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a foolish time for every one. All mem- bers of the school are invited to come and bring their friends.
 There will be d meeting of the Lake view School Improvement association Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at the school
 There will he a meeting of the Birming- ham Association for the Blind in the com mittee room of the city hall. All mem bers are urged to attend as this is the regular monthly meeting and much busi- ness is to be transacted.
 Mrs. William B. Lanier, Jr.. will enter tain the Eleanor Hord club Tuesday aft ernoon at o'clock at her home, 2l1s Ave- uue IT,
 The regular monthly meeting of the Mercy Home Industrial school board will be held on Wednesday morning at the school at 1o:3o o'clock.
 
 The regular monthly meeting of the General Sumter chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be held Wednesday afternoon at o'clock at the Southern club. The Frances Willard union of the Wom- ans Christian Temperance union will hold silver medal contest at Ensley com- inunity house Friday evening at o'clock. , Mrs H. l.. Bumstead. who has charge of the contest department will preside.
 
 L'Etude dArt club will meet Wednesday, afternoon at 2:SO with Mrs G. Troup Bra zelton, 2s00 Jefferson avenue.
  The Birmingham branch of the South ern Association of College Women will meet Tuesday afternoon at o'clock with Mrs. E. E. Ellis, 40o4 Lakeview avenue.
 
