Dinner Party and Dancing Rounds of Georgia Socials
Miss Harriet McCullough hosted guests in compliment to Miss Katherine Reynolds of Birmingham and Miss Mary Faith Yow of Livonia Ga. Ida Adline Kiser wed Ybon Williams Reed in Atlanta. Mrs Henry Jackson hosted a luncheon for Mrs Ralph Binns of Philadelphia. A dance season featured many teas and dances at the Driving Club and University venues with numerous named guests from Birmingham, Athens, Savannah, Knoxville and Jacksonville.
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Harriet McCullough
Capital City Country Club
Miseatherine ‘Reynolds
Birmingham
Elizabeth Hawkins
Mary Faith Yow
Livonia
Katherine Dicke
Binns
Henry Jackson
Acea Ferry Road
Ralph Binns
Phila- Selpnia
Edn H
Marie Stoddard
Plaster Bridge Road
Robert Hunt
Jay Catus
Orange Park
William Douglas
Jacksonville
Hyperion Club
Wertoe
Ea Stanley
Chattanooga
Mira Caryiia Balentine
Btarle
Oliver
Nora Ugram
Futh Jinckman
Mias
Natlite Ragsdale
RA Garner
W_oR_ Love
LP Delhouse
ER Paria
FC Young
Wyle Trussel
JS McCreight
L'L Suoble
HP Andrews
Grant Davis
Sandy Russel
J’ M Millet
W Oj Beres
EG Alten
C A. Frusset
Mir Harvey Beal
C'G Cowan
B of Godfrey
Air
H Harrison
Irwin Wilson
Ben Franklin
Henry Colingsworth
Carl Smith
Durant Gelzer
Harry Bledsoe
Albert Briawell
Ingram
CB Shore
Fris
McCullough
Mra
OE. Smith
Columba
Lois McIntyre
Miss Reynolds
Dr'ving Club
Lizzabeth Hawkins
Katherine Reynolds
Miss Rose
William McKenzie
Driving Club
Patty WeGchees Cuest
Rose
Knoxville
Scudder
Lois Macintyre
Peachtree Road
Nina
Susan
Athens
Misa Jones White
Davies Dunn Wedding in Andersonville GA
Andersonville Georgia July 27 Arthur Davies of Vienna and Miss Ida Dunn of Andersonville wed at 4 pm in the bride's home Rev Foster of Vienna officiated the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andersonville Ga
Spe Awbi
Arthur Davies
Vienna
Iga Dunn
Andersonville
Rev Foster
Salem Camp Meeting Begins August Sixteen
Fraser presiding elder of the Oxford district and Rev J Askew announce the Salem Camp meeting will be an unusually interesting occasion. The meeting starts Friday, August 16, and lasts eight days with preaching by Bishop John C Kilgo of Durham, Dr A Steel of Columbus, and Dr Plato Durham of the Candler School. Ministers are entertained free. A hotel tent provides accommodations for visitors. Public can secure motor car carriage from Covington and Conyers to the campground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covington and Conyers
Columbus Baptist Association Meets in Columbus Georgia
Representatives from many west Georgia churches gathered at Hose Hill Baptist church in Columbus to attend the regular Columbus Baptist Association session. Dr B W L Busney of Cusseta, moderator for fourteen years, presides as the two day meeting opens with an engaging program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Ga
West Georgia
Hose Hil Baptist Church
Columbus Baptist Association
W L Busney
Cusseta
Wanamaker resigns as Philadelphia Security League leader
John Wanamaker today resigned as chairman of the Philadelphia chapter executive committee of the National Security League, saying he wants to relieve the league of responsibility for his call that the United States pay Belgium's war indemnity and then release its control. Theodore H. Weldersheim was named to succeed him, with Wanamaker remaining an executive committee member.
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Philadelphia
John Wanamaker
National Security League
League
United States
Belgiam
Theodore H. Weldersheim
Wanamaker
Women of France Fight Alcohol Sales Nationwide
A French group named the crusade of the women of France passed a resolution condemning alcohol sales in confectioners shops tobacconists and coal merchants and urging prohibition in munitions towns. Police clarified the order excludes beer and nonaromatized natural wines under one degree of alcohol.
