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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

summer at satftord Springs. Conn. Her daughter, Miss Minnie Reese Richard son. tn visiting friends here. Miss Co., reiye Richardscn. who since the close woscess ~ scsool has n been visiting frIends III in Stafford Springs later.
 Miss Lucy crenv,li. s,mpson ia wis., itins Mrs. John M. Bruner.
 Miss Mildred Andrews. Miss Florence Davidson and Mlss Lula Mcqueen have returned from Birmingham where they went to attend the Confederate re- union as maids of honor.
 Miss Ella Hargrove ssyre has gone
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 Captain and Mrs. Allen crenshaw. who have been spending two weeks guests of his parents, MT. and Mrs. C. D. Crenshaw at their home. s2 Virginia Avenue. Later they will go to their home in Andalusia.
 Mrs. HaitiwanEer and Miss Frankie guests or Of Mr. and Mrs. John Tuin..
 Miss weIIborn of Annistcn is visit
 Mir. Hanson TerraIi. of New Orleans. lS tn0 ku0tL UL nsH 8aAhs 1At"s b Burke. at her home op Sayre Street.
 Miss Margaet Browne. who went to Birmingham as maid of honor for the Tennessee Division. Sons of Confede- rate Veterans at the reunion. was tne guests of. honor at a dinner at the Country Club last evening.
 Miss Georgia saffoid. who Is visiting Miss Eleanor Mathews in Birmingham, will return home this .tporning accom- panied by Miss Mathews who VIII pc her guest for some time.
 Miss Ethel Saffold. of Washington, arrived last evening to be the guests of her cousin. Miss Georgia sanoid. ct the home of her parents. Mir. and Mrs. ". A. saffoid. Miss Ethel Saffold Is daughter of Mir. J. T. Sanold and a grand daughter of. the late. Colonel Edmond Harrison who was the Con- federate who rendered his home to President Jefferson Davis to be used as the White House of the Confederaey. She fs also the granddaughter of the late Chief Justice Saffold. This is her first visit to this place SO full of hie- toric interest to her.
 Miss Bessie Simpson. who went to BtrminFhau as sponsor for the Soi- dier's Home at Mountain Creek. and Miss Ida Parrish. who was maid or honor. have returned home.
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whose music numbers added greatly to the pleasure of those who attended.
 The board of control is composed of Mrs. Frank Fillmore, Manager; Mrs, Hos race Stringfsllow. Mrs F. Snyder and Mrs. E. L. Thornton.
 THE HoLYenEIcH
 OF LITTLE THEREsE. Caroline Calm was celebrated yes- terday afternoon at the home of her parents. Mfr. and Mrs. c. C. Calm. Eleven little children joined hands name three times. Afterward they en- joyed refreshments from table beau- tifully adorned in a plan of red and were Susie Baum. Susie Neuman. Louis Charles Neuman. Max Baum. Lois Op- penheimer. Myrtle Kaufman. Francis ogg Engle RSsa sr9S DEu% Moncrisf MaTss IN HONOR OF MRS. SEX
 TON AND HER PARTY. One of the delightful small affairs of the reunion in Birmingham was a dinner at which Mrs J. A. Rountree entertained at her home in honor of Mrs. A. c. Sexton and the sponsors and maids of the Alabama Division, Sons of Veterans. The party included Mrs. Sexton, Miss Sarah Warren WiIkerson. Miss shelby Patton nIs Miss Itpss Min4n BlaSk as chaperone for the sponsor and maids and Mrs Sexton. wife of Commander Sexton of the Division accompanied him and the young ladies.
 LAzENBY-FEAGIN.
 The following invitation has been re- celyed by friends in the ciey; ra5 Feagin Invite you to be present at the marriage of their daughter. Mary Elm ma to Rev. Marion Elias Lazenby, on o'clock. Methodist Church. Pine Apple, Aia Al Home after June 25. Industria Street. No. s2. Havana. Cuba.
 ENGAGEMENT or MISS CLOUD
 AND MIR. AVENGER ANNOUNCED. Mrs. J. J. Cloud, of Shorters, an ter, Sarah Rebeeca. to MT. J. Herman Ayenger of Montgomery. the marriage to take place on July II at g o'clock at the home of Mrs. Florence Fl. Cloud l5 East Jefr Davis Avenue.
 ENLARGEMENT oF MISS PIERCE
 AND MIR; VINCENT ANNOUNCED. Al nounce the engagement of their niece. Pauline Clifton Pierce. to Mir. Isaac Harvey Vincent. of New orleans, the their hcne at Robinson Springs.
 MOONLIGHT PICNIC.
 moonlight nSSsfSi pioSo of YGGRS E9Fsx eSsnps When the members of the F. F. B. Club were their guests. A hay ride to point Of, the WoodIey Road. where refresh nents were served was the program for the evening. The party was chap eroned by Mir. and Mrs. Albert Lord.
 IN HONOR OF MISS REIDs
 Misses Sallie Clyde and Eleanor Crum entertained q number of friends de- lightfully Friday evening at Electric Park in honor Of their guest, Miss Ida Reid of Dothan. The pleasures of the evening were a trolley ride to the park and a lncuheon there.
 HOME MISSION SOCIETY
 FERRY ST. M. E. CHURCH. The Home Mission Society of the Parry Street Methodist Church will meet promptly at 4;S0 o'clock Monday sIternoon Mrs. P. G. Adams,
 President
 Miss Willie Fuller, Secretary.
 Among the galaxy of beautiful and attractive official ladies at the reunion no one has been the subject of more att feutlon nor has elicited more admir- ation that Miss Sarah Warren Wilker- son sponsor for the Alabama Division. IInifadr Soma of Confederate Veterana
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

