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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
MRS. TOMLINSON IN
 PHILADELPHIA FOR WINTER

The following from the pen of Nancy Wynne, appeared in the Philadelphia Ledger of recent date and will be read with interest by the friends of Mrs John Tomlinson, Mrs. Vaughan Bostwick and Mrs. Jack Carter:
 To-day will welcome home a number of the summer The William Buel Frank lins with their two daughters, Sarah and Sidney, are coming back today to theif apartment at Haverford Court. They have been up at York harbor Mrs. James CarStairS is also going to live at Haverford Court this winter, as Mir. Car stairs is in France with the Red Cross. MT. and Mrs. Randall MoBgan expect to return this week from a motor trlp through New England. Mrs. Benjamin Chew and her family are coming home from Cape May today to Glenvale Rad nor Captain Chew is in the remount de- partment U. s. A., and has been ordered out west. Mrs. John w. TomlinSon IS coming up from Birmingham. Ala, early this month with her daughter who IS Mrs. Vaughn Bostwick, you know, and they are going to spend the winter with Mrs. Tomlinsons other daughter. Mrs John Hugh McQ Carter Mrs. Carter she married Vaughan this year. Her name was Joy Tomlinson, and Mrs. Bost wick was Bland Tomlinson. 1 think they are such attractive names, Joy and Bland, and so very southern. It's Cap tain Bostwick, now, you know, and he is over there with the 3l5th infantry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
How Women Wage Farmers Are Loyalty and Patriot Il icaly Supporting the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive

just as many Thrift Stamps as she can. new winter suit or no new winter suit, lunch or no lunch.
 It isn't anything spectacular-just a plain old everyday sort of common or garden variety Of sacrifice-willing to do without, willing to give up out of a. meager salary, her bit so that we may win this terrible war.
 When all is said and done of the women who are taking part in all sorts of exciting things. helping to go "over the top in the Fourth Liberty Loan. and making marvellous accomplishments. don't forget the modest little wage- earner who has no time to take part in these splendid and interesting things, but who just sits tucked away in her little niche in an office pounding away on the typewriter, saving stinting, doing her part. in the great campaign.
 And she is not only in the offices, but you'll find her in the little homes scat tered about over the city, through tho state and all over everywhere; she isn | getting much publicity, and her efforts gre far from picturesque, but just the same it is she and few million others just like her. who are standing back of the women in the front lines of the Fourth Liberty Loan drive, and doing her level best to make the world safe for democracy. God bless her!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
LABOR PROTESTS | AGAINST GAS RAISE Mass Meeting Held in New Orleans to Fight the
 Proposed Increase

New Orleans, La, october 7.-Resolu- tions protesting against proposed 90 per cent increase in gas and electric lighting rates and a raise from to 6 cents in street car fares and calling upon the governor and attorney general for immediate action looking to the appoint ment of a receiver for the New Orleans Railway and Light company were adopted at & mass meeting yesterday un- der the auspices of organized labor of the city. An appeal also was issued for funds with which to fight the proposed in- creases in the courts. An advertising fund was oversubscribed within a few minutes.
 Today's mass meeting was called after an ordinance granting the New Orleans ] Railway and Light company permission | to increase it's rates, was introduced at a I special meeting last Tuesday of the city 1 commission council. Under the city laws | the ordinance cannot be finally acted upon until next Tuesday.
 l Mayor Behrman last Tuesday an tnounced the receipt of request from the
 war finance corporation that the city grant the public utilities corporation per l mission to increase rates to an extent which would make 1t possible for the company to operate at profit instead oi
 a deficit. The war finance corporation | it was explained, loaned the corporation
 $1, ,O00, 900 with the understanding that ths city would allow it to increase its rates | The war labor board recently granted
 40 per cent increase to employees Of tht corporation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08

