Social events and weddings in Americus and Griffin
Miss Crichton visits home for holidays with Miss Carolyn Nicolson hosting a sewing party at her Piedmont avenue home for Mai Crichton. A Buckeye Woman’s Club meeting was postponed at the Ansley hotel due to bad weather. Holiday dance plans feature Miss Carolyn Shivers on Fourteenth Street. A double wedding in Americus linked Wass Josephine Bagley and Jobn Alexander MocWanus of New York at Miss Bagley’s Taylor Street home, with J Lawrence officiating. James Durkee and long Jr wed in Indianapolis at First Methodist Church, followed by a Southill Street reception and a wedding trip to New York and beyond. Griffins society notes mark the Oxford Brown nuptials on Woot Fool Street with prominent local families in attendance.
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Piedmont Avenue
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Buckeye Womane Club
Ansley Hotel
Carolyn Shivers
Fourteenth Street
Vondey
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Americus
Jobn Alexander MocWanus
New York
Laura Johnson Bajley
Taylor Street
Padlora
Cemand
Ively
Hex J Lawrence
Calvary Church
Miss Bazley
Americus Fairest
Mr Wellanus
Lin
Helg
Mercer University
Harvard
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New Fork
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Aly
Augustus
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Box JB S.immansi
Marietta Social Notes Highlight Local Holiday Visits
The column lists residents and visitors from Marietta tied to family and friends. Names include Kelloge, Stephen Tf Wott, Mrs Toin Tf, Miss Doa and Walter, with references to holidays and reunions. The item notes trips to Boston and general social activity during the season.
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Marietta
Stephen
Miss Doa
Mira Walter Hee Voss
Boston
Pretty Tea-Dance At Piedmont Driving Club Delightful
A large afternoon tea dance at the Piedmont Driving Club featured Miss Coates performing a doll dance with Vic Wicklund. The pair repeated the same program at the supper-dance, drawing about 150 guests who lingered into evening hours. Many prominent local figures hosted evenings for various guests and a festive social atmosphere prevailed.
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Piedmont
Miss Coates
Gazette
Vic Wicklund
Mr Wickland
Mic Hloyd McRae
Kelly Evans
Thornton Marye
Lamar
John KF Murphy
Baron
Baroness Rusinkrantz
George McCarty
Minister to Nicaragua Visits His Mother in Columbus
The United States minister to Nicaragua, Tom Dr Ben Jefferson, a former Columbus resident, stays several days with his mother Mrs Rollin Jefferson Coll. He has been in Washington discussing the canal treaty granting naval bases and canal rights through Nicaragua. Jefferson says conditions in Nicaragua are quiet and praises President Dias as pro American, believing the treaty with a clause to preserve order will aid Nicaragua’s prosperous future.
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Columbus Ga
Ben Jefferson
United States
Nicaragua
Columbus
Rollin Jefferson
Central American Republic
Wilson
Jefferson
Denver
Colo
Washington
Cougress
Atlantic
Pacific
Congress
Dias
Present Play Tonight at Unitarian Church
A Christmas program at the Unitarian Church on West Peach Street features a play Santa Claus in the Public Schools. Seventeen children from the Sunday school will participate, with presents to be given and a focus on holiday exercises.
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Chidren
Unitarian Church
Peach Tres Street
Santa Claus
Wader
Y W C A Bible Class To Meet This Morning
Bible class at Y W C A to gather at eleven under Dr Belsham. He will continue Thursday morning lectures through January on Numbers Deuteronomy and Joshua. Public invited to attend.
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Bible Claws
Belsham
Joshua
State of Chatham Dry After All May Be False
Reports from Savannah hint at continuing prohibition despite renacted laws. Mayors Davant and Pierpont alter plans, with Pierpont supporting dry policies while Savannah rests on local expectations. A united Chatham delegation now faces uncertain prospects for a local bill before summer session.
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Chatham
Savannah
General Assembly
Chatham County
Davant
Pierpont
Seca
Atlanta
Savannabut
United
Holiday slowdown for Marine Corps recruiting noted
Recruiting for the Marine Corps is light during the holidays with applicants enjoying time off before reporting. In Atlanta, transfers to training stations are awaited while applicants are kept pending a party to depart, following a Christmas dinner hosted by Basil at Childs' hotel.