 | The Westminster Guild of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church will meet to- 1 morrow afternoon at 2:3o with Mrs. Charles Barber and Mrs. F. E. Robbins at the home of Mrs Barber. 14O1 North Twenty fifth street. The Friday Bridge club will meet Fri day afternoon with Mrs G. Wyatt l The Howard College Glee club will sing 1 this evening at o'clock at the F'ifty-sixfh Street Baptist church of Woodlawn, LIr Robert Lawrence. director. 1 The Physiology Study club will meet Tuesday morning at 10:30 o'clock with Mrs. c. c. Adams | Chapter of the Boys club will meet Thursday at o'clock with Mrs. Dean at the Bon Air apartments. I Mir. and Mrs. J. c. Wyatt will entertain at a dinner party on Thursday eyaning at the Motor and Country club in honor | of their first wedding anniversary. The guests will include the poung people who were in their wedding party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-01
ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Birmingham Graded union will meet Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at the First Methodist church.
 The next meeting of the Highland Book club will be held with Mrs. T. o. Smith on April 15 instead of with Mrs. Hugh Morrow, as announced in the calen- dar
 The w. C.. T. U. meeting will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at head quarters. At this time Dr. B. L. Wyman will deliver an addres upon hereditary eff fleets of alcoholism.
 The organ recital of Mrs. w. A. Logan has been postponed
 Class 12 of the Fifth Avenue Presby- terian Sunday school announces an April fool social to be given Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the Sunday school parlors. The entertainment committee has planned
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two; MT. Fred Shireman, seven; Mr. w. s. Bell. four; MT. and Mrs. Weber, four; MT. and Mrs. John Stone, four, and Mrs. W. w. Crawford. eight
 MT. Jesse Adkins entertained a few friends at dinner last evening at the Roebuck club. Covers were laid for six and Mrs. E. w. Weller also entertained few friends, and covers were laid for five.
 Mrs W. R. Foreman will entertain the Cosmopolitan Auction Bridge club on Wednesday afternoon at 2:3O o'clock at , her home in Norwood.
 The Yancey Literary society of Central High school held an interesting meeting Friday afternoon. The programme con- sisted. of a series of essays on the south as follows
 The South During Reconstruction, by Harry Cohen. "The South of Today" by Alfred Onley. "The South of the Future" by Edgar Houston. Some Famous Men Jacobs.
 Mrs. Merrill Northington entertained at a luncheon Friday at the Tutwiler, com rlimenting Miss Elnor Stafford Milar, who spent the past 10 days in the city. Among the guests were Mrs. Joseph Me Lester, Mrs. R. H. Munger, Mrs. John Weakley and Mrs. Robert Jemison, Jr. Mrs. R, R. Stollar of Tuscaloosa, who spent the past week in the city, entertain ec at luncheon yesterday at the Tutwiler, complmenting Miss Brown Johnson of Washington. who is the guest of Miss Bland Tomlinson. The guests were: Miss Johnson, Miss Tomlinson, Miss Margaret Moore, Miss Margaret Cameron. Miss Anita Eustis. M,ss Elizabeth Locke Miss Mary Mott Williams of Marquette, Mich., Mrs. William Bartlett and Mrs c. H. Nabb.
 luncheon party on Wednesday in honor of Miss Brown Johnson of Washington. the guest of Miss Bland Tominson
 Miss Susie Haskell will entertain on Tuesday, April 10 complimenting Miss Brown Johnson of Washington, D. C., the guest of Miss Bland Tomlinson
 The marriage of Miss Cundell Baldwin and MT. Ernest Carl Knodel of Syracuse N. Y, will take place April 30.
 Mr. T. w. Martin will entertain at a motor trip to Locke 12 today in honor of Miss Brown Johnson of Washington, the guest of Miss Tomlinson. Mrs. John Tomlinson will chaperon the party.
 The convention of the United States Good Roads association. which is to be held in Birmingham on April F to o1. in addition to the important business to be considered. promises to be a notable gathering from a social and civic stand point as well.
 Acceptances have already been received from five, with the possibility of eight governors from the various southern states, and on the evening of April r a reception will be rendered the governors at the Tutwiler hotel for which the fol-
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l assure you, worth seeing. l forgot to
 say that Mir. Miles is to drill the girls.
 The living pictures are to be of the 10 chairnen who have yearly made the ball
 the wonderful success it has always
 been. Mrs. B. F. Wilkerson, who has
 delighted many audiences, will give
 reading, and really there are to be so
 many attractive stunts l just can't see
 how anyone would fail to be on hand,
 do you?
 I wrote you of the wonderful pictures
 which were to be in today's Age-Herald
 Rotogravure section. The prominent ma
 tron of North Alabama is Mrs E. A.
 Skeggs of Decatur, who is a frequent vis-
 itor here and is socially quite popular.
 Then there is very attractive picture
 of Fannie Campbell, a lovely young
 woman. Her father is prominent mem- Der of the T. P. A., and, of course, the picture of his attractive daughter will be of great interest to both his and her large circle of friends.
 The pretty young maitron of Talladega is Mrs. Harry Marks, who was Miss
 Adele Goldberg.
 The pretty little Miss is Pauline Ma ben, daughter of MT. and Mrs. J. Camp
 bell Maben, and the young girl is Mary Stiles, who Is one of Birmingham's love- Hest members of the younger set. Then
 comes Miss Daisy Rowley, who is most gifted musician. She has composed & number of splendid songs and instrument tai pieces. She worked most earnestly for the Elks minstrels, training the cho- ruses
 ! One of the incest things that has hap pened to Birmingham recently is the l opening of the Garden shop tomor- row by our talented and charming Miss Lucille Douglas. Everybody adores the ] things Miss Douglas does, for she's so terribly clever and artistic, and this Garden shop is quite an innovation and everybody will flock to see the num- l berless beautiful things she has on exhi- bition. By the way, there's a dandy | good picture of Miss Douglas in today s
 Rotogravure, which I'm sure you'll like | if you feel about it as I do. * * *
 1 We'll, Becky, sometimes I think that I am not telling you just what you would l like to know of the people here at home,
 but as you read the daily papers I try | to tell you just a few things that I dont t see in the papers.
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Mf nol. DEAR ,a BECKY. .s.', Only one more
 and the season promises to be quite gay one, considering that dread fu war clouds hangs over us, and that maybe of our boys will again be sent to the border and even the front if there is really war. One of the girls said that was really the reason that we should do everything for their pleasure as long as they are with us,
 There are to be a number of weddings this spring, as I wrote you sometime ago, and today quite few are announced. They, too, mean many parties for the brides-elect, so this will also help to make things gay. About the time we get the spring brides happily settled on their journey of life, come the June brides, who hold the center of the stage, l then commencement, and the boys and girls home from college, which will really
 
