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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1915
Page
7
A Baltimore Sun poem contrasts paths of grandeur with the simple road of ordinary goodness. The speaker declines pageants and crowds, choosing the common road where help is given, winds are gentle, and modest joys are shared.
A lively birthday event marks four-year old Joseph Earl Sercha’s party at his home after visiting the Empire Theatre with friends Alberta Drey, Wm Flynn, and others. Guests enjoyed games, Victrola music, a birthday cake, and treats before returning home. A Fort Barancas band will perform in Bienville Square Tuesday, weather permitting, with Battle House rotunda as alternative.
A Mississippi River style list highlights the Peerless river steamer plying weekly to Montgomery and praised as peerless in many respects. Social events include a St Patrick party with Mrs Trousdale and a large group of out-of-town guests from New York and Chicago. The report also covers W C T U activities and upcoming engagements between Marie Webb and Rev Henry Wade DuBose, plus Helene Eberlein’s engagement.
Richardson will wed Mr Bernard A Carlin at home on Wednesday April 14. No cards.
A spring outing drew Miss Ella Packer Blacksher Miss Celie Webb Miss Margaret Blacksher Herman Mashmeyer Henry Izard and George Gage chaperoned by Mr and Mrs BE G Maxon as they drove to Coden and Dauphin Island by launch No Trump Card Club. Julia Creary hosted the No Trump Club with Mrs Sanderford Jarmon Mrs Joseph Hodgson and Miss Marie Layette as guests. Hy Aldridge won the club prize of silk hose. The Friday Bridge Club met at Miss Hilda Broadwood’s with guest table including Miss Irene Dunster Miss Dorothy Talcott and Miss Agnes Fowlkes. Elise Hall won the club prize. The H and C 8 S Entertainment saw Barton Academy’s Hooks and Crooks Society host games in room 209 with prizes to Gerald Delshaw Tollofson and Julie Burg. refreshments followed. Mrs Ida C Adamson of New York City visits Miss Texie Donaldson on Cherokee Street for three weeks.
Personal mentions list Mr. and Mrs. S Spencer and daughter to Ventiac Mich. Mrs. E I Fastburn hosts Miss Ethel Britain and Miss Lena Coto of Hamilton Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. William Norvell visiting Mrs. Owen en route to Pass Christian. Lizzie Owen remembered. Miss Virginia We of Montgomery and Miss Mary Lyons of Salisbury NC return home. Mrs. M Scheck hosts Miss Crotzer. H G Lonera visited New Orleans. Miss Alice Clapp heads to Selma. Miss Courtright visits New Orleans. Mr. and Mrs Frank Gaunt and daughter Millie return from Mobile to Elburn Ill. Miss Margaret Horn visits Moss Point. Miss Irene Dunster with Dr and Mrs Maumenee. Mrs. J E Dickenson back from Montgomery. Miss Mabel Courtney returns from New Orleans and Mobile. Thatcher couple return to Fargo ND.
A fire at the E. P. Morrissette gin house in Lower Peach Tree, Alabama, consumed ten tons of hay and is believed incendiary. Several local items note visits, illnesses, and social events, including Cheney's hurried trip to Evergreen and other community notices.
Semmes Alabama holds a post meeting to set a schedule and elect officers for the season with H Murphree as manager and Charles Cogburn as captain. Other members listed include Sam Christopher Leland Wulff Clarence Hartsock and several Grahams. Local literary society and Larkin Club meetings are noted with attending members and guests.
The article lists weekly social events from Monday to Friday including clubs meetings at Battle House and Cawthon Hotel, sewing circles, book and expression clubs, parlor gatherings, and a senior social contest at Harte auditorium. It notes local visitors and guests such as Ward and Christopher family members and Effie Christopher.
Local residents from Citronelle, Vinegar Bend, State Line and nearby towns visit friends in Fruitdale. A good roads meeting for the Mobile Meridian route is set for March 20 at 2 30 pm. A Winnipeg newcomer opens a new stable, and a group of young women enjoy a noon train ride to Yellow Pine with a five mile walk.
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