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Marine Corps
United States Army
Atlanta
Basil of
Childs
Waa
Navy Draws Georgia Boys to Pre Year Training
The United States Navy attracts Georgian youths seeking early training as recruitment runs this month. Eleven applicants applied at the local recruiting station. Seven were accepted and will be sent to Norfolk immediately. Four were rejected.
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United States Navy
Norfolk
Atlanta Hotel Men Prepare Welcome For Glad New Year
Atlanta hotels and restaurants brace for New Year celebrations with heavy reservations and elaborate programs. Event plans include entertainment and rituals marking the end of the year and the birth of a new one as the city foresees a carnival mood and late-night revelry.
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Atlanta
Kuehnemann to Speak On the Significance of the War
Dr Eugene Kuehnemann of Breslau Imperial University will address Cable Hall on the Significance of the European War. The talk, in English, is under the auspices of local German societies including Deutsche Gesellschaft and German American society with Turn Verein and Freundschaftsbund. introduced by Victor Ho Kriegschaper.
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Eugene Kuehnemann
Imperial University of
Christmas Entertainment At Gordon Street Church
The Gordon Street Presbyterian Sunday school Christmas program, postponed from Tuesday due to bad weather, will be held Friday evening at 7 20 at the church. AJL members and friends are invited and will receive a small remembrance.
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Tmas Entertainment
Gordon St
Gordon Street Presbyterian Sunday School
Capitol Visitors Boost Georgia Treasurers Race
Senator Ogden and Senator Wakes visited Atlanta yesterday as potential successor to W J Speer. Senator Kakes, candidate for Georgia treasurer, said he has wide assurances of support and is greatly encouraged by his prospects for election.
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Ogden Persons
Senate of Georgia
Wakes
Atlanta
Kakes
W J Speer
Georgia
Clear and Cold Weather Routed by Great Tuesday Rain
Forecaster predicts continued clear and cold conditions for another day and night after Atlanta saw a Tuesday downpour that damaged Chattahoochee flooding rose 24 feet and toppled tin roofing on the Baptist Tabernacle. Winds peaked after midnight at 45 miles per hour and telegraph service was disrupted between Atlanta and Birmingham.
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Atlanta
Chattahooche
Birmingham
Baptist
Big Military Ball Promises Fun At The Auditorium
Fulton Fusiliers and Capital City Guards plan a unitary ball next Friday night at the Auditorium to raise funds for the encampment fund of the Fifth regiment. The full regimental band will play as attendees bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new. Tickets for men are 60 cents with ladies admitted free.
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Fulton Fusiliers
Capital City
Planning to unite Augusta charities under one management
Augusta Georgia December 28. The Rotary Club begins a renewed push to combine all Augusta charities under one centralized management. The Associated Charities reorganized two years ago, but many smaller groups continue to work independently and show only tepid support. The effort aims to coordinate charitable work across Augusta.
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Augusta
Augusta Charities
Associated Charities
Rotary Club
Ada
Ausuata
Construction Boom Shown In 1915 City Report
The city department reports a 50 percent rise in paving and street work for 1915 over 1914. Paving used 134s mules of paving wire and cost 250 461 dollars, with 4.39 miles laid. 177 miles of lateral sewers added, guttering up to 23 miles. repaving covered 248 miles costing 55 610 dollars. 1237 miles of curbing and sidewalks laid. The department believes the funds were well used.
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City Constitution Department
Ships Caught in Ice in White Sea
Copenhagen reports indicate over a hundred ships, mainly American, British, and French, are trapped in the White Sea ice and will spend the winter there. Berlin dated December 21 via London.
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Berlin
London
Copenhagen
White Sea
Drink hot water before breakfast for internal cleansing
An old advertorial promotes morning internal cleansing by drinking hot water with a teaspoon of limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and intestines. It claims headaches backaches and digestive issues improve as impurities are flushed from the alimentary canal.
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Alimentary
Bath
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