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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1916
Page
32
Cherokee and affiliate clubs plan a countywide campaign led by Mrs HOR A Wikwell to promote Better Baby Work and patriotic public projects. The drive includes tree planting, highway beautification, memorials, and a March 14 club meeting to outline duties and committee roles in Macon Georgia.
The Georgia Federitas of Womens Clubs held a June executive board meeting noting several measures passed. Emphasis was placed on health bills for nurseries and education, with Mrs Spencer and Mrs Van Haose of Rome featured among new officers. The session discussed club expansion, better operation, and county federation plans with reports from district leaders and a forthcoming full report by the state editor.
A local appeal urges erecting a monument to Sidney Lanier in his birthplace, lauding his genius and urging public support. The plan cites Lanier’s stature in American letters, requests influence from prominent figures, and stresses civic duty to honor a poet whose works typify national heritage.
At the State Association for the Education of Georgia Mountaineers annual gathering in Savannah Mrs SR Morgan was unanimously reelected president with officers named or elected including Mrs FoF Reese Mrs William Garrard Mrs Malone Mrs Marie Laurae Myrick and Mrs JHE Stunter as recording secretary and Mrs WW M Hopkins as treasurer Other items note a name change to Venticella Womans Club and plans for broader activities The work over recent months benefited public schools with prizes for top improving rooms and music study plans under Wardwell and a regional federation vesper service slated for the convention in Albany NY mentions wreaths and year books from Augusta Womans Club and other clubs in Georgia.
A tentative New York biennial schedule details opening events on Tuesday May 3 with an evening reception and concert in honor of federation officers. Wednesday includes senior federation conferences and a luncheon. Thursday features a business session and a large Metropolitan event. Sessions cover arts music home economics civics education health legislation civil service and more.
Wisconsin earned a national exhibit space in Washington for Red Cross Christmas seals funding the tuberculosis fight. The Wisconsin association financed the sale, engaging over half a million workers across states and territories to raise funds through 4000 community agencies. the effort supported by chairwoman Miy WoL Wilson of Savannah.
A list of officers and roles for the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Georgia includes president Mrs Walter D fAsAn, vice presidents Mrs Herbert M Franklin and Mrs A M Wilson, recording secretary Miss Hates, corresponding secretary Mrs A Fe Gilmore, treasurer Mrs Rag hady, and other positions with names and towns such as Trinlle Ga and Athens Ga, noting Georgia Confederate Museum chair Georgia roam and related addresses in Atlanta and Savannah.
Mrs Herbert M Franklin of Tennille delivered an address at a Daughters of the Confederacy meeting in Thamas, lauding the New South as a flowering rose. She urged unity of the North and South, loyalty to the country, and the enduring symbols of red, white, and blue in a spirit of reconciliation and patriotism.
UDC chapters in Kennesaw Fort Tyler and Phalaville held January 19 gatherings honoring General Robert E Lee and General Stonewall Jackson. Programs featured recitations readings and songs with veterans invited and a social hour after.
Drama League and library extension of the General Federation of Women Clubs plan Shakespeare tercentenary events in the United States. Frank Lascelles, renowned pageant organizer, available for lectures and local celebration planning, with Miss Josephine V. Brower as chair. Contact Hegr Bank of Montreal New York for details and fees.
Patole and MaReantry General Federation of Women’s Clubs resided in Oxford during the pageant and praised the event as wonderful. The participant hopes Mi Lasceliva may extend influence into several states under women’s clubs’ auspices.
Savannah Kindergarten Club member Miss Nina Pape presented a paper on moving pictures, tracing film history from simple pictures to story plays, detailing behind the scenes methods and production costs, and noting Universal City Los Angeles as context. The club formed a committee to coordinate with local groups to initiate social afternoons and children focused programs at nearby picture houses.
State officers of the Daughters of the American Revolution are named with titles and locations across Georgia. Miss Bury Felder Rat MM is State Editor, Mrs Walter S Wilson is Genealogical Editor, Mrs T C Parker is Regent in Macon, and other officers include Regents, Secretaries, Treasurer, Historian, and vice regent across cities such as Savannah Athens Macon and Dawson.
ANNID M Lane of Bashmeten Georgia urges honoring revolutionary soldiers by locating and marking graves through the Daughters of the American Revolution of Georgia. She cites the need to honor inventors and heroes, urges participation, and notes the U S Army will supply markers and instructions for marking graves, with details for applicants and distribution via the quartermaster general.
The regular meeting of the Major General Samuel Elbert chapter D A R was held Friday at Miss Alice Smiths home. The regent Mrs Franklin noted work on scrapbooks flags for schools and located graves of Revolutionary soldiers. Delegates to the state conference were elected and programs planned for 1816 with hostesses named for the year.
Genealogical conduct is outlined by Mrs Walter 5 Wi sem at 271 E Jones Street Savannah Ga Correspondents are asked to write mainly names and dates of ancestors and their localities or crews state where ancestors lived Separate slips or one side of paper for each query full name and address required not published unless requested
Genealogy fragment lists Samuel Matd born 1782 as son of Ward Thomas and Elizabeth Thomas married about 1805 in Old Pendleton Courthouse South Carolina. It states Samuel moved to Putnam County Georgia then Habersham County in 1818. Also references a James Reynolds Bright with possible father James Baht and mother Weynolds, married Elizabeth Ward of Habersham, with addresses in Athens Georgia.
All officers or members with historic postcards of their county are asked to send copies to Mrs JS Lotter at Dawson Ga, to join the Historic Postcard Committee, before the attic conference meets in February.
A report outlines convention rates in Columbus with details about shopping travel and lodging costs. The notice mentions multiple cities and a planned conference with officials including MR DESC AN BROTWN, listing travel ideas and event timing.
A brief notice from Lowrey at 413 Lee St Dawson requests full records be submitted to the state historian and county districts for credit this year. Town records emphasize timely forwarding of completed county reports to the historian.
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