Friday evening by the members of the au! affairs of the week of the yosfeer yet. Mrs. c. Y. Bogacki and Mrs. Ne Dv.t r cam were the chaperones
 Lne grand march was led by Mfr. Harris Washburn, President of the club assisted by Miss Eleanor Crurn. and among the other dancers were:
 Miss Annie Warren Jones' Miss Jean Burke. Miss Clara Ellen Forbes, Miss plttenger, Miss Hudmon of Opeiika. MISS Holt. Miss Kate Halls. Miss Helen steiner. Miss Ellen Tyson, Miss Clara galloway, Mss Lillian Hill, Miss An- nie Danzieer, Miss Roberta Roberts. Miss Georgia Richardson. Miss Annie Anderson, Miss Wilton Reynoids. MIss Johnston. Miss Estelle HubbelL Miss Bessie Maddox. Miss Olivia BogacEi Miss Jean Mapes, Miss Clara Westcoft. MISS Willie Thompson. Mics Minnie Reese Richardson, Miss Evelyn PinIs- ton, Miss Eleanor Crum Mir Georne Leach Harris. Mir. Garside Harris. Mir Julian PeaEon, Mir. Harris Wasfburn. MT Jack Hastings, Mir. Thomas Holt MT. Watson. Mfr. Phones Fitzpatrlci<. MT. Alva Fitzpatrick, Mir. Lawrence Fierce. Mfr. Joe Persons, Mfr. Cherry. MT. Shelley Boykin, Mir. Tom Alley. MT. Bradley Alley. Mir. Henry Parrish. Mfr M- D. Eubanks, Mir. Robert Soueg. Mir. Harris Judge. Mir. Berryman Wash. Holt, Mrs Lewis Lasseter. Mir. George Miles, Mir. Fred Spann, Mir, A C gt,,e art, Mir. Frank Webb. Mr. W. F. To- seph, MT. Jean Suggs. Mir. ". B. Da- xidson, Mir Wiley Jones and Mir Wells
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14
FALCON CLUB PICNIC TODAY.

The members of the Falcon Club will entertain at a picnic today at Jackson's q Lake. Dancing and dinner will he the pleasures of the day. A number of visitors from other cities will be guests among them being: Miss Eva Bloom of Columbus, who is the guest of Miss Claire Hertz: Miss Algine Starr of Louisville, the guest of Miss Jessemine Rice; Miss Adelia Well of Evansville
 Ind. the guest of Miss Bessie Gladden.: Miss Hilda Levy of Demopolist tho guest of Miss Maude Strauss; Miss Lichpin of Pensacola. the guest of Miss Kate Steiner: Miss Leah Foster of Tuscaloosa, who is the guest of Miss Sadie Alexander: Miss Reba Markstein of Cincinnati. who is the guest of Miss Carrie Behr: Miss Sella Calmus of Birmingham. who Is the guest of Miss Maude Altman: Mir. and Mrs. Lee We'll of Birmingham. and Mr. Ike Gladden. of Selma, who are the guests of Miss Cad- den: Miss Irma Marks of Greensboro, who is the guest of Miss Florence Co.,. h en; Miss Shuster of Selma, the guest of Miss Lyra Meyer; Miss Cert Meyer of Selma. the guest of Miss Blanche MohF:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14
I IN S gOC I lE T "
SOCIAL CALENDAR

