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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
PERSONAL
MATRON
HOLIDAYS IN COLLEGE PARK! is entertained here
Mrs. Corra Harris, the famous-
southern author, and 14 former resi
dent of College Park, is spending the
olldays with her son and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Leech, in College
Park. For some time Mrs. Harris
ived in College Park, and in addition
> the admiration which is accorded
.t*r as one of the South’s leading
writers, she also has the devotion of a
irge circle of personal friends. She
■ ill remain with Mr. and Mrs. Leech
util New* Year’s Day, when she
.ives for New York.
Mrs. Harris’ latest book, “In Search
f a Husband,” has proved one of the
i! st popular books of the year. She
ill soon begin a series of essays cn
current issues for Harper's Weekly
and .The Independent. On account,
of the demand for her work in Amer
ica. Mrs. Harris recently refused <\n
offer from a leading English publica
tion.
Mrs. Harris plans to remain in New
York until March, when she will re
turn to her home in “The Valley,”
near Pine Log. Ga. Mrs. Harris is
devoted to her mountain home, which
bears the impress of her individuali
ty.
A number of social affairs are al
ways planned for Mrs. Harris during
her visits to her former home, and
she will be tendered several parties
during her visit.
Mrs. T. Lester
Fossick, of
Birmingham,
the guest of
Mrs. Allan
Asher.
Dinner Parties at Driving Club.
Several large parties will be given
. ■ the Jlnner-dance at the Piedmont
lirlving Club Saturday evening, the
irgest to be one which Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis Beck will give in honor of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank S. Ellis. Invited to
meet them are Mr. and Mrs. Ellis,
' olonel and Mrs. Robert J. Lowry, Dr.
•md Mrs. Willis Westmoreland, Mr.
ind Mrs. Milton Dargan, Mr. and Mrs.
.1 Frank Meador, Miss Donna Bain
and Lester Crane, of New York.
The party which Howell Jackson
will give will be a compliment to Ly
man Cunningham, of New York, who
will arrive Saturday to spend the
holidays with him. The guests will
include twelve members of the college
set.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McGehee "ill
have ten guests. The party which
Judge and Mrs. Spencer Atkinson will
give will compliment their guest. Mrs.
Emily Carter Divine. Judge and Mrs.
Arthur G. Powell will have four
guests, and Calhoun McDougald will
have one guest. Other parties are
being arranged.
Nine o’Cloek Fancy Dress Ball.
The largest social event of Friday-
evening will be the fancy dress ball
which the Nine o’clock German Club
gives at the Piedmont Driving Club.
Some very original and charming cos-
umes have-been planned, and the af
fair will be one of the most brilliant
events of the season.
Mrr. and Mrs, Inman to Entertain.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Inman will en
tertain a number of friends at their
home on Peachtree road Saturday
evening, the occasion *o celebrate
their wedding anniversary.
Chanucah Service at Jewish Temple.
At the Jewish Temple, corner South
Pryor and Richardson streets. Dr.
David Marx, rabbi, there will be a
special Chanucah service, composed
mostly of music, on Friday evening
at 8 o'clock.
Chanucah is the feast of dedication.
It commemorates the victories won
by the Maccabees over the Assyrians.
This solemn act was performed on
the twenty-fifth day of the Hebrew
month Klsliv, In the year 165 B. C.
The combined choirs of the Temple
and Trinity Methodist Church will
- ender, besides the regular ritual f
MOVING
PICTURE
SHOWS
VAUDETTE
Saturday.
“Rose of the San Juan," a Strong
American Drama.
“Head Walter," Thanhauser.
“The Champion," a Keystone
Feature.
Steinway Four.
THE ELITE
Saturday.
"From Rail Splitter to Presi
dent," a Two-Reel Qoid Seal That
Is Worth While.
"The Actor's Christmas,” an Imp
Featuring King Baggot.
"The Substitute." a Crystal Pro
duction Full of Human Interest.
service, the traditional Chanucah mu
sic and Gounod’s setting of the One
Hundred and Thirtieth Psalm, “Out of
Darkness," The public Is cordially- in
vited to attend.
The following singers will take
parte Sopranos, Mrs, T. H. Wingfield,
Mrs. Charles Sheldon; altos, Miss
Sylvia Spritz, Mrs. Arthur Crevlston;
tenors, Solon Drukenmlller, Howard
Davis; basses, John Mullen, Joseph
Hubbard. Charles A. Sheldon, Jr., is
organist and director.
Mace-Hardaway.
