Week's Social News in Scranton Taps Many Guests
The week features Knights Templar con clave and a Welsh eisteddfod with praise for Welsh contributions to American life. Scranton hosts Mrs. Clarence Sturges and Colonel H Ripple among numerous visitors, with engagements and travels noted including Miss Anna Law to Dr. Davisson and Grace Thomas to Ray Fuller. Local dinners, venues, and announcements fill pages while health and seminary cases pepper the social calendar.
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Scranton
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Knights Templar
Knights Templar antics and crowds at Scranton event
A columnist satirizes Knights Templar members and their wives in Scranton, noting feathered uniforms and a mix of chivalric romance and vanity. The piece describes crowd scenes at St. Luke's parish house, souvenir tables, and the Mary Commandery reception with silver boxes, ice cream, and punishing lines for attendees.
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Knight Templar
Army
Navy
Launcelot
Percival
Camelot
Knights of Old
Knights Templar
Scranton
Mary Commandery
St. Luke's
Kadosh Commandery
Guernsey Hall
Dieu le Vegt
Wilkes- Barre
Jermyn
Presbyterian ceremony with reception and musicale planned
The article notes a ceremony at the Presbyterian church followed by a reception at the Powell home on Linden Street. A musicale is planned for May 23 featuring Miss Mabel Fritz and other leading pianists, with several local families spending summer at Scriffiton colonies in Waverly Glenburn and Dalton. The country club boasts improved grounds and upcoming clubhouse changes drawing visitors.
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Henry ©. Sanderson
Grace Thomas
Ray Woolworth Fuller
Second Presbyterian Church
Clay Avenue
Presbyterian Church
Mra. Powell
Linden Street
Dr. and Mra
Charlies Huntington Gardner
Fifth Avenue
Mabel Fritz
A. H. Storra
Glenburn
Waverly
Dalton
Messrs
T. H. Watkins
F. H. Jermyn
C. BR. Fuller
Henry Bellin, Jr
Murray
Prominent Visitors and Guests Arrive Across Town
Colonel Fred Fox of Buffalo hosted by Colonel G. M. Hallstead this week. J. H. Kramer of New York visits his mother on Wyoming Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Lerch of Faston stay with Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Horton on Monroe Avenue. Mrs. Frederic Thomason of Brooklyn visits Mrs. J. D. Davenport on Jefferson Avenue. Mrs. William Connell is slowly recovering at home. Knights Templar conclave hosts hosted by Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Foster for Mrs. Huth of Shamokin. Mrs. Adam Schmehl departs Reading after visiting Mrs. T. F. Penman. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Zehnder host Horace Robinson of Lebanon. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Scranton visit Pottsville with James Archbald Jr.
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Fred Fox
Buffalo
G. M. Hallstead
J. H. Kramer
New York
Wyoming Avenue
J. R. Lerch
Faston
L. M. Horton
Monroe Avenue
Frederic Thomason
Brooklyn
N. Y
J. D. Davenport
Jefferson Avenue
William Connell
R. J. Foster
Huth
Shamokin
Adam Schmehl
T. F. Penman
Reading
E. M. Zehnder
Madison Avenue
Horace Robinson
Lebanon
Robert M. Scranton
James Archbald, Jr
Pottsville
Scranton Ball Showcases Fashion Plumes And Snappy Wit
A lively Scranton ball scene highlights feathered hats, New York opinions on plume length, and witty exchanges about marriages and manners. Knights debate plume fashion while guests praise the event as memorable, amid humorous asides about box scents and social duties.
Dowsett and Scranton social ties with theatre manager fame
London theatrical manager Vernon Dowsett, guest of pianist T Reeve Jones in Scranton, is famed for his successful Tivoli theatre leadership and keen social sense. Paine's Celery Compound is advertised as a cure for nervous exhaustion and general debility, citing Alderman Fred G Brenner of Troy as a testimonial who recovered health after four bottles.
