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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1925
Page
12
Readers are invited to send social news items by postal card or phone. Include details of visiting friends, departures, homecomings, and other social items. Sign name and address. The department will appreciate these society updates.
The Times Society Editor will receive items between 8:30 and 12 M and 2:30 to 5 P.M. daily except Sunday. Phone 136.
A literary poem about red earth and gold waters frames a local page of social events. Mrs H S Agle and Mrs F J Brownell host a sewing and bridge club at the Country Club. Mrs Irl Summerlin visits from Chapel Hill with friends in town. The Kingsport Cotillion Club hosts a swimming party at Rotherwood tonight. Boy Scouts of Troop 1 meet at the Y for a hike and wienie roast. A motor trip party travels to Hampton Springs and Roan Mountain with guests from Roanoke and Johnson City visiting the Inn.
(From Mme Lisbeth) A striking black and white cape suit with accordion pleated skirt in black crepe and white bands appears practical for travel. A flannel cape with plaid center and black border accompanies, while mauve shades in London collections show braided bindings and collared wool capes. Jumper frocks with straight lines and long sleeves mirror the pleated skirt. London houses push cape effects for sports attire and new knitting treatments promise autumn novelties with smaller patterns and subdued colorings.
Dorothy Sebastian gains attention as the scapegrace sister in Sackcloth and Scarlet and lands important roles in Winds of Chance and Joseph Greer and His Daughter. Sally ONeill, Betty Bronson, and Glora Lawns on figure in upcoming films while industry plans shift for Barrie, Warner Bros., and Paramount projects. Local readers hear travel news and family updates from Johnson City to Hastings, with wedding and mission-field farewells among the society items.
The growing interest in golf boosts the four piece suit as a versatile wardrobe for the man about town. Conservatism marks the style with tweeds and finishes favoring Glenurquhart plaids while Kilravocks and Dunmerlin tweeds suit sportswear. Mary Myrtle Meredith Huffman wedding set for June first in Elizabethton with a Newport home. A. E. Meredith announces the marriage of their daughter to P. W. Huffman of Newport.
Bellingham, Wash. Major Frederick L. Martin, commander of the United States Army world flight last year, narrowly escaped death when his plane, the Seattle, crashed on the Alaska peninsula in May 1924. Officials and witnesses described the peril and the narrow margin that saved him from catastrophe.
Robert West, watchman for a fishing company, returns with pilots Major Martin and Sergeant Alva L. Harvey’s personal effects. He notes the plane wreck occurred on a sharp peak, 1,600 feet above sea level, surrounded by 4,000 to 6,000 foot mountains.
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