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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1917
Page
2
A poetic exhortation by Preston H. Williams on character and virtue, urging loyalty to truth, self restraint, compassion, and steady labor. It includes a collage of lines about effort, inner voice, and endurance, attributed to various contributors and printed with names from High Shoals.
Mrs Fred Hardeman was the guest of honor yesterday afternoon in Gradyue where the sewing circle members gathered for a cordial social. Guests spent a pleasant afternoon with work bags and conversation, ending with an elaborate salad course. Present were Mrs J T Dudley and Mrs
Miss Jeanette Ash hosted a refined dinner party at her Prince Avenue home in honor of visiting Misses Agnes Hood Sarah Hood and Annetta Harber of Commerce. The scene featured pink carnations and green foliage, a silver centerpiece, and pink candlelight, with a course dinner and dancing afterward for guests including the Philharmonic Club members Katherine Park Katherine Ashford Alice Chandler Dot Haselton Hazel Hodgson and numerous men guests.
Mrs Sidney Boley will entertain her sewing club Wednesday afternoon at her home on Hancock avenue. The happy occasion will be among the most enjoyable of the coming week.
Last evening the Dearing street dancing club was hosted at the Bond home by Miss Margaret Bond with help from Mrs. Bond and Miss Frances Bond. The lower floor featured red carnations and ferns as guests enjoyed refreshments and gracious hospitality. Attending were Misses Morris Mallory Nell Mallory Jessie McGregor Rachel Griggs Sallie Goodwyn Katherine Park Mae Treanor Miriam Pope Laura Cobb Hutchins Dorothy Smith and numerous gentlemen including Paul Smith Harold Park Jack Kontz William Beck Elijah Brown Wallace Zachery Weather John Walton John Evans Dick Treanor Will Mallory D. M. Paul Tom Watson Harold Meyer D G Cherry Lanier Anderson Kenady Dean.
The Athens Red Cross chapter reports several new members enrolled as units organize for work. A meeting at Mrs. E. V. Sanford’s home featured chairwoman Mrs. Sanford and members including Mrs. Soule, Mrs. McWhorter, Mrs. Callaway, Mrs. Holden, and others. Visitors Mr. J. E. Dent of Newnan and Mr. A. C. Weems of Rome were noted.
Readable items include home nearing completion on Woodlawn, two to three weeks occupancy. Mr and Mrs Paul Smith́s visit. Miss Dorothy B Stein to marry March 6 at Hotel St Regis. birth announced by Mr and Mrs Morris Michael. Miss Mildred Levy visiting from Brunswick. Victoria Betts convalescent from measles with Florence ill. Carl ton Johnson return from Atlanta. Mrs Jesse Stokely and baby visit Athens. J J Thomas of Statham. Miss Frances Carroll returns to Lucy Cobb. Miss Lucy Elder visits mother. Miss Isabelle Hutcheson visits Lucy Cobb brothers.
The note urges valuing present friendships as dividends of past thoughtfulness and emphasizes the importance of remembering birthdays and anniversaries. It invites readers to consider a gift for someone to honor those memories amid daily bustle.
Misses Sarah and Agnes Hood and Miss Annette Harber of Commerce entertainments guest of Miss Jeanette Ash. Mr. Monroe Butler of Athens visited Mr. Andrew Jackson last week. Mrs. Harry Erwin returns to Chattanooga after spending winter with daughter Mrs. Julius Talmadge. She will be missed by friends. Jade on previous visits, he-
Amos coaxed his father to lie beside him at sleep time. Father slept first and awoke to find Amos removing a shoe and wrestling with the other’s tie. When asked, Amos answered simply that he was putting his father to bed.
The modern comedy drama Experience by George W. Hobart opens Monday at the Colonial. A striking scene shows a gambling house with all devices in action and a roulette wheel turning. A New York and Boston company of 82 players appears in ten scenes with a Golden Cabaret Act featuring a light opera chorus and admired young performers.
Earnest Hollingsworth reports the annual Lucy Cobb futon style contest between lean and fat teams. The lean team dominates with Hart and Mitchell scoring most baskets while Mitchell Davis and Walker tally for the fats. Halftime contest among Sphinx initiates Gillis wins on rough play. Final mortuary list shows Thins 12 Fats 3 with Evans Kilpatrick Mucklow officiating at Georgia venue.
Mrs. Helen Brightwell visited this week with her daughter Mrs. Cabaniss in Athens. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Bryant came from Athens Sunday to visit the Bryant parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Bryant. Mr. Carl Nicholson of Athens spent Sunday and Monday with relatives. Miss Mary Ella Hansford is visiting relatives in Athens. Mr. John Moody was in Athens on business Monday.
For long known as a brake on rotation tides slowly lengthen the day. The effect is tiny and immeasurable in human timeframes. MacMillan computed with engineering formulas and finds the day length increases by one second every 400,000 years.
Billy Lee, a show writer, entices Dorothy Redden a hungry aspiring singer with a promise of a future in a different musical. Graves doubts her, but Dorothy proves fitting and blossoms under Lee’s care, leading to a mutual confession of love and a plan to marry as Lee rejects Graves’ bet and vows she will star in the couple’s life together.
In a wry Plain Dealer column, short skirts boost foot care business while dentists could lose clients if fashion dictates covering mouths. The piece notes cause and effect between style and health services, framing the trend with tongue in cheek commentary.
Fragmentary note quotes La Rochefouaulter about sincerity as openness and truth. The text is incomplete, lacking clear event or entities, leaving only a philosophical prompt about genuine conduct and confidence. This reads like an aphorism excerpt rather than a news item or identifiable person.
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