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M AVNE* DOWNS.Tuesday afternoon at the beautiful ni.intry home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed N. i Vnter, near High Shoals, the home of the bride’s aunt, Mrs. G. We Hamlin. Rev. Stanley R. Grubb, of Athens, officiating, Miss Carolyn Mayne was happily united in marriage1 to Mr. (harlie Downs.The Center home was made very attractive and inviting for the pretty ceremony, which was witnessed by the members of the immediate families and a few close friends and relatives. *,The bride, the only child of the late Mr. and Mrs, James M. Mayne, i- a young lady who possesses many (harming graces of mind and heart. Her charming disposition has won for her many friends among the young and old wherever Bhe is acquainted. Her parents, well known to the people of Oconee county, were among the heat citizens of the county, her father serving faithfully and well for many years as school commissioner.The groom, a son- of Mrs. E. W. Downs, is a young man well knownhere, having beeh born and rearedin Watkinsville. For sometime he has been associate dwith his brother in the Clarke County Motor company, Athens. He is a quiet, sober and honorable- yourtg man, holding claim on many friends. .Mr. and Mrs. Downs wil lshortly he at home to their many friends, in Athens.The Enterprise extends heartiest congratulations and best wishes.— Oconee Enterprise.—m—MKAY-MANGLBBURG.The news of the marriage in Atlanta Friday of Miss Ruth McKay and Mr. Frank Mangleburg came as a surprise to their many friends in Athenswho knew of their dong courtship, but didn’t anticipate its consumation at this time.Mrs. Mangleburg left Athens. Friday, after a visit with her sister, Miss Mamie McKay, ostensibly to take up her duties as district agent in home demonstration work with headquartersin Macon and is supposed to hsve met Mr. Mangleburg in Atlanta, where he v as on business in the interest of I.ibbey, McNeill Libbey, the firm for ham he travels. Here plans were quickly made and the marriage took place in the parlors of' the Ansley Hotel, several friends of-the*rs beingpresentMrs. Mangleburg is very popular With a host of friends in Athens ' here she has always lived and until last summer had taught for several jears, with much success in the publi* schools. Since thft time Bhe has been interested ~ln home demonstration work and was one of the district cnts in middle Georgia. She is ayoung woman of exceptional intellectuality. and personal charm.Mr. Mangleburg is popular business man and an earnest church worker. He is a traveling salesman for Libbey, McNeill and Libbey jjnd has many friends who will wish him much happiness and congratulations._a—GREAT WAR RELIEF ,WORK IN GEORGIA.Mrs. Samuel M. Inman, chairman of the women’s committee, Georgia Council for National -Defense, is receiving reports from state chairmen and county units chairmen giving reports of the war relief work being done by Georgia women.‘MMany of these reports are excellent, said Mrs. Inman, but there are many more to come, and especially from the church societies doing such valiant and patriotic work do I wish reports. From Mrs. W. B. Higgin bothem, of West Poinf, 1 hfl/« received a good report of the Methodist Woman’s Missionary society, North Georgia conference.Mrs. Iligginbdthem makes the following report: vI find that nearly all the adult and young people members of the North Georgia Woman’s Missionary Society, of the North Georgia Conference, are doing Red Cross work and belong to that society. There are 16,000 members in these two departments. Except in the rural churches there are scrolls hearing the names of the soldiers who have gone from each church,1 and prayer is msde for them regularly, and letters are written to them bV committees from the auxiliaries. Even the children ore at work, snipping scraps and making wash cloths and rolling trench candies, and in every town and city at 9:30 o'clock in the morning prayers are made for the soldiers and our country ,by. our now more than 16,000 members. Some of the members have, paid good sums of money for' wool sweaters, scarfs and socks, and they are knitting and turning over to the Red Cross.“The Atlanta and Augusta m embers have done the largest work, as -the camps are right with them, i suppose you know of the Young Men t, Christian association rocrms which the Atlanta Woman’s Missionary societies, M. E. Church, hqve fitted up at Camp Gordon. They have spared neither time nor money. * One room is completed and the otfier soon will be. So you see ps an organization our missionary women arebusy. But to put their efforts in figures is dlffl-cultw *•Mrs. Higginbothem Is president of the Woman’s Missionary, society of the North Georgia conference and Is otherwise identi^ed with progressive club activities.—Georgian.Pfl —CREDENTIAL BLANKS SENT TO CHAPTERS.Credential blanks to the chapterssI1t1
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Athens Daily Herald
Athens, Georgia, US
Mon, Dec 17, 1917
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