Entertaining House Party At Tidwells Summer Home
Last evening Miss Lillian Tidwell and Mr Frank Tidwell hosted a large informal house party at their summer residence with a mix of guests from Griffin Atlanta Birmingham Athens and New York. events included swimming and a barbecue supper followed by afternoon tea and heart dice games with prizes and decorations in pink and yellow.
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Howard H. McCall, Jr
Lillian Tidwell
Frank Tidwell
Wss
Cynthia Ellis
Griffin
May Crichton
Nell Walker
Mary Stewart
Atlanta
Margaret Lowman
Catherine Reynolds
Birmingham
Thomas Crenshaw
Rhodes Havert
George Harrison
Lynn Stannen
Thomas Hancock
John Stewart
Helen Dykes
Myra Clarke Scott
Minnie Purdis
Margaret Gause
Marion Woolley
Lawson Hines
Marion Hodgson
Athens
Gladys Catchings
Miss Therrell
New York
Jessie
Jarelin Masson
Charles Candler
Edwin Lockridge
Hernard Neal
Maurice Thomas
Basil Woolley
Wallace Rhodes
Gus Morgan
Horace Holleyman
Mr Clark
Theodonia Andrewa
Frances Springer
Mise Irene Herry
Annie Will Pearce
Columbus
Adelene Dobbs
Louise Loomis
Agnis Turner
Mra F A Pittman Ferns
Nasturduins
Rosen
Miss Atkinson
Helen Atkinson
North Jackson Street
J D Atkinson
J W Ford
Missea Sadie Ford
Gladys Sands
Lyndall Hobbs
Helen Jackson
Minnie Cook
Mesers
Charles Coates
William Meany
Frederick Jones
Arthur Cook
Leonard Lane
Woman's Missionary Society at St Pauls Meets July 15
The Woman's Missionary Society of St Pauls Church will meet Monday July 15 at 3 30 pm. The Atlanta Civic League holds its regular semi monthly meeting this afternoon at 3 o'clock in Carnegie Library. All interested in civic affairs are invited.
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Atlanta Civie League
Eclock
Carnegie Library
Social items parade visitors and bridge parties across towns
Mrs Wot Chipley and Mr William Thiples Jr return from Florida with Mrs F C Obear of Birmingham. Miss Dorothy Cule of Newnan visits Mrs Marshall Johnson and Mrs Henry. Mrs Joan Gon hosts two bridge tables. Mrs Neel of Carterville and Mrs Roy Cale of Newnan attend Womans Baptist Missionary Union in Georgia. Lita Holtzendorf returns from a Carswell house party. Ferol Humphries honored at matinee party by Miss Carswell. Misses Edith and Antoinette Kirkpatrick return from Wrightsville Beach and plan Washington visit. Mrs Harvey Anderson and Miss Rosalie Davis will travel to Egypt in October for a year. Mrs L Hodgson returns from Wrightsville Beach. Senator Crawford, Mrs Crawford, and Senator King at Capital Square during General Assembly. Miss Ann Donnelly Snaves visits Savannah. Mrs Hickey of Macon leaves for Macon. Mrs Defence Watcher and son Wetbuen leave for Ocean Avenue to visit Mrs Hermin Snives for two weeks. Mrs Alfred Triit returns from Wrightsville Beach. Saturday night dance at the...
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Ene
Neel
Carteraville
Roy Cale
Newnan
P G Antry
Manchester
Womans Baptist Missionary Union of Georgia
Lita Holtzendorf
Louise Carswell
Augusta
Piedmont club weekly dinner dance and guests
Tonight the Piedmont club hosts a weekly dinner dance with guests including Miss Helen Brown from Greenville and Miss Oreeta Wood of Tennille Georgia. Several residents plan trips to Endicott New York, Savannah, Wrightsville Beach, and New York while others visit relatives in Macon and Decatur.
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Piedmont Club
Helen Brown
Greenville
Laura Wilkie
Griffin Elks to Have Modern Clubhouse
Griffin Georgia July 12 special Griffin lodge Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks has purchased the Hill property at Eighth and Taylor and will build a modern clubhouse owned by lodge members. A realty company has formed and bought over 5000 of 12000 capital stock for the project. The lodge, organized two years ago, now has 150 members and high standing in the region.
