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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1917
Page
2
A mixed excerpt presents a speech by Mrs. Alice Adams urging universal brotherhood and tolerance among believers of all creeds. It blends a devotional, quasi-poetic meditation on unity with excerpts from a hymn or sermon and closes with a Biblical style meditation on heavenly light and transformation.
A fragment recalls a raging storm cloud rising to blot out the sun and darken the speaker’s path, attributed to 1A. L. Crawley, titled Transfigured Clouds.
The Woman's Auxiliary of Emmanuel Church meets Tuesday at 3 30 p m to hear diocesan president Mrs Charles L Pettigrew of Atlanta. Y W C A calendar lists gymnastic skating sessions for ladies and girls on multiple days with swimming and high school basketball events. Regular board meeting and annual 1916 reports are scheduled, with class work at Recreation Hall.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will convene Wednesday at 4 o'clock at Mrs. D. D. Quillian's home. Reverend Stanley Grubb and Dr. S. T. Belk will speak, and Mettie Webb will read. All members and interested parties are invited. Chapter A. D. will meet Tuesday at 11 a.m. with Mrs. Rowe for regular business and planning.
Mrs. Henri Beaumont, a Birmingham resident, recalls a joyful encounter with Madame Sarah Bernhardt after the French actress concluded a Birmingham performance. Bernhardt, recognizing Beaumont, kissed and embraced her, then invited her to a private tete-a-tete, praising Beaumont’s French heritage and their shared lineage.
The S A E fraternity plans a brilliant February sixteenth dance described as a notable social event of the season. Out of town guests and many local club members will attend, with the entire dancing contingent to assemble for the evening.
The Georgia versus Atlanta game Saturday evening will be followed by a dance that has drawn good crowds after several prior games. Miss Natalie Bocock hosts the Not-a-Chance Club at her parents home on Milledge Avenue with fern arrangements enhancing the library.
Interesting bridge session provided lively pastime with delicious refreshments. Miss Miriam Haselton topped the score earning an embroidered towel prize. Emmanuel church Guild invites Rev and Mrs A G Richards to a hosted parish house reception Wednesday from 8:30 to 10:30 with members as hostesses.
Sunday American reports Atlanta seeks southern Red Cross headquarters and a large base hospital with 500 portable beds. Sidney F. Morgan arrives to boost Atlanta chapter membership toward 5,000, with plans for nurse training, visiting nurses, and disaster relief services ready to deploy within 24 hours. Local leaders including Judge Walter Colquitt and Mrs. Spencer R. Atkinson push early February action, linking civic work to military preparedness.
Sterling and cut glass ware make elegant wedding gifts with new designs praised for grace and beauty. Many of the most beautiful pieces are offered at very reasonable prices.
Lois O Gillam of Bishop and W D Bell of Bishop married Sunday at four in the bungalow of Rev J A Bell with Dr Bell family and a few friends present. They are from Bishop and have many friends. Various locals share news of travels, returns, and social events around Athens.
Miss Sarah Mell visits Athens for Miss Nicholson’s wedding set for February while Miss Meta Schley travels there for the same occasion. Mrs. George Symms returns from Atlanta after weeks with the Symms. Mrs. R. D. Mure and Mrs. Robert Hodgson, now in Baltimore, plan to come back soon. Prescott Briggs of Atlanta visits family as W. T. Collins expects to return from New York. Rosa Woodberry of Atlanta will headline the Georgia Day luncheon by Rome Woman's Club, promising a strong program. Howard T. Abney has returned from South Georgia. Marjory Bickers and Charlie Dan Bickers are ill with severe colds at home.
Gwilywn Miles baritone says the Lester Piano has a sympathetic quality much desired by singers. Special manufacturers price offered by Lucere at Flanigan's. sale ends tomorrow night with closing at nine.
In early pioneer days mothers relied on grandmother roots and herbs for family ailments. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a botanic remedy from Lynn, Massachusetts, is framed as a lasting legacy of those traditions and credited with helping many women across America.
How to check that cold. When it is painful to breathe and fever chills your back you are in for a cold. A timely dose of Dr Bell's pine Tar Honey will stop sneezes and sniffles. The balsam loosens phlegm clears bronchial tubes honey relieves sore throat antiseptic qualities kill germ and relieve congestion. Croup whooping cough chronic bronchial affections quickly relieved. At all Druggists 25 adv.
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