetery)
Irene Elizabeth Macy Strieby (Shreve) (b. 1894, Converse, IN – d. 1987, W. Lafayette, IN) m. 1917, Alldean Wright Strieby Jr. (b. 1895, Syracuse – d. 1927 (aged 31), Syracuse) both buried in Syracuse Cemetery. Irene married Randolph Norris Shreve (1885 – 1975), a noted chemist who taught at Purdue University from 1947 to 1955. His wife died in 1967 and in 1968 he married Irene Macy Strieby in the Washington Cathedral in the nation’s capitol. Irene had served as his editorial assistant in connection with his book, “Chemical Process Industries.” Strieby or Norris had no children.