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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26

or broad Persian ribbons and exquisite lace. Miss Rushton was given yellow one. Miss Sadie Gillesp's is lavender. Miss Mary Longs is a delicate shade of lilac and Miss Lillian Moore's is pink. These trophies were supplemented by three other handsome prizes For the greatest number of games Mrs. Ledbetter gave brass bowl, and for the smallest score beautiful marble bust--Anne Hathaway-was the prize. The consola- ton was handsome parasol
 Those who took part in this beautiful hospitality were Miss Mabel Wheeock, who looked very chic in a kings blue chiffon frock with lace yoke and a blue poke bonnet crowned with willow plumes; Miss Mary George Greene in white flannel suit and white Billie Burke bonnet en- eircled with French rosebuds; Miss Ellen Linn Motion in light silk gown and large hat topped with white plumes; Miss Mary Myrtis Cook in white tailored suit and white picture hat; Miss Mary Long in black: Miss Lillian Moore in green Miss Sadie Gillespie in black chiffon over white and hat topped with white plumes; Miss Mary Ware in gray tailored suit and black bonnet; Miss Eleanor Matthews Tn tailored gown and black lace hat; Miss Mary Ruth McLester in white fiannels and small hat: Miss Margaret Latady, Miss Gladys Enslen, Miss Gamalel Dixon, Miss Elizabeth Dearborn, Miss Emma Leedy, Miss Emmie Barnett, Miss Myrtle Miles, Miss Roberta Adams, Miss Jewell Fulton of Texas, Miss Schwab of Nash vile, Mrs. Carl Seals and her mother, Mrs. Richard Clarke of New York, Mrs. B. l.. Wyman, Miss Emily Somerville, Miss Helen Eustis, Miss Mary George Cruikshank, Miss Evans of Georgia Mrs. Ben Moore, Miss Mary Campbell, Miss Belle Roberts, Mrs. w. G. Estes, Mrs. Harrington Hef1in, Miss Marjorie Wealth erly. Miss Vernon Marks, Miss Edith Bowron, Mrs. Harry Sims, Miss Isabel Caldwell, Miss LeMay Caldwell, Miss Ruby Munger. Miss Fern Minor, Miss Ella Cahalan, Miss Mary Callahan, Miss Vir- ginia Means. Miss Fannie Dunn and Miss Amelia Worthington
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NOTES AND PERSONALS

Madge C. Hall of Nashville is expected today to be the house guest of Mrs. Solon Jacobs. Miss Hall is one of the bright est and most attractive young women en- gagged in newspaper work in the south. Her society page in the Tennessean is a daily evidence of her ceverness not alone in the gathering of news, but in the pres entation of her ideas on many subjects of interest to women; she is personally un- usually attractive and her visit to Mrs. Jacobs will be the occasion of num- Der of bright Inequalities.
 Mrs. I. c. Brewer of Sandusky, Ohio, ar rived last night to be the guest of her son, MT. Bruce Brewer and Mrs. Brewer. MT. and Mrs. William Allen Davies are moving into their new home on Mountain avenue.
 Mrs. H. F. Stover will leave In a few days for Philadelphia to join MT. Stover and their son, MT. Fred Stover They will make their future home in Philadel- phia.
 Capt. and Mrs. John G. Smith will move Monday into their home, No. 1920 South Eighteenth street. MT. Roscoe Locke will be with them.
 Mrs. David Wurtzburger has returned from a delightful visit of several weeks in Nashville and Atlanta.
 MT. Earle Alexander has gone to Oak lahoma City, where in future he will re- side.
 MT. and Mrs. Sims Latta of Columbia, Tenn, are visiting MT. and Mrs. c. C.. Latta at their home, 4O1 Cotton avenue, West End. They will remain in Birming- ham until April 3.
 Mrs Brooks Lawrence has returned from a three months stay at Marion, Ala. where she has been with her daugh- ter, Miss Velma Lawrence, who is a stu dent at the Judson
 Mrs W. H. Gregory of Birmingham and Mrs. Oscar Bradley of Macon arrived in Atlanta Thursday. Mrs. Gregory drove her car through from Macon where she has been visiting for two weeks. They are with Miss Hand for few days.
 Lieutenant and Mrs. George Morrow, Jr., will arrive about the first of April for visit to MT. and Mrs. George M. Morrow. They will be accompanied by their little daughter.
 Mrs. Charles I. Bell is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Darbey Brown. Mrs. Bells home is in Anniston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26
One of the BelascO Effects
nm the New York Telegraph.

