Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, May 24, 1913, Image 9

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r TJtih A J LAM A (iiLUKWlAJN AM) JNJEVV fe Miss Frances Connally entertained at tea at the Driving Club Friday aft ernoon for Miss Elizabeth Boyd, a guest of Miss Carolyn King, and Miss Edith Bowron, of Birmingham, \vho Is visiting Mrs. Frank Pearson. Tea was served in the pink room. The table around which the guests were seated had as a centerpiece vase of Dorothy Perkins roses. The mints and ices were In pink and sil ver candle sticks with pink shades added another touch of color. Miss Connally’s guests were Misses Edith Bowron. Elizaoeth Boyd, Caro lyn ^Cing. Elizabeth Morgan, Lula Dean Jones. Hildreth Burton-Smith, ■Nancy Prince, Courtenay Harrison, Nancy Hill Hopkins, Eloise Oliver, Harriet Orr, Charles Owens. Mary Robinson and Mrs. Frank Pearson. Mr*. Selden Hostess at Tea. Mrs. O. K. Selden gave an informal 6 o’clock tea Thursday afternoon for Mtas Anne Selden, her house guest; Mias Isabel Clarke, "bf Augusta, a guest of Miss Eloise Stewart; Mrs. Mary Cooley, who will be married In June, Miss Lillian Beattey, of Co lumbus, Ohio, a guest of Mrs. Henry Troutman. The attractive apartment was decorate*! in sweetpeas and car nations, sweetpeas being as a center- piece on the tea table. Mrs. Seldon received $ her guests wearing a lingerie gown of white crepe. Twenty guests enjoyed the in formality of the afternoon. Musical Recital. At the Barili School of Music, Sat urday afternoon, a recital will be given by Miss Edith Dunson and Miss Elizabeth Hancock. Following is the program: Piano Solos. “To Spring.” “The But terfly, ” “Anitra’s Dance.” “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” Grieg— Miss Hancock. Aria, “Mignon,” Ambroise Thomas— Miss Dunson. Piano Solos. “The Mill,” “Will-o’- the-Wisp,” Jensen—Miss Hancock. Songs. “I Know Now the Great Golden Sun.” Ryder ; “The Malden and the Butterfly,” D’Albert; “At Dawn ing.” Cadman: “He Loves Me,” Chad wick—Miss Dunson. Piano Solo. “Sonata Pathetique.” Beethoven—Miss Hancock Song. “The Loreley,” Liszt—Miss Dunstn. Dinner-Dance at Club. There will be an informal dinner- dance at the* Piedmont Driving Club Saturday evening, for which several Jnformal parties are being arranged. Evening Party.' Miss Annie Winship Bates wHl en tertain a number of boys and girls at an evening party Friday. May 30, at her mother’s home on West Peachtree Street. For Miss Hartzog. Miss Irene Hartzog. a bride-elect, war tendered a bridge party Thurs day afternoon by Mrs. lrbv Bagwell. Guests were; Mrs. J. O. Watson, Mrs. C. N. Dennis, Mrs. W. M. Lewis, Mrs. John Burdine, Mrs. R. D. Ison, Mrs. Jeff Green, Mrs. A. J. Wil.-on and the Misses Edith Daniel, Arline Ooree, Rvjby Lav/ton and Irene Bearden. Peanut Hunt at Mrt. Shewmake'*. Circle No. 7 of the First Methodist Church, of which Miss Laura Wyatt is chairman, will give a peanut hunt Saturday afternoon on the lawn of Mrs. Claude Shewmake’s residence. If the weather is inclement the hunt will be postponed. Informal Luncheon. Mrs. William A. Wimbish enter tained informally at luncheon Thurs day for Miss Lula Vergehas, of South Georgia. Guests were a few young people. Music at Jewish Temple. Friday evening the entire 8 o’clock service at the Jewish Temple will be devoted to music. The public will be welcome. PROGRAM. Organ prelude—Gade. Service—Dunkley. . Solo, "Unto Thee Will I Sing,” H*»hn—Mr. John Mullin. -viithem, “By Babylon’s Wave,’ Gounod. ‘ Organ solo, “At Evening,” Buck. Charles A. Sheldon, Jr., organist and director. Dance at Segadlo’e. There will be a dance at Segadlo's Friday evening, given by a number of young men. Bagmen of Bagdad Parade in Columbus COLUMBUS, GA., May 23.—The Grand Council of the Georgia-Florida division of the United Commercial Travelers, In annual session here, will conclude its business session late this afternoon, after which the parade of the Bagmen of Bagdad will tak< place. To-night at 7:3ft o’clock the Bag men of Bagdad will hold a business session, when they will elect officers for the year. The business session will be followed by a dance at the Racine Hotel. Rev. B. F. Fraser to . Preach to Veterans Miss Binily Casstn, who is ill of diphtheria, is being missed frtm the social affairs of the week. Miss Louise Watts entertained in formally at bridge Friday afternoon fot- a number of visitors. Miss Irene Nickerson, of Athens, left Friday afternoon after being the guest of Mrs. Hilliard Spalding for a week. Mrs. A. W. Hill will entertain a few friends at tea at the Driving Club Saturday afternoon for Mrs. Wal ter Keenan, of Columbia, S. C., a guest of Miss Helen Taylor. Mrs. D. B. Osborne gave a bridge party Friday afternoon in honor of two brides of the past winter, Mrs. George