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Pans
Crusade of the Women of France
Incudive
Masdames
Alphonse “Daudet
Jamie Zols
Poincare
Vivians
Auguy—neur
Deroulede
Duchess of Rohan
Countess of Greffalbe
Gallient
Liquor Dealers Association
Four Buildings Burned in Fire at Waycross
Waycross Georgia July 27 fire destroyed property valued at about 3000 dollars. A two story store a blacksmith shop and two houses burned in a morning blaze endangering a suburb known as Did Ning Heavy losers were HH Keen and Mrs JH Dubois with partial insurance on the losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waycross Ga
Keen
Mra JH
Dubois
Paortial Insurance
Heat Wave Sweeps Alaska With Record Highs
Seward reports 96 degrees in the shade with 103 at Kenai Lake as July heat tightens its grip in Alaska. Only four rainy days in two months. Bieberli fires blaze east of Anchorage and threaten nearby areas.
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Seward
Alaska
Kenai Lake
Anchorage
Americus Rails at First Cotton Bale of New Crop
Americus reports the first bale of the new cotton crop received at the Oliver warehouse. Weighed 440 pounds from the Humber plantation in Sumter County, classed middling. Bale to be pressed either to Augusta or Savannah. Weather remains intensely hot, cotton opening widely with little plant injury observed.
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Americus Wa
Yury
Americus
Oliver
Humber
Sumter County
Auguste
Savannah
Florida Governor Trammell Visits Industrial Schools Tour
Governor Park Trammell arrives in Atlanta en route to study Georgia and other southern states Industrial Schools to inform Florida plan for boys and girls facilities in Marianna and nearby. He advocates highway commission, lauds Dixiel highway project, and notes naval stores rebound. He will meet Governor Hardman Mark at Piedmont Hotel during stay.
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Florida
Governor Park Trammell
Atlanta
Georgia
Trammell
House Committee On
Chattanooga
Mark
Piedmont Hotel
Strike Settled at Standard Oil Plant in New York
Bayonne workers end strike after impromptu street meeting. Strikers vote to return to work on promise by plant superintendent GB Hennessey to seek wage increases and fix shop wrongs, a proposal mediated by John A Moffitt and James A Smyth. Sheriff Kinkead had barred the earlier meeting. later, others urged compliance and the Bayonne action may hasten a settlement at the Eagle Oil plant in Jersey City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bayonne
WN Oj
Standard Oil
Cheere
G@ B
Hennessey
John A Moffitt
James A Smyth
Hennesseys
Eugene, Kinkead
Stfikers
Jersey City
Hagle Oil Company
Caven Point
WOFFORD SHOALS PLANT TO DOUBLE CAPACITY
Cornelia Ga July 27 Special At a Wooford Shoals Light and Power board meeting resolutions were adopted to begin work on the waterpower development about August 8 Build two thirty foot hollow concrete Ambursen dams to span Murty river and steel flume a large sixty five foot high tank and two new water wheels to drive generators This will more than double the plant capacity Those present were C Gresham S C Callaway WB Silard JL Perkins and J A Wells
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornelia
Woftaid Shoala Light and Power Company
Woffaid Shoals
C Gresham
Mount Airy
S_C Callaway
Ai Jante
WB Silard JL Perkins
J. A. Wells
Cornahia
Wages, Eight-Hour Day Sought by Munitions Workers
In New York and New Jersey, representatives of the International Association of Machinists and workers in munitions plants plan higher wages and an eight-hour day. A strike involving about 6000 machinists will follow if employers refuse demands. J J Keppler, IAM vice president, says the grand lodge authorized a general strike for an eight-hour day when the time is right.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New Jersey
International Assugation of Machinisma
Muntinns
J J Keppler
Grand Lodge of the
International Faseciation
Washington
Keppler
Typhoon Rages Through Shanghai Crushing Bund and Ships
A typhoon strikes Shanghai at midnight hitting the city hard. US cruisers Saratoga and Cincinnati endure the blast with alarms and drifting anchors while ashore trees along the bund fall and a large steamer runs aground at Garden Point. Efforts focus on securing launches and pontoons against the wall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanglai
United States
Saratoga
Cincinnati
Garden Point
Further defections in ranks of the union
Bridgeport Conn July 27 Further defections today in the ranks of the union marked the machinists strike at the Remington Union Metallic Car tridge plants working on millions of dollars worth of munitions for the allies. Keppler International vice president of the machinists expected back from New York tonight with completed plans for settlement with the arms plant, which had refused to take back some of the strikers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport
Conn
Remington Union Metallic Cartridge
Keppler
International
New York
Dixie Bee Line Tour Opens Inspection of Proposed Route
July 27 in Danville Indiana saw thirty autos carrying Dixie Bee Line members and road enthusiasts depart for a tour of the proposed Danville Indiana to Nashville highway route. Twenty more machines traveled to Princeton for a reception honoring the Dixie Bee Line. The committees plan to cover Danville and return to Danville Friday morning.
