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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1913
Page
6
Miss Frances Connally hosts a stylish spring tea with floral decor indoors and a gardenlike loggia setting. Guests in lace and satin mingle around narcissi, crabapple blossoms, and dogwood while a punch bowl and tea table echo the season. An illustrated reading follows with seven students presenting Coleridge.
A rundown of community events lists Miss Grace Haassenbeck and others attending an Athletic Club country club house dance at East Lake on Saturday night. A 4A cake and candy sale accompanies a blue tag sale at Singer sewing machine store, 72 Mitchell Street, managed by housekeepers. Junior Missionary Society members are highlighted.
Mr Logan Williamson convalesces at home in the Palmer apartments after a serious operation. Mr and Mrs Mitchell King returned yesterday from New York. Mr and Mrs William B C Cogburn of Folgfield S C Mr Horace L Cogburn of Columbia S C and Mr and Mrs J A Lott of Johnson D C attend the Lewis Cogburn wedding today at the Piedmont. Mrs William Lawson Peel left yesterday for the National Congress Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington D C. Dr J K Scudder of Cincinnati guest of Dr W M Durham at the Piedmont. Scudder addresses Georgia College of Eclectic Medicine students. Little Miss Mary Elinor Einnegre covers from tonsillitis. Miss Katherine R Dillon regent Baum DeKalb Chapter D A R Clarkston will leave week to represent her chapter.
Social notes include Miss Laura Graves visiting College Park and Diana events with Miss Barry Cochran. Updates mention Walter Nash recovering from appendicitis at Piedmont sanitarium and Mrs Nicholas Stiner improving but still serious at Davis Fischer. Families travel from Florida to Georgia for weddings and births, including A D Adair III in Atlanta with relatives George E Clayton and Malcolm Campbell visiting Miss Fitten.
Macon Georgia April special election of officers and annual conventions discussed at Group 5 Georgia Bankers association meeting in Macon. New officers elected include Chairman C Lews Macon vice chairman L B Holt Sandersville secretary J W Brown Locust Grove orator J L Finn Dublin. O A Park Macon led opposition to indorsement of proposed new banking bill citing inadequacies and calls to curb wild cat banks with full capital and loan restrictions. Benjamin Hunt Faronton urged piecemeal legislation adoption.
In New York on April, a federal court ordered a young woman to surrender a diamond engagement ring, a bracelet, and a lavalliere. The receiver for Fliss Brothers & Gordon disclosed Max Gordon bought 3600 in jewelry for his fiancée before the bankruptcy petition. Judge Mayer directed surrender of the jewelry.
The Rev W W Memminger of All Saints church will repeat his April 14 talk and reading on Cyrano de Bergerac in the palm room of the Georgian Terrace at 4 pm. Proceeds benefit a church mill work project in LaGrange GA and the talk previews a Metropolitan Opera presentation. Memminger will cover Rosts drama and its operatic adaptation by Damrasch and Henderson.
Chicago reports a farmers conference debating the high cost of living and weak farm returns. Speakers include University of Chicago president Harry Pratt Judson and Congressman Hatton W. Summers. Discussion covers co ops, railroads, farm credits, and the shift from farm to city markets amid looming shortages.
Mrs Woodrow Wilson accepts the honorary vice presidency of the Southern Educational Association. The brief notice notes her support for industrial education and the association’s ongoing efforts in improving educational opportunities.
Hundreds of delegates from across the south arrive in Birmingham for the third annual convention of the Woman's Missionary Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The seven day session opens with four bishops and prominent ministers in attendance. Missionaries from foreign and domestic fields will attend, with a large class to be consecrated before the sessions end.
In Macon Georgia on April 9 a Cadillac touring car owned by Ida Holt burned early today. The blaze gutted the rear garage at 320 Grange Street. A black man, alleged to have returned the car after a joy ride, fled and has not been located. The fire’s cause is under investigation and no injuries are reported.
An English expert notes American women age earlier due to climate and overexertion. The remedy suggests mercorized wax to shed dull skin and reveal a younger layer, plus saxolite dissolved in hazel for wrinkle reduction.
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