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Social Department Highlights Notable Local Parties
A lively editorial fragment from The Sunday Item covers a Washington Square birthday party for Stephen, age nine, with games like bean contest and hand-arrow, a white birthday cake with pink candles, and a guest list featuring Ethel Beck and others. It also previews baby shows, school and church society reports, and social notices on Mobile events.
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William Whitfield Croom
Washington Square
Stephen
Bryce Hamilton
Keno
William Mickle, Jr
Ethel Beck
Eleanor Ervin
Dorothy Gaillard
Lila
Margaret Packer
Nora Gerald
Myrtle Hobart
Esther
Frances Dean Reynolds
Margaret Coleman
Joe Murray
Morrisette
Richebourg Gaillard
Marion Mrubira
Andrew Price Williams Jr
James Little
Jesse Pugh
James Gavin
Cooper van Antwerp
Harry Johnston
Franklin Maury
Ellis Gates
Robert Ervin
Frank Horton, Jr
Herndon Pearson
Kenneth McAlpine
Marshall McPhillips
John McPhillips
Walter Gaillard
Franklin Coleman
Russell
Song
Barnes
H. G. Barclay
Kaelin
Cox
C. 8. Shuford
McAlwain
D. Monroe
Graves
China
Crosby
Bosarge
C. H. Dees
Chas Smith
Gladys Kennedy
Lorraine McCoy
John Hasselt
Marvin Gillis
Alice Sutton
Otis Gilmore
Beatrice McCrary
Gordon McLean
Alice Tessmer
Alice
Harry Sutton
Otis Earle
Roy Gilmore
Myrtle Jones
Are
Arthur B. McLean
Eula- Me
Eloise Gilmore
Hortense McLean
Eva Lanham
Nellie
May Carpenter
Beatrice
Roberta McCreary
Jimmie Harbin
Rosa Worster
Dametta
Genevieve
Fannie Belle Fisher
Norma Pierce
George B. Fisher
George
John Gillis
Marvin
J. C- Bush
Kanuga Club
N. C
T. G. Bush
New Orleans
A. W. Brooks
Curtis
Mobile