Varden and Mrs. Edward King. Mr. and Mrs. George Ad«y, of Pitts burg, are guests of titelr nephew- and niece, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Wheeler. They are en route home after spend ing three months at their winter home at Deland, Fla. The box party that Miss Ruth Northen waB to have given Saturday afternoon for Miss Elizabeth Boyd, guest of Miss Carolyn King, has been postponed because of the death of her kinsman, Mr. B. S. Walker, Jr. Mrs. Fred Lee Bennett, of Roches ter, N. Y.. who was Miss Mary Eliza beth Holcomb, of Atlanta, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philo Hol comb. Mrs. Bennett will be In the Squth until after the marriage of her brother, Mr. Alfred Holcomb, to Miss Mary Rosser, June 6. Mrs. Strachan Barrett, of Hender son, Ky., Is the guest of Mrs. Virgil Perryman, and will remain with her through next week. Among the In formal affairs tendered her was a bridge party by Mrs. William Rush- ton, and an informal tea Friday after noon at the Piedmont Driving Club. Mr. R. W. Tidwell, Mr. Frank Tid well and Miss Lilien Tidwell leave next week for thetr country home, "Poplar Grove,” on Williams Mill Road, where they will spend the sum mer. Mr. and Mrs. Howard H. Me- [Call, Howard McCall, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. George 8. Obear, Jr., and ■children will Join therm and be away from the city until fall. Reuben Bruce Tidwell, of Denver, also will 'spend the summer with his grandfa ther, Mr. Tidwell. ASSERTS FORT MOULTRIE GUN EXPLOSIOI RILLS FOUR Insists Girls’ High Take Prece dence Over All Other Matters in June Budget. “The Soldier’s Spirit” will be the subject of a morning; sermon by the Rev. B. F. Fraser at the St. Paul’s Methodist Church Sunday. The occasion win be in honor of Confederate veterans or Atlanta. A special musical program has been ar ranged . The evening; service will be in charge of the children of the church Sunday school. Songs and recitations will be innovations. RAILWAY TO TRY WIRELESS. PITTSBURG, May 23.—The Penn sylvania Railroad may soon estab lish a wireless telegraph station in Pittsburg, to connect this city with Philadelphia and other division points. Odd Fellows Give Third Degree to 20 A meeting of Odd Fellows will be held Friday evening when Fulton Lodge will confer the third degree on twenty or more candidates for Capi tal Lodge No. #0. This will be the degree contested tar at the coming session of the Grand Lodge of Georgia In SavamAh next week. Fulton Lodge team is to be a edntestant for the prize. Btryan to Proclaim Direct Vote Senators WASHINGTON. May 3*.—Secre tary Bryi-n is preparing to make for mal! announcement of t'.e ratification of the seventeenth amendment to the Constitution, providing for the direct election of United States Senators. It 1 will m-rk the closihg chapter of at reform movement which started eighty-seven years ago Mayor Woodward declared Friday he would urge an appropriation for a new English-Commercial Girls' High School building to take precedence over other matters when the finance committee prepares the June budget. The Mayor said there could be no question that this building was the city’s most important need, and he would insist on the money being pro vided for it if everything elee had to be sacrificed. The Board of Education Thursday adopted a resolution insisting that Council provide $76,000 for this build ing. Members of the finance com mittee promised the amount the first of the year. . Girls Now Poorly Housed. Hundreds of girls seeking a com mercial education are being noused in small rented dwelling houses, and members of the Board ot Education assert that conditions are intolerable. The finance committee will meet Friday to begin work on the new budget. With only $120,000 available, Council has recommended an expen diture of $30,000 on the Whitehall Street regrading. The board of trustees of the Grady Hospital wants an additional $26,000 for a nurse’s dormitory. All the departments want additional appropriations. If the new high school building is provided for virtually all other special appropria tions will have to be sacrificed. Smith Sees Tax Dodging. Chairman Charles W. Smith, of the tax committee, declared Thursday he believed there were nearly 1,200 pupils attending the public schools whose parents were not paying any taxes. Ho said the fact that many were not real estate owners was nothing against them, but that they were dodging their street and sanitary taxes. A list of the pupils has been se cured and is being checked with the tax books. Chairman Smith believes a notification of parents of school children that they were delinquent in their taxes would result In Immediate payment. BRYAN TO SPEAK AT AUBURN. MOBILE, ALA., May 23—Definite acceptance from Secretary of State Bryan to an invitation to deliver an address on Tuesday morning, June 3, at the Alabama Polytechnic Insti tute commencement at Auburn has been received here. Coast Artillery Captain and Three Privates Victims—Four Oth ers Seriously Hurt. CHARLESTON, S. C„ May 23.