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TBMBSDAT, JANUARY j 1M7
Jouuia Mill News
Melkm OflFers U.S.
His Art CoIlecti<^.
Former Secretary of Treasury
Woiild Present United States
Masnnificent Gift. Also Funds
To Build Gallery. .
GddviUe, Jan. 1.—Mr. and Mrs. Itoy
Boyce and aoiit Bobby, Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Boyce and daug^iters, Claudia
Mae and'Ellen, spent the holidays in
Sumter.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Odell and son,
Harol^, and Mrs. Alma Odell spent
last week with Mr. and Mrs.fRkymond
Odell in Fort Mill.
Misses Nell and Edna Hanup spent! People of the United States his
the wejk-end with their sister, Mrs. jpificent art collection togrether with
Washington, Jan. 2. — President
Roosevelt announced tonight that An
drew .W. Mellon had offered to the
W. T Wright, in Spartanburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Kay and
daughter, Nell, of Draper, N. C., spent
the holidays with Mrs. Kay’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Mack Blakely. Mrs. Kay
and Nell are also staying this week.
funds fog a gallery to house it in
Washington.
The collection has been offered to
the Smithsonian institution or to the
United States government for the
, benefit of the people. _
Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Templeton andi The offer was transmitted to Pres-
•on, Bobby, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Boyce Roosevelt, who Snformed Mr.
and daughters, Claudia Mae and El- j Mellon "that he would submit the of-
Jen, spent the hcdidaya in Sumter. | fer to the attorney general and to
Miss jSar^e Attaway, student nurse congress with ♦ favorable recommen-
at the i^neral hospital in Greenville, ftatinp at the first opportunity.-
spent Saturday with her mo^^r, Mrs. jjellon art collection has been
J. H. Craft. < conservatively valued at close to $50,-
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Blanton, Mrs. E. 000,000. In addition to the valuable
S. Jones, Sr., Miss Sarah Jones and! (.o]]e^tion of paintings Mellon has of-
Miss Edna Jones, all of Spartanburg,
were guests of Rev. and Mrs. E. S.
Jones during the holidays.
^Marion Hair of Belton, and Mr. and
Mrs. Hoyt Nobles and small son of
Newberry, spent Christmas day with
Mr. and Mrs. W. *W. Hair.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Martin spent
fered funds of epproxiniately $9,000,-
000 that the collection may be suit
ably housed.
He stipulated in making the bffer
that the gallery should not bear his
name.
The Mellon collection comprises
some of the most valued treasures of
Sunday^with Mr. and Mrs. Walterjf,he art Worid owned in America. A
Wright in Spartanburg.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Delaney and lit
tle daughter, Kitty Jo, Mrs.' BeUlah
Addison and Tom Addison spent the
holidays in St. Petersburg and Tam
pa, Fla. "
Mr. and Mrs. James Dendy and
little daughter spent^ the tiolidiy^^ in
Savannah, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Carr and chil-
<lren spent the week-end with rela
tives in Gaffney.
W. W. Cole of Ware Shoals, spent
the holidays with his daughter, Mrs.
£,. H. Poag. ’• ’ ^
Marvin Tucker was called to Rock
ingham, N. C., Monday on account of
number of the gems of the collection
were obtained by Mellon frOm the So
viet government in .sales of art treas
ures of the old imperial regime.
Mellon stipulated that the gallery
should be known as the NationiU Gal
lery of Art, under such name as might
appropriately identify it as a gallery
of art of the national government to
which the entire public should forever
have access.
He informe<l the president that
John Russell Pope, architect of New
York, would furnish designs for the
building to he subject to the approval
of the commission Of fine arts.
The scope and plan of the building
the illness of his brother, Thomas present developed by Pope
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Mrs. R. Tucker, Mrs. Woodrow Tuc|c-
_ er and son spent the holidays with
relatives in Huntsville, Ala.-
— Charles Chapman and Denny Cly-
boum of Greenfield, Ohio, are spend
ing a few days with Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. Chapman.
Mias Flora Tucker of Enoree, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Rolfe Hughes.
Mrs. Beti Dean and children, Ru
dolf aivd Dorothy, and Miss Edna Ow
ens visited Mr. and Mrs. James Dean
in Columbus, Ga., during the holidays.
Leroy Upton spent Christmas with
hie father in Phoenix City, Ala«
J. W. Snvith spent Ohristmas with
, hia parents in Pepperell, Ala.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Long And
•^children of Columbia, visited Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Boland during the holi-
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Mr. and Mrs...goss Baxter and little
daughter of Spartanburg, spent
Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bax
ter. ' ^
Mr. and Mts. Edward Kay and son
Fxlward Coker, visits relatives in
Pelzer during the holidays. >
Mr. and Mi's. A. D. Barron and lit-_
tie daughters spent-^e-* holidays in
Savannah, Ga. /
Mr. and M ra. R/ L. Lanforrd were
called to Woodri^ Sunday on account
of the death oy Mr. Lanford’s uncle,
I Frank Hanna
Miss Safii^Osbome spent the week
end in Laurens.