N VERY day hundreds of girls and -lS women are giving themselves to 2N some service for the boys lover there." and no work brings more real 1oy and comfort, because it is home joy and comfort-than that of the Y. w. C. A workers.
 The duties of a blue triangle secretary in charge of a nurses hut in France, run from keeping open house and pro- viding general cheer for the nurses, to going to town and doing their shopping for them.
 Wherever a hotel has been swept and garnished, and white iron beds installed, wherever 8 steady line of stretchers pass through the doors of convent, chateau or portable shed-there one sees Y. M. c. A. hut, one of those frail affairs which come in sections and in amazingly short while transform themselves into sturdy shelters enlivened by bright pictures and the homelike cheer of chintz and brew. ing tea.
 When a Y. W. c. A. secretary isn't playing hostess here she Is generally run. ming about doing odd jobs and making herself generally useful There is al ways ample opportunity for bringing
  comfort to the wounded men in the wards and it is no uncommon sight to see one of these blue triangle girls passing among the beds distributing flowers gathered from some nearby estate, or exchanging a merry jest with the invalid.
 One boy, grinning cheerlly from be- tween white bandages and looking ridic- uiously young, begged every new nurse assigned to him to say how soon he could get back to the front The '. ". c. A. secretary on one of her visits to the ward asked the boy how old he was, and he answered, strengthening up as proudly as his bandages would per init; T shall be IS years old next July. This was in August
 At several of the base hospitals whose long rows O. barracks are connected by covered alley ways, the trains bearing the wounded come into the .hospita grounds and up to the very door of the large receiving ward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Cunningham School Improvement association will meet Tuesday at 2:30 in the auditorium. All members are urged to be present, as an election of officers will take place.
 Ladies' Hebrew auxiliary will meet this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the r.. M H. A., to discuss important busi- ness.
 The Norwood Needle club will meet with Mrs. G. F. Wilkinson this morn ing.
 The Birmingham branch of the South ern Association of Colleeg Women win meet with Mrs. John Miller on Madison avenue this afternoon at o'clock
 There will be meeting of the Psy- chology Study club this morning at 10:N o'clock at the home of Mrs. c. c. Adams.
 The first meeting of the fall of the William L. Yancey chapter, U. D. C., will be held tomorrow afternoon at , 0 clock at the Southern club. The annual election of officers which was postponed from last spring, will be held at this time.
 The annual meeting Of the Children Hospital association, which was to have met tomorrow at this hospital, has been postponed on account of the members being actively engaged in the Liberty Loan drive. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 23.
  The womens committee of the Jewish war service fund will hold a special meeting Tuesday afternoon at o'clock at the home of the Hebrew associa- ton, corner of Seventh avenue and Six teenth street, north, to announce the amount of money collected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
Influenza Causes Close
 of Public. Institutions

Memphis, october 7.-City and coun- tv health officers today ordered the- atres and other places of amusement schools and churches in Memphis and shelby county closed for an indefinite period owing to the prevalence of Spanish influenza Reports to the city hoard of health showed that between 3Ooc and 40OO cases of the disease had been treated by Memphis physicians. Sixteen recent deaths were attributed either directly or indirectly to inllu- enza.
 A central bureau of medical relief was established today as the lnitiai move in a systematic campaign to stamp out the disease and hospUal has been established to care TOT sol diers who may develop the maiaiy here or aboard trains passing through the city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08

dividual booth, Mrs N. c. Scott. prize S25, ana Mrs. Vernon Douglas won the second prize in the same class
 
 FENELON CLUB BOOK
 The Fenelon club has issued their new year books which are most attractive The officers for l91S-19 are:
 President, Mrs. F. R. Smith; vice pres ident Mrs Sam Meyer; secretary, Mrs H. IT. Hamilton: treasurer, Mrs, R. Wegelin; parliamentarian, Mrs. E. L. Martin; critic, Mrs. E. P. Riggs; reporter, Mrs. E. D. Brown: federation secretary Mrs John Frederick.
 The Young Matrons club will meet or Thursday afternoon at o'clock witk Mrs Nelson Snow on Cypress avenue. FOLD TIRE DAY
 Thursday will be "Old Tire Day. and on this occasion Mrs. T. H. Motion has issued a call for old tires and rubbe. goods of various kinds as well as old garden hose, bottles and many other things. These things thus donated will be disposed of and the proceeds will go to the Wesley house at Avondale and the Good Will center at Ensley.
 The housewives of Birmingham will be delighted to find an opportunity to donate such articles as mentioned above which have been accommodating in the cellar or garage for many months. Do Ity company on Third avenue, the South Highland Methodist church, or Mrs. Mol ton will call for them if notified
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
RED CROSS PAMPHLET

