Social events calendar with receptions and wedding details
Mrs Theodore E Mumme hosts a social evening at the St Anthony hotel ballroom in honor of the San Antonio Musical club. Mrs Henry Lee Howard offers an afternoon reception for her daughter Juani ta Hopkins. The marriage of Stanley J Winters and Florence Converse is set for 7 pm at St Mark's church. Miss Ruth Burleson hosts an afternoon card gathering at the Country club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore E. Mumme
St. Anthony Hotel
San Antonio
Henry Lee Howard
Juanita Hopkins
Stanley J. Winters
Florence Converse
St. Mark's Church
Ruth Burleson
Holiday Socials and Wedding Plans Across Town
Social notices list guests of Capt. Otho Budd and Mrs Peddicord visiting for holidays, Mrs John Bollows hosting Friday Bridge, and Miss Maude Hart wedding shower at Mrs W J Edgecombe home. Iris include Miss Meta and Mary Vick Gibson traveling to Boise to visit Judge MacLane, and an elaborate dinner for Miss Ethel Mae Schwartz and her party at Mr and Mrs Edwin H Witte. A marriage announcement for Eloise Thom son to Thomas Frost Woodhull is noted with a church ceremony in Austin and reception. Martha Fowlkes hosted a student recital with Christmas decor and a program featuring Agnes Blank Evelyn Straun and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Edgecombe
South Heights
Maude Hart
Miss Hart
B. W. Spillman
H. T. Matthews
R. T. Miller
W. J. Spillman
McKnight
Thomas Hart
John Stowe
Ritchie, Yancy, Swilley, Hudson, Wurzbach and
Spillman
Ethel Mae Schwartz
Edwin H. Witte
Miss Schwartz
Estelle Schwartz
Nell Pryor
Marguerite Belden
Sam Belden
M. Schwartz
Robert Belden Brooks
Hugh Stone
Lee R. Gardner
Thaddeus Austin Thomson
Eloise
Thomas Frost Woodhull
St. David’s Church
Austin
Martha Fowlkes
MacCutcheon
Agnes Blank
Swallow
Tennyson
Evelyn Straun
Local social events feature concerts and receptions
Guests from Chicago Miss Virginie Deal and Miss Adele Hearst arrive and will be hosted by Mrs. C. F. Miller. Mrs. Theodore E. Mumme hosts a grand musical reception at St. Anthony hotel with Verdi and Tschaikowski works and notable soloists while society attendees plan other holiday gatherings at the Incarnate Word and Protestant Orphans Home events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginie Deal
Adele Hearst
Chicago
C. F. Miller
Dwyer Avenue
Gowns In Cow Shed At Houston Wedding
Mrs Marie Dudley of New York City and Camden N J testified in a counter suit against Edward Dudley alleging desertion. She claimed she was married to him after a divorce and that his family kept her gowns in a shed with a cow. The wedding march accompanied the ceremony as Ben Straus led the wedding procession with Leon Goodman and Phillip Pfeiffer close behind. The bride wore a white charmeuse gown with duchess lace and a long train. She entered with her father Sidney Pfeiffer and was joined at the altar by Edward Dudley and his best man Dave Straus of Houston. Dr Samuel Marks read the service. The reception seated about 150 guests in the tapestry room with pink Killarney roses and candles. After a short stay in Galveston, Mr and Mrs Straus will reside at 329 West Park Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Dudley
New York City
Camden
N. J
Edward Dudley
Miet Dudley
Paris
Ben Straus
Houston
Leon Goodman
Phillip Pfeiffer
Hortense Sichel
St. Louis
Pauletta Marks
Killarney
Dave Straus
Sidney Pfeiffer
Samuel Marks
Galveston
Missionary and club meetings set for tomorrow
The Alamo Methodist church hosts a regular missionary meeting at 3 PM tomorrow with officers for the coming year to be elected. The Woman's Relief corps meets at 3 PM tomorrow at Odd Fellows hall for its regular session. Riverside Park School Mothers' club postpones its meeting until the second Friday in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alamo Methodist Church
Woman's Relief Corps
Odd Fellows Hall
Riverside Park School Mothers’ Club
Woman crosses continent to vote for husband in Oregon
Mrs George Palmer Putnam wife of Bend mayor and son of G F Putnam's Sons founder crossed the continent to cast her first vote for her husband in his bid for re election The Wellesley graduate and suffragette had planned to vote for him since woman suffrage was approved in November 5 and even skipped Thanksgiving with her family to help win the race Putnam won the election
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Bend
Ore
George Palmer Putnam
Putnam
G. F. Putnam's Sons, Publishers
New York
Binney
Sound Beach
Conn
Wellesley
Connecticut
Bride Tea for Miss Jennie Copeland’s Bridal Party
Miss Margaret Sumpf plans a dinner this evening at the Pierson avenue home of her sister Mrs. N. H. King to compliment Miss Jennie Copeland and her bridal party before next week’s wedding. King Alfonso of Spain delays summer confinement at the Escorial noting he will be there in death, not before, to keep residence choices free. A barbs on a wealthy-looking remark accompanies an era of royal tradition and wedding chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Sumpf
Jennie Copeland
N. H. King
Pierson Avenue
Alfonso
Spain
Escorial
Wool Suits at One Half Price at Washer's
At season end reliable stores cut prices in half and many women take advantage of remarkable savings to own fine Wool suits. The ad urges readers to visit Washer's to learn how to dress well on little money and join the smart shoppers.
