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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1915
Page
9
Kathleen Baldwin reflects on past failures and sorrows as a year ends in Memphis. The piece states Old Year’s faults are laid aside and a new chance arrives with New Year’s Day, offering renewed hope despite memory’s debts.
The Class of 1910 reunion filled Wednesday’s room 114 with songs and nostalgia. Alumni and teachers mingled while four years of study produced doctors, a pharmacist, an electrician, a lawyer, and a professor among the men, and teachers, brides, and college women among the women.
Brewton society men hosted a Wednesday dance at the Masonic Temple in honor of the Alabama Glee Club. Attending were Miss Elise Beaven, a debutante from Mobile, with Miss Marguerite Knight of Evergreen and Miss Esther Mae Hill of Montgomery among others.
The Montgomery Advertiser notes a grand New Year’s Eve dance at the Standard Club with many members and guests. Elaborate decorations include immortelle and Southern smilax, red canopy lighting, baskets of red and green roses, and palms. Guests adjourned to the dining room as the old year passed.
The Beauvoir Club hosted its best ever watch party last night from 9 to 1 with horns rattlers confetti and merriment. Guest of Mrs H Crenshaw was Miss Katherine Courtney of Mobile among many attendees.
Miss Ada Braun hosted a New Year’s Eve watch party and dance for guests including Miss Annie Lou Lloyd at her Bush Avenue home. The hospitable gathering featured refreshments and dancing as attendees welcomed the new year.
Miss Mabel Hartwell and Miss Annie Provost were the debutantes honored at a garage dance hosted by Hartwell in the large showroom of his St Joseph Street garage. The event drew over 200 guests with Christmas decorations and a New Year greeting in electric lights, punch and cake served, and chaperones from the young married set.
Miss Mattie Belle Kirkbride entertained her music class Friday afternoon by taking them to the moving pictures then to Van Antwerp's for refreshments. Attending were Rosa Dora Stone Marie Stone Grace Webb Agnes Cowan Irene Steele Reba Cowan Isabel Cowan Juanine Payne Ruth Simpson Mamie Clark Pugh Minnie Leslie Marion Acker and Bernice Zimmons.
Miss Katherine Brodie entertained a small group at her home on Thursday evening to bid farewell to 1914 and welcome 1915 with games music and dancing. Guests included Miss Madeline Johnson Adelaide Johnson Dora dami Nellie Sweeney Blanche Travis Annie Brown Annie Cooney Zthel Moria Casilida Cox and Messrs John Earl Walkley Will Jones Meum Will Carpenter J. Wagner and the hostess.
The Birmingham Ledger reports Phi Delta Theta members hosted alumni at the Tutwiler Hotel on Wednesday afternoon and again at the Country Club in the evening. Mrs Frank Clark and General Louis V Clark led the grand march with Miss Augusta Clark and Robert Thach Jr as escorts amid decorated rooms, flowers, and punch.
The Pen sacola Journal notes Miss Carrie Blount's January 6 debut in society at a San Carlos ballroom dance hosted by Judge and Mrs. A C Blount in Mobile. The piece praises holiday music by a volunteer chorus and envisions Mobile fostering a grand community tree and renewed civic beautification efforts despite local obstacles.
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