The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08
WOMAN ID TALK ABOUT MISSIONS Methodist Convention Goes
 To Annist0n DAUGETTE'S PLANS Jacksonville Normal College Prepares for Commencement-Bond
 Election At Oxford
 Postponed

Annlston, May f-Ncpecidil-<AAi oi engagements have been completed for the meeting of the fourteenth annual conven- ton Of the Woman's Home Mission so- cioty of the First Methodist church, which will be in session in this city from Tuesday of this week until Thursday, about 125 delegates attending, many Of them among the most prominent women in the state.
 The sessions will be held at the First Methodist church with Mrs. Emmett Led better of this city, president of the An niston district conference, presiding. Mrs Ledbetter will deliver the welcome ad- dress to the visitors and the response will be made by Mrs. Q. B. Staten of Fountain Heights.
 The officers of the conference are: Mrs. J. B. Simpson, Birmingham, president; Mrs. w. k. Simpson, Guntersville, first vice president Mrs. w. M. McCarty, sec- ond vice president, Birmingham; Mrs. Hogan Jackson, third vice president All bertville; Mrs. Alice Johnson, correspond ing secretary, East Lake; Mrs. H. J. Salter, recording secretary, Birmingham; Mrs L. E. Grambling, East Lake, treas- urer.
 Sessions will be held morning, after noon and evening. The devotional exer- cses will be led by Mrs. J. B. Simpson. the Rev. w. K. Simpson, Mrs. D. D. Me Chce Mrs. R. T. Watts, Mrs. E. c. Banks and the Rev J. T. Terry. Features will be the daily Bible talks by the Rev. M l.. Wilson and music by Mrs. Morton Carthew Y orstoun, the former grand opera star of Anniston; Mrs. Ida Kline, Miss Florine Smyth, MT. Ben Sawyer, Miss Nellie Turner, Mrs. Robert Allen and others of this city.
 The first day of the session, which will convene Tuesday evening at o'clock will be devoid of business. The officers will report on Wednesday morning and the new officers will be elected on Thurs day morning. The topics for discussion embrace sociological, missionary. evan gelical and personal work, the talk by Mrs. Harwell Wilson on the institutional church being looked forward to as a feat ure. A big reception will be given by the ladies of Anniston in honor of the vis- itors.
 State Normal Plans
 C. w. Daugette, president of the State Normal college at Jacksonville, who was in Anniston Saturday, conference with Architect C. w. CS on in regard to the plans for the1 z building for the Normal, stated N t plans have been completed fer }@ annual commencement exercises at r ehool with the exception of selecting speakers. who have not yet been de niteIy heard from: and by of fcho ba of inSti- tuition, MT. Daugette stated that there will be more students in the graduating class this year 45, than there were in the entire Normal department when he was elected president of the school in 1900, when the Normal enrolment was 25.
 The commencement sermon will be de- ivered on Sunday, May 2S. On Monday. President Daugette will hold his annual reception. On Tuesday the annual ora tions and exercises will be held, the grad uating exercises being held Wednesday. An old-fashoned May-poe festival will be held this week by the students of the training department, Mir. Daugette says. He says the plans for the new building will soon be complete, the structure be- ing used as an auditorium, Y. M. c. A. and science hall.
 The election which was to be held by the citizens of Oxford, the chief Anniston suburb, on May g to consider a proposed municipal bond issue of s12,0O0 for sewer age improvements has been postponed until Monday, May 29, one week from the day originally set.
 The engagements of Miss Cary Caldwell. daughter of Mrs Sarah Forney Caldwell of Jacksonville to MT. Kyle Elliott son of well-known Gadsden capitalist, was an- nounced here Saturday, the wedding to take place in June.