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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1911
Page
9
Marriage of Miss Cecile Haas and Sarfinel Irving Miller in Galveston set for eight at home 122 East Elmira Street. Infantry Post Card club meets with Mrs. Robert Whitfield at 2 30. Turner Verein hosts card party at Turner Hall at 8 30.
Miss Barnard Watts will be the guest of honor at a linen shower with games of fifty, Friday afternoon hosted by Mrs. A. Y. Walton at 115 McCullough Avenue. Guests include Mona Chapman Olive Chapman Winifred Bollon Dorothy Austin Bessie Austin and others. Also notes on club meetings with Miss Annie Lee Kerr Miss Annette Schmitt and the Shakespeare club led by Miss Jane Field Baskin.
Mr and Mrs Hal C King have returned from a three weeks visit to Mexico. The trip included sightseeing and cultural experiences.
Lieut Stanley IL James of the Twenty-eighth Infantry and Miss Imogene Welch were married on March 8 at Fort Snelling Minnesota. The wedding was delayed due to the unit's orders to San Antonio. Mrs James formerly lived in this city and was visiting her sister Mrs W S Faulkner when the ceremony occurred.
Mrs James welcomes guests to her hometown while Mr and Mrs John W Kokernot settle into Summit place. El Paso couple W W Turney arrive to visit Mr and Mrs John W Robernot during cattlemen convention. Mrs M D Ashmore hosted a green and white bridal shower for Miss Elizabeth Clyde Shannon with linen decorations and ice.
Council of Jewish Women met at the Camden street club house. George Roe spoke on The Evolution of Religion. Mrs. S. L. Borushak led a talk on Palestinian women and the International Woman's League relief efforts. Miss Beatrice Burg finished with two musical numbers The Norwegian Bridal Procession and The Shadow Dance. Hostesses were Mrs. O. Berman Mrs. McCanish and Mrs. Leo Guggenheim.
Mrs T L Conroy hosted a Mexican luncheon yesterday at 1 pm with decorations of lilies of the valley and maiden hair fern and baskets of Mexican candy. Guests included Miss Boyle Mrs William Moore of Chicago Mrs John L Bullis Miss Elizabeth Jones Miss Lydia Bullis Miss Jennie Garza Miss Anita Bullis and Miss Mattie Mooney.
The wedding of Miss Elizabeth Clyde Shannon daughter of Mrs J T Shannon and Frederick Roy Robinson will be held tomorrow evening at St Pauls Episcopal church. Only immediate families will attend.
The Home Mission society of Government Hill Methodist church meets tomorrow at 3 30 p m at 503 Carson street. Mrs EB Murphy hosts and Mrs S A Clark will lead the meeting.
The Ladies Aid society met in regular session hosted by Mrs. Griffith of 118 Harvard Avenue. Future meetings will be at her home. About thirty to forty members plan a Saturday morning car party to Thornton ranch near Fioresville for Mrs. Thornton's barbecue.
Mr and Mrs L J Kokernot of Alpine are guests of Mr and Mrs John W Kokernot at Summit Place. They will stay until after the battle men’s convention.
An advertisement highlights Pabst Engraving Co. famed Blue Ribbon Quality for engraving and printing, emphasizing craftsmanship and artistry in its products.
In New York on March 15 two prominent women clash over the harem skirt. Mrs. John Crosby predicts progressive women will shun it as vulgar and unfeminine, while Mary Garden argues it is comfortable graceful and fashionable and will be worn by slender figures, noting Paris has adopted the style.
A reader named The Woman Beautiful asks for a self addressed envelope to mail a cleansing cream recipe. Messages from Bess and Mrs G describe foot soaking with washing soda and a healing powder and a liquid rouge formula using carmine, ammonia, rosewater, and rose extract.
Mrs Jessie Sharp of Pleasant Tenn describes severe tiredness and pains from womans troubles. She cites Cardui as relieving her symptoms allowing her to rise from bed and resume housework. The ad claims Cardui helps thousands in fifty years and offers a free 64 page home treatment book from Chattanooga Medicine Co.
The text prescribes a home mixture to reduce the nose using a pomade containing one and a half ounces of oil and lanolin with potassium iodide and tincture of benzoin. It also promises a French tonic to stimulate eyebrow hair growth and darken brows, claiming it thickens brows better than ladye.
A reader is advised to include a self addressed stamped envelope to receive a recipe for a non greasy cold cream. The guidance notes that oils in creams help the complexion and that skin should be given all the oils it will consume to stay soft.
A reader declines to share the remedy's formula but offers guidance. The note says dieting and exercising are the only certain aids to reducing flesh and promises to mail the Berlin dietary for reducing flesh and exercises to reduce hips and abdomen upon receiving a self addressed stamped envelope.
Danbury tale recalls a debt dispute with Judge Whittlesey who doubted P. T. Barnum’s future wealth. Barnum promised to pay when rich, the judge quipped that would be when a sieve holds water. Years later Barnum claimed he had fixed that sieve.
Judge Phil Shook addressed two humble mothers of Alonzo Neal and Willie Schultz urging strict oversight to keep their sons out of mischief. He warned that failure to reform could send the youths to Gatesville reformatory as a deterrent to local juvenile gangs. The boys, tearful, promised work or school and obedience. A complaint was filed against Carlos Munoz for selling liquor to the youths after their vagrancy arrest.
Karnes county farmer John Wintreck arrived with hogs to sell and was robbed of a purse containing 60 dollars on Santa Rosa avenue. Two women were arrested on vagrancy charges and fined in police court. Wintreck said he and companions visited west side resorts before discovering the loss on returning to camp.
After reprimands for abusive language, John Marshall is fined $10 for contempt. He asks where to get the money. The judge jokes borrow it of a bend then offers remission, noting the state can lose as well as him.
Tom Abbott testified in police court that Annie Javier a white woman rang his saloon telephone constantly costing him 700 in trade over three months. Detective Stowe arrested her yesterday and Judge Buckley warned of heavier fines if she returns, with prior fines noted.
Col David P. Dyer, a Republican backed by Reconstruction elites, faced a Democratic rival who won the vote. While courting ex Democratic supporters, Dyer branded Democrats as liars and thieves. A veteran interjected, and Dyer retorted that serving in Congress requires unusual intelligence even if one was never elected.
Rev George Stewart as host of a planned Travis Park Methodist revival in Columbus Tennessee has fallen ill and the meeting scheduled for April 15 19 is indefinitely postponed. Pastor W A Godbey says Stewart has worn himself out by conducting several large meetings and will likely return next fall.
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