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UNION SPRINGS HERALD, UNION SPRINGS ALABAMA PAGE FIV THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1938 DEABON-HIGHTOWER ORGANIZATION OF HORTICULTURAL CLUB AT CHUNNENUGGEE Friends will regret to learn of the illness of Mrs. E. C. Bledsoe at her home in Armstrong. Mrs.

Sexta Strickland and daughter, Mrs. Alton Corbett of Atlanta were the week-end guests of Mrs B. L. Perry. Mr.

and Mrs. J. M. McKay and Mr M. McKay, are leaving early Sunday morning, for Decatur to attend the graduating exercises of Miss Lettie Warren McKay from Agnes Scott College.

SOCIAL, LOCAL AND CHURCH NEWS Mrs. T. U. Baskin, Editor, Phone 14 Mrs. Omer McGhee of Alexander City, Mrs.

George Holmes of Birmingham and Miss Nell Moore of Washington, D. are at home for the graduation of their sister, Miss Octavia Moore. Miss Maude Gbolston who is house mother at the Alpha Gamma Rho House at Auburn, is at home-for the summer vacation. The marriage of Miss Dorothy Mae Hightower, daughter of Mr. J.

H. Hightower, of Inverness, and Alabama is to be congratulated Mr. William Henry Deason, son that the book of the first secre-of Mr. and Mrs. Q.

P. Deason of O' of the Chunnenuggee I-lorti-Inverness was solemnized at the) 1 cultural Society, which contains Parsonage at Perote, May 8th, atthe minutes from its organization, 2:00 oclock. The wedding cere- March 0, 1847, up to May, 1853, mony was performed by the Rev. I has been treasured through all J. P.

Peacock of the Methodist the passing years for purely sen-church. Only the family and a few i tlmental reasons by Mrs. W. close friends were present. The Couper, the youngest daughter of bride wore a costume of light blue Mrs.

Homer Blackmon. The Heralds part-time devil Sanford Ellis, joined the ranks of the Swolled Jaws, Wednesday and is at home with his face looking like a full moon. CAR LISLE-EL LIS HONORING LUCY FEAGIN Mrs. A. M.

Shelamer is leaving tomorrow for a visit to her home-folks at Norfolk, Va. Among the 367 students graduating from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute this week was Mrs. B. G. Mantel who received her 8.

in Home Economics Education. Mr. and Mrs. L. T.

Lee, I and little son, Tennent III, have been spending a few days this week with Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Caldwell, before going to Tuscaloosa, where Mr.

Lee will complete his course for the M. A. degree at the University of Alabama. with navy accessories. Immediately after the wedding the bride and groom left for Washington, D.

where they will make their home. Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock and Mr. H.

D. Hitchcock, motored over to Auburn Monday, for the graduating exercises of Billy Hitchcock, from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. We arc glad to note that Mrs. T. P.

Stroud, who is ill at Gorgas Hospital in Birmingham, following an operation, is some better this week. On March 6, 1847, a group of men and women met to form this society and R. H. Powell became the President and Thacker Vivian Rutherford, the Sec. Pro-Tern.

After a very extensive research, which has been carried on in an effort to locate the first Horticultural Societies and Garden SOCIAL COURTESIES FOR BRIDE-ELECT Of Interest to many friends was ithe marriage of Miss Bessie Ellis to Mr. W. F. Carlisle, which was solemnized Monday afternoon, May 30th, at the parsonage of the First Methodist Church, at Troy, Dr. K.

F. McGhee officiating. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Ellis, of Shop-ton, and for a number of years was a valued employe of the Birmingham and Southeastern Railroad Company.

Mr. Carlisle is a popular young business man of this city, a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C.

Carlisle, and is associated with his father in the mercantile business. Both young people have many friends who are extending congratulations and best wishes. Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle will be at home to their friends in the Woods Apartment.

