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CHRYSANTHEMUM CLUB
| THANKS MERCHANTS
At the recent mooting of the
Chrysanthemum Club, it was uani
| tnously proposed to thank the mer
chants of Americus, who so kindly
.)> donated prizes for the Chrysanthe
mum Show this year. The cli.o
ieejs very grateful for such gene
i’osity accorded, and the kindly in
tertist thus shown ever will be an
inspiration for more perfect
blopms.
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k MISS ENGLISH HOSTESS
| AT DANCE FRIDAY.
■ ' Complimenting her attractive
■ house-guests, Miss Telrta Wood of
■ Nashville, Tenn., and M’ss Mildred
F Willis; of Columbus, Miss Martha
English entertained with a delight
ful d>nce at her home on Taylor
street* Friday evening.
Baskets ’of (lovely chrysanthe
(mums. bowls of roses, ferns, foliage
and pitted plants formed attractive
decorations for the handsome home.
During the evening delicious
punch and sandwiches were served,
lit. Invited to meet Miss Wood and
111 Miss Willis were Misses Eliza’ eth
Ul Andrews, Mary Harris, Jean Curtis,
j Florence Fort; Edith Bahnsen’
I I Ma- ha Duncan, Virg’ria Daven
| L 10 ’ Cordelia Hooks; George Ellis,
n » £ott, William Fetner, Charles
HH ' CT ’ Council Hal Gate
IUH #i ’ Hal Han is ’ Ra >’ Ansley, Rob
s Buchanan, Joe Sutton, Edward
- -es, Carr. Glover, Bob Lane, Sam
; t Gl .oks, Tye Ansley, William Heys,
wn ’ ill McNeill, Hawkins Dykes, John
.th B- Lhnsen, Lionel Stakes, Hays Arn-
1, Aubry Easterlin, Ed McArthur,
Ga., ’larlie Everett, Theotitus Stakes,
ry tc : Today at noon, Mrs J. R. Jordan,
, det • Ellaville, honored her niece Miss
T< j nglish and her guests with a beau
“ so^ ul lunche °n at her home in Ella
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his Covers were laid for Miss Eug
acT lish, Miss Wood, Miss Willis, Miss
Jean Curtis, Miss Cordelia Hooks,
m~ Mss Harriet Rylander, Miss Eli.za
at t Seth Andrews, Miss Mary Harris,
on IJiss Florence Fort, Miss Martha
3 etti Tuncan, Miss Virginia Davenport,
the and Miss Edith Bahnsen.
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pa MR. AND MRS. DYKES
- ENTERTAIN CLUB.
r’al ? Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Dykes en
at tertained with a lovely party Friday
Irs* cverang at their home on College,
,kir i’aviiig as their guests the members
Dqx their set-back club and ssveriu
lack additional friends.
isoi -Lovely pink roses, filling-basket
obi ar *d vases, chrysantnemums and
sgr autumn leaves were used through
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out the reception rooms of the at
tractive home.
Preceding the game, a delicious
turkey dinner was served at the
card tables. Attractive tcore cards
marked the places of the guests and
compotes of salted nu*s were placed
on each table.
Mrs. Lucius MeCleskey won the
ladies high score prize, a pretty
Land decorated guest room door
knocker, and Heys McMath won the
gentlemens prize, a deck of oat ds.
The guest list included Mr and
Mirs. B. R. Boyd, Mr. and Mrs.
Heys McMath, Mr. and Mrs. Love
lace Eve, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. War
ren, Dr. and Mrs. L. F. Grubbs Mr,
and Mrs. J. E. Hightower, Mr. and
Mrs, W. G. Turpin. Mr and Mrs.
D. R. Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. Lucius
MeCleskey, Mr. and Mrs. W, 11.
Emmet, Mr. and Mrs. Carr Glover,
Luther Hawkins, and Dr. and Mrs.
Thad Wise of Plains.
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BIBLE CLASS MEETS
MONDAY AFTERNOON.
