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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1916
Page
17
The Sunday Item highlights social notices in the Social Department and reports on the Historic Highway event. W C A notes are included as part of community society coverage.
Eight girls gathered Saturday morning for a YWCA junior gym class at Moose auditorium Government street. Miss Austin will run weekly Saturdays at 10 30 with more enrollments hoped as the program focuses on health play and poise.
A rich clippings page blends proverbs with society notices from Mobile. The Athelstan informal at the club drew a large crowd, with Nancy Palmer and other locals in attendance, while the Five Hundred Card Club hosted a lively Friday gathering with a Charlotte russe dessert. Toulminville town news lists church services, school meetings, and residents' comings and goings. Music clubs in Birmingham are told not to expect public funding for the biennial convention. Craighead Parliamentary Law Club shifts meetings to the YWCA building and outlines a program focused on public libraries and civic topics. Pi Tau Pi Frater nity hosts a delightful supper at the Cawthon Hotel with members and guests in formal attire.
Funeral services were held for William L Hobdy at his Item avenue home with survivors including a mother and four brothers. Chesley Goff’s funeral followed from Hazel and Wilson streets with a widow three daughters and four sons among the mourners. Other items note Mrs Howard Pollard visiting Theodore and J B Roberts moved to a Mobile infirmary, with fragmentary references to Glas Clay Asprey and Biloxi.
A listing of events for Sunday through Saturday includes Young People’s Jewish Association at B nai B’rith Hall, sewing classes, library programs, home economics club receptions, suffrage meetings, Christ Child Society activities, Cathedral and Y P J A sessions, parliamentary law clubs, Older Girls conference, Craighead Law Club, Business Woman’s and Y W C A divisions, Shakespeare Club, and related social gatherings.
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