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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1915
Page
5
Mrs Mary Williams announces the engagement of her daughter Florence Maznoia Williams to Dr Thomas Adams formerly of North Augusta. The marriage is set for September 5 at the Bapual Tabernacle. Also notes social events from Argentine Club dances to various entertainments and upcoming weddings in Athens and Atlanta.
Social notes detail Atlanta residents visiting family in Florida Connecticut and North Carolina. Guests include Mrs Hubert C Alston at Lake Toxaway, families at Tate Spring and Druid Hills, Mr and Mrs Towle Wellhouse returning from California, and numerous visits among Reeves Carter Davis and Beck families. A host of social events and summer travels fill the week.
News reports the death of Mrs Ida Lewis of Birmingham at her home Thursday She is survived by husband A C Lewis brother John H Rousey mother Mrs Roberta C Housey three sons Artie Clifford and Emile Lewis four sisters Mrs P F Carter Charlotte No C Mre WD Martin Mrs HA Sigman and Miss Ruby Rousey all of Atlanta Funeral from Poole's chapel Friday at 2 30 p m with interment in West View cemetery
The Dodson family holds its eighth annual reunion at Grant Park next Wednesday. The event gathers relatives for a day of shared memories and activities.
A southern conference of representatives from Y W C A branches in the South will convene in Atlanta in early October. Mrs William Witham will host delegates at her home, with other board members extending similar hospitality.
Americus Ga August 19 Special Through American Chamber of Commerce Sumter county was today assured the appointment of two practical farm demonstrators for special work. GV Cunningham district agent of the farm demonstration department of the national department of agriculture announced the plan. One appointee will be district demonstrator for a new agricultural district comprising Sumter Macon and Terrell counties. Demonstrators will be provided with automobiles and will travel the territory each week making Saturday an office day for farmers to visit and receive printed matter.
Talk of a car line to Roswell returns as Peachtree Roswell road widening finishes. The arrest car company may back the project with property owners ready to grant right of way and jitney buses boosting Roswell traffic.
Rev W W Landrum will preach at First Baptist Church next Sunday morning and evening. The morning subject is To the Present Troubled Situation in Georgia discussed from a Christian viewpoint. The evening sermon title is The Black Sliding Family. Landrum is a longtime Georgian with a noted preacher father and a lineage tracing to General Ely Warren.
The seventh monthly classified aquatic meet will be held in the YMCA pool Saturday evening at 8:15. It features the largest entry list of the summer with many fast swimmers and events plus fancy diving and a novelty race. Public invited.
About 250 students will finish summer work as Boulevard and Leo street schools close. Most completed check tasks, finishing subjects faster than peers aiming to skip a grade. In all, 580 children have completed courses and been dismissed, with remaining five schools to close by next week releasing more pupils.
A Thursday afternoon deluge soaked Atlanta, bringing a sharp temperature drop that forced pedestrians to wear sweaters. Frigid evening conditions persisted, with light sleep discomfort reported. Forecast calls for continued showers Friday afternoon after a largely brighter morning.
Resolutions commending a revival of the Atlanta Spirit were adopted yesterday by the Atlanta Clearing House Association and the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. The statements declare the city has been torn by dissensions and urge a united effort to upbuild and reestablish Atlanta’s prestige.
Dr A C Cree, newly elected secretary of the Baptist State Mission Board of Georgia, will preach at the Baptist Tabernacle both morning and evening Sunday. Cree has history with the Tabernacle and has friends in Georgia and Florida. The Georgia and Florida railroad brought about 500 excursionists to Augusta on a trade and pleasure trip from Madison and Moultme, with tickets valid four days and many planning to extend their stay.
Ino L Moore & Sons advertises Kodak backlit vacation records with Autographic Attachment. The opticians at Broad Street promote complete trip records using Kodak cameras and supplies.
Judge Guy Sturgis of Augusta and Judge of Home conferred with Robert B. McCord on reestablishing constitutionally the children's courts. They plan to ask Governor Harris to include the issue in an extra session call. Courts had been ruled unconstitutional as branches of superior courts in Fulton Floyd Muscogee Bibb Richmond and Chatham.
East Atlanta’s new Masonic hall at Flat Shoal? and Glenwood will be publicly dedicated at 2 pm with Past Grand Master George M Napler as master of ceremonies. The EA Minor Lodge 603 leads the exercises, followed by secret initiation work and a county Masonic convention with eight lodges represented.
Augusta Ga August 19 Special Fountain Methodist campmeeting now in session. This camp twelve miles from Thomson is eighty seven years old and for eighty four years an organ was not allowed in church or tabernacle. The Diet stove was put in the church last winter. The church owns 135 acres of land. The White Oak campgrounds in McDuffie county eight miles from Thomson have been prepared for the annual camp meeting which begins next Sunday.
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