Southern Cotton Ball Planned in New York Aid Drive
The Southern Society of New York plans a cotton ball at Waldo n Astoria on Thursday November 12 to raise funds for South relief. Proceeds support distressed Southerners as cotton markets falter. Attendees urged to wear cotton costumes to promote Southern goods and economy.
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Southern Society of New York F
Waldo~n
Astoria
Sociery
South
New York
Washington
Montgomery
Mysteries Dance Planned by Young Society for Friday
The young society announces the first Mys teries dance of the season set for Friday at 8 30 pm with a floor committee led by Joe Bibb and a long list of chaperones including Dr. Seale Harris Mrs. Seale Harris and Mr. and Mrs. George Fearn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Bibb
Allan Hood
Winslow Partridge
Aubrey Raines
D. E. Lowery
Henry Bethea
Henry Hall
Robert Spotswood
Wheeler
T. H. Seeberg
K. A. Browne
Norman Pitman
Robert Douglass
Eugene Thoss
T. B. Spotswood
C. M. Ross
Lyric Saturday Delphine musical comedy draws Mobile society
Society at the Lyric enjoyed the clever little musical comedy Oh Oh Delphine Saturday evening. A congenial crowd, enjoying it together, included Miss accompanied by a small group of Mobile residents.
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Lyric
Social Evening Couples Arranged for Provisional Party
Annie Moore Provost and Mr. Harry L. Jackson participate with Miss Evelyn McLaughlin and Mr. Will Staggers. Miss Alice Ter rill and Mr. Ernst Buck join Miss Mabel Hartwell and Mr. Robert Marshall. An additional pairing includes Miss Edna Finch of Pensacola with Mr. Joe L. Hermann, Miss Marie Hermann and Mr. Lloyd Cowley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Moore Provost
Harry L. Jackson
Evelyn McLaughlin
Will Staggers
Alice Terrill
Ernst Buck
Mabel Hartwell
Robert Marshall
Edna Finch
Pensacola
Joe L. Hermann
Marie Hermann
Lloyd Cowley
Euchre Party Honors Mrs Rivers at Losse Residence
Miss B A Mallon hosted a Friday euchre gathering at 208 St Emanuel Street in honor of Mrs T A Rivers of Atlanta. Ladies prizes went to Marie White and Kate Cummins, while gentlemen prizes were won by B J Chambers and George Swann. Rivers claimed the consolation candy prize. refreshments followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George K. Losse
St. Emanuel Street
B. A. Mallon
T. A. Rivers
Atlanta
Wiss Marie White
Kate Cummins
B. J. Chambers
George Swann
Mobilians Welcome Home McDermotts After War Separation
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. McDermott learn their daughters Mrs. T. J. Larkin and Miss Edith McDermott are safely in New York. The family had been in Paris when war began and were delayed by Mr. Larkin's Africa business. They traveled to London then sailed to New York and plan to come on to Mobile soon as friends await. Mrs. Larkin may visit her parents for a period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. J. McDermott
T. J. Larkin
Edith McDermott
New York
Paris
Mr. Larkin
Africa
London
Mobile
Mrs Ruffin Book Gets Wide Praise In Press
The novel The Shield of Silence by Mrs M E Henry Ruffin draws praise from the Birmingham Age Herald Chicago Inter Ocean Boston Transcript the New York Tribune and the Baltimore American. Superintendent Horace B Deal of the Mobile postoffice project left for Cartersville Ga to inspect a postoffice building by contractor John W Emery of Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Tribune
Baltimore American
Horace B. Deal
Postoffice
Mobile
Cartersville
John W. Emery
Philadelphia
Y W C A Announces Winter Program For Members
The YWCA outlines a winter program with classes in elementary English literature, Bible and mission study, and regular physical work including hygiene talks. Recreation clubs such as horseback riding start this month, with field conference invites from St Louis October 29 to 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Religious Work Committee
A. W. Metcalf
Miss Peeples
Teachers’ Aid
Kentucky
Business Girls’ Athletic Club
Moose Auditorium
Government Street
Grand Bay visitors include regional and Wisconsin guests
Grand Bay Alabama hosted a visiting party led by Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Schafer with Miss Edith Hudson and others from Mobile and Wisconsin. In town for a visit were Mrs. W. W. Parish Jr and daughter Miss Marie from Moment Illinois, with Mrs. Kirkpatrick of Rockford Illinois joining Mrs. O Neil. The state inspector of orchards and nurseries examined the Griffing Nurseries during the visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Schafer
Edith Hudson
Chas. Dismukes
J. W. Brooks
Mobile
Helen Jefferson
Wisconsin
Grand Bay
W. W. Parish, Jr
Marie
Moment, Ill
M. J. O'Neil
Kirkpatrick
Rockford
O'Neil
Patronesses of Cotton Ball Meet to Choose King
The Battle House hosts an informal Monday meeting at 4 PM on the mezzanine to elect a Cotton Ball king and arrange details for the October 17 event. The king will then select a queen from the season’s debutantes during a diner dansant with Mobile society’s noted women listed as patronesses.
