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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1911
Page
2
Garden Club convenes at 11 with plant exchange urged and new members welcome. Civic Club plans 8 pm meeting at Mrs. E R Hodgson Jr with temperance group gathering at 4 pm on Prince Avenue. Easter sales and Georgia Auburn games noted. poetry section captions life reflections.
A local optometrist offers tested eye exams in a modern optical room with a large frame selection. The shop boasts lens grinding, frame fitting, and a money back guarantee from R. Brandt.
A descriptive society page notes a spring luncheon hosted by Mrs. Colburn with a dine-in style setting and invited guests. It also announces a Chamber Concert at the Georgian hotel featuring Beethoven works, along with a Georgia boys dinner hosted by Mrs. Comer and Miss Johnson. The Mandolin and Glee Club plans a Colonial theater event with canvassing for advance subscribers.
An ad urges men to choose a tailored spring wardrobe with precise fit and quality fabrics. It contrasts pot luck styling with guaranteed certainty and invites readers to view a line of spring clothes, hats and furnishings promising stylish, affordable options.
The store touts its new spring stock with models of every description. It emphasizes value and quality as individuality characterizes each garment.
Miss Edith Jackson returns from Lucy Cobb for Easter holidays and brings Miss Virginia Adams of Kansas City and Miss Mabel Pearce of Columbus, Ga. The Lucy Yancy hosts the Afternoon Bridge Club at Miriam Fope’s home. Madame Alice Merritt Cochran, a leading concert singer, performs at the Colonial Friday night. The Y W C A Easter sale at Moss building offers cakes, cheese-straws, chicken salad and fancy work. Numerous locals and visitors are listed social visits, arrivals and departures around Augusta with several trips to Atlanta, Montgomery and other cities.
Under the Minneapolis Playground Commission, a three day institute opens to discuss plans to advance the playground movement in large cities and towns. Delegates from Illinois Wisconsin Iowa Nebraska Minnesota Missouri and the Dakotas attend the conference.
Names of arriving guests listed for Hotel Sanges on April 5 1911 include George W Balmer Ric J P Brock John A Culver C J Terrell T D McDaniel Nina Ellentree Edward F Porter S A Bond Abert S Johnson Col J W Watts Edward Ronhage J E Haynes C C Steelman E R Rodenburg Lamar C Rucker Gordon Knox Edward Maxwell W C McCallum among others from AtlantaBaltimore Lexington Chicago Royston Winterville and Athens.
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