Every American soldier in France will reeeive, within few days, pamphlet
 in which the Red Cross will advise him 10 pack up his troubles in his old kit bag and hand them to the first Red Cross representative he meets" He will be told that there is no worry of any kind on this side or back home that the
 Red Cross won't willingly shoulder for l him.
 | The army knows that the best soldier l IS one whose mind is free from trouble
 and the Red Cross is putting it's re- l sources to the task of keeping American | fighters free from worry It considers l that it's primary purpose in Europe is 1 to bring the utmost of comfort for body and mind to every man among Amer | icas fighting millions. Hundreds of thousands of men have already made use of Red Cross home communication | service. The burdens taken from the doughboys' minds are as various as the
 temperaments and condition of the men | that make up the expeditionary force.
 The good that is being done for these
 men Is illustrated in the case of a ser | geant whose home is in an eastern state | and who is now attached to a unit oper- i ating one of the big base hospitals in France. He left home as volunteer l when the first call came, leaving small business in the care of his wife and trust 1 iIiS lHdt tie lTOHl lHlo ciltCi pi tSo would keep her from need. Two banks 1 in his town held notes against his busi- l ness which had been endorsed by his l brother who was a farmer. When he i offered himself for overseas service the banks assured him that the loans would ! not be called in until he returned and | could meet them.
 | The first letters from his wife were
 happy and free from anxiety. Later they betrayed the fact that she was wor-
 ried and finally came a note saying that
 the banks, contrary to their patriotic promises had called the loans. sold out his little business and forced his broth CT to sell part of his farm.
 I He had heard the Red Cross was will ing to help a soldier. When he told his 1 story to the Red Cross representative with his unit, who happened to be bus mess man who was in that work be- cause he was too old for combat service immediate action was taken cable carried part of the story to Washington Red Cross headquarters operating through the system of Red Cross home
 service sections, which covers the coun- try put the facts into the hands of pa
 trotic people who were in a position te compel respect from the banks As soor
 as the soldiers story was proved the banks were forced to disgorge. The busi-
 ness was given back to the wife, anc
 farmer brother and his land restored
 to him, and the officials of the two banks learned a lesson in the way promises to soldiers should be kept.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
Handicapped Soldiers
 to Be We'll Cared For


 Washington. October 7.-Creation o'
 branch offices to take care of the voca- tional education of handicapped Amer ican soldiers, was announced today by the federal board for vocational educa- ton. Headquarters for district No. D, covering Tennessee, North and South Car olina. Florida and Georgia, arc located in Atlanta. The acting officers are Ray mond W. Ferris, district vocational of- .ficer; James l.. Sibley. district superin- tendent of advisement and training; R c. Kelly and Phillip w. L. Cox. voca- tional advisers.
 District No 4 covers Virginia. West Vir- ginia. Maryland and the District of Co lumbia. with headquarters here. Its act ing officers are George c. Greener, dis trict vocational officer: w. F. Shaw, case officer: Theodore J. Rowland Fisher and
 Dallas Johnson, vocational advisera
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
GOOD FOR COLDS
 OR SORE THROAT
Lee L. Markham Recon mends Cheney's Expec-
 torant
All His Children Take It for Children's Troubles, Such as Group and Whoop-
 ing Cough

Lee l.. Markham of Memphis is cer- tainly justified in singing the praises of lCheney's Expectorant. He says: T have used Cheney's Expectorant for coughs. colds and sore throat, in my home for IS years. All my children have taken it for croup whooping cough and com
 mon colds. and attribute their good health in winter to it's power l have never known it to fail to<cure cold or sore throat in two days. When l feel a cold coming on l take two or three doses and consequently never suffer would not be without it." Cheney's Ex- pectorant is an invaluable medicine for coughs, colds, whooping cough, bron- ehitis, irritations in the throat, sick headache from colds, pains in the chest. It is sold by all drug stores everywhere at little cost. Try bottle today and you will always recommend 1t, like MT. 'Markham.--(Advt.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
Bomb in Tobacco Can
 Explodes, Iniuring Negro

Demopolis, October 1.-information was received here today of the injury of negro at Prentice. caused by the explosion of bomb in can of to- bacco. The negro purchased the to- bacco at a sawmill commissary and had poured out enough to roll cigarette when the explosion occurred. three fingers of his left hand being torn off while his left eve was also blown out Physicians attending the negro extracted pieces of brass and other metal from the wounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
gh! Calomel makes you sick.

