Hallowe en Party and Showers Highlight Mobile Social Scene
Miss Virginia Thornton hosts a Hallowe en party at 5 PM for family and friends. Miss Alice Newton arranges a novelty shower for Miss Rebe Price at 8 PM. The New Bridge Club gathers Tuesday afternoon hosted by Mrs. G Chaudron. The Polyhymnia Circle meets Wednesday at 11 AM at Mrs. James Wade Coxs home with Indian music featuring relatives and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Newton
Rebe Price
New Bridge Club
G. Chaudron
James Wade Cox
Meeting of the Spinsters at Battle House Parlor C
A meeting of The Spinsters will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in Parlor C of the Battle House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Battle House
Two Lectures by Miss Sterling in Philadelphia
Miss Lydia Sterling of Philadelphia will lecture on Wednesday afternoon November 5 at 3 30 on Which Woman the Old or the New and on Thursday morning at 10 a recital from The Taming of the Shrew at the Visitation of the Academy. A cordial invitation is extended to all Visitation Alumnae. Helen S Holbrooks Corresponding Secretary V C A A
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Sterling
Lydia Sterling
Philadelphia
Academy
Visitation
Helen
Holbroos
Boone-Warley Wedding Celebrated in Houston Texas
Mobile physician Tom Boone Jr and Miss Helen Toulmin Warley of New Orleans were wed Friday October 31 in Houston at the Warley home. Ceremony by Rev. Robert E. Lee Craig featured Lohengrin under palm arches. Attendants included Elmore Toulmin Rundle and Meta Warley. They plan a Mobile return after November 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone-Warley
Houston
Texas
Tom Boone
Mobile
Helen Toulmin
Warley
New Orleans
Much i Iinterest
Helen Toulmin Warley
Tom Boone, Jr
Ala
Allen Huger Warley
Caroline Street
Robert EE. Lee Craig
Lohengrin
Chantilly
Elmore Toulmin Rundle
Meta Warley
Herbert Roberts
Frank B. Thomas
Gladys Boone
Elmore T. Rundie
Mary Toulmin
South
Meyer Thweatt Wedding in New York Draws Mobile Interest
Miss Louise Peterson Thweatt and Oscar Jackson Meyer wed at North Presbyterian Church in New York. Bride wore white satin meteor with lace and orange blossoms. attended by Mrs. Samuel J. Shivers and four bridesmaids. Reception at 660 West 150th Street followed by honeymoon in Germantown. The groom’s brother Jonathan Meyer served as best man. The wedding links Mobile friends to the gulf city visit years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Presbyterian Church
155Th Street
Broadway
John Mackey
Samuel J. Shivers
Sara Helm Thweatt
Nancy Ruth Thweatt
Dorothy Helm Martin
Philadelphia
Otillie Steinhilber
Alex Hardwick S. Thweatt
Donald McLeod Wilber
New York
P. Edwin Paulson
Webster Warner
West 150Th Street
Germantown
General Eastern
The
Southern Railway
Gulf City
Miss Ella Ward Debut Honored in Birmingham Party
Miss Margarett Horn of Mobile and Miss Marion Cowan of Shelbyville attended as guests at a debutante party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Ward in Birmingham. The afternoon tea, buffet supper, and 9 o'clock dance were held at the Norwood residence decorated with chrysanthemums and ferns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margarett Horn
Birmingham
M. L. Ward
Ella Louis Ward
Miss Margare
Horn
Mobile
Miss Ward
Marion Cowan
Shelbyville
Miss Horn
Miss Cowan
Mrs Wilson Joins Welfare Workers
Mrs Woodrow Wilson accepts honorary vice chairman role in the National Civic Federation's women's department. She joins efforts to improve government employee conditions and combat city alley slums. She toured the government printing office and postal mail bag repair facility urging sanitary precautions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Woman's Department
National Civic Federation
District of Columbia
Wilson
Post Office
