The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-31

of the earthquake in Italy.
Postofflce Clerks Banquet-The post
office clerks will give their annual
banquet at the Morris Friday night,
January
New Years BaIl.-The annual New
Years ball of the Birmingham Trades
Council will be given Thursday evening
at Gelder's hall. J. B. Drake is in
charge.
Mr., LoveIady Dead.-Dr. r. F. Love
lady left yesterday for Cullman, to
which place he was called by the death
of his father, S. C. Lovelady. The de-
ceased was 7S years of age.
Post ID Banquet.=Post B, Traverels'
Protective association, will banquet on
the evening of January Q. President
S. P. Moore and Secretary e. L. Hig-
don are arranging for the affair
Fine Residence Permitted.-A build
ing permit was Used yesterday to c.
L. Rich ards to erect two-story brick
veneer building on Twenty-fourth street
between Tenth and Eleventh avenues,
south, the building to cost $4,000.
Mrs Shirley Scalded.-Mrs. Thomas
Shirley. wife of the well known desk
sergeant of the police force, severity
scalded her foot yesterday at noon by
overturning a kettle of boiling water
She was resting easily last night.
At All Saints Church.-All Saints
church will close the old year with
evening prayers and sermon by the Rev.
w. M. Claybrook, rector of st. Mary
church, Thursday, December 81, at 1870
D. M, Twenty-ninth street, between
avenues Il and q.
Watch Night Services.-The members
and friends of the First Methodist
church are all invited and urged to at
tend a watch night service. The meet
ing will be held In the basement of the
church, The service will begin at 10
p. m. and close at midnight.
Want AvondaIe's Taxes.-Mayor Ward
announced yesterday that the city of
Birmingham would continue to accept
the taxes of Avondale, and that in case
Avondale was declared not a part OF
Birmingham, the taxes would be re-
turned to the payers of same.
Postoffce Holiday Hours.-The fol-
lowing are the hours to be observed
by postoffice employees on New Years
Day: All departments save the money
order and registry will be opened from
to 10 o'clock a. m. There Will be Two
carrier deliveries In the business sec
ton and one in the residence section.
sympathy for SufYerers.-Tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock, In the Macca-
bees hall, there Will occur meeting
of those who desire to express SYM
pathy for the sufferers from the earth
quake that has killed thousands in
southern Italy. The Italians of this
district are greatly moved. for many of
them lost friends and relatives.
Trust Company Banquet.-The Br
mingham Mortgage and Trust company
held it's annual banquet yesterday aft
ernoon at the Morris hotel in honor of
c. r. Porter, president of the State
Mutual Life Insurance company, and
Fred Averatt. agency manager of the
same, both of Rome, Ga. About 20 men
were present at the banquet
Y. M. C. A. Night SchooI-The en-
rollment for the winter term of the Y.
M. c. A. Night school, which begins jan
uary A. is the largest in the history
of the school. The association is con-
sidering the increasing of the schools
facilities. as at the present time only
a limited number of pupils can be &C
commodated.
May Eat Meat Friday.-The Osserva-
tore Romano, the official organ of the
vatican, publishes a permission granted
by the holy father to the faithful all
over the world to eat meat on Friday,
the Feast of the Circumcision. The
Tablet, the foremost Catholic paper In
the English language, promulgates this
permission. 1t is further to be OBJ
served that Thursday, the eve of the
feast is not fast day. Masses at st.
Paul's New Years Day at g., 7, and
8 o'clock, the last a high mass, fol-
lowed by benediction of the blessed
sacrament