Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
IN A PERSONAL WAY.

Molange Containing the Proper Propor-
lions of Spic-. News and People-Tennis
Clubs in Full BIoom-CIub Mon In
Despair Take to Chicken and wanlss
TENNIS Clubs are as numerous now as
summer flowers, and like the flowers, they
are springing up wherever is found plot of
fostering ground. The Oakland Terrace
Tennis Club 10 one Of the youngest but
sturdiest blossoms and numbers among its
membership several very fine exponents OF
the noble game Of tennis. The club has its
courts in lawn behind the Terrace, which
Is very pretty rolling piece of
ground that has been laid out most
carefully IN courts that the players
claims to be unusually we'll prepared and
taken care Of 1t stag club comprised Of
10 young men, who occasionally are
chivalrously inclined and permit their
wives. sisters or sweethearts, provided they
can handle racket. to disport themselves
and display their art. Usually every even
ing OF this pleasant weather is devoted to
tennis, and also every Saturday afternoon
since the Inauguration of the pleasant
custom OF concluding business at noon on
The entire list Of members is H. NJ. Rose,
=; W. Grove, Thomas Nicely. Al Nicholson.
Haines. Mr.. Ewart. Mr. Parker is probably
the crack player of the organization, with a
very close second in either DR.. Haines or
M MI; Porter He was distinguished for his
burg Tennis Club.
CLUB men obliged to stay at home are
drowning their sorrows since PittsDurg's
fair sex has deserted them for the attrac-
tions Of the mountains and seaside, to say
nothing of far-away Europe, by wild
course OF chicken and waffles suppers at
loo a Un nd
not an evening but some of our best known
men make part Of a merry set driving ont
the Perrysville road. Those easily accorded
the honor Of being ''belles" are MI. Frank
Dohrman, Mr.. Norton Van Vorhiss and Mr..
James Marshall, Jr, among the most popu-
lar fellows in their set.
When the girls come back home, however,
the stag parties doubtless will wane before
the brilliancy of the ''dove" functions that
will take place in the old-fashioned Keating
roadhouse.
AN attractive wood in the vicinity of
Glenfield, known locally as Frank Bau-
mann's grove, will be the scene of the picnic
of the German Lutheran Church of that
suburb, which will begin on Wednesday at 9
o'clock. They are always most enjoyable,
as the church people save themselves no
trouble in an endeavor to have the Sunday
school youngsters enjoy themselves There
will be tenpins and sack races among the
many expected pleasures. The committee
in charge 10 the Superintendent, Mr.. John
n. Honmann, Mr.. Charles Freazer and Mr..
John Heckmann.
THE engagement has been announced of
Miss Nellie B. Hurd and Mr.. Grant Murray,
q member Of the firm OF Messrs. Murray
Bros. 1t is stated that the marriage will
take place in the early autumn.
A FINE allegorical subject in memorial
window has been prepared by MI. Ludwig
Crosse for the Church of the Good Shepherd
in Hazelwood, erected by the family of
young Mr.. William Johnston, who died last
year at the age of 49,
The subject is almost entirely treated in
the mosaic, excepting the head of the angel
and few points emphasized in the drapery,
to which the brush alone was used. 1t is
altogether very chaste and lovely. The
frame is circular and probably three feet in
diameter. blessed are the pure in heart
in old English text forms a scroll around the
fO ut tha mi