 fall and we again bid them good-by to enter college, About this time we will be welcoming another set of debutantes, ! and, by the way, if they prove as popu- | lar as those of this year they will have to | be going some.'
 <
 l Speaking of popular girls, did you know l that Elizabeth Harding is here visiting ! the Barretts? She has been with Mir and Mrs Robert Meyer in Florida and 1 stopped here for few days en route to l her home in Washington. She is look greeted by scores of her friends. Several I lovely affairs have been given for her ! and, as one of the boys said, you would hardly believe that this was Lent-if giv- | ng parties were an indication. But, as one of Birmingham's popular girls said, ! we just couldn't help it. with so many | attractive girls visiting here. ,: < <:
 Bland Tomlinson had a lovely party a few afternoons ago for her guest, and we all had a most wonderful tme Miss l Johnson, better known by her friends | as Brownie is certainly a very at- tractive girl. She has already made many friends. Sometime ago Bland was | telling us of her expected visit here, and someone in the party spoke ur l and said: Who, Brownie Johnson: | Well, she certainly is one of the most
 popular girls in Maryland and Washing,
 ton, and counts her friends by the
 score"
 1 Mrs Alfred Shook, a recent bride. shared honors with Miss Johnson. at the party.
 | We are looking forward to the char l ity ball on Easter Monday evening at the Tutwiler This is the tenth annual ball and will be most wonderfully pa- triotic affair. Everybody is expected to attend, grandmother. mother, father, brothers and sisters; in fact, everybody, l to rally around the flag, and to see the very first company to volunteer in the entire south-the Volunteer Relief Asso- | ciation-drill for sweet charity The l girls are to wear stunning costumes in l the national colors. and will be a sight,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-01
HASTY-MOLTON
KETTLES ALLEN

Mr. and Mrs William Forrest Motion engagem laughter Haywood Curtis Bush Nasty wedding to take
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Mrs Charles  Francis Howard Chattanooga
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JOTINSON-BEATTY

 approaching marriage of her graddaugh Lola Esee
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PATRICK-MOLTON

Mr. and Mrs William Forrest Motion engagemen daughter Mary Engand William Clifton wedding 10 takc place ill May
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MATCK-PTANT

Mrs Charles Plant the to Nauc The wedding
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Callie Allen announces the engagement of her daugh urice L. Kettles of Montgomery. The wedding to take
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TACCONE-CO

B. Cohen Toledo Thomas take April 19.
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DONOHO-ZELL

Mr. and Mrs Robert Ze the Louise Truman Dent Donoho of wedding to April
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B N c A c E M E N T s
PATTERSON-HOWARD

announce the engagement McDonald, to Mir. Samuel ke place in April.
 mt of his daughter, Eliza e wedding to take place the engagement of their
 of Charlotte, N. c. The the engagement of their
 ing to take place in May. 1T daughter, Ruth Brown, to take place in the early of their daughter, Marie 9 wedding to take place nces the enga cement and ellie Beatty. to Dr. Edgar
 e place Wednesday, April
 of her daughter. Lotoise.
 IS at the home. No cards.
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MT. and Mrs. w. B. White entertained at a dinner party on Friday evening at
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-05-25
LAND SALE.

Whereas H. E. Cannon and wife,
Sarah Cannon, on the 4th day of Octo-
Der, 1915, executed to me as trustee
a deed Of trust to certain tract Of
land hereinafter described to secure
the payment of certain Indebtedness
l1rein described, which deed of trust
IS Of record in the registers office of
Haywood county, Tennessee, in trust
deed book No. 5, page 293, and,
Whereas said indebtedness is now
due and unpaid, and
Whereas, / have been requested By
the owner and holder of said indebted
ness to sell said land
Nov, therefore, | will on
SATURDAY, JUNE md, 1917
within legal hours at the east door Of
the courthouse in Brownsville, Tenn
sell to the highest and best bidder for
cash, the following described tract or
parcel Of land, Situate in the seventh
civil district of Haywood county, Ten
nessee, and beginning at stake in
Bonds Ferry road, black oak pointers,
the original northeast corner Of the
tract Of land of which the said DR.. +.
A. Taylor died seized and possessed,
and runs thence south 265 poles to
jtake; thence west 104 2-3 poles to a
stake; thence north 252 1-3 poles to a
stake; thence east IL 2-3 poles to
stake; thence north II 2-3 poles to
stake, thence east 92 poles to the be-
ginning, containing 173 acres, more or
less, and being the same tract Of land
allotted to Mrs. P. M. Taylor, widow of
the said DR.. E. A. Taylor, for dover
~ a decree of the county court
Haywood county, Tennessee, of record
in Minute Book ~" at page BIT, and
Jlseiae-sl4e same tract of land together
with other lands which was conveyed
to II. E. Cannon by Howell Taylor and
wife by deed dated October 4th, 1911,
and being of record in deed book No.
"A, at pages Alta ct seq, of the regis
ter's office of Haywood county, Tennes-
see.
Said land will be sold in bar of all
equities of redemption, homestead and
dover and all other rights of exemp-
ions of every kind.
The title to said land is believed to
be good, but | will sell and convey as
trustee only.
This 9th day of April, 1917.
27 w. w. BOND. Trustee.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-05-25

