Bazaars and Sales: Lady St. Lavan opened a very pretty Venetian bazaar at the Public Hall, Devonport, on a recent fine October day, the effort being made in aid of the Building Fund of St. Mark’s Ford. There was a good attendance at the opening ceremony, and the bazaar has done well financially, thanks to the pretty pageant of Venetian dresses, Venetian dances and scenery arranged by those who organized it. Numbers of well-known people were helping at the pretty furnished stall. The Misses Baillie-Hamilton were among the group at Mrs. Todpe’s vicarage stall; Lady Poore was in charge of the naval stall, and had to help her Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Moore and Miss Pinsent. There was an art stall where Miss Redcliffe, Mrs. Davison and Mrs. J. Watts were among the vendors. …
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