— Captain Guy Hanna, Coast Artillery Corps, U. S. A., died shortly before 11 o’clock to-day at the Fort Moultrie Hospital, his being the fourth death from the explosion of a 4.7 inch gun at Battery Lord. Fort Moultrie, last night at 9:20 o’clock, when officers and men were at night target prac tice. The other dead are Privates Baxter, Christian and Dalton, and the seri ously hurt are Privates Swagger- ty and Stelnspringer, Hospital Stew ard Lamar, and a corporal whose name was not learned. The corporal’s right shoulder was torn off. Several others received minor injuries. Two Killed Outright, Privates Baxter and Christian were killed outright. Their bodies were cut in two. Private Dalton died three hours later in the post hospital. Cap tain Hanna was struck by a fragment of the breech lock of the big gun, which tore a hole in his side. Captain Clarke tind Dieutenant Perry, be tween whom he was standing, es caped without injury. The injured were rushed to the post hospital, nearby, and physicians were called from Charleston to assist the army surgeons in caring for the victims. Girl Faints When Telephone Bill Is! $58 BETHLEHEM, PA.. May 23a—Mary Hmak, a pretty Hungarian domestic, not knowing what the rules or regu lations of the telephone company were, decided to call her sweetheart on the telephone at Cleveland. She went into the booth in Gottlieb Hueb- ner's candy store to-day and got con nections with Cleveland. Fifty-eight minutes she remained there. After she was through Hueb- ner was told that the hill was $58. He informed the girl, who faint ed. She earns only $2.60 a week. Clerical Onions Are Barred by Church PHILADELPHIA, May 23.—The Lutheran Ministerium, the supreme body of that sect, decided at the sixty-sixth annual convention, that hereafter ministers of that denomina tion must not engage In outside work One minister has been ordained thirty-seven years and in that time has preached three sermons, hut this was not as flagrant as one wbo raised onions, presumably for market, or an other who was an undertaker on the side. “PROGRESS” REFRIGERATORS Are built entirely of steel; their construction renders them absolutely sanitary, durable and eeonomical. They are germ proof, non-absorb ent and easily cleaned. Every refrigerator es sential is combined in the “Progress.” Rea sonably priced, at $13.50 to $40 MARTIN & KNOTT FURNITURE CO. 135 Whitehall Street Mrs. Radcliff Saved By Insanity Decision COLUMBUP. GA., May 23.—Dr L. N. Jones, Superintendent of the State Insane Asylum at Milledgevllle, testi fying here a* an alienist, declared that Mrs. Jennie Mae Radcliff is in sane and William Green is in his right mind. Upon this testimony depended whether or not Mrs. Radcliff, charged with killing her husband, George M. Radcliff, a Columbus merchant, and Green, charged with killing O. D. Kitchens, a young insurance man, would go to trial. Judge Price Gilbert committed Mrs. Radcliff to the asylum. If she re covers her mental faculties she will stand trial. Green will likely be put on trial Monday. White City Park Now Open Don’t be satis fied with the ‘top cleaning” w hS c h pleases but doesn’t protect. I Use CN and make your home pure-dean —sure-clean. CN removes dirt and cuts grease better than ordinary cleansers. It is a powerful disinfectant and a safe de odorant. • CN is equally effective on woodwork, marble, tiling, etc. Make this spring clean ing thorough by using CN. All flww, Dnsfik. ud Dwvtmni St«m 10c, 25c, 50c, $1 The yellow package with the gablo-top WmI Di»i«f«cti»f Co. Atlanta, Ga. U. C. V. REUNION CHATTANOOGA, TENN. Southern Railway Premier Carrier ol the South ffO AA Round Trip fi*0 AA 9d«Vv F r o m Atlanta W*™ Correspondingly low fares from other points. Tickets on sale May 24-25-26-27-28, and for trains scheduled to arrive at Chattanooga be fore noon May 29. Return limit June 5, with privilege of exten sion. Stopovers at all Stations. SPECIAL TRAINS. May 26—Lv. Atlanta 8:30 a. m. 12:15 noon Ar. Chattanooga 2:05 p. m. 5:15 p. m. May 27—Lv. Atlanta 8:30 a.m. Ar. Chattanooga 2:05 p. m. 4 Regular Trains Daily 4 OITY TICKET OFFICE, NO. 1 PEACHTREE STREET. J. L. MEEK, A. G. P. A. R. L. BAYLOR, D. P. A. ATLANTA, GA. READ GEORGIAN WANT ADS. A Rummage Sale On Second Floor V Suits, Dresses, Skirts,W aists At $ Each A Special m W Saturday Sale This department, preparatory to a fresh inflow of imd-«ummer mer chandise, is clearing its she Ives and tables #f ONE OF A KIND STYLES—dresses soiled in displays and broken size assortments. To effect an immediate