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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1910
Page
22
Georgia D A R chapter editor shares concise Roberts Rules of Order guidance. It covers motions and questions from adjournment to reconsideration, reading papers, suspending rules, and subsidiary motions with emphasis on proper procedure and precedence.
William Wellborn of Greene county wed Weil Bush of Franklin county and their daughter Issie Mary Ellen Bath was born on October 20 1830.
Mrs Redding born May 18 1825 in Baldwin County Georgia was the nineteenth child of William Anderson and Tiles Hannicutt. She married Thomas Redding of Sumter County in 1955. he died in 1662 leaving one child who died in 1870. She died May 26 1910 at the home of her great nephews Iver son and William Horne. A devoted Methodist, she belonged to Old Bethel church in Baldwin County and was likely the last real daughter of the Revolution to die in the state. Her father served under General Nathanael Greene.
Reader asks for the father of William Wellborn and traces to James Wellborn mentioned in the DAR column. Also seeks parents and children of General William Wellborn of Texas who died childless, leaving a large estate, and notes origin in the 1850s Texas migration.
Georgia Federation of Women Clubs urges the General Assembly to protect Tallulah Falls. The Habersham County grand jury backs forest conservation, urging state action to keep the falls undisturbed for Georgians and visitors, highlighting the local school and regional prosperity.
Georgia Federation president Mrs Hugh Willet outlines progress by federated women clubs in Georgia. About 1000 clubwomen, new federations, and strong rural education efforts across towns. Highlights include free kindergartens, school infirmaries, student aid, library outreach, sanitation and domestic science, and summer recreation camps for teachers.
In Georgia the Federation backs three key education bills led by Senator McWilliams. One would let counties borrow to pay teachers promptly and extend teaching for women, supported by Bainbridge Womans Club and local organizers. Compulsory attendance debates continue as factions pressure for passage to counter illiteracy among white Georgians.
The seventh district clubs will meet in Cartersville on August 31 hosted by the Cherokee Club. This second district meeting follows the Calhoun rally. attendees are urged to attend. Mrs W Hines and Mrs Daves plan the day. Counties include Dade, Catoosa, Murray, Walker, Whitfield, Chatooga, Gordon, Floyd, Bartow, Polk, Haralson, Cobb and Paulding. Interested federation members in these counties may confer by letter with Mrs W L Hines.
A list of officers and delegates for multiple clubs is announced. Twentieth Century Library Club names Mrs Ho H Titt as president and Mrs BL Vickers as vice president with key secretaries, while Athena delegates and West Point Woman's Club officers are detailed. Additional posts include graduate nurses association, Yeoman's Club, and related committees and officers.
A garbled excerpt references the K K K Flour and mentions the Atlanta branch National Needlework, the Athens Womens club sustaining a Day Nursery for colored children, and 1808 anti tuberculosis stamps totaling 1,472 dollars in Atlanta. It notes active health committees in clubs and three strong city federations within the Atlanta City Federation with about five thousand members.
A July 22 rally in Summerville gathered the county education forces under County School Commissioner S H B Jones. Trustees patrons and School Improvement Club members attended to hear insightful addresses and reports on progress and work across Chattooga county.
The Waycross Literary Society voted to join the Georgia Federation of Clubs after a well attended summer gathering at the Misses Perham home. Officers for 1910 1911 were elected. plans include continuing literary meetings and contributing books to Ware County school libraries. The federation extended a hearty welcome as the club embarks on education and civic work.
The Georgian Weekly Press Association met at Americas and declared strong support for compulsory education. They referred the matter to the legislative committee and thanked the press for past aid while urging continued effort on two other measures including a $6000 extension for the State College of Agriculture among women on farms.
Veterans at the Soldiers Home enjoyed a Wednesday afternoon watermelon cutting sponsored by the W Bacon-Goodwin Company which donated 400 melons. Trustees attended an informal chapel gathering with music recitations and talks by Judge Hall and Mrs Helen Plane of the United Daughters of the Confederacy before proceeding to the grove for a convivial feast.
In Temple Texas the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Confederate Veterans have erected a monument to Confederate dead. The shaft of Georgia marble rests on Texas granite and bears Father Ryan’s lines We care not whence they come Dear Interest day Whether unknown or known in fame Their cause and country still the same They died and wore the gray.
The poem-likely song lyric honors Dixie with lines about Dixie hearts brave, child of the south, and laying down for Dixie. It references hills blue skies bonnie, stars, and the brave who bled for Dixie, ending with their glory gone on high.
The Daughters of the Confederacy in Cedartown kept balloting on the park name around the Confederate veterans monument on Tuesday August 2 due to poor canvassing weather. Ballots cost five cents. Hightower Park is a leading suggested name honoring Captain T Hightower with General Gordon Lee and General Forrest among popular choices alongside Central Park and Court Square. A Lafayette meeting last Thursday elected officers.
The governor of Tennessee allows the United Daughters of the Confederacy to bury old veterans from the Confederate Soldiers Home with military honors. The note honors southern soldiers and expresses hope for similar recognition in Georgia.
A communication to this department reports that on June 8 a Confederate monument was unveiled at Johnsons Taland near Bandusky Ohio. The flat monument honors Confederate contributors and was erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy of Cincinnati. It may be the first Confederate women’s monument on union soil, following a prior Confederate dead monument at Columbus. Colonel W H Knauss, a Union soldier, is noted in connection with that Columbus memorial.
The Alabama division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy offers six scholarships totaling 476 dollars. Institutions include Marion Institute for Girls, Judson College for girls, Southern University for girls or boys, Howard College for boys at Birmingham, and Winnie Davis Memorial for girls at Athens Georgia.
Mrs T W Crawford reports success in organizing a United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter in Lexington Georgia. By Tuesday twenty four members are listed, with plans to send the roster and charter application to Atlanta headquarters. Crawford seeks further members and awaits approval before Echols artillery survivors meeting.
The Cuthbert chapter hosted a meeting of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Tuesday afternoon at Miss Oda Teabeaut home on Collage Street in De Sclouw fruit. Tea punch cream and cake were served.
London July 28 Mrs Garrud the jiu jitsu expert of the suffragettes demonstrated wrestling moves against police officers from Tendon police. Despite height and weight differences she threw several giants with swift throws on the mats. One officer marveled at her skill noting a pavement fall would likely crack his skull.
Emile Husar, a Geneva resident and Pole, died after a fall while attempting the sheer peak of Jatlouvre on Jailoayre Mountain. The 7000 foot summit proved fatal as Husar, the alpinist, had promised his upcoming marriage would be his last climb. Transported remains were buried among Alpine flowers.
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