Georgia Federation Reports Progress at Biennial Convention
Georgia federation president Mrs. J Fitzpatrick outlines $3,200 raised for endowment last year and $1,000 to general fund this year. Federation includes 225 clubs with 20,009 members, 12 districts, and active civic, educational, and club programs across Georgia. Plans cover schooling, library drives, canning and corn clubs, and advocacy for vital statistics, compulsory schooling, kindergarten, and women inspectors in penal institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georsis
Georgia
Bma F. White Rlate
General Federation
Ecently
Atlanta Pan-Hillene
Young Women's Christian Association
Clview
Qur Clu
Schui
Tifton Club
Tallulah Falls
Atlanta
Corn Club
Joel Chandler Harris
Caught at the Biennial by Mrs Harvie Jordan
Witty quips echo in the auditorium foyer at the biennial meeting with officers and speakers like Mrs Harvie Jordan and Ella Flagg Young quoted. Patrons debate suffrage and education as Miss Helen Louise Johnson and Jane Addams are cited among remarks by Lorado Taft and Dr Claxton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvie Jordan
Elc
Bureau of Information
Carrie Nation
Chitengo
Suditorium
Iver
Miss Blankenburg
Fldadelphia
Claxton
Dr. Daniel
Gium
Amogen Oakley
Ella Flagg Yourus
Jad
Jane Addams
Americas
Sens Malter
Lorado Taft
Memorial to Deceased Leaders at Chicago Women's Club
Delegates and visitors to the Chicago biennial convention of Women's clubs gathered Sunday at the Auditorium for a memorial service honoring deceased leaders. Speakers from Georgia Ohio and New York praised figures such as Mrs. H. C. White Mrs. award to Buchwaltar Mrs. Owen Wister and Mrs. Francis Squire Potter, stressing lifelong public service and kindness. The program featured a celebrated musical rendition of the 23rd Psalm by combined choirs directed by Louise St. John Westervelt and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvie Jordan
Chicago
Georgia Federation
Addison F. Broomhall
Ohio
Award
Buchwaltar
Edward W. Biddle
Philadelphia
Owen Wister
Pennsylvania
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
New York
Francis Squire Potter
Kap
Basha McDowell
Decker
Interesting Biennial Features By Mrs Uarvie Jordan
Mrs Uarvie Jordan highlights the Chicago biennial convention of women's clubs with a social center exhibit supervised by Miss Zona Gale. Photographs show center work in schools, cooking and sewing classes, orchestras, and athletic teams as delegates view progressive Chicago institutions. Mme Schumann-Teink delays Europe trip to sing for club women. Carrie Jacobs Bond entertains California delegates at the Congress hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uarvie Jordan
Zona Gale
Civics
Chiago
Chicago
Pual
Forelgn
Ona Gale
Friendship Village
Mies Orbine
Cairago
Mme
Schumann-Teink
Maany
Coliseum
Carrie Jacobs Band
California
Piorentine
Congress Hotel
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Iillian Proy4 Palmer
Robert J. Burdette
C. Shepard “Barnum
Ws. DB
G Denniston
R.J. Waters
Los Angeles
H.E. Ie Nise
Riverside
Portland
Ore
Percy 8 Ring
Cisco
Carl $ Ownen
Taking Our Medicine at the Chicago Woman's Club Biennial
Mrs. Bolling Jones of Georgia is toasted at the Chicago biennial luncheon as the keynote for the Georgia clubs and the Southeastern division. The toast, titled Taking Our Medicine, voices gratitude to secretaries, pleads for federation, and ends with a praise of Mrs. White and the General Federation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvie Jontan
Chicago
Woman's Clubs
Federation
Bolling Jones
Georgia
Frank White
Rolling Jones
General Federation
Baltimore readies grand Star Spangled Banner centennial
