Society Calendar Notes From San Antonio Area Events
Friday events include the San Antonio Musical Club seating at Camp Houston and a Red Cross entertain ment at Fort Sam Houston base hospital. Saturday features an Alamo chapter of the fighters of the American Revolution meeting at 9 30 a m at Mrs Harry Hyman's home. Also a marriage solemnized at 3 p m Thursday between Lieut Norman W Meek and Miss Olive Savage. Lieutenant Peek to Bellville for aviation camp. Mrs Peek daughter of Arthur W Savage, Sav age rifle inventor. Catholic Woman's Association hosts Camp Funston men night with films and dancing. Landa hosts a New Braunfels swimming party for Adelaide Campbell and Alice Partee with various guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alamo
Fighters of the
Regent
Harry Hyman
West Eapetia Avenue
Norman W. Meek
Oshkosh
Wis
Groom
George F. Stuemke
Peek
Bellville
Arthur W. Savage
Savage
Savage Arms Company
Utica
Henry Dickman
Clara Wynne
Catholic Woman's Association
Camp Funston
Association
France
Harry Landa
Landa's Park
New Braunfels
Adelaide Campbell
Alice Partee
Misses Campbell
Partee
Eleanor Barclay
Constance Ball
Marjorie Metcalfe
Laura Winstead
Houston
Stella Cook
Lucy Proctor
Hester Foster
Waco
Hiram Partee
Roy Campbell
H. 5. Mulliken
Wilders
Winn
Collins
Picnic Dance Follows Swim for Visitors and Locals
After a swim, guests enjoyed a picnic supper and dancing in the pavilion. Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Dobbs host a lawn and dance party honoring Miss Bonner Means of Houston and several guests, including Miss Ada Johnson of St Louis, Miss Margaret Cantwell of Utica, Miss Sarah Kleberg of Kingsville, and Miss Aurelia Wood with guest Miss Bama Adams of Hearne.
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T. D. Dobbs
Hutchins
Bonner Means
Houston
Birdie Elizabeth Coleman
Ada Johnson
St. Louis
Margaret Cantwell
Utica
N. Y
Sarah Kleberg
Kingsville
Aurelia Wood
Bama Adams
Hearne
Mrs Keene and Companions Go to Corpus Christi Vacation
Mrs. George Keene and her children travel with Miss Elizabeth Petty of Shelbyville Kentucky to Corpus Christi. They have rented a cottage for the remainder of the summer, enjoying seaside respite in Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Keene
Elizabeth ‘Petty
Shelbyville, Ky
Corpus Christi
Fort Worth social guests travel to Syracuse wedding
Mr and Mrs J C Thomas and son of Falfurrias visit Mr and Mrs Charles Collins in Fort Worth. Mrs Alonzo D Gray and Miss Olive Gray depart with Major and Mrs Sterling Price Adams for Syracuse to attend the marriage of Miss Gray to Lieut John A Street. The Grays will stay with Lt and Mrs Roscoe B Woodruff. Mrs Woodruff is known as Miss Alice Gray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Thomas
Falfurrias
Charles Collins
Mast Euclid Avenue
Alonzo D. Gray
Olive Gray
Colonel Gray
Fort McIntosh
Sterling Price Adams
Syracuse
N. Y
Miss Gray
John A. Street
Ninth Infantry
U. S
Gray
Roscoe B. Woodruff
Woodruff
Alice Gray
Fort Sam Houston
Social visit note from Mineral Wells guests Fort Sam Houston
Miss Edythe Clark of Mineral Wells visits Miss Bonnibel Stowers at the Stowers ranch and is the guest of Miss Laura Virginia Adams of Fort Sam Houston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edythe Clark
Mineral Wells
Bonnibel Stowers
Stowers Ranch
Laura Virginia Adams
Fort Sam Houston
Trained Women Urged to Enlist for Civil Service Work
Washington July 20. Facing rising needs of government offices for stenographers typists and clerks the woman's committee of the Defense Council will enroll trained women for civil service and is appealing to state councils to assist in recruiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Civil Service
Woman's Committee of the
Defense Council
Thieves Weigh Down North Dakota Church Bell Theft
A 1600 pound bell at the Christian Church in Davenport is lowered to a stolen auto trailer, then abandoned after the trailer collapses. The culprits try to smelt the bell with a fire but the bell remains undamaged, later returned to the belfry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fargo
N. D
Christian Church
Davenport
Plum Crop Heaviness Shown In San Antonio Yards
Will Heyne of 218 McKinley Avenue presented an exhibit to The Light Office showing a five year old plum branch laden with 51 Japanese plums. He reported gathering six large water buckets of plums from his two trees with no obvious impact on the crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Will Heyne
McKinley Avenue
Specials at Nichols Gro Co offers low grocery prices
Money saving ad for Nichols Gro Co promotes Saturday specials with 13 pounds sugar for $1.00 and 14 pounds for $1.00 with coffee or tea purchase. It lists ham, bacon, peas, salmon, peaches and other items at low prices and urges cash payments with price reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nichols Gro. Co
Ave
C. Ph. Cr
Quote from Farmers Corntassel on firearms and work
A farmer notes that every man should know about firearms but should not neglect other duties. He says he took his son Josh’s shotgun and sent him to hoe the field. The exchange underscores practical training and farm labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmer Corntassel
Josh
Washington Tar
Last Log Drives End on Menominee River in Wisconsin
The Menominee river logging era ends after more than fifty years. The 12,000,000 feet drive marks the smallest year in the boom company’s history as remaining mills shift to rail timber and pulpwood. Since 1868 the river supplied vast timber, with totals peaking near 642 million feet in 1889 and declining to about 39 feet per log last year.
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Menominee
Menominee River
Their Married Life Ends With a Lighthearted Prank
A Chicago couple spends an evening at home after Warren teases Helen by pretending to go out. She hides a note and follows, but he reveals the ruse by calling a friend from home, then returns with cherries and a lifted spirits. The moment exposes their playful marital dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Helen
Warren
Government seeks fire insurance for cantonment wooden buildings
The United States government is attempting to obtain fire insurance on the wooden structures at the sixteen cantonments to be occupied by troops drafted in the selective service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
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Sociad Calendar
San Antonio Usical Club
Campuston
Entertainment Committee of
Red C
Jewelry
Hertzberg
National Toilet Company
Paris
Tenn
San Antonian
Berlin
Germany
Russia
Wilhelm
Nicholas
Boston
Vorwaerts
Wilson
William Winter Luther
Digest
Literary Digest
All News-dealers
Lil
Warren Curtis
Pabst Engraving
Texas
Tae
Elgin and Waltham Wrist Watches
Thermos
Waterman’s
The
Bell Jewelry Co
West Commerce Street
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