The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-02


Mrs. Samuel Stewart has returned from
| Eufaula.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Order are in New
Orleans.
Mr. Beach Chenoweth has returned to
| the Washington and Lee university.
In the group of musical favortes who
have contributed to the programme at
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Holland Lathrops
on New Years eve were Mrs. Truman
H. Aldrch, Mrs. e. G. Chandler, Mrs.
William Mudd Jordan and Mr.. Hugh
Martin. Mrs. Jordan and Mr.. Martins
accompanst in a charming vocal num-
Der, and in the Cycle of Indian songs,
by Mrs. f. G. Chandler, Mrs, Aldrch was
accompanist. She also gave two piano
numbers.
/ Mr. and Mrs Mark B. lewis, and their
children, Harold and Mildred, have re-
turned from Baltimore, where they passed
the holidays very delightfully."- with Mr..
Lewis parents.
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the Clionian club on Friday afternoon
at 2;30 o'clock.
Miss Belle Blackburn entertained at
cards on Tuesday evening. The house
was decorated for the occasion and the
20 guests were presented with artistic
hand painted souvenirs. The first prize
a gold stickpin was won by Mrs. Leslie
| Goheghan; the second prize, a box Of
stationery, was won by Mr.. Thomas
| coghil, and the BOBBY, was drawn by
Mr. Julian Motley.
| Norfolk Virginian-Pilot: Pennsylvania
reports surplus of sl2,OOOOoo in the state
| treasury. Better cover it with burglar
| insurance as protection against the ma
| chine gang.
Washington Herald: Buffalo has a
soap scandal and Boston is in disgrace
about bath tubs says the Savannah
| Press If Atlanta ever gets its pump
troubles settled, these three cities might
get together and clean up all their dirty
| linen.
Portland Telegram: What's the use OF
being rich if a man with as much money
as the late Mr.. Havemeyer possessed is
compelled to die of indigestion?
| Portland Journal: Some country eX-
changes are printing long arguments
! against the parcels post that have ear
marks of tainted news. supplied prob
| ably by the express companies.
| New York Herald: Man in Connecticut
| who shot himself because he suffered
| from cold proved beyond question that
| his remedy was effective. The best of
us, however. will continue to use old
! fashioned home remedies, or even new
fashioned patent medicines, when slight
| cold catches us.
Philadelphia Ledger: Germany is COM
batting sausage poison" by treating the
victims to serum. Why not treat the
/ sausage direct?
| Washington Post: One vaudeville per-
former has volunteered the information
| that when one is all alone on the stage
Is minutes seems like an hour Often
| the audience feels the same way about
| it, but is too polite to say so.
| Columbia State: Listen to your wife, -
! says Governor Glenn of North Carolina.
| All the time, governor?
| Dallas News: From a late standpoint
| it seems that the officers of the navy,
| both line and staff, need a good spanking.
! Louisville Courier-Journal: The Wilkes
| Barre boy who sells newspapers till 6
| o'clock, works in an office all day and
! goes to night school is both too good and
| too overworked not to die young.
| The Culture club will meet at ESQ
| Friday afternoon with Mrs. J. B. Head,
| at 1919 North Twenty fourth street.
| Miss Carrie Ullman, who is teaching
! kindergarten and doing settlement
| work in Dallas, Tex, is the guest of
Dr. and Mrs. M. Newield. She will re-
| turn to Dallas next Saturday.
| The Nineteenth Century club will
meet with Miss Helen Benners instead
| of with Mrs Sam Majors, next Wednes-
| day afternoon
| Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Scruggs are the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. George Will
| hanson, in New Decatur.
| Mrs. John Danforth, who has been
| spending some time with her mother,
| Mrs Cobb, in Montgomery, has re-
| turned.
| Miss Ola Andrews is visiting Mrs.
| I. N. Austell and Mrs. F. H. Pointer, in
New Decatur
Mrs. Stukenborg, who has been visit
| ing Mrs. c. L. Gum in Gadsden, has
returned.
Among the out of town guests at the
wedding of Miss Bessie McKeithen and
Mr. Thomas Hall Jackson, which took
place in Montgomery Tuesday evening,
was Mrs. Don n. Barber of Birming
ham.
Mrs. Hughlette Dewitt of Chatta-
nooga entertained with a matinee
party Tuesday afternoon in honor of
Mrs. Charles N. Nixon.
The executive committe of the Presby-
terrain local missionary union will meet
this morning at 10 o'clock at the First
Presbyterian church.
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SATURDAY HALF HOLIDAY.