Social teas and house parties brighten Lenoir and Gaffney
In Lenoir on June 17 the Daughters of the Confederacy hosted a lawn tea at Miss Emma Corpening’s home eight miles from town with about fifty guests. Mrs Corpening as the evening’s belle received admirers on the veranda. Jessie Earnhardt hosted Zannie Koonce in a lighted veranda gathering with games and ice cream. Wise and Otherwise Club announced Mary Henkel’s engagement to J A C Wadsworth with decorative green and white dining room arrangements and congratulatory toasts. In Gaffney, Miss Bertie Phillips hosted sixty friends for guests Vida Mauney and Julia Herndon with myralds of lights, ferns, and sweet peas, punch and ice service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenoir
Daughters of the Confederacy
Emma Cornering
China
Corpening
Prospect Heights
Jessie Farnhardt
Zannie Koonce
Chadbourne
N. C
Frances Earnhardt
The
Wise and Otherwise Club
L. P. Henkel
Gaffney
Bertie Phillips
Vida Mauney
Cherryville
Julia Herndon
Chase City
Punch
Gladys Flack
Pearl Crawley
Phillips
Winona Phifer
Maude
Cynthia McGraw
Montgomery Street
Irene Wheat
Miss Wheat
Sadie Royster
Greensboro
Marie Torrence
Gastonia
Lena Collins
Spartanburg
Lottie Kluttz
Chester
Hallie Torrence
N.C
Irene Park
Boyd L. Hames
Ethel Ross
Charlotte
Durham Docket Seethes Over Weddings and Runaway Plan
In Durham on June 17 the town focuses on Miss Louise Troy and Mr. R. C. Garrett wedding planned for June 21. The Fun Lovers Club and others shower the bride elect while chatter grows over the runaway marriage of Miss Yellie Barbee and Oliver L. Johnson as they seek license in Raleigh en route to South Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham
Louise Troy
R. C. Garrett
Fun Bovers’ Club
John C. Troy
Yellie Barbee
Oliver L. Johnson
Register
Raleigh
South Carolina
Herald
Lakewood
Elizabeth Bingham
Salisbury
W. T. Best
Rocky Mount
R. B. Owens
M. H. Jones
Evelyn Jones
Fannie Markham
Chapel Hill
Christine McIntosh
John W. Carlton
Lakewood Park
W. L. Wall
Newest F. L. Club Forms in High Point Community
In High Point North Carolina the F L Club a new social group of about a dozen young girls mostly under teens holds Friday gatherings at members homes with hostesses and a guesting contest won by Miss Bessie Tate. Upcoming events include porch parties reunions and notices of engagements and club activities through late June and summer travels for several residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
N. C
F. L. Club
A. J. Owen
Maude
Ruth Owen
Bessie Tate
Katherine Harmon
Linnie Mann
Berta Ragan
Robert Brockett
Helen Brockett
R. C. Cotton
Marjorie Cotton
Cotton
J. Ed. Kirkman
Avery
Clifton Springs
N. Y
Charles Franklin Long
Ida Alexander
Boston
Naples
Arthur Lyon
James Lyon
Asheville Weddings Start Summer in Asheville
Asheville observers report a string of weddings and social events across the city. Miss Aileen Caldwell of Memphis married Gilliland Stikeleather in Corinth Mississippi, while Miss Kate Nichols wed Wallace Davis at Liberty Street home. Rev Rodney Rush Swope united Miss Schroll and Jones Darby in All Souls Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
N. C
Aileen Caldwell
Memphis
Thomas Caldwell
F. Stikeleather
Kate Nichols
Wallace Davis
John A. Nichols
Liberty Street
Chas. W. Byrd
Central Methodist Church
Battery Park Bank
All Souls’ Church
Rodney Rush
Swope
Schroll
Quiet Cow Disposition Framed By Railway Report
A section foreman fills a report on a cow killed by a train and answers the final question with humor. The claim agent demands many details, listing plain items like train number engine and conductor. The foreman ends with the line the cow was kind and gentle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ole
Chicago Record-Herald
Leading lady signed for another season at cottage theater
The manager reveals the leading lady is signed for another season. The exchange jokes about culinary staff and theater life amid light theatrical humor. The Philadelphia Times reports on the domestic stage setting and the playful quip about love in a cottage lacking a janitor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Social Roundup in Mooresville Hosts and Visits
Miss Mary Frontis of Bridge Springs S C enjoys a party hosted by Miss Maud Lentz on Mill Street with about fifty guests. Other notes include visits, upcoming dinners and picnics in her honor and various family and lodge activities around Mooresville and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mooresville
Mary Frantis
Bridge Springs
S. C
Maud Lentz
Mill Street
Carrie Lentz
Daisy Miller
Lentz
Fitts
Jesse Deaton
Raleigh
Geo. C. Goodson
Hawthorn
Asheville
Lodge
Knights of Pythians
Man
Haw
Zeb V Lodge
Mary Williams
Zeta Caldwell
J. L. Donald
Rock Hill
Chester
B. E. Torrence
Salis
Lobriel
Joyce Jones
O. S. Bradley
Hiddenite
Mary Templeton
Davidson
Minnie Baxter
Ville
Louisa Gudger
A. W. Gude
Mattie, Davis
Gaston
W. L. Cook
Kearns
High Point
J. E Thomp
Methodist Parsonage
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Asefeerson
Pun, CT
Jefferson Standai
Wah
Raleigh, North Carolina
Company
Home Office
Jos. G. Brown, Pres
P. D. Gold
V-Pres
Gen. Mer
Chas. W. Gold
Sec
Supt. of Agencies
C. S. Alston
Charlotte, North Carolina
Tar Heel
W. H. Sherrill
Oregon
Social
C. Few
Hendersonville
S. H. Hilliard
Nettie Sloan
Dred Peacock
Clara Stanton
Mable
Catherine Tate
Randolph-Macon College
Gilbert Clark
Wilson
Burlington
Robt. Rosemond
W. G. Bradshaw
Ed. Fruze
Elizabeth
Concord
Guy Duncan
Jackson Springs
Joseph Lindsay
San Francisco
Cal
Black Mountain
John C. Schroll
Newport National Bank
Newport
Jones J. Darby
Columbia
Henrietta
Asheville Association
Asheville School For
Miss Griffin
Normal and Collegiate Institute
Kimberly
T. A. Cox
Rattlesnake Lodge
Mortimer Hancock
India
Point Breeze Cottage
Battery Park Hill
Freedlander
Rosa Lewis
Swannanoa
HE. A. Jenkins
Jere Cooke
Foreman Ole
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