From the New OTh lcic6 dpH.
 David Belasco's offices in the Belasco theater building are furnish ed and dec- orated with exquisite taste. MT. Be- lasco likes old things and he has bought numerous antiques for the offices
 In one room two women who dropped in on buyiness noticed a small cushion on a chair. The cushion was badly worn out
 Look at that cushion" whispered one. 'I should think they'd throw 1t away"
 "Whatr came from the other, thor oughly astonished. That is one of MT. Belasco's old things. I'll bet, full of holes as it is, it's worth $100."
 The other was sufficiently impressed. Just then Willie, one of the office boys happened in. He picked up the cushion.
 Pardon me- said the woman who had been so astounded, but may ask what that cushion is worth?' Tt cost fifty cents when 1t was new, Willie replied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26
DATE SET FOR SPARKS
 CRITTENDEN WEDDING

The marriage of Miss Inez Crittenden of this city to MT. Homer Starks of Eto- wah, Tenn, will be an event of the morning of April 20, taking place at the home of the brides pa rents MT. and Mrs. Moses CIittenden at Il o'clock. The announcement of their engagement. which was made last Sun- day in these columns, was received with much interest as both young people are we'll known, Miss Crlttenden having lived here since childhood and MT. Starks until recently living here also. He is a brother of MT. B. M. Starks, who is prominent in railroad circles, and is him. self connected in responsible way with the Louisville and Nashville railroad, with headQuarters In EtoWah.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26

plants of extensive damage to gear and
 loss of fish by the maneuvering of torpe-
 do destroyers and submarines close to the fishing grounds between Bembridge and
 Dunose have been made to the admiralty by fsermen at Eastern Point, Isle ,f Wight, through the Southern Sea Fish cries Board.
 It is alleged that the craft drive fish from the bays and the propellers cut off the watch" of nets, lobster and spawn pots resulting in tremendous loss of gear and fish. The admiralty will hold an in- quiry into the matter at Portsmouth next Wednesday,
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HOLDER-MURPHREE

MT. and Mrs. Clarence Eugene Raymond announce the engagement of their sister, Marcella Myrtle Murphree, to MT. Sam Holder. The wedding to take place April 20 at her home, 242S Twentieth avenue. north.
 |. The annual social meeting of the Lake view School Improvement association will be held Tuesday afternoon at o'clock All are cordially invited to be present.
 This afternoon at 4:3O o'clock services will De held at Corey in behalf of the Methodist Episcopal church of Corey They will be conducted by Rev. H. T Walden of St. Johns church, Ensley, al the Gate lodge, in Corey.
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Salted Babies-Think of It

London, March 25.-(Special.)-A strange custom of salting newborn babes is still practiced in certain remote regions of Flu rope and Asia. The mother imagines that this custom brings health and strength to her children, and also serves to keep away evil spirits. Among the Aremnians of Rusnia 1t is the custom to cover the entire skin of the infant with very fine salt. For three hours or moro this is left on the baty, when it Is washed off with warm water. Even more peculiar are the women of a mountain tribe of Asia Minor. for they are alleged to keep their newborn babies covered with salt for a period of "A hours. The modern Greeks also sprinkle their babies with salt: and even in certain parts of Ger many salt is still used on child at birth.
 Submarines Hurt Fishing
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Abaza. Sir George Ross Keppel at once proceeded with his escort of two hundred men of the S2nd Punjabis and 50 troopers of the raiders, calling on them to sur render Next morning, as the outlaws refused to yield, the guns opened fire upon them. Hakin Bey and twenty two of his followers were killed and seven were captured, two of these being severely wounded. The troops suffered no casualties, but villager was wounded
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Progress

