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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1912
Page
15
Mies Edith Burke of Atlanta married Robert J. McClure of Birmingham at Tallulah Falls high noon. The event featured white roses and ferns, a lace table centerpiece, and a reception. couple to reside in Birmingham.
Selma society guests attended multiple bridge and dinner events yesterday. Notable hostesses Mrs C K Ayer and Mrs W H Allen led gatherings on Myrtle and Eleventh streets, honoring Misses Jones and Williams, with tables, buffets, and decor featuring poppies pinks and flowers.
Acresurial communication of Atlanta chapter No. 49 Order of Eastern Star will be held in Masonic Temple at Peachtree and Cain streets this evening at 7 oclock. All members urged to attend Visitors in good standing cordially invited. The Woman's Relief League of Kirkwood holds its regular meeting on Tuesday July 2 at 4:50. The Kirkwood Civic League SW section hosts its Saturday refreshment and amusements for children in the grove on June 29 from 4 to 7.
Mrs W H Habersham traveled home via Tallulah Falls while visiting her daughter Mrs Lewis Magid at Camp Toogalo. Arnold Broyles returns from Wrightsville Beach. Irene Lovejoy WilNama and others back from Indian Springs. Several families, including the Caldwells, Parkes, and Howells, are mentioned with visits to Louisville, Tampa, Los Angeles, Wrightsville Beach, and St Simon's. Guests include numerous Broyles family members and Miss Henrietta Yerger. social events feature a Treated week in Wrightsville and a party for Eva Bell Gregg’s recovery.
A long list of measures from various counties includes abolition of Calhoun city court, creation of roads and revenues boards for Forsyth, four term superior courts in several counties, city courts at Moultrie Swalneboro Ocilla Hall and Echols, and a ban on certain fertilizer compositions. Also included are rules for stock notes, investment company regulation, refinery of fee payments, and redistricting of congressional districts. Senate bills push prohibition enforcement, health board composition, fertilizer misbranding, pension fees, and railroad venue rules.
The senate discussed several topics on Friday including a mileage bill by Sen Emmett Shaw requiring rails to pull mileage on trains and not exchange tickets at stations. Other items included measures to tighten prohibition laws, expand the state health board, regulate fertilizer fillers and fix a clerical error affecting Putnam County’s district. The session adjourned tentatively to 11 this morning with light calendar expected.
W B Kent former University of Georgia football star and legislator may be reinstated to practice law in Georgia if a bill removing disabilities is passed. Dr J F Hall of Echols county frames the bill. about thirty House members back it. Kent, Montgomery county rep, contends disbarment stemmed from political persecution after alleged record alteration charges reached the Supreme Court.
At noon today a record hardest rain in years hit Woarlem Harlem Gawane. The dam at the reservoir broke near Campania two miles east of Harlem, flooding the Georgia Vitrified Brick Company plant and causing about 3700 in damage.
The Fulton county delegation proposes boosting the Georgia School of Technology appropriation from 75000 to 80009 and authorizing Governor Brown to issue a warrant for 310909 to cover the state's share of a heating and power plant. A 10000 proviso ties state funds to other donors' pledges, requiring proof that the remaining 10000 has been donated before state money is released. A well equipped plant would improve the school and save state costs.
L J Godwin of Lyerly Ga announces his candidacy for representative from Chattooga county, subject to the Democratic primary in August. A longtime resident of the county for over twenty five years, he has been active in local politics and is expected to receive broad support from friends across the area.
The article stresses flag day honor at U S military posts from Maine to Alaska and throughout territories. It urges all citizens to display the flag and condemns red flag protests by socialists anarchists and other groups, citing recent demonstrations in New York.
This afternoon at 4 o'clock a baptism on McDaniel's lake at Lawton street West End will immerse many converts led by evangelist Carlyle B Haynes who held lengthy April May meetings at Old Baptist Tabernacle. Another baptism is planned in a few weeks. At 11 this morning at East Fair street church the First Seventh Day Adventist church of Atlanta will receive baptismal candidates by Mr Haynes with others joining by profession of faith after immersion.
Three Atlanta citizens Colonel Harry Stodd J T Dunn and A Martin completed a 35 mile foot journey in nine hours from Blue Ridge to Young Harris through the north Georgia mountains They spent Monday on Brasstown Bald the state s highest peak at 4797 feet
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