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Newspaper

Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Apr 17, 1912

Page

2

Social Calendar Highlights In Town Events

The Wednesday social calendar lists Miss Annie Carl ton and Miss McWhorter bridge party Miss Hodgson luncheon a Georgia Vandervilt game and wedding notices. Thursday features D A R meeting at eleven and First Baptist Woman's Missionary Society 4 pm with Emmanuel Guild at 4 30 pm. Friday includes Miss McWhorter entertaining guests and Saturday centers on Miss Camilla McWhorter's bridal compliment. A LIFE WORTH WHILE and BEAUTIFUL AFTERNOON TEA celebrate charitable aims and social hosting with Miss Phinizy Miss Branch and Miss Henley noted in elegant scenes. Founders Day at State Normal April 17 includes historical sketches and personal reminiscences from alumni and faculty planning details.

State Normal State Normal School Old Rock College Barrow Annie Linton the Normal Ida Young

Miss Winchester Leads Macon Reunion Queen Bid

Miss Winchester, heir to a Lees lineage through Henry Lee, tops veterans’ hopes as Macon reunion queen candidate. Miss Hartlette Winchester, sister of Mrs. Joseph Adkins, has forged strong community ties during Athens visits.

Miss Winchester Macon Virginia Lees Hartlette Winchester Henry Lee Joseph Adkins Athens

Fortson Schmidtmann wedding ceremony described in detail

The article covers a wedding at the Fortson home with Miss Mildred Fortson as maid of honor and Mr E R Hodgson Jr as best man. It notes ornamental lilies and lights, a buffet luncheon, and a richly described bride in white satin with lace. The groom Waldermar Schmidtmann is Austria born and a corporate president. The piece lists many attendees and relatives including the Fortson and Toombs families, and mentions future travel to Europe.

Martha Phinnvy Zade Branch Virginia Frances Henley Harry Woodruff Miss Phiniz Billups Phinizy Martha Phinizy Phinizy Miss Phinizy Miss Branch Miss Henley Barrett Phinizy Chas Robert T. DuBose R. W. Lamkin Harry Stovall Ida Dorsey Nell Hodgson Hodgson Lasage Darwin Willie Ritter Katie Dearing Jeannie DuBose Leila May Hull Moselle Scudder Mildred Fortson Blanton Fortson Thomas Fortson Edward Fortson Robert Toombs Miss Fortson Richardson Alabama Bhinton Fortson Athens Schmidtmann Loofer Austria International Agricultural Corporation Germany America Berlin Europe New York International Agricultural Corporation, of Miss Meadow Harvey Sickler Atlantic Oil Company Thomas E. Fortson Mil

Lucy Cobb library drive spurs alumnae to raise books

The Lucy Cobb library drive prompts alumnae classes to fund book sets for the school. Trustees report 165 volumes donated and several classes still owe amounts toward their selections. Treasurers listed for each class and the lowest price for each book set.

Charles Dickens Julia Moss Athens James Russell Lowell John Gerdine J. E Pope Sidney Lanier I. H. Pittard Samuel Johnson R. Toombs DuBose Edgar Allen Poe Emily Bancroft Jane Austin Lillie Moss George Eliot Henry S. West F. Hopkinson Smith Billups Phinizy Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas P. Stanley Edmund Burke Carrie Thurmond Thackery Miltop Candler Decatur George Meredith C. H. Brand Thomas Nelson Page Lillis Barnett Sharon Oliver Wendell Holmes W. J. Peeples James Brice The American Commonwealth C. P. Willcox Macauley Rosa Woodberry Peachtree St Atlanta William Wadsworth

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Society Alice Adams Annie Carlton Miss McWhorter Henley-Woodruf Milton Jarnigan Georgia Vanderbilt Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church Emmanuel Guild Campbell Milledge Avenue George Armstrong J. A. Adkins Susicheon Edgeworth Lamkin Camilla McWhorter Earth Henley Hunt Jackson Kingdom of Fashions E. H. Dorsey China R. Brandt D. Lee Peacock KODAK Frederick J. Ball Paone Prof. Earnest KE. C. Branson Henley Iron Collars Oftfest Award United Shirt & Collar Co., Makers Troy Dorsey W. F. Dorseys John R. Northcutt Marietta Malage Darwin Lil Hodgson George Swift Sam Hatcher Frank Wardlaw George Woodruff Bob Woodruff Claud Scarborough Clifford Swift James Woodruff Henry Woodruff W. D. Beauchem J. R. Crane & Company Fortson Lawrence Fortson Washington, Ga Eugene C. Fortson Reynold Kirby-Smith Sewanee Tenn Reuben Arnold Fred B. Pope Augusta Colley Palmer I. T. ‘Ervin Washington Lucy Cobb Alumnae Association Library of Southern Literature Maggie White Welch Green M. Rutherford M. A. Lipscomb Ercmann-Chartman Susie Golding Gerdine Ward Eula Barrett Rudyard Kiplins Tennyson Marion Lampkin West Charlotte Bronte John Burrougs Christopher Marlowe James Fenimore Cooper D'Arthur Thomas Malory Henry Howze Mary Long Gould Plutarch Walter Pater Wingfield Shop OF Quality
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