The Bible Class of the Hortense
Tinsley missionary society will meet
Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock with
Mrs. W. B. McCorkle, at her hoome
at 539 Jackson avenue. A full at
tendance is urged.
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U. D. C. MEETING
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
The regular month! z meeting cf
the Americus chapter of the United
Daughters of Confederacy will be
held Tuesday afternoon. An inter
esting program has been arranged
which will include reports from the
general convention, which was held
recently at Savannah The hostess
and the time of the meeting will be
announced later. Every member is
urged to attend,
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BUFFET-SUPPER HONORING
MISS SIMMONS.
Honoring Miss Lucy Simmons
and Dr. R. E. L. Stuart, whose mar
riage will be a brillant event of this
evening, Wiss Lucy Lane and Miss
Marie Bell were joint hostesses at
a beautiful buffet supper Friday
fevening, at the home of Col. and
Mrs. W. T. Lane on Lee street, fol
lowing the wedding rehearsal.
Throughout the entire liwer floor
of the handsome horna color
scheme of yellow and white was
used for decorations. Tail white en
ameled floor vases and baskets were
filled with yellow and white long
stemmed chrysanthemums, and plac
ed at intervals were palms and
feathery ferns.
A most enjoyable feature of the
evening’s entertainmest was the at
tractive miniature wedding, little
Miss Mildred Bqatwright, wearing
a dainty frock, long tulle veil, and
carrying a bride’s bouquet, was the
bride, and Earl Bell, in full dress,
was the groom. St”art Crockett
performed the ceremony an dpreced
ing the ceremony, Kendall Beavers
sang “I Love You Truly,” accompa
nie dby his' mother, Mrs. Kepdall
Beavers at the piano. Miss Hallie
Congressman Nicholas Longworth Soon
Will Be Passing Out Ihe I Cigars
Expects Visit From Stork
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Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of Congressman Nicholas
Longworth of Cincinnati, and daughter of the late Theodore Roose
velt, expects to become a mother in February. The child will be her
first. The Longworths have been married since 1906. The congress
man is floor leader in the House of Representatives.
Walker played the wedding march
for the entrance of the bridal party.
Late in the evening, an el-.gant.
supper with cranberry ice was serv
ed. Miss Georgia Bean Dodson and
Mrs. Dudley Mize noored coffee,
and assisting the hostesses in serv
ing were, Miss Elizabeth Merritt,
Miss Massee Lane, Miss Virgina
Moreland, Miss Pauline Bell, and
Miss Mary Frances Lane.
The guest list included the mem
bers of the bridal party, out-of-town
guests, and a number of friends of
.the young couple.
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MR. AND MRS. LEE HONOR
VISITOR AT BRIDGE-DINNER.
Mr. and Mrs. Lew’s Lee enter
tained Thursday evening at their
home on Brown street at a lovely
bridge dinner honoring their at
tractive house-guest, Miss Sarah
McArthur, of Atlanta.
The house was decorated attrac
tive! ythroughout with uaskets and
vases of lovely cut flowers.
The beautifully appointed dinner
table was overlaid with a handsome
lace trimmed cloth, and gracing tlte
center was a low bowl of yel’ow
chrysanthemums. On either side,
silver candlesticks held tall yellow
unshaded tapers. Dainty place cards,
further carrying out the effective
yellow color note, marked the place
of each guest.
After dinner, bridge was enjoy
ed until a late hour, Miss Alic ’ Mc-
Neill winning the top score prize,
a deck of cards.
Eight guests were invited to meet
Miss McArthur.
Only one more day left
to pay your city taxes.
Monday, December Ist
is absolutely the last
day that you can pay
without extra cost.
A. D. Gatewood, Jr.,
Clerk and Treas.
Dr. A. B. Gardner nas returned
front a stay or several days in
Tallahassee and Carabel, Fla., and
was back in his office Friday.
Miss Ethel Green, of Pavo, is
the guest of Mrs. P. A Jackson at
her home on Taylor street.