Much Interest has been manifested
in the announcement of the marriage
of Miss Anna Mace, of Baltimore, and
Captain Benjamin F. Hardaway,
which took place Wednesday. Miss
Mace has frequently visited at Fort
McPherson as the guest of Captain
and Mrs. Simmons, and, with her sis
ter, Miss Ella Mace, she has been
Mrs, Simmons' guest for some time.
Captain Hardaway is a popular offi
cer of the Seventeenth infantry, and
has many friends who will be inter
ested in his marriage.
Captain and Mrs. Hardaway are
spending several weeks in the East.
On their return they will be at home
at the fort.
Parties for House Party.
Miss Virginia Haugh and her house
party guests, Misses Mildred Wicks,
of Spokane, Wash., and Mary- How
ard, will be tendered a number of
parties during the holidays. Thurs
day evening there will be a dance at
which Miss Leslie Weathers will be
hostess. Saturday afternoon Mrs.
Frank Myers, Jr., will entertain at a
box party at the Forsyth for them.
Miss Edith Hudson will give a mat
inee party Monday, and Tuesday
evening Mrs. W. T. Howard will en
tertain them with a dancing party.
Miss Frances Campbell will give
an Informal party for them, and cn
New Year's Day they will be the
honor guests at another matinee par
ty, which will be given at the Atlanta
Theater.
Mr. and Mrs. Market at Homs.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Markel will
keep “open house" Sunday, the first
anniversary of their wedding.
Miss Murphy’s Party.
One of the pretty affairs of the hol
idays will be given by Misses Mabel
Murphy and Essie Lee McDonald in
the form of a watch party New Year's
Eve at Miss Murphy's home in West
End.
Lecture on Astronomy.
"Life in Other Worlds will be the
subject of the lecture to be given in
Marlst College Hall Tuesday, Decem
ber 30, at 3:30 p. m., by the astrono
mer Father William F. Rlgge, of
Creighton University, Omaha, Nebr.
Readers of scientific magazines are
familiar with the writings of Father
Rlgge and have received with much
interest his Observations.
The lecture will be illustrated with
stereopt.icon views, and will be given
under the auspices of the educational
committee of the Ladles’ Altar Socie
ty of the Sacred Heart Church.
Miss Brown's Christmas Party,
Miss Sally Eugenia Brown invited
her family. Including the children of
her brothers and sisters, to a Christ
mas tree at her home, "Cherokee,”
on Peachtree road, Wednesday after
noon. The big tree was placed in the
living room and at 3 o’t-lock the
guests arrived. Over 30 were present,
Many delight
ful entertain
ments are be
ing given by
Mrs. Asher for
Mrs. Fossick
during the lat
ter’s visit in
Atlanta.
and each brought sifts to Miss Brow*
and to each other. A dainty salad
course wa» served in the dining: room,
where a decoration of holly and
bright rod flowers prevailed.
For Miss Woolley.
Dr. and Mrs. Vassal* Woolley will
give an Informal party Friday even
ing at their home on Spring road for
their sister, Miss Marlon Woolley.
There will be twenty guests.
Cantata at First Presbyterian.
The Christmas music from Handel’s |
“Messiah” will be rendered by th.-j I
combined choirs of the St. Mark and
Miss Nell Choate is at home from
Hollins lu Ritute for the holidays,
Miss Larne Belle Fuller 1h the guest
of Miss Ruth Johnstone in Savan
nah during the holidays.
Mrr. him m Sanders and little
daughter, of Memphis, are guests of
Captain and Mrs Edward S. Gay.
Mrs. William Robinson is the guest
of her aunt, Mrs. J. R. Mobley, on
Juniper street, during the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Wright and sons
are spending the holidays In Rome as
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Seaborn
Wright.
Misses Annie Mae and ..ubte Win
gate have as their guest during the
holidays. Miss Ol' i McWhorter, of
Greensrooro.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Douthlt, of
Memphis, are spending the holidays
with Mr. and Mrr. Montgomery
Francis.
Mr. and Mrs. Fleming Winecoff
and little son are guests of Profes
sor and Mrs. Lustrat in Athens for
the holidays.
Mrs. M. E. Oliver s spending
Christmas with her mother and sis
ters in Oches. N. Y. She will be away
until February.
Mr. arid Mrs*. Edward Hussey XI-
sop, whose marriage \rts a rc, nt
brilliant event, an* spending Christ
mas In Nice, France.
Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Evlns. of St.
Louis, are the guests of their mother.
