Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-21
SAN BENITO.

school building Monday, April 16. Officers
for next year were elected as follows:
Mrs. Ross Reed, president; Mrs. q. r..
Cause, first viee-president; Mrs.. Clarkson
Cowgirl, second vice president: Miss Erie
Dawson. secretary: Miss Pauline Dawson,
treasurer. The reports given by the chair
man OF each committee were very crafty
ing. showing that q great amount of good
work had been lone by the organization
the past year. Mrs. W. l.. Freeman was
appointed delegate to represen. the asso-
citation mt the district meeting of the Fed
I~eration of Mothers clubs which will he
held May 8, Q and 10, ~ Corpus Christi.
Miss Helen Pupkin attended The we'd
ding of Miss Ruth Craig and Lieutenant
Philip MacNair at Brownsville, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Y. Camiade were also we'd
ding guests.
Mrs. Harold Meek is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. +. T.. Bolmer at Houston.
General and Mrs. Matille, who nave
spent the winter in San Benito as guests
of Lieutenant and Mrs. Matille left Thurs
day for their home in New York.
The alumni of the San Benito high
school held a meeting Tuesday night at
the home of Miss Ianthe Demaree to dis
cuss plans for their annual banquet which
will be given Friday, May Is. Commit
tees were appointed a., follows: Menu
committee: Miss Demaree and Bryan
Long. Decoration committee: Misses
Paul, Myrtle Hall, Genevieve Buck and
Willard Harris. Finance committee: Ed
ward Robinson and Lyle Estes. Enter
tainment committee: Misses Helen
Spears, Nina Dawson and Grace st. Clair.
Miss Dorothy Norris was appointed toast
master.
The San Benito Equal Suffrage asso-
citation held a called meeting at the home
of Mrs. Samuel Spear Friday afternoon.
Mr.. \. L. Montgomery Delivered an in
teresting address on ''Nomen's Share of
the Responsibilities in the Present Ma
tional Crisis
Mrs.. +. ID. Breen, Miss Frances Ian
drum, /. l.. Landrum and Henry Goode left
Yesterday for San Antonio in Mr.. Ian
drums ear TO attend the fiesta.
Three auto loads of San Benito young
people enjoyed a dip in the arroyo and
a camp supped last Wednesday evening.
Those forming the party were Misses Bess
Rouse, Mildred GATES, Maude Morrison,
Helen Pupkin, rene Garrett, Gladys Estes,
Messrs. Harry Rouse. John Jones, Bishop
Clements. Cain Roberts, Durham and Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Moore and Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Downs.
McMurray Richey left Wednesday for
Marlin, Tex, to join his family who have
been visiting there for several weeks.
Mrs. J. L. Jones very pleasantly enter
tertained the Ladies Five Hundred club
Thursday afternoon. Beside the regular
member there was one table of guests.
Mrs. Boyd Brook. received a pair of silk
hose a. the guest prize, and Mrs. Downs
won a beautiful embroidered towel as the
prize for the highest score. Refreshments
of pressed chicken sandwiches, a salad
course, ~marguerites and fruit Ice were
served.
One of the most enjoyable events of its
kind cver given in San Benito was the ban
quet given by the domestic economy class
of the high school, honoring the senior
class the high school faculty and the
school board. Covers were laid for forty
and an elegant four-couse dinner was
served The rooms were decorated in roses
and other flowers, the red cross scheme
being carried out in it, decorations. Grady
st. Clair acted a. POSTMASTER, and Miss
Helen Spears a hostess.
The members and friends of the NJ. +.
church held a ''geat-to-gether" meeting
nj the church Friday evening. The fol-
lowing program was rendered. after which
Il social hour and refreshments were en-
joyed.
HYMN, 'Blest be the Tie that Binds"
Prayer, BY pastor. Rev. J. f.. Simpson.
Vocal solo. Mrs. r.. l.. WATSON.
Piano solo, Mrs. III. q. Sebastian.
Talk, "The Work of the Methodist
Steward" b. C.. Zuber.
Vocal solo. Mrs. w. l.. Freeman.
Recitation. Harold Valentine.
Violin solo, Mrs. X. &. Chinn.
Talk. sympathetic Church Finance"
O. 4. kendrick.
Remarks. Professor A.. q. Sirother.
M'AlLEN.
MALLEN. Texas. April 21.-NTiss