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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1913
Page
13
Yale Glee Club concert at the Grand followed by a dance at the Piedmont Driving Club will be a bright social Christmas night. Alumni hosts will welcome an audience in evening dress for an informal, spirited gala blending college and holiday cheer.
Mr and Mrs Ellis hosted a lavish Christmas entertainment at their Peachtree Circle home in Angley Park last evening for guests including Mr and Mrs Frederick Corning of New York. The event featured elaborate decorations, live performances by a roster of dancers and artists, a long barrett table of delicacies, and festive music. About 130 guests attended, with Mrs Corning and Mrs Ellis among the wearers of formal gowns bright with rhinestones and pearls.
Festive gatherings abound as Miss Mildred Wicks of Spokane and Miss Mary Howard of Atlanta join Miss Hough for holiday entertaining. Residents host bridge luncheons, birthday luncheons, Bible class gatherings, and a Hebrew Orphans' Home vaudeville at the Standard club. Christmas Eve parties, dances, and a heart dice party for local youths enliven the scene with decorations of poinsettias and holly.
Mrs. W. Ho announces the marriage of her daughter Cllo to Mr. Alfred Papy in a quiet ceremony on December 22 at Horace G. White home Moreland Avenue New Duke Johnson officiating No cards sent.
The advance guard of the American Association for the Advancement of Science arrived in Atlanta to attend the December 29 to January 3 convention. Dr F L Washbury Minnesota entomologist and Dr H Summers Iowa entomologist are guests with Washbury at the University of Minnesota and Summers at the Piedmont hotel. The local committee chaired by M I Brittain will arrange a reception on Monday night December 25. The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology will hold sessions December 31 and January 1 with meetings at the Hazel Ansley and Tech school.
The Southern Engraving Company treated employees and guests to a festive dinner at the Hotel Ansley. Henry Grady, John Jenkins and Collier Walker received fountain pens as tokens of esteem, with informal speeches by several attendees.
Christmas decorations transform Atlanta hotels with verdant festoons and bright trees. The Ansley, Winecoff, Piedmont, and Georgian interiors feature greenery draped around pillars and balconies, with a central Christmas tree at the Winecoff foyer, creating striking holiday scenes admired by guests.
All Saints Church presents a special music program by the choir for Sunday services. The afternoon service at 4 o clock features festival music, with visitors invited. The Holy Communion celebration at 11 o clock Christmas morning includes an organ postlude and a morning service program of hymns, anthems, and choruses.
Judge W. T. Newman of the United States court granted Christmas suspension of sentences to nine moonshiners serving time in various Georgia jails. They may spend holidays at home with families until term end, among them Taylor of Whitfield County, John Padgett of Fulton, W Adcock of Whitfield, Waldrop of Hall, Solomon Benn of Fulton, Tod Wall of Towns, Robert Petterson of Hall, and Alley Goss of Bartow.
An ad item promotes Pearl Opera Glasses at five dollars as an exceptional value. It suggests the gift is suitable for a mother or sister of the lady Peeny and references J. Moore & Son on Bronde Street in the city.
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