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HOLIDAY SEASON TO BE FILLED
WITH BRILLIANT DANCES AND
INFORMAL SOCIAL GATHERINGS
The Christmas season in Griffin
will be unusually gay this year.
A large number of young peo
ple have already begun to arrive
from the various schools and col
leges throughout the country to
brighten many homes and add
much to the Yulotide happiness.
Plans have already been made
to entertain a number of attrac
tive Georgia belles in different
homes. A number of young men
will also be guests of Griffin
friends.
The days will be filled with in
formal gatherings to add to the
general happiness. A number of
small parties will be given each
day, but the most important so
cial events of the Griffin holidays
will be thfe four dances to be
given in the city. i
Dance at Elks’ Club.
There will be a script dance at
the Elks’ Club Wednesday eve
ning, December 24, the Grjffin
' Serenades furnishing the music.
The night after Christmas, the
young men of Griffin will give a
beautiful dance at the Country
Club, Griffin’s own orchestra
again furnishing the music.
Another Leap Year Dance.
m. Such a success was the Leap
Year dance given recently by the
young ladies of the dancing con
tingent of Griffin that they have
planned another for the evening
of Monday, December 29, at the
Country Club. Dance music will
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Kitchen Sets Razors Cooking Sets
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be furnished by the Griffin Sere
nade™ from 9:30 to 1 o’clock.
There will be three intermissions
and three no-break dances.
Masquerade.
As a grand climax to the holi
day season in Griffin, will be
the masquerade ball to be given
by the young men at the Country
Club on New Year’s Eve.
The Griffin Orchestra has an
nounced dates for out-of-town
dances, to which a number of lo
cal people always go. They will
play in Thomaston Tuesday, De
cember 23, in Jackson Christmas
night, and in Fayetteville, the
date to be announced later. •
Mrs. Hand Hostess at Lovely
Party Wednesday Afternoon.
Mrs. Douglas Hand was hostess
at a beautiful bridge and domino
party at her home on South Thir
teenth street Wednesday after
noon.
The decorations throughout the
lovely home were suggestive of
the Christmas season. Bridge
was played in the dining room
and dominos in the living rSotn.
The lights in the living room
were shaded with red crepe paper.
Wall vases were filled with poin
settias. Bowls of narcissi in full
bloom graced tables throughout
the room. Mistletoe and holly
were banked on the chandeliers
and in the windows. Unshaded
red tapers on the mantels com
pleted the decorations.
A bowl of white narcissi was
the central decoration for the
buffet in the dining room. A
large basket filled with poinset
tias was placed on the cabinet.
Wall vases were filled with red
carnations and Christmas bells
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
SOCIAL CALENDAR
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18.
Mrs. Julia McWilliams lire wry
and Mrs. W. G. Cartledge will
give a tea at the Country Club
from four to five o’clock.
Mr. And Mrs. W. G. Cartledge
will give a bridge party at the
Country Club at eight o’clock.
J. A. Scott will give a party for
the teachers and officers of the
Christian (Sunday senool.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19.
Mrs. Guy Newman will give a
bridge party at the Country
Club at three o’clock.
Members of the Junior Mission
ary Society and any other inter
ested children of the Methodist
church are invited to a “Christ
mas Birthday Party" at 3 o'clock.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20.
The weekly tea at the Griffin
Country Club.
*taip Mrs. .Zach Respess will enter
her bridge dub at her home
on Thirteenth street,
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24.
The Griffin Serenaders will play
for a script dance at the Elks’
Club.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26.
Christmas dance at the Country
Club.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 29.
T! young ladies of the danc
ing feontingent of Griffin will give
a Leap Year dance at the Country
Club.
were hung in the windows. The
lights were shaded in red.
The attractive talley cards were
red bells tied with green ribbon.
Mrs, Hand received her guests
wearing a fall model of wood
brown Canton crepe, trimmed in
squares of brown velvet and
brown fur.
She was assisted in entertain
ing by Mrs. Mathew J. Ware and
Mrs. Roscoe Tyus.
Mrs. Ware was wearing biege
Canton crepe.
Mrs. Tyus’ gown was on tan
crepe de chine, trimmed in braid
and lace, and worn with a small
beaver hat.
The prize for high score in dom
inos was a pair of wedgewood
candles.
The prize for high score in
bridge was a hand embroidered
guest towel.
At the conclusion of the games
a delicious salad course with hot
tea was served at the small tables.
Jnvited to play dominos were
Mrs. J. H. Newman, Miss Marian
Gresham, Mrs. T. H. Wynne, Mrs.
J. A. Drewry, Mrs. W. T. Murphy,
Mrs. Lewis Jordan, Mrs. Sam
Johnson, Mrs. W. P. Price, Mrs.
Ober Tyus and Mrs. Roscoe Tyus.
Invited to play bridge were Mrs.
J. P. Mason, Mrs. O. N. Mathis,
Mrs. Richard M. Mitchell, Mrs.
William Odus Wells, Mrs. Alva
Moore, Mrs. James J. Page, Jr.,
Mrs. Ray Wirick, Miss Margaret
Ogletree.
Miss Jean Gray, Mrs. John Ste
vens Manley, Mrs. Frank Lind
sey, Mrs. Sam McCracken, Mrs.
William Henry Saunders, Mrs.
T. Freeman, Mrs. Louie
Langford, Miss Emily Boyd, Miss
Hamm on d. —-------- ----------
Mrs. Charles Gunnels, Mrs Cic
Burns, “ Mrs.
cro Alex Gosset,
Evander Shapard, Jr., Mis3
Fulgum, Miss Florence
Miss Amelia Walker,
William H. Beck, Jr.
