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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1931
Page
5
The Froeds head to East Hampton Illinois where Ralph C. Froed serves as Highland Park Hotel manager. Friends note the death of Mrs Henry C Sommer in Charleston formerly of Aiken. Interment at St Thaddeus Episcopal.
The column records births including a Savannah baby girl born April 1 to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stiefel formerly of Aiken and Savannah, plus frequent visits and gatherings among families and students connected to the University of South Carolina, The Citadel, and local colleges. It notes church activities, campus news, and a dance at Titanian Hall for winter-home workers, with library additions announced.
Aiken hosts a county teachers meeting at the Aiken Institute starting at 11 o clock. Miss Julia Flisch of Augusta will address the event, with programs including music, dramatization, language through the grades, physical education, and a history for citizenship talk plus election of officers for next year.
The regular quarterly meeting of the fifth district of South Carolina of the Junior Order United American Mechanics and the Daughters of America will be held at Bath next Saturday April 11 with the Tomine.
William Sherwood of New York and Aiken died Wednesday night at his daughter's Hayne Avenue home. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church with Rev. William Johnson officiating. Interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. He leaves two daughters Mrs. George Stanton Ballard of New York City and Mrs. Turner, a son Dr. William Sherwood of New York City, and six grandchildren. His wife Annie E. Sherwood had died years before.
Announcement from Mr. and Mrs. Ila Smith of Aiken announces the engagement of their daughter Edna Pearle to John Henry Permenter of Jacksonville Florida, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Permenter of Aiken. The couple plans a wedding in the near future.
The service will occur within ten to twelve days with Rev. Jewell W. McElrath leading assisted by Rev. J. G. Huggin from St. John Methodist Church. Mrs. Victor Creed will play piano as the local choir aids with music and the Langley Methodist Church quartet assists with selections.
At St Thaddeus Church Easter election on Monday night the church chose W. W. Edgerton as senior warden W. W. Mackenfuss as junior warden and vestrymen including E A McCreary H N Senroder Robert Laird Frank P Henderson Herman Hahn Chas Hall Harry Ludlow A B Willcox J E Thorpe and J F Sofgee named to the vestry.
Friends of Mrs. P. E. Thomas of Aiken mourn the death of her brother Lawrence Thomas Campbell of Columbia who died at Aiken Hospital Friday after a two week illness. He was buried in Columbia.
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