Cotton Ball At Battle House Opens the Season
The Battle House hosted a Cotton Ball to begin the season with a coronation of Queen Hartwell. King Carl McMahon led a cotton themed procession in an all cotton attire, surrounded by debutantes in cotton gowns and chaperones. A festive ball followed a grand dining room decorated with cotton and flags.
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Battle House
Cermany
Chicago
Carl McMahon
Miss Hartwell
Barker Cotton Mills
J. A. Rountree
Catherine de Medici
Monaghan
Southland
Narrow path to happiness, not fashion stylish life
A religious reflection contrasts the narrow path to eternal happiness with fashionable neglect of spirit. It warns that judgment will be by truth before God, not society’s fashion. It cites Matthew Arnold on women uniting for mankind’s benefit as a future power.
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Paris
Matthew Arnold
Monument to Barbara Frietchie Unveiled in Frederick Maryland
A bronze tablet on a monument to Barbara Frietchie was unveiled in Frederick during the ten day Star Spangled Banner Centenary. Frederick women led the fundraising campaign and the unveiling honored Frietchie beyond Longfellow’s poem.
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Barbara Frietchie
Frederick
Maryland
Longfellow
Roehn Spencer Wedding in New Orleans
Miss Lillian Howard Spencer and Mr Alfred Frank Roehn wed in a private ceremony October 15 at Trinity Episcopal rectory in New Orleans. Attended by relatives, the couple dined at Grunewald and planned a San Antonio honeymoon before settling with Roehn’s mother at 5512 Patton Avenue New Orleans.
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Mobile
New Orleans
Lillian Howard Spencer
Alfred Frank Roehn
Trinity Episcopal Church
Robert Coupland
Chris Grove
Roehn
Grove
Grunewald
San Antonio
Tex
Patton Avenue
Miss Spencer
Charles F. Spencer
Alice Tuttle Spencer
Marston Hereford Wedding Invitations Adopted
Invitation from Mr and Mrs James Edwards Here ford to celebrate the marriage of their daughter Emily Page to Mr Joseph George Lanaux Marston on Wednesday October 28 1914 at 11 at the Church of St John and St James Ferguson Missouri with a reception from 12 to 2 at 115 Elizabeth Avenue Mobile hosts note groom is prominent in Texas and connected with New Orleans families First Bachelors Cotillion of the season planned October 29 Jackson Alabama residents J W Oliver and wife visiting.
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James Edwards
Hereford
Emily Page
Joseph George Lanaux Marston
Church of St. John and St. James
Ferguson
Elizabeth Avenue
Mobile
Texas
Sam Marston
New Orleans
Thomas Lanaux
New Or 1
Mr. Marston
Hallowe'en Dance Planned by Local Society Leaders
A Hallowe en dance is anticipated by society as Miss Lucia Price and Miss Grace Moore sponsor the event at German Relief hall on October 30. W. D. Sims, state secretary of the Alabama Sunday School Association, is staying several days at the Cawthon Hotel for business.
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Lucia Price
Grace Moore
German Relief Hall
W. D. Sims
Alabama Sunday School Association
Birmingham
Cawthon Hotel
Dr and Mrs Festorazzi Host Cotton Ball Gathering
Dr and Mrs Angelo Festorazzi entertained six guests at the Cotton Ball on Saturday evening. The Festorazzi table featured cotton themed decorations and keepsakes with cotton ball motifs, and guests included Mr and Mrs Charles Hervey and Mr and Mrs Marion Wise.
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Mrs. Festorazzi
Angelo Festorazzi
Festorazz
Charles Hervey
Marion Wise
Shakespeare Club Weekly Meeting Draws Large Attendance
The Shakespeare Club met with Mrs C J Torrey on Saturday morning for its regular weekly gathering. No business was conducted as members discussed Act II of The Winter's Tale and debated twelve analytic questions on Hermione Leontes and the domestic scene.
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Thes Shakespeare Club
C. J. Torrey
Hermione
Leontes
Peterson Tallon Wedding at St Josephs Church
Miss Eleanor Agnes Tallon became the bride of Mr George W Peterson in a Wednesday evening ceremony at St Josephs rectory. Attendants were John Wall and Annie Tallon. A reception followed at the bride’s home on Bay avenue and O Donnell street. The Craighead Parliamentary Law Club meets Friday at 4 in the colonial room of the Cawthon Hotel.
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Eleanor Agnes Tallon
George W. Peterson
St. Joseph's Church
John Wall
Annie Tallon
Bay Avenue
O'Donnell Street
Craighead
Parliamentary Law Club
Colonial Room
Cawthon
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John Bennett
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Joe Bibb
Messrs
Allan Hood
Winslow Partridge
Aubrey Raines
Dr. E. Lowry
Henry Bethea
Henry Hall, Jr
Robert Spotswood
Wheeler Burgett
Seale Harris
George Fearn, Jr
Harry Childers
Will Little
Mark Lyons
A. F. Barr
R. H. Bolling
T. H. Seeberg
Eugene Thoss
T. E. Spotswood
C. M. Ross
E. M. Cunningham
Aimee Wilson
Marie Hermann
Irwin Fearn
Aline Fearn
Maudie Woolf
Tallulah Arnold
Bert Olinger
Mae Foreman
Lucille Brown
Kathleen Brown
Marion Maloney
Lucille Chauncey
Hattie Thoss
Corrinne Thoss
Lillian Thoss
Mabel Hartwell
Ella Packer Blacksher
Ethel Gaines
Lily Butt
Helen Baron
Elsa Baron
Mary Daughdrill
Hallie Cooper
Effie Soost
Grace, Moore
Lucia
Price
Lena Thomas
Elizabeth Heakes
Lucille Tisdale
Bailey Westbrook
Margaret Blacksher
Annie Lee Sargent
Jamie Grace
Kathleen Hughes
Marie Stoll
Jim Alvarez
Edwin Arnold
Dargon Butt
Louis Baumhauer
Eric Bromberg
Boykin Boone
Ernst Buck
Starr Putterlle
Caleb Burgoyne
Donald Barbour
Harry Clifton
Lloyd Cowley
Tom Crossland
Felix Cleveland
Lester Carol
Mark Carmelich
Robert Douglass
Ross Dolive
Cecil Dargon
Harold Friedenthal
Harold Gainor
Gordon
Joe Gillette
Francis Hoffman
George Harris
Joe L. Hermann
Wilmer Jarvis
George Gage
Harold Hill
William Hagan
Vance Harkness
George Inge
George Lawrence
Marion Little
John Lee
Tom McDonald
Frank Moell
Edgar Mortimer
Ervin Mitchell
Claude Pruitt
T. C. Patterson
Leo Reed
Jack Roberts
Arnold Raine
Joe Sands
T. Sargeant
Albert Treadway
Cyril , Tucker
S. Tho
Spornors
Maids of Honor
United Confederate Veterans
Elks Club
Athelstan Club
Fide
Charles A. Fessna
Mobile Bay
Grand Hall
Yacht Club
James Alvarez
Mary Knight Rush
Maiden Cammack
May Leatherbury
D. A. Harris
Lorraine Cunningham
Alson Wilson
Robert Marshall
Miss Rush
Leslie Denham, Jr
W. L. Denham
Force
Roehn-Spencer
J. W. Oliver
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Hallowe'en
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