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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1921
Page
7
Mrs. Bryan W. Newkirk hosted a formal bridge luncheon in honor of Miss Margaret Stovall. The rooms featured yellow and orchid decor with French baskets of yellow and lavender blooms as centerpieces. Guests included Miss Stovall and a long list of debutantes and society women from nearby towns.
Miss Rebecca Ashcraft and Miss Elizabeth Little attend gatherings as Mr and Mrs Bryan of Chicago visit Atlanta for the Men’s convention. Hostesses Mrs Bryan and Mrs Kiser entertain at Pace's Ferry Road home and plan a luncheon with Robert Adger Smythe. Mrs Edwin Johnson hosts a dinner for the Bryans, while matinee party honors Mrs Maude Wileggins, bride-elect in June, with tea at West Peachtrea Street. Guests include Maude Wiggins Ruth Burroughs Maude Ragan Lora Campbell and others with floral pink and green decor and sweet peas.
Reception for Ad Men's convention delegates at the Atlanta Woman's Club on Peachtree Street drew more than 400 guests. Officers wives and club hostesses circulated amid pink hydrangeas and American flags as Mrs M Boykin and others greeted attendees. Miss Theodora Stansbury led the woman’s division.
Crowds flood New York streets and City Hall Park to glimpse a comet near the Woolworth tower. Experts dispute visibility while Mayor Hylan speaks at a Liberty Pole ceremony, yet the astral visitor steals the scene.
Augusta and Atlanta guests attend Delta Tau Delta Phi Delta Theta events at the Georgia commencement celebrations. Chaperones Mrs D P Haselton and Mrs Beaumont Davison oversee gatherings while Atlanta, Macon, Marietta, and other cities send delegates to the various dances and picnics associated with the campus events.
The marriage of Mrs. Louise Goodrit Hubbard of Washington DC and Victor Lamar Smith of Atlanta is set for 9:30 PM at the home of Mr and Mrs James C Davie on Connecticut Avenue. Alexander W Smith will be best man, Esther Smith maid of honor, with Rev Thomas L Small officiating as family and close friends attend.
Atlanta D A R chapters and War Mothers' Service Star League marked Flag Day with songs, national anthems, and a Syrian pantomime at Craige House on Piedmont Avenue. Joseph Habersham and Wre George Braitenbacher led programs including an American flag presentation to children. Essays on Our Flag by local schools were read and the War Mothers displayed a 140-star flag honoring Fulton County's fallen.
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