For this year’s A to Z Challenge, I will be posting an event for that date involving someone in my family tree. Of course it will also involve the letter of the day. It may be a birth, a death, a christening, a journal entry, a letter or a newspaper article. If the entry is a news item, it will be transcribed immediately below. Click on photographs to enlarge in another window.
MASTER WILLIAM PRICE ENTERTAINS.
Master Willie Price delightfully entertained at a party in honor of Master Harold Scott of Talladega, Ala. Delicious refreshments were served. Among those present were: Hazel Shipman, Annie Marie and Lonnie Miller, Theo. Alexander. Hazel Miller, Louise and Elizabeth Lewis, Agertha Lee Cook, Rebecca Wiley, Lelsie Hooks, James Lewis, Myrtle, Rosebud and Leon White, Margaret Johnson, Alice Turner, Ruth Harris, Agnes Tondee and Homer Hamilton.
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If delicious refreshments were served at a children’s birthday party, I think cake and ice cream would be among them. If they didn’t make it themselves, perhaps they bought it from Kratzer Ice Cream Co., that advertised in the same edition of The Emancipator.
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Alice Turner, who was a guest at the birthday party was my maternal grandmother Fannie Turner Graham’s little sister. She was my great aunt. I knew her.
Other posts about Alice:
Finding Alice
Memories of Alice – 5 Family Members in 3 Generations Remember
More about Alice (Wright) Turner
Just The Facts – Timeline For My Great Aunt Alice
Cake and ice cream would be my choice. Well done.
I think so. There were so many children there!
I’m looking forward to see your news articles and stories each day! Are you a professional genealogist or has this been a hobby for a long time? Your wealth of knowledge of the past is so amazing to me.
I’m not a professional. I’ve been doing this for a very long time. I started when there were not as many records online as there are now, but my father and my aunts and uncles were still around to run things by and gather information from. I do really miss them.
I spend way too much time online these days searching. This morning I woke up and read this post and wondered, who were all these children at the birthday party? What happened to them. And I started looking them up. I’m addicted to the research. The A to Z gets me to actually write stuff up. I’ve learned so much more about the past doing this research then I ever did in my history classes at school.
Nice connection to the Ice Cream there! I wonder what games they played at the party. Would there have been music and dancing?
They were about 9 to 12 years old, so probably not dancing. I will have to look into what happened at children’s birthday parties in 1920
Ice cream cake – love that though I wonder it might expensive in those days. Certainly only the rich would have them and with many children for a party.
Have a lovely day.
In 1920 Montgomery, cakes were baked in the homes of many people and ice cream could be made at home or bought at a local store by working people who made a comfortable living. Willie Price’s father was a porter and his mother didn’t work outside of the home. There were two children in the family. Both attended school.
I don’t think the ice cream company would have advertised in the African American paper if they didn’t think the people who read it could afford to buy ice cream. Maybe they got the picnic or church discount!
I help run a cake and ice cream factory, Kristin – too tempting for a Type 2 Diabetic…
I would be tempted too!
Ice cream cakes were not common in Canberra, Australia, when I was a child but I remember the girl next door had such a cake for her party when I was about five years old – I was amazed
I think at this party they would just have ice cream and a cake, not an ice cream cake. I’m not sure if I ever had any ice cream cake when I was growing up.
nice connection with both things, the event & the ad, being shared in the emancipator!
Thanks Abeo!
Fun post! Ice cream in Alabama in April sounds like a delicious refreshment to me.
would like some ice cream right now!
Yeah, it’ll be ice cream season in no time!