DO you remember how children used to be trotted out to recite Little Drops of Water and The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck?'" asked the man with silvery hair.
 "Yes," replied the man with no hair at all. "They don't do so any more. Now the little dears procure slap sticks and initiate the pranks of the comic pie tures"
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Hunt For Outlaws

Calcutta. March 25-(SpeciaD = News reached eut-Colonel Sir George Ross Keppe chief commissioner of the north west frontier of India, who was in camp at Charsadda, that a band of thirty raiders, among the notorious outlaw Ha- kim Khan, was hiding in cave near
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26

The following invitation will be Of interest to friends of Miss Dinkins here where she has frequently visited as the guest of her sister Mrs. A. R. Dew berry:
 Mir. and Mrs. Jack Burden Lee re- quest the honor of your presence at the marriage of their sister, Mary Mill dred Dickens, to MT. Wayland Marcus Law, on Tuesday morning, April IL, 1911 at 12 o'clock, First Methodist church. Elba, Ala
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

On Thursday, March 30. the Council of Jewish Women will hold the de- ferred open meeting at which Miss Willie Allen will address the council on Browning. The meeting takes place at the residence of Mrs. Louis Saks, 20 Highland avenue, at o'clock.
 
 There will be a social next Friday evening at the home of MT. and Mrs. George W. Carr. 5017 First avenue, for the benefit of the Gibson School Im- provement association A splendid mu- sical programme has been arranged and refreshments will be served throughout the entire evening. A small admission fee will be charged and it is hoped that quite a neat sum will be realized to be used for the improve ment of the school building.
 The marriage of Miss Lucil Matthews and MT. Hugh Asker Stubbins will take place at the home of the brides par ents, MT. and Mrs. William Edwin Mat thews, on Thursday evening, April 6, at g o'clock. only the relatives and a few friends will be present. There were no invitations issued in the city.
 The special music at the Eleventh Avenue Methodist Episcopal church to- ady will be furnished by male quartet composed of Messrs. J. D. McGill, first tenor; W. M. Woodall. second tenor; E. L. Muchmore, first bass, and F. J. Sheppard. second bass. Several very pleasing numbers have been arranged for each of the services.
 Mr J. D. McGili. director of the choir at the Eleventh Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, announces that on Sunday evening, April 16 his quartet, assisted by another quartet of well known singers, will give Schnecker's cantata, "The Risen King" and The Resurrection by Shelley The entire service will be in the nature of an Easter song service.
 The Musical Art society will rehearse st the Turn Verein hall Tuesday even ing at S:15.
 The Woman's Mission society of the Norwood Meth odist church will hold it's monthly social meeting with Mrs. Gus Lee and Miss Edgar Rowe, Monday afternoon at 8 o'clock, 1920 North Twenty fifth street.
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For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills. No sick woman does justice to herself who will not try this famous medicine. Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and has thousands of cures to its credit.
 Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
 to write her for advice. She has Guided thousands to health free of charge.
 Address Mrs. Finkham, Lynns Mass.
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Submarines Hurt Fishing London, March 25.-(Special )-Com-
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timbers that we're all that was left OF
Manrers. Then in fearful tone he
ask ed a policeman what had happened.
"Oh. nothing" said the policeman,
glancing at the young mans shining
tset .Ayoung feller with big feet danced
I'D Maurer's place into the ground"
But this didn't amuse the inquirer bit
This is awful" he said hoarsely Il
was going to get married here this after
noon"
The young man was Thomas Martin
.Iurphy. cashier for the Brooklyn Eastern
Terminal Railway. and he was to have
married Miss Ida Victoria Blum. the
daughter Of Frederick Blum. a Bronx
architect. at Maurer's in the afternoon
When the policeman heard that he
got into communication with the West
chester police station. which ia a sort
Of oficial nurse for the neighborhood
in great crises
They hustled about and got a hall
on Silver street for the wedding and
escorted the bridal party there Then
the policemen on the fire lines spent a
busy afternoon redirec,ing the 300 wei
ding guests. who cam" ol course TO
Maurar's
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PAINTED PORTRAITS At SEA.
Young American Artist Gets Commissions
on the Baltic.

