The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, February 10, 1911, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextFriday February 10, 1911, Social and Personal A CHAFING-DISH PARTY. Miss Mary Robeson was the charm ing hostess of eighteen members of the High School pupils at a chafing dish supper Friday evening. Girls and boys assisted one another in making several kinds of candies, preparing pecan meats and peanuts, among other fillings, for their confections. Several chafing dishes were used for popping corn, which is as exciting, in a smaller space, as a snow storm. The candies were successful, and a merry, merry evening was spent in a bright soci ability impossible when games are played. - Mrs. T. M. Brumby, Jr., gave a beautiful dinner Friday evening, with bridge afterward. The table was decorated with white carnations, white Roman hyacinths and smilax. The place cards had dainty hand-painted figures. Mrs. Ralph Northcutt and Mr. E. B. Freyer won the prizes. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Cole, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Freyer, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan McNeel, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Northcutt and Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Trammell. Miss Mabel Cortelyou compliment ed her guest, Mrs. W. S. Kain, Wed nesday with a combined bridge and 42. Hostess and guest of honor were strikingly handsome in a pink-flower ed mull and a white lingerie dress. The scores were kept by Miss Jessie Reynolds, who was a charming little figure in blue. After the games a de licious luncheon was served at the small tables. Mrs. C. T. Hawkins entertained her 42 Club Thursday afternoon. Each guest received a bouquet of violets tied with narrow yellow ribbon. After the game refreshments were served in the daintiest way. The chicken salad was on lettuce leaves, the scalloped oysters with heart-shaped hot bis cuit and ice cream for the second course, e e Bt v et S Miss Christine Dobbs entertained a party of young friends Friday evening with a dance as a farewell to them be fore going to Coronado Beach to spend February with Mrs. C. H. Dobbs. She left Sunday night with Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Anderson, who go from here di rect to Orlando. According to the Woman’s Home Companion, an appropriate way to an nounce an engagement this month is to enclose two heart-shaped cards bearing the names of the happy lovers with an invitation to whatever social event is given in honor of the bride elect. Through Mr. L. B. Carnes, Mr. Wil liam Metcalf has sold his place on Whitlock avenue to Mr, and Mrs. S. B. Page, of Pensacola, who have moved up with their two young sons, C. S. and Willie J. Page. Mr. and Mrs. Met calf have returned to West Milton, Ohio. The Round’s concert at the Armory last week was highly enjoyved. One Marietta musician declared finer music had never been heard in the city. A ’ r‘\’ \\,’ (h\ ,\M @ = ¥ N e o Y- e 2:{\(\‘) ?’ \_‘\/f_ “_‘~’4 ’l"’t 0 - g e K/’/.”:,'\//\s f/) (,f;‘) 0/ @i . Ny oAy ol o \ At PNk \Ji e § g:.-ih."_.f ,";",‘:.' '~-_-mmm:=:z__| . :,!‘] s | Pl ttatl ke o ! ; I [rO S R e ana &7 G &Sy | LTEVERY MANY ) ‘ﬁ.,ﬁ’!» L 8 L S pe s | LUKURY) -, 'LQ;AIT:T—_YT” ’.;,‘u ’ \// // \\E\ } AR eUM N SN ey S i A good cigar is a luxury that every man can enjoy and what a worker of miracles itis. Into what strange shapes do the curling clouds of smoke wreathe themselves. The poor man sees his ship come in. The rich man thinks comfortably of his early struggles. And the lover sees his fair lady in a thousand varying and graceful poses. There is as much difference in cigars as there is men, but we have the kinds that all men like, the kinds that make all men brothers. » G6he Gantt Drug Company e ———— ————— large audience was present and voted thanks to the Rifles for the musical treat. Miss Vivian Strong has gone to Raleigh, N, C,, to spend a whiie with Mrs. Norris, after visiting Mrs. A 0 Harper in Athens. She will stop in Athens on her way home, where she will be a guest of honor at several so cial events, Friends of Dr. and Mrs. J. K. Saun ders will be glad to hear that the cli mate of Barnesville, S. C, is proving beneficial to the health of Dr, Saun dgrs, who has gained rapidly in weight since sojourning there a few weeks. Mrs. Ralph Northcutt entertained the Young Matrons’ Bridge Club Fri day afternoon. ” Personal Mention. “ _ Mrs. 8. D. Squiers has returned to Franklin, Ohio. Mrs. J. T. Corley has returned to Cartersville. Dr. P. B. Crumbley is at home with Mr. and Mrs, C. M. Law. Miss Eula Varnelle, of Atlanta, is visiting Mrs. Sam Grogan, Miss Emma Hahr Dobbs spent the week-end with Mrs. E. P. Dobbs. Mrs. E. T. Jones, of Atlantic City, is visiting her sister, Mrs, C. R. Hatcher. Miss Nellie Camp, of Atlanta, is visiting Mrs. Wayland Camp at Cairo. The Ladies’ Aid of the First Bap tist Church held a candy sale at Sams’ drug store Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Hicks have moved into Mrs. H. G. Cole’s cottage at 508 Law rence street. Mr. and Mrs. John Graham Sullivan are spending a month in Atlanta with Mrs. Berta Meador Swift. Miss Ruth