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Bvanaville
Ind
Dixie Bee Line
Danville
Nashville
Princeton
Uciass
Secretary Garrison Presses Caution On Military Policy
Washington July 27 Secretary of War Garrison refused to disclose details of the military policy under development. He will present a general army reorganization plan to the president next week but urged restraint to avoid harmful premature debate. He warned that unauthenticated statements have caused harm and that the policy is not yet fully formulated. The secretary asked citizens to support a careful, whole-plan discussion rather than piecemeal details.
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Washington
Garrison
Dave
Col Lindsay Johnson Dies in Manila Philippines
Rome Ga July 27 Special The death in Manila yesterday of Colonel J Lindsay Johnson editor of The Rome Tribune-Herald and assistant director of the census of the Philippine islands was announced in a cablegram. Cause apoplexy. Johnson went to Manila two years ago with his daughter Miss Lentia Johnson. He was born Floyd county sixty one years ago, son of John A Johnson. Educated at the University of Georgia and Washington and Lee, he practiced law before purchasing The Rome Tribune twelve years ago and later served as editor in chief of The Rome Tribune-Herald. Survived by his widow Mrs Anna Johnson, daughter Letitia, and two sons J G Johnson of Rome and J Lindsay Johnson in Washington.
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Rome
Manila
J Lindsay Johnson
Rome Tribune-Herald
Philippine Islands
Johnson
Mias Lentia Johnson
Toarn
Floyd County
John 4A Johnson
University of Georgia
Washington and Lee University
Georgia
Rome Tribune
Tribune-Herald
Home
Anate I Johnson
Mise Letitia Johnson
J G Johnson
Census Department
Washington
Huerta protests to Chief Justice over house search
El Paso Texas July 37 General Huerta awaiting trial on conspiracy to violate neutrality telegraphed Supreme Court Chief Justice White that his home had been violated by American justice agents without scruple and demanded guarantees for his family. He spoke after a family visit at Fort Bliss. Agents Beckham and Stone searched the house before his arrival and remained during his conversations with family members. His wife and children were later allowed to visit at Fort Bliss but he objected to the search, insisting he was a prisoner.
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el Paso
Texas
General Huerta
Justice White
United States Supreme Court
Huerta
Bia
Department of Justice
Clifford Beckham
PF ‘Stone
Chii~ Aren
Fort Bliss
Ow York
United States Marshal
Fort
Department
Beckham and Stone
Alabama Good Roads Days Proclaimed by Governor Henderson
Governor Henderson announced August 16 and 17 as Good Roads Days for Alabama in a declaration read before both houses. He urged statewide programs and mass meetings to boost the good roads movement during these days.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
Henderson
Fragmentary interview hints at fear and humiliation
A distressed speaker asks not to molest his wife and children while agents press Huerta for details on which child was frightened. He calls the incident humiliating and says it has hurt his being.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huerta
Strand Theater Presents Merquerite in The Strane Francia
The Strand screens a film featuring Merquerite and Bushman with his new leading lady in a tale of battles and plots set amid political intrigues. Admirers in Atlanta are drawn to Marguerite’s star presence as a romantic thread runs through the dramatic action.
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Strane Francia
Bushman
Merquerite Sa
Todas
Eacure
I Metro
DAO
Marguerite Snow Hay
Atlata
Maen
Lavaile
Swedish Army Becomes Largest In History
Copenhagen reports Sweden now has the largest army in the country’s history. The force has almost doubled since the war outbreak, with 60,000 additional non commissioned officers and 18 training centers established. Thousands of trained troops are designated for frontline duties amid expanding training programs.
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Copenhagen
Ju Son
Tha ‘Mainder
Bt Fan
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