The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-12

Mr. and Mrs c. r. Calkins and Mrs.
Ernest Agnew
Mr.. and Mrs. Calkins were married at
Havana, the brides home on August Is.
Mrs. Calkins was before her marriage
Miss Mile Fagin, for several years the
Y. w. c. A. secretary of the Alabama
Girls Technical institute During her
service as secretary she made the Y. w.
C. A. the strongest and most influential
organization of the school. Mr.. Calkins,
formerly of Boston. Mass. has been for
sometime head of the music department
of the Alabama Girls Technical institute.
He has created an enthusiastic and in
telligent musical appreciation in the
school and the town He has endeared
himself to the townspeople especially
by directing the choir of the Baptist
church and other musical organizations
and by serving as teacher of the Monte
valla Baraca class. The arrival of this
popular couple to make their home in
Montevallo was welcomed most heartily
by all.
Mrs. Ernest Agnew is the wife of Cap
tain Agnew of the Sixth infantry, which
is now in Mexico with General Per-
shing. Before her marriage she was Miss
Kate Mills of Auburn She is now the
guest of DIR. and Mrs. Palmer.
During the evening of the reception
more than 100 of the Montevallo people
called. They were greeted in the hall
by Miss Stella Palmer, Miss Florence
Boyd, Miss Lulu Hawkins. In the par
lor they met those of the receiving line
who were DR.. and Mrs. Palmer, Mr.. and
Mrs, Calkins, Mrs. Agnew, Mr.. and Mrs
Ogletree In the dining room and on the
porch they were served delightful re-
freshments by Mrs. J. w. Hatfield, Miss
Olive Mayes, Miss Matte Lee, Miss
Gladys Jones Williams, Miss Mary L.
Reed, Miss Mary Paxton, Miss Bessie Nc
Cary, Miss Georgia Leeper, Miss Char
lotte Warner Miss Clara Savage. During
the evening music was rendered most
happily by Miss Anna Mary Jones, Miss
Williams and Miss Lula Palmer.
Mrs. j, T. Slater, chairman of the pub
licty committee of the Birmingham Equal
Suffrage association, requests every mem
Der of the local organization to notify
her at the earliest possible moment as
to whether they will be able to par
ticipate in the state suffrage parade to
be held at the Alabama State Fair
grounds on the evening of Wednesday,
October II.
Every suffragette, she says, SHOULD
not only feel it her duty, but privilege,
to march in this the first, state parade,
and thereby prove the strength Of the
Birmingham organization
Each of the so suffrage associations in
Alabama will be represented in this beau
+isu pageant. each sending their own
banner.
Five hundred torches are being made
for this occasion and this calls for SOC
marchers. The line of march will form
outside of the fairgrounds passing
through the gate around the race track
and stopping in front of the grandstand
where the speaker of the occasion will
deliver a short address, and the center
box of the grandstand will be appropTi-
ately decorated and reserved for the
state officers, who will review the entire
pageant. All members are requested ro
notify Mrs. J. T, Slater, phone Main PIG
and her address 2091 Quindan avenue Bir-
mingham.
The following invitation has been issued
for today:
You are invited to be present as a
guest at a luncheon meeting of some OF
the members of the Alabama Association
of the Teachers of English to be giver
in the gymnasium of the Central High