Ugh; calemel makes make you sick It's drug tonight and tomorrow you may lose a days work.
 Calomel is mercury or quicksilver Calomcl when it comes into contact with sour bile. crashes to it.. breaking 1t up. This is when you eel that awful nausea and cramping. :. you are slug dish and ''all knocked out if your liver is torpid and bowels constipat ed or you huvg breath s had toach sour, just try spoonful of harmless Dodsons Liver Tone tonight. Here's my guarantee-Go to any drug store and get a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone for few cents. Take . spoonful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
RANDOM NOTES

Mrs. A. O. Humphries of Oxford is in the city, having been called on ac- count of the Illness of Mrs. Otho Humphres.
 NEr. and Mrs. w. H. f<ettg have re- turned from New York and New London. Conn. They visited their son William at New London, who is in the United States navy, and is stationed there at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
WAR REEILGEES

How under the sun do they ever get these hordes of war refugees to their destinations?'"
 This is a query frequently put to re- turned American Red Cross workers con- corning the hundreds of thousands of unfortunates driven from their homes in Austrian drives. The question Is an- swereo in part in the following report received from an American Red Cross worker who has been looking after refu- gees at Bologna, Italy:
 An arrival of emigrants from Europe would give Americans but a faint idea of refugee movement. Many Of them are taking their first railway journey. In most cases it is impossible to make themselves understood. They pour into the Bologna station, dragging behind them unwieldy packages, flasks, bottles, babies, sewing machines, hens Qefugees have cats, dogs, canaries, bull-finches, pigeons, turkeys-in fact our rest house has seen every variety of winged and four-footed livestock). There they stand. supplied by the noise and confusion of the arrival, utterly unable to move while maybe their train is about to depart in five minutes.
 However. we are there, looking for just such as they. The willing soldiers who are assigned to help the Red Cross. take the difficult bundles, the huge sacks. and a few of the babies. We take the oldest child, leading the way as sort of decoy; and away we go, in and out of passenger trains, troops trains Ono bridges or subways here). until we ar rive at the train desired, hidden away behind all these obstacles, absolutely un- attainable if not for our intervention.
 ''The train is janmed. They always are Every one on board cries to us there is not another inch of room. We pay no attention to them. Our fattest soldier enters car and opens a passage for the family. When all the members and their endless belongings are squeezed in we go back and pick up another fam ily."
 The Red Cross unit of the O. E. s., No. 11S, will meet tomorrow at Elks Home to sew all day. All members are asked to attend.
 All Eastern Star chapters in the Bir- mingham district are requested to send donations for the Red Cross linen shower to the council of defense rooms. fourth floor JeffersonY County Bank building not later than Thursday.
 All members of Norwood Red Cross Unit No. 1, Mrs. Julius Goslin, chair man, are requested to be present at the meeting today. Important business 10 De discussed
 Woodlawn Red Cross unit No. l will meet in it's rooms this morning at 1V o'clock. Mrs. J. Elmer Rhodes urges all members to come and sew. Red Cross unit, Clematis division l69. q. I. A. to B. of L. E., will meet today at the council of defense rooms to sew all day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
Ca|omeI Users! Listen To Me!
 Guarantee Dodson's Liver Tone Your druggist gives back your money if it doesn't iven your liver and bowels and straighten you up without making you sick

and if it doesn't straighten you right lp and make you feel fine and vigorous get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is
 t tstroying the sale of calomef because 1t is real liver medicine; entirely veg etable, therefore. it can not salivate or make you sick.
 I guarantee that one spoonful of Dod : son't Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your system. and that bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family feeling fine | for months. Give 1t to your children. It
 Is harmless; doesn't grips and thay hks l it's pleasant taste. A ss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
CALL FOR MAGAZINES