Paul Swan, a young American artist
who arrived last night by the White Star
liner Baltic. painted the portraits of two
children of his fellow voyagers on the
trip. The parents had seen tho artist
working rapidly and cleverly on can
vases depicting sailors and stewards
of the liner and were SO much impressed
with he faithfulness of the pictures that
they gave him commissions on the spot
Mr.. swan says he has been travelling
in Egypt for five months Of the eight he
has been abroad, and that while there hc
go, an order for the portrait of Sir Eldon
Gor,,, British Ag"n, and Consul General
in Egypt, and from others loss distin-
gulshed ~ Cairo He has recently been
in London and painted tho portrait Of the
Duke of Bront". otherwise the Hon
Alexander Nelson Hood lIo SAYS he has
orders for portraits hat will take him back
TO London after h. has spent "a short sum
NOR vacation hare Mr. Swan is a3 and
studied art first in Chicago.
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HELD ATGf " POINT ~ en- R(H.
Deacon, After Passing Plate. Robbch OF
Proceeds by Mas rd Man.

WHEELING. W. Va. June Is Hardly
twenty feet from th- pulpit in which the
Rev W. H. Fields of th" First Christian
Church was sXhortlng congregat!on Of
400 persons the church treasurer Brook
4. Adams, was robbed this morning at the
point Of pistol by masked man who
escsred,
The robhery was committed in "A small
room which opens into the main audi
torium and the door between was open
The collection had jus, been taken. the
communion dispensed and Mr. Fields had
begun to preach on The Duty Of God and
Man" when Adams retired to the ante
room with the COLLECTION plates As he
finished counting the money and was
about to take his pew in the church he
looked up to lind himself confronted by
q masked man with "A big gun
"Give me that money" the fellow said
well. take it. Adams replied. but the
thief compelled Adams to pick up the
money and hand il over, Then with the
pistol still pointed at Adams he backed
slowly toward the door and da a,hed down
an alley.
Mr.. Adams notified Or J 4 Monroe.
q church officlal, and between them they
decided not 10 inform the past or of what
happened until after the sermon
A woman living near the church said
she saw TWO boys playing about the door
way, but had seen no one else.
The First Christian Church is in tho
heart of IN" cr'y The collection was
small to-day, amounting only 10 about $50.
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ARRESTED As HORSE THIEVES.
Father and son Alleged to Have stolen
Many Livery Rigs.

GREENWICH. Conn, June 25-Mas-
querading as stablemen cleaning horses.
Chief Donovan and Officer Curkin of the
Port Chester police force and f.. C. Sher-
wood proprietor Of the Sherwood livery
stable of Port Chester, succeeded this
morning in causing the arrest at Norwalk
of Charles Cartevelletto and son Tony
who ara wanted in Peekskill. White
Plains. East Orange. Paterson. Flushing,
Port Chester and stamford on charges
of stealing livery rigs in the last three
months
In Greenwich they tried To get a rig but
failed Their scheme. II Is alleged. was
to have the younger man. with bouquet
IN hand go to liveryman and engage a
rig and leave "A deposit for half a day :
Use Of II, saving he was going 10 lake
his girl for ride. The father would
meet him not far away
At Wards stable YESTERDAY the Young
man asked for the horse o use, this morn
ing and thu Port hester police drove up
az NJ and went 10 work in the stable
Chief Donovan Of stamford and Chief
Hunt Of Norwalk arrested the Young man
when he came with his bonGuet this
morning and lust around the corner they
found his father waiting
They are locked up in stamford Judge
McC Cdrdoll of Flushing, whose rig was
stolen last Thursday, went to Stamford
to-day and identified the younger pris-
oner who is % years old
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LINATIC on TELEGRAPH POLE.
Descending. tie breaks >traitJackrt and
Attacks " oman ambulance Doctor.

