The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-02
ANNISTON COLLEGE CIRCLE ACTIVE
 LN VARIOUS WAR RELIEF MEASURES

Among tho visitors who came to par | ticpate in the Thanksgiving festivities were: Misses Jimmie Terrell Margaret Bradshaw, Martha Bradshaw, Margaret 1 Nelson, Anita Soss, Miriam Smyer, Margaret Gaze, Margaret Moore. Fran | ces Woodrow, Bertha Stone, Louise Cum ningham, Eleanor Anderson, Gertrude
 Motion, Annie Skeggs, Mary Sessions, | Elizabeth Massey, Hattie Sibley, MT. and Mrs. Robert Jemison, Jr., MT. and
 Mrs. R. B. Smyer, Mrs Ellen Motion Maurice and Mrs Maclin Smith of Bir- mingham, Misses Lottie Slaughter, Mary Oliver and Sarah Oliver of Talladega. Tot Moultrie of Rome, Ga, Margaret Barker of Gainesville, Ga., Juliet Rey- holds of Alpine, Miss Grace Riddle of Talladega, Miss White of Goodwater. Miss Openheimer of Knoxville, Isabelle | Carr of Hartman, Tenn, and Dorothy Barrett of Galena, Ill.
 l Dan Cupid played part also in the season of thankfulness. Because two | soldiers sweethearts were unable to 1 leave their military duties, two more girls came to join their lovers here Miss Oliver Scev came from Baltimore, accompanied by her mother, and was wed at the Grace church rectory to MT. Charles s. Duvall of the Maryland troops
 | Miss Georgia Louise Cafer of Norfolk.
 member of a lovely Virginia family. ] came to Anniston with her mother last week and was married to MT. Van Bus kirk of the machine gun battalion. Mrs. Van Buskirk has apartments for the winter at the Alabama hotel
 l Annistonians as well as soldiers were l most grateful to the women of Birming- ham for the big part they shared in making the season for the Camp Mc- Clellan men one of true Thanksgiving. l If the Housewives league could have seen the eager delight of the soldiers when the big box of homemade edibles was opened they would have realized that with a soldier the same old way of reaching a mans heart still holds good | Mrs Houston Davis, Mrs. Milan and Miss Adams from the Music club vis-
 ited the can1, Wednesday, bringing | Thanksgiving dainties and cheering the boys in the hospital with songs Miss Emily Tyler chairman of the hospital relief committee, met the Music Study
 club members at the hospital and to- gether they made and served tea in one
 of the wards. Miss Tyler also presented the boys in the ward with victrola as l a Thanksgiving present The Joycrofters l of Birmingham and Twentieth Century club have also donated to the hospital victrolas. The prospect of a piano from
 the Music Study club added joy to the 1 lovely musical given at the new recrea- | tion room on Thursday evening. Miso Tyler has appointed Mrs. John B. Knox. Mrs. Osborne Parker, Mrs. D. B. Walsh
 and Mrs. T. D. Mayband as the cooper ative board to work with committees re gently appointed in Birmingham by Mra Charles J. Sharp.
 1 Hundreds of soldiers gathered around the festival board with family circles to partake of the joys of home life on | Thanksgiving day. Gratitude wells high | in the hearts of Alabamans that.
 through service to the stranger within ttheir state, they have caught higher lvision. spirit of unselfishness. a spirit of cooperation. deeming it q sweet privilege to have part in sacrificai service. able as never before to say in
 truth the words from the blessed Mas
 ter: "It is better to give than to re-
 ceive.'