The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-01
TUSCALOOSA.
Alabama Central Female College
 Opens With Large Attendance.

Tuscaloosa, September 30.-(Special.)- J. The Alabama Central Female college opened this morning with the brightest future it has ever known. Before the time for the opening exercises, the alum nae hall was filled with well wishers of the institution. Splendid talks were made by Mayor William c. Cochrane, Rev. ". S. Lowery of Warrior, Rev. R. B. McAlpine, Rev. l.. o. Dawson, and Dr. B. F. Giles, president of the institu- tion. Immediately after the exercises, the work of enrolment began and since that time the teachers have been busiy engaged examining and chasing the pu- pills. The number of boarders will reach fifty and by Monday there will probably be sixty-five or seventy boarding pupils, almost every county in the state being represented.
 At a recent meeting of the Kent club an organization composed of law stu dents, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President w.. Hawkins; first vice-president c. 1T. Young; second viee-president, c. D. crenshaw; critic, J. A. Carnley; marshal, w H. Hawkins.
 
 Mines to identify William Johnson, a ne- gro who has wanted here for murder for, the past six years. Johnson is charged with the murder of the young daughter | of Wess Jackson, who lived about six or eight miles from the city Johnson 1 left his wife and ran away with the girl, whom he afterwards robbed and shot with a double barreled shotgun, after wards throwing her body on the railroad 1 4,. ,Ir rIa A was made for him, but to no avail, until Monday, when as a gang of Bibb county conviets were passing through the city, Johnson was identified as one of the number.
 l All arrangements have been completed 1 for Tuscaloosa's Free Street Fair to be held October 12 to r, and the prospects are that it will be the most successful 1 fair ever held here.
 Miss Irene Cox of Montevallo has ar rived in the city and taken charge of the dress-making department at the Tusca- l loosa Female college. The attendance at 1 the college is daily increasing, and the session promises to be one of the most successful in the history of the institu- 1 tion. The boarding department is com | posed of most excellent young ladies, be- l ing representatives from five different l states.
 | The lp-tO-Ddle cluD nelu us 1lfSt meet l ing of this year with Mrs.aC. H. Barn well, at the University. Monday after noon. This year the club takes up fic- l tion writers. and continues it's study of 1 Shakespeare's plays. There are to be | two lectures delivered this year, one by I President John w. Abercrombie of the l University and one by Dr. l.. O. Daw- | son. pastor of the Baptist church At the meeting Monday afternoon. the resgna- tions of Mrs Walter Gulley and Miss l Alice Wyman were accepted. Mrs. Ida i S. Heidt and Miss Malssa Wyman were | elected to fill the vacancies. l J. A. Ogburn has returned from Mont | gomery, where he went to visit his | daughter Mrs. Joseph Lee Holloway. | Mrs George Cruikshank of Birming- | ham is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Wal | ter Gulley.
 Payton IT. Moore has returned to Bir- mingham. Mrs. Moore will remain in the city several days longer as the guest of the family of Capt. A. E. McEachin | Miss Ethel Shipp of Americus, Ga, who has been the guest of Miss Alice Gluck for several weeks past, has returned to her home,
 Mrs. R. B. Bell formerly Miss Lula. Ward of Jacksonville, Fla, is visiting her parents MT. and Mrs J. NJ Ward
 Miss Marilou Aston has gone to New York to resume her studies at St. Mary's school.