Miss Louise Perry, of Eufaula, whose marriage to Mr. Charles G. May of this city, will be solemnized next Thursday, has been the Southern States, it seems to be Clubs in America, and after a thorough investigation through the archives of all our eleven Hes a Doctor (He Prescribes Oil Sometimes, But Never Pills) recipient of many social courtesies among them being several lovely showers. Other delightful parties have been given and are being planned for Miss Perry during the coming week. MRS LOWERY TELLS OF CHUNNENUGGEE GARDENS PIANO RECITAL isnt a medical doctor, but an electrical appliance doctor.

Electrical appliances, of course, seldom get out of order but occasionally they get minor 'aches and pains. Maybe a little skin gets loose from a wire, maybe a joint becomes disconnected or a fuse burns out. Perhaps a motor may need a little oil, or a plug on a lamp cord may need repairing. "My Companys appliance service men are general practitioners, and you can count on them to do a good job when you call them. "Of course, they are not the only dependable 'electric doctors in most towns.

Many dealers who do electrical repair work are just as good. 1 1 I i Many expressions of delight were heard as friends entered the Elementary School Auditorium, last Friday night, for the nostrum was certainly a picture, with its charming arrangement of lovely flowers. The occasion was the recital of the piano pupils of Miss Ruby Pitts, the performers looking like lovely flowers themselves, in their dainty frocks. The pupils ranged in age from the little bitsy girlies to the young, young lady, and each, inspired by the beautiful flowers, acquitted themselves very creditably. For several weeks our city has been honored by the presence of Mrs.

Lucile Cary Lowery, who has been visiting with the kinsfolk and renewing friendships made during her girlhood days, when the family were residents of this city. Since coming here Mrs. Lowery has been the guest speaker of the Garden Clubs in Selma, Eufaula and Atlanta, and has lelighted her hearers by telling them of the organization of the Chunnenuggee Horticultural society. The beautiful gardens of our town and community, express the love of the beautiful, of our people, many of them descendents of the Ridge Families, and feeling sure they would enjoy Mrs. Lowerys sketch of that fore the war garden we requested the privilege of giving it to you through the columns of the Herald, which she graciously concented to.

We hope yon will enjoy reading it as much as we have. "If your electrical appliances get out of order, call an electrical appliance doctor, or if you can, bring the 'patient to the store. Office calls come a little cheaper. REDDY KILOWATT Cabama (P otutn Comnariu. Electricity is CHEAP in Alabama D.

A. R. NOTICE On account of the Garden Pil primage to the Chunnenuggee Gardens site, the meeting of the John Cowper Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be held Thursday afternoon, June 2nd, at the home of Mrs. A. J.

Moseley. METHODIST NOTICE The June issue of Hollands Magazine carries a charming picture and a most interesting article featuring Lucy Feagin, head of the Feagin school of Dramatic Art in New York in a series of sketches on Southern Personalities. Among lots of other nice things Hollands has this to say of Our Lucy, whom we all love and honor. When the New York League of Business and Professional Women, cooperating with seventy other organizatons, selected Lacy Feagin as one of the twenty-five most outstanding career women of America, the following paragraph concerning her appeared in a metropolitan daily: The Feagin School of Dramatic Art was started in the back yard of one of those old-fashioned Southern homes near Union Springs, Alabama. The stage was a piano box; the director was Lucy Feagin; the actors were her brothers and the children of the neighborhood.

When the New York League of Business and Professional Women, joined by seventy other womens groups, made its survey of the various fields of accomplishment in an effort to select Americas most important career women, it discovered that Miss Feagin school is the only dramatic school in New York established and directed by a woman. In 1915 she came to New York and opened a studio in Carnegie Hall, which was the heart of artistic activity in those days, just as Rockefeller Center is at present. With the declaration of war she temporarily suspended her New York classes and went to Washington, where she assisted in war work. She had a part in staging the great patriotic pageant reviewed by President Woodrow Wilson in Washington on July 4, 1917. Back in New York at the close of the war, she resumed her classes at Carnegie Hall.