Elmer has returned to Atlanta after a visit with Misses Adele and Mollie Setze. Mr, and Mrs. Metcalf will spend sev eral weeks visiting friends before go ing on to their home in Ohio. Mrs. W. H. Kaelhofer has returned to her home in Cincinnati after a visit of several weeks with Mrs. W. F. Law. Katherine Lucile is the name of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Feagin's little daugh ter, who came South with Santa Claus. Mr. Charles Newell, of Kentucky, 1s spending a few days with his mother, Mrs. George Newell, at the Whitlock House. Mrs. Frederic Schoff, president of the National Mothers’ Congress, is a cousin of Mrs. H. G. Cole and visits her whenever she comes South. Mr. Ed Gilbert has improved the house on Whitlock avenue next to Mr. W. F. Law’s very greatly and has put in city water. Mrs. Dan Anderson will join Miss Laura Page and Miss Lollie Shuford, of Gastonia, N. C., in Atlanta and go with them to New Orleans for Mardi Gras THE MARIETTA JOURNAL AND COURIER Ty COBB COUNTY'S.. . O TEEEPHONES Cobb county has more telephones, in proportion to population, than any other county in the State and also a greater number of exchanges. There ir'e exchanges in Marietta, Acworth. Smyrna, Austell, Roswell and Powder Springs, and farmers' exchanges at Lost Mountain, Blackwell's, Camp Ground, Terry's store, and one, just installed, at Macland. From each of these exchanges lines extend to houses near by, The city has 500 telephones, there are thirteen farmers’ lines, two lines to Smyrna, on which citizens of Mari etta do not pay, and four lines to At lanta, over which the charges are very moderate and the service fine. Long distance operators here are the busiest workers imaginable. They not only have to talk incessantly, changing the subject often, but use both hands with wonderful rapidity in filling out cards with pencils, making wire connections and manipulating the two levers of the calculagraph. Did you ever see one? It is a running clock with its face upon the ledge of the exchange near the long distance operator. As a con versation begins, a slip of paper is placed under the face of this clock and the right hand lever is pulled forward, thus marking the exact time. As the conversation ends the left hand lever is pulled forward to mark the time so a record is accurately kept. Names are filled in with a pencil. During the cotton season there are two long distance operators constantly busy as bees, but they do not buzz nor hum. They speak distinctly, rapid ly and with an intonation showing they are “sitting up and taking no tice” and expect you to do likewise if you are at the other end of the line Talking to Atlanta from Marietta is as easy as talking across a dinner table. Mr. Homer McClatchey is the man ager of the telephone system in which Marietta is included, and Mr. H. E. Kile is the wire chief. The Marietta Exchange is in the Reynolds building, on the second floor, and is a comfort able, quiet place, Mr. Kile and Miss Dora Sroufe, chief operator, are in charge of the exchange. There is a rdom, next to the operating room, in which the young ladies rest and refresh them selves. They also go to the front bal cony, overlooking the park, for a breath of fresh air, or down to one of the drug stores for a cool drink dur ing their fifteen minutes of rest from volleys of “helloes.” Each girl can attend to 200 phones, but Mr. McClatchey is arranging the exchange now so two more operators can be added, thus relieving the others to a greater extent. Misses Lillian Webb and Jennie Feagin are the long distance opera tors, Miss Flora Reed and Miss Rosa mond Beshers are the night operators and relieve each other. Miss Mary Harrison and Misses Ellie and Lizzie Kincaid are the day operators. Dur- ing the busy morning hours these faithful giris often sit constantly at their wearing work. If one does not seem attentive enough in replying to your calls, just remember they are not mechanical dolls nor angels sojourn ing on earth, but human beings, more or less like yourself, and the surest way to get the best service from them is to set an example of rectitude in speaking vourself, The telephone girls do not often have time to say, “Speak up, Ike, and 'spress yourself,” but they have at times replied to my call for certain numbers by saying, “She’s gone to At lanta."” Miss Sroufe had four years' expe rience before taking charge of the Marietta Exchange. She keeps rec ords by a system of cards, relieves operators who are indisposed or ab sent, and attends to the company's correspondence. Mr. McClatchey's office is on the first floor of the Anderson building, and he has Miss Scott and Miss Mell | to assist him. At this time the Tele-| phone Company has Mr. Rivers, from | Atlanta, preparing a very greatly im-| proved directory of subscribers ‘ It is wonderful to think of the im-| provements in telephoning, but to go! into an exchange and see the miracu-! lous contrivances to perfect the work-, ing of metallic vocal chords, that must | never rest nor hecome hoarse, strikes | even a woman dumb and deaf to the. explanations of her scientific com-| panions. For instance, there are du-; plicate pole changers, two complicated and delicate machines under big glass, covers—but what is the use of li.