Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-05

vi. w ADTs, supp.
Mr.. A. B. Bowman was a visitor to
st. Joseph last Sunday.
Mrs. and Mrs. A. NJ. Smith are seek
ing health and rest at Browns Wells.
Mrs. Beaubien and daughter Margue-
rite have returned from visit to their
old home i'm Bonham, Texas.
Mrs. Perry Funk and little son OF
Bayou Vidal were guests of her sister,
Mrs. J. S. Johnston this week.
Misses Elenor and Gladys Williams, OF
Jackson, Miss, are visiting their uncle
and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Gibson,
at lockwood"
Mrs. Davidson and son, Joseph Moore
Davidson, left, Tuesday morning, to join
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Baxter, at their cot
tage on Lookout Mountain.
The Whist Club met with Mrs. Gin
ton, its organizer, on Monday afternoon,
at half after five. The games promise to
be instructive and interesting.
Mr.. Henry Smythe, Mr.. Robert Clay
ton and Mr.. Andrew Smythe were WISH
tors to our town this, securing the right
to vote in Congressional election.
DIR. and Mrs. ]. G. Lilly and Master
Jack made trip to Natchez this week.
The doctor has returned but Mrs. Lilly
and the boy will visit there for some
time.
The name of Thomas NJ. Wade, Jr.,
has been added to the list Of lawyers al
the st. Joseph bar. He is gladly well
coined by our people to their legal and
social life.
Miss Sue Partee, of Silver City, Miss.
who has been visiting Miss Katie Clark
in st. Joseph, returned to her home this
week. She was accompanied home by
Miss Clark, who will be her guest for
some time.
A party of young friends surprised Miss
Laura Bondurant on the evening of her
birthday, August End. A delightful en-
tertainment was the result, and no one
was happier than the sweet young girl
STANDING with reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet.''
Miss Marjorie Davidson left Sunday
night for Vicksburg en- route to Lookout
Mountain, where she will spend the rest
of the heated term. A dinner-dance Civ
en- her at Jackson, served to break the
tedium of travel.
Mrs. Laura Bondurant, Miss Bondu-
rant and Mrs. b. b. Young, accom-
panied by her daughter, May, were pas
sengers on the Thursday morning train
Ell route to Greenwood, Miss, to visit
Mrs. Burkhalter. Mrs. Young and May
will spend the remainder of the summer
in Chattanooga with friends.
On Friday of last week the Euchre
Club met with the Misses Whitney and
Mr.. Curry at Villa Clara. After fourteen
spirited games the prizes were awarded
to Mrs. X. H. Whitney and Mr.. r. f.
Fulton. Mrs. Green and Mr.. Baker
were winners of the consolation. The
guests of the evening were Mr.. and Mrs
A. b. Ratcliff, Mrs. Hornsby and Mr..
Joe Levy, the last two securing the hat
pin and stein offered as guest prizes.
A party of ten motorists undertook the
trip to the Tensas Club on Thursday af-
ternoon. Within two miles of their DIES.
tination the cars had to be turned about,
for clouds hanging heavily, indicated ar
electrical storm. Half the return dis.
lance only had been covered when tn,
storm became a reality. The autos haf
made the run in hundred minutes tina
required seven hours of hurrying home
ward to cover. Nor rain nor mud dis
mayed the party, and though midnigh
had long passed when'the lights of TIN
town were at last seen, the members wer,
still recalling only amusing experiences
Mrs. ]. Tullis Watson was hostess o
the Card Club Friday evening. In spit,
OF the threatened storm the club was wei
represented, six tables being filled wit
ardent devotees of the game. The priz
winners were Miss Eliza Whitney an,
Joseph Curry, Jr., the first capturing
dainty piece of cut glass, and the latts
handsome travelling case. Mrs. Gree
cutting highest was presented with
brass jardinere, of unique design, and t
Mr.. r. E. Fulton fell the gentleman
consolation, a leather carved trayelin
clock. After the prizes were awarded
delicious course supper was served. III
evenings spent at Avondale are Away
most delightful, and this one was exceI
tionally 80, each taking away memoirs
Of q charming home, filled with lovel
flowers and palms Of fafe beauty, pfesi,
ed over By ! most astfacslvs ho1sss1s