Mr. ai^ Mrs. J. L Brown and son,
Mr. an^Mrs. J. C. Brown and son of
Spart^bUrg, and Mrs. J. S. Norris
of Clinton, were Sunday guests of
My and Mrs. W. R. Brown.
^rs. Sallle Brown is spending a
few weeks with Mr. an<l Mrs. James
Lovelace. ’
Mias Margaret Warren visited her
sister in Charleston during the holi
days.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Rowland and
daughter, Juanita, and Mr. and Mrs.
Mason Rowland and daughter, Fran
ces, spent the holidays in..Walhalla.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C^per and daugh
ter of Oswego, N. Y., are visiting
Mrs. Cooper’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Dub^. > ;
(Ma Boawell spent Cluriatmas with
hJa'p^nts in Elberton, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Buchanan and
0OOW visited Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Buch
anan in Swannanoa, N. C., <ioring the
week-end.
would call for, Mellon explained an
estimated expenditure of $8,000,000
to $9,000,000.
The* White Bouse tonight made
public the exchange of letters be
tween Mellon and Mr.- feoosevelt. The
first was written by Mellon December
22 and in it he set forth the desire to
give away his art collection subject
to approval of his plan.
The president replied December 26
and said that the was ’’not only com
pletely taken by surprise but was de
lighted by your very wonderful offer
to the people of the United States.”
December 31 Mr. Mellon wrote sub
mitting details of the plan of hie gift
and the president replied under date
of January 1, in which he said that
he was referring the plan to the at
torney general and representatives of
the Smithminah institution and ex
pressing the belief that enobling leg
islation would be worked out.
Mellon’s offer to the government
came as a complete change in his
previously indicated "plans for dispo
sition of his collection. More than a'
year ago he had announced his inten-
lion of building a gallery to house the
Elect Officers
On Tuesday evening the Joanna
Girls' club elected the following offi
cers Anr the coming year: Mias Mar
garet Sample, president; Miss Jessie
Mae Gaskin, vice-prerident; Miss Ed-*
na Hamm, secretary; Miss Naomi
Hsdl, treasurer.
Couple Married In Alabama
Miaa Dorothy Dean and Leroy Up
ton, both of (^Idviile, were marri^
in Phoenix City, Ala., on Sunday, De
cember 27. The young people are
making their home with the b^e’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Dean, on
Toronto street
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Mies LoU Able of Newberry, and
Ed Warren of Goldville, were married
Tluiiaday, December 2^ at the home
of the oxidating minister, the Rev.
cAa. Calcote, in Newberry.
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Mka Louiee Marehaot af tiw Borfi
Bim communthr, and Oaiein MeNdl
OaidfiHa, vegee laarriad Thnriday,
at ike home of the of >
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pictures in Washington—but it was.to
be separate and distinct from the gov
ernment collection in the Smithsonian
institution.
The Mellon collection comprises
about 100 paintings, many of which
never haye been placed on display in
this country. They have been stored
in museum valts here awaiting the
building of a suitable gallery.
The collection is rich in rare Italian
masters.
He has unique works by Giovanni
Bellini, Botticelli, ’’Adoration of the
Magi” he purchased from the Hermi
tage collection of Leningrad*for $838,-
000; Pietro Perugina, repreeented by
his ’’Crucifixion,” which cost Mellon
$201,250, also from the Hermitage
collection, and Basttianp Mainardi.
Mellon’s two prise Raphael Sanzios
cost him about $2,000,000. His ’’Alba
Madonna” he purchased from the
Hermitage cq^ection for $1,116,000.
His ’’Niccolini Madonna” cost $875,-
000.
Mellon’s “Toilet of Venus” by Tixi-
ano dwt $650,600. His “Portrait of a
Lady” by Bernadino Luini is almost
equally valued. Another valji^le pic
ture in the Mellon group is Jan Van
Eyck’s “Annunciation," purchased
Xrom the Hermitage for $517,000.
Other works represent. Van Der
Weyden, Bane Memling, Van Dyck,
Rembrandt, Frans Hals, ^ Antonio
Mbro, Jan Jermeer, Pieter De Hooch,
Hans Holbein, Nicolas Lancret, FVa-
gondrd, El OheCo, Velasquez, Joshua
Reynolds, Gainsborough, Rommey,
Raeburn, Gilbert Stuart and Jolm
Trumbull.
ficiating minister, Rev. C. C. Vaughn.
BaptiU Ofncers Named
The following were elected as offi
cers in the Woman’s Missionary so
ciety of the Baptist church for the
coming year: Pi^ident, Mrs. W. W.
Hair; treasurer, Mrs. John Feltman;
secretary, Mrs. Ralph Stroud; person
al service chairman, Mrs. W. C. Gard
ner; mission study chairman, Mrs.
Glenn Carr; chairman of literature,
Mrs. Sallie Craig; local treasure.rt
Mrs. Dan Martin; ^isCment, Mrs. E.
L. Thomas; program chainhan, Mrs.
Roy Odell. .
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