Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-28
UNION SPRINGS.
Hymen Is Hustling-M Day1Town
 Talk and Personal Paragraphs.

Hymen Is Hustllng-Memorlal Day-ToWn
 Talk and Personal Paragraphs.
 Union Springs, April 27.-(Special Cor respondence.)- .)-Wedding bells rung life's greatest happiness for some of our young folks this week, and Madame Ru- mor has it that they will chime again ere long for one of our most popular - young couples
 The Ladies 1yceum has been fortunate enough to secure rooms in the basement of the Baptist church, in the most cen tral portion of the town, where they will establish their library. These young la dies have worked zealously for this very necessary institution, and our people should render them aid just now by do- mating books. Everyone could spare one or more books, and the aggregate would add materially to their number of books. Let us give them all the encouragement possible
 MT w. E. Holloway, very successful young attorney of the Capital City, was with us last week on legal business.
 At the last meeting of the Knights of Honor MT. J. o. Stahely, one of our most substantial business men, was elected to the important position of member of the board of grand trustees for the state.
 In a conversation with our tax col lector, he told me that while there was not a great deal of ready money in the county he was satisfied-and he has a llne ODpOIluUlly Ol JuQSl dS llt LTdNelS the whole county-that Bullock county had "hog and hominy" enough for this year. That he knew that there had been more corn made and more meat killed than for the last twenty years, and the best crop made at less cost. If the people could only have gotten 6 cents for their cotton they would have come out ahead. It is something, how ever, to know that our smokehouses will not be in the west this year, and if our 1n h Al for cotton and diversified their crops, we feel sure that the era of good times is daWning for us.
 Memorial Day is the one event of the year that is sacred and dear to the hearts of every suotherner especially the ladies. It is this day that flowers are scattered and strewn upon the graves of those who gave their lives for the glo- rious cause. Memorial Day was inaug- urated directly after the war, and as the years have grown deeper and deeper more decided has become the love of the women of the south for those who fought and fell under the stars and bars in de- fense of the southland.
 This year the day was beautifully cele- brated, the weather being lovely The procession was very interesting and at tractive, and the services unusually pleasant and impressive. Procession met at 9 o'clock at the Methodist church and marched to the cemetery in the following order:
 Carriages containing president and la dies of the association.
 Band>
 Military company.
 Veterans.
 Citizens generally.
 Local organizations.
 Children under charge of committee of ladies.
 Procession marched to the intersection of Prairie and East Hardaway streets and passed around the monument lately erected Soldiers saluted and children decorated with wreaths then up Prairie and on to the cemetery Entering the gates the children divided and decorated the mounds, and then the line of march was continued to the summer house, where the following programme was rendered.:
 Invocation.
 Hymn.
 Recitation-Miss Bette May Grady.
 Song.
 Recitation-Miss Alta Craven
 Dixie.
 Oration-Prof Charles l.. Boyd.
 Miss Bettie May Grady, a lovely young girl, was introduced by our grand mar shai Capt E. T. Randle, one of the bravest and best officers furnished py Alabama to the Confederate cause. Her recitation was rendered in a most pleas ing and pretty way, indeed. Miss Alta Craven delighted her audience with a most apropoS and gracefully written Se- lection by an absent brother. Her rem dition was flawless. Professor Boyd was then introduced in a most pleasing little speech by the marshal, and he charmed his audience with one of the most chaste, elegant and beautiful addresses ever voiced in the old summer house that has heard so many. His sentences were pol ished until the thoughts in them scintil- lated, and most truly did he verify the selection of the ladies.
 The benediction was then pronounced by the venerable chaplain, Rev. MT. Eley, who gave three sons to the cause, and the day was done. yet while memory thrills with the recollectionS of the soldier boy who died for the cause he loved, loving hands will scatter sweet spring flowers on the graves of those heroes who have passed on and are resting under the shade of the trees.'
 Miss Felix Boykin is visiting Mrs. s. M. Hogan in Montgomery.
 Miss Lula Tanner of Montgomery is the guest of Miss Mamie Paulk.
 Miss Woodie Weems of Flora is visiting Mrs. J. M. Martin.
 Miss Sallie Holloway of Geneva is with Miss Minnie Bickerstaff
 Miss Hood of Ozark will spend some time with Miss Lucille Frazer on South Prairie street.
 Miss Wilodene Frazer of the Tuskegee college is enjoying a short respite from study, but will return next week.
 It is hoped that MT. B. F. Wilson of Dawson will meet with success in his eff fort to establish a telephone system in our city.
 EUTAw.