Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
DINNER HERE ON
GEORGIA DAY
FOR 1900
GRAFT Feast Of Home Grown Prod
ucts Will Be Spread at Audi
torium November 10.

= meeting of Atlanta merchants
and manufacturers to arrange the de-
rail Of the local celebration of Geor-
ga Products Day on November Is has
been called for Thursday afternoon by
.ue secretary OF the Atlanta Chamber
e commerce. 1t is proposed 10
svread a monstrous feast, with seats
for about 1900 persons, at the Audi
,orium, where the menu that wins the
prize offered by the State Chamber OF
commerce will be served.
Fifty young ladies selected from the
various girls colleges about Atlanta
will act as mattresses, and incidental
". inasmuch as they will all be Geor-
gia girls, will form a fascinating ex-
Iibt of Georgia beauty,
Nothing but Atlanta and Georgia
viii be in evidence at the banquet
Everything there to eat will be Geor-
gia- grown, and every word uttered by
he speakers will be in eulogy of the
Empire State. The details will not be
July announced until after to-mor-
rows meeting, but it is proposed to
make the banquet the biggest thing
ever held in Atlanta.
t4aden Finds Much interest
Charles J. Haden, president of the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce, re-
turned to Atlanta Wednesday morn
pg after a whirlwind tour of the
state in the interest of the organiza
lion He declares that Georgians
throughout the State are manifesting
great interest in Georgia Products
Day"
Everywhere ! went | found great
enthusiasm and a spirit that should
bring great results declared Mr. Ha-
den. There will be not less than 200
Boost Georgia" banquets on No
vember 10. I found proclamations
being issued by Mayors all over the
State, experimenting the one issued
by Governor Slaton, and in many of
the towns mass meetings have al
ready been held and committees APP
pointed to arrange for the banquet.
Many of the counties are planning
to make the day an occasion for the
display of their county products. For
instance, at Gainesville, the county
seat of Habersham County, | was told
That the banquet at that place will be
sraced by a menu of more than zoo
dishes, every item of which win be
grown in that county Many other
oOunties expect to follow the same
plan.
At most of the hotels at which |
stopped I was told that arrangements
IRE being made to serve a Georgia
dinner on that day
Whole State Enthused.
The menu contest is attracting wide
attention. and housewives and epicures
from all parts of the State are send
irs in their ideas Of what a real Geor-
ga dinner should consist.
Here is one of the menus received
from a contestant in ChathamBGbun =
chatham County oyster cocktail or
grapefruit. turtle soup, tomato bouil-
ION, terrapin stew, sweet peach pic
kles, celery, mixed pickles, baked
'rout, corn pone dressing, sailed pea
nuts, roast turkey chestnut stuffing,
Georgia rice. giblet gravy. boiled
Brooks County, ham, prime rib of
roast beef, roast goose, white potato
dressing, possum, baked sweet pota-
-oeS, rabbits, roast pork, 'Irby' tur-
HipS mashed (Bartow County,; roast
r1iCken, quail Uowndes County May
naW jelly), creamed onions, corn Gu
shaw baked in shell, string beans,
Salads, artichokes. asparagus and pep
ncr salads. lettuce with cream dress
ing, coleslaw, buttered beets, sliced
'omdtoes: desserts. apple pumpkin
and sweet potato pie or potato pone,
butter sauce, peach or strawberry ice
rfeam, pound cake, John B. Gordon
AXE, crackers, pecans, English and
black Walnuts, apples
The following menu was prepared
by J. Lee Barnes, president of the
Atlanta Hotel Mems Association. who
VIII send it to the hotels of the
larger cities of the State, such as At
ianta, Savannah, Macon and Augusta,
with the request that it be used on
Georgia Products Day"
oysters on half shell. cream of
1lcken, white plume celery, young
onions, Hastings radishes, broiled Sa-
Fannah River shad, shoestring pota-
toes, praised sweetbreads, prime ribs
'i Georgia raised beef brown gravy,
roast young turkey. chestnut dress
~ mashed potatoes, steamed rice,
asparagus on toast lettuce and toma-
10 salad, hot rolls and egg bread, Met
'opolitan ice cream, assorted cakes,
peach pie, cream cheese, tea flake
orackers, roasted coffee, sweet and
'uller milk, mixed nuts, cigars, Gig