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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
ANNOUNCEMENTS

There will be meeting of the Glen Iris chapter of the Delphian society on this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the nome of Mrs. c. S. Milan, 1918 Cullom street.
 
 I,Allegro club will meet with Mrs $ g. Godbee this afternoon at O'CLOCK The meeting is called by the club pres ident, Miss Virginia Holcomb, ana every member is urged to be present. Miss Jimmie Terrens Red Cross aux iliary will meet this afternoon at z'@o at the parish house of the Church or the Advent.
 The Treble Clef chorus of the Music Study club will hold the first rehearsal of the season this morning at 9;45 o'clock at Cable hall.
 The Writers club will meet this aft ernoon at 2:S0 o'clock at the Tutwiler
 
 The Missionary society of the First Christian church will meet this atter- noon at 2:a0 o'clock at the home ot Mrs' J. NJ. Webb, 1713 Eleventh avenue, south There will be a meeting of the Pres ent Day club this morning at Il O CLOCK at the home of Mrs h. w. bo9'i0N 1430 Phelan street.
 The first meeting of the year of the Graymont School Improvement assocla- tion will be held this afternoon at 2;lo o'clock at the school. The annual cleo tion of officers will be held ana all members are urged to attend
 
 The Birmingham Red Cross chapter of deaf mutes, which was to have met this afternoon at the home of Mrs c. F. Brocato 1214 Twelfth avenue, north, has been postponed on account of the lack of wool AS soon as the wool arrived at Red Cross headquarters the meeting will be called.
 There will be noNmeeting this week Of Red Cross unitss No. 1 and No. 2 Of Woodlawn until more wool arrives. Ihe next meeting will be announced ialer.
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E7T1HE seventeenth annual reunion of
 the Alabama division of the ~ United Confederate veterans will be held in this city next week and Will be very interesting event Many social affairs are being arranged for the visit ing rnatrons and maids and sponsors.
 The largest social event perhaps Will be the ball given by Camp Henry D. Clayton, Sons of the Confederate Neter- ~Is, and the Birmingham Civic associa- 1,ou on the evening of Wednesday, the 10th, when Governor Henderson and Miss Margaret Gage, sponsor for Camp Henry D. Clayton, will lead the grand march.
 sAmong the prominent young men serv- ing on the ball committee are: Chairman of Sons committee. MT. Thomas Dozier; chairman of ball committee, MT Edwin Robinson; chairman of the Civic associa- ton ball committee, MT. George B. Mc- Way, Jr., and president of the ball com lnittee, Judge Hugh Locke.
 
 The marriage of Miss Marie Tanner, daughter of MT. and Mrs. $. P. Tanner, and Lieut.. George Clyue OdNlS, Ct D. r. C., took place yesterday afternoon at ; 0 oelock at the home of the brides par ents at Norwood.
 The home was very attractively ar ranged and decorated with golden rod, the national flower, combined with quan- titles of ferns, palms and smilax and rags.
 Before the ceremony a musical pro- gramme was rendered by Bessie Ferguson at the piano, who also played the we'd ding march, and Mrs. Herbert Ephgrave and A1r. Beatty Tanner, who sang solos.
 The bridal party entered to the sweet strains of the Lohengrin wedding march The brides only attendant was her sister, Miss Albert Tanner. who was very attractive in an afternoon 1rocN oI blue. Her flowers were Richmond roses The bride entered with her father, Wao gave her in marriage She was lovely in her travelling suit of dark blue With gray hat, shoes and gloves. Her flew CTS were q shower bouquet of Richmond roses, valley lilies
 The groom was attended by Lieut. Mi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04

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non Whitaker, Mir Harrington Heflin, Mrs. William McGrath, Miss Kate Earle Terrell.
 Mrs Algernon Smith was among the hostesses yesterday at the Country club, entertaining in honor of her two guests, Mrs. Howard Smith and Miss Marian Groom Smith of Houston, Tex. Among the guests were Mrs. Smith, Miss Smith, Miss Annie L. Williams, Mrs. P Toulmin Mrs. Eugene Munger, Mrs Edmund w. Fucker, Jr. Mrs. Roy Knight, and Miss Florence McCrossin.
 