disposal, they are ridiculously underprice^- They are to he sold for a final clearance, and are not EXCHANGE ABLE or RETURNABLE. In the collection you will find great pickings and unusuallbargains. Cream Serge Suits Black Pongee Suits Colored Serge Suits Taffeta Silk Dresses Black Voile SJurts Chiffon Blouse Waists Lingerie Waists Linen Coat Suits Hair-line Stripe Suits Natural Pongee Suats Taffeta Silk Suits One-piece Serge Drrsses French Serge Skirts Lace Trimmed Waists Allover Wants One -piece Linen Dresses Your Choice, Five Doll ars KEELY COMPANY ENJOY LIFE—GO SWIMMING By EVELYN WREN T HE song of the surf, the beckoning of the breakers, the lure of the lake invite ns. The water fascinates,i allures and enthralls. We act well and wisely to heed its call and— Go swimming! The intimate contact with the water, the over coming of this element, the struggle and the con quest are inspiring. The laughter comes to your heart,, the joy speaks from your eyes and intense happiness is yours. The opportunities for this delight are at hand. Popular Piedmont Park is the scene of much of this wholesome gayety. East Fake is the mecca for those who appreciate the benefits of this rec reation. Did .you ever bathe or swim when a gentle rain was falling? The raindrops tickle your nose, they confuse your sight, they tantalize and tease, adding to the joy of conquest. They help to make you feel the joy of living, the pleasure of happy combat with the water. If you can’t swiin, learn. Wade out into the cool, refreshing water, just as far as you can keep your footing, and get acquainted. Laugh at the water, coax and love it, but never let it guess that you are a wee bit afraid. Let it learn that you intend to be victorious, splendidly vic torious as your acquaintance proceeds. By ami by the water will yield to your efforts. You will glide along as if it consciously aided and abetted your joy of conquest. The knowl edge that you have overcome those first few fear ful thoughts, that you are at home in the water and the pleasure in the bracing, physical contact inspires and cheers you. The first requisite for swimming or bathing is a good suit. The suit must be cut properly, fit comfortably and be becoming. Ot detracts much from your first feeling of helplessness if the bath ing suit is becoming. When you are expert you will judge of other details which add to your progress—flat trimmings, elimination of super fluous weight and ease of donning. The J. M. High Company has bathing suits for the novice and the expert, for the maid and matron, for the youngster and his dad-—for ev eryone who appreciates the value of the best of recreations. The simple suits, well made and cut according to the new lines, are a delight to the beginner. They carry the flat trimming or pretty turn-over collars which will not dangle, damp and dripping, iD your face. Every detail is carefully planned to aid, not impede, your progress. Wheu you first go swimminig your costume will be rather elaborate. You will wish a pair of the bright, pretty bathing slippers and the whole line of accessories. You will choose your cap with a view to becomingness and be far less conscious of your lack of skill than if you looked aikl felt a dowd. When you can really swim you will become au expert in choosing your bathing costume. You will know that the pretty sashes, the long ties and the large collars give a gorgeous effect on land! but prove real hindrances in the water. You will learn that your suit can be pretty, yet .practical. That swimming may he enjoyed to its fullest, ,1. M. High Company has selectt*l the most prac tical of bathing suits. You will not be misled into the purchase of a suit that will prove im possible for swimming, though attractive on the beach. Every suit is practical. Moreover, they are all fashionable. They embrace all the timely touches with no loss of practicability. You can apjiear well, feel comfortable and swim with lit tle effort. These suits range in material from serviceable self-material, braid, striped material and stitch- mohair to shining silk. The trimmings are in ing. The prices begin at $2.50, for a pretty, prac tical suit, to $15.00 for a handsome, practical one. The caps, in all colors and a great variety of be coming styles, cost from 50c to $1.50. The slip pers, picturesque with their long ankle lacings, arc priced at 25c to $1.00. There is no exercise so physically beneficial. .There is no pleasure so intensely wholesome. Every muscle is brought into play. The chest broadens and grows strong. The mental attitude is positive and inspiring. To swim is to live at your fullest. J. M. High Company is co-operating with us this year. They are ready with bathing suits, bathing accessories and bathing suggestions. Let’s go see them and then— Let's go swimming!