Miss Martha English who is study
ing at Lorena Hall at Columbus
this year, is spending the holidays
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
L. English, on Taylor shtreet. She
was accompanied home by Miss
Teleta Wood, of Nashville, Tenn ,
and Miss Mildred Willis, of Coli irn
tus, who are her attractive guests
for the week-end.
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Miss Janie Murray has returned
from a delightful stay of several
Weeks with her sister, Mrs. Verne
Davis in Commerce.
Miss Ada Walker has returned
from Fitzgerald, Where she attend
ed the funeral of Miss Edth Thomas
on Thanksgiving Day. Miss Thomas
has frequently been a visitor in
Americus, where she had many
friends who Will learn with sorrow
of her death.
Mrs. Belia Miller, of Macon, is
the guest of Mrs. P. A Jackson, at
her home on Taylor street. Mrs.
Miller is a former Americus resi
dent and her many friends here will
cordially welcome her on her re
turn visit.
Mrs. Mae Holmes, of Macon, is
the guest of her brotiier, Fred
Smith and Mrs. Smith at their home
on Horne street.
Miss Hulet Humber, Miss Nell
Hamilton, Mrs. J. T. Warren and
George Oliver, motored to
Macon Friday, and were accompani
ed home by Miss Sara Oliver, who
will be an attendant ia the Sim
Stork Is Expected Soon at
Home of Nick and Alice
Longworth
BY HARRY &. HUNT
NEA Service Writer
WASHINGTON, Noy 29.—N0
similar event in Washington official
and social circles, sir.ee it he biuth
of a daughter to President and Mis.
Cleveland back in th? early ’9os, iuis
so pique j the interest of the capital
as has the report that the stork
shortly will pay a visit to the homo
of Nick and Aliqe Longworth.
It is suggested the arrival of an
heir might play an in portant yurt
in the political as well es the per
sonal future of the popular (Cin
cinnati congressman.
Should the stork time its ar
rival propitiously, the Ho.tae,
might be minded to hand Nick the
speakership, for which he is a,
candidate, as a token of its triici- :
tations.
Some members, how ver, beoeve
that with a baby in the home Nick
would be more valuobH in his
present position of floor leader.
“A new father is bound to gel
a lot of valuable experience c.t
the floor,” they say.
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Secretary of Navy Wilbur knock
ed the tradition that cabinet mem
bers must always move with circum
spection and dignity for “a row of
tenpins” the other night when he
showed up at the Y. M. C, "A. bowl
ing alleys.
Wilbur shed his coat, rolled up
JUg sleeves and forgot all about 1
dignity and circumspection for aji
hour, while he hurled the ebony
ball down the alleys for a succes
sion of spares and striker.
After he got the Enks out of
his elbow Wilbur is raid to l.avy
hurled a mighty wicked ball.
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Chalk up another victory for
Washington’s bobbed hair brigade.
Incensed by criticism of bobbed
heads, voiced by a visiting evan
gelist, choir girls in the Mount,
Vernon Methodist Church walked
out on strike. It took all the
diplomacy of the pastor, plus an
open appreciation of b bbed-haired l
girls as “a mighty fine lot” to win
mons-Stuart wedding this evening.
Forrest Stuart, of Columbia,?
Miss., Lieut. J. Collins, oil West
Point, Miss., Dr. Lloyd Rich, of,
New Orleans, Dr. George C. Tun
stall, of Bayminette, Ala., Mrs.;
Jeff Taylor and little daughter'
Jane, of Buena Vista and little,
Miss Lucy Statham, of Allanta, have
arrived in Americus to attend the
Simmons-Stuart wedding
Miss Nell Hamilton and Miss
Hulet Humber will leave Sunday
for Montezuma to be the guests of
Misses Idolu and Ruth Haugabook
for several days, and will aceom
panly them to Dawson Tuesday ,to
appear in “Scandals of 1925” to be
presented in that city by Miss
Haugabook.
Mrs. A. D. Gatewood and Mrs.
J. D. Hooks, spent Friay in At
lanta,
Ralph Ketchum returned Thurs
day from a business trip to Ash
burn.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Cogdell, re
turned from Atlanta last night,
where they attended the Tech-Au
burn football game.
