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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Nov 26, 1916

Page

27

Society Notes Highlight Thanksgiving Week Gatherings

Readable excerpts detail social events around Thanksgiving including multiple house parties at the Menger and Gunter hotels, luncheons honoring Miss Victoria Herff and Miss Alice Frazier, and dinners with guests from Baltimore, Austin, and Houston. Attendees include Elizabeth Bollinger, Constance Ball, Margaret Chambers, and others. engagements and upcoming weddings are noted, with plans for teas, merienda, and charitable entertainments.

Elizabeth Bollinger Victoria Herff Constance Ball Henry Erkel Houston George Ward Olive Erkel Rice Institute Zoie Nesbit Menger Bailey Alice Frazier Wichita Falls Margaret Chambers

Mrs Enck Hosts Kitchen Shower for Bride to Be Rauber

Mrs. Gus Enck entertained Thursday evening with a kitchen shower honoring her sister Miss Lillian Rauber, a bride of the week. Delicious refreshments were served to a group of guests including Misses Frick Scheer Colman Ludwig Schneider Hammel Michon Keller Meyer Rauber Schneider Schutte Neutze and Pearl Enck, and Mesdames Filler Rauber and the hostess.

Mrs. Enck Gus Enck Lillian Rauber Alvina Laura Frick Alma _ Scheer Gladys Colman Wilma Ludwig Lottie Schneider Della Hammel Blanche Michon Annie Keller Alma Meyer Frances Schneider Rika Schutte Mary Schutte Elizabeth Neutze Pearl Enck Mesdames H. W. Filler A. Rauber

Little white lily and morning verses

A mixed teacher’s reader item featuring two poems by George MacDonald Celia Thaxter and Celia Thaxter excerpts. The verses describe lilies, weather, dawn birds, and cautionary pieces about goblins and orphans with old-time schoolroom language.

White Ly White Lily George Macdonald

Dutch Lullaby Little Orphant Annie In Third Grade

A brief excerpt shows Little Orphant Annie at a family home performing chores and tending children at the hearth. The verses mention witch tales about a boy who would not say his prayers and disappeared when the covers were turned down.

Annie

Wynken Blynken and Nod Sail Into Moonlit Sea

The poem tells Wynken Blynken and Nod sailing in a wooden shoe over a sea of dew on a misty night. The old moon asks their wish as stars become herring fish and they cast nets to catch them before returning home in the wooden shoe.

S&s SF Highland Park Mothers’ Club Mesdames Kelsey Kahn Comstock Mardick Kobey Pulliam Eva Comstock Lena Budd Powers Lucy Powers Helen Zweig Elizabeth Rollins Courier Helen Gordon Pauline Feller C. B. Watters Ira Mae Oglesby Idella Adelman Ruth Matlock Wynken Blynken Ned Nod

Engaged Daughter Announces Wedding Plans for Lillian Rauber

Mrs. A. Rauber announces her daughter Lillian Rauber's engagement to Otto Scherr. The wedding is set for Wednesday, November 29.

The Landing of the Pilgrims Poem Fragment

A fragment from a poem depicts pilgrims arriving on a stormy New England shore. The band of exiles moors their bark on the wild coast and sings amid dark hills and roaring pines. The stanza contrasts conquerors with true-hearted exiles and ends with a note on their rugged home.

New England

Pierpont for Seventh Grade Stand Your Ground

A poem urging bravery and resistance addressing seventh grade readers. It questions mercy and asks if they will surrender to oppression or seek safety at home, contrasting battle cries with the steel of warriors and the grim reality of hired killers.

Engagement of Willie Liebrecht to J G Sarran Announced

Mrs Clara E E Liebrecht announces the engagement of her daughter Willie to J G Sarran with a wedding set for December 6.

August Rehberg Emmie Louis J. Rossy Clara EE. Liebrecht Willie J. G. Sarran

Mrs Cushing Hosts Matinee Party at the Grand

Mrs Cushing entertained at a Grand matinee Saturday with guests Mesdames H. B. Vodile Lucy Poor W H Hargis Benno Kayton C W Tit us A H Miller O T Carr L A Enderle and McKnight attending.

