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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1912
Page
6
Judge and Mrs J O Terrell entertain an evening reception at their home 100 Summit Avenue for their thirty fifth wedding anniversary. The Travis Park Sunday School officers and teachers meet at 8 pm in church parlors. A coterie luncheon at the clubhouse features Mrs E P Jersig and Mrs Will A Morriss as hostesses.
Mrs. Eli Hertzberg hosted a matinee party at the Grand for Miss Florence Converse who is to wed next week. A seven course luncheon followed at the Mexican cafe with pink La France roses as centerpieces and heart shaped bonbon boxes as favors. Guests included Mesdames Higgins Walthall Sachs Wolff and Misses Herff Mueller and Mrs Hertzberg.
The Laurel Heights Five Hundred club meeting set for this evening at Col and Mrs Hearne’s home has been postponed until after Christmas.
Mrs E A Van Vieck and Miss Merie Shafer left yesterday after their visit, finalizing travel plans and bidding farewell to friends and hosts.
Old time health ad touts Syrup of Figs as safe gentle cleanse for stomach liver and bowels. Claims soothing effect without nausea and urges mothers to keep it handy for sick children and adults with clear printed directions on package.
Austin prepares for the noon wedding of William George Van Vieck and Miss Hazel Oatman. San Antonians in attendance include Miss Terry Marley and Hubert Loeffler.
Charles J. George, a University of Virginia student, will arrive December 21 to spend the holidays with his parents Mr and Mrs Clifton George.
Miss Lillian Hughes and Miss Lucille McKhenny will arrive December 21 from Belmont College for the holidays. They are to be guests of their relatives during the festive season.
Cavin Muse of Dallas and Miss Fanny Hunt joined in a pretty evening wedding. The bride wore white charmeuse satin with hand-embroidered panniers and princess lace, a diamond La Valliere, and a lily coronet. Rev. Hugh McClellan officiated. They left for Dallas for their future home.
Luncheon at 12 noon Saturday in the tapestry room of the St. Anthony. Tables for six to ten guests can be reserved by calling Mrs. William J. Dunne at 5690 old by Friday night. Prominent women already securing tables include Miss M Eleanor Brackenridge Miss Maria B Fenwick Mesdames Charles Florian B G Barnes E W Richardson Dwight E Potter S P Brundage Gus Giesecke and J Townsend Woodhull.
Mr and Mrs Terrell Bartlett hosted a social meeting with Mr and Mrs Willis Ranney. Pink roses and white chrysanthemums decorated the living and dining rooms. Guests included Mrs William Cassion Miss Regina Beckmann and several others with extended Marfa connections.
Miss Flossie Deutz plans a theater party tomorrow evening to view the Pink Lady at the Grand. After the play Miss Oldham will host supper at her home on Goliad street.
Mr and Mrs J W Cones announce the marriage of their cousin C B Cones to Miss Belie Dailey of Minneapolis Minn Mr Cones is well known in this city and the announcement will interest his friends here
Miss Ruth Kelso will entertain with an informal dancing party at per se the evening of December.
The meeting of the Fannin School Mothers club scheduled for tomorrow afternoon has been postponed indefinitely due to bad weather.
An informal buffet hosted last evening by Mr and Mrs Max A Krueger honored Miss Eleonor Herff and Misses Mathilda and Elfreda Krueger. Bowls of flowers and ferns adorned the rooms while coffee was served by Mrs Ernest Groos. About thirty five young people attended and dancing followed supper.
The Herff School Mothers' club will hold a regular session tomorrow afternoon at the school. T. M. Dechmann and the Rev. Judd B. Holt will present talks.
Miss Marguerite Nelson of Laredo is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Ernst at 402 East Evergreen Street.
The Ladies' Aid society of Madison Square Presbyterian plans a bazaar Saturday to be held in the Gunter hotel, inviting community members to attend and shop.
