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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jun 18, 1913

Page

5

Barnwell MacMahon and Ward McGehee Weddings Reported

Notices list weddings at Government Street Presbyterian and St Francis Street Methodist with 9 p m ceremonies and family receptions on North Conception and 351 St Francis Street. Also Abba Temple moonlight boat ride aboard Apollo from Dauphin Street at 7 30 p m returning 11 30 p m for visiting Shriners and families. Auctioneers with Miss Katherine McDonald and Discards with Mrs LeBaron Lyons noted. Mysteries Dance in honor of the event.

Barnwell-MacMahon Government-street Presbyterian Church North Conception Street Abba Apollo Dauphin Street Fez

Spring Hill students fete at German Relief Hall event

Today's notice highlights St Vincent's Club bay ride and dance aboard the steamer Pleasure Bay departing 7 46 p m and returning 1 a m. It also notes Miss Aline Fearn sharing high honors with Miss Josephine Harris and Miss Rebecca Halls at a Convent of the Visitation dance near Ashland Place.

Spring Hill College St. Vincent's Club Pleasure Bay Lattle’s Wharf

Horoscope for Those Born Today Warns of Frivolity

A warning passage notes a troublesome path ahead if one does not awaken to reality at a young age. It cautions that those born today may drift into frivolity without guidance, though capable of great deeds if properly steered by others.

Wednesday Bridge Club closes season with prize winner

The final meeting of the season for the Wednesday Bridge Club was held yesterday at 3 o'clock with Mrs. G. O. Rhen as host. Guests included Miss Bessie Kelly who won the guests prize, a pair of silk hose, as Mrs. Rhen had the best score at the small tables.

Wednesday Bridge Club G. O. Rhen Bessie Kelly

Social Notes From Whistler Gather at Newell Home

Social news details Women’s groups meeting at Mr. and Mrs. William Newell’s Fourth Street residence with refreshments served by Miss Georgia Newell. Miss Effie Matthews hosts a birthday party on Watson Street with cake and ice cream. Lillian Pringle visits Lima for summer. several locals travel or recover from illness. prize at a club card game noted. invitations issued for a June 20 bridge party for a bride-elect at the Athelstan Club with Miss Gertrude Creswell Smith.

Ladies’ Aid and Missionary Societies William Newell Fourth Street Georgia Newell Tim Gaston St. Stephen's Road Effie Matthews Watson Street Lillian Pringle Lima Frank Pringle Charles Kohl Providence Infirmary W. A. Glover Jacksonville Fla E. S. Barnes Fred Turner Birdie Mae Birmingham Anniston Sydney Rhodes Prince Athelstan Club Gertrude Creswell Smith

Pre-Nuptial Entertainment For Ward and McGehee

A group of twenty gathered on the launch Sweetheart for a three hour bay and river cruise in honor of Miss Marion McGehee and Mr. Thomas Bus ter Ward. The party, including Frank Ladd and Avalon Tacon, returned to the Ladd home on Government street for a lavish picnic supper and rehearsal at St. Francis Street Methodist Church. The evening continued with a reception for the bridal party at Miss Mary Frazer’s home and a moonlight bay excursion by the St. Vincent's Club on the Pleasure Bay to Battles Wharf with a planned 7 45 pm departure and 1 am return. The Elwell Club will not meet this week due to a bereavement.

Marion McGehee Thomas Buster Ward Amelie Ladd Barton Academy Frank Mobile Bay Ward-McGehee Mary Frazer Frazer Jennie Mims Moonlight Bay Mobile East Store St. Vincent's Club Pleasure Bay Battles Wharf Will Giblin

Social Notes From Mobile Aide Delights and Departures

Miss Adelaide John plans a Georgian avenue visit to her aunt Mrs. W. W. Cleveland this summer. Lucile Rush and Mary Knight Rush stay with Meridian friends for a plantation house party. New Orleans guests Mr. and Mrs. Lanaux and daughter Elizabeth proceed home. Helen Rich and Mrs. Rich accompany them for a ten day stay in New Orleans as Mr. Rich returns to Mobile. Sydney Robbins returns from Selma where his father Dr. J R Robbins improved. Laz Schwarz enjoys a two week itinerary to New York Detroit and Cincinnati. Mrs. Charles Bryan of Memphis visits sister Electra Semmes Colston on Government street. Mrs. Vaughn and Mrs. Richards go to Meridian for the May Townsend wedding. Louis Leary leaves for Birmingham to attend the Ira Pulldam and William Walter Leary wedding. Deep sympathy to the Arnstein family on Oskar Arnstein’s death. brothers Stein of Biragen Nayar summoned to the city.

Aline Fearn Convent of the Visitation Ashland Place Josephine Harris Rebecca Halls Montgomery George Fearn Annie Raphael Boone Irvin Fern New York Lucy Herndon Elizabeth Heakes Susie Douglas Margaret Jones Eulalie Hagan Rachael Duke Hamilton Ethel Gaines Martha Webb Elizabeth McAlpine Lillié Butt Gordon Burgett Maudie Woolf Helen Horn Nellie Bereuson Mamie Paul Butler John Moreland Bennie Forcheimer Boykin Boone Seale Harris Emile Baumhauer Charles Clisby Oscar Thomas Lanaux Elizabeth New Orleans J. C. Rich Mrs. Rich Helen Rich

Married Life The Third Year At A Country Roadhouse

Warren and his wife Emma Stevens discuss weekend crowds and prices at a country roadhouse. They complain about chauffeurs and overpay, then dine with friends and end up with a bill that includes a surprising chauffeur’s dinner charge. The scene captures class attitudes and social norms of a Saturday night out.

Warren Mr. Stevens Emma George Helen

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