Regular monthly meeting of the Atlanta registered Suries club
The regular monthly meeting will be held at 30 p.m. at Mrs. Walter New Man’s residence 799 Piedmont Avenue. Hours are 4 to 6 and 3 to 10 in the evening. AN invited, Fee Bs $
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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1914
Page
14
The regular monthly meeting will be held at 30 p.m. at Mrs. Walter New Man’s residence 799 Piedmont Avenue. Hours are 4 to 6 and 3 to 10 in the evening. AN invited, Fee Bs $
Several residents plan stays in New York New Jersey and Indiana. Mr and Mrs Gallaher will contribute to an athletic program at a drawing near New York. Others head to Lake Toxaway Cape Cod and Atlantic Beach for summer visits. Family gatherings include Mr and Mrs Dickey and friends at European Lick Springs. Some return from Scoville School and Rose Hill plantation while typhoid fever affects Fred Watters.
The Georgia Military Academy ends its fourteenth year with about 180 pupils from sixteen states two Mexican states and Guatemala. Freshman through junior declamation contests at 10 will precede the homecoming march to College Park while graduation exercises occur at 8 this evening. Post-graduates include Camden Croft Cobern Mondville Pa ang Samuel Hunter Kendall and 30 more. The commencement speaker will be W G Brantley Jr of Atlanta.
The Hanna school presented a beautiful lyrical drama The Court of Juno Wednesday evening in Atlanta with local talent assisting. The production drew wide admiration across the United States, having been staged many times from the East to California.
The Unitarian church will hold a regular morning service in the Women’s club building on Haker street at Kil o’wleck. Dr Jade Conkling, who has been in Florida for the past month, will preach.
HL Kline, Memphis postal superintendent, visited Atlanta yesterday on a recreation trip. He spent several hours observing the Atlanta post office and praised the overall efficiency of its operations before departing.
W C Hundley, 3% years old and a well known Atlanta man, died yesterday at his sister Mrs Jane Mc Contkay’s home in Glen Ferris W Va after three weeks there to recover from illness. He is survived by five brothers and sisters in West Virginia and Virginia. Burial is planned in the family grounds in Virginia. Hundley was long time lessee of the Aragon hotel and once headed the Seaboard Air Line commissary.
Macon Ga May 28 Special E Holmes former city marshal of Macon who yesterday pleaded guilty to embezzlement of funds of the city to the amount of over 10 000 while serving the city was today fined 100 by Judge Matthews in the superior court The punishment was mild with leniency granted at the request of 1500 well known Macon people who petitioned the court.
Judge Carl Vinson campaigned in Norwood Georgia on May 28 delivering a vigorous address to a large crowd. He urged stricter immigration laws opposed federal regulation of parcel post rates and weights and argued for segregation in government departments while advocating constitutional changes on life tenure for federal judges and church-state separation.
Quitman Georgia May 28 Special Another big animal industry show draws thousands of hog and cattle raisers who attended the event under the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and Brooks County club auspices. Local leaders declare the show a permanent southern Georgia project with lasting benefits to the industry.
In Quitman Georgia on May 28 a special report notes drought relief from recent rains improving crops in Brooke county. Melons and cakes are recovering, peaches arrive for local market, and 12 pound melons are reported as plentiful. Strong entities include Quitman, Brooke county, Georgia, L B Price, May 28.
J A Wheeler died at his mother's home this afternoon at 2:30. He was 22, a Jesup high school graduate of 1910 and a former contributor and reporter for several papers. Survived by mother Ab Margaret Wheeler brother Clifton Wheeler of Hawkinsville and sister Mrs W S Murray of Waycross. Interment at city cemetery tomorrow with Rev John Moora Walker of Savannah to conduct services at St Pauls Episcopal Church.
Eight Atlanta public school teachers tendered resignations at a board meeting. Superintendent W. M. Slaton voiced puzzlement at the wave of resignations while a board member joked about Cupid. Three more resignations were filed and several names listed as accepted. The board discussed a new primary school supervisor position and approved urging higher superintendent pay.
An aged woman and a young girl were sent to Martha's home following their arrest urged by Dr. Horace Grant of the Masonic Relief association. Mrs James A McLoud alleged to have traveled seeking aid by claiming to be ex Governor James A Alcorn's widow and clasping Lillie Stone as her dependent. Grant will not prosecute to avoid convicting her of soliciting funds from Masons. He aims to remove the girl from the woman's influence, saying McLoud has nursed Lillie since infancy.
Burton Smith, grand marshal of the Shrine parades, is guest of honor at a Jubilation feast hosted by his staff aids and Yaarab nobles at the Druid Hills Golf Club. Dinner starts at 7:30 with over 100 attendees, praising the aides for their duties during Shrine week.
Governor John M. Slaton granted a pardon to John I. Hartley who had been serving an eight year term for the killing of Joan B. Hassell in Macon. Hartley convicted of manslaughter on December 12, 1941, killed Russell over his estranged wife, and a Bibb county petition urged clemency.
In Thomasville Georgia on May 28 the Georgia Florida Pecan association adjourned after a large meeting to hold its next session in Quincy Florida urged by Colonel Vanduzee of Cairo. Quincy will host the meeting while Thomasville had been named permanent home. A move to set up a pecan selling agency at Thomasville was approved with Vanduzee and B. W. Stone appointed to finalize plans for the agency and plants.
Macon Georgia May 28 special the fread lodge of Odd Fellows and the Mebekah assembly closed their annual meetings with officers elected and Fitzgerald chosen as next meeting place Atlanta bid for 1915 was defeated four to one by evening delegates largely departed Awards in prize degree team work went to two Atlanta and one Macon Rebekah team Clara Rebekah staff Atlanta won 200 Lillian Rebekah staff Macon second prize 100 Piedmont staff No 16 Atlanta third prize 50 The Rebekah assembly will meet with the grand lodge at Fitzgerald next year as will the grand encampment.
About 12,000 miners in the Kanawha coal fields will strike tomorrow night after a convention of the United Mine Workers. They will not return to work until operators agree to collect all union dues through union offices and send the strike order to distant districts tonight.
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