THE CINCINNATI TIMES-STAR
December 2, 1904

SOCIETY
scans from newspaper collection of
Ruth Adams-Battle

transcribed by Dorothy Wiland

Hospitalities of the Day Include Many Receptions
 Mrs. Samuel Pogue, Mrs. E. A. Conkling and Mrs. Frederick Miller's Entertainments Among Those of the Day -- Other Social News.

Mrs. Samuel Pogue, Mrs. E. A. Conkling and Mrs. Frederick Miller's Entertainments Among Those of the Day – Other Social News

Mrs. Samuel Pogue's reception Thursday afternoon will be a large and brilliant event with several hundred guests in attendance.  Mrs. Will Todd and Mrs. Robert Pogue will receive with Mrs. Pogue and Mrs. E. L. Buchwalter of Springfield, State president of women's clubs; Mrs. T. A. Aulp, Mrs. Perin Langdon, Mrs. Charles F. Goss, Mrs. James Albert Green, Mrs. Charles Iredell, Mrs. Bell, Miss Helen Conke, Miss Marguerite Buchwalter, Miss Effie Langdon and Miss Helen Buchwalter will assist in the hospitalities of the afternoon.

Mrs. Edward Allen Conkling gives a large reception this afternoon at her home in Lenox Place.  Mrs. Conkling's daughters, Mrs. H. M. Lane, Mrs. H. M. Smith and Mrs. Frank Edward French, will assist in receiving, and through the rooms there will be Mrs. Disney, Mrs. Robert Morris, Mrs. Henry Sherrick, Mrs. J. C. Kerr, Mrs. George Brown, Mrs. Langtree, Mrs. Calerdine and Mrs. Willard.

Mrs. Samuel Taft entertains at Bridge this afternoon.

A warm hospitality and very charming accessories will mark the reception which Mrs. Frederick C. Miller will give this afternoon in honor of Mrs. Richard Batchelder Young of Boston.  Miss Miller and Miss Laura Peters who is a debutante of the season, will be of the receiving quartet.  Assisting through the rooms will be Mrs. M. F. Teasdale, Mrs. Dwight Kemper, Mrs. Stephen H. Burton, Mrs. Frank Buchanan of Newport, Mrs. Kerr, Miss Anna May Morris, Mrs. Mercy Laughlin Reaume and Mrs. Louis Lent.  Mrs. Miller will wear a lovely French gown of lace and tulle. Miss Miller, a pompadour gown of pale green.  Mrs. Young a princesse of black lace and Miss Peters, white chiffon.

The December calendar of the Woman's club is as follows:

Monday, 6th-General meeting. 2:30 p.m. reports and business.  No visitors.  3:30 p.m., Department of Literature, "The study of Browning" address by Mr. James Robert: "Andrea del Sarro," reading by Mrs. W. E. Lewis; Mrs. Wayland R. Benedict, chairman.

Friday, 9th 8 P.M. – Club tea. Recaption to University faculty.

Monday, 19th, 2:30 P.M. – Board meeting.

Tuesday 18th, and Wednesday, 14th, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. – Exhibition and sale of a small collection of local art crafts and American enamels.  Open to the public. Admission free.  Mrs. McLean Blair, chairman

Thursday 8th, 2:30 P.M. – Meeting of civic section.  Business of importance. Mrs. Andrew Miller, chairman

Saturday, 8th, 2:30 P.M. – Faust Round Table.

Tuesday, 13th, 2?30 P.M. – Browning Circle.

Wednesday, 10 A.M. – French Circle.  Mrs. Wayland R. Benedict, chairman.

Tuesday 6th, 3 P.M.  Dante, Circle, Mrs. W. W. Symmes, chairman.

Mrs. I. D. Jones will entertain the auxiliary of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary societies of the Walnut Hills M. E. church at hr residence 1014 McMillan street, Friday, December 2, at 2:30 p.m.  The meeting has been placed a week earlier on account of the bazaar, which will be held in the church December 8.

Mr. M. M. Shoemaker's evening on the 12th promises to be quite as delightful as his old friends here have come to expect of the rare occasions when, during his visits home, he invariably opens his splendid cbl house to give them pleasure and welcome.  Mr. Shoemaker's cards read "a quarter before nine." Which means that shortly after that hour supper will be served: When that is over, the whole lower floor will be given over to the dancers, who may dance til dawn, if it so pleases them, while the lovers of bridge will find the billiard room open for them.

 Mrs. George Dittman has sent out cards for a tea December 8.

Mrs. Frank L. Perin will entertain with bridge next Tuesday.

Miss Helen Ranscheff gave a luncheon Wednesday.

Mrs. Walter Field gave a charming luncheon Wednesday in honor of Miss Florence Warrington.

Frank Rist local organizer of the American Federation of Labor, will hold a special meeting Sunday afternoon at Workmen's hall for carpetlayers and paperhangers.  William Blum, Joseph Joseph. William Granger and Mr. Rist will make speeches.

Dr. W. Potter, the eminent businessmen's evangelist, has been secured by the Young Men's Christian association of Cincinnati for a series of meetings.  Mr. Potter is a man of international reputation.  He will address men only at Sinton Hall December 4 at 3 p.m. on which occasion there will be a large male chorus.