Miss Margaret Horn of Mobile Visits Miss Genevieve Burt
Embroidered crepe meteor with lace in sleeves and yoke. Miss Margaret Horn of Mobile, guest of Miss Ella Louis Ward, will join Miss Genevieve Burt after this week. Horn was a favored guest at a card party hosted by Miss Marie Rosamond in honor of Misses Mary and Elma Haller of Memphis, Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Horn
Mobile
Ella Louis Ward
Genevieve Burt
Horn
Marie Rosamond
Mary and
Elma Haller
Memphis
Tenn
Birmingham Age- Herald
Box Party Honors Miss Gladys Boone at Maggie Pepper
Mr and Mrs Edward D McCan hosted a box party for Rosa Stahl after a Prince Theatre showing of Maggie Pepper in Mobile Ala guest Miss Gladys Boone of Mobile and hostess S J Bain attended with Misses Boone Meta Warley and guests Henry Safford and Horace Wilkins following a supper celebration prior to the Warley Boone wedding Friday at Warley Boone home in Mobile Alabama war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Boone
Edward D. McCan
Rosa Stahl
Maggie Pepper
Prince
Mobile
Ala
S. J. Bain
Warley-Boone
Misses Boone
Meta Warley
Henry Safford
Horace Wilkins
Houston Post
Tuscaloosa Wedding of Miss Duncan and Mr Clabaugh
Miss Mary Bacon Duncan and Mr Samuel Francis Clabaugh were married Thursday at Christ Church Tuscaloosa at 8 pm in a ceremony before hundreds. Matron of honor Mrs Will Brown sister of the bride wore white brocaded satin and gold chiffon. maid Miss Willie Duncan wore a gold gown. Ring bearer Miss Peanette Duncan carried a ring with a chrysanthemum. Rev E A Penick conducted. The couple left for an extended trip and will reside with Mr Oliver on Tenth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Bacon Duncan
Samuel Francis Clabaugh
Christ Church
Tuscaloosa
W. B. Oliver
Will Brown
Mobile
Willie Duncan
Peanette Duncan
Leon C. Bradley
E. A. Penick
John Barrett of Pan American Union and Mrs Walsh to wed
Special from Washington reports that John Barrett director of the Pan American Union will marry Mrs Thomas F Walsh widow of a Colorado mine owner. Barrett is a Washington figure visiting the Panama Canal with Secretary Garrison's party after a stint at Mobile Alabama. He was born in Grafton Illinois in 1866 and is a Dartmouth graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John Barrett
Pan-American Union
Thomas F. Walsh
Milionaire Colorado
Walsh
Panama Canal
Garrison
Nashville Tennesseean
Barret
Southern Commercial Congress
Mobile
Ala
Grafton
Dartmouth
Weston Newspapers
Philippines
Argentina
Panama
Columbia
New York Society Women Defy Customs Over Aigrettes
New York society women who arrived from abroad celebrate Lady Cheylesmore’s victory over customs inspectors. On the Lusitania she refused to surrender a pheasant feather on her Parisian hat, arguing in America it is wild bird while in England it is domestic. She was given the benefit of the doubt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lady Cheylesmore
Elsie French Vanderbilt
Bard
Cheylesmore
Westminster
Lusitania
America
England
Barrett Visits Nashville At State Fair Meetings
Mr. Barrett, well known in Nashville circles, joined the state fair events and spoke at the Southern Commercial Congress gatherings. He has frequent ties to the city and chaired several of the meetings during the week in Mobile and Nashville engagements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pan-American Union
Walsh
Edward B. McLean
Carrie Reed
Leadville Col
Barrett
Nashville
Woman's Auxiliary
Southern Commercial Congress
Louise Lindsley
Mobile
C. C
Burgess couple to be stationed near San Francisco