Sunday i4-Ths Falcon sv. picnic al 'a sPrins. sIs.ss Smith andssson
 
 New Jn'e at
 
 will take place at the Church Holy Com
 
 wlb at oi 17The msage of Miss Ada Mr and James shortsrs t v ns parents 17Nss Lillian Hil will dance Friday June will entertain of the entertain Monday June Standard Club viii, at DavidW ~ :. v - Tuesday. nnsriags 0f Henrietta ii and Mary Hll SIS South Street. - ~ - i ''s-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

David Well and In celebration of the day win he one of the most brilliant before her ma marriage Mss Roslna Mey' sr Their marriage took place in 'ss
 Mr; sna Mss E,lo c; Dix. who wsTs v { are yisitinE his parents Rev: and Mrs
 Di4 at shsir ,si hone. ne p,ns sls Fin1ss irass Hail and later they win return. to Louisville. where they will make their home MT. Dix is now State Secretary of the Y. M c. A. for Kentucky.
 Miss Francis Gay .Pearcs and Miss visit of week to friends. Mrs. F. H Fillmore. IT,. has return cd from a visit to Mir. and Mrs. R. A. Mitchell in Gadsden.
 MT. Donald McDonald of Mobile is the guest of his aunts. Mrs. William Berney and Miss Mary Mcdonald.
 Mrs. R, T. Ellison has returned from visit to reiatives in Atlanta.
 Mir. Douglass Mcqueen has gone to Sewanee to attend commencement.
 Miss Fannie Marks has returned from Mobile where she went to attend the Music Convention.
 Miss saIlie walker of Uniontown ls the guest of her sister. Mrs. c. s-E. Owen at her home on Court Street. Messrs. A. c. Davis and Bob Jones have returned from Greensboro where they went to attend commencement . spending the week in the city.
 Mrs. w. s. White and Mir Waiter the s.s city v ssVsrai s1srS days % have gone @ to to Clayton to visit friends.
 MT. and Mrs. !ohn T; walker. .s IT.; hsys are at home to their friends at s5S South Lawrence Street.
 The year books of the Ionian Club are ready and the members will find them at the Carnegie Library.
 Misses Christine and Louise Glass where they wen, to attend the confed- crate Reunion.
 Mir. Theodore Loeb of Huntsviile. Is in the city visiting friends. He will be guest at the Falcon Club picnic today.
 MT. Sol wertheimer. formerly of this city, but now of Huntsville. has been in In the city for the past few days visiting relatives While hero he will attend the Falcon Club picnic and the Krauss-strauss wedding. in the city He viii attend the Faieon Club picnic today.
 Mrs. T. r. Burns. of Loulsviiie, Ky. is visiting her sister. Mrs. Annie Fries, at her home 27 Heron Street.
 Mir. and Mrs, J. !. King and Miss Visiting ars MT NIT. and 1n 'i Mrs. T J. 5. Hudson, s is Clay Street.
 Miss Mcyoy ana Mrs. Haley. of Pen sacoia. and Mrs. Murphy of Mobile, are the guests of Mrs Ellen Fuicher. on
 Mrs. John c. seweIl left this morn ing for her home in Yazoo City Miss.
 Mrs; 4; c, Lnckie-. sr.. and little Mrs A. c. Luckie. Jr.
 Mrs. A. c. Luckie. Jr., ana children have returned home after spending a month with relatives In Pine Apple
 The many friends of Mir. and Mrs. the serious Illness of their little daugh- ter, Julia Mae.
 fa
 :, Mrs, Alice Fitts Hill is in New York: West 5sth Street. are visiting friends in Birininshainn.
 Miss Ida Reaid. of Dothan. Is visiting Miss Eleanor Creh at her home in
 Dr. A. H. King, of Tennessee, is vis- itinR his neice. Mrs. C. A. Newsom. at :, her home at Grandview.
 Miss Celestine Hfrscher, of Pensacola is visiting her aunt, Mrs. T. Newman, at her home. BOA Washington Street.
 Miss Leah Forster, of Tuscaloosa. Is spending few days with Miss Rica Alexander.
 Miss Eva Bloom Of Columbus, Ga, is the guest Of, Miss Clare Hertz.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14
A MOONLIGHT PICNIC.

