The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02
AMERICAN LEGION OF CALHOUN WILL
 CONDUCT SALVATION ARMY CAMPAIGN