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Griffin
Riffin Lodge Benevolent and Protective Order of Elka
Eighth
Taylor Streets
Georgia
Elks
Lodge of Elks
Miss Heppner Held On Perjury Charge
In Chicago on July 12 Miss Alleen Heppner was held to the grand jury on perjury charges connected to a damage suit involving Clarence Funk, general manager of International Harvester. Bonds were set at 6000 by Municipal Judge Newcomer after she testified she saw Funk and Mrs Henning enter a room while she dined with Mrs Sophia Hoerner and her daughter at the Grand Pacific hotel. Hoerner and her daughter denied being in Chicago that day. the court ruled the Hoerner denial immaterial to the grand jury argument.
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Chicago
Miss Alleen
Heppner
Josephine Henning
Clarence Funk
International Harvester Company
Mr Funk
Henning
Sophia Hoerner
Grand Pacific
Hoerner
Miss Heppner
Young Wordn
Misa Heppner
Death of Judge Walston in auto mishap near Paducah
Paducah Ky July 12 Judge J S Walston was killed when his car jolted on a rough pike and threw him from the back seat. Dragged a hundred feet before being found under the second car he died before reaching the city. He was a member of the fiscal court and vice president of the Paducah Banking company.
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Paducah
Pike
JS Walston
Allspeed
Walston
Paducah Banking Company
Democratic chiefs to hear Woodson in Chicago
Chicago July 12 Urey Woodson former secretary of the Democratic National Committee arrived in Chicago to arrange headquarters for the party chiefs. He planned rooms at a hotel on Michigan Avenue for the meeting next Monday to map out Woodrow Wilson's campaign. Woodson said he would retire from active politics once the campaign committee formally resigns his duties.
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Chicago
Urey Woodson
Formur
Democratic National Committee
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Li Woodson
Mtea
Fan Avenue
Cs Nozign
Jonesboro braces for electric railway to Atlanta
Jonesboro residents anticipate construction of the Atlanta and Macon railway linking Jonesboro with Atlanta and Marietta. The line promises direct rapid transit, frequent service, and closer ties to Atlanta, said Hon A C Blalock in The Jonesboro Enterprise interview.
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Jonesboro
Atlanta
Macon
Marietta
A C Blalock
Clayton County
Blalock
Jonesboro Enterprise
Tonesboro
Railroad Commission
Round Trip Fare Atlanta to Chattanooga July 13 1912
The W A R R will sell round trip tickets Atlanta to Chattanooga for trains leaving Atlanta at 4 50 p m and 8 50 p m July 13 1912, good returning not later than the train arriving Atlanta 11 45 Monday morning following date of sale.
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Chattanooga
Atlanta
Pretty Divorcee Lashes Witness in Punishment Row
Mrs Lillian Petitt of 42 Doane Street faced assault charges after she allegedly horse whipped C B Reeves at the Marlett and Spring area. Vernon Hines stood by while Edward Hurst restrained Reeves, witnesses say Petitt snatched a near-thonged whip and struck him repeatedly, breaking the lash before slapping Reeves, with legal representation by Thomas B. Brown and Walter Sims for Reeves.
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Lillian Petitt
Doane Street
Justice Johnson
B Reeves
Marlett
Spring
Rieve
Threat to Tie Up Every New York Pier
The National Transport Workers Federation warns a city wide strike will halt freight at all New York piers within 24 hours. James Vidal says longshoremen will tie up every pier to force terms from steamship lines. Clyde Line official says only minor disruptions so far with workers awaiting vacancies. In Jersey City, 150 longshoremen struck at Storage pier while Pennsylvania railroad longshoremen stayed at their pier.
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New York
James Vidal
National Transport Workers Federation of America
Wei
Vidal
Aiymond
Clyde Line
National Docks
Jersey City
Pennsylvania Railroads
Companys
Millionaire Speed Cremated in Boston Then Buried in Louisville
Funeral services for Louisvilles multimillionaire James B Speed halted every Louisville street for five minutes at noon. Speed died at the family summer home in Maine and was cremated in Boston. his ashes were brought to Louisville for burial.
