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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1917
Page
2
A mixed page item includes a motivational verse by Walter D. Wintler about mind over matter, followed by a reflection on reading habits and a plea to young readers. It also lists upcoming meetings for Woman's Auxiliary Emanuel church and the Local Home Missionary Society, with a note about weather causing a meeting postponement and a playful note about school skits featuring named individuals.
The First Baptist Church hosts a week of prayer for foreign fields with Section 4 leading a 4 oclock service. Y W C A calendar lists gymnastics skating and swimming sessions and a mill district class. The State College luncheon runs through Monday and Tuesday, skating is free for gym members, and a special rate lasts until Feb 1. Friday features Auburn vs Georgia basketball at 8 30 with a postgame dance, and Pi Kappa Phi holds its anniversary banquet at the Georgian.
A Chicago Dramatic paper praises The Deestrick Skule at the Colonial Theater for creating more fun and raising more money for charity than any other amateur entertainment. The show entertains audiences and jokes about the difficulty of stopping the frivolous sallars.
The Elijah Clarke Chapter D A R alters its meeting from Thursday to Friday at 4 oclock due to the Deestrick Skule. The meeting is at Regent Mrs Julius Talmadge home on Prince Avenue. Chapter F will meet this afternoon at 4 oclock with Mrs J C Helner on Meigs Street.
The Federation of the First Presbyterian Church will hold its regular quarterly meeting Friday at 4 o'clock in the Sunday school room. The Covenanters will lead, with a band of young boys directed by Mrs. Audley Morton. All interested members are invited.
Judge and Mrs James A Hixon of Americus announce the engagement of their daughter Marybel to Harry Hawkins. The wedding is planned for the latter part of February. Hawkins is described as the son of Judge and Mrs William T Newman and a rising member of the bar with ties to the Atlanta Constitution social circle.
The annual meeting of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist church South will convene in Elberton Georgia January 22 to 26. Speakers include Mrs W D Higginbotham of West Point and Miss Daisy Davies of LaGrange College. Delegates travel from Atlanta and other towns. special programs include noon devotionals and moving picture evening.
Friday afternoon bridge club gathered at Mrs. Howell Erwin’s Dearing Street home for a convivial session followed by a delicious spread. Miss Coates Benedict topped the scores with a dainty handkerchief as a prize.
Clear as crystal and scintillating with every ray of light, the collection is beautified by Pure Gold on the surface. It features stemmed ware in refined shapes for the discerning taste, including parfait glasses saucers champagne cordial winds goblets sherbets and tumblers regular and handled iced tea sets.
The piece recalls Agnes Scott College lectures by David C. Barrow and Mildred Rutherford outlining Old South customs. It discusses the key basket and box borders as symbols, the Big House and Ole Mis figures, and contrasts past manners with modern dress and mobility, concluding with Grady’s praise of Southern hospitality and refinement.
Reprinted opinions condemn suffragists at the White House gates as fanatic and sacrilegious, citing a Macon Telegraph letter by James Callaway. The piece warns of arrests and decries Eastman’s The Masses, urging Southern suffragettes to protest the insult to the nation.
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