A number of young men gaVe q u4oonifwht picnic Friday evening when the members of the F F, 3. Club were their guests. A hay ride to point on the Woodley Road. where refresh- nnents were served was the program for the evening. The party was chap eroned by Mir. and Mrs. Albert Lord.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

Mrs. r. !. Slough and children, Lfiiian and Bernard have gone to the seashore at some point in Mississippf to spend the summer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14
ENGAGEMENT OF MIss CLouD

AND MM. ANENGEN .ANNUUNOk1D'
 Mrs. J. J. Cloud, of Shorters. an rotinces the engagement of her daugh ter, Sarah Rebecca to MT. J. Herman Avenger of Montgomery. the marriage 10 take place on July 14 at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Florence H. Cloud. IS East Jeff Davis Avenue.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

The dance to be given by Miss Genie Burke at Pickett springs Monday even inR is in compliment to her visitors Anna Anderson, of Selma Miss Della Hudnan. of Opelika: and Miss Villa Reynolds, of Union Springs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

Mrs. J. T. Ogletree's friends will be glad to learn that she has recovered from the serious illness from which she has suffered from the past month:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14
ENGAGENTFNT OF MISS PTERCE

AND MR. VINCENT ANNOUNCED. Captain and Mrs. Hubbell Pierce an nounce the engagement of their niece. Pauline Clifton Pierce. to Mir. Isaac Harvey Vincent. of New Orleans. the marriage to take place on June 20 at their home at Robinson Springs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

Mir. and Mrs. Ben B. wiIlingham Of Macon are visiting Mir. and Mrs ". s. Payne at their home on South Court Street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

Mrs. Minnie Reese richardson, for- meRly of Montgomery. now of New York. Aa spending c portion of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14
TN HoN0R or MISS REID.

Misses Sallie Clyde and Eleanor Crum entertained q number of friends de- lightfully Friday evening at Electric Park in honor of their guest, Miss Ida Reid of Dothan. The pleasures of the evening were 8 trolley ride to the park and a lncuheon there.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

Mrs. Harry J. Pettus and little daughter, Margaret and Lnrline, are visiting Mrs. s. J. Pettus at Hope Hull.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

Mrs. L. T. Norris of Bingham, El- more County, who has been attending the reunion in Birmingham, is spend-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

Miss Nellie Smith, daughter of Dr. w. W. Smith, has returned from Farm vile, Va. where she has been attend ing the Virginia Normal School.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14
Miss Willie Fuller. Secretary.

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 Among the galaxy of beautiful and attractive official ladies at the reunion no one has been the subject of more att feutlon nor has elicfted more admir- atfon that Miss Sarah Warren Wilker- son, sponsor for the Alabama Division uniked Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

Miss Edith Aiken. of New Orleans. Is the guest of Misses Alice and Jean La- hey. at their home on Goldthwaite street. Miss Aiken has been for seVer- al days in Birmingham where she went as sponsor for the State Division of Louisiana sons of Veterans and for the local camp of Sons of Veterans of New Orleans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14
HOME MISSION SOCIETY

i' PERRY ST. M E. CHURCH.
 The Home Mission Society of the Perry Street Methodist Church will
 meet promptly at 4:S0 o'clock Monday Afternoon Mrs. F. G. Adams, FFeSioenS
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

Misses Nellie and Ruth Dix are vis- iting their grandparents, Rev. and Mrs. A. F. Dix, at their home. 41s Finley Avenue.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

Mss Mildred Andrews, Miss Florence Davidson and Mss Lula Mcqueen have returned from Birmingham where they went to attend the Confederate re- union as maids of honor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

Our 20 per cent discount RenoUal Sale applies on eUery piece Of SiluertUare in our store.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30