Hats for all ages at half price this Christmas
Trimmed Hats One and Half Mothers offer hats for women and girls from teens down to younger children. The selection features the newest styles, with hats to match Christmas gowns, all offered at half price.
The Best Gifts for Men Store Feature
The best gifts for men are in the men s store with items for husband brother friend or relative. Quiet mufflers neckties silk hose wool vests robe sets traveling kits pocketbooks and leather novelties plus jewelry umbrellas hats and opera hats. Shop this week for prompt service and good assortments before the rush returns.
Evening Gowns at One by Half Sale Prices
A local dress sale features evening gowns discounted from 19.75 to 9.37 dollars and from 200 to 100 dollars. Shoppers can find a range of styles and sizes at substantial savings during this limited event.
Christmas Gift Waist Sale Introduces New Chiffon Blouses
The Waist Section features chiffon blouses in white, navy, taupe, black, soft blue, and brown priced from $4.90 for earlier waists to $8.50 to $10 for newer chiffon and silk waists. Many are accordion pleated and some are semi tailored styles in charmeuse and silk.
Boys Shop Promotes Gift and Clothing Selections
A quiet orderly third floor shop markets boys furnishings and Christmas gifts. Offerings include suits overcoats and clothes for healthy active boys, with emphasis on parents finding best value. The shop invites mothers and sons to visit and see what the holiday season offers.
Dragonfly Larva Becomes Aerial Predator In Oak Pond
A two year old artificial pond in an oak wood hosts rich life including a dragonfly larva that emerges after an epic transformation. The Journal records his dramatic metamorphosis from writhing skin to winged adult, his aerial hunts, near misses with birds, and dramatic captures of gnats and flies before fleeing from oil beetle larvae and a bumble bee threat.
Belle to Become Nun in Sacred Heart Convent
Miss Ellen Frances Ord daughter of Capt and Mrs Edward C Ord enters a novitiate at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco. A 21 year old from a prominent army family she chose the sacred vocation despite family reluctance. Her father is a retired captain and her grandfather General Ord was commandant at the Presidio in 1860.
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San Francisco
Cal
Ellen Frances Ord
Edward C. Ord
Convent of the Sacred Heart
Ord
General Ord
Presidio
Northwestern President urges coeds to bring men to campus
Chicago reports President Harris at Northwestern University chapel urging female students to recruit male peers during Thanksgiving. He says the freshman class needs more men and directs students to seek eligible young men in their hometowns and even across Illinois to enroll. The coeds respond with laughter and pledges to hunt up every stray man willing to join Northwestern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Northwestern University
Harris
Illinois
Northwestern
Admiral Jose Carlos de Carvalho Leads Amazon Expedition Plan
Jose Carlos de Carvalho, recently arrived to arrange with the University of Pennsylvania to guide a scientist expedition to the Amazon headwaters, is a Brazilian rear admiral and famed explorer. He rose to prominence in 1910 by quelling a mutiny in the Brazilian navy single handedly, confronting mutineers with the fleet’s weapons and securing needed reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jose Carlos de Carvalho
University of Pennsylvania
Amazon
Equator
Rio Janeiro
Carvalho
Paulo
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John Bollows
Goliad Street
J. B. Nations
Little Daughter
Sioux City, Iowa
Gunter Hotel
Meta
Mary Vick Gibson
Boise
Idaho
Judge
Mrs. MacLane
A. T. Felix Gouraud
L. A. Sayre
Gouraud
United
Ge A and Ioreee
Reat One Street
RED Swan Coffee
Reinhard & 4 i CO
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Birdie Coleman
Mark Twain
Elizabeth Taliaferro
Seven
Wordsworth
Lucile Rives
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Captain January
Laura E. Richards
Bernice Duggan
Cook
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Anon
Annie Rose Scott
St. Anthony
Tschaikowski
Emmett Roundtree
Edward Goldstein
Steinfeldt
John M. Steinfeldt
Oscar Fox
Ilo Fuller
Ida Shiner
Florence Nicholson
Jean Aubrey
Henry M. Aubrey
Mesdames W. S. Fly
James Hall Bell
Robert Maxey
William Aubrey
Edward H. Everett
Henry P. Drought
William Moore White
Dan Allensworth
D. K. Furnish
Ruth Lipscomb
Dorothy Cherry
Eleanor Herff
Marjorie McGown
W. Co. Silliman
Ruth Kelso
College and Academy of the Incarnate Word
St. Cecilia's Auditorium
Alamo Heights
Rev
J. W. Shaw
West End
S. T. Mitchell
South Hackberry Street
Twentieth Century Study Club
D. E. Hirschfield
Waco
W. W. Lang
Mas William Street
Bessie Yoakum
Henrietta Kleberg
Minerva King
Kingsville
Eugene Straus
Ethel Pfeiffer
Union Meat Company
Beef and Pork Packers
Union Stock Yards
San Antonio, Texas
Cinderella
Alamo Plaza
U. 8
Charleston News and Courier
China
Copenhagen
Margaret
the Light's Daily Story
Dragon OF the Pool
Belle
Tomers
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White Furniture Palace Cor
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