Miss Dorothy Cass will return to
night from Atlanta, where she was
the guest of friends for the Tech
■ Auburn game, and
Cheerful
Congresnian Nicholas Longworth,
Republican leader, may well smile
now that he is considered a prob
able winner of the House speaker
ship and arrangements are being
made to receive the stork at his
hoff.e.
them back.
Only on formal occasions do
statesmen and diplomats in Wash
ington don the shining, tall top hat
—the “plug” hat—which a genera-
IMPORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENT
TO REGULAR AND OCCASIONAL
THEATRE-GOERS j
After an exchange <»f many letters and t"k
grams with the famous theatrical firm pf S «* W Y , J
and Co., I take great pleasure in announcing that I
have definitely arranged for
RYLANDER THEATRE FRIDAY NIGHT, DEC.
sth their great production of CHANNING POL
LOCKS WORLD-WIDE DISCUSSED PLAY.
“THE FOOL,’’ which has made new dramatic re
cords on this trans-continental tour and
here with POSITIVELY AND WITHOUT
CHANGE, the same cast and production that play
ed New Orleans three weeks, and important South
ern cities.
"THE FOOL IS CONCEDED TO BE THE
OUTSTANDING DRAMATIC SUCCESS OF THE
CENTURY AND ONE OF THE MOST POWEFK
FUL DRAMAS EVER WRITTEN. “THE
brought new dramatic records to the New York.
Boston. Philadelphia, Chicago and New Orleans
theatres, running thirteen consecutive months in the
Metropolis and daily matinees were given to ac
commodate the great crowds, while in other cities
it has broken all dramatic records- It is now play
ing in London and Sydney, Australia, to capacity
audiences the same as in America.
“THE FOOL” has been endorsed by hundreds
of clergymen, STATESMEN, BUSINESS MEN,
AUTHORS AND EDITORIAL WRITERS, and
its presentation here will undoubtedly be the su
preme dramatic event of the season.
EARLY RESERVATIONS ARJE STRONG :
LY ADVISED, AS ThJE HOUSE WILL UN
DOUBTEDLY SELL OUT EARLY.
PRICES FOR “THE FOOJL” WILL BE $2,50.
$2-00, $1.50, sl-00. Gallery 50c.
MAIL ORDERS will be filled now if accom
panied by check or money order and self-addressed
stamp envelope enclosed for prompt return of
tickets. R. A. HERRING, Manager.
I.l' s.> ago wan ‘ ■
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■ ■■ ‘.lk- capital. * ®
But tli.-re ih
holds B
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' i'.n I- <' i.-ini a.'.t-'rß
'■n in law of the 4,- '
i I’aiidall, who was i '.W ’
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abt-.K-l v.-i»B d
hilling “plug."
W ntcr ;, •i <1 Summer, ■ i'X? ‘J- ‘J
ter's '..v > rinM
>i 1 i lowering hut, is .
th-' . atiit.il iooned like in the CuA*-]
<‘h’ days before high
an i high huts went
If you have visited thp esi’l
building :.nv time in the lastwl® i
■" 'Our tears, you doutnless
watch the interestingly oH,
■i 'er -r on who, a- pprentiß-.^?’;;
lw dis of the rubbering
.round him, wss enviged
U :.U I'd brilliantly <■;>!.-red
•l< eoration., of the big
If you came today, ; .”.’
you’d !»tlss him. For the
in love with one visitor who
to admire his „,„k and today
are honeymooning.
This painter, Charles
Whipple, has given a touch |bl|l|
color to the gray old builuH
where Congress meets ti-at wifi ■r'gb
remembered by visitor; when t'|L; ;
have forgotten what the deci;9|
tions on the walls looked like., ■ ;
In his jaunty artist’s W
Tam O’Shanter cocked
over one ear, a long stemmed
in his mouth and a big pallettflß
splashed with vivid colors awM
stuck full of brushes, he hirosel/’
made a picture more striking than
any of the pictures he painted.