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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1911
Page
7
Local society items list attendance and travel notes for residents and visitors. Families like the Talilferro Hart Kirkpatrick Savage and others sail from New York and return from Europe, while several residents visit Galveston Corpus Christi Chautauqua and Georgetown. Charity events host dinners at the Menger hotel with the Y M C A Forum club and Scottish Rite Masons. A Travis Park Philathea class meets at 1121 Summit avenue.
Dinner at the Menger hotel hosted by the Forum club of the YMCA at eight. Mrs Helen Elizabeth Wilson entertains at cards at her home 4 to 6 pm. Barnard E Bee chapter Daughters of the Confederacy meets 4:30 pm Camden street. Graduate Nurses Association meets 3 pm 701 Camden. General D S Stanley circle Ladies of G A R meets in afternoon. Mortimer Sheppard Hallam and Cora P Littlefield wed at bride’s East Poplar home by Rev Frederick Bowen. Groom an attorney. eastern journey planned. return Oct 1 to San Antonio. Present: T J Nye, Mrs Wright, Miss Rowena Nye, Dr Charlotte Strum. Mrs George B MacDonell visiting her mother Mrs Kate Yecker 209 West Guenther. Miss Rhodes of Austin visit Miss Eugenie Nordhaus at Sweet and Frasch. J C Schutte of Eagle Pass in the city. Mrs M Lily sends greetings from Wheeling W Va. Mr and Mrs WW Le Thompson and daughters back from Galveston. Helen Elizabeth Wilson hosts 4 tables progressive five hundred at her San Pedro avenue home. punch and confections served. Attendees include Clara Hicks, Mildred Taylor, Allene Beakley, Clara McCormick, Evelyn Haile, Erma Strain Port Lavaca, Bessie May Emerson, Alice Maule, Eva Hopper, Nora Duessen, Mary Crider, Margaret Braswell, Ruth Bingham, Lassie Lee Wassebick, Flora Briggs, Isabells Berreris St Louis, Nina Trimbie.
The Sunday school of Christchurch invites all to a Friday afternoon picnic at Hot Wells. Cars will meet the chapel at 3 o clock to transport the children to the grounds.
The article promotes a flawless complexion for all women, urging care and proper precautions. It notes skin foundation is universal and blemishes arise from illness, skin troubles, wind, weather, or external conditions, applicable to blonde and brunette types.
The annual meeting of the Willard W. C. T. U. will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 oclock at the West End Presbyterian church. Business of importance will be disposed of.
The Missionary Society of Prospect Hill Methodist Church will meet at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the church.
Mrs. George Schmitt and Miss An nette Schmitt, spending the Summer at Boerne, will be at the Hutchins after October 1. Mr. and Mrs. George C. Bates and Miss Elizabeth Bates of Torreon Mex are at the Hutchins. Miss Bates will enter school in the United States.
Miss Ella Lutz hosted the Mystic Circle yesterday afternoon at her home honoring Miss Eva Connors of Baton Rouge Louisiana and Mrs. J B Meyer of Kansas City Missouri. Mrs Meyer sang several selections. Contests and games followed with prizes awarded to Mrs Meyer and Miss Lucile Stumberg. Ices were served.
King Pattison Drug Co promotes Foley's Kidney Remedy as a proven tonic for acute and chronic kidney and bladder ailments. The remedy is especially recommended for elderly people for permanent relief and comfort.
In Gonzales Texas five whites and three colored applicants earned second grade teaching certificates from a two day exam. Two whites and two colored applicants failed to pass. Additional white candidates sought state certificates and a permanent primary. their papers will be ceded to the state board of examiners.
Professor J W Peeler and other teachers attend the Caldwell County Teachers institute in Lockhart. Rev J C Robinson returned from Mississippi where he spent his vacation and conducted revivals. W H Milligan appointed superintendent of the Methodist Sunday school.
Dorothy Dix argues against male clergy and a millionaire bachelor blaming women for societal ills. She defends American housewives as devoted mothers, notes divorce data favoring men, and asserts men create laws and culture, not women.
From Woman's National Journal a simple, inexpensive wash lotion promises quick improvement in wrinkles and sagging. Dissolve an ounce of saxolite in half a pint of witch hazel to create a facial wash said to produce almost instantaneous results and a refreshed feel.
An advertisement touts Lax Fos as a tonic for liver stomach kidneys and bowels and promises a money back plan on the first bottle. It claims unique effectiveness with the claim you will want the second bottle and to ask your druggist for Lax Fos8.
Green DeWitt aged 68 died at his Gonzales home after several months illness. Born and raised near Gonzales he played a prominent role in politics and business. He served as county sheriff in the 1870s and later ran a mercantile business. Survived by his widow three sons and four daughters.
Miss Mary Smith of Pelican sat beside an open window on a passenger train when a thief reached in and grabbed her purse containing $60 and articles. The train halted at a water tank three miles from town and the purse was later found empty.
A narrator recalls a six month rise from law to journalism wealth and a near fatal misperception. After discovering a hatched escapee from Bradley asylum during a ball the narrator suspects a intruder in his seaside home but learns the shoes he saw belonged to him, not a killer, revealing a comic self deception.
John Tucker of Houston has plans for a two story brick building on Front Street in Yoakum. Work is to begin in about thirty days. Front Street, once a row of shacks, is slated for modernization with most old structures replaced by brick buildings.
An advertisement touts Knowiton's Dandeline as a cure for dandruff and dull hair. It claims Danderine dissolves dandruff in minutes, stops itching, and promotes new hair growth after a few weeks. A 25 cent bottle is sold at drug stores and toilet counters.
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