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Ton
Vernon Dowsett
London
T. Reeve Jones
Dowsett
Tivoli Theatre
America
Paine
Fred G. Brenner
Troy
N. Y
Paline
Adele Hudnut to perform concerto at Philadelphia commencement
MISS Adele Hudnut will play a Hiller concerto with orchestra at the Philadelphia commencement program on Tuesday evening June 7. She is a Conservatory graduate and Pennsylvanian teacher certificate recipient. Scranton’s Duver’s Band earned fresh laurels with new uniforms and fine music at events including the Armory crawd ball and national eisteddfod concert. Theodore Presser plans to publish two new piano works by George Dudley Martin, The Harlequin and Spring Serenade Inn, while Oliver Ditson published Love and a Rose by Martin.
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Philadelphia
Adele Hudnut
Tednut
Hiller
Misa Hudnut
Conservatory
Ier
Scranton
Duver
Knights Templar
Armory
Bauer
Griffin Post
Theodore Presser
George Dudley Martin
Local Symphony at Lyceum Promises Noted Debut
The Lyceum hosts a June 9 concert by Scranton's local orchestra with young singer Aline Grace Spencer making her professional debut. The program features Beethoven's Eighth Symphony, the Bronze Horse overture, Herbert suite, and In the Garden by Lund, with varied selections and a noted contrapuntal arrangement by Bergfried Ochs. Tickets are in demand as expectations run high for a peak local musical event.
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Symphony Orchestra
Lyceum
Scranton
Aline Grace Spencer
Mire Spencer
Victor Herbert
Lund
Hemberger
Carlaruhe
Haci
Beethoven
Haydon
Verdi
Gounod
Strauss
Brahms
Wagner
Schubert
Meyerbeer
Bergfried Ochs
Homberger
The Boy's Appetite and a Schoolmaster's Report
An English schoolmaster reports on a boy's remarkable capacity for food. He describes a ten year old eating vast amounts of cake condensed milk and sweets in one afternoon with little distress, noting only brief unease that passed quickly. He cites a frail child swallowing a large cake and multiple treats then returning to play.
Boy's organic health differs from the strong man
The schoolmaster notes a boy's condition differs from a trained strong man. The man is mainly muscular and may have liver or kidney issues yet stay strong, while a healthy boy's vitality includes robust play and laughter without blemish.
Laughing Bishop Helped by Girl on Bournemouth Promenade
Rev. HS. Dinkey told a tale in Clapham about a renowned bishop who, while seated on a Bournemouth promenade, found it hard to rise. A young girl offered help and the bishop, thanking her, warned she might be too weak, saying he had helped his father when worse.
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HS. Dinkey
Clapham
Bournemouth
Biniop
Idina
Father
London Telegraph
Thurston edits final sheets of Maltimore romance novel
The authoress Mrs Julie M Thurston is revising final sheets of a Maltimore romance. This week she dictated a passionate love scene to her assistants as the manuscript nears publication.
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Julie M. Thurston
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Clarence Sturges
Klotz
F. J. Platt
George G. Brooks
Anderson
Belin
Alice Matthews
Archbald
Clare Reynolds
H. Ripple
Louis Bettler
Beitler
Donaldson
Harrisburg
H. A. Knapp
Europe
Judge Knapp
Mr. &. J. Lynde
George du Bois Timmick
Honesdale
W. D. Zehnder
Scranton Club
Gerderich
John A. Welnner
John Raudenbusch
N. M. Zehnder
Charles Law
West Fittston
Anna Law
Robert Rutledge Davisson
Winterset
Town
W. H. Taylor
Misa Lovella
Williama
Oakland
Cal
R. B. Williams
Miss Williams
A. D. Spencer
Anson Webster
Robert H. Banning
Baltimore
FE. B. Spencer
Cora Morris Griffin
Miss Griffin
Carnegie Hall
Susan Black
Mr. Bailey
Central Pennsylvania Telephone and Supply Company
U At
Hl Seminary
Lian Watkins
Curtis Platt
Taylor Foster
Trev
Raymond
Wesleyan University
David Wilmot Powell
Bertha Loriie
Frank Carling Fuller
Sec
Goldsmith
New York Commandery
Mr. Finney
Gainsborough
Bess
Paine’s
Aikenther
Ikee
E. A. Cressey
Boston
J.C. Baker
A. G. Morse
Baker
Cressey
Prof. Pennington
Broad Street Consrrvatory of Music
The
New York Times
PCE
Conrad
Panama
Manilla
Porto Ricas
Lacka. Ave
Dapling
Africa
Moi
Mercereau & Connell
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