The soldiers in quarantine at Camp Mcclellan, have appealed to the people of Birmingham for magazines to read, They are unable to get out, or do their accustomed work, and have nothing to read Won't you please send your mag ezines to the public library at once, so they can be sent to the boys?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
CAPTAINS. ATTENTION

All captains are requested to see that every member of their companies come to headquarters to make the new allot- ment of gauge dressings. These must be sent to New Orleans by the 18th, SC it is necessary that every gauge worker in the chapter comes to work. After their splendid work last month we feel that we can count on these reliable and faithful workers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
RED CROSS RuLLETIN

The work of the American Red Cross has grown to such proportions in it's efforts to relieve suffering hu- manity that The Age Herald Will publish a Red Cross bulletin daily Contributions to this column from workers throughout the district win be welcomed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
SANDUSKY UNIT

The Red Cross unit at Sandusky has made a splendid contribution to the linen shower, sending S1O0 which the members
 made by giving two entertainments rms will buy numbers of sheets and towels for our boys use in the hospitals in this country and abroad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
WINNERS FOR PRIZE IN
 WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT

It is announced that the North High land Methodist church won the first prize, $50 for the best church booth and the Walker Memorial Methodist church winning the second prize, $40.
 The first prize for the best floral in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
ACMAR INIT

Mrs E. C. Clayton presented the chap ter with s22.30 from the Ackmar unit. The chapter is very grateful for this donation, and will use it for sheets and towels for our boys.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
WHITE STREAMER DAY

Today the motor corps will go through
 the residence districts, to collect any
 sheets and towels donated to the linen
 shower. On Monday the motor corRs
 went all over the Highlands, and not one
 white streamer was displayed. This was
 probably owing to a mistake, as both
 Monday and Tuesday were designated as
 collection days Many generous dona-
 tions have been made, but the collection
 is far from being completed. Surely the housekeepers of Birmingham Will be
 willing to give as much as one sheet
 and a couple of towels for the hospitals for our own boys. They may feel that they have been asked for great deal
 lately, as they gave so liberally last week to the Belgian refugees. But the Birmingham chapter has no choice Tn the matter. It has been ordered by the gulf division to collect 400O sheets and IS, 600 hand towels, and not to spend its own funds for this purpose. This is an army order which we have to obey, ana | if the women of Birmingham will not respond the Birmingham chapter will fall | for the first time since it began war work. It is not asking much to ask | each housekeeper to look over the linen | in her linen closet, and give one or ! two articles.
 1 Housekeepers of Birmingham, will you not stand by the Red Cross?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
ART CLUB DON ALTON

The Art club has donated $10 for the linen shower. This is q small club bu
 a very patriotic one, and has done q great deal of war work. Recently the Art club decorated the Red Cross bootf at the state fair, and designed and con- structed the Red Cross float, which wit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
STATE FAIR PRIZE

The prize of $50 offered by the state fair for the best Red Cross hand worR was won by three units which tied Each of these three had two perfect articles in the three articles they sent These units were the Ridgley, the Ensiey High land Needlecraft, and the GraysViiie unit, Adamsville, Ala. There was one perfect article in every one of the other sets sent in, the Maccabees enit NO 70 sent in a perfect pair of pajamas, the Lewisburg unit perfect made under shirt, the Bessie Mines unit perfect surgical gown, and the Avondale chap ter U. D. C., perfect pair of socks.
 All of the hand work was exquisite and the only reason the articles were not perfect was that they did not meet exact Red Cross regulations. The judges were the experts from the inspection de- partment for the sewing, from the Knit ting department for the knitting, anu from the surgical dressing department from the surgical dressings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08

Miss Ruby Taylor brought in a con- tribution of s27.35 by a set of children who had made it by giving a play. Miss a great success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08

Mrs. Hartley Moon has returned from New York, where she visited her nus hand Major Moon, who has recently re- turned from France. injured and is now in hospital near New York.