The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1917-08-10
BUSINESS PHONE
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'A'AAS All dSnlnglOn, New York
Atlantic City and other places of
interest in the east.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry DuPre and
family left Sunday for trip to diff
ferent parts of Canada and from
there will go to Los Angeles and San
francisco, California.
Mrs. Julia Barnes and son, John.
of Houston, Tex, and Miss McLain,
of Long View, Tex, have returned
to their homes after a visit to Mr..
and Mrs. E. H. Northcutt.
Mrs. Copper and Miss Constance
Copper have returned from a visit to
the Dixie Camp in Willy, Ca, and will
leave soon for Saluda, S. c., paying
visit to Spartanburg, on their way.
Mrs. George Christian and little
son and Miss Helen McTeer motored
from Etowah, Tenn, to visit Mr.. and
Mrs. c. N. Nell, last week, and Miss
Evelyn Nell and Miss Marguerite
White returned with them and will
remain there for a visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph E. Brown an
nounce the birth of a daughter on
Sunday at the home of their parents,
Gov. and Mrs. Brown. She will be
named Douschka Holcombe for her
maternal grandmother and is expect
ed to be as beautiful and as dear as
her sister, Dolores.
First Lieutenant Frank B. Clay, of
company c., Seventeenth Infantry,
has been promoted to be a Captain. He
is son of Mrs. Alexander Clay,
of Marietta, and was graduated from
West Point in 1911. He spent some
time in the PHILIPPINE Islands and has
been with the Seventeenth since 1914.
Corporal H. w. Nash, of the U. S.
M. Corps, is spending some time
with his sister, here, Mrs. J. B. Cox.
After serving three years in the army
and four with the Marines, he is very
anxious to reenlist. Mr.. Nash had
some experience of battle when the
U. S. had trouble with Mexico. Was
in several skirmishes around Vera
Cruz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adrian Cortelyou,
Mrs. P. R. Cortelyou, and Miss Mabel
Cortelyou, Miss Georgia Hunt, Miss
Elizabeth Nolan, Miss Dorothy Ste
phens and Miss Elizabeth Stephens,
Mr.. Joe Peck Legg and Mr.. Paul Read
formed party that motored to the
soldiers camp Tuesday evening. Miss
Elizabeth Nolan has an uncle, Mr..
Burwell Atkinson, who is out there.
Captain Grayson Heidi left Atlanta
Thursday for San Antonio, Texas,
with party of 38 telegraph opera
tors and clerks to join the aviation
corps there. Among them was Mr..
Edward Simpson, son of DR.. and Mrs.
J. H. Simpson. Mr.. Simpson has liv-
ed all his life in Marietta and is
very popular in society. He will con-
tinue to keep books and will not
be on the firing line which is a great
comfort to his friends.
Mrs. NJ D. Hodges complimented
Miss Blondine Cooper with picture
show party Wednesday afternoon in
viting some of Miss Cooper's init
mate friends, Mrs. Will DuPre, Mrs.
Len C. Baldwin, Miss Irene Malone,
Miss Mary Robson, Misses Hooper
and Frances Wikle, Miss Eloise
Barnes, Mis- Regina Rambo, and her
two guests, Misses Marie Barnes, of
Fredericksburg, Va, and Rebe Stan
differ, of Blakely, and Mrs. John Che
ney. After the movies they went to
Hodges Drug Store for refreshments.
The tables were decorated in crepe
myrtle and the color scheme of pink
was carried out in the ice course.
Pink ice cream and cake iced in pink
being served.
A brief letter from Miss Pauline
Commerford to let us know her new
address has a few other items of in
terest to her friends. She writes:
II am in the War Department and of
course at this time the work is ex-
tremely interesting as is Washington
itself. 1t is no small nor easy matter
this Government has to care for and
make ready the boys who have to
fight our battles for US. 1t makes
one swell with pride to see the minute
preparations the Government is max
ing for the care and comfort of each
individual soldier. The work goes
on night and day. have no time
to write at length now-am too rush
ed. This is merely to ask you to
change the Journal to our new ad
dress. We have a very pretty little
house here on the road to Chevy