furtive movement. went to the door and
locked it softly as if ashamed of his act and
then returned to his desk, which lay official
document staring at him like an insoent visitor
His candid ewes had perused it in detail; for he
knew its significance. and it was like a death blow
to pride. He sat down. stiffy erect. and then APP
peared to droop slowly over until his wrinkled
forehead found rest his hand and elbow, and
even the white mustache. closely cropped above his
cieanly shaver chin, seemed to partake of his de-
lection
1t was there before him. the promotion of which
he had dreamed in his midship days. which entitled
him to fly his own flag Rear Admiral; but it had
come too late. Somehow, even though he had pic
tured its receipt, it the tangible call OF time
striking the bell ambition and the end of his
watch-the official decree of condemnation rele-
eating him to the ranks of the aged. like ship
thrown and sent to final moorings preliminary
to it's breaking up. He had not felt his age,-why,
he was a young now! He sat up sharply,
stretched out his arm and fingered his we'll preserved
muscle to assure himself that he was still in good
physical condition Why. he could show the young
sters something, though he was to be thrown
among the discards of the retired list! But the
document said in effect that he too old to be of
any further use tossed him the baube of promotion.
and in the phrasing ordered him to report
at Annapolis where than forty years before he
had studied his profession.
All! that was it, Forty years ago 1t hadn't
1 seemed so long. 1t like last season
that he had gone jubilantly forth into world of
thunderous guns of sangunary warfare and decisive
action to become a sailor in truth. How he and the
"other boys had worshiped the grim old Admiral
who but memory whose bronze figure
stood lifeke and still in the park of the great clan
gorous city. hidden there in the haze of the
morning! Even he had been retired but it was by
God and not by the young men OF the department.
Now he realized that he had always dreaded this
minute. He recalled the fierce utterances of
glorious youth when in the hot argument of the
ward room he had declared that if Heaven was kind
he would die swiftly in the splendid excitement of
battle with leapng, eNultant blood pumping through
his veins, and nothing but the smoke of the guns
obscuring the joyous sunshine. Oh! they were good
and valorous dreams to have come to naught and
leave him only this: old. old, man, Rear Adj
mra of the fare-you- well kind, to be mustered out
without having the blue pennant-his
pennant- futtering above ship! Empty honors-
and the scrap heap
He opened drawer in his desk devoted to the
security of his most personal things. slipped the
welcome paper into its Depths and closed it. trying
by the act to shut its unpleasant import from mind ;
but calendar perched above his inkwell glared at
him maliciously with sinister white eye and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
Drawings by George Gibbs
of The Vanishing Fleets

called the passing of time 1t thrust black figures
at him. one by one. to show him that in SIX weeks
only six weeks-he would be gone from its knowl-
edge. to return more than the days it symboized.
He erked his fatigue coat down with annoyance
and walked steadily out into the little world of in
dustry, where he still master: but for the first
time looked it with reproachful eyes sensing that
already those dumb inanimate structures, the half
completed huls, and the men who wrought among
them, longer regarded him as the foremost actor
on the stage of which they the setting, With
something of defiance in his alert stride he wandered
here and there still immersed in introspection
GOOD morning. sir, voice called. and he pulled
- himself together to answer the SalutatiOn of an
officer who seemed ridicuousy boyish and young.
Good morning. Mr. Hardy" he responded
grave1v. and then halted before trim steam cutter
that shone Respondent in its first smooth coat of
paint.
mice lines sir hasn't she? :" the boy went on with
enthusiasm. "That's the first of the model.
sir Ought to stand up we'll. Fine freeboard.
Make good sea boats. Why. could almost dare to
cross the Atlantic in that. sir!
1t was the voice of youthful pride prasing its
work. and thereby casting reflections on older ways.
The Rear Admiral harbored vague sense of I'M jury
for an instant but it diss pated by look from
the Young eyes that seemed asking his approval. He
fastened to CRAFTY the appeal.
yes" he said slowly. lit is a beautiful model"
He walked round the little craft. and almost
lovingly laid hand on the trim qulCk-Irer pldnteu
bellgerently in the bow. His glance travelled back
the boyish figure erect and supple in its new
uniform. No one could resist that smiling face on
which famed the triumph of first work
Il almost wish" the Rear Admiral said, THAT
she was first class batteship were to launch.
He emphasized the I'VE. and the boy bushed
with pleasure. But the rush of color was unnoticed,
because a whimsical turn of fancy had flashed
through the veterans mind. He laughed aloud.
Why not? His days about over. Was he not
master for six weeks? He entered into such state
of abstraction that the junior left him alone.
A Nd therein the beginnings of the singular
actions of the Rear Admiral that for time
threatened his downfall; but into which he entered
with reckless insouciant enthusiasm more BETTING
the youth he had left behind.
The congratulations of his subordnates received
within the next few days fell on deaf ears. He was
too busy with the great project that to terminate
his activities. He light hearted. He gay.
He dropped all unnecessary dignity He over
looked breaches of etiquette that in former years
would have unleashed the trenchant of his
tongue.
The old man is getting young again" the juniors
said with sly waggings of their heads. Hes glad
to leave the service, older suggested. But one