Prayer for a Little Home Sewing Club
A note from Baephavpeen highlights a social gathering linked to a local home sewing group. The piece mentions participation, friendly exchanges, and community spirit within the club setting.
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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1923
Page
10
A note from Baephavpeen highlights a social gathering linked to a local home sewing group. The piece mentions participation, friendly exchanges, and community spirit within the club setting.
Miss Annie Wright entertained her sewing club on Wednesday afternoon. Several members have moved away and new young matrons joined. A delicious salad course with coffee was served as Mrs Wright assisted the hostess. Silken shamrocks were given as favors in honor of St Patrick's Day on March 17.
A poem fragment features Sam Walter Foss meditating on hermit souls living apart and imagines dwelling in a house by the roadside to befriend all passersby. It contrasts good and bad, wisdom and folly, and rejects scorn. It echoes the voice of a simple, humane residence beside life’s traffic.
Local clubs meet with dues due at the Confederate Children group on Saturday at 2 30 PM Jenkinsburg Woman's Club gathers Friday at 1 PM with Miss Willie Woodward presiding Engagement announced for Agnes Tomlinson Hart to Claude Conway Hart set for April in West Palm Beach Mrs Hugh Mallet hosts Thursday Bridge Club with four games and refreshments Y P M S Methodist Church Friday night features library social and missionary heroine study plus games.
A 7:30 p.m. benefit basketball match at the Armory features Gordon Street Presbyterian Church of Atlanta versus Jackson High School. Atlanta leads its league. proceeds aid the William McIntosh Chapter D A R. Admission 25 cents adults, 15 cents students. Seats provided.
The March meeting of the Juniors occurred Sunday at 3 pm in the church. Members presented a program on China. the mite box opens each quarter with a March survey to enroll all under fourteen in the Junior Missionary Society. Mite box opening is March 31 followed by an Easter egg hunt. Funds support the Mexican border and Mexico.
President general and Mrs. Buell state regent for Connecticut attended a Georgia Authors program led by Mrs. T B Miller. Readings included Sidney Lanier Life and Works and My Springs. Frank L Stanton lyrics set to Nevin music. a Song of the Chattahoochee performed by Mrs Mallet.
Mrs. E. R. Harper spent Wednesday in Atlanta. Fred Maddox has accepted a position in Macon. Mr. J. R. Thurston was a visitor in Atlanta Monday. Mrs. H. W. Nalley has returned to her home at Alamo. Mr. W. M. Glass of Atlanta was a visitor here Saturday.
Mr J B Carmichael of Corbin Kentucky spends days with family in Jackson. Judge H M Fletcher and Col C L Redman attend court in Barnesville Monday. Mrs O C Woodward of Atlanta visits friends here during the week. Mrs M J Bailey and Rev T Merritt Bailey of Macon spend Saturday in Jackson. Mr and Mrs Slaton Carmichael of Macon visit D N Carmichael. Mrs Paul Harper and son John Henry stay several days in Corbin. Miss Ira Howell teaches in Decatur spends weekend with home folks. Mr H L Allen visits St Petersburg Florida. Mr and Mrs Clayton Buchanan and others are guests here. Mrs J H Carmichael returns from business trip to New York and Boston. Mrs H W Copeland spends weekend in Macon with Miss Lois Rogers at Wesleyan.
Community updates list members traveling to Madison and Bartow Florida, hospital recoveries, Kiwanis gathering in Atlanta, Tech students visiting home, and a Methodist parsonage for sale. Church sermon schedule for March includes Turning Again Our Captivity, In Doubt, The Prayer That Wins, and Winning Souls series led by Dr. R W Thiet. Sunday School Convention slated March 22 with Mt Vernon church.
Mrs J M Leach and Mrs J Bluma Carmichael hosted a Tuesday afternoon gathering for the regent Miss Buttrill presided over a brief business session approving one new membership and hearing committee reports. Attendees included Miss Sara Lester from Macon and Rev John W Ham of Atlanta.
A brief note describes Rud Dobbs marrying an heiress in a union framed as a wager on wealth and fate. The item hints at motive and consequence in terse, period-tinged phrasing.
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