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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1909
Page
2
Notices must be signed by the sender and sent for Sunday publication by five on Saturday afternoon. For meetings and similar notices, use the Banners. Personal ads by telephone are available at 613 in the morning and 76 in the afternoon.
The week features lectures by Miss Taylor at the Presbyterian church on Thursday and Saturday. Friday lists Y W C A directors at 11, Philathea class, a cotillion at Havawa Hall, and a Literary Class at Mrs Crawford's. Saturday includes a pastry lecture at the Presbyterian church and a cake sale at the Y W C A rooms. Mrs. Munsey to host a private car party in St Augustine.
The Classic City Chapter of the American Woman's League will hold a 10 30 morning meeting with Mrs. McBride Howell on Hill 1 street. The Philathea class of the 1st Baptist church will gather this afternoon at four o'clock with Mrs. A. S. Parker.
A Georgia Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy plans a special session in Atlanta within a week to choose a site for a Wirz monument. The piece notes Wirz’s wartime duties, martyrdom claim, and Georgia fundraising efforts, with Andersonville named as a logical site but contested.
A social page lists Mr. and Mrs. Jona D. Little of Atlanta and other guests traveling to Savannah for Mr. Munsey's event. The column also covers fashion notes on millinery and flowers, society visits in Macon Savannah and Athens, and various local engagements and entertainment plans.
Geha, a well known visitor to the city, displays Athens best and largest Persian rug collection at Clayton street shop. The entire stock is to be closed out here with bargain calls urged at once.
A Rome Georgia house owned by Elmer Grant was struck by lightning at 4:30 AM. The bolt tore through an upstairs room into Miss Jennie Carson's room, singeing her hair and eyebrows and shocking her briefly. Plaster fell from the ceiling, Mrs. Grant and her three children were unharmed, and neighbors were awakened by the loud report.
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