For sixteen years she remained at Carnegie, until the success of her pupils brought so many applicants for class work that her quarters would not accomodate them. She took a building on Fifty-seventh street, where she stayed for six years. This past fall, in an effort to; give her students and clientile the best in professional, social, and cultural environment, she leased spacious studios in the International Building at Rockefeller Center. Under her supervision, the new quarters were constructed to include a complete Little Theater seating two hundred and fifty, with a professional size stage, a broadcasting studio, classrooms and scenery and costume designing studios, all embodying complete air-conditioning and good acoustics. At the present time, Miss Feagin has under her management a teaching staff of eighteen men and women, outstanding names from the professional stage.

The average enrollment of her school is three hundred. Because her fame has spread far and wide, students come to her from all parts of the United States and many foreign countries. Broadway theatrical producers have sunh a high regard for Lucy Feagin methods that they send emissaries regularly to observe her students. Talent scouts, seeking material for radio, screen, and stage, are always in the audience when her seniors give their plays. In addition to being designated one of Americas outstanding career women, Lucy Feagin should be heralded as a woman who has found the secret of continued youthfulness.

Perhaps the secret lies in her having found early the work she believes in and loves; or perhaps in the fact that her work requires forgetfulness of self and concentration on helping others The demands on her time are tremendous. Only a woman with splendid health and energy, with a deep enthusiasm for her job could work as she does, yet emerge so poised and radiant. OPELIKA GARDEN CLUB TO VISIT CHUNNENUGGEE GARDEN SITE FRIDAY Next Sunday morning, a visiting minister will fill the pulpit of the Methodist Episcopal church. The Union Service will be held at this church Sunday evening, with Rev. Stanford Parnell bringing the message.

MT. CARMEL SUNBEAMS A card from Mrs. Lucy C. Harrison, president of the State Garden Clubs, to Mrs. L.

C. Lowery, brings the interesting news that members of the Opelika Garden Club will make a Pilgrimage to the site of the Chunnenuggee Gardens, Friday afternoon. The cars will leave Opelika at one oclock, and Garden lovers of our town and' community are request ed to join them here and make the Trail with them. an undisputed fact that the first Horticultural Society, in the South was organized at Chunnen-ugee, Alabama, and that we may also be entitled to the distinction of claiming the first Garden Club, in the Public Garden established at Cliunnenugee the same year. At the third meeting of the Horticultural Society, in the evening of March 31, 1847, we find that, on motion of Dr.

Worthy, two resolutions on the subject of a Public Garden were passed, namely: Resolved that this society do hereby agree to lay out and build a public garden on Cliunnenugee Ridge. Second, Resolved that a Committee of six oe appointed to examine and lay out the ground and negotiate for the same. Whereupon the President, R. H. Powell, appointed a committee to consist of Mrs.

AViiliams, Miss Colton, Dr. Worthy, Mrs. E. J. Cary, Mrs.

Carter and Mr. James Horten. On April 9th, same year, at a meeting of the society, I find as follows: The Committee to whom was referred the arranging and laying out of the Public Garden, reported that they had selected a tract of land lying and being immediately before Dr. Powells residence, and, that they desire further time to confer with Dr. Powell, who is absent at this time, to see if the same can be bad by deed of gift.

Report of Mrs. E. J. Cary, Chairman. On the evening of Monday, November 8, 1847, there is recorded that The Committee reported that they had eonfrered with Dr.

Powell and the Doctor stands ready to make the deed of gift to file regular trustees appointed by the Society and their successors in office and said tract reverting to him when it shall cease to be used as a public pleasure ground. This tract consisted of five acres and, after being secured, members were asked to send trained negro gardeners from their estates to clear the ground and make it ready for planting, fifty-three able-bodied men responding. As can be seen by the minutes, the society grew larger and larger at each meeting, and many persons from near-by cities in the South were admitted to membership. It was decided however that anything shown for premiums should not be procured elsewhere than in the home garden. These activities flourished at Chunnenuggee until the South was Invaded by Federal forces, which left her prostrate and the struggle for even life itself almost too much for many of her citizens.

