The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-14
Will Be in Session Three Days at First Baptist
 Church
HOO DELEGATES ARE
 EXPECTED TO ATTEND
Much Interest-in Election of Officers, as Miss Black Will Retire-Social Feature of Meeting Will Be
 Japanese Tea at Y. W. C. A.

The third annual Older Girls con- ference will be held May :. and at the First Baptist church. One of the most interesting programmes yet had by such a conference will be outlined soon and given to the public. It Is es- timated there will be 1400 girls in attendance. as there are 40 schools in the city and each school is entitled to 10 delegates.
 More than the usual interest attaches to this years conference because Of the fact that Miss Zoe Black is unable longer to serve as it's president, and the membership must needs seek an- other executive This election will be held on the floor of the conference by secret ballot on the morning of the second day. Many names are being mentioned
 Miss Black has been president of the Older Girls conference for two years and Is one of the most active workers among teen age girls.
 Elect Officers May 8
 The election of the officers to sue ceed Miss Black and her fellow off cials will take place Saturday morn ing. May s. The Installation will be made Sunday afternoon, when one of the greatest mass meetings ever held by the older girls of Birmingham will be held at the church. The conference doors will be thrown wide on this oc casion and every mother of a girl, ev- cry friend of girl and every girl of teen age will be heartily welcome ed to the meeting.
 At the conference space will be re- served for pastors of churches and su- perintendents of Sunday schools. This is a new departure for a girls con ference, in previous years men having been excluded. The object of permit ting the pastors and superintendents to be present is to afford them an opportunity of seeing how the Older Girls conference is conducted
 The programme will begin Friday night, May ', with camp fire. Just where this camp fire will be held no one knows, not even the girls. However. those in charge of the arrangements say that it will be one of the most in terestng events of the conference. The girls, many of them, will be in Indian costume. Stories of interest will be told, although no set speeches will be per- mitted.
 Saturday morning, May S, the con- ference will get down to real work. The officers will be elected and demonstra- tons of the Various workings of the several departments of the conference will be given Ten girls prominent in Sunday school work, each will repre- sent a point of merit, there being 10 points in the standard of an organized class. There will be also demonstra- ton of gSls' department as it is in the classroom. There are only five girls departments in Birmingham this Ieing a new phase of the work in the south. Birmingham was the first city in the south to adopt it and 1t has made rapid progress since being organized.
 In the morning of Saturday, Miss A. L. Williams will address the girls. She was on the progre mme for an address last year but, unfortunately, was sud- denly taken i'll and could not be present The girls are looking forward to her appearance this year with much inter- est.
 Tea at Y. w. C. A.
 Saturday afternoon at o'clock comes the large social event of the confer ence. when a Japanese tea party on the roof garden of the Young Women's Christian association will be held The preparations for, this event are elabor- ate. The decorations will be carried out in the Japanese effect, to harmon lze with the title given the party.
 Sunday afternoon will be held at the church the mass meetings at which the doors of the conference will be thrown open and all who are interested in girls and the girls themselves will be urged to be present. The only address of the day wil be delivered by Hiss Minnie E. Kennedy, secretary of the Birming ham Sunday School association.
 During the conference chorus of 100