 Miss Ryding entertained few friends at luncheon at the Country club yester- day, complimenting Mrs. D. w. Coving- ton and Miss Covington of Montgomery. Her guests were Mrs. Covington, Miss Covington Mrs. B. s. Wheeiocl, Mrs. Harry Coffin and Mrs. Alex Cecil.
 One of the pretty affairs of yesterday was the bridge-shower given by Miss Mary O'Brien, comphmenting Miss Vir- ginia White, bride elect.
 The early part of the afternoon was spent playing bride and the score prize was pair of silk hose.
 Later in the afternoon a delightful salad course was served in the dining room. where the decorations were espe- cldllY plSltNt 1ho 'lHtS ,,. with a basket of pink and white dahlias. The ices further carried out the pink and white idea, being frozen in the form of tiny slippers.
 The bride was showered with many handsome pieces of linen. The guests in- cluded: Mrs. s. F. Teague, Mrs. Dobbins, Miss Anne Spencer and Mrs. Downey, Miss Virginia White, Mrs. Jack Walton, Mrs Frank J. White, Mrs Wallace Nall, Tr Mrs Anna O'Brien Misses Kathleen Neshit. Emma Black Amelia Gaudin, Es- telle Strickland, Charlotte Thornton, Jo- sephine Boggan, Ruth Webb, Valley Young White, Augusta Nall, Kate Little, Marion Pinchard, Mrs Griffith, Mrs. 4 4 A. Darby, Mrs. George Breinig, Mrs. U, p. White. Mrs 1T. C. Abbott, Mrs Wi- liam Armistead Smith Mrs. C. r. hlce, Nfrs Fred Arnold. Mrs. Jim Downey and Mrs. Dan Downey.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
WORLD MOVES FORWARD WITA
 LONG STRIDES
Peace Has Its Victories No Less Than War = Science Robs Calomcl of Its Nauseat- ing and Dangerous Qualities. Calotabs the New Name.

Here is good news for the sixteen hundred millions of people in the world who have liyers to be cleansed, systems 10 be purified and biIiousness, consti- patton and indigestion to be correcte1 l, Colonel, the only successful liver med- icine, has been robbed of its gripinS, fnauseating and dangerous effects. Cal-- otabs. the new name. makes calomel taking q real pleasure.
 Tn future ask your druggist for Calo- tabs. the de-nauseated calomel tablet lie is authorized to refund the r1.ice if you are not perfectly deltghtedN with Calotabs. 0ns tablet on the tongue at baGtinae, q swall How of water--that's all. No taste nor unpleasantncss cf any Find. You wake up in the morning feeling fine, with a hearty appetite, Eat what you please and 90 about your work.
 The genuine Calotabs are sold only hunk Price thirtv-five cents for twenty doses. Your money back if you are not thoroughly delighted.-Adv,
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Nothing So Unfies and Solidifes Nation Art and America Will Never Have National School of Art Until We Become a Nation" Says MT. John Powell

all, is the basis and keynote in the process of evolving musical idiom in any national work.
 Southern people are strictly Anglo Saxon," MT. Powell said We are English to our finger tips; take our old d-fashioned nursery rhyme songs the sdarky plantation melodies-they express much that is beautiful in mu- sic Look at the collection of folk songs the Lonesome Tunes,' they are called by Harold Broadway; all of them, with the exception of few in which he has branched out from the old melodies, are our old southern songs Another collection is Cecil Sharpe's English Folk Songs'-expres- sive of the English type of folklore. Summing up the question of how Amer ica is going to be affected by the war, musically, I again repeat that thst is not the vital point so much az what the effect of music is to be upon the future"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
CIT THIS OUT-IT IS WORTH
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DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip. enclose with Sc and mail it to Foley & Co, 2s35 Sheffield Ave, Chicago, Ill, writing your name and address clearly. You will receive in return a trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, for coughs, colds, and croup; Foley Kidney Pills for pain in sides and back, rheumatism, back ache kidney and bladder ailmentsi and Foley Cathartic Tablets, q wholesome and thoroughly cleansing cathartic for constipation, biliousness, headache and sluggish bowels. Sold everywhere. Adv.
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artists that only a few times has she been allowed the chance at the Met ropolitan opera, when she is engaged to sing any but the most unimportant roles.
 MT Powell Is pupil of the famous Leschetizky, having studied five years with him in Vienna, and he is tremen- dously interested in the subject of the music of his own country-intereste
 in the culture and the advancement of art in America-and regrets that in many instances there has been retro gression rather than forward move ment when there are such marvellous possibilities especially .n the folk song of our southland, which, after
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
RANDOM NOTES

