The herald., 1917-01-25
PERSONALS
ND OTHERWISE

member OF the board OF directors OF
the Ideal Savings and Homestead
Association.
Harry l.. Mcpherson. chief engineer
of the Dock Board tug Samson, left
Friday night for Washington, ID. c.,
to attend the annual convention of
the Marine Engineers Beneficial AS
ISOLATION, opening Monday, January
%. He will participate in confer
ences between representatives of the
Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf Coast asso-
Citations for the purpose of regulating
working conditions, due to the Oper-
alton OF the Panama Canal. Efforts
also will be made to have better life
saving equipment put aboard ocean
going dredge boats. Mr.. Macpherson
expects to be away twelve days.
Mr.. and Mrs. James FilleTy and
Miss Myrtle Marker were among the
guests at the Murphy-Wolff wedding
last week
Mrs. C. V. Kraft entertained the y.
and I. Sewing Club last week.
Andreas Abascal, prominent Algiers
business man, was treated at Hotel
Dieu, Friday. for a broken arm, sus-
tanned by a fall at his home at Peli-
can avenue and Verret street.
The Workingmen Union and
Benevolent Association will give a
ball at the Avenue Academy on Sat
day. February Il, with the following
committee in charge: George G..
Brunsssann, chairman: John Schro-
der, eX-officio: A. c. Briel, A. C..
Swan, Gus Peterson, George Nelson.
LANES band will furnish the music.
Officers of the association were in
stalled by Gus Peterson last week,
when refreshments were enjoyed after
the meeting. A special meeting of
the committee in charge of the ball
will meet Sunday morning at 10
! o'clock.
Thieves entered the chicken house
| in the rear of the home of Maurice
Verges, S19 Verret street, about 3
o'clock Saturday morning, and stole
| six chickens and a rooster, valued
at Sc.
The launch Ella, owned by Captain
! H. A. Duval and valued at $500, was
| damaged to the extent of SO by fire
| that originated in the carburetor
Thursday afternoon. The flames were
eXtinguished by Steve Blasco, who
was at work on the vessel at the time
Chemical Is responded to a telephone
call. but the services of the firemen
were not necessary.
Sergeant William G. f. Seelhorst of
the local police station was elected
financial secretary of the Police Mu
tual Benevolent Association.
An uEoccupied dairy building iE the
rear of the Naval Station below AL
giers was destroyed by fire of un
ascertained origin Wednesday morn
ing, causing a loss of $1,000; insur
ance $500
At a meeting of the Orleans Levee
Board last week p. Radovich was ap
pointed inspector of upper Stanton
contract at a salary of 500 pei
month.
Mr.. Joseph A. Brauner returned
Sunday from a business trip to Houl
tonville, La.
Mrs. Jno. Cristadora and baby, OF
Galveston, are spending a week with
the formers sister, Mrs. Cleve Thorn
as.
Mrs. Lou Goldman was the guest OF
Miss Verona Stumpff on Sunday.
Mrs. Charles R. Bates, Mrs
Charles Rhodes and Miss L. Shean
spent Thursday here, the guests OF
Miss Verona Stumpf.
Miss Verona Stumpf entertained
Mrs. John Stumpf and Mrs A. c.
Stumpf on Saturday.
Mr.. James Tingstrom left last Fri
day for Ell Paso, Tex, to be gone some
time.
AL X. Goebel left Monday for Bo
galusa, La.
Mrs. Jules judith of Pelican avenue
spent few days at Lafayette last
week
Little Martha Edgecomb, aged two
years, was badly burned last week
A pot of hot water on an oil heater
overturned, scalding the little one on
the back of her legs.
Rev. S. l.. Vail preached the ser.
mon at the thirtieth anniversary OF
Mr.. Palfrey as organist of st. Paul
Church last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. /. Weiner announce
! the engagement of their daughter
Sara, to Mr.. Raphael Davis, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Selig Davis, the wed.
ding to take place in the late spring.
The White Rose Social Club will
give their first grand masquerade and
calico ball on Saturday night, Febru.
airy 3, at Pythian Hall. The club
| is made up of some of our most popu-
| lar young men and the affair will un-
doubtedly be big success, both finan-
cially and socially. A good time is
promised all who attend. A fine band
| of music has been engaged for the
occasion.
Miss Mollie Kuegele is spending
awhile in Abita Springs.
Miss Eola Abbott attended meet.
ing of the supervisors at the Play.
grounds Commission room at the
City Hall to make preparations for
the dedication of Beauregard Play.
ground on February IL.
|. Mrs. c. w. Abbott and Mrs. w. F.
Short, representing the Fifth District
Civic League, attended luncheon
yesterday of the Federation of Clubs
in the gold room of the Grunewald
Hotel.
Miss Ruth Borne will entertain the
Thursday Night Euchre Club tonight
Each member is allowed an invita-
ton for a male escort.
Miss Anna Louise McNeely spent
Sunday at Covington, La.
Mrs. Hildebrand has returned from
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