Mrs. Cushing D. N. Cushing Mesdames H. B. Vodiie Lucy Poor W. H. Hargis Benno Kayton C. W. Titus A. H. Miller O. T. Carr L. A. Enderle McKnight

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SF Reed Brown Staunton Sweet Briar Herman Lichte John L. Bullis Jesse Lee Garrett P. Robertson Menger Lucile Wright Mattie Terrell Gladys McFarland Dorothy Dibrell Sf SF Hugh A. Drum Anna Carroll Reaume SFSH Manetta Thomas Gunter Jack Wiley Neal Edward McClannahan John R. Walker Grace McClannahan Adele Shaw Eleanor Wurzbach Florabell Townsend Goodwin Carter Warwick Field Atlee Ayres Jr George Clifton G. B. Slack John Meusebach Eugenia Thompson Maginnis Joe Walsh James R. Davis L. J. Hart Major Tobin Percy Tyrrell Conn Anderson Octavia Bullis Eleanor Collins Baltimore Killarney Miss Collins Ft . SF Los Angles Cal William Kennedy Ewing Earl Heriig Alexander Fraser Wolff & Marx Laura Virginia Adams Bellecourt Seminary Washington, D. C Sterling Price Adams Miss Adams New York Vernon E. Prichard Charlotte Blesse Army Grace Bumgardner Edgewood Patricia McDonald Elizabeth Bumgardner Chaminade McDonald Mary Harper S&s Ff Mothers’ Club Travis School Lamar School Mothers’ Club Fsf The Luther League of Grace English Lutheran Church Marjorie Wilkins Majestic Red Cross Misses Wilkins Lydia Bridge Margaret Coleman Storrow Devine Smith Evelyn Haile Muriel Kokernot Clara May Brooks Marjorie McGown Mattie ‘Errell Laurel Clarkson Laura Girard Elsie Schmitt Dorothy Forsythe Janie Polk Edna Steves Regina Beckman Helen Gunther Eleanor Barclay Eleanor Collings Charles Mayo Hays Calvin Duval Cowles Knights of Columbus Building Fund Committee Gunter Hotel John Williams J. D. Pulliam F. A. Cloonan T. T. Down H. P. Drought Edward Villareal Ed Gutzeit H. L. Wagner T. Cody Spellessey Lytle Norton Conroy Grover Caldwell Lange Maher Richter Brady la Coste Hammond Tierney Antonio Kleber Summer Tobin Hill Travis Park Methodist Church Sue Wash West Laurel Street Goethe Egmont Count Egmont Edgewood School William Brooks A. E. Mitchell Nellie Poulton Mrs. Mitchell Jeanette Hagelstein Julia Hilliard San Marcos Jud James Austin KE. B. Flowers Uvalde Catherine Storts George Hagelstein W. S. Conness C. C. Todd John J. Kuntz Tom Campbell Nellie Mae Mitchell Howard Newman Pardue Marguerite Deutsch Constance Buhler Willie Clyde Calhoun Poulton the Missionary Society of the Laurel Heights Japan Max Karotkin Frieda Martin Lachman Chicago Joseph Deutz E. Guenther A. Wagner F. L. Hillyer E. C. Brouch A. C. Schreiner Frank Paschal Alice Woodley Hester Schreiner Ora Lee Clark Ora Witte Gene ‘Lankford C. G. Starr J L. Bullis Mesdames H. A. Greene John H. Muncaster Holman Ruth Thomas Eula Murchison Ottie Thomas A. C. Dalton Gibbons Literary Club Carnegiebrary Fidelis First Baptist Church Stannie Maxwell West Park Avenue Misses Stannie Maxwell Louella Cathy Kate Andrews Lucile Capt Estelle Voight Levytansky Jewlery. Co Brady Building Houston Street Coats Christmas Furs Revillon Freres Emi. Blum Co Little White Lily Celia Thaxter J. W. Riley E. Field Goa Warren Commerce Street Texas Refining Co
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