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Battle House
Mobile
Chanece
Local Nursery Certifies Health of Stock for Fall Orders
The state horticultural department issued a certificate to a nursery after officials reported healthy products. Mrs. D. D. Harmon and Master Clayton Cotton granted illness updates. A rattlesnake, six feet long, was killed by George Jackson. Remains of Orie Rawls, killed at Biloxi, buried at Grand Bay. Union services at the Methodist Church concluded with 50 conversions and future church joins. Several social visits and travel plans noted for local residents and visitors. Ed Rosengrant ships two Poland-China hogs to Tennessee for fairs. Baptisms planned at Franklin Creek bridge by Rev. D. D. Harmon. Various trips to Grand Rapids, Denver, Mobile, and Nashville noted. Col. Sam McCreary visits from Mobile. T. W. Palmer seen in Grand Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Jackson
Orie Rawls
Biloxi
Grand Bay
W. J. Lloyd
Tom
Denver
Col
Florence Browning
Harland Cleveland
Maddox
Mobile
Dana Hamburger
Evie Clarke
M. L. Smith
C. H. Myers
Grand Rapids
Mich
Franklin Creek Bridge
D. D. Harmon
The
Baptist Church
Darin
Nashville, Tenn
Evan Hughes
Sam McCreary
T. W. Palmer
Ocean Springs
Russians confident of vast Russian food supply
Petrograd reports a boundless food supply with the Novoe Vremya noting Samara peasants deliver 6000 to 8000 wagon loads of wheat daily, about 2600 tons. The war year sees abundant harvests making wheat cheaper than rye and white bread edging out black bread.
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International News Service
Petrograd
Russia
Novoe Vreyma
Samara
Social Roundup From Brewton Masonic Dance and Visits
The Brewton dance at the Masonic Temple drew a number of visitors and local residents. Highlights include chaperoned arrivals, Bridge Club gathering hosted by Mrs. E M Lovelace for Miss Elise Beavin, and updates on guests from Evergreen to Montgomery and beyond. Various Alabama towns are referenced with a stream of social visits and family news.
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Masonic Temple
Carolie McGowin
Anna Will Mangum
Kate Douglas
Agnes McDonnell
Elise Beavin
May Jones
Jamie Lovelace
Stephen Henderson
Dick Crum
Louis Finlay
Everett Pritchett
Basil Lovelace
Edgar Downing
Harmon Williams
Lewis Rutland
J. W. Adkisson
E. M. Lovelace
Bridge Club
Evergreen
Anna VIII
Mangum
Brewton
Birmingham
Blake Harper
Bride
Montgomery
Harper
Evergreen Street
W. H. Harper
Blake
T. L. Haygoode
Fort Deposit
D. B. McKenzie
Eufaula
W. A. Hill
B. Downing
Douglas Avenue
Vivian Stewart
Local Personalities Return From Outing and Visit
Lucius 8. Gray customs cashier left Attalla Ala for a vacation with relatives in Georgia and is back at the federal building with United States Deputy Clerk Bit Jones Jr. Rev Henry Wade Dubose of Government Street Press Church will preach on the eighth day morning before returning home Thursday night. Captain Joseph A. Bisso of Bissa Towboat Company New Orleans is in the city on business lodging at the Saint Andrew Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucius 8. Gray
United States Collector of Office
Attalla
Ala
United States
Bit Jones, Jr
Henry Wade Dubose
Government Street Press Church
Joseph A. Bisso
The
Bissa Towboat Company of
New Orleans
City
Saint Andrew Hotel
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Southern Society
Gossard Corset
Mme. Tacon
St. Francis Street
Alice M. Wyker
Beatrice Orchestra
Euchre
Mrs. Rivers
Bank OF Mobile
Y. W. C. A. Notes
Grand Bay, Ala
Brazil
America
van Antwerp
netlebVie Agents
Cotton Ball
Ball
William J. Atkinson
B. F. Adams
E.S. Feagin
J. J. Blacksher
L. S. Dunlap
John Meador
Erwin Craighead
Rob McConnelll
Jex Luce
Harry Childers
LeBaron Lyons
Matthew Brewster
Mark Lyons
C. P. Robinson
Matthew Mahomer
George Leatherbury
A. E. Maumenee
James Gray
Rivers Rush
E. C. Grace
Stonewall Boulet
James H. Webb
C. W. Soost
C. E. Vincent
J. A. Dew
Joseph L. Hermann
S. A. LeBlanc
Gregory M. Luce
Ellen B. Ligon
Richard Christian
Herbert Lyons
H. P. Cole
Clinton Macartney
Percy
Stanley Finch
FE. H. Shaffer
Eri. C. Hughes
Sidney R. Prince
J. B. Hervey
N. A. Richards
Ed O' Rourke
Rubba
Rollin Kroughton
C.S. Shawhan
J. C. Bush, Jr
J.D. Terrill
G. B. Thases
P. W. Tompkins
J. Blocker Thornton
Henry Tonsmeire
Arthur Tonsmetre
F. G. Touart
H. T. Toulmin
William F. Tebbetts
Horace Turner
Herbert Turner
Martin van Heuvel
G. M. van Liew
P. Vredenburgh
H. H. Wefel, Jr
J. W. Whiting
M. Whiting
T. B. Willoughby
J. T. Wright
J. W. Woolf
E. D. Bondurant
BE. J. Buck
A. P Bush
J. T. Burke
L. G. Cameron
John T. Cochrane
Paul Danner
Angelo Festerazzi
Toulmin Gaines
Seale Harris
M. Waring Harrison
Harry T. Hartwell
Robin C. Herndon
R. O. Harris
H. P. Hirshfield
L. H. Horn
Marion Inge
T. K. Jackson
Winston Jones
W. T. Kelly
M. F. Kirkbride
G. Russell Ladd
Nettie Chandler
Mary Chandler
William N. Hunter
J. Tunstall Inge
Ernest I. Ladd
E. D. Flynn
Carl Fox
FE. O. Fowlkes
Ed Harrison
William Vizard
William Douglass
W. A. Powell
W. B. Paterson
H. M. Price
J. C. Rich
Wythe Whiting
Robert H. Smith
F. T. Parker
George Fearn, Jr
Wm. Barnewail
Kelsey
Elgin
Mik
Lymansville
Brown and
Copenhagen Green
Skinner
Seton
Fitzgerald
St. Emanuel
Dauphin St
Brewton, Ala
Ruskin
Staub’s
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