Miss Lydia Mays of Ensley is among the Alabama girls attending the Eliza beth Mather college in Atlanta thls winter She is a sister of Miss Mays who is dean of the college.
 Miss Bland Tomlinson is spending the month of October as the guest of Miss Brownie Johnson at Laurel" Md.
 Miss Ethel Perkins of Atlanta is the guest of Mrs II. c. Gheeslng at the Ridgely.
 Mir. and Mrs. Guy Amos of Norwood have returned from a two weeks motor trip to Atlanta, Wedowee, LaFayette and Roanoke. In Wedowee they were guests at the country home of Mrs Martha McBurnette, and spent the weekend with Mrs. Augusta Ward at IaFayette and Roanoke With MT. and Mrs. w. N. Spinks.
 Mrs. John w. Tomlinson is at Tate Springs for short stay.
 Among the out-of-town guests at the wedding of Miss Tanner and Lieutenant Davis yesterday afternoon was Mrs. Robert Word of Selma. Mrs. R. C. Lewis has returned from an eastern trip.
 MT. and Mrs Kirkman Jackson have returned from Atlantic City, and are at home for the winter in the Warner home on Highland avenue, MT. and Mrs Arthur Chenoweth will occupy the Frank Crockard home for winter.
  MT and Mrs. P. G. Shook will oc- cupy the Robert F. Smith home this winter.
 Mrs. Merriett Vandver, who spent the past few days in the city as the guest of MT. and Mrs. Hubert Scruggs, has returned to her home in Montgom- cry.
 MT. and Mrs Walter Blaney of Gin cinnati are the guests of Mrs. Blaney's parents. MT and Mrs. J. w. Donnelly, on Highland avenue.> Miss Virginia Hassinger will be among the Birmingham girls this winter at Ogontz. Philadelphia Mrs. Edwin Ball and Miss Mary Lois Ball have returned to Birmingham after /, spending the summer in Wisconsin. 1 Miss Mamie Kirkpatrick of Atlanta will arrive soon to be the guest of Miss Margaret Gage during the reunion. She will be one of Miss Gage's maids at the reunion.
 Senator and Mrs. William Bankhead | Mrs l.. Lund and Miss Tallulah Bank 1 head of Jasper spent last evening in l the city at the Tutwiler en route to 1 Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
cAnns OF THANKS

MT. G. w. Knowlen, East Lake, desires to thank friends and neghbors for kind ness shown during his recent bereave- nent in the loss of his wife. Ellen Knowlen
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Miss Virginia Hassinger will be among the Birmingham girls this winter at Ogontz. Philadelphia.
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Mrs Merriett Vandiver, who spent the past few days in the city as the guest of Mir and Mrs. Hubert Scruggs, has returned to her home in Montgom- cry
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MT. and Mrs. Walter Blaney of Cin- cinnati are the guests of Mrs. Blaney's parents, MT and Mrs. J. w. Donnelly, on Highland avenue
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Mrs. Edwin Ball and Miss Mary Lois Ball have returned to Birmingham after snending the summer in Wisconsin.
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Miss Lydia Mays of Ensley IS among the Alabama girls attending the Eliza- beth Mather college in Atlanta this winter. She is a sister of Miss Mays, who Is dean of the college.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04

Mir and Mrs P. G. Shook will oc- cupy the Robert F. Smith home this winter.
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Miss Mamie Kirkpatrick of Atlanta will arrive soon to be the guest of Miss Margaret Gage during the reunion. She will be one of Miss Gage's maids at the reunion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04

Miss Bland Tomlinson is spending the month of October as the guest of Miss Brownie Johnson at Laurel" Md.
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MT. and Mrs. Arthur Chenoweth vii occupy the Frank Crockard home fol winter.
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Senator and Mrs. William Bankhead, Mrs. l.. Lund and Miss Tallulah Bank head of Jasper spent last evening in the city at the Tutwiler en route to Washington.
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Miss Agnes Terrell entertained at luncheon yesterday at the Country club, complimenting Miss May Collins, bride elect, The table was centered with a huge basket of dahlias and the guests were Miss Coliins Mrs. Gum of Rich aaond. Va, Mrs. s. Y. Caldwell, Mrs. Ver-
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Miss Ethel Perkins of Atlanta is tht guest of Mrs. II. c. Gheeshng at th' Ridgely.
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Mrs. John w. Tomlnson is at Tate Springs for a short stay.
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MT. and Mrs. Kirkman Jackson hav' returned from Atlantic City, and arr at home for the winter in the Warne home on Highland avenue,
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Among the out-of-town guests at tn wedding of Miss Tanner and Lieutenan Davis yesterday afternoon was Mrs Robert Word of Selma.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
S7.5O Trimmed Hat Special

