TENNIS CLUB ENTERTAINED.
Miss Buelah [sic] Gerner, Brown avenue,
entertained 30 members of the Tennis
Club of the Methodist Episcopal
church at her home last evening. A
pleasant evening was spent and lunch-
eon was served. Miss Ella Hulder-
man assisted Miss Gerner in receiv-
ing.
Beulah was a young adult, aged 21, when this article was published in the Butler Citizen (Butler, Pennsylvania) on Saturday, December 4, 1909 (on page 5, column 2). I would love to know what was served for luncheon, what activities the young ladies participated in during the evening, and what they wore.
Observations and Information Garnered from This Article
- Beulah may (or may not) have been athletic.
- She lived on Brown Avenue (in Bruin, Butler County) which agrees with other information from other sources.
- She may have attended the Methodist Episcopal Church.
- She had a friend or acquaintance named Ella Hulderman, as well as 28 other friends/acquaintances.
I have very little information about Beulah as a child or young adult so it was exciting to find this brief article.
–Nancy.
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Do you have a picture of her house? It must have been a fairly good size house to entertain 30. I hope you continue to look into this Tennis Club to determine if the members actually played tennis or if the name was some kind of inside joke.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a photo of their house and, Wendy, and in fact, I don't have an exact address. From what I can tell Bruin was a very small community and I haven't found a city directory of the time for Bruin, or any other directory, for that matter. You're right, it must have been a fairly large house. I'll look for the tennis club sometime in the future, when I can have free access to newspapers.com, where I found this article.
DeleteYou were so fortunate to find this article. Obviously before she married... kind of late to not be married by then, in those days? I have found it so difficult to find any information about the women since once they were married their name became nearly obsolete. In the 1990's I joined a club with some older ladies, and the roster was all in the married names with Mrs. Robert (whatever) etc. I had a terrible time learning their individual names and that just didn't help. I became treasurer, and everyone went by their own name from then on!
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, QuiltGranma, it was a wonderful find! Beulah married two years later so yes, a little later than usual in the early 1900s.
DeleteIt's hard to find information about the women, especially if you can't find who they married.
Good for you to have the ladies in your club use their given names!