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FAREWELL TO MRS. PEATTIE
Large Reception Tendered Her at the Commercial Club Last Evening.
Friends in the Sundown and Woman's Club Present Her With a Very Elegant Present.
W. H. Alexander makes the Presentation Speech--Nearly Five Hundred People Present--Decorations Graceful and Pretty.

The reception given Mrs. Peattie last evening at the Commercial club rooms by the old Sundown and the Woman's clubs fell not short of being an ovation.

The house and home committee of the Woman's club had in charge the decoration of the rooms which was graceful and ostentatious Palms and ferns arranged to form a background to punch tables, at which were seated the women of the committee. The line of receiving ladies was formed of ex-presidents of the club. Mrs. Peattie was received in a simple white gown and was very pretty, with a red rose in her hair. With her were Mrs. Towne, Mrs. A. B. Somers, Mrs. F. F. Ford, and assisting about the rooms were Mesdames Draper Smith, Hoobler, E. E. Bryson, F. F. Porter, B. F. Weaver, C. E. Squires, Frank Marsh, Wagner, Robson, J. J. Dickey, Alexander, Tukey, Keyser, Lyle Dickey, Mary Fairbrother and Summer.

MR. ALEXANDER'S REMARKS.

Before 9 o'clock the rooms were completely filled and nearly 500 people were present. At this time there was a lull in the small talk and Mr. W. H. Alexander in the following graceful speech presented Mrs. Peattie with an oak chest, gold mounted, of sliver for the table.

There are some good bys, from the sadness of which the heart never recovers. There are others weighted for the moment with sorrow, because of the ties they are breaking, which, spoken at the threshold of happier scenes, are really God-speeds in disguise.

When the anxious disciples were met on the Mount of Ascension, fearful of losing their Lord, they were cheered by the promise that his going away would bring them the comforter. These friends who are gathered about you tonight, and for whom I am speaking are prone to believe that you are standing on your Mount of Ascension, that your future is budded and waiting to blossom, and that some time soon we shall catch the fragrance of the opened flowers and rejoice in your new exaltation it does not seem very long since you first came amongst us and began, without ostentation, to impress upon this community a unique and delightful personality.

Gifted beyond most women, with conspicuous intellectual graces, you have awakened the interest and challenged the approval of the brightest minds in country. You have done more than this, forgetful of personal convenience, you have ever been ready for service in the church, in the school, in the club room, wherever your voice and your pen could be useful to others they have both been employed

FAREWELL TO MRS. PEATTIE
Large Reception Tendered Her at the Commercial Club Last Evening.
Friends in the Sundown and Woman's Club Present Her With a Very Elegant Present.
W. H. Alexander makes the Presentation Spech--Nearly Five Hundred People Present--Decorations Graceful and Pretty.