Florence Summers Hosts Floral Home Reception
At the Summers home on Watauga avenue Miss Florence Summers complimented cousin Miss Ruth Faw of Franklin with a Victrola dance. The party featured lighted, decorated grounds, pink attire, punch, and a salted dining room spread, with many local guests and young men in attendance.
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Joe P. Summers
Watauga Avenue
Florence
Ruth Faw
Walter Faw
Franklin
Miss Summers
Miss Fan
Carrie Summers
Sarah Broyles
Sallie Faw
Martha Mamhoney
Mary Gertrude Lyle
Mary Dean Preas
Mildred Exum
Mildred Nicholson
Mary Nelle Dosser
Gladys Ring
Eva Earnest
Belle Burrow
Eleanor Brading
Frances Byrd
Bernice Green
Gertrude Williams
Bruce Preas
Oscar Mahoney
Kyle Worley
Eugene Parsons
Robert Dosser
Lee Hart
Fred Lockett
Porch Party Honors Virginia Guests Emily and Nuance Tate
A Saturday evening porch party was hosted by Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Davis on July 24 at 8 o'clock in honor of house guests Misses Emily and Nuance Tate of Virginia. The porch featured mountain laurel ferns and sunflowers with lantern lighting. Games were played and punch and ices served, with Mrs. Sells assisting the hostess.
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J. R. Davis
Emily and
Nuance Tate
Virginia
Society Notes Show Many Local Family Outings
The society column lists numerous visits and vacations across Unaka Springs Cranberry Roan Mountain and Knoxville. Residents including Miss Bess Hale Miss Bertha Lewis Miss Kathleen Walters Miss Clara Hughes Mrs Charles Miller Miss Nelle Fain Mr R N Dosser and Miss Eva Earnest are guests of friends and relatives while others return from trips to Memphis Panama exposition Wrightsville Beach and Greeneville. Several families host dinners and house parties at Unaka Springs and Embreeville as well as visits to New York Philadelphia and Bristol.
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W. A. Allison
Morristown
Bess Hale
Unaka Springs
Bertha Lewis
Roan Mountain
Kathleen Walters
Clara Hughes
Cranberry
Charles Miller
Knoxville
Nelle Fain
Bristol
Mary
Nelle Dosser
J. C. King
William King
Martha Allen Martin
Wrightsville Beach
Ola White
Whitesburg
Eva Earnest
Mary Parrott
Pine Street
Amner Read
T. M. Darden
Z. A. Robertson
Memphis
R. N. Dosser
Linville Falls
Katherine Whitley
William Swingle
Chuckey Valley
John Swingle
Lizale McLain
Asheville, N. C
R. M. Erwin
Cora Martin
T. B. Tooke
Pauiline Abernathy
Alfred
Walter EB
Rhinehart
Robinson
Big Stone Gap
Anna English Cornick
W. G. Scott
New York City
Horace Spencer
Minnie Galloway
Stuart Good
Earl Good
John Boyd
Flora Masengill
John Massengill
Piney Flats
Ira Horneck
Virginia
Johnson City
Fred Wagner
Washington County Gas Co
Frank Blair
Wytheville
Laura Chedester Moss
Philadelphia
Dr. Cass
Lawrence Chedester
New York
M. K. Whitlock
Chas
Carson
Embreeville
James E. Dosser
Mary A. Dosser
Mary Gresham
Gray Me~ Clure
Dilworth
Main Street
W. E. May
Clark Springs
Sam Laird
Tom Preston
Nellie Fain
Eleanor Baxter
A. W. Byrd
Ada and
Louise
Master George
W. E. Cottrell
Cora Kiebler
Lillian
Kate Dosser
Unicol
M. L. Staples
San Francisco
Stanley Barlow
Lem Hilbert
Luther Hodge
Master Luther, Jr
H. C. Bunn
Rankin announces engagement of Rima Rankin to Donald Bieson
Mr and Mrs T S Rankin announce the engagement of their daughter Rima Lillian to Donald Richard Bieson. The couple plans an September wedding.
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T. S. Rankin
Rima Lillian
Donald Richard Bieson
Women's suffrage push crosses states as deadline nears
A 1915 report outlines how federal amendment work targets few lawmakers while state campaigns reach 37 states. It lists the 11 equal suffrage states, 15 that have referred the issue to voters, and 21 others where nine more ratifications seem possible. It notes nearly 4,000,000 women can vote for president. A timetable for the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad appears amid the text.
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New Mexico
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
National Suffrage Amendment Progress Across Congresses
The passage rate of the suffrage amendment varies by state outcomes, with renewed efforts in the 68th Congress showing activity. The 63rd Congress saw the amendment debated first since 1887, with a favorable Senate report, and a House vote reaching 174 for but falling 78 short of a two thirds requirement.
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