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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1915
Page
19
Chicago report tells of Ludvika Ginetis a 15 year old girl who places an ad seeking a husband her best dress in window awaiting suitors she has cooking sewing and housekeeping skills and hopes to marry though she remains with her parents and a reporter learns of the encounter amid curious onlookers and failed prospects.
The Alexandria Lodge of Elks hosts a June 22 ball at the Ela Rome auditorium on Prince Street. Dr. George T. Klipstein and Miss Naomi Simmons plan a Charleston wedding on June 11. Various residents, including Miss Mittle Klipstein, Miss Mary Elfen Harriman, Miss Kathrin Griffith Uhler, and others, are noted for upcoming journeys, visits, and summer hosting across New York, Pittsburgh, Richmond, Annapolis, and Virginia Beach, with several relatives and friends mentioned in connection to Mount Vernon Chapter DAR and local society.
Society continues on the eighth page with events through Sunday honoring Misa Edna De Leon. Guests include Mr I vies and Misa Minnie Sherman of Philadelphia, Miss Helen Haynes of Springfield, and Mr and Mrs J W Fulton of Grand Island Nebraska. They stayed with Mr and Mrs W M Geddes in Columbia Road for the past two weeks. Fulton departed for New York yesterday, Haynes visits others in the city. Other visitors include Mrs P A O Boyle and Miss O Boyle of Pittston, Mrs J H Rudder and Misa Cook of New York, and Mrs A B Smith of Asheville at the Shoreham.
Miss Margaret Harbin of this city is visiting Braddock Heights Maryland for several days and will travel Saturday to Winchester Virginia to stay weeks with Miss Margaret Reardon. Mrs Berkowitz, known in Washington as sister of Mrs Clarence Grosner, visits Philadelphia. Mrs Goldheim of Baltimore visits her son and daughter in law at Eighteenth street. Mr and Mrs Schlosser of New York spent a week in Washington with daughter Mrs Simon Spita. Mr and Mrs Joseph Auerbach and two children will leave Washington Tuesday for Ingleside Maryland to spend the summer.
Mrs M Hene of Frankfort Ind will leave Washington Monday to return home after a weeks visit with Mrs Morton Lucha. Numerous families plan summer trips including Mrs Berkowitz and Mrs J Leonard Lavy visiting Eastville and Philadelphia. Miss Emme Serf and Max Herko Swits wed in Pittsburgh with festivities as Mr and Mrs Berkowitz plan residence in Eastville. Families travel to Buffalo Toronto Montreal and the Thousand Islands for leisure while others prepare summer stays in Virginia and Maryland.
Commodore Spaulding of the American Canoe Association will visit Washington next Saturday with several officials to form a Southern division. The association has five divisions across the U S and Canada and plans a Washington Canoe Club meeting at night to organize the new unit. The event invites all canoe enthusiasts to attend. a broad invitation extends beyond the Washington Club. Local hospitality and guests include Myre, Phillipa End, and Miss Elizabeth Wickiwwond. Forty members of Washington Camp, Mo. 11464, Modern Woodmen of America plan a special car trip to Baltimore June 16 to visit the Baltimore city camp. Helwig chairs the tremanortes ton committee.
Mrs. F E Kawata, a young white wife of a Japanese man, shot and mortally wounded George Grasty, a Black man labeled an alleged white slaver. She explains marriage to Kawata as kindness in a troubled life, saying he was the first to treat her well, while acknowledging losses Grasty caused. She believes she will be punished at trial and notes her Tennessee birth.
Lincoln Nebr June 12 Casey Jones a small bulldog of remarkable intelligence astonishes onlookers by hypnotizing B A Krause deputy sheriff of Renfro Okla in Lincoln. A crowd gathers as the dog remains immobile and later helps recover an umbrella. The incident leads to brief police intervention and a humorous tale of the clever canine.
Chicago June 12 The will of the late John R Lindgren banker who died April 29 1918 has been filed for probate disposing of an estate worth 1050000 One half to Northwestern University and the rest divided between the General Missionary Society and the Chicago Home Missionary and Church Extension Society An annuity of 16000 for widow Ethel May Lindgren and 5000 for daughter Ethel Lindgren with smaller bequests to other relatives The article also notes the annual senior dance at Central High School and that graduation events will continue next week with music by a high school orchestra
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