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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1916
Page
3
Thoughts on a family's Christmas gift to a mother and a vivid set of social notices from Athens manufacturing and YWCA events. Includes lectures by Dr. Moss, gymnasium offers, Christmas Cheer plans, a Hodgson recital, elaborate card parties, a birthday party for Blanche Callaway, and a marriage notice for Irene Barnes.
The city prepares for a wedding at the bride's Missionary Ridge home with Miss Mary Louise Barnes and Raymond W. Barnes of Norfolk as the couple, followed by a New Orleans trip and relocation to Kansas City. A long sequence of social teas, musical entertainments, and holiday gatherings features many local residents including Mrs. S. H. Daniels, Mrs. H. O. Null, Miss Ingram, Mrs. Percy Jackson, and others, with Kindergarten Christmas activities and church society meetings announced. The roster notes arrivals, departures, visits, and a twin birth in December at the Hamilton home, along with Ensign William Snelling's holiday visit.
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