Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-10
OUR. SOCIAL WORLD

(AlI Items of social Interest will be gladly noted in these columns if sent to Mrs. George c. Ball, Nineteenth street, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues. South High lands. Telephone 9SS)
 The Woman's Foreign Missionary union of the North Alabama presbytery will convene at Talladega in the First Presbyterian church Thursday morning, October B. at 9:3O o'clock. All the so cieties of the union are requested to noti fy Mrs. T. L. Plowman of Talladega of the number and names of their dele gates and hour of their arrival in Tala- dega. By order of the president, Mrs. James w. Lapsley.
 MRS. JOHN B. KNOX,
 Secretary and Treasurer.
 Rev. Owen P. Fitzsimons will reach Birmingham the latter part of this week, and will conduct the services at St. Mary's-on-t -the-Highlands next Sunday. MT. Fitzsimons left New York Tuesday for home via Savannah.
 
 Miss Bertha Gelders is now in Atlanta, the guest of her brother. She will be ab sent several weeks.
 Miss Sadie Hawkins, who has been vis- iting friends at Evergreen, has returned home.
 After spending six weeks in Atlanta, New York and Washington city, Miss Oracle Lido has returned home.
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 Mrs. P. Sid Jones has returned from a protracted visit to Lakewood, N. Y.
 Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Jordan of Little Rock, Ark, are the guests of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. B. D. Gray at their residence on Twenty-frst street.
 The Pelham Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy met yesterday after noon at the home of the president, Mrs. Joseph F. Johnston Several matters of importance were discussed and arranged. It was decided to have the regular monthly meeting of the chapter to occur on the afternoon of the second Monday in every month. Mrs. Joseph F. John ston and Mrs. Wilbur Brown were select ed as delegates to attend the convention to be held in Montgomery this month to organize state division of the Daugh- ters of the Confectionery. A committee consisting of Mrs. Willis J. Milner, Mrs. Fred Hardy, Mrs. R. D. Johnston, Mrs. N. B. Feagin, Mrs. R. H. Pearson and Mrs. George c. Ball was appointed to prepare the programmes for the month- ly meetings. It Is designed to have pa- pers bearing upon the history of the years from lS60 to 1o6o prepared ana read, and also sketches of the brave men who won deathless fame upon hard-fought battlefields compiled and read by the different members at the meetings. The Pelham chapter now numbers sixty members. The chapter will meet next with Mrs. Willis J. Milner, 1921 Park av- enue, the second Monday in October. Misses Nina and Jennie Hood will leave today for St. Clair springs. Miss Mary Lucy Hamer of Hurricane, Miss, is visiting the family of Mir. A. G. Edwards on the South Highlands.
 
 Miss Fowler of Wilsonville and Miss Ray of Woodstock are guests of MT. and Mrs. H. J. Davis. 2509 Avenue H. The H. W. Grady Literary society was reorganized for the present season on Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Minnie Black on Fifth avenue. The president was reelected with these ad ditional new officers: Vice president Miss Reba Lewis; secretary, Miss Minnie Black; treasurer, MT. Ed Black; assist ant secretary, w. J. Morgeridge; assist ant treasurer, Miss Lena Cogbiil. The club will meet next with Mis-: Black. Yesterday afternoon at the residence of