The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-03
CALL TO COLORS
 FORWARD MARCEL

FORWARD MARCH!
 By Martha s. Gelow.
 Face about! Face about Forward
 March
 Blow the buglel beat the oruml
 Home defenders talks your stand!
 To protect your Motherland!
 Face about! Face about Forward
 March
 Face about Face about Forward
 March
 Blow the bugle beat the drum!
 Solders Sailors! Fall in line!
 Let not freedom e'er decline!
 Face about! Face about! Forward
 March
 Face about! Face about! Forward
 March!
 Blow the buglel beat the drum!
 For the right, and for the true!
 For the flag, red, white and blue! Face about! Face about Forward
 March,
 Blow the buglel beat the drum!
 Iris your country they invade!
 Tis America betray'd.
 Face about! Face about! Forward
 March.
 Mir. and Mrs. John Hollis Bankhead Jr., of Jasper. announce the engagement of their daughter, Marion, to Captain Carl McMahon of Mobile, the date of the marriage to be announced later. The news of this engagement will prove of ex- ceptional interest on account of the wide circle of friends and the personal popu- larity of the contracting parties. Miss Barkhead is the oldest daughter of her NF ifi1I d- daughters of Senator and Mrs J. Il. Bapkhead. The bride-elect spent three years at Mary Baldwin college, Staunton, Va, and finished her education at Fair mont seminary, Washington, D. C., the past June. Even while a college girl she was distinguished for her loveliness and was chosen queen of beauty at the his- toric cotton ball given in the national capital two winters ago. She was also recently selected as one Of the sponsors for the forthcoming Confederate reunion, an honor her approaching marriage com pelled her to decline. During the re- cent winte, Miss Bankhead travelled in the south with her parents, making pro- longed stops at the famous winter resorts of Florida ard Cuba, where her belledom was accentuated She is petite of fig | ure and the embodiment of grace ana
 
 and eyes. Captain McMahon Is in com | mand of Company M, First Infantry regi- l ment National Guard of Alabama, his 1 torically known as the Mobile Rifles. l This famous company was organized in 1886 to meet the exigencies of the In- dian wars of the period, and later made distinguished records in the Mexican and Confederate wars He Is the son of MT. and Mrs. Carl Waterman McMahon, nee Annie Gage Winston of Sumter county, l and grandson of Prof. James Jackson a 1 noted educator of Georgia, who later To- 1 cated in Alabama. He comes by his mill ] . tarI--talepts. through his great grand father, Gen James M. Jackson of the revolution, who was later governor of Georgia and United States senator from that state. Governor John Anthony Win ston and Gen. E. W. Pettus of Alabama ! were also his kinsmen, both of whom, | like himself, sprung from the same | parent stock with Patrick Henry Cap tain McMahon is by profession law yer. and prior to entering the military i service at the beginning of the Mexican l troubles on the border was one of the ranking young attorneys at the Mobile | bar The wedding will take place at tSrnset" the home of Senator and Mrs. l J. H. Bankhead, and will be the occasion of a gathering of the leading figures of the state similar to the recently cele- bIated golden wedding of the venerable statesman and his wife. The following from the Washington Times will be read with interest by many friends throughout the south: Miss Lou ise Morgan of Columbus, Miss, one Of the prettiest pages at the congress of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, today received word that she had been selected sponsor for the Mississippi Sens of Veterans at the Confederate re- union here in June. As the designation of spoilsor carries with it the very broad hint that the sons consider Miss Morgan the prettiest girl in Mississippi, she was blushing, but happy at Memorial Conti- mental hall today. Miss Morgan has been entertained every afternoon and evening at the Willard, where she is stopping, since the congress began. Mrs George Thacher Guernsey, the new president general of the daughters, announced to- day that because of her beauty and chGxrnf Miss Morgan had been selected : as personal page to the presiding officer