In the 1940s, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rinehart started a tradition of inviting mothers who would be alone on Mother’s Day to have dinner with them. In 1946, they hosted five mothers including Frank and each mother received a handkerchief and a Mother’s Day card. They carried on this tradition for at least twenty years and hosted as many as 29 mothers who would otherwise have been alone on Mother’s Day.
In 1958, they extended the invitation to other women who may not have been mothers but would be alone on that day and extended invitations to women in Bethany as well as Ridgeway. That year, they hosted 25 ladies for lunch and “Mrs. Rinehart cooked everything herself, include four kinds of pies and two kinds of cakes.” (Bethany Republican-Clipper, May 14, 1958.)
