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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1915
Page
6
Poem fragment describes a road to a beloved through dawn and sunset fire. The speaker imagines a gate with a rusty lock and a rosebush, a woman standing with a rose in her hair, waiting to be told she is fair and sealed with a kiss. Depicts distant hills and misty dew lit by sunset.
A June bridal shower for Miss Varina Gould, the prospective bride of Mr. Hugh ie of Houston, Texas, was hosted by Miss Adelaide Besson. The event featured intimate company, blue hydrangea decorations, Victrola music, and lively conversation as guests enjoyed a noon gathering at the Cleveland home with Miss Gould seated in the center of attention.
Readers seek tips to whiten hands soft and pale skin. Advice recommends gloves at night, wash lotions with salicylates and hazel, mercorized wax, and ice cold cream nightly to fade freckles and tighten skin. Results vary. treatment may last weeks under druggist guidance.
Miss Murray's reception featured yellow and white daisy decor, punch, ice course, and prizes including crepe de chine handkerchiefs. Guests included Alberta Brown, Leah Midgett, Teresa Geary, Inez Phelan, Grace Gahlenbeck, Claude Burger, John Hastings, Emory Smith, and many others from Mobile and nearby towns.
Miss Gould hosts a refined afternoon with guests writing names on a parasol then presenting it to the honoree. The dining room features green and white motif with nasturtiums. Attendees include Anna Lou E Anfield Hattie Arnold Ruth Stone and others. Miss Gould wears pink flowered voile with an Eton jacket and white winged hat.
At the Emory College commencement in Oxford a large guest list includes fraternity members Delta Tau Delta and Alpha Tau Omega with Miss Hallie Lancaster and Miss Ethel Hopkins of Mobile Alabama among those invited by fraternities and non fraternity groups.
The members will leave the city soon and the group will suspend activities for the warm months.
Three tables of players and substitutes enjoyed the weekly meeting of the Discards, held with five McCrary Otts on Wednesday afternoon. An ice course and a salad course followed the games. Prizes of hand-embroidered towels were awarded to Miss Mabel Heustis, Mrs. J. W. Hunter, and Mrs. Thomas H. Smith.
Miss Alberta Brown hosted a Thursday afternoon party for St Vincent’s graduates after viewing top pictures at local theatres. Attendees included her sister Miss Lillian Brown and graduates Nellie Crohlich Leah Midgett Nellie Kennedy Theresa Geary Margaret Inez Phelan and Katie Murray at Burke's for an ice course.
The graduating class of St Vincent's school has enjoyed several days of activities before their graduation next Tuesday. Wednesday evening Miss Katie Murray entertained them with a heart party and dance, the featured event of the sequence.
A large afternoon bridge party was hosted by Miss Aleta and Miss Marie Stoll on Conti street for bride-elect Miss Anna Lou E. Rnfield. Guests enjoyed five tables, pink hydrangeas, daisies, and an ice course. prizes included white silk hose and embroidered lingerie.
General and Mrs J B Aleshire travel to West Point for the June 15 wedding of Lieutenant Joseph Aleshire U S A and Miss Eleanor Vidmer. Miss Dorothy Aleshire maid of honor. Mrs Mead Wildrick matron of honor. Bridesmaids include Miss Margaret Treat and Miss Katherine Treat. Best man is Lieutenant Parker C Kaffoch. ushers Lieutenants Strong Pullen Holmer Bradword Crawford. Miss Vidmer niece of John R Vidmer of Pensacola and Mobile. Irwin Fearn to attend.
A Montgomery reader notice reports the quiet Birmingham home wedding of Claude Chilton and Clara Weidmann. Best man Pierce Chilton and siblings Arthur and Mabel Chilton attended. The couple left for Fairhope after the ceremony and will reside at College Park in Montgomery after June 15.
The Laurel Daily Leader details social events for Miss Gladys McDade of Mobile. Sunday dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Frank Sullivan included a five course meal for McDade and guests. Upcoming Dutch lunch by Miss Helen Dorsey and a Laurel young men’s event at Miss Margaret Sullivan’s home are noted.
Mr and Mrs William Ryley Waller announce the marriage of their daughter Eve lyn Norman to Mr Peyton Ward Williams. The ceremony will be held Thursday morning June 24 1915 at eight oclock at the Church of the Holy Comforter Montgomery Alabama.
An ad describes soda water made from pure sugar syrup and filtered water free from dregs and sediment. It promotes Gale Bottling Co. in Mobile and notes Steamer Pleasure Bay departs every Saturday at 3 p.m. and on Sunday.
A stream of visitors and guests travels through Mobile Pensacola Biloxi and Montgomery with dances visits to relatives and journeys to New York Columbia University and the Summer School in Missouri. Several families plan summers at the coast and with relatives while others head north to Lake Michigan and Tullahoma Tennessee.
Mobile Bay Chapter of the C of C meets at 4 30 p m with Miss Jennie Prout. Mrs I S Adams hosts a pacaneous shower for Miss Bessie Cox. The Arras meet at 8 p m with Mrs N A Yuille at 1003 Palmetto Street. Thompson Freeland wedding set for 8 30 p m. Friday events include Miss Margaret Inez Phelan hosting graduates of St Vincent s School at 8 p m and several showers and recitals across town.
Five board members of the school commission debated ventilation for new buildings and approved consolidations from Cedar Creek to Citronelle and eight other pairings. The meeting dissolved after President Hartwell left, breaking the quorum amid a split over financing and artificial ventilation.
The vegetable season near Theodore Alabama is winding down with beans and cabbage still moving to markets and potatoes selling steadily. The potato crop was smaller than last year due to a drought in early spring.
Miss Saxton Samsell recounts curing her father after ten to fifteen years of hemorrhoid suffering with Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Relief began after the first use, and after a month of treatment he returned to work. Note claims include itching burning and pain relieved, with a world wide sale promotion for Cuticura.
The Mobile Item notes birthdays for Bertha Kruse Ida Thompson and Joseph Allen all born in June and ages five nine and thirteen. It invites them to a birthday picture party at the Empire Theatre this afternoon and asks June-born children to send full names addresses and birthdates to the Children’s Auditor at the Mobile Item at least two days before their birth day.
In Tokio on June 10 newspapers regard W. J. Bryan as a friend of Japan and express regret at his resignation as secretary of state. The move is seen as signaling a firm American posture toward Germany and prompts widespread discussion.
Governor Frank B. Willis of Ohio urged residents to stand by President Wilson and support keeping the nation out of war in an Antioch College address at Yellow Springs. He called on Ohioans to fulfill their duty and aid the president.
Trinity river breached the levee in Fort Worth almost trapping workers. Floodwaters inundated the low lands including the baseball park and Cotton Belt terminals, threatening streetcar service to North Fort Worth by morning.
R. E. Christian, a farmer from Wilmer in Mobile county, sent The Item his first cotton bloom. The bloom is first class with no serious boll weevil infestation and signals a promising crop on Christian's Place. The bloom came from a row planted April 1 and is among the first southern Alabama blooms of 1915.
A reader debates health choices and considers remedies. The dialogue questions willingness to seek cures and cites Rev. E. B. Cottrell stating Peruna helped severe colds. The piece ends with a jab that unwillingness to try remedies signals a desire to stay sick.
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