cratic candidates for the offices of re-
corder, marshal, justice of the peace
OF the town of Brownsville, Tenn.
All white legal voters, who have paid
their poll taxes for the year 1916, as
is required by law and pledge their
support in the regular election to the
nominee. of this primary and all mi
nors who viii be q years old on or be-
fore the second Tuesday in December,
1917, the date of the next regular
lection for said officers, shall be enti-
tied 10 participate in said primary
election and no others. Registration
not being required of said voters. The
oafot shall be on plain white paper
3 by z inches. The candidate for any
Of said offices receiving the greatest
number of votes for said office to
Vhich he aspires, shall be declared the
democratic nominee for said office.
The expense of calling and holding
aid primary shall be only such as is
ow provided by law and shall be paid
by the candidates and divided among
them equally.
The following parties are hereby APP
pointed and requested to hold said pri-
nary:
Officer. I. Mann.
Judges-Jesse Roberts,S. A. Baynes,
Viii Lay.
,Clerks-Alf Kinney, Thad Crandell.
w. w. WAGNER, Chairman.
VIM. KINNEY.
This April 80, 1917.
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Reserving the right to reject any
and all bids and readvertise the letting
Of the work, notice is hereby given that
the following work of construction for
Mud Creek Drainage District of Hay
wood county, will be let at Browns
vile, Tennessee, at the courthouse on
Wednesday, May 30, 1917
and sealed bids on said work will be
received until 10 o'clock a. m. on said
date.
THE clearing of so acres of right
of way for main canal as per plan,
specifications, orders and DEGREES of
The county court of Haywood county,
tennessee. The clearing for the main
canal must be 70 feet wide, all of
which clearing is in and through Mud
creek in said county. This right of
-ay must be cleared and cleaned to
the outside edge of same, and all OBJ
structions left outside of right of way.
2-The excavation, digging, and con-
struction work must be done accord
ng to the plans, specifications, blue
prints, profiles and DEGREES of the Mud
Creek Drainage District in Haywood
county, Tennessee. The estimated
vardage and excavation is SS,469 cubic
ards of earth.
3-The BERN or distance between the
edge of the main canal and the foot of
the spoil bank must be not less than
0 feet. Each bid on this work must
be accompanied by certified check
or by cash in sum equal to ten per
,entum of the amount bid. This check
will be returned to the bidder if bid is
rejected, or if successful will be held
until a good and solvent bond is exc
cuted, approved and accepted guar
anteeing the performance of said con-
contract, said bond to be in the sum
equal to Is per centum of the bid.
4-This work must begin as soon af-
ter the contract is executed as possible,
and must be pushed with all speed
consistent with good construction.
For information as to plans, specifi-
cations, or any other matterconcerning
said drainage district, write Bond 4
Bond, Brownsville, or G. C. Sherrod,
Bells, Tenn. This April 30, 1917.
JAS. Upton,
F. P. HESS,
COLON L0MAX,
Board of Directors of Mud Greed
Drainage District. It
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NOTICE, MR.. FARMER.

