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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1911
Page
9
Miss Lucy Maverick hosted a buffet luncheon at 1 p.m. at the Country Club in honor of Miss Susan Blocker. Mrs. James Hall Bell gave a luncheon for Mrs. Brook-Payne at 1 30 p.m. at the St Anthony. Mrs. Roy Campbell hosted the Thursday Morning Bridge Club at 10 a.m.
Social season in San Antonio centers on carnival week with theater parties and coronation dances honoring duchesses and guests. Plans include the Eighteenth Century Fete with the French Pavanne as coronation feature, decorated boxes, and extensive committees for boxes, decorations, and entertainments.
The Country club veranda hosted an afternoon buffet luncheon as a bridal compliment to Miss Susan Blocker with Miss Lucy Maverick as hostess. Guests wore bright summer frocks in pink and white, chatting in merry groups as the hostess toasted the bride with a silver loving cup.
Mrs Ma e Martyn offers greaseless cream jelly from almoroin a pennywise diy facial to shrink pores and soften skin and treats for eyes hair scalp and complexion using simple tonics and delatone spurmax quinzain kardene plus home shampoos and face powders cautioning against soap and powder for a natural glow
A reader shares a weight loss method using four ounces of parnotis in hot water, strained and taken before meals, claiming harmless results and firmer skin. The note also promotes crystal eye tonic for bright eyes and recommends Mrs Martyns Book Beauty available from druggists.
bachelor Jimmy Hazen Hyde, famed for lavish entertainments funded by his late father’s Equitable Life legacy, is captured and set to marry divorcee Mrs. Sidney J. Smith. Read of salons at Sherrys and meals costing tens of thousands plus a Parisian whisker trim regimen.
The Willard W C T U held a gathering at Mrs. James Ferries home on Cincinnati avenue. Two vice presidents were elected along with department superintendents. Officers include President Mrs George A Brady and Vice President at large Mrs W A McDowell. The union plans larger activity with twelve active and two honorary members and will meet again next Wednesday at 3 PM with Mrs Lakin.
The Rathskeller in San Antonio offers all day service from noon to midnight with quick deli options and short orders. Elite Cafe branding appears in nearby listings.
Silas Skull Lula Mills and Charles McGrew are critically ill after eating meat laced with poison at 604 Labor Street. Eliza McGrew and Mary Jones are jailed as police prepare assault with intent to murder charges.
Elizabeth Brown, once Washington's daughter, after five years of toil, returns to mining to reclaim her late father David Wolf Brown's fortune. In Redcliff near Leadville she tunnels the mountain with fluctuating labor, finally uncovering a rich bismuth vein, signaling wealth and leisure ahead.
Miss Brown reports a 300 foot deep underground claim with rich minerals. She notes men doubted a woman could win but she now has a mine of great potential as bismuth and gold and silver are mentioned with Edison needing the mineral in large quantities.
One hundred Houston businessmen arrive in San Antonio at 3 15 pm for a four day trade extension trip reaching as far as Brownsville. They travel on a special San Antonio and Aransas Pass line train with a band car and private car. A Chamber committee led by Jake Wolf and John B. Carrington welcomes them and plans limited entertainment. The group tours the city and meets local business leaders before returning to Houston via the Katy line, stopping at several towns.
John Campbell of Campbellton Atascosa county long time resident and famed elder statesman fell seriously ill in San Antonio while meeting with George W. West about the Brownsville road. His condition later improved. He is 78 and has lived in Atascosa since 1855. His sons Jourdon W. J. Edward and daughters Annie Sallie and Mrs. Burke joined family in response to messages.
James Brady and Miss Birdie Spurrier were married at six last evening at Rev. R F Stocks home. The witnesses were the pastor's wife and Miss Pauline Johns. The Brady couple will reside in San Antonio.
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