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Louisville
James B Speed
Maine
Mr Speed
Boston
Philippine born officer wins London wedding on shipboard romance
Macon Ga July 13 special Friends in Macon chronicled the romance of Captain Courtney Wimberly Jeffersonville son of the late Dr Wimberly a West Point graduate and army officer who wed Miss Mary Louise Barker of Canada Their courtship began aboard a steamer en route from the Philippines to Liverpool England They married in London after obtaining a license and soon left for the United States Their families remain in England for a year and the couple plan a return to the west where he commands a fort unit
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Macon
Courtney Wimberly
Jeffersonville
Dr. Wimberly
West Point
United States Army
Mary Louise Barker
Canada
Wimberly
London
England
Philippines
Liverpool
Wim Derry
Miss Barker
Cupid
USA
United States
Alligators Roam Over Farm Near Perry
Perry Ga July 12 Special E J Thompson resident 3 miles west of Perry owns a large fenced pasture pond where hogs and cattle graze Rainwater filled the pasture a neighbor G O Harris heard bellowing rode to the scene and killed a six foot alligator the action followed by reports of further noises Thompson believes other alligators remain in the pasture and may have been feasting on pigs and small hogs recently
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Perry
E. J. Thompson
G. O Harris
Gator
Harris
Thompson
Ruth Bobe Arrested Over Stage Dream in Mobile
16 year old Ruth Bobe of Mobile Alabama was taken into custody by detectives Howell and Hollingsworth after being found in a boarding house. Her father had ordered the arrest claiming she ran away to marry vaudeville actor M H Avery who has not appeared in Atlanta. Ruth described her plans and vowed to pursue Avery if needed.
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Ruth Bobe
Mobile
Ala
Howell and Hollingsworth
Ruths
M H Avery
Atlanta
Ruth
Daddy
Avery
Formwall Street
Rural Education Behind the Times in Rural Areas
Chicago July 19 speakers at the National Educational Association warned rural education lags behind. They cited one year lease farming hindering funds for land and schoolhouses, with Warren W Wilson noting farmers avoid permanent improvements. The convention closed July 12 with E T Fairchild as president and Salt Lake City chosen for next meeting.
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Chicago
National Educational Association
Warren W Wilson
Missions
New York City
Iowa
E T Fairchild
Salt Lake City
Pure Food Law Ban Upon Absinthe
Washington July 12 The importation of absinthe into the United States and its sale in interstate commerce was prohibited after October 1 next by a pure food decision signed today by Secretary Wilson It is generally recognized that this beverage is dangerous to health Members of the pure food board expressed the opinion that the decision would virtually abolish the use of absinthe in the United States Belgium Switzerland and Holland have passed laws forbidding its manufacture sale and importation and the French senate two weeks ago took similar action Absinthe also is condemned by the laws of Brazil.
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Washington
United States
Wilson
Beveridge
Pure Food Board
Belgium
Switzerland
Holland
Brazil
Bubonic Plague Case Reported at Port of Spain
A single bubonic plague case was reported at Port of Spain Trinidad by the American consul. No new cases were recorded in Puerto Rico or Cuba yesterday, while Havana saw a death of a suspected case. The health effort against plague continues across the West Indies and American ports.
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Washington
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Porto Rico
Cuba
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Havana
San Juan
P. R
Islands
West Indies
Wounded assailant foiled in swamp search near Crescent City
Tampa Florida July 12 A posse hunted a wounded unknown negro after he attacked a white woman at Hulls Branch crossing near DeLand. Despite dogged pursuit sixteen miles, authorities found no trace as dawn broke around a waterlogged swamp near Crescent City. They suspected he escaped toward the St John’s River two miles away with about sixty men still tracking him.
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Tampa
Fla
Hull’s Branch Crossing
DeLand
Crescent City
St John’s River
Initiative referendum and recall scored in Alabama
Colonel Alfred P Thom of Washington DC, chief counsel of the Southern railway, addressed the Alabama State Bar Association in Montgomery. He grouped initiative referendum and recall together as a pending revolution, warning the move would transform government into rule by men rather than by law and echo ancient Aristotle rejected democracy.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama State Bar Association
Alfred P Thom
Washington DC
Southern Railway
Tie
New Railroad Project Promises South Georgia Routes
Reports from Tifton and Americus indicate a new Americus Tifton and Atlantic railroad is nearly assured with substantial subscriptions this week. The line would run from Americus southeast to Warwick Ashburn Tifton Nashville Milltown and Jacksonville to unlock agricultural and lumber regions. Private short lines near Ashburn and to the Flint River are part of the corridor, owned by J S Betts & Co and the Tifts. Local towns support the plan strongly, and officials expect its passage.
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South Georgia
Tifton
Americus
Americus Tifton
Atlantic
Warwick Ashburn
Nashville Milltown
Jacksonville
Tumber
Ashburn
Flint River
J. S Betts & Co
Tifts
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Tennille, Ga
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Thomson, Ga
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Decatur
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