When your eropis finished you will
appreciate some cash money. | have
vet ten miles of two hundred foot right
of way to clear, starting at Sharons
Ferry, going to the end of Haywood
and Crockett county drainage district.
Will let to responsible parties, one
quarter of mile to two miles for
1911 per mile, and S1.25 per cord for
four foot wood. Write me at Browns
vileo r Bells, stating which place you
wish to see me and l will show you
plans and specifications. Iwant twen-
ty-five more men and teams at once
on the upper end.
If R. N. Morris, Genl. Contractor.
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termination to wait for him. She was
always careful to end every CONVERSE
ton by saying that she knew her out
look was perfectly hopeless and that
she could expect nothing except sor-
row until the younger Meade was re-
habilitated. She so contriyed matters,
while constantly affirming her feeling
for Meade, as to let Shurtliff infer
that she was convinced that he had
been telling the truth in what he had
sale.
After a time she deftly appealed to
him to know if he could not help her
discover the truth she tactfully main
tanned even in face of the evidence that
Shurtliff had given. And she did this
in such an adroit way that Shurtlln
became convinced that she did not con-
meet him with any willful deception,
and that she believed that he was de
luded himself and occupied the posi-
ton of an innocent abettor And Shurt-
lift, in his strange, old, self-contained
way, finally grew to like Helen Hing
worth exceedingly. Indeed he started
in his work with natural antagonism
to Colonel Illingworth, and when he
sensed, as he very soon did, the diff
ference that had arisen between father
and daughter, he espoused the cause OF
the latter. lie was the kind of man
who had to devote himself to some
body. He began to wonder If there
was any way to secure the girls hap
piness without betraying the elder
Meade
She compassed the secretary, who
was, of course, old enough to be her
father, with sweet observances and he
found it increasingly hard to keep true
to his falsehood. Now she was cap
able of fascinating bigger personalities
than Shurtliff, although she cared lit
tie for that power and rarely exercised
1t. The old man actually got to think
ing of her as a daughter. Sometimes
when they had an hour together h'
found himself seconding her arguments
for the innocence of the younger
Meade, for she had progressed that fal
by now, with little details which his
knowledge and experience of the TIVE
men could supply. Trifing in them
selves as were these contributions, a!
Rodney pointed out when she repeated
/, them to him, they nevertheless addet
something to the cumulative force o
the argument so laboriously built vi
by the friend and woman. And the,
were decidedly indicative of growing
l mental condition on the part of Shurt
lift from which much might be hope
and expected.
,, But Shurtliff could not bring him
self to come out boldly and confess
and his failure to do that made hin
more and more miserable. At first hi
: conscience had been entirely clear. IL
had viewed his conduct in the light 0
noble sacrifice for the great mar
:, Now he began to question: Was
!, right to blast the future of the Twin
: for the sake of the fame Of the dead
Probably he would have questione
that eventually without regard t
Helen Ilingworth, but when he bega
? to grow fond of the woman and whe
he realized, as she Enthusiastically dis
: closed it to him, that her own happ
ness was engaged and that he was nc
= only running the career of a man bu
wrecking the life and crushing tn
! heart of an entirely innocent woman
. he had a constant battle royal wit
t himself to pursue his course and I
keep silent.
5 ITO be continued)
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them that Meade was blameless. But
the most assiduous effort with the
heartiest will in the world and the
promptings of devotion and affection
could not make case out of these
suggestions and their differences that
would hold water. They could not es-
tablish their contention beyond perad-
venture in the face of Meade's direct
admission and Shurtliff's corrobora-
ton. They could not establish 1t in the
public mind by any evidence at all II
Meade and Shurtliff remained silent.
If either one or the other of the two
conspirators could be brought to tell
the truth, Meade could be restored, at
least sufficiently so for the purpose OF
argument; the argument that Helen
Illingworth sooner or later must make
to her father. 1t was that to which she
gave the most thought, 1t was for that
she planned and longed
Two people cannot resolve, even by
mutual consent to dismiss from their
daily thought and conversation any
subject whatsoever without introduce
ing in place of it a certain constraint.
1t Is as futile to attempt to dismiss
anything absolutely from the human
mind as is the oft-suggested cure for
rheumatism - doing certain things
without thinking of the disease sought
to be cured!
Colonel Tllingworth had dismissed
Meade from his mind because he hated
him. Helen Illingworth refralned
from talking about him to her father
because she loved him. So they were
never in each others presence without
thinking of the man. This was a
source Of great irritation to the father.
On occasion he almost found himself
at the point Of shouting at his daugh-
Ter to talk about him. And that she so
carefully avoided the subject ana as
the avoidance was so obviously in ac-
cordance with his own wish, the re-
stroint irrltated him the more. Inc
fact that they both sought so carefully
TO maintain the old relationship maze
it more impossible. For relationships
which are primarily founded on love
cannot be maintained by constraint
without the weakening of the great
force upon which their tenure had pre-
viously depended. There is nothing
like concealment to impair and weak
on n tie unless 1t be ban! Prohlpl-
tions rarely prohibit.
Still there remained deep and abld-
ing affection between father ana
daughter and they managed somehow
to get along outwardly much as Derore'
Indeed Colonel Illingworth was more
kind and considerable than ever TO ms
daughter. and she repaid him with
moro than usual care and devotion.
Tho very fact that she seemed to nave
accented the situation and obeyed the
law he had laid down gave MN some
comnunctions Of conscience. On that
account. perhaps, he had been the more
willing to accede to her request TO take
shurtlIff into his employ. In no way
wos shurtliff responsible for the fall
nre of the bridge or for any mistake
in the calculations of the Meades, ana
sbnrtIiff was an invaluable man, not
only for an engineer but for the presl-
dent of the Martlet Bridge company.
He was familiar with the subjects