Mrs B W Cochran Jr praises Baltimore plans for a week long centennial celebration September 12 featuring military parades, pageants, athletic events and illuminated streets. City state and federal funds support memorials for Fort McHenry defenders and Francis Scott Key as President Wilson Taft and Roosevelt accept invitations. governors expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. W. Cochran, Jr
General Federation
Baltimore
Maryland
Wortheentry
Baltimore Town
Francis Scott Key
Monumental
Wilson
Taft
Roosevelt
Gove
United Daughters of the Confederacy President and Officers
A/document listing the United Daughters of the Confederacy Georgia division officers with roles such as president first vice president and recording secretary, plus state editor and district coordinators, and instructions for contributions and certificates of membership from various Georgia towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Daughters OF the Confederacy
W. D. Lamar
Mac
1. M. Franklin
Tennille
Gaiseond
Mins
Zebulon Walker
Cauiou
Gai
W. C. Veburn
Mooite
J. M Hates
Montemma
Gay
MHS
Duncan Brown
Arlingon
Macon
Weasurer
Mattie Shibbley
Rowe
Nowamd
Ponce de Lean
Adana
James T. Dixon
Thamasiile
Mworlan
SSS
AUEL
Dhed Rutherbond
Athens
J. W. Teevus
Barnesville
Confedrate Museum
Tiehavand
Sra
Bethesbitt Waddell Street
Ausaia
Bend
Georia Division
Mrx Rox Bankater
West Paint
F. Jt. Willams
Newton, N
Dultrie Treamarere
Text-Books and Confederacy Literature in Carrollton Dublin
A verbose column extols Confederate text books and the Dublin chapter of the Children of the Confederacy. It highlights a June Carraliton chautauqua address by Mrs LaSalle Corbett Pickett, a reception, and praise for Georgia historians and Southern schoolbooks. It notes scholarship renewals, local chapter elections, and urges loyal reading of Southern histories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Children of Confederacy
Dublin
Lund
North
Georgia
United States
South
Jefferson Davis
Pumis
Yeeks
Avival
Lee
Virginia
Harty
Dixie
Miss Gay
Eagles Nest
John Eaten Cooke
Frances R. Goulding
Confederacy
Baltimore Plans Centennial Celebration of Fort McHenry
Governors from eighteen states and a guards of 100 men from each state will escort the Star Spangled Banner to Fort McHenry where 10,000 public school children will form a human flag and sing the anthem. President Wilson to dedicate the fort as a city park amid a world powers presence in Baltimore harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernors
Baltimore
Fort Mercury
Wilson
Congress
Washington
Daniels
United States Navy
Constellation
Fort McHenry
Suota
Executive Board TQ Meet of Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs
The executive board of the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs meets in Room 128 at the Piedmont Hotel on June 25 at 9 30 a m. President Mrs Z I Fitzpatrick and Miss Lucy Lester, Corresponding Secretary, are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs
Piedmont Hotel
Tune 25
Z. I. Fitzpatrick
Daughters of the American Revolution Officials Listed
State Editor Rosie Feldur Rat Augusta Macon and Savannah editors and secretaries named. State Regent Parker of Macon leads with vice regents Harper Athens and Burn Savannah, recording secretary McCall Avanta, corresponding secretary Cholt Bacon, treasurer Benton Augusta, historian Lowery Dawson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosie Feldur
West
St. Auionia
Walter Scott Wilson
MNS
Charles Cholt
Bacon
MHS
William M. Bentox
Augusta
MES
J. S
Lowery
Dawson
Review of Year's Work of Joseph Habersham Chapter