Mrs. James J. Flynt, Mrs H. I.
Lindsey, Jr., Mrs. John Dickinson,
Annie Hill Drewry, Miss
Sibley, Miss Lucile
and Mrs. James Ivey.
Woman's Club Holds
Interesting Monthly Meet.
The December meeting of the
Woman’s Club on the af
of December 12 brings to
fitting close a year crowded with
Mrs. I. A. Scott was hostess to
club for this meeting.
The business hour was given
the discussion and disposal of
of close interest to the
after which an interesting
j:\rn was tiken up.
Mrs. William Malone gave a
report of the state fed
meeting in Atlanta.
Mrs. Vara Arnall read an ex-
cellent paper on “The Life of
Woodrow Wilson.”
Several beautiful and appropri
ate selections on the Edison end
ed the program. *
Elaborate decorations, typify
ing the Yule tide season, were
carried out throughout the ftousa,
In the dining room, where delici
ous refreshments were served, the
central table decoration was a
miniature Christmas tree, gayly
decorated and from which hung
tiny mint filled stockings.
American Legion Auxiliary
Holds Important Meeting.
The American Legion Auxiliary
held an interesting meeting at the
home of Mrs. Frank S .Pittman on
South Hill street Tuedsay after
noon at 3 o’clock, with the presi
dent, Mrs. Evander • Shapard, Jr.,
presiding.
The meeting opened with the
Lord’s Prayer said in unison, with
Mrs. Richard Crowder leading,
Mrs. Bartlett Searcy, secretary,
gave her report for the month.
She read a letter from Hospital
62, in Augusta, thanking the Aux
iliary for the Thanksgiving box
of cookies. She also read a let
ter from the department head in
Washington*, Ga., which was the
monthly communication from the
department on “Who’s Who in the
Georgia Department,” giving the
various undertakings of the differ
ent units in the state.
The Americanism bulletin from
the department in Washington,
was also read. They suggested
a community Christmas celebra
tion, but after a vote the local
Auxiliary decided to take up 3
specified cases instead of follow
ing the bulletin. _■___________i
The Auxiliary will try to make
Christmas brighter for the mem
bers of three families. Mrs. Ed
Scales and Mrs. Ralph Jones
made a report on them.
Mrs. Walter Graefe, treasurer,
gave her monthly report. Mrs. Ed
Scales reported a gift of $10
from the Legion for the Christ
mas box,
Mrs. W. E. H. Searcy, Jr., made
a short report on Ihe work being
done by the Red Cross in Grigin.
Mrs. Evander Shapard, presi
dent, appointed Mrs. Davis Wil
liams, Mrs. Walter Graefe and
Mrs. William Odus Wells on a
committee to devise ways and
means of making more money.
After the business meeting, the
members went into the dining
room, where they stuffed 20
stockings with a tie, a handker
chief, nuts, candy, fruits, cigar
ettes and gum. These will be
sent to Hospital 62, in Augusta.
Mrs. Shapard reported 5 socks
already stuffed and sent to a hos
pital in Gulfport, Miss. Two Grif
fin men are in this hospital.
Later Mrs. Pittman, assisted
by little Miss Josephine Pitt
man, served delicious sandwiches,
tea and dates.
The members of the Auxiliary
present were Mrs. A. d’Antignac,
Mrs. Walter Graefe, Mrs. William
Odus Wells, Mrs. Tom Denham,
Gained
Ten Pounds
Mrs. George S. Hjmter,
of Columbus, Ga., says she,
suffered severely with fe
male troubles.
"I had To go "to bed"and~
stay sometimes two weeks
at a time,'" says Mrs.
Hunter. “I could not work.
My . . . were irregular and
I got very thin. I went
from 126 pounds down to
less than 106. My mother
had been a user of
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and she knew what a good
medicine it was for this
trouble, so she told me to
get some and take It I
sent to the store after It
and before I had taken, the
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Improve, My side hurt
less and I began to mend
In health. I took four bot
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ten pounds and am still
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At the old college of William
and Mary Williamsburg, Va.,
at the open'ng of the present
scholastic year, history repeated
itself when an Indian girl, Miss
Dubray, from the Rosebud reser
vation of the Sioux Indians, in
South Dakota, came to study. A
school for the Indian youth of
the colonies was established at
William and Mary College in the
year 1732.
Miss Dubray is young and at
tractive. She is the great grand
daughter of the Sioux chief, of
Holy Walking. Her father is an
episcopal minister on the reserva
tion. While among her people
Miss Dubray speaks and writes
the language of the Sioux, but she
is highly proficient in English
and French.
Mrs. George Jones, Mrs. E. Scales,
Mrs. Ralph Jones.
Mrs. Will Maddox, Mrs. E. K.
Domingos, Mrs. Zach Respess,
Mrs. W. E. H. Searcy, Jr., Mrs.
Davis Williams, Mrs. Bartlett
Searcy, Mrs. Evander Shapard,
Jr., and Mrs. Frank S. Pitt man.
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Augusta, Dec. 18.—Mrs. Gladys
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Thursday, December 18, 1924.
day and brought back to Augusta
on a warrant sworn out by Lee C.
Hagar, of Savannah, was released
by local police at noon yester
day after she had signed a paper
relinquishing al> % title claimed by
her in the automobile she was al
leged to have stolen yesterday
from Hagar after promising to
marry him.
There are 10 motor vehicles to
every 66 persons in this country.
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HERE TONIGHT
Ben Barrow Lodge No. 587, F.
& A. M. will elect officers for the
ensuing term at its regular meet
ing tonight. W. M. Guest is the
present worshipful master, All
the members are urged by the
lodge to attend and have a part in
the election of officers.