[Clipping from the Port Hume Beacon Sunday section, 15 October 1922. Page 14 of the 32-page Sunday edition. "Ashmore's Calendar" appears weekly, usually on Sunday, bylined at the foot in italic: "— V.A."]
ASHMORE'S CALENDAR
A Weekly Record of the Occasions of Our City
Wednesday. — The autumn subscription concert of the Port Hume Ladies' Musical Society opened its season at the Crescent Hall with a programme of Dvořák, Franck, and a sonata of Mrs. Beach's, the Society's traditional first-program American offering. Mrs. Celeste Vantine, the Society's secretary, reports subscriptions as of Friday at 84% of the projected figure, with the final twenty-two seats to be released to the public for single-ticket sale on Tuesday next. The audience included Mrs. Leopold Vantine, Mrs. Edmund Hume (visibly moved by the Franck), Mrs. Douglas Westbrook, Mrs. Julian Thorpe, Mrs. Charles Reddick (down from Philadelphia for the week), Mrs. Rachel Linden, and Miss Harriet Westbrook. The after-concert reception was at Mrs. Westbrook's residence on the Crescent. Mrs. Thorpe (Mrs. Cornelius, the senior) was not in attendance, her continued retirement from the Society's calendar being, as our readers are kindly aware, a matter the Beacon respects.
Thursday. — The Orpheus Society's Thursday lecture was given by Madame Laforge herself — "The Voices of Our Own Dead: A Meditation on the American Household." The attendance was, the Secretary of the Society assures me, the largest of the season to date. Mrs. Augusta Thorpe Callisher, who presides, was in the chair; Mrs. Hume was present; Mrs. Linden was present; Mrs. (Cornelius) Thorpe the elder was, on this occasion, present for the first time in fourteen months. Madame Laforge's lecture was of her customary refinement and depth. Your correspondent will not presume to report its substance, for, as the Society's house-style gently requires, what is said at the Society's lectures is for those who attend them. The Beacon notes only that Madame Laforge's visiting Season will continue through March.
Friday. — The first autumn meeting of the Port Hume Garden Club, Mrs. P. Chatwood presiding, at the Garden Hall of the Crescent. A demonstration of bulb-planting technique was given by Mr. Delcavagh of the City Parks, which those members who had not had occasion to plant their tulips before the frost of last Wednesday received, on your correspondent's own observation, with expressions not of unalloyed satisfaction.
Saturday. — A small private dinner at Hume House in honor of Mr. Reddick's fifteenth anniversary in the Company's employ as outside counsel. Present: Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Hume; Mr. and Mrs. Reddick; Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Vantine; Mr. Julian Thorpe (without Mrs. Thorpe, who was indisposed); Mrs. Westbrook; and, as a special courtesy of Mr. Hume, young Mr. Philip Westbrook, the Hume Shipping vice-president who has recently celebrated a birthday of his own. Your correspondent was not present, and reports the gathering as her informant reports it.
OF INTEREST TO OUR RURAL SUBSCRIBERS. Mr. Oscar Vilbrand, caretaker of several Aldenhaven cottages, has written to the Beacon to correct a reference in last week's column to his late cousin Mrs. Henrietta Vilbrand of Sandusky as having "died in August." In fact Mrs. Vilbrand died in September. The Beacon regrets the error, which was Ashmore's.
A BIRTH. To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Byrnes of the Harbor Police quarters, a daughter — Rose Margaret — on the 9th of October. Mrs. Byrnes, we are glad to report, is recovering well at the home of her sister on Elm Street. The Beacon extends its warm congratulations.
A DEATH. Mr. Charles P. Tomlinson, long a fixture of the business community of Ironside, died on the 11th at his residence after a short illness. Funeral services at First Presbyterian on Tuesday, 17 October, at 11 a.m. Mr. Tomlinson is survived by his wife Helen, three children, and eleven grandchildren.
LOOKING AHEAD. The Clarion's annual Thanksgiving Charity Ball, to be held at the Clarion's own Harbor Hall this year, is taking subscriptions at the Clarion office, Mrs. Corine Harriss presiding. Subscriptions are $5 a plate; proceeds to the Ward Street Settlement House's winter-coat fund, Mrs. Applegate director. The Beacon is, as every year, pleased to recommend this occasion to our readers; it is one upon which this City demonstrates, with a generosity that is our shared civic virtue, the common cause of the whole Port Hume in the matter of our less-fortunate neighbors.
— V.A.