The Joseph Habersham chapter highlights its 1913 1914 efforts to fund a historical museum and library, noting 2064.31 raised and 51 new members bringing total to 355. Led by Mrs Peel and Mrs Perdue, the chapter supported DAR projects, observed patriotic anniversaries, donated to Continental Hall, and engaged in statewide and national DAR activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Habersham
Mrs Peel
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
L.A .T
Frest
Bose
Ince
Sonorary
WL. Peel
John A. Perdue
John Ashley Jones
Gray
Daughters of the American Revolution
Joseph Habershei
Rivers of the South Bearing Indian Names
State historian Mrs J S Lowrey of Dawson summarizes Georgia and Alabama river names and their Indian meanings. The piece lists rivers such as Allapahan Altauoha Chattooga Suwanee and Withlacoochee with notes on Choctaw Cherokee and Creek origins, linking names to meanings like town water and rock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. S. Lowrey
Dawson
Georgia
Alabama
Lowrey
Altauoha
Pana
Galsche
Connesanga
Chattooga
Chato
Malone
Chattahonches
Chatu
Deslen
Sannouches
Semaduete
Gereac
Suwanee Creek
Flag Day Observances by Daughters in Atlanta and Nearby
June 13 events highlighted by the Joseph Habersham chapter Daughters of the American Revolution in Atlanta. The Piedmont Driving Club hosted a valediction to the flag with an address by Dr. W R Hendrix and patriotic music. Other chapters held gatherings at Mrs T J Stmatt’s College Park home and at Macon, with songs, poems, and violin and piano pieces. In Americus the Council of Safety’s annual meeting elected officers led by Regent Mrs E A Hawking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Habersham
Atlanta
Piedmont Driving’ Club
Piedmont Continental Chapter
W. R. Hendrix
Wesley Memorial Church
Piedmont Continental
Daughters of the American Hevolutan
T. J. Stmatt
College Park
A. 2
Alfriend
Stovall
Wi. Vi ¥ Eandio
LD. Lowe
R. P. Brooks
Genealogical Society seeks data on Georgia families and wills
The notice promotes genealogical work by Hire Walter Scott Wilson and team in Savannah Georgia urging correspondents to provide full names, dates, and ancestral origins. It lists editors and officers including James Harris Jr and Mrs Maud Smith and notes upcoming abstracts of early Georgia wills, deeds, and church records from Screven, Bulloch, Effingham, and other counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Telfair
Denton Williame
Denton Wi
Mary
Northhampton
Martin Counts
North Carolina
Tainterra County
Georgia
Genealogical Main
Wisenan
Eningham
Unlock
Seveven County
Screven Coun County
Lumpkin County
Itat
Ravannah Court House
Chatham County
Charleston
Jerusalem
Ebenezer
Bulloch
Effingham
Willams
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Ares
Brs
Sirs
Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs
West Peachtree
Lot Warren
Hel Stockbridge
W. BL Price-Smith
Eugenia Johnson
Savannah
H. H. Perry
Palham
Jefs Moore
Montesuma
Mike Powell
Newnan
W. H
Mrs. Fitzpatrick
J. Fitzpatrick
Mrs. Jones
General Federation Magazine
Geonma
Sécre 2
Atar |Anq
Ceorsia
Daxelen
News of Woman’s Patriotic Societies
Herbert M. Franklin
Georgia Divinion
D. C
Offcers
Japair
DR. Meadows
Annie Wheeler
Walter DP. Lamar
United Daughters of the Gon
Daughters of the Confederacy
Rosa Woodberry
Adeline Baum
Mildred Rutherford
Field
Iiuine
Texas
George Gand
Mise Mitchell
Ot Auheng
Wade
Lawton UW. Gyans
Gordon
Southland
Lucy Lester
Anal Committee
Wsuil
Tech High School
Joseph ‘Habersham
Continental Hall
Perdue
Iuneer
Continental
Rossile
Helen Prestott
National Society of Daughters of the American
Treasury
Whitman
Renee Commuine
Teddy
William Percy
Hire
West Jones Street
Savenash, Ga
Ponara
Avery
William Pollard
Niles
James Harris, Jr
W. D. Ivey
Maud Smith
Misa
Constance Halt
W. HK. Belllain
T. B. Hooka
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