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Mr. Philip Cohen was in-Atlanta Sat¬
urday.
Mr. E. H. Mobley was in Atlanta
Friday.
Mrs. Love Chambliss is in Atlanta for
the week.
Mrs. Lee Trammell was in Atlanta
Saturday.
Mr. Sidney Martin, of Augusta, was a
Sunday visitor.
Miss Annie Lou Fillyaw spent Wed¬
nesday in Atlanta.
Mrs. Yanoy and daughter, Katy. vis¬
ited Madison Sunday.
The Misses Skinner visited their sis¬
ter in Atlanta this week.
Dr. and Mrs. L. S. Waites were in
Atlanta during the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Smith have gone
to housekeeping in Albany.
Mrs. .Tack Davis, of Atlanta, is the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Nixon.
Mrs. Walker Combs was with the
Fpshaw party in Atlanta last week.
Misses Olga Rheberg and Mamie Vin
ing were in Atlanta for the week-end.
Mr. Joseph Gary came down from
Tech to spend the week-end with home
folks. $
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Upshaw and Mrs.
S. L. Waites were in Atlanta during the
week.
Mrs. Jack Reeves came down from
Atlanta for a week’s visit to her mother,
Mrs. Graves.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Callaway and son,
Lamar, spent the week-end with Mon
ticello relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Hulme were vis¬
itors last week in the. home of Mr. and
Mrs. Lester Webb.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Dingier and daugh
tre, Miss Edna, visited relatives in
Greensboro Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Harwell visited
their uncle, Mr. William Harwell, at
Mansfield, Sunday.
Miss Nellie Faye Camp will be with
Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Wright during her
stay in Covington.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hulme, of El
berton, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Teasley Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Vining, Mr. and
Mrs. E. H. Mobley, and Marvin Vining
were in Atlanta Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Godfrey. Mrs
8. O. Candler and Mrs. A. B. Hull, Jr.,
spent Friday in Atlanta.
Mrs. Lilia Smith, Miss Ruth Weldon
motored to Conyers Saturday afternoon
to see Miss Helen Smith.
Miss Josephine Franklin goes to At¬
lanta twice a week for dancing lessons,
an art in which she is specializing..
The illness of little Miss Kathleen El¬
lis. daughter of Rev. and Mrs, J. E. Ellis
is regretted by their many friends.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Campbell and
children, Pat and Hester, visited Mans¬
field and Newborn relatives Sunday.
Mr. J. O. Bradshaw was in Atlanta
Sunday to see his uncle, Mr. D. A.
Thompson, at Davis-Fischer Sanitarium.
Misses Pauline and Mamie Johnson
left Monday for Davis-Fischer Sanito
rium, Atlanta, to take positions as
nurses.
After a week's visit to her parents.
Judge and Mrs. A. D. Meador, Mrs.
Joseph Hugh MeGarity has returned to
Jersey.
Rev. and Mrs. L. D. King and little
daughter, Anna Lois, of McDonough,
visited Mr. and Mrs. James Gardner
Friday.
Mrs. R.J. Travis and little daughters.
Cecelia and Rena, have returned to Sa¬
vannah after visiting Dr. and Mrs. W.
D. Travis.
Mrs. R. W. Osborne, Mrs. C. M. Vin
ing, Mr. and Mrs. Will Pickett and Miss
Annie Mae Berry spent Sunday at Tal
lulah Falls.
Mr. and Mrs. Mercer Lee and daugh
ter, Jane, of Atlanta, were the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Callaway for
the week-end.
Messrs. William Aiken, James White.
Richard Lester. Marshall and Paul Ellis
resumed their studies at Emory Uni¬
versity Wednesday.
Prof. J. L. Yaden, Misses Beulah Bar
row, Aileen Jackson and Nellie Faye
Camp were among the Covingtonians
in Atlanta Sunday.
Misses Hyda Heard and Eleanor Wil¬
son. after spending the summer in Miss
Heard’s home on Floyd street, have re¬
turned to New Ybrk.
Mrs. Alma Kimball, of Philadelphia,
formerly of Covington, and Mrs. Ida
Dial, of Greshamville, spent the week¬
end with Mrs. Robert Gibson.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Meador and chil¬
dren and Mr. and Mrs. Steed, of Atlanta,
motored down Sunday and spent the dav
with Judge and Mrs. A. D. Meador.
