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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1911
Page
19
The note provides Katherine M. Joseph as editor contact with old phone 176 and new 1559, plus home number 2862. It records the office line, and implies a standard byline for publication.
Miss Lulu Elizabeth Kilgore and Oliver Franklin Billingsley announce a wedding set for Wednesday evening September 6 at the Kilgore home on Callaghan avenue. Miss Clara Rossy will serve as maid of honor and William Alfred Orth of Yoakum will be best man.
The marriage of Miss Pearl Igo and C J Renneberg will be at the home of Miss Igo’s parents on North Flores street on September 11. Plans call for a simple pretty ceremony. Mr and Mrs C Baumberger announce the engagement of their daughter Virginia Marie to Charles Austin Eager with a wedding set for Wednesday September 27 at San Fernando cathedral. A large wedding party and reception will follow.
Mrs R L Ball and children return from Port O Connor. Miss Christi Moore hosts Gamma Kappa Chi at Elmira. Miss Aline Austin back from Port O Connor. Miss Cecil Janice and Mrs C S Austin visit Nashville after Sewanee. Mrs Samuel Gaines and daughter Sadie guests of Mrs William Cassin. Mrs E P Jersig visits St Louis and Chicago. Mrs C D Westman returns from New York and Washington. Miss Annis Walton hosts Juvenile Card club at McCullough Ave. Mrs John Stevens returns from Corpus Christi. William Scott back from ranch near Alice. Booths and Ella Beckman leave for Houston for a month. Miss Fairfax Janin sails Sept 17 for Belmont College Nashville. Government Hill Circle meets 4 PM at 628 Milam. Immigration study topic.
Mrs. Albert Tolle and son John Francis tour New York Washington and Chicago before returning Mrs 8 J Coleman heads to Terrell Hot Wells Mrs W W Allen of Lampasas visits East Craig Place with daughter Mrs T A Tirado Miss Meta Hertwig to open a piano class September 4 at Studio 848 Blum Street Avoca club hosts dancing at West End Lake with a list of attendees Punch served Christian Woman's Board of Missions auxiliary meets Monday at 3 30 Judge and Mrs A B Storey Mamie Story and family return from Corpus Christi Ingleside F S Crew and son Sidney return from a broader tour of northern eastern and southern states more notices continue
A discussion on the perceived perpetual youth of actresses. The piece jokes that mercorized wax, applied as cold cream, can erase age signs and skin flaws, promising a secret to lifelong appearances and inviting others to learn the method.
Mrs Wheeler Pettus visited friends on Poplar street then returned to Goliad. Mrs William Garagnos hosts Hiawatha Card club at 827 Crosby. Mrs F D Brayton of Atlanta visits her parents on Wickes street. Mrs Charles E Dickson and son return from Corpus Christi and Tarpon. Miss Laura E Stephenson visits Austin aunt. Mrs Maud Sloan and sister depart for visits with Mrs P C Howard and Miss Lucile Houston. Dr and Mrs W L Boren announce daughter Nellie engagement to Roscoe Cahill with wedding set for October 4.
Mrs. R. A. Gayle and her daughter plan a short departure to Lafayette Louisiana. Miss Frankie Atkins from Dallas visits Mrs. R. W. Atkins at 220 Pierce Avenue as a guest.
Miss Florence Eugenia Vaughn and Alex Szafir of Beaumont will marry in Beaumont on Thursday. Vaughn is a San Antonio girl with many friends here who will be interested in the wedding announcement.
Mrs Stone of Austin will chaperone her sister Miss Mattie Swanson and friends Miss Edith Johnson and Misses Nora and Josephine Robinson on a short visit to Galveston for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wolf returned from a trip through Alabama? no, Alahoma Missouri and other states. Mrs. H. Balkam will leave in a few days for Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. James K. Stuart left yesterday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. George Stowers at their ranch near Kerrville. Mrs. Thomas Lodovic will return Tuesday from Corpus Christi. Mr. and Mrs. Max Derr and daughter Irene have returned from Corpus Christi.
Miss Fanny Byus returned after a two month visit to California and Colorado. She was joined by Mrs. M. B. Johns who has gone home to Corinth. Miss Bettie Collins, who summered with her mother on West Myrtle Street, came back from Kerrville where she stayed with Miss Mignon Locke.
