About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1924)
societ y 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. * * * 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 -1 TP Hie. 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. see' a* • • 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 iess ' j. Fish and Oyster Supper Tonight I At Tea Room ov i 5 ’ I ;rt I . s WAMOND/l RINGS ! aug fl 11 sti t II If Os 1 . V yW •ty - - I ' i s °' I $125.00 ”l>il f l 4" “ ° nl ’ »»« of (be wonderful values we have in Dia bro’ m ? ld . K ”»gs. Come in and get our prices before buyinc ood . Wnng. •x | THOS. L. BELL amber See Our Window Display, v • 1 •■''•. ■ •'*•* • /? . _ ■•' <.■•<•■- ' ■ - - I .. H . .- ii7 >- x -* ■ ' • zffk. A 5 "’ ’* ’’ > ' -?;i •*<&«*■ : tw 31 * ■ * . ii- m ** < A I Juß /Zgsfixv' A /• JI I a > ■ < ?■**“ " MHp j g M .J... 1- '■' ■ la rA W w u vuw /■ i Fm Trude Mbt k hv«. U.S. Pat Off. Time to Re-tire? ~ ’ ♦ a ' > ~ < J ‘‘ x ? vc :w XTIO ■ !»', • HOO HOOd ■ Quick Service * $ GEORGE Phone 142 , • * -XX' '' v .‘-* ;. jS ,,*. * C- ’l' 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. • * * 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. * * * 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, * * • 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 ||EHF Sb ' WK Mr Ik Mi ■L. r®T ■ I 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. * * * 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. —1 ‘"W 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. ♦ » ♦ 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. * * » 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 ‘ ■ ?’ Iro-n : • ■ ■■ ‘.lk- capital. * ® But tli.-re ih holds B ■ ■ -J' tiu •.;<! daysj|| ' i'.n I- <' i.-ini a.'.t-'rß '■n in law of the 4,- ' i I’aiidall, who was i '.W ’ i !■>.; ■ fj-om 187-1 ■ • 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.