Mr. Lewis Orr was the guest of Mr.
Henry Graves for several days. He left
Thursday for Emory University, where
he will take a postgraduate course.
Mrs. W. C. Clark is returning next
week from Atlanta, where she has spent
the past three months. Mrs. Clark has
attended many club activities during
her stay in tha Gate City.
THIS t'OVINGTON NEWS, COVEN GTUin*
Mr. C. A. Harwell made a business
to Atlanta Monday.
Mrs. A. B. Hull, Jr., and children,
and A. B. Ill, are leaving today
for their Tami>a home after
Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Godfrey.
Dr. W. C. Wright went to Atlanta
and was accompanied home bv
Wright, who is much improved in
to the joy of her many friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Peek and mother
Lunsford, of Mansfield, came down
their car from Atlanta Saturday.
and Mrs. Peek spent Saturday with
and Mrs. J. S. Peek.
Air. and Mrs. H. A. Patrick, Mr. and
W. C. Patrick, and Mr. and Mrs.
H. Patrick, of Conyers, motored
to spend Sunday afternoon with
and Airs. R. W. Campbell.
Mrs. Lizzie M. Welch, after spending
the summer in West Virginia and
made a stop-over visit to
and Mrs. Henry Branham and the
A. Harwells en route to her home in
Prof, and Mrs. A. H. Foster, Miss
Foster and brother, Shaw, ac¬
by Mrs. Mae White Lee and
Miss Annie White, motored from At¬
lanta Sunday for a visit to Covington
friends.
Misses Mittle Kennedy, Jennie Lee
Harvey, Messrs. F. B. Dodd and J. T.
Edwards represented the local system
at a telephone meeting at Jester’s Mill,
near Jonesboro, Monday. A barbecue
was the order of entertainment.
Mr. A. H. Smith, Mrs. Jess Perry,
Misses Kate and Mary Nell Perry, Mrs.
C. D. Mabry, Misses Annie Laura and
Mary Sue Mabry and Miss Lottie Craw¬
ford motored to Monroe Sunday, where
they attended the Yellow River Primi¬
tive Baptist Association, held at Sardis
church.
FORMER COVINGTON GIRL’S
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
The state press of Sunday carried the
following announcement which will be
of interest to Covington relatives and
friends:
Cordial social interest centers in the
announcement of the engagement and
approaching marriage of Miss Winnie
Perry and Mr. Edwin William Romber
ger, which will be solemnized Tuesday,
October 17, at the home of the bride's
mother on East Eighth street.
Aliss Perry, the oldest daughter of
Airs. Thomas Asbury Perry and the late
Mr. Perry, formerly of Covington, at¬
tended Agnes Scott College, and later
was graduated from Ward-Belmont Col¬
lege in Nashville, Tenn., where she was
a popular member of the Phi Delta Tau
sorority. Since coming from Covington
to Atlanta to reside, her charming per¬
sonality and cordial manner have won
for her countless friends who will be
deeply interested in her approaching
marriage.
Air. Romberger, who is the older son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edwin Rom¬
berger, of Water Valley, Aliss., comple¬
ted his education at the University of
Mississippi. During the war period h
was a captain in the artillery, and was
detailed overseas for more than a year.
Since receiving his honorable discharge
from the service, he has made his homo
in .Atlanta, where he has become prom¬
inent in the business world, being asso¬
ciated with the Southern Alosaic Tiie
Company.
He is a member of the East Lake
Country Club and the Atlanta Athletic
Club.
HONORING MRS. HULL
During her stay in Covington, Airs.
A. B. Hull, Jr., of Tampa, has been sig¬
nally honored. At Airs. C. C. King’s par¬
ty, on Thursday, Airs. Hull shared hon¬
ors with Airs. R. J. Travis, of Savannah.
Airs. A. J. Clayton entertained for
Mrs. Hull Alonday, inviting guests for
one table. Aliss Eva Stephenson’s bridge
party Saturday evening was in com¬
pliment to Mrs. Hull. Three tables were
employed in the game. Mrs. Hull was
presented the guest prize, while Mr.