Week Sale in our history millinery depart ment will have ready for you this morning loo Trimmed Hats regularly sold at s7.5o. There are silk velvet shapes, handsomely trimmed with ornaments, ribbons fancy QAnE
 feathers Our sale price only ........ U4sJO
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-10
GLIDING SORROWS.

Chancellor Michaelis, in an address
to the German Reichstag main COM
nittce MONDAY amonc other things
said:
Ever German readily and gladly
makes the sacrifice Of blood or treas
rre demanded from him. | believe
that among US there is hardly any.
one who. remembering what he has
had to give up, does not gulp down
his upsurging grief with the reflee-
ton that it had to be
Telling Il long suffering people
that the sacrifice Of millions OF lives
an! billions Of money chad to he"
Is becoming more absurd every day
to most Of the German people who do
mot believe war was forced upon their
country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-10
GLAD TO TESTIFY
Says WatOga Lady, GAS To What
Cardui Has Done For Me, So
As To Help Others"

Watoga, ". Va.-Mrs. S. W. Caldwell,
IF this town, says: when about l5years
If age, | suffered greatly =. Sometimes
would 20 a month or two, and | had
errible headache, backaclle, and bearing
.owu pains, and would just drag and
.ad no appetite. Then -. if would last
two weeks, and was so weakening,
md my health was awful.
My mother bought me a bottle OF
,,ardui, and ! began TO improve after
aking the first bottle, so kept if up Till |
ook three II gained, and was wei!
md strong, and | owe it all 10 Cardui.
am married now and have 3 children
;. Have never had 10 have a doctor Tor
emale trouble, and just resort 10 Cardui
/ need a tonic. | am glad 10 testify 10
what it has done for me, so as 10 help
others"
Ii you are nervous or weak, have head
,ches, ~backaches, or any OF the other
ailments so common to women, why not
give Cardui a trial? Recommended by
many physicians. In use over4 40 years.
Begin taking Cardui today. 1t may
be the very medicine you need.
NC-l30
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-10
AIMING.

Ii becomes more apparent every
day that Germany has made her su-
prcne military effort and failed.
Under the terrific. continuous on
slaurht of the allied armies she IS
losing her manpower today at the
rate Of more than l25. 600 4 month.
Her losses grow heavier and
heavier. Her ability to transfer
troops from the Eastern front ~
the Western. and vice versa. to meet
the b.g drive. has been checked. Her
resources il men are diminishing at
the very moment military emergen>
cic< demand they should increase.
The publication by the French
high commission Of figures showing
the fading of German military pow
er makes possible alluSion TO an
cpirion held in high circles in the
United States for over Il month. 1t IS
this-that within a very short time
there Will come an unconditional sur
render by Germany.
The French statement confirms
that ri Secretary of War Baker
tina: the German armies are now but
lust able 70 hold their own. They
VII! We shattered by the first full
weight blow Of the United States.
This knowledge is not. Of course,
confned 10 the allies. German war
lords know it ever better than do
they. II can be stated authoritative
II chat IN unconditional surrender
before the United States strikes
would not be a surprise in. Washing
TN.
Tie wars most dramatic race be-
81. ~vescsraar-s race with winter
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VIRGINIA NEWS

About two hundred recruits from
Virginia arrived at Camp Lee yestcr-
,iav in a cold. drizzling rain. lhcy
came from Roanoke, Lexington n
FRANKLIN, and the counties Of Rust
burg. Norfolk, Appomattox and Cum
h4r]ana. The largest Contingent
numbering 5G men. was from KIN
tor, and the next largest numbering
y men, from Norfolk county. Prac-
all of the drafted men OF
the second quota from Virginia, west
VIRGINIA and Pennsylvania are now
in quarters at the Lee cantonment.
The battalion of the Forty-seventh
New York regiment, which has been
Ioing guard duty. has received a dell
mite orders to refrain tonight 10:
Spartanburg. S. c.
Storm warnings from Cape HAT
teras to Boston we're ordered up last
night. The disturbance was located
as approximately $50 miles east u
Charleston, S. c.. probably moving
1ortheastward. High winds were
forecast for today and tomorrow
along the South Atlantic coast, north
Of Charleston.
At an early hour this morning Of
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-10

