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THE BED AND BLACK
COTILLION.
The German Club gave one of Its
most enjoyable dances on Friday
evening. There were not so many
stags that the breaking was monot
onous, yet all the young ladies had
a grand rush.
The new society ball-room dances
were in vogue and there .were many
different demonstrations of the Cas
tle Walk, Fish Walk, Hesitation
Waltz, Tango, Dutchess, New York
and London One-step, and several
other beautiful dances.
President Gunn led the Grand
March with Miss Callie Hoke Smith,
of Atlanta, and later, Mr. Allen Mc
Donald led an attractive figure for
Chi Phi with Miss Josephine Wilkins.
Among the many lady dancers
present were: Miss Julia Brand, Miss
Rebecca Stewart, Miss Josephine
Wilkins, Miss Gwendolyn Griffith,
Miss Callie Lumpkin, Miss Callie
Hoke Smith, Miss Jennie Arnold,
Miss Caroline Baynes, Miss Kather
ine Morton, Miss Louise Dorsey, Miss
Margaret Campbell, Miss Helen Lacy,
Miss Isabelle Thomas and Miss Ross.
The chaperones .were Prof, and
Mrs. T. H. McHatton, Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Griffith, Mr. and Mrs. James
Camak, Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Guer-
inni, Mrs. Fred Morton, Mrs. Ed.
Lumpkin, Mrs. Sam Tribble, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Porter, Mrs. Phil Campbell
and Mrs. John Morris.
There were several of Athens’
younger business men present, and
everyone seemed to have a pleasant
time. The chief attraction was the
new dances, and with Haughey’s
orchestra, the cotillion was a great
success.
The Tech Chapter of Alpha Tau
Omega fraternity entertained at a
large dance Friday evening at their
chapter house on Linden street.
Miss Caroline Briggs, who is a
student at Lucy Cobb, has gone to
her home in Valdosta, where she
was called by the critical illness of
her father, Mr. M. A. Briggs.
The Pi Kappa Alpha Chapter at
Tech will entertain at a house dance
on October 24. The dance will be
given in compliment to several mem
bers of the football teams, and to
out-of-town visitors attending the
Virginia-Georgia football game.
Miss Moseley is to reopen her
dancing classes in Atlanta this fall
at Segadlos.
Miss Moseley has brought from
New York the very newest steps in
the fashionable ball-room dances, in
cluding Maurice’s Brazillian Maxize,
the hesitation waltz, the tango, one-
step, and many beautiful new classi
cal, descriptive and national dances.
During the past week, many beau
tiful entertainments have been given
by the Propylean and Mnemosynean
literary societies of Agnes Scott for
the new girls. On Friday evening
the Propylean gave an entertainment
at the college, and on Saturday after
noon the Mnemosynean gave a tea at
the Ansley Hotel in Atlanta. The
Mnemosynean also gave a “Prom.’
at the college on Tuesday evening.
One of the pleasant events of the
past week among the Atlanta college
set was a dancing party given by the
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at their
chapter house on Williams street.
Miss Lydia Griffith missed her
train so couldn’t bring guests over
to the cotillion Friday evening, but
she will be on hand with two other
Brenau girls for the next dance.
Miss Michael is to entertain the
Normal School faculty on the eve
ning of October 4. Those invited to
help Miss Michael in receiving are:
Mrs. Ex-Chancellor Mell, Mrs. Ex-
Chancellor Hill, President and Mrs.
Pound, Chancellor and Mrs. Barrow,
and Miss Mildred Rutherford.
Bob Ingram and Guy Morgan went
over to Atlanta Friday in Bob’s
“Cole 30.” It’s a dandy racer, and
believe me, Bob’s a popular man.
Miss Mary Murphey, a popular
Commencement visitor and also a
popular Lucy Cobb girl, is to attend
Washington College, at the Capitol,
this winter.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon gave a most
delightful house dance Saturday eve
ning at the chapter house on Pulaski
street. The occasion was in the na
ture of a house warming, and was
the initial one of a series of dances
to be given by the fraternities dur
ing the fall and winter.
The following invitation has been
received, which should be of interest
to many ,who remember John Cox,
the third-base star in 1910:
Mr. Percy Cook Ratliff
requests the honour of your presence
at the marriage of his daughter
Mary
to
Mr. John B. Cox
on Wednesday evening, October the
fifteenth, nineteen hundred and
thirteen
at half after eight o’clock.
Twenty-six hundred, Madison Ave.
Birmingham, Alabama.
Misses Louise Parker and Louise
King are to be at Washington Col
lege this year. Miss Parker was
over for Commencement and gave a
big house party for several Georgia
boys and Commencement girls dur
ing the summer, at her beautiful
summer home up in the mountains
near Clayton, Ga.
The Phi Mu Alumnae Association
met Friday afternoon at the Univer
sity Club in Atlanta.
Miss Callie Hoke Smith spent the
week-end with Miss Callie Lumpkin.
She was at the cotillion Friday eve
ning and always has a fine time in
Athens.
Invitations have been issued to
the marriage of Miss Rubie Winter
to Mr. Hugh Carlton Towns, to take
place on October 14, at the First
Methodist church in Winterville.
Hugh Conklin, the hard-tackling,
All-Southern end, of last year, is
back in the game. He is in the
pink of condition and is expected to
spill any interference coming around
his side this year.
The Normal School has five num
bers in its lyceum course this year.
The Chicago Glee Club, Rhiriheld-
affer, Gaily Co., the Four Bostonians
(musical), The Brush Co., and the
Dunaway Concert Co. These are all
highly recommended and many of
the fellows are expected to take ad
vantage of this course. Last year’s
numbers were attended by a car
load of students, the load getting
larger at each following number.
The handsome new home of the
Waycross Country Club was form
ally opened Wednesday with a large
reception and dance. The club house
occupies a commanding site just east
of Waycross, and close to the Satilla
river.
Carl Thompson, the star Universi
ty and Atlanta hurler, was in town
last week. They tell us that “Big”
Tommy is to substitute marriage for
baseball. We don’t know how it
works, but the best luck to him.
“Dr.” Potts, the oldest employee
in the University, is not expected to
live. Students have known and lik
ed Dr. Potts for many years, and
several have gone around to see our
old janitor, and have cheered him lip.
He is certainly deserving a visit from
every student and nothing causes
him more pleasure than a Georgian’s
respect.
Dick Goodwyn, a member of last
year’s graduating class in Civil En
gineering, is employed with the Uni
ted States Surveying corps at Bruns
wick.
The many friends of Mr. Raiford
Wood are glad to see him out of the
hospital and in good physical condi
tion after his case of diptheria.
Mr. Robin Adair came over from
Atlanta in his Stevens roadster for
the A. P. C. game on Saturday. Bob
is for Tech, but he saw enough, Sat
urday to know that if Tech is to
make a showing against Georgia this
fall, she will have to learn some
more Heisman.
The Sigma Chi fraternity will en
tertain at an informal house dance
on Friday evening before the North
Carolina game in Athens. There
will be several visitors over for the
game and preparations are being
made for a jolly good time at their
chapter* house on Hancock avenue.
Mr. Searcy Slack spent the week
end in LaGrange.
Mrs. Artie Small, of Macon, is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Barnett, on Milledge avenue.
Bob Raiford was in Athens last
week.
D. A. Russell was in Athens last
week. He is practising law in At
lanta and seems to be making it pay
for he’s still sporting the latest
clothes and a ruddy complexion.
Marvin Perry is teahcing at Ath
ens High School this year.
Neal Goss, always a Georgia sup
porter, spent Thursday and Friday in
Athens. He is practising law in De
catur and Atlanta.