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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1914
Page
3
A poem by John P. Sjolander extols home warmth as a haven from bluster. It celebrates love laughter hugs and kisses in a steadfast domestic ideal, urging that a bright hearted home outshines windy strife.
A reflective piece contrasts genuine laughter with hollow smiles and calls out false cheer, citing Carlyle on tears of deceit and noting Shakespeare’s reminder of gratitude. It contemplates truth, virtue, and the social power of laughter within moral life.
The wedding of Miss Agnes Roycroft second daughter of Mr and Mrs Cr W Roycroft to Mr Robert Sossa Man will take place Tuesday at 5 o clock in the morning at St Vincent's church with Father Brady officiating.
Mr. Beresford Lewis of Galveston Texas credits Vitalitas with reversing years of illness and improved appetite and strength after using the medicine. He claims Vitalitas surpasses famous medicated waters and urges others with stomach liver kidney or blood disorders to try it at Sutton's drug store or request information.
The J. S. Taylor house at 100 Georgia Avenue hosted a Saturday evening dance given by Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Kasson in honor of their son Donovan Graves and his friends. Pink and white decor contrasted with an ice course and punch served to a large group of youths.
Miss Alice Longshore of Columbiana was honored at a Friday evening reception hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Sam Friedman. The Tuscaloosa News notes the elegant decorations in pink chrysanthemums and Killarney roses, with guests including Frances Williams, Lucile Warley, Daphne Cunningham, and others. The event featured a refined salad course and a charming pink theme throughout.
Mrs Ellen Peter Bryce led Alabama division representation at the twenty first annual UDC convention in Savannah where she was feted daily amid social events and eloquent programs. The Tuscaloosa Times Gazette notes her standing among Southern guests and her planned Charleston visit after the event.
An old advertisement urges girls to use Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claiming it cures female ailments. It emphasizes relief enabling women to resume normal work and cites forty years of success in treating women’s diseases.
Interest in the past week centered on elegant entertainments for Miss Mary Baskin a leading bride. Autumn tea luncheon breakfast and a Weulre party featured escorts and guests including Burton Butler Hugh Coburn J H Currie and Ed win McMorries with final dinner and buffet suppers scheduled before the Wednesday wedding.
Miss Mary Baskin and Mr Burton Butler set to wed at First Presbyterian Church with maid of honor Miss Mildred Baskin and bridesmaids from several states. Best man J B Carter and groomsmen listed. Rev D H Scanlon to officiate with organist Eunice Harris. Reception planned at Stonewall Club. Meridian Star.
The Athens College dean’s office will be filled by Miss Caroline Hoefer, former head of the mathematics department, a Rockford College and Wisconsin graduate with extensive study at Wisconsin and Chicago. The vacancy lasts two years. Also noted are early season basketball results, upcoming games, and visits from Dr. C F Reid and family, with college staff and students involved.
Mobile friends announce the engagement of Miss Berdle Field of Vicksburg to Rabbi Alfred G. Moses of Mobile. Dr. Moses is currently in Meridian, with the engagement long whispered and now formally confirmed this week. The Meridian Star notes Rabbi Moses is well known in Meridian, having attended Temple Beth Israel’s dedication and other prominent events.
Mrs Greenwood Ligon announces the marriage of her daughter Margherita to Mr George Robinson Swift. The ceremony will be held Wednesday November 25 at nine o'clock at 430 Spring Hill Avenue Mobile Alabama.
The Ladies of Charity call a 4 p.m. meeting at Conti street asylum. The Woman's Musical Club meets at 8 p.m. with Mrs. Douglas Campbell. The Tuesday Auction Club gathers at 3 p.m. with Miss Edna Manning. St Stephens Road M E Church Missionary Society hosts a silver tea on Tuesday November 17 at Mrs Spencer Adams residence 59 North Ann street.
Miss Lillian Doyle returns from a visit to the Overton family in Battles. Mr. and Mrs. George Rosson spend a weekend at Bayou la Batre. Mobilians Claiborne Schley and George Moulton head to Birmingham for the Auburn Vanderbilt football game. Miss Louie May March visits Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Middleton visit Washington. Miss Josephine Harris visits Mobile friend Selene Hountree. Mrs. Erwin Craighead travels to the Federation of Women's Clubs convention in Montgomery and speaks on the Child Labor Law. Several other members depart for the convention.
Henry Fonde III, longtime superintendent of the Southern Railway at Knoxville Tennessee and former head of the land and industrial department of the Mobile and Ohio, is seriously ill in Knoxville. His brother Dr. G H Fonde of Mobile is at his bedside.
Mr and Mrs Overton spend fall at their summer home with Miss Marion Overton and Miss Lillian Doyle. Guests include Mr Walter Soost, Mr Garvin Hunter, Master Charles Warren, and Mrs Robert Hunter. Visitors bustle to Mobile and Fairhope as hotels host fashionable guests. A new boat may be built for Battles residents and the School Improvement Association met for its regular Thursday session.
Patent attorneys Davis and Davis report grants to citizens including Vincent P. McVoy of Mobile for a hose nozzle, plus other inventors in Alabama and nearby towns such as Sheffield Birmingham Woodward Ensley and Tuscumbia for varied devices and tools.
At the annual meeting of the Athelstan Club W. B. Paterson was re elected president with E. J. Buck as vice president and Frank Ward as secretary. The governing board members named were G. M. Luce F. J. Inge T. K. Jackson James Mc Phillips H. H. Patterson. The session closed with the annual supper.
On Monday Mr. and Mrs. J. Leslie Taylor entertain the Moore Taylor bridal party with a buffet supper after the wedding rehearsal. All Saints parish offers an informal reception from 6 to 8 PM in the Cawthon Hotel assembly room for former All Saints rector Rev Brown and Mrs Brown.
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