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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1914
Page
6
Mobile social and club notices fill the page with meetings at the Battle House and area venues. A lecture on child labor by Owen R. Lovejoy is set for 8 p.m. in the Tart Auditorium, while UDC and D A R activities, music, and refreshments mark spring gatherings.
An informal dance hosted by Miss Anna Belle Courtright at her Monterey Street home drew a select group of youths who enjoyed the latest tunes and lively footwork in a festive evening reception.
The Ca et Vient notes the Wednesday departure for New York of Mrs Joseph Bradley Read after a winter with Captain A D Anner and Miss Canner. Mrs Read, described as an all around presence in society and a bright fluent conversationalist in Cercile Francais, will be missed.
Mrs H G Donald led a morning reading class on the Chateau of the Loire and a chart of historical personages linked to the localities. Absence of Mrs Sydney Robbins delayed watercolor portraits by Mrs W P Parrish until the next meeting.
Several springtime visitors attended the Thursday Afternoon Bridge Club meeting at 3 p m with Mrs Aaron Hess. Guests included Mrs Arthur Eppstein of Denver Miss Carrie Waller of New York Miss Helen Schuster of Selma and Miss Bernice Meyer of Birmingham. A two course luncheon was served between games and the hostess earned a decorative hand embroidered pillow case for high score. Miss Meyer won the consolation prize a corsage bouquet of sweet peas and hyacinths.
A Mothers' Club gathering held at the Settlement Home drew about a dozen mothers and seven children despite rain. Rev W P Hines of Dauphin Way Baptist Church led the lesson from Matthew on the mothers need of Jesus in the home. No business session due to secretary’s absence, with music by Mr Wesley Deakle and tea and sandwiches served.
Entertainment under the Oakdale School Improvement Association and the Mobile Business Women's Club is postponed until next Friday due to the death in the Berrey family. Miss Berrey, Oakdale's principal, receives widespread sympathy.
Miss Freda Bose will host the Sigma Delta Phi sorority meeting Saturday at 2 30 p m, noting yesterday s rain prevented attendance at the prior gathering.
Miss Mildred Wellhouse and her mother Mrs. Alvin Wellhouse with Mrs. Leinkauf depart Mobile for Atlanta. The party proceeds from a gay Mobile scene, signaling readiness for the debutante season.
Advocates of woman suffrage say their cause advances despite the Senate vote 35 to 84 against a federal amendment. They plan to back Senator Shafroth’s proposed amendment and continue the fight, noting the one vote in favor signals growing strength. In New York, society focuses on the forthcoming wedding of Miss Helen Huntington to Vincent Astor, with Astor’s wealth and activities highlighted alongside family backgrounds.
Robbers blew the vault of the First National Bank in Gallatin Tennessee with nitroglycerin and stole more than thirty thousand dollars including eighteen thousand in cash and six hundred dollars in silver. The alarm sounded at 3 AM and investigators report the screw door vault was breached marking the first such incident in Tennessee. Rewards totaling two hundred dollars per suspect have been offered.
A lengthy social notice lists Mrs H W Leinkaut and family guests, Miss Wellhouse and Miss Helen Bloch visiting Mobile, Mrs W D Stratton as Chatelaine at a Southern villa, Mrs Maggie Evans in Mobile, Miss Helen Schuster in town, Miss A E Reynolds hosting at Windsor, Miss Elizabeth Fonde returning from New Orleans with lectures by Owen R Lovejoy, and Mr A D Pitts visiting while awaiting a new post in Southern Alabama.
The National American Woman's Suffrage Association backs a constitutional amendment and organizes a May demonstration with ten thousand participants. The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage reports rising interest, while Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge opposes, saying the hearing on March 24 would be publicity for suffragists.
New York March 20 with the exception of Mrs Harriet Stanton Bilatch president of the Women's Political Union leaders of the organizations engaged in the campaign to enfranchise women today said the vote on the constitutional amendment was uncertain and debated among supporters and opponents alike.
The text notes divisions among leaders like Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt over aligning with political parties. Shaw argues enfranchisement from Congress is unlikely now and urges securing the vote in a few more states.
Chicago March 20 City commissioners denied Grant Park use for a suffrage rally. Members of the Woman's Party of Cook County began negotiations to hold the May 2 event at the Chicago American League baseball park under the National Woman's Suffrage Association. Political meetings are barred from city parks.
Miss Ruth Agnes Bergstrom aged 17 climbed 165 feet to the dome of the pavilion at the exposition grounds and raised a five foot American flag. The feat marks the completion of the highest point of the fair’s iron work. She wore a gymnasium suit.
The City of Mobile sued the Postal Telegraph Company for failing to remove a Water street pole after notice from City Electrician Mc Cosker. The case was dismissed Thursday and the pole has since been removed.
Alabama Labor Federation leaders plan discussions in Mobile with local officers of the Mobile Central Trades Council about proposed legislation. L Bowen of Birmingham state secretary treasurer will attend. the federation meets in May. Local President George W Jones calls a 10 am Sunday meeting with reps from every union in the state.
A bronze tablet will mark the spot in Capitol Hill School yard where General LaFayette was received during his 1825 Montgomery visit. The unveiling, led by the Peter Forney Chapter DAR, features Dr. Thomas M. Owen as president, Governor O Nea l delivering the principal address, and Mrs J M Wyly of Montgomery giving a local-focused talk. Schoolchildren will perform patriotic songs and recitations.
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