The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-14
NEWS OF CENTRAL CITY
MONTGOMERY LADIES SELL
 TICKETS TO LECTURE.
People of Selma Respond Libsrally, and . Good Sum is Raised for the Confederate Sol
 diers' Home.
Advertiser Bureau.

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 Selma, June 13:
 The Montgomery ladies. Misses Carrie Jones. Elizabeth Sayre. May Allen and Miss Wilkerson. chaperoned by Mrs. George w. Jones' were being escorted over the streets of Selma this morning by committee of Selma ladies and they sold a great many tickets to the Bob Taylor lecture for the benefit of the Sol diers' Home at Mountain Creek. The ladies exercised zeal and tact to raise money for the old Confederate soldiers home.
 Superintendent Hall of the Suburban and Street Railway, gave Mrs. Jones . ticket for her and the young ladies in her charge and they rode over the city and sold tickets evcrywhere they went. Colonel Robert Cunningham, who mar ried Miss Everhart of Montgomery. paid the price of a ticket, and remarked as he did so: You ladies are entirely too modest" When they got back to the ho- tel Mrs. Jones found this note at the clerks ofice: k.#
 Selma. Ala, June F, 1902. Mrs. George w. Jones,
 Dear Madam-Kindly accept the en- closed small contribution to the good cause in which you are working-the Con federate Veterans Home. | chanced to meet one of your young lady co-workers this afternoon and gave her the amount asked for. but feel that must supple mcnt 1t.
 Respectfully,
 Robert Cunningham"
 When Miss Wilkinson went to Con. Griftins place he asked the price of tickets and when told said he would tako two. Roland Jordan took two tickets and said he would buy two more if his wife had not already bought. Jack Hay ward invested S2 and George Phillips ran hundred yards to give Miss Wilkinson a dollar.
 Rabbi Levy gave them dollar as soon as he found out what they wanted the money for. John Bragg Beers gave g. Men went down in their pockets most cheerfully and on all sides there was T disposition to help along the good cause. Mrs Jones and her bevy of lovely young women managed the sale of tickets with q great deal of discretion. They were as jolly set of girls as was ever gotten to- gether and all Selma has fallen com pletely in love with them. They made everybody feel good by the genial, pleas ant, modest manner in which they asked for money and only one man, and he a stranger in Selma, was at all rude to them. They attributed this man's rude ness to a lack of proper breeding and thought nothing of his boorishness.
 Mrs. A. W. Cawthon and several other ladies put their carriages at the disposal of the visiting ladies from Montgomery and went around with them and assisted in every way in their power to help them raise money. Mrs. John A. McKinnon. SO full of generous impulses. helped along the good cause, as did Mrs. Harry Peacock, Mrs. Will Peacock, Mrs Otto Ehart and other ladies.
 Along toward noon today the young men who had bought tickets stuck them in the bands of their hats or in their vest pockets. where they could be produced quickly when a young lady came toward him.
 The l.. D. c. and Camp Jones. Confed- crate Veterans, will both take steps in their own way later on to help out this good cause. In the meantime, the com- mittee of men in Selma to whom Colonel Falkner addressed the letter to look after his girls when they came over, are more than gratlfied at the generous manner in which Selma treated them.
 One of the visiting young ladies suffered a painful but not serious accident while here. She was in a tobacco store endeav bring to dispose of tickets, and laid her hand carelessly er cigar cutter. The machine is automatic and as she pressed on spring. the blade came round and cut off small piece of the end of her finger It was replaced and will soon be we'll