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Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Jun 11, 1914

Page

2

Calendar of Societies and Events This Week

A week of meetings and entertainments including Equal Suffrage League at 8 30 with Mrs Strickland, Baptist Missionary sections at 5, Tabernacle Missionary Society, Y W C A board at Hancock Ave at 11, and a Miss Glenn Allen recital at Seney Stovall Chapel at 8 30. Friday features a Thalian play at Colonial and Pan Hellenic dance. Saturday hosts a Masquerade Ball and Sophomore Declamation. In honor of Elizabeth Branson Mrs R C Orr hosted a croquet party with several guests and refreshments.

Equal Suffrage League Baptist Missionary Sociey Tabernacle Missionary Society Board of Board of Trustees Glenn Allen Seney-Stovall Abe Joel Thalian Colonial Auditorium J. J. Strickland Elizabeth Branson R. C. Orr Mary Dusenbury Hazel Hodgson Cornelia Mitchell Nina Davis Alice Chandler Katherine Park Eet Dot Haselton

Loving Cup Presented To Teacher At School Closing

On the closing day of city public schools the sixth grade at Meigs Street School presented their teacher Miss Lena Bird with a silver loving cup as a token of appreciation for her patient and excellent teaching. A recital by Miss Glenn Allen’s pupils is set for Seney Stovall chapel at 8:30 this evening. The pages note the marriage of Miss Grace Carlton Johnson to Mr Percy Johnson Harlee.

Meigs Street Lena Bird Glenn Allen Seney-Stovall Chapel Harlee-Johnson Grace Carlton Johnson Percy Johnson Harlee

Bludwine Elgin Watches Given Away Free Premiums

The Bludwine Company teams with the Higin Watch Company to produce a large batch of 7-Jewel Standard Elgin Watches in 20 year gold filled cases. Watches are not for sale. they will be given away free as premiums and via guessing contests to representatives visiting the Higin factory.

Bludwine Company Higin Watch Company Higin

Confederate Officers Attend Regimental Event

The article lists officers and their companies, notes refreshments at Costa's, and mentions a Confederate auxiliary chapter being organized for Athens children. It urges enrollment, details dues of 25 cents, and outlines plans for four divisions with regional leadership. Also covered are a Dreyer-Whitehurst wedding in Greensboro and a Pound class social at First Methodist church.

Pelle Turner Brewson Pope Moss Michael Patterson Cheney Whelchel D. Collins Conyers Meyers Haynes Davis Blumenthal D. Owens E. Bassett Cocke Children OF the Confederacy E. A. Crawford M. Rutherford Children of Confederacy Crawford Young Women of the Confederacy Athens Laura Rutherford D.C Pound Baraca First Methodist Church Jerre M. Pound

Brilliant Entertainment This Evening At Mr and Mrs Abe Joels

The reception celebrating the twenty fifth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Abe Joel will be a debutant social highlight in Athens with many out of town guests expected. Mrs Jacob Patterson will chaperon a Georgia commencement party of girls visiting Athens Friday staying at the Georgian Hotel until Thursday.

Abe Joel Athens Georgia Jacob Patterson Gorgian Hotel Anne Patterson Margaret McCarty Alice Muse Dolly Blalock Carrie Blount Mary Stewart Louise Cad Dozier

Social Whirl Shifts Through Athens This Week

Miss Harriet Broyles and Miss Constance O Kee fe of Tennessee join Mrs. Patterson then return for East Lake dance. Guests visit from Macon Watkinsville Commerce Athens and Atlanta as many depart for summer plans and commencements.

King Harriet Broyles Constance O'Keefe Tennessee Patterson East Lake

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