The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12


 Hugo and Carlyle" and on Friday afternoon the lectures will be on Emerson and Tolstoy, the entire series including most notable group. These lectures are entirely independent of the Lyceum course and tickets to tn em may be obtained from the principals of the public schools from the book de- partment of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb, and at the High school auditorium.
 For the last five years" wrote a Canadian critic, MT. Griggs has been the leading public teacher in America speaking day and night, winter and summer, in all parts of the country to audiences that have assembled to hear him. Each year the demand for his services becomes more persistent and widespread, until now there is no pros pect of satisfying 1t, and he Is con fronted with the embarrassing neces- sity of selecting from the mass of in- vtations, those fields of work that promise to be the most permanently fruitful. In his last series of twelve lectures in Boston, he had the largest audience that ever greeted a lecturer there. Many came from a distance of ten miles regularly once a week for three months, and some came from cities and towns sixty miles away. At the closing lecture, there were SOTO people present, every foot of standing room was occupied, and hundreds had to be turned away. These lectures were not popular in character, but on serious ethical subjects. His success In Boston was in no way un- like that in other places where he has spoken regularly--in New York, Brook lyn, Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburg, Louisville Toronto. New Haven and the multitude of smaller places that have been fortunate enough to secure him."
 Friends of pr. and Mrs. w. T. Berry will be glad to learn that their little daughter, Rebecca. who has been so i'll is very much better.
 Miss Emma W. Johnson has returned from Jack sonville. Fla, where she was bridesmaid in the Johnson Brown we'd ding.
 
 Of the engagement of Miss Hardwiek and Mir. Hill, recently announced in the southern and Washington papers, the At lanta Georgian says:
 MT S. H. Hardwick announces the en- gagement of his daughter, Algie Marjorie, to Mir Walton II. Hill. The wedding will occur at St. Johns Episcopal church, Montgomery. on the evening of Wednes- day, December il. Miss Hardwick is the only child of MT. Samuel II. Hardwick, general passenger traffic manager of the Southern railway, one of the most popn- lar, successful and widely known men in the social and business life of the south. Miss Hardwick is an unusually attrac~ tive and accomplished young girl, who since her formal debut a year or two ago has been greatly admired Last winter she was the guest for several weeks in Atlanta of Col anc Mrs. Ira Y. Sage, and during her visit to this city was the re- cipent of many charming social -cour- tesies. She has travelled extensively in this country and In Europe, and has made her home in Washington and in Mont gomery, dividing her time between her father and her aunt, Mrs. Ruth, of Mont gomery Mir. Hill is also d representative of a prominent Alabama family, and is young gentleman of much promise.
 Mrs. Homer LaGrand has returned to her home in Montgomery.
 Miss Jamie Head is the guest of her sis ter, Mrs. J. J. Christian, in Greensboro.
 Mrs. J. c. Breeding is the guest of Mrs. J. E. Breeding in New Orleans, Miss Flora Orr, who is in Montgomery to attend the Fitzpatrick -Mapes wedding, is the guest Of Miss Mary Mapes. The Boys club, chapter No 1, will meet with Mrs, George Blinn, Eleventh avenue, south, Tuesday afternoon at o'clock, by request of the president. All members are asked to be present, as MT. Putnam will give talk about the work here and what he saw while away this summer.
 pretty home wedding of much inter est, says the Anniston Evening Star, was that of Miss Marie Estelle Dorn and Mir. Ben Hill Orr of Atlanta, which occurred