~4reningj to talk about positive and negatlve; poles, volt-meters, instruments by which an electrician can locate trou ble on the wires? A sight of those wires, cables, meters and the never-[ ceasging electric motor that keeps the! corrent alive, like the breath of life in'; our owm bosoms, brings to our minds | the first words sent by Morse over his| telegraph wire from Washington to Baltimore: “What hath God wrought!” We can not stop at that thought, however, in contemplating these marvels of electricity, but every one goes away wondering what will man discover and accomplish next. | But the greatest thing in the world, without which telephones even would shrivel into silence, is the devotion of brave souls to duty. Automatic telephones whose con nections are made by turning “hands” like those on a clock to the desired Our Hearts are in Our Homes The Family Hearth, The Sound of the Words Are Sweet. They Suggest Affection, Peace And Comfort -~ ot o 4 4 ng RUGS are a great necessity for the beauty and comfort of a home, in fact no home is coms plete without them. I have just added a new line of Rugs to my stock. 9x12 Japanese Matting Squares at each...... 53.50 Think of a covering for your whole room, a pretty one too, for only $3.50 BRUSSEL RUGS 3x6 feet in Floral and Oriental designs. This rug wusually brings $4. Hence the saving of a dollar for you by selling them at $2.98 Nothing adds more to the ap pearance of a well dressed woman than her neckwear. I am show ing a nice line of Collars an d Jabots, in the newest patterns. Despite the fact that]anua(rjy is the quietest month in the year for merchants in the Dry Goods business, my last month’s saKzs were very satisfactory, thanks to my friends and customers, I ask a con tinuance of your liberal patronage, offering in exchange for your money, a nice, clean, up to-date-line of Dry Goods. —_———————_—_-'-———-—“__—“ CHAS. F. WARD GRIST'S OLD STAND number are in use in some places. The Marietta system has been im proved recently, at great expense, to prevent inconvenience to the sub scribers, and we do not see how peo ple manage without ’'phones. They certainly almost annihilate time as an obstacle to messages. From Marietta thirteen farmers’ lines go out in various directions. : One day last summer a Marietta familv were speeding into the country in a big automobile when it suddenly stopped, with a punctured tire, direct ly in front of a house. The owner of the car ran into the house and phoned to a garage in town. In a few min utes a cloud of dust appeared in the distance and then a little gray auto came forward like a moth flying to ward a light, and the trouble was soon over. If a serious acccident had hap pened the phone would have brought relief, and possibly have saved a life. In conclusion, Miss Dora Sroufe says many people insist on trying to call up numbers during a thunder storm, although a plain warning is on each phone against such a thing. It really is dangerous to use a phone‘ when lightning is playing hide and seek in the treetops and dancing alongf the wires. So beware of telephones | when it thunders. ! Arc | G 0 RIGHT AT IT, Friends and Neighbors in Marietta Will Show You How. (et at the root ol the trouble, | Rubbing an aching back may re lieve it, | But it won’t cure it, i You must reach the root olit-thel kidneys. | Doan’s Kidney Pills go right at it Reach the cause; relieve the pain They cure, too, Marietta people say. Mrs. M. A. White, 104 Reynolds street, Marietta, Ga, says: ‘‘l am glad to recommend Doan’#s Kidney Pills to anyone suffering from kidney trouble. This complaint had bothered me for some time and caused the most intense pains in my back, especially gevere in the morning and at times | could scarcely 5t.00%; Doan’s Kidney Pills, procured at W. A. Bams’ Drug Store proved a blessing, for in a short time they restored me to excellent health,” For sale by all dealers Price soc, Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States Remember the name— Doan’s—and take no other, . L. FA W S — New Fall Goods are now arriving. Please note the following: Choice Evaporated Apricots, . . 20¢ Ib. Fancy Evaporated Peaches, . . 15¢ 1b Good Evaporated Peaches, . . 10c Ib. Fancy Seeded Raisins, . , 15¢c pkg Something New— Toasted Rice Biscuit . . . 10ec pkg Fancy New Crop N. 0. Syrup 75¢ Gal. Finest Imported Molasses, for Cooking or Table use ......75¢ Gal. BEST OF GOODS, BEST OF SERVICE “* - Prompt “Auto” Delivery Two Phones--Both No. 20. W. J. BIL. AU INDERTARER EMBALMER oo FINERAL DIRECTOR Neic md Wone B Cows, Ao i GALLS ATTENDED DAY OR NIGHT PHONES | Simeessaie™ { lAHIH};—G—A.— SAILOR COLLARS with Tie attached, in light blue, dark blue and red, each ciskie i DUTCH COLLARS in French and Eyelett Embroidery, by far the daintiest collar you ever saw, BRI Ladies’ Embroidered Stock Col lars, very pretty and just the very thing for the working girl. We have them in all sizes, Ils¢ Embroidered Jabots and J abotg in Persian effect; very pretty and stylish. You never saw anything prettier or more stylish at the price. We have put these ties on sale at each . . ... .25¢ Page Five