Major and Mrs Burgess will leave Alabama this month for a fort near San Francisco marking a homecoming for Mrs Burgess who has long been part of Mobile society. The note lists several social visits and movements of residents and guests in Mobile including Miss Bettie Conner, Mrs John Rush, Mrs Anna Rutherford Cannon, Mrs B C Fowlkes, Dr and Mrs S E Lightcap, Mrs John Strong, Mrs Hannie Ingersoll, Mrs Thomas Forbes, and Miss Emily Warley accompanying the Mobile branch of the Southern Association of College Women to a conference in Dothan with plans to advocate a women’s dormitory at the University of Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Major
Mrs. Burgess
Alabama
Far West
San Francisco
Fort Morgan
Mobile
California
John Strong
Birmingham
City
Hannie Ingersoll
Battles
Strong
Thomas Forbes
Sherman
Texas
Emily Warley
Dothan
Ala
Southern Association of College Women
Federation of Women’s
Mrs Burke and Witherbee sisters to depart Tuesday
Miss Lucille Burke and Miss Leona Witherbee and Miss Mary Witherbee prepare to leave on Tuesday for an unspecified destination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucille Burke
Leona
Mary Witherbee
Sadie Weems Hosts House Party in Shubuta
A party at join's house in Shubuta Mississippi features Miss Sadie Weems as the entertainer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shubuta, Miss
Sadie Weems
Dothan Alabama Federation Women Club Convention Program
The Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs holds its Dothan convention November fourth to seventh. The program opens with executive and credentials meetings and a demonstration table showcasing each club’s year’s work. Club presidents are urged to submit yearbooks and typed statements for display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama Federation of Woman's Clubs
Dothan
Prentiss B. Reed
Faust Spaghetti Nutritional Claim Prompts Diet Talk
An advertising snippet urges parents to feed children Faust Spaghetti as a cheap protein source. It claims a 10c package provides as much nutrition as 4 lbs of beef and notes its cost is one-tenth of meat, attributed to Maull Bros of St. Louis.
Have Changed Mind Home Tonight Mary Writes Telegram
Mary decides to end a romance by sending a telegraph to Bert Fletcher stating she has changed her mind and will be home that night. Back home she reassures her mother, who fears loneliness after the father's death, while a possible marriage is discussed but Mary refuses any future with the man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Colnabus Avenue
Bert Fletcher
Herbert Fletcher
Eighty-fourth Street
Mother
Darforth
Mar
Don
Federation plans and sessions outlined for Alabama club
The document describes a federation meeting program with education sessions, committee reports, and addresses by Dr. Laura Drake Gill and Professor W. H. Thomas. It urges clubs to send material to Mrs. Prentiss B. Reed and notes portions on scholarships, endowment funds, and education for Alabama women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Fritter
Mercer Davis
Professor Brown
R. D. Blacksher
M. ©. Carroll
Charles Henderson
Percy V. Pennybacker
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Pat Me
Myre
Iy, Bashinsky
B. F.tyler
Phares Coleman
J. H. Phillips
F. A. Rogers
Laura Drake Gill
Alabama
W. H. Thomas
Southern Industrial Education Association
Mountaineers
Martha 8. Gielow
Also Mentioned on This Page
Virginia Thornton
J. Blocker Thornton
Thomas
F. D. Bilake
Misses Finneys
Nereus
Mrs. Wilson
Department of National Civic Federation
Miss Duncan
Mr. Clabaugh
Major Burgess
Bettie Conner
Stella Brooks
Hattiesburg
Miss
John Rush
George B. Christie
Mrs
Anna Rutherford Cannon
Mesers
R. H. and
C. M. Rutherford
Spring Hill Avenue
B. C. Fowlkes
R. A. Rush
Selma
Aia
S. E. Lightcap
Talladega
R. D. Williams
H. H. Donald
J. W. Partridge
C. F. Harrington
W. C. Black
Li. J. Haley
Sterling A. Wood
W. H. Seymour
General Federation
Erwin Craighead
Maull- Bros
St. Levis
Federation
C. B. Pilley
John D. McNeill
Lyric Theatre
Cas Urpay
Annie Russell
Willis
Percy
Dauphin Street
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