The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
Many Fashionables Attend First Supper-Dance at the Roebuck Club-Engage- ments Announced-Inter- esting Events of the con- ing Week-Luncheons and Other Informal Affairs of Yesterday-The Passing Throng-Announcements

The meeting of the United Daugh- ters of the Confederacy in Bessemcr, May 4, 5, and ', brings together a representative body of women from throughout the state, s6 chapters com posing the division with a memb ership of several thousand women. The con- vention will open in Bessemer Tuesday evening at o'clock at the high school, where addresses of welcome will be made by the civic and patriotic bodies of that town responded to by mem Der of the division
 As quite number of the delegates will rass through Birmingham. en route 10 Bessemer, Tuesday Pelham chapter will have committees of ladies to meet each train and assist the yis- itors In changing cars. Those reaching the city near the noon hour will be entertained at lunch by this chapter.
 Wednesday morning the convention will get dcwn to regular work includ- ing reports of officers, standing com mittees and chapters interspersed with awarding of medals. A lawn party will be an event ot that afternoon at the city park and that evening a recep- ton will be held at the home of Mir. and Mrs. w. H. Porter. Automobile rides and other entertainments will be enjoyed and luncheon will be sery ed each day 10 the visiting delegates by the hostess chapter. Wednesday aft crnccn will be devoted to the memory or those who have passed away during the year and touching tributes are to be paid during this memorial hour Thursday evening the historical pro- eramnie is to be given at which time Miss Mildred Rutherford of Georgia, Historian Of the general division, will be the liincipal speaker.
 n, Friday morning the election or off kcls will take place which is always a time Of greatest interest to the oi. vision, no officer being allowed to serve more than two years
 The past two years under the admin iteration of Mrs l.. Nj. Bashinsky of Troy, president the division has made wonderful strides in the advancement Of its work; the number of free schcl- arrhips has been largely increased, a boulder unveiled at the University Of Alabama honorary diplomas conferred Il by that institution on all men who, on account of SCI wing Tn the Confederate army were prevented from complst- ing their course of study and similar honors arranged with both Howard COiieEt anu tne SDulneTn unlNcrSltN, Greensboro, to be conferred during their commencements this month. An- other notable achievement of Mrs. Bashinsky and her legislative commit tee was the securing of the passage of bill by the last legislature. where by the U. D. C. scholarships are made perpetual by the turning over of the scholarship funds to the state treas ury. In fact the entire administration of Mrs. Bashinsky has been marked by unusual activity in every department.
 Tho accompanying photo shows Mrs. EGshinsky standing before the flag of the division. This beautiful Confederate flag was presented to the Alabama dl- vision by the Pelham chapter of Bir- mingaam, May. 1908. when the conven- ton was held in this city, d convention, the brilliant social side of which st.ll fingers in the memory of Birmingham people. I.uDeheons and receptions we're given throughout the days and even- ings of the convention, the whole cul- minating m a magnificent banquet at the HiIlms n hotel, attended by hun 6fed and fifty women in full evening dress. 1t was the first entertainment of