Alercer Lee, of Atlanta, won top score.
Mrs. C. A. Franklin invited Airs. Hull
and Mrs. R. J. Travis, with their hos¬
tesses, Alesdames Godfrey and Travis,
to see “Nice People”, at the Lyric The¬
atre.
Airs. Homer Hitchcock was hostess
at morning bridge Saturday, with Mrs.
Hull as honoree. The Palin Room of the
City Pharmacy was decorated for the
occasion, and refreshments were served.
FITZHUGH LEE PRESCRIPTIONIST
AT BROOKS DRUG STORE
Air. A\'. Fitzhugh Lee has accepted a
position as prescriptionist in the C. C.
Brooks Drug Store.
Mr. Lee has been a licensed pharma¬
cist in Georgia, Florida and Alabama,
and was connected with some of the
leading pharmacies of Atlanta, Jackson¬
ville and Birmingham. He was with
Brooks some years ago, and was at one
time employed by the City Pharmacy.
COVINGTON GIRLS’
SOCIETY
A novel means for securing funds
the peanut hunt given by the North
Girls’ Alission Society as a
for the Decatur Orphanage.
The hunt took place on the lawn of
and Airs. Henry Odum Friday.
and other refreshments were
A gratifying sum was realized.
The promoters of this worthy cause
Misses Lydia Speer, Verna and Eva
Vallie Eberliart, Rose Knowles,
Lou Fillyaw, Anna Belle Y r oung,
and Annie Death, Canon Watson,
Yancey, Edna Bloodworth,
Allie Granger, and Messrs. Frank
Roy Richardson and W. B.
AID A1EETS
AIRS. GARY
One of the most delightful meetings
of the year was held by the Ladies’ Aid
Monday, with Mrs. J. N. Gary.
The lower floor was thrown together
thus facilitating activities. A number of
bandages were completed for the hospi¬
tal in China.
Mrs. H. B. Anderson presided over
the devotional program. All officers were
re-elected.
Orange ice refreshed the party. Serv¬
ing with Mrs. Gary were Mesdames
E. J. Dennard, W. T. Thomas, Will and
Robert Heard, and Miss Theo Gary.
FIFTH DISTRICT MEETING
FEDERATION OF CLUBS
Three hundred women were present
at the meeting of the Federation of
Clubs in Conyers Tuesday. An interest¬
ing program was presented, while much
business vital to the progress of the
Fifth District Clubs was transacted.
A splendid lunch was served in the
Conyers school building.
The exercises were held in the Meth
odist church. Those attending from
Covington were Mesdames Henry Bran¬
ham, J. G. Hall and J. A. Vaughn.
VISITORS ATTEND
MRS. KING’S PARTY
Among the out-of-town guests present
at Mrs. C. C. King’s bridge party, given
for Mesdames Hull and Travis Thurs¬
day, were ATesdames A. C. Alobley, Ed.
Blakiely and Richard AlcCristick, of
Alonroe, Mrs. James Wiley, of Social
Circle, and Miss Sallie Mae Cook.
PARTY FOR COUSINS
Airs. Lipscomb Newton, of Social Cir¬
cle, entertained AVednesday in honor of
her cousin, Airs. Horace Walker, of
Fort Worth, Texas. The guest list com¬
prised cousins of the hostess. Among
them were Alesdames Walker Combs,
C. C. King and Wilkes Heard, of Cov¬
ington.
JUNIOR R. Y. P. U.
ENJOY WEINER ROAST
A merry affair was the weiner roast
given by the Junior B. Y. P. U. at Acad¬
emy Spring Friday evening. Some fifty
young people participated. Aliss Allie
Louise Travis, leader, directed the di¬
versions.
WOMAN’S CLUB
MEETING POSTPONED
The first club meeting of the season
will be postponed from the regular time,
next Tuesday, October 3rd, until some
later date, when the president, Mrs.
AY. C. Clark, will be present.
Airs. Clark expects to arrive home
October 6th, when she will begin ac¬
tivities along all club lines.
