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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1914
Page
6
Social hour and bridge activities listed with Miss Wetherbee, Miss Watson, Miss Willie Stone, and others at 3 p m. An informal New Year gathering for elders and youth, plus The Piper rehearsal at the Lyric. Missionary Society meets at 10 45, plus St Johns Auxiliary at 3 30. Bridal party events for Zimmern-Metzger and Ruffin families outlined with after-rehearsal receptions.
Christ Church Parish Society will hold its regular January meeting at 12 o clock Wednesday. The event marks the start of the year with parish members gathering for discussion and planning.
Favored beaux seek invitations for the Spinsters ball to be held January 16 at Battle House Auditorium with guests at 1 Newman Circle. Miss Manning returns from Pensacola ahead of February tour. Miss Manning aims debut, alongside Alba Gower and May Leathbury. Kate Crampton departs for Washington National Cathedral School. Miss Webb and Mr Fitzgerald announce wedding January 14 at Govern Street Presbyterian. Hamilton Whist Club hosts Mrs George Huntington Clark and guests. Miss Lena Metzger and attendants entertain, with stag run at Cawthon. Social events include bridal cards, entertainments, and college homecoming in Mobile.
Warren declares real spaghetti will be served at home after chasing a recipe from an Italian porter. He cooks with bravado, praises the dish as the real thing, and revels in the claim that hotel pasta is inferior, while tallying costs and vowing to flaunt the head waiter at the Astoritz.
In Danville Illinois at the library and living room a company gathered to locate seven tables for a game titled sub-rosa. Miss Rush hosted and was an excellent player by inheritance and skill, capturing first prize a gold hat pin while Miss Marie Clifton earned the consolation a Kewpie cushion. A two course luncheon in rose tones followed.
The Mobile Public Library Association met at Conti Street Library with weather not hindering. The treasurer reported debt free finances and Carnegie library hopes rose. officers elected include President Mrs James K Glennon and several vice presidents, recording and corresponding secretaries, and treasurer Mrs E O Zadek. The executive committee comprises Electra Semmes Colston as chair and eight others.
A stag supper in the Cawthon colonial room honored Mr W J Zimmern ahead of his marriage to Miss Lena Metzger. Guests including Maurice Hess, Nathan Dreyfus, Reuben Aberman, Bertrand Pake, Hyman Aberman, Lawrence Neuberger, Melvin Metzger, Milton V Hanan, Leonard Metzger, Le Zimmern, David Gundersheimer, Charles Simon, and Al M Childs attended and toasted the bridegroom. Visitors Mrs Duke Goodman and Miss Gladys Avery have returned to New Orleans. Mr W H Armbrecht and Mr A J Parsons head to Meridian for the board of trade opening, expect to return Thursday.
Mr Isadore Shapiro of Birmingham, long titled guest of Rabbi Alfred G Moses, left last night for home. Miss Sadie Meyer has accompanied her sister Mrs Rudolph Richard home for a delightful stay in Selma.
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