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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1915
Page
6
Henry Van Dyke compares awaitng love and separation in a lyrical. The speaker notes a garden rich with roses and a mansion to explore but must depart. The parting gifts are a single rose and a stirrup cup as he anticipates meeting again on the road ahead.
Miss Helen Dorsey entertained a group of friends at dinner in Laurel. Center of attention were Miss Glanys McDade of Mobile and Miss Katherine Schneider of New Orleans. Pink theme with sweet peas, followed by dancing, praised for gracious hospitality. Guests included Miss Sullivan, Dorothy McClure, Mrs. Frank Sullivan, Edgar Ferrell, Black of Mobile, John Evans, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dorsey.
Rev and Mrs J A Lee issue invitations for Sara Alice Lee to wed William Felton McDade in Silver Creek Mississippi on Monday June 21 at 9 o'clock. Laurel readers expect many locals to attend as noted by the Laurel Daily Teacher. Guests include Miss Sullivan Pete Lautkin and Gladys McDade visiting Sullivan home.
Several friends of Mrs J K Davidson and her daughter Mrs C A Brunson planned a surprise Tuesday night before their move to Brewton Alabama. The note describes the cheerful gathering and the family’s forthcoming home transition.
Brunson and her friend Mrs G L Box bade farewell on East Rick ardy street. Mrs August Burger spoke for the friends present and presented them with engraved thimbles bearing initials. The Davidson and Brunson families leave amid warm wishes for happiness and prosperity in the new home.
Miss Irwin Fearn of Mobile is listed among sponsors at the prize regimental drill at Auburn Tuesday. Several prominent Alabama girls were noted among the sponsors, with Miss Fearn the only Mobilian.
Announcement says Harry Clifton will supervise another dance on the steamer Cessna. The event departs Dauphin street foot at 8 30 p m and returns at 11 45 p m on Thursday June 17 with chaperones John Meador Steele Partridge Rob Neville Jr.
Miss Mat tie Freeland wed Mr. Elbert Thaddie Thompson Thursday at the Freeland home in a ceremony led by Rev. J J Barnes. Green and white decor framed the front parlor as flower girls Irma Freeland and Hazel Hatchett paraded in lace gowns. A reception followed with an ice course and a bride’s cake table adorned in the green and white theme.
An advertisement promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a pleasant vegetable liver medicine that replaces calomel. It promises morning recovery from bilious symptoms, no salivation, and a money back guarantee with druggist endorsement.
Miss Viola Kraus, famed in New York society as a beauty, married Victor Von Schlegel at her parents home on West Seventy-sixth Street. The couple will honeymoon aboard the yacht Vamoose, as celebrants note.
Thompson altered her wedding attire to a blue silk poplin traveling suit with a matching hat for a bridal trip. The couple, Mr and Mrs Thompson, will reside in Mobile where he works with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and both are well known and popular.
Miss Bessie Louise Cox to marry James Westbrook next week. Mrs Q B Adams hosts a heart party shower with daisies green and white decor. Spencer Adams brings daisy laden wagon as gifts. prizes include perfume and blue silk hose. daisy iced cake and initials NE and CO on cake. Ice course and punch served by Isabelle Rain and the Patterson sisters.
Miss Margaret Inez Phelan hosts an event for graduates at St Vincent's School at 8 p m. Mrs B F Adams attends Elwell Bridge Club at 4 p m. Evelyn Harvey's pupils perform a recital at McGill's at 8 p m. St Vincents graduates of Stucent's p m plan a later event at 4 p m for Miss Bessie Cox.
Mrs C P Dailey and her little son Christopher Toplim have returned from a visit with her sister Mrs John McDonald in New OKi. Mrs J B Marshall has returned from a visit to cousin Mrs Rogers at Moss Point. Miss Ruth Turner left for Mobile to attend commencement at Spring Hill College and stay with sisters Mrs Paul Jackson and Mrs Herbert McCay. Miriam Russell remains in Mobile as guest of Miss Grace Van Heuvel in Montgomery. The March Cawthon wedding is noted.
Merrill residents hosted and visited kin across Mississippi. Among events, Mr. and Mrs. Purvis wed and moved to Pine Grove. many relatives and friends from Mobile, Lucedale, Groves, and nearby towns attended gatherings, birthdays, and dinners. Church activities, school events, and local visits filled a busy social week.
Grove Hill Alabama reports Mrs M L Orr and her young son visiting relatives in Dothan. The summer school opens with its best enrollment to date. Hon R P Chapman attended the Richmond Confederate reunion. Professors Watson and Mitford Matthews arrive to assist. Mrs L E Clark and Ida Mae return to Mobile after visiting Dr E S Cooper. Mrs F F Carter and Mrs W V Stewart spend time at Healing Springs. Rev A E Shafer conducts revival at Stockton Baldwin County. Mrs E S Cooper and son John R spend time at home.
A cordial Mobile Pensacola social scene unfolds with weddings, house parties, and visits. The Misses Campbell Elmore Hall Gordon Posey Gordon Clemmons Van Dorn Gardner lead a string of exchanges among Pensacola Moss Point Mobile Citronelle and Daphne figures with travel and summer plans noted in local papers.
Mrs J C Crum and her daughter visited Arlington relatives then traveled to Montgomery to join her husband and son who have been at the Panama Exposition in San Francisco. They will return to Mobile after Montgomery. Mr and Mrs John Cunningham spent Sunday with their parents in Arlington. Mrs J H Kimbrough has been on the sick list this week. Mr and Mrs J D Stoudenmier and children of Newbern paused in Arlington en route to Mobile and the coast. Miss Julia Buck returned to Thomaston after visiting her sister Mrs B B De Van.
Nashville inventor B C Seaton endorses Vitalitas in a testimonial noting relief from years of rheumatism and sciatica. He claims improved appetite sleep and morning energy and cites uses for stomach liver kidneys and blood with ongoing reported cures. Sold at Sutton's Drug Store.
J M Hicks visits ae friends in Adams and returns from Lamis with sisters. J A Agee spent Wednesday in Selma on business. Dr F F Kim yg left Sunday for Pensacola Florida. vs T J Shields of Selma was in Arlington Friday. Mr and Mrs J Eh Kimbrough spent Saturday in Selma. Eleanor Cobb left Wednesday for Marion to visit sister Mrs Dozier. Mrs John Raines of Lamison visits her Arlington parents.
Fifty orphans from the Mobile Church Home arrived by the steamer Apollo to spend a week at the Business Women's Club House on Magnolia Beach. The club house use is donated by the members and transportation across the bay is funded by Mr. M. E Bowen of the Apollo. Mrs. W. E. Sweet hosted her former pupils for a Wednesday afternoon gathering.
Silverhill residents spent Sunday at the Gables. J. P. Lowell and family moved into their Fels avenue home. Dr. Beggs and family with Mr and Mrs Bixler of Mobile visited the Gables. Mr Quehesneau of Robertsdale joined Sunday guests. E H Payne departed yesterday for a few weeks in New Orleans.
Crops look fine despite drought. The Methodist church protracted meeting closed Thursday night. D W Jevans passed through Saucier to Gulfport. M Spikes visiting Gulfport. Mr and Mrs Grover Spikes welcomed a baby girl. Floyd Fairley visiting relatives and friends in town.
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