MRS. 31IDDLEBROOKS
RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL
Friends will be glad to know that Mrs
L. L. Middlebrooks returned from At¬
lanta Sunday, where she had been for
the past three weeks in a private sani
torium.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Middlebrooks
went up and accompanied their mother
home.
W. M. U. CIRCLES
WILL MEET MONDAY
The six divisions of the W. AI. U. of
the Baptist church will meet Alonday
afternoon in the homes of the various
chairmen. This innovation will be pro¬
ductive of enthusiasm and a renewed
zeal. Each circle will discuss a subject
of vital oont’ern to the church and mis¬
sionary workers.
LAWN PARTY GIVEN
FOR LITTLE VISITORS
Miss Allie Louise Travis invited a
number of little folks to a lawn party
Thursday. Misses Cecelia and Rena
Travis, of Savannah, were the guests
of honor.
Many games were played, after which
cake and cream were served.
MISS ROBINSON HONOREE
AT VARIOUS FUNCTIONS
During her stay in Atlanta, Aliss An¬
nabel Robinson was the recipient of es¬
pecial courtesies for a number of her
friends who entertained in her honor.
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MISS FRANKLIN
LIVES DINNER
Miss Josephine Franklin entertained
at dinner Saturday evening in her home
on Church street. The central decora¬
tion of the daintily appointed table was
a French basket filled with exquisitely
tinted blossoms in pastel shades, an ar¬
tistic offering of Air. E. O. Lee, of At¬
lanta.
Covers were laid for nine. An elabo¬
rate course dinner was served. Bridge
was played, after which an ice was dis
pensed.
Airs. Afinnie P. Wright assisted Mrs.
Franklin in receiving.
OLD FASHIONED
QUILTING PARTY
The Philathea Class of the Methodist
Sunday School met Friday at the Li¬
brary. The occasion was an old-fashion¬
ed quilting party. Three quilts for the
Decatur Orphanage were finished.
A bountiful picnic lunch was served
at noon.
ROOK PARTY GIVEN
FOR NEW MEMBERS
The Girls’ Club entertained Thursday
evening in honor of the new members,
composed of the teachers recently com¬
ing to Covington. Several charming ma¬
trons graced the occasion.
The Palm Room of the City Pharmacy
was decorated with vari-colored flowers.
Ices were served.
W. 31. S. 3IEETING NEXT
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2
The regular meeting for October will
be held by the Woman’s Alission Society
at the Alethodist church Monday
noon, October second, at four o’clock. A
full attendance is requested.
EPWORTH LEAGUE ELECTS OFFI¬
CERS FOR YEAR
At the business meeting of the Ep
worth League, which was held Sunday
evening, officers were elected for the en¬
suing year. Rev. J. E. Ellis presided
over the session.
While organization was not completed
the following officers were elected:
President, Air. Walter G. Shields. 1st
Vice President and Devotional Director
Miss Alary Loyall Brown. 2nd Vice Pres¬
ident and Alissionary Director, Mr. Per¬
ry Lunsford. Treasurer, Mr. Rayford
Pennington. Literary Directors, Alisses
Alyrtle Estes and Martha Churchill.
The League has been divided into
two groups, each choosing sides, so
that a friendly rivalry may be engender¬
ed to promote membership, financial in¬
crease and a literary interest.
The zeal manifested at this session
promises much for the future growth
of Covington’s Epworth League.
CLUB MEETINGS
Gum Creek Club will meet October
3rd at 3:00 o’clock. Alembers please be
on time, as this is a very important
meeting.
All members of the Womans’ Club of
Flint Hill be sure to be at the next meet¬
ing, October 5th, at 2:00 o’clock. This
is the last meeting before the Fair.
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all members are urged to attend.
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Small poeketkntves are called pen
knit es because, when our ancestors
wanted to write, they used goosequills,
which had to be sharpened from time
to time as they wore away. Hence
writers carried small knives, known
as penknives.
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We are pleased to announce that our expert optometriV
Mr. Chas. A Green, of the Chas. A. Green Optical Co. At'
lanta, Ga., is to be here again on Saturday, September 30
If you are having eye trouble that requires glasses, We
would be pleased to have you call in and see him.
REMEMBER THE DATE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
ONE DAY ONLY
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