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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1902
Page
5
The Piedmont Driving Club holds its true annual meeting in the afternoon with a reception to follow at the club, signaling the opening of the country club season. Music will accompany the event and refreshments will be served as genial groups gather in the picturesque setting for an open air social afternoon.
Mrs Murphy and others showcase attractive items while 15 2 pony raffle draws draw attention at the charity sale. Mrs Nichols offers lace collars silver purses and wine in a red white and blue booth. A large gathering discusses scholarship candidates at a May 2 voting window at the Girls High School. Mrs Prescott hosts an elegant Euchre party with a lavish luncheon and a long guest list. The wedding of Rosalind Mitchell and Emmett Lunceford is planned for May 1 at Mr Stevens’s home with Dr Landrum officiating and a honeymoon trip to the north and east. Mitchell praised for grace and public speaking lineage. Lunceford a rising Atlanta businessman after graduating from the University of Georgia.
Mrs Rebecca D Lowe president of the National Federation of Woman's Clubs arrived in Los Angeles on Monday evening riding in a special Pullman observation car decorated in her honor. Delegates in Los Angeles for days praised the car as one of the handsomest seen in the region.
May 1 at 3 pm assisted by Mrs Carie J Dyer the Nineteenth Century History Class will meet this afternoon at 330 clock with Mrs Porter King Professor Morse will lecture on Walt Whitman Social items note visitors and engagements among Atlanta residents including Mrs Ena Frederick of Marshallville Mr C A Robey of Augusta and many local social calls and gatherings at the Aragon and with the Kappa Omega Sigma fraternity events.
Miss Rosa Matthewson of Hartsville WoC and Mr Clifford Walker of Monroe Ga wed yesterday at noon at Dr and Mrs Mc Connell home. Rev S Jameson officiated with Dr McConnell assisting. Attendants included Mrs Gaines as maid of honor and Mr Walker as best man. Ushers were Col George M Napier, G E Maddox, G W Whitney and A B Mobrey. Guests from South Carolina and Georgia offered congratulations before an extended trip north and east.
Miss Lee Jack and Mr W P Weathers wed Monday evening at 6750 gelotk in the home of the bride’s sister Mrs L J Harris on Walker Street. Rev Dr Mashburn officiated. The couple depart Tuesday morning for an extended eastern trip. Also notices announce a Presbyterian hospital ladies auxiliary meeting this afternoon at 4 at First Presbyterian Church and a mothers’ meeting Wednesday at 3:30 hosted by Mrs John L Moore.
En route to Tallulah Falls she will spend the summer. Bilas Lucile Alexander returns from Charleston. Mrs Burns and Mrs Lipphart and the Lippharts return from New York and will occupy Mrs Lowe's Peachtree house. Irene Hirsch and Frank of Savannah wed at 6:30 in the Temple. Philip Breitenbacher and family move to Sunset Avenue home. Professor John Chilgo of Trinity College visited the city. Purify the blood with Prickly Ash Bitters claimed as the greatest blood purifier on earth.
Police took a six year old girl nicknamed Queenie into custody after she begged on a late Atlanta street. Her mother said the family, five people in a Mississippi Bottoms shack, would be okay once her husband John Wasson sobers and finds work. A call officer later accompanied a patrolman to the home, where the man lay drunk on old quilts and food was sent to the family.
LaGrange, Ga April 29. The supreme court sustained Judge Harris in the LaGrange dispensary case. Dr F M Richley resigned as commissioner, C Vr Truitt was appointed, and the board rented a storefront and bought stock. A representative will visit Athens to study their dispensary and model this one after it.
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