The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-16
MEETING OF
 MAGAZINE CLUB

Friday afternoon, Feb. 14th. the mena- bers of the Magazine Club were charm insly entertained by Mrs. H. M. Hobbie Each member had been requested 10 bring an original valentine and the lnique request served to insure an un- usually full attendance.
 fbe afternoons pleasures began with a beautiful piano solo by Miss Hodge. one or the clubs visitors. Mrs. Patterson then read a paper or Benjamin West and his great picture, Christ Healing the Sick" which was much enjoyed.
 Miss Davie read a paper on "Litera- ttIre," and. owing to the absence or Mrs' 1ardaway, her paper was read by Mrs. Lodvard. It was Homers "Iliad" and Odyssey" and Virgil's "Aepeid."
 This closed the regular program for the afternoon. and then the roll or mem 5ers was called and each member rose md responded with an original valentine. Taken altogether. these formed an en- tertaining collection of papers, being written in every mood, from grave to gay. and many of them beautifully H. ustrated.
 Miss Griffin, on being called upon for valentine, replied in her inimitable style with a serio-comic defense of the "Gib- son Girl versus Mrs. McQueen's quaint Steel Engraving Lady,"
 When Mrs. Patterson's name was called he sang My Valentine" which was so enjoyed by the ladies that they clamored Cor more and a sweet lullaby was the re- -ronsc.
 The members were then invited to the lining room, where lovely sight greeted he eve. In the center of the room, be- heath a cluster of lights. was table Scautifully decorated with red and white carnations and maiden hair fern. The centerpiece was a heart of maiden halr fern. and from each of the four corners of the table to the chandelier. was a dreamer strung with crimson hearts.
 Clusters of these hearts hung here and here. caught together with crimson Iov- ~-s' knots. All the candelabra were -haded with crimson, and the idea of hearts and flowers was carried into the ofreshments. Altogether the room look d Ike a bower of Cupids. and the feast vas dainty enough to serve to the fas- idious little god himself.
 Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the af- .crnoon, and the club adjourned to meet with Mrs! Browder, February 18th.
 The following is clipped from The Butte tMontana) Inter Mountain. and it will. 10 doubt, be read with interest here and elsewhere in the State:
 Death of Mrs Mary Mcclure.
 There died in St. Louis on Wednesday of this week one of the noblest women f the South, Mrs. Mary Mcclure. the Hged mother of Col. Charles D. Mcclure fl Philipsburg. Montana. No gentler, lovelier, more gracious or more generon7 woman ever gladdened home or raised T family to do credit to her name than Mrs Mcclure. Up to the very time Of her death at the great age of 92 years he was in the full possession of her 'aculties. Her life was a benediction. and in all the States of the South where he had endeared herself to all the peo- ple there vii be sincere mourning be- ~ause the end has come. She was a -ort of godmother to the society of the Daughters of the Confederacy. to which not long ago she gave s10.0O0 for char itable work. For years after the war her charities were most bounteous, and her whole life seemed to be devoted to the ben.fit of others in a spirit of self forgetfulness.
 Mrs Mcclure was well known and well beloved in Montana. In the early SO s she resided in Phlp burg with her son. and shared his varying fortunes with a calm confidence that bespoke her mother Iy pride. The people of Philipsburg will greatly lament her death. In all respects she seemed to them
 "A perfect woman, nobly planned