in the West. The allies-France ana
ENGLAND are driving hard; hard
er than ever before over the ground
where the war began. Belgians are
riding to victory. They took the ilrs'
hurdles by storm yesterday to the
tune of one miles advance on a
fen mile front and thousands OF
prisoners. l.
Scarcely three weeks are LETT 10
.omnlete the lob which IS to clear
every height and hillock, and every
inch On the slopes of the northern top
of the ridge that bars their way fof
a sweep down the plains OF flahoers'
The moment advances OF more
than a mile a month are recorded
in France and Flanders, the ner-
man people are going to adopt the
cry already heard there why
spend the lives of thousands OF oui
mon and billions more of marks 10
territory which we may not be am
!, hold or for indemnities when 81
may never be able to impose: ;,
The leaders Of the German hoer"'S
have already voiced this. Inc! So
in this situation the opportunity l"'
tha German. reforms when Nave
haan brewing since lS4S.
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NEW BALKAN CAMP Align
baltimore Amcrican)

'>
Germany has had its day in the
Balkans. 1t has overrun and des-
rolled Serbia. II has overrun and
~despoiled Rumania. 1t has gained
territory ami cntailed vast drains
upon TIE resources Of man power to
hold what it has taken. With its
nan power now greatly reduced. and
with manifest inability t. cope with
tie foe Upon the west front, Ger
many is now iii a state TO give en-
enlargement 10 a campaign by the
Allies in the Balkans. There APP
now to be in preparation such
a campaign. This will enlist the
newly organized Grek army and
will muster a million and a half OF
men. Two drives through Serbia
and one upon ConStantinople appear
to be planned. These drives Will 50
absorb the Germans that they will be
Glad to forget they are in Russia.
and certainly will not be able.&to
carry out further, advances in the
region Of their latest success.
The new Balkan campaign ray
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-10
cARLIN TO SUCCEED HIMSELF

10y some weeks past it has been
rnmored around that oar presens
Representative in Congress-, MI
Carlin, would likely retire at tne civ
of his present term, n e'iue NY
with this thought in mind mere ma
heon some discussion as to MS proo.
nile s,Ic essor. The editor OF TINS
nanpr ha. seen Mr.. Carlin, who mas
artborized the statement, we are
clad to say, that he has not ths
Slightest. idea Of retiring from pup,
liz life. but will be a candidate :"
srcreed himself in Congress, SAP,
iect TO the Democratic primary OF
The Democratic members OF the
v;ruinia delegation III Congress
have made splendid records n
they occupy places of great pr0lni1i
nnce and responsibility. They will al
no candidates for reelection, incita
mo of course, Senator Thomas ,
Martin, the present wonderfully vel
nnised Democratic leader OF the Sen
.tc who is daily demonstrating ms
profound ability and statesmanshiE
and the wisdom of his Colleagues IL
selecting him to lead them IN TN:
nrca, crisis of the Nations history
This paper entertains the views that
il would be a public calamity f"r
the people of this State to lose thS
service OF any of these emineh'
Gentlemen in these perilous time:
when thy Nstisn and the State neeo
rot only their ahlest but their mos,
aypcrienced men III the Natlota
Congress. That there should be NJ
change without saying. anc
hat there will be non is a sell eVi,
lent fact. Especially is this true OF
our own District. a"d we take pecu
liar pride in here referring to TN;
ia that this paper actively ant
earnestly supported u present kep
. resentative when he was first a can
lidnta for Congress. We told toe
naopIc then of his splendid ability
! hioh character and sterling worth
Our Judgment has been abundanti!
certified. and we do not believe there
l. = citizen in the Eighth District
whether he he Democrat or Renubii'
Fan. a partisan OF non-partisan, Wnt
will not concede that this District
IS represented with great ability ii
the Congress Of the United state
Mr.. Carlin has grown year by year
in the confidence and affection OF
thc people, and We believe they, Ike
ourselves. vii! be glad to learn tnai
it is his purpose to again stand toi
! reelection Hamilton Enterprise,
October 9Th.