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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1914
Page
7
The First Presbyterian Church hosts a Tuesday reception for Dr J S Lyons and his wife in the Sunday school rooms, inviting the congregation to attend. Miss Dillingham is noted in relation to the social events surrounding the couple.
The report highlights Mrs Wilson’s remarks on women and children left at home as husbands march to the front. It notes Miss Witcons Copeland’s two solos with Miss Tone Thrower, the song Silver Threads Among the Gold, and ends with a Dixie singing concert as the chapter adjourned.
The Domino circle will meet with Mrs H C Reese on Virginia avenue this afternoon at o clock. Members are urged to attend as there will be an election of officers. The Inman Park Students club meets Friday at 1030 at the home of Mrs J N Bell 685 Bigbland avenue.
Social notes list Bun Wyte returning from Virginia and other guests and hosts in Atlanta society. Several residents welcome guests, announce travels, and anticipate upcoming trips to New York Washington Nashville and Birmingham as well as a birth announcement for Rufus Thomas Dorsey II.
The Carnegie library will hold an exhibit of posters and signs by local people starting Saturday September 26. It showcases the library's fine collection of works on lettering sign making and window dressing. John Samelson, recently from the Art Institute of Cincinnati, helped arrange the exhibit, which will be open to the public until 10:30 every evening.
The Carnegie Library announces a new teachers reference reading room to assist school staff. It will group books requested by teachers for immediate work, provide pencils and paper, and stay open daily until 9 20 in the evening. The private office near the main room serves as the teachers reference room for now.
Principals and chorus of the Hanky Panky company open in Atlanta tonight with an open hour performance at Five Points this afternoon at 3 oclock Proceeds will go to the Humane Society The concert features songs by the principals and chorus and uses a piano, one of the first such events in Atlanta.
At Shorter College in Rome on September 24 the two literary societies pledged to buy two bales of cotton after a speech by Dr Van Hoose and planned to hold them until they fetch 18 cents in the open market The girls praised Atlanta papers and a jacard display announced four bales soon with the message We have bought our bale are you bought yours?
Walter Strauss, a New York traveling salesman, was found dead in his hotel room in Miami today. He suffered a heart failure while in his sample room and collapsed in his trunk.
Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton association urges farmers merchants and others to meet in New Orleans on September 28 10 am at the Association of Commerce auditorium to plan holding warehousing financing and marketing for 1916 and secure uniform action across the cotton belt Representatives from Farmers Union Southern Cotton Congress and allied groups are urged to be fully represented railways offer reduced rates the South must mobilize its resources to address the cotton crisis with federal help limited to the national banking system
Christian Endeavor societies from nearly twenty Atlanta churches plan a big Jubilee and rally at Moore Memorial Church at Luckie and Latimer streets Friday night at 8. Program includes Theme Endeavor Pledge Why a Pledge led by Charles Cunningham, Value of Daily Readings by Mrs D G Dumas, How Can We Support Our Church as the Pledge Requires led by R W Crenshaw, special music, a popular debate on maintaining a large army and navy, 15 minutes of open discussion, and a peace prayer by Dr A R Hotherby.
An estimated 260 to 300 junior members of the Brotherhood of St An drew will converge on Atlanta for the twenty ninth annual convention in October. A camp will be set up on the vacant lot opposite the state capitol with tents for a week long stay. E Hanoum chairs the committee handling junior members and Atlanta citizens will assist in camp supervision to ensure their welfare. Special train rates across the eastern territories, north and south of the Ohio river, are offered at 8 cents per mile plus 25 cents for the round trip, with return extension to November 15 available upon payment.
Curtis, driver of an automobile, is on trial in Fulton superior court for manslaughter in the August 1913 death of Samuel Goldstein. The accident occurred near Goldstein’s Washington and Crumley streets home. Curtis was released on $5,000 bond. prosecution says he was negligent and careless. Mrs Goldstein and her daughter attended the trial.
A letter from Major George W Martin of Fort McPherson with the Seventeenth Infantry reports he has been assigned to relief work in Munich, Germany, aiding stranded Americans in cooperation with the secretary of war. He and his wife traveled in Europe on sick leave and plan to return home as soon as possible. friends across the state are relieved they are safe.
James E Williams a longtime Atlanta native and son of the late mayor, died Thursday morning in Louisville after a period in a private sanitarium following nervous prostration. A heart failure ended his life. Survived by Atlanta residents: William F Thomas H Samuel 2, Martha and Elizabeth Williams, Claude Williams and Mrs EA Bancker Jr. He gained national prominence as a life insurance man. Funeral arrangements pending.
The city closed a deal with A G Rhodes estate for two small land strips on Spring street at 4500 dollars. The purchase funds part of a plan to extend Spring street from Fourteenth to Brookwood and connect with Peachtree road. Plans aim to create a continuous Spring street from the city center to Brookwood with paving and widening underway.
Major and Mrs Horace Dodd, long in charge of Atlanta Salvation Army headquarters, transfer to Birmingham to supervise social institutions across Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. They moved the Atlanta quarters from 127% Decatur to 158 Whitehall and fostered growth, offering refuge for the unemployed and helping many find work. Major French of Birmingham will assume Atlanta duties.
Washington reports President Wilson endorsed the Clayton anti trust bill as agreed in the conference report and expects quick Senate action. He disputes claims the bill lacks teeth and says it will curb monopolies alongside the Sherman act. House support is strong and a final vote is anticipated within days.
Governors conference on cotton relief for the south is canceled in Atlanta and will be replaced by a Washington gathering next week. Governor Slaten says the varied state constitutions mean each state must act separately, citing Georgia’s lack of authority to call an extra legislature session.
J D Henson former Exposition Cotton Mills employee who stood trial for the murder of WHI Lawson in a barber shop at 730 Chestnut Street was sentenced to ten years in prison.
In a Thursday morning plea a man admits to killing Lawson in what he says was self defense. The report notes ongoing Sacred Harp singing events with the regular fourth Sunday gathering at the Soldiers home and invites public attendance.
Advert extols mercuric wax facial treatment claiming to remove rough skin and yield a soft clear complexion overnight. It promises gradual improvement with nightly application, plus a face bath solution and additional products for freckles patches wrinkles.
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