The list names numerous ladies who will serve as patronesses for the Christchurch bazaar to be held Saturday at the Travis club. It includes Mesdames Augustus H. Jones John J. Stevens Thomas H. Franklin Hugo Kaufman Leroy B. Bates H. O. Skinner C. B. Allen J. K. Beretta Harry Hyman D. K. Furnish W. E. Milligan J. Bruce Martindale Rufus Lewis David B. Combs George Walker T. W. Campbell W. C. Silliman J. Sprague A. Deutsch Perry J. Lewis Thomas Y. Campbell Edward McClannahan Charles Florian J. S. Lockwood Joseph Muir A. S. Gage J. Tom Williams L. J. Hart W. E. Fitch Winchester Kelso Sam Johnson Edward Goldstein G. W. Guinn F. L. Hill yer J. M. Burroughs Phillip Cook J. Floyd McGown J. O. Dewees J. Townsend Woodhull G. L. Pierce and Mieses Julia Katherine Hall Tommée Irvin and Louise Wasson.
The Bonham School Mothers' club meeting announced for tomorrow afternoon is postponed due to bad weather and will now be held next Wednesday afternoon. Dr Frederick Bowen of Madison Square Presbyterian Church will address the group on The Christmas Spirit.
Miss Barbara Kleas will entertain with a pink rose luncheon at 1 30 o clock tomorrow at her home on Beacon Hill.
Mrs. Ida M. Wright of Brooklyn and Mrs. J. N. Stires of Colorado Springs, after a pleasant visit to Mr. and Mrs. V. S. Stires at 2521 North Flores Street, have left for California to spend the rest of the winter. Miss Violet Oldham will accompany them.
Advertises Cascarets as a gentle overnight cleanser for stomach liver and intestines. Promotes a 10 cent box to keep liver and bowels clean and a sour taste free head by morning. Claims kids like the taste and that the product never gype or sicken.
Frances K. Garside presents Daysey Mayme and her Folks as Mrs Lysander John Appleton vents at her foolest friend about The Press. The dialogue raints on wartime headlines and ill-informed reporting with satire aimed at readers and men.
Klaw and Erlanger present The Pink Lady a major international musical comedy hit touring after a 400 performance NYC run. A 100 person company features eighteen musical numbers led by a selected orchestra. Local audiences will see the production as it appeared in New York with the Pink of Perfection chorus.
At the Plaza theater Grimm and Elliott the boys from Missouri present a lively blackface act with singing dancing and witty patter. Their aisle performance and clever costume scene thrill the crowd as Jane Courthope and company headline with Lucky Jim a western sketch. Bargain matinee Friday is expected to draw a full house.
A member of the city charter revision committee in Waco Texas plans next week to abolish the present water commission and place water plant control in the city commission with a dedicated water commissioner in charge. The current plant is run by five unsalaried citizens, but the proposal is not believed to pass.
Miss Olive DeBaugh leads The Pink Lady company at the Grand Opera House in San Antonio after rising from vaudeville in New York. A skilled violinist, she previously performed with Sousa's band and in lyceum and chautauqua circuits, and has traveled Texas for concert work. She vows not to return to vaudeville after her recent success.
The Central Congregational church is organized under Rev. Frank Dyer formerly of Chicago and will hold its first service at 11 a m next Sunday in the Elks building assembly hall on Avenue EB near the post office. The Dyer family will reside at 301 Elwood avenue.
Dialectal quip notes a husband returning with a black eye after a fight and comments that a married man should endure at home. It captures domestic conflict with a wry, gendered perspective from Life.
Patent medicine advertisement claims Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder ailments in men women and children. It promises dissolution of gravel regulates bladder troubles and offers mail order for $1 per bottle with two months treatment and testimonials from St. Louis based Dr. E. W. Hall.
Judge John H. Clark of the civil county court became violently ill on the bench this morning. County health officer Dr. D Berrey gave a full dose of strychnine to stimulate his weak heart. He was helped to his private office and rested, weather and overwork blamed, with a postponement of a related case until tomorrow.
Geronimo Escobedo insurance agent received a hundred days in city jail and a $100 fine for disturbing the peace after testimony alleged he beat his invalid wife. The arrest followed a late Tuesday night call to the home on North Flores Street. The wife, too ill to stand, testified she was struck and had to work to support the family. Witnesses included the couple’s young daughter, the wife’s father, and a neighbor. Escobedo denied the charges.
A garbled dialogue snippet references a northern visitor and a southern villager, freedom, marriage, and wartime themes. Names and clear events are unreadable, but the fragment hints at racial and social tensions surrounding family, marriage, and postwar status.
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