That the gardens at Chunnenuggee were once considered beautiful and the equal of any in the South, one has but to recall articles written a few years ago by Miss Lucy Wynn, of Clayton, and the descriptions of our mothers who were reared there. These facts were brought recently to the attention of the State Federation of Garden Clubs and were received with great enthusiasm. They are eager to place a marker there, dedicating this spot to those early settlers on Chunnenuggee, who were enlightened and progressive enough to have organized the first Hortl-plutural Society in the South. Does this not Inspire the Women of Union Springs and Chunnenuggee to emulate their example and organize a Garden Club to help keep alive these beautiful traditions of the old South as well as to cultivate the love of flowers among the generations to come? Lucile Cary Lowry. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WILL BE LADIES DAYS AT COHNS CLEARANCE SALE ON EVERY SPRING DRESS AND BEAUTIFUL DARK SHEER MARQUISETTES DIVIDED INTO 2 GROUPS If ti I It The Sunbeams met with Peggy Guthrie Friday evening, May 20.

The meeting was opened with the sunbeam hymn, Be a Little Sunbeam. Roll call was answered by seven, including a new member, Pete Chance. We had a very interesting program on Japan. Each member enjoyed coloring pictures whieh illustrated different parts of the program. Our leader, Mrs.

Beasley gave an interesting talk on Stewardship. The meeting was closed with prayer. The hostess, assisted by her mother, Mrs. T. M.

Guthrie served a delicious ice course. AUXILIARY NOTICE The meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Bullock County Post American Legion has been post poned to Friday, June 10th. ji 1 I Card of Thanks SENIOR CLASS NIGHT Members of the Senior Class of the Union Springs High School, observed their Class Night, Wednes-tkty evening, a full account of whieh will be given next week. I a 31 The members of the Bullock County Post American Legion Auxiliary wish to thank the merchants and other business houses, who were so generous with their eo-operation in the Cooking School held recently at the club house. The proceeds of this benefit event were applied on the equipment Fund of the new club house.

GROUP 1 DELIGHTFUL BARBECUE GROUP 2 0 Formerly Priced from $6.95 to $10.95 Your choice Miss Forrest Branscomb has returned from Alabama College. 1 ft A Formerly Priced at $3.98 to $5.95 Your Choice Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Irene Fitzpatrick entertained with a delightful family barbecue, especially for Mr. and Mrs. Dozier Fitzpatrick, of Los Angeles.

Mrs. George Williamson, of Tupelo, and Mr. and Mrs. J. C.

Willis of Birmingham, being also included in the honor. The Cue and all the delicious fixings were much WELCOME HOME A Have Eye Comfort $3.00 $5.00 lev rj We welcome home our teachers and the boys and girls who have been away at College, for their coming strikes a livelier note in the life of the community, maybe becanse they seem so glad to be at home again. And to the teachers who leave this week for their homes, we wish a happy vacation and return next fall. Defective eyesight la responsible for many ills of humanity many of the accidents that result in death and maimed bodies could be avoided If the eyes were performing their proper function. Let us examine your eyes.

Rosenstihl Registered Optometrist YOULL WANT SEVERAL AT THESE PRICES! CASH ONLY REMEMBER THE PLACE M. COHN SON Mr. and Mrs. E. 8.

Pugh, Mrs. A. M. Redd, Misses Jeanne Franklin and Jane Norton attended the graduating exercises of Miss Floyd Pugh from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. t' Mr.

and Mrs. William Dean Pierce and little son of New Orleans arrived yesterday for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L.

Pierce. Friends will be glad to learn that Mr. E. B. DeFee is convalescing nicely from his recent illness.

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