A middle aged man perched on top of
a telegraph pole at North Tenth and
Berry streets, Williamsburg. yesterday
kept shouting Il am Joe Miller, the joker"
To tn. crowd that gathered was added
Policeman Shaughnessy. He recognized
the orator as an insane man for whom
a general alarm had been sent out two
hours before
The man was Frederick Schmidt who
lived with his sister, Mrs Augusta Ro-
manofl. al sI2 Driggs avenue. According
to the sister he was in the asylum at
Kings Park. l.. l.. for several years and
was liberated about two months ago.
when he appeared TO be rational His
delusion had been that he was a great
writer of fiction and jokes
After his liberation Mrs Romanoif
took him home. Recently he again be
gan 10 act queerly and IA watch was kept
upon him Yesterday he left home by
way OF "A fire escape.
When Shaughnessy recognized him on
the telegraph pole he persuaded him 10
descend 10y telling him that the crowd
wanted TO hear his jokes. Before the
arrival of DR. Elizabeth Bruyn. the woman
ambulance surgeon of the " Illiamsburg
Hospital Schmidt knocked down Shaugh-
messy and Policeman Royale and rushed
for the front door of the police station,
where he fought Doorman Denker,,
Lieut. Edward Kelly and Policeman
Frank Connolly. IN" clerk
He was pat INTO strat Jacket, but
while the ambulance surgeon was attend
ing him he broke his fas'enings and at
tackled her. Half a dozen policemen fell
upon him and tied hun with ropes He
was taken to the Kings County Hospital
observation ward
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UNITED
.CIGAR r. .
STORES
NAY BE MOTOR BOAT ROBBER.
scared From Two Houses by Women. lie
Fights and Is Caught In Third.

NEW ROCHELLE June - After a
struggle In the attic OF the residence of
Vaughan j. Weatherley. - Main street.
New Rochelle. at ) O'Clock this morning
Police Sergeant Edward Deveaux and
Patrolman John McGowan captured a
man whom they believe to be on. of the
crew Of a black motor boat tina, has
robbed several residences and stolen al
least one motor launch within the last
month
The prisoner. who gave his name as
Frank Cotton. 81 years Of age. and a
fictitious address IN Mount Vernon. is so
badly beaten that he could make no
statement to-day. The uniforms of the
policemen Were almost torn from them
in the fight
II was through Mrs George " fippin-
colt. her daughter Helen and her son
Wallace of 10 Garden Walk Home Perk
that the burglar was captured Mrs
Lippincott was aroused when the lock
of a kitchen window WAS broken az 80
this morning While she telephoned to
the police Miss Iippncott. who several
years ago swan a quarter of "A mile and
rescued a drowning child ~ Echo Bay.
went into IN" kitchen with her father's :
revolver Her brother mounted guard
with rife at the,ironr OF IN. house.
The burglar changed his mind about
entering the lippincott house. and going
to the house of Charles Is Pearson. next
door. jimmied tho kitchen window and
entered Mrs Lippincott called up the
Pearson house on III" telephone and "A
moment later III. burglar was seen TO
jump through the window and run tow
ard Main street.
Deveaux and MCGOWAN found prints
of bare feet on the Iipplncot' and Pearson
porches and then waited until daylight
to continue the search They found at the
Weatherlev house. two blocks from ths
Iipyiucou residence. that rear window
had been Jimmied The Weatherleys are
away for tn. summer and have left the
house furnished putting only their silver
IN safe deposit. he policeman found
Cotton barefoo;ed. hiding in closet
~ the attic
When they opened the closet door the
man attacked them with a shoe Cotton
j. powerful man and the tigh' last ed
twenty minutes When tn. prisoner was
:,andcuffed the Horr was red with the blood
Of n" 'hie" men
The police found about s. .OO worth
Of hrIc-a-hra". oil paintings. Turkish and
Persian rugs packed in tarpaulin. They
believe to.jon and his conIederates in
tended TO return tonight and carry their
plumber away in the motorboat which has
been seen along Long Island sound
frequently of late
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THE WORLDS BIGGEST BABY.
A. ~ Months He Weighs I22 Pounds and
Eats Like q Harvest Hand.

