The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-09

Caroline. oo arles Edward Dowman' Jr.. of Birming. l. the marriage to take place on the evening of March 25 at home.
 The wedding ceremony will be witnessed only by the families and very intimate friends, and small reception will follow. 4 pleasant social interest will center In the event. and it will be anticipated py series of entertainments.
 Miss Westmoreland is a young woman of rounded character and culture, and a musician of real talent and attainment. Graduating at the Girls High school, she continued her education at the Woman college Baltimore and since her return she has figured prominently in musical and social life, while her fresh beauty and charm attracts always admiration. pr. Bowman is the son of pr. c. 10. DOW man of Atlanta, and he has many warm friends here. Educated in surgery at Johns Hopkins. in Baltimore, he com pIeted his practical studies in German and Parisian hospitals and he is located now in Birmingham where his success is al ready recognized.
 An enthusiastic meeting of the auxiliary to district nursing was held on Thurs day morning at the residence of Mrs. T. G. Bush. The work, now well established, is receiving the continued support of the public and is one of the most important branches of philanthropy in this city. The auxiliary proposes to enlarge its work, and plans were discussed at this meeting that will enable the auxiliary to become still more active in this greatly needed charity.
 officers for the ensuing year were elect ed as follows: President. Miss Annie l.. Williams: first vice president, Mrs. M. o. Elel1iel; second vice president, Miss Grace Smith; secretary, Mrs. T. A. Ham, ilton; treasurer, Mrs. Gertrude Davis.
 MT. Walter Moore, Jr., left the past week for Tucson Ariz. He was accom- panied to New Orleans by his father.
 Miss Rosa Bains is visiting relatives in Mississippi.
 Of the tea given by Mrs. Frank Wood ruff. formerly of Birmingham, but now residing in Atlanta, in compliment to Mrs. R. D. Johnston of this city, the Att 1anta Georgian says:
 Mrs frank Woodruff entertained in- formally at her home on Linden street on Friday afternoon.
 Mrs R. D. Johnston of Birmingham was the guest of honor, and invited to meet Mrs Johnston were a number of Al1dnld peOpic Wllt WNlC Aoi HSAiS Birmingham.
 Miss Woodruffs decorations were pink carnations.
 Assisting her in entertaining her guests was Miss Clara Fitch of Louisville.
 Those present were Mrs. Johnston Mrs. Galloway, Mrs George Hardy, Mrs. Rob- ert Cunningham, Mrs. Robert Wetmore, Mrs. George c. Ball. Mrs. Hugh Lokey, Mrs. Fred Laxton, Mrs. James Campbell and Miss Thomasson.
 The impetus given to school improve ment work by the enthusiastic meeting of Birmingham women the past week in the palm room of the Hillman means crusade in Jefferson county for the bet torment of rural school houses
 Mrs Richard Randolph. president of the Jefferson County association, is going over the situation carefully. She has collect ed, with the assistance of Mrs. J. D. Matlock and the organizations working for the improvement of school houses in the rural districts. vast amount of sta tstics. She will be glad to furnish cir culars giving suggestions for forming as- sociations, and she desires to call atten- ton to the following extracts which are taken from a paper which was prepared by Miss Juliet Craig, and which sets forth her experiences in teaching in rural school. She says in part
 After separating the children and grad ing them as well as we could by a judi cious system of overlooking much lack of preparation, we managed to organize the primary department into two classes, a chart class and a second, third and fourth reader class. Miss Centerfit grap- pied with the children from the fifth reader to those 21 and p years old, al- though, of course. their standing did not correspond with their ages. In the early days, while the attendance was still small, from S:30 o'clock to 9:30 o'clock gave me plenty of time to take, the children on