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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1913
Page
21
A Mobile society column lists numerous gatherings and hosting duties from Monday to Saturday. Clubs include Bridge groups, D A R events, Christmas parties, and teas at homes and venues such as Lyric Theatre and Battle House. Notable social functions center on Elsie Hall, Miss Hilda Broadwood, and the Hartel engagement activities.
Miss Evelyn Hervey will entertain members of her music class on Friday afternoon at 4 o clock at a local venue. The event promises a festive gathering with performances and light refreshments.
The German Relief Hall hosts the first German Club event on Wednesday at 8 30 p m with Mr T D Nettles Jr and debutante Miss Celia Webb as partners. A large reception committee includes Adrian Taylor Ben Campbell W H Swanneson Courtney Edward Cushnenan Be and many couples chaired by Adrian Taylor.
The Alabama Glee Club will visit December 27 for its annual concert at the Battle House Auditorium followed by a dance.
The Newman Circle will discontinue their pleasant and instructive meetings until after the holidays due to preparations for the Christmas season.
Miss Elizabeth Hobart will entertain on December twenty seventh in honor of the Alabama Glee Club, which performs its annual concert here that day.
The first meeting of the Junior Section of the Council of Jewish Women will be held this afternoon at the president Miss Pearl Schwarz's home. The program includes notes on current events and reading of the Talmud.
The Enterpean Fraternity will meet Tuesday evening at the Harte Auditorium. Dr. W. P. Hines presents Rembrandt, Dr. A. E. Thayer speaks on Poe, and Miss Evelyn Harvey discusses Chopin. The Children's Story Hour at Harte Auditorium drew a large crowd with Mrs. D. Cobb and Mrs. T. A. Page delivering engaging tales for the children.
The home of Mrs. G. M. Moore hosted a beautiful birthday party Friday evening honoring Jessie Moore's twelfth birthday. The house was decorated with CHRIST as a central motif and guests enjoyed festive activities and refreshments.
Decorations included a red carnation centerpiece and a heart shaped birth day cake with twelve candles. Guests listed include Annie Boyette Variie Page Alberta Turner Marie Boyette Emma McAlpine Eleanor Burgess Virgie Hogg Helen Worthington Ida Harris Rachel Harris Ed Roberts Demoin Spotswood Jack Roberts Edgar Boyette Will Hagers Carol Cowan George Harris Eugene Thoss. Punch served by Mamie Gordon Grace Moore. Mrs James Hagan to entertain for Miss Hurtel to celebrate upcoming marriage to Clifton Berney on December 25.
An open house event hosted by the Gulf City social circle kicks off Monday night. The invite lists Mr. and Mrs. Lenis as gracious hosts and signals a refined gathering for the week’s start.
Fraternal Circles K L of S report a well attended gathering on December 11 at the hall on Dauphin and Jackson streets to plan the next social. Sick members Mann and Granate are to be visited. Whistler field work progresses with a council to be instituted this month.
The Moose lodge advances ritual work and activity after a date with Santa Claus funds sent to Mooseheart. A new member drive aims to swell attendance as the club hosts a progressive pitch night with heavy lifting and wrestling show by Lee Krowter and L. B. Varnado. About one hundred members expected and fifteen prizes plus a booby prize planned for the event.
Rescue Lodge No. 24 elected several applicants to membership and plans another meeting on the 15th. Mobile Lodge No. 67 reported two candidates and a Third Rank conferment on the 16th. Percivale Lodge No. 102 held an Amplified Third Rank session with a large crowd and praised the Rescue Lodge team. a communal spread followed and plans to resume work.
Mobile plans to ship one hundred boxes of Satsuma oranges to one hundred chambers of commerce nationwide as an advertising venture. The effort, led by the Chamber of Commerce with donations from real estate and nursery firms, has drawn interest from Rockford Illinois where officials request a box for publicity.
Rotunda hosts a debutante party for Miss Freda Donald with a large Virginia line of escorts and guests. Among organizers and attendants are Mrs. Donald and Mrs. Atkinson along with a group including Miss Imogen Little and Miss Rebecca Herndon. Anne Etta and Leila Mc Millan will oversee the punch table while the event aims to be a premier social highlight of the season. Alabama artist III visits New York as Mrs. Parrish visits Selma and Mobile friends.
The report notes an expected Rank work next Friday and an open house planned for Christmas Day to be decided Monday night at a special meeting of the Pothian Castile Hall. Past Grand Chancellor D B Dobbs and Hon Boykin Boone, Per civale Lodge 102, spoke on the Knights of Pythias and the Good of the Order and promised to return with similar talks.
A 1914 message urges Alabama Baptist women to give selfless gifts for world missions in China. It highlights the Week of Prayer for World-Wide Missions January 4 11 and calls auxiliaries, girls, and children to fund hospitals, schools, and kindergartens abroad, embodying the Christ Spirit of giving.
The well known Alabama artist Mrs Parrish lies ill in New York with severe inflammation and possible pneumonia. Rose Weaver of Selma rushed to her sister’s bedside as the Parrish family contends with anxiety while awaiting updates on her condition after recent travel and prior health concerns.
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