NorST AIRY. Ga. June 25-ln James
Adolph Cody. two years and three months
old. Mount Airy boasts the biggest baby
in the world.
James Adolph now weighs l22 pounds
and is growing every day.
With the first indication Of his abnormal
growth his parents consulted physician
and James Adolph was put under his care.
All efforts TO keep the baby on diet
suited to one of his age proved as un-
successful as the physicians treatment
to keep down his growth, His measure
ments are:
Height. 80 inches; neck IA inches; bust
80 inches: waist, 80 inches; around arm
above elbow. II inches; wrist. inches;
across hand above thumb. 81, inches;
around first finger near hand. q inches;
around thigh. 25 inches; above knee.
10 inches; below knee, l3 inches; ankle,
0 inches around foot. 81, inches; lengt n
Of foot, g.. inches across shoulders, Is
inches.
James sleeps well. is perfectly healthy
and very strong His appetite is more
like grown person than Il bdbys For
breakfast he will eat three or four large
biscuits, with bacon gravy, butter and
syrup, TWO glasses of buttermlti and If
allowed will drink two CUPS of coffee
Between breakfast and dinner he will
cat two more biscuits with butter and
syrup. For dinner he will eat - big plate
Of greens or vegetables with boiled bacon
corn bread biscuits. a whole III. If ne car
get 1t, and two glasses Of bu'termilk
He eats again be'w""n dinner and sup
per, ana hi supper l. in Keeping with
breakfast and dinner.
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DIED.

COHhLtN.- On june -. 1911 suddenly. At hsh
residence. - Last a,th ST, New York CIV
Hama OL"ary Cohalan. beloved wife o.
PANEL I. Cohalan. and Gerald. their 'n's''
son, The brother Of Acen. Conn. ka'nl'ea
nonAl Patrick. Florence and permot wa
survive their mother.
funeral from their late residence on Nontiy:
june :6, at o4a \. M. Requiem ma. al
4. VI. AT the church Of St Francis De sae>
last ath -. between Park and bAnsN'
avs. lntcrment at Ca.vary.
DODGE. ON Sunday, June Is, 1911. ~ her res
dencc In Tuxedo Park y. Y., May Coss"
Dodge. wl.ow of George Egrs'or poas.
and daughter Of the late Frederic, H. ani
Catherine hudrus Cossltt.
Funeral services viii be held Wedne stay mnfu'
ting. June -, a, 1890 at her late residence"
West 57tR ST., New York.
DOUGHERTy. On SATURDAY. June = al :"
residence, a72 Madison av., william h'
band OF Julia kerc,ey and son o' me u"
Andrew nouCECrtN.
Relatives and friends are invited 'o a''en' "'
funeral services At -. ratricn : 'ain'a'a,
3th aN. and ;Ntu -, TUESDAY J.nr . - %
y, NJ. Friends are N'ndly REQ l'''ci H''
send fowcr,.
HhrIrNBTFE At Atlantic city. on l'4N'
June ~, Helen, daughter OF Grace VI an' '"'
late Carrie n Haulcnhcek. aged CAR
Funeral from residence Of her r'o'He'. - N'''
broadway. Waite plains, y, y, on N'H'N'
3p. NJ.
HOLT ON saturday evening, June =, Nina"
widow Of Charles l.. Holt,
Funeral services at her late residence, :" We"
Ind av., MoutaS a. ! o'clccA.
LAHEN -,Iauc, Wilson l.aRcy, aSed y ve'''.
Services THE FUNERAL CHURCH, al N'>' :"
s.. FRANK T.. Campbell BLpd N'"l"'
O'Clock,