West Side PTA hosts fortieth anniversary tree planting
Superintendent Pendry and Mrs Bing spoke on cooperation and friendship at the West Side School PTA meeting marking its 40th anniversary. Pendry emphasized civic duties and cooperative education while Bing discussed adult friendship and community involvement. A tree planting was planned, with Alton Wolfe in charge of arrangements. The second grade won the parent turnout prize. Meetings for the art group and study group were announced for late January and February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pendry
Mrs. Bing
West Side Meeting
West Side
PTA
Alton Wolfe
Harper C. Pendry
8S. H. Bing
Athens Public Schools
Bing
Homer Brown
Second St
Elmer Bingman
Raymond Drive
China Japan Form Subject At Sayre Club
The Sayre Study Club met at Mrs. W. H. Jewett's home with seventeen members present. After a brief business meeting, a paper on China and Japan prepared by Mrs. Mamie Steele was read by Mrs. S. C. Hartman. The group closed with the Club Woman's Creed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sayre Study Club
W. H. Jewett
China
Japan
Mamie Steele
S. C. Hartman
Court Street Gossip and Pet Tales Brighten City Morning
In a breezy society note on Court Street, residents swap weather chatter and humorous city squabbles. A featured tale centers on Pat, a sleek Irish Setter owned by Charles A. Cornwell, famed for clever door openings and fountain drinking. A teacher’s exchange about a daughter’s mother name yields a playful Sweetheart retort, while a lost child story ends with a quirky Mama calls you naughty line, Sarah Mehi table Brown you tum wight heyah.
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Court Street
Pat
Charles A. Cornwell
Mr. Cornwell
Mama
Daddy
Sarah Mehitable
Hobson Study Circle Elects Officers at Cottage Tea House
Hobson Study Circle met Tuesday evening at Cottage Tea House with Mrs. Anna Swartz hosting. Miss Dell Finsterwald became acting president in Miss Blanche Finsterwald's absence, as officers were elected including Mrs. L. C. Staats president and Mrs. Frank Cross first vice president. A paper by Mrs. Vergil Yaw, Arabia and Persia, described scenery, customs, and industries. Refreshments followed. ANNOUNCE BIRTH Jed Wilson Richland Ave born January 14 to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pratt Lu cile Westfall. eight pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobson Study Circle
Cottage Tea House
Anna Swartz
Blanche Finsterwald
Dell Finsterwald
L. C. Staats
Frank Cross
Wilson Norris
O. G. Houck
N.S. We
Thomas Pratt
Lucile Westfall
Richland Ave
Jed Wilson
Married Comrades A Sequel to Given in Marriage
Adele Garrison continues her tale in a scene set in a sick room where Katherine, Dr. Gates, Miss Haskell, and Hal Meredith confront the possibility of death or recovery. Katherine skillfully nurses Hal, vows to stay, and Hal resolves to live if she remains. Dr. Gates notes Katherine’s wartime nursing as crucial, urging she stay at Hal’s side.
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Adele Garrison
Katherine
Miss Haskell
Dr. Gates
Hal Meredith
Hal
Gates
Mr G H Maxwell Honor Guest on Birthday
Mr G H Maxwell was surprised Friday evening when a group of twenty one people arrived at 82 Mile St to celebrate his 70th birthday. Mrs Maxwell planned the gathering with old time music by Elza Graham Will Hawk and Abram Williams. Refreshments followed as guests included Abram Williams Coleman Ashworth and family Myrta Mansfield Elza Graham Adrain McVey Kathleen Maxwell Virgil Maxwell and others.
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G. H. Maxwell
82 Mile St
Family Cards Reach Far Relatives Unable to Attend
Mr Maxwell received cards and telegrams from relatives who could not attend. The note mentions George Austin Minnie Anna Mrs Flora Murphy Will Hawk Miss Betty Aileen Maxwell and Mr and Mrs Maxwell.
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Dren
George Austin
Minnie Anna
Flora Murphy
Will Hawk
Betty Aileen Maxwell
Mrs. Maxwell
Mr. Maxwell
Athenians Travel West to Rose Bowl and More
Athens residents make long perilous journeys by road to California and Florida. Paul Antoiietto drove 3000 miles round trip to see the Rose Bowl parade and game with companions who stayed in the sunlit coast. Other locals head west and south, including Mrs Clifton bound for Hot Springs and Miami.
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Paul Antoiietto
California
Athens
Charles Coury
Howard Baughman
Jake Sherman
Mr. Ant
Revival services for youth and children at Central Ave Church
Evangelistic services led by Rev. A. H. Beckett continue all week at Central Ave Methodist Episcopal Church. Evening meetings at 7.50 p m. Young People night Thursday and Children’s night Friday. All are welcome to attend the services.
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A. H. Beckett
Central Ave
Methodist Episcopal Church
Social Calendar Highlights Local Club Meetings and Suppers
Daughters of Union Veterans meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Odd Fellows Hall with a public bingo session after. Faithful Few Club gathers Thursday at Mrs. Forrest Chism’s home at 7:30 p.m. Kings Daughters and Wesleyan Service Guild host a waffle supper Thursday Jan 21 at 5:50 p.m. Odd Fellows Rebekahs plan a family potluck Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Wiley’s birthday program to follow. Athens Grange meets Thursday at 8 p.m. Grange Hall. refreshments served.
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Daughters of Union Veterans
Odd Fellows Hall
Forrest Chism
Stewart &T
Kings Daughters
Wesleyan Service Guild
First Methodist Church
Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
Wiley
Old Houses Visited in Court Street Stroll Series
In a second Athens feature by Mary Herron a twilight walk along Court Street recalls historic homes and sites. She notes the Silvus store, a New England style house, early schoolrooms at the Market House, the Presbyterian and Methodist sites, and brick era residences now pressed into memory.
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Court Street
Athens
Mary Herron
Court St
College Green
Berry Hotel
Washington St
Henry Fuller Brown
Guy Brown
Colonial Inn
Louis Brown
Athens National Bank
Twiss Home
Stewart
Ezra Stewart
Ballard
Union St
John Brown
W. State St
Smiling Through With Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
A period ad urges wives to forgive and kiss and make up weekly. It claims Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound strengthens nature to ease women’s monthly discomforts and transitions from girlhood to womanhood, motherhood, and middle age.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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Miller's
Hotel
Rytex Deckle
Logan
Sayre Club
Slingluff
Asseet
Cam
Wilson
Society
Club News
Comtesse de Salverte
Tea House
Rexall Drug
Mi31
Cline
Meredith
Him
Clover Farm Stores
Vicki Va
Kirchers
Florida
C. P. Kircher
Mary Kircher
Cincinnati
Frank
Charles
William
von Athens Grange
Grange Hall
Cornwell & Co
Athens Jewelers
Chaffing
Cornells
McKee
McKee Drug Co
Security Bank
Mar
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