Miss Jane Chaugin of Alexandria will arrive Tuesday to spend the winter with Miss Alice Bettison at 411 West Evergreen. Mrs. G. W. Madison and Miss Edith Madison have returned from a California and west tour. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Deussen and daughter Florine back from two months in California. Miss Fanny Lewis returns from California and western states. Nora and Edith Deussen return from two months with relatives in Galveston. Zelah Pate returns from vocal study in New York and stays with her parents on St Marys Street. Ever and Mrs. Johnson return from camping on the Guadalupe river in Comfort.
B Allen and bride's father Dr L Allen hosted the wedding with Dr Morey performing the ceremony. The couple will reside in Spofford. Updates note Misses Igo Zillman and Smith winning linen shower prizes and various relatives visiting from Kerrville to Galveston with travel to San Marcos and Atlantic City for schooling and visits.
Mrs Irene Hazen visits daughter Mrs J E Matthews in Los Angeles. Mr and Mrs Walter Napier and daughter Estelle spend weekend at Tarpon. Mrs Eva Johnson opens the Woman s Gymnasium at 123 Soledad with pupil reception. Miss Edith Madison resumes piano class Monday September 4. L L Marks returns from California after an interview with renowned Lieder singer Alexander Heinemann who praises her singing and pupils.
Mrs L L Marks will open her studio on Monday September 4 at her residence 417 Camden Street.
Mrs Walter Granfield hosted a birthday gathering at her Mitchell street home Friday night for daughter Hazeh. Lawn games and refreshments followed a pink and white decor with a cake bearing twelve burning tapers as the central ornament. Attendees included Alice Cowan Leona Cowan Edna Cowan Maud Evans Hallie Baldwin Mattie Baldwin.
Local stores offer Papier Poudre Books described as real imported chamois powder and life like rouge. The Rosalma Co. in Louisville Ky provides free samples for the new cosmetic book.
The catalog notes a wide range of Landers Frary Clarke carving sets from 50c to 20.00, dinnerware from 3.00, fire goods and electroliers from 3.50, and brass copper items. It showcases Janus bottles at 1.00, Wallace 1835 silverware and Rogers and Holmes Edwards lines, plus a full house furnishing department with enamelware aluminum and kitchen devices.
Laura Aaron, Bessie Mays, Vivian Williams, Fborine and Margaret Weber, Elizabeth Rollins, Ruby Dickey, Iona White, Beulah Smith, Lydia and Bessie Harvey, Ruth Spen cer, Virginia Dickenson, Horace and Hazel Granfield are named in a local listing. The item reads like a society column fragment with multiple residents and couples.
Mr and Mrs T P Walsh announce the engagement of their daughter Louise to Robert Marvin Parker. The marriage is planned for Tuesday October 10.
Mrs. J. P. Bodenmiller hosts a Chinese style shower at her Cevallos street home Thursday afternoon for Miss Louise Walsh whose marriage is announced today.
At a Jewish Literary Club meeting the papers read included Why the Jews Do Not Send Out Missionaries to Convert Other Nations by Miss Fannie Berger What Zionism Has Done for the Jews by B Moravin and The Journal edited by Miss Elizabeth Weise The club charter will be received soon and a board meeting with Miss Dora Hahn is planned for Monday night to discuss the charter
The Carter Mullaly Transfer Co names C B Craft as manager of the automobile department. Craft formerly led Texas Tally-ho company and promises patrons the same treatment with improved service from expanded facilities and more Packards.
Ed Pratt, Frisco freight agent, can ride for free for eleven years on the D'Hanis Brick and Tile short line. The 85,000 inch railway carries clay from pits west of D'Hanis to the factory, with an engine burning coal or wood and water in the boiler for round trips. Passengers ride in dump cars between two stations Diaz and Madero.
J W Neil director of farmers institutes travels to Halle Liberty county to organize a farmers institute and study crop conditions. He will examine the rice industry situation in East Texas.
Numerous Taylor area residents travel for visits in Houston Austin San Antonio Kyle Cameron Gray Georgetown Corpus Christi and beyond. The column lists returning travelers and destinations including Miss Isabel Barrow Mrs J B Baty Miss Mayme Moynahan and many others with brief notes on their hosts and routes.
Confederate veterans and pensioners sent postage stamps to the Texas comptroller after a report of possible delay in warrants due to funding. With the deficiency bill approved, the state will mail about 10,600 warrants as quickly as possible, taking a day or two to finish. Fraser, a tailor, comments on choosing fabrics rather than stamps.
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