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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1913
Page
16
Miss Mary Gant Miss Aide Lynch and Nellie Graham attend seaside gatherings chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs. with other young ladies at a coastal event.
Paris reports the Louvre has purchased the Vander Weyden Triptych after tense negotiations. The central panel shows Christina in brown, flanked by Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist. The painting has been on view for three days, preserving its status as a major attraction.
Dr Sophie Laws and Miss Margaret Austill plan an August outing at Little River while Miss Lawra McKnight hosts a thirty friend weekend at Battle's Wharf. Miss Mary, Bessie Sullivan, and Miss Sallie McCafferty, with Mrs J T McCaferty, enjoy several days in New Orleans after departing Saturday. Mrs and Mrs W K Syson travel to New York to join Mr George Fearn Jr for an auto tour in New England. Mrs C O Boyett’s friends report her safe arrival at Rochester Minnesota.
Fruitdale and area residents are listed visiting relatives, social visits, and local happenings. Citizens include Mrs L F Green from Leakesville, Miss Ruth Currens, Miss Lulu Fowler, Miss Mamie Pillman, Ben Haight of Vinegar Bend, Miss Josephine Withers, and others visiting family, attending schools, or hosting events. A new mail carrier Archie Wine is appointed. D C Mills purchases the former STS store. a August 21 gathering hosted by Mrs Cora Snively. a marriage of J A Miller and Mary C Massey. Doerthea Colburn hosts a young set rook party.
Miss Dolly Brown and her hostess Miss Margaret Horn traveled to Fairhope for a pleasant stay. Judge and Mrs. R. L. Maupin returned to West Point Mississippi after visiting Mount Eagle Tennessee. Miss Daisy White of Birmingham and her hostess Miss Bessie Hobart, visiting Daphne, plan a summer trip to Biloxi.
Berlin promises to rival Paris as a tourist hub with many travelers passing through en route to South German Swiss resorts. Notables stopping in include Prince and Princess Nicholaus Engalitcheff, playwright George Ade, and Mrs. David Henderson of San Francisco.
Miss Cathryn Carolin, visiting her sister and brother for four months, joins Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Sutton Mrs. Belle D. Hansen and Dan Fisher of St. Louis for a weekend gathering at Coden amid a family visit run.
Mrs L Dolz wife of Dr L Dolz recently named Cuban consul general at New York sails next Thursday with her young son L Dolz Jr. They travel Chicago Mackinac Island Lake Huron Lake Erie Buffalo Niagara Falls then New York to join Consul General N Dolz.
Mr and Mrs J E Porter announce the engagement of their daughter Mattie Wil to be married. The notice states the upcoming wedding and lists the families involved.
Miss Lucile Lacy has returned home after a two week visit with Miss Maggie Ober kirk. Friends of Mr and Mrs Claude Johnson are glad to learn Mrs Johnson is recovering swiftly from an operation performed last week.
Miss Hilda Hawes of New Orleans is the guest of her friend Miss Anna Louise Johnston at a summer home at San Souci Beach.
Mrs. M. E. Russell Miss Genevieve Russell and Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Schwartz have returned home from a two week stay at Battles Alabama. Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz will soon depart for their Houston Texas home.
Miss Adelaide Tierney who summered at the Hotel Joullian in Coden Alabama returns home to the delight of many friends in the city. Mrs Morris Gardner who has been
Ill for seven weeks at the Mobile Infirmary was removed to her home at 6 Ryland Street and is improving. Selas C. Oviatt, formerly of New Orleans, has made Mobile his home. Mrs. Charles Roy and several Birmingham visitors are at the Cawthon hotel. Mamie Kuppersmith and Madeline Ery depart for New Orleans to visit friends. Mrs. A. Casey returns from Ocean Springs. Mattie Crivillari goes to Biloxi to visit Mrs. Russell Thompson. Cora Farrell leaves for New Orleans to visit Miss Maude Snakenberg.
At Healing Springs the report from Healing Springs highlights well known Mobilians and their activities. The piece notes community involvement and recognitions among residents.
Summer visitors at the resort enjoy a Tuesday night dance and a festive ox ride the next day. The outing includes Nellie Swan Smith Cohen Moody Mills Carleton Matthews Edwards Johnson Strauss Jones Gass Smith, hosted by Mrs. Ed Gaines of Mobile.
A large group enjoyed a hay riding party last week from Three Mile Creek to Frederic's on the Bay Shore. Miss Ida Donaghue and several Stebers, O'Briens, and others rode, sang, and were chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Donaghue. Refreshments of ice cream, cake, and lemonade were served along the route.
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