Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-24

Tenor solo--Mr. Orr. Night Song"-Club. Soprano solo-Mrs. Lowensohn. Quartette.
 Good Night, Beloved"-Club The concert begins at 8:30 and will fin- | ish at 10 o'clock Extra dummy service will be ample to take care of everyone. | The hours of the lawn party to be given next Tuesday for the benefit of the Third | Presbyterian church at the home of MT. | and Mrs. John s. Going, Fourteenth i street. South Highlands, are from 4 to | 10 o'clock D. m. All friends are cordially | invited to be present,
 At the South Highland Presbyterian church the following programme will be rendered this evening: . Violin and organ (Raff). "Cantati Domino" (Warren) "All Hail the Power" hymn "Where'er You Walk" (1andeD. | Scripture reading.
 T Waited for the Lord" (Mendelssohn). l Prayer.
 Angels Serenade" Braga). | Address by Rev. R. V. Foster. | "Jerusalem" (Parker). | Prayer.
 .'The Evening Bells" Oysberg). | Benediction.
 | Miss Gockel, organist.
 The following very quaint and unique l invitation has been received. It is well | printed upon cotton bolting and is par 1 ticularly attractive and pretty l "A cotton invitation from lodge all i wool and a yard wide. Complimentary l to John Donahoo, grand chancellor of 1 the grand domain of Alabama. We take | pleasure in inviting yourself and ladies l to attend a musical and social entertain
 ment to be given by Phenix Lodge No. l 25, Knights of Pythias. at their castle hall, Wednesday evening, June 5, l o'clock sharp. O. G. Cummings, M. Ed
 Linnehan, H. M. Austin, Emil Lesser, A. J. Marks, entertainment committee" |
 | Mrs. Eula Griffin of Atlanta is visiting
 her brother and his family, 2164 Highland avenue.
 l Two hundred invitations have been is l sued by President Mcleod of the Bir- | mngham Cycle club and Chief Counsel l Tor Stradford of the League of American | Wheelnien of Alabama to the opening | dance at the Bycyclers' Rest. Thirty ninth street and Fifth avenue near | Avondale, under the auspices of these | organizations. Cyclists are highly elated l over the interest these gentlemen have l taken in their future welfare and pleas | ure. Aat The friends of Mrs. J. J. Watson and her sister, Miss Kate Cumming, will re- l gret to learn of, the death of the former. 1 She died at her home in Clifton on the l 20th instant. She was the widow of l Capt. Gavin G. Watson, Confederate l States army, and daughter of the late l David Cumming. She was member of
 the Church of the Advent She leaves son, T. o. Watson of Mobile, and l daughter, Jessie Watson. The remains
 were sent to Mobile for interment. **
 The ladies of the Southside Baptist church will have a bazaar early in the
 l autumn at time not to conflict with
 l any other entertainments or enterprises. .r- s* Bc l The Highland Book club will meet next l Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock with l Mrs. R. D. Johnston at her home on
 l Twelfth avenue, South Highlands. l=s.
 l Mrs. Frank Gates of our city, whose l nom de plume, Jessie Rose" is familiar | to many magazine readers, has just had | published at Buffalo, N. r., a very pretty 1 ballad, "The Flowers We Gathered Long | Ago." The music and words are both by l Mrs. Gates, and the song is attractive
 l musically and is an excellent specimen
 l of the printers art. Professor Grambs and his orchestra will play Mrs. Gates 1 composition at the Chautauqua at Tal-
 ladega.
 There was a recitation on "Childrens l Day" by little Warren w. Kennedy that
 has been highly complimented. Some | body's Mother" a sad story in rhyme, was made very impressive and distinctly l repeated. Some were in tears when the
 little fellow finished.
 Next Wednesday evening, the 27th | instant, from to 10 o'clock, a trolley ride will be given by Miss Gelders and | the auxiliary of the Mercy home for the 1 benefit of the day nursery, which these 1 noble women are laboring so faithfully 1 to establish. The party will go out to | East Lake and enjoy the beauty and music of this popular resort for short while, then return to the city. Refresh ments will be served on the lawn A | large number of the high school pupils and their friends will go on this trolley | ride, and the party will start from Sixth avenue and Twentieth street at o'clock D. m. A cordial invitation is extended | to the public Miss Gelders requests the refreShment committees to meet Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock at the high school building to arrange for the ride. As troll l ley parties are so popular and this one is given for such a good cause, the car should be crowded on Wednesday even- ing next. asfAN Quite a npvel entertainment is in pro- cess of arrangement for next Friday aft ernoon (the 29th), and one which promises to rival in beauty and general interest any ever given in Alabama. This is the beautiful bicycle carnival, which will take place at the ball park, on First avenue and Seventh street. Bicycle riding is no longer regarded as a fad or an amusement. It has taken first rank as a means of physical develop ment and most healthful exercise. All over the country physicians of the high est standing are prescribing the wheel instead of. physic, and. the bright eyes and rosy cheeks of the merry riders we meet bear strong testimony to the wis., dom of their advice.
 What lovely spectacle there shall wait us when hundreds of decorated wheels, happy riders, music and colored lights shall be. gathered into bit Of fairy land of which we have not be- fore had even glimpse The programme opens with grand march on wheels, in which all of our. local wheelmen are requested to take part It Will be. led by Master Henry Grey, as captain of a company of small wheelmen. "A number of young ladies as captains are getting up companies. and the one who joins the parade with the largest and handsomest company will |