Mrs. John Evlns, at the Farling’er
Court Apar; merits.
W. E. Austin Ji is in A Manta for
the holidays, with his parents, in the
Virginian. He is one of the i rominent
young business men.of Richmond
Mrs. \Y. K Austin lias returned
from a six weeks' visit to her daugh
ter in Birmingham, where she w as de
light fully entertained at a number of
elegant parties and luncheons.
Lyman Cunningham, of New York
will arrive In AtLunta Saturday to
spend tb holidays with Howell Jack-
son. He will he tendered a dinnei
party at the Piedmont Driving Club
Saturday evening by his host.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phini/.y, of
Augusta, have returned home after a
short visit here. They came to at
tend the bal poudre given by mem
bers of the Cotillion Club.
First Presbyterian churches at the
First Presbyterian Church, on Ma
rietta street. Sunday afternoon, De
cember 28, at 4 o’clock.
Tea for College Visitors.
The members r.f the Southern As
sociation of College Women will give
an informal tea Thursday afternoon.
January 1, at the home of Mrs. War
ren Boyd, the guests to include the
visiting college women who will he
here for the convention of the So
ciety for the Advancement of Science.
Gude-Coleman.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Valentine Gude
have issued cards announcing the
marriage of their daughter. Mary
Boggs, to Algernon Coleman, on Tues
day, December 23, in Atlanta. Cards
inclosed state that the couple will be
at home after January 17 at No. 3524
Kimbark avenue, Chicago. Ill.
Flayers Will Speak
On‘Blue Bird’and Its
Author, Maeterlinck
MISS ALICE BUTLER.
E
GEIS ms GIFTS
Three Subscriptions Totaling SI
250 Sent In—English Busy
After Remainder.
Three voluntary Christmas gifts
came into the Oglethorpe University
fund Thursday. E. W. Alfriend tele
graphed a subscription of $500 from
New* York: J. Fred Harvey, one of
the lessees of the Piedmont, tele
graphed $250 from Boston, and Jacob
W. Patterson subscribed $500.
The executive committee, headed by
Captain James VV. English, Sr., is
quietly at work to complete the $250 -
000 Atlanta total. It is understood
that a number of subscriptions are
already in the hands of the executive
committee and they will be an
nounced in a lump in due time.
It is stated that the Atlanta banks
will take up the question of making
generous donations to Oglethorpe at
their annual directors’ meetings.
In the meantime, all persons who
wish to make contributions are re
quested to take up the matter with
Captain English, who has direct
charge of raising the balance.
German Bishops Call
Fashions Immodest
Special Cable to Tne Atlanta Georgias.
BERLIN, Dec. 26.—The German
Catholic bishops In conference at
Fulda passed a resolution censuring
the present women’s fashions as “de
void of any sense of modesty.”
The bishops urged the Catholic
women of Germany to join a crusade
against the Impropriety in dress,
which they term "a disgraceful aber
ration.”
CANTATA TO BE REPEATEO.
Upon urgent requests, the cantata,
“The Christ Child,” which was given
last Sunday at the First Methodist
Church, will be repeated Sunday even
ing at 7:30. Miss Mamie Lee Bear
den will again direct tlie music.
Flood, Drouth, Law
Cause Egg Shortage
WASHINGTON. Dec. 26.-—That the
fear of hostile legislation, combined
with flood and drouth, caused the re
cent shortage in eggs, was the claim
made here to-day by the Joint com
mittee representing the cold storage
warehousemen and affiliated indus
tries, who will oppose the McKellar
cold storage bill before the House
Subcommittee on Interstate Com
merce, when Congress returns to
work.
Man, Bitten by Dog,
Dies of Hydrophobia
LEXINGTON. KY, Dec. 26.—Price
Hall, aged 50 year*, of Ca t let tabu rg,
died of hydrophobia as the result of a
dog bite received last August
At the time Hall was bitten he
thought nothing of the Incident. Later
he began to have strange attacks,
which increased in violence until his
death.
Miss Alice Butler, an Anglo-French
actress of ability, will address the
public conference on Maeterlinck and
“The Blue Bird” at the Atlanta Thea
ter next Tuesday afternoon. On her
mother’s side she is collaterally re
lated to the family of General Ogle
thorpe, who came to America early
In the eighteenth century and found
ed the colony of Georgia. In the pa
ternal line Miss Butler is one of the
Augeardes, an aristocratic Norman
family, one of whose squires was
knighted for bravery on the battle
field by King Henry I of England.
Adrienne Augearde is her sister.
Miss Butler came from England
years and years ago to sing the Gil
bert & Sullivan operettas in one of
the D’Oyley Carte companies. She
remained In this country to become a
dramatic character woman, and
played imports,nt roles In the com
panies of Richard Mansfield, Leslie j
Carter and Nat Goodwin. For thej
last three years she has been playing,
the ugly Fairy Berylune In “The Blue .
Bird.”
Invest Your Xmas
Money in Diamonds
The finest kind of a way to “perpet
uate” that gift of money. And the fact
that we bought heavily before the in
creased Diamond tariff , enabling us to
supply our patrons at former prevailing
prices, makes this store the logical place
to buy Diamonds.
Eugene V, Haynes Co.
49 Whitehall St.
H
ALAMO NO. 1
"A Snakevllle Courtship,” Essany
! Comedy.
“Her Indian Brother,” a Kalem
Drama.
ALAMO NO. 2
“The Club Cure,” Biograph Com
edy.
“The Suicide Pact," Blograph
Comedy.
“The Doctor’s Romance,” Lubin
Drama.
ALCAZAR THEATER
“For Art and Love," a Joker
Comedy of Impressions.
“The Lord of GIAZASH," a Two-
Reel Bison That Is a Real Feature.
‘ A Good Drug Store”
Serves
December
Strawberries
Whoever heard of a drug store serving strawberries
in December? Luscious, red, ripe, fresh-from-the-field
strawberries, just as you usually get them in April. Hard
to believe, isn’t it? Fortunate we are, truly, to be ABLE
to do this.
And the prices charged for these winter luxuries are not ex
orbitant. They are also a part of the policy of this establish
ment.
SAVOY THEATER
Saturday.
"Bloodhounds of the North," a
Great Two Reel Gold Seal.
“My Brudder Sylveat” and “The
Baby Question," a Great Picture in
Two Parts.
Strawberry Shortcake . .
Strawberry Sundae ....
Strawberries and Cream. .
Strawberries smothered with
Ice Cream
Strawberry Parfait . . .
(The Drink Beautiful)
Strawberry Ice Cream . .
THE MONTGOMERY
Saturday.
“Heart’s Ease,” a Great Two-
Keel Vltagraph Feature In Two
Part*.
“Who Will Marry Mary?” an Ed-
•on Drama.
Th« Berman Trio, Juvenile En
tertainers.
25c
15c
15c
15c
15c
10c
All the above made from FRESH, ripe, berries
right out of the box.
Join us in this Holiday Treat. This service begins to-morrow
morning and will continue through all of next week.
E. H. CONE, I-
60 Whitehall Street Kimball House Block
ALL FURS,
Sets and
Neck
Pieces
Fancy Good!
of Every Descriptior
Most All
Toys, Dolls,
etc. You can
have this
sale.
PRE-INVENTORY SALE!
Women’s Coats
You know where to come
when you need them—if
you would want a $15.00
Chinchilla Coat, it’s
here
at
$9.75
If a stout, stylish Astra
khan Coat, usually $20,
you know I A QC
it’s here at / J
If a three-quarter length
$25 Boucle Coat, with the
stylish kimono sleeve, you
know it’s a 1 7 QC
here at ...»♦* * / .s D
The Suit Question
Is Settled
You want Spring styles.
We have them. No old
stock on hand. The Tube
Skirt and long Jacket has
passed into history—you
don’t want them at any
old price, do you? Come to
Hign’s Suit Department,
Third Floor, to morrow,
and see the beautiful new
Spring
Suits at $19.75
We guided you right all
last season. Watch our
ads. We will tell you
what’s what. We sell you
the correct styles.
Buy Blankets Now
Good, Nappy, Cotton
““'..SI. 00
Still better ones. Pair
$1.35 & $1.50
Big Wool Blankets, in
white, gray and
p P “ r d $3.98
All Wool, white and
plaid Blan
kets. Pair
$4.95
J. M. HIGH CO.
Keep the children
warm. Dr. Den
ton’s Hygienic
Sleeping Garments
will do it,
50cto$1.00
According to ages.
Girls’ Coats
Stylish in make, stylish
in materials, 2 to 5
years old. Were $8 to
$9. Pre - inventory
pit $4.95
Girls’ Coats—$10, $11
and $12 values. All
newest materials; latest
styles. Pre-inventory
$6.98
Juniors’ Coats. No
matter what former
prices were, in just two
lots at
$9.95 & $15.1)0
(Second Floor)
= J. M. 1 HIGH CO. I