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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1909
Page
11
A Piedmont Driving Club meeting outlined the cavalry drill for the Horns Show. Mrs. John Hill and Miss Charles Owens will lead, with an individual riding contest for the diamond horseshoe pin and a trophy ride by practicing riders. Rehearsals start now and occur twice weekly.
Social notes recount a bridge tea for Miss Gardner of Washington with eight guests and prizes, plus a debutante tea for Miss Mary Anderson in November. War Governor’s Day in Georgia features the Daughters of the Confederacy, a George Hillyer oration, and a reception at the Woman’s Club. Birthday party honors Vic te Courtney’s seventeenth birthday with friends, and the Twentieth Century Study Club prepares a Friday program at the Atlanta Woman’s Club with music and readings.
A fragmented social page lists individuals including Wil Windsor Jim Davis Homer Camp Fos sier Coggins Bennette Snow Lem Hughes Louis Auchelacher and couples C B Conebury W C Courtney Hancock with children Charlie Tom and J B Court ney, indicating a community roster.
Verses and readings by Miss Margue rite Chaffee with praise from Emerson College of Oratory in a Sept 28 parish house recital at the Church of the Incarnation. Also a Sept 24 Westminster Church recital by Misses Eastlock Arnold with local musicians, free will offering for the Ladies Aid Society.
The paper highlights Eclipse Catarrh Cure as a claimed remedy with testimonials from readers and ads detailing a promotion. Social notes mention Mrs Patterson’s visit to Atlanta, Mrs Newman and Miss Patterson hosting teas, bridge parties, dinners, and numerous residents returning from travels and visits in the city.
Springfield September 23 a code of ethics governing saloon business was approved by the Illinois state liquor dealers convention. It prohibits serving drinks to females for on site drinking at public bars and forbids gambling on the premises. It urges neighborly conduct, curbs Christmas gift living, stops cent growlers sales, limits beer in buck ets to nearby residents, and excludes indecent pictures and labels from saloons and ads.
Bernhard Dernburg secretary of state for the colonies sails for the United States to study cotton growing in the south. He will be away from Berlin for seven weeks and is accompanied by Herr Busse head of the colonial office agriculture bureau.
Mobile delegates to the Lakes to the Gulf Waterways convention in New Orleans October 13 include Judge John W Maddox Rome GA Joun L Burgett W P B Lay Gadaden AL Congressman Henry D Cliyton Buffalo AL General Rufus N Rhodes F Anderson Belton Gireath Robert L Jamison Sr Birmingham AL T L Tate Wetumpka AL J B Ellis Selma AL Walter D Sneed Tuscaloosa AL Major W W Crews Montgomery AL John P Mayo Columbus MS B AUSTIL Jacob D Bloch John Craft A G Quinn R K Warren James Cibboney William Izard Thomas W Thite L Hammel Charles B Hervey Mobile Hon John I Burnett Congressman seventh Alabama district to deliver address for Alabama waterways The Telegraph The first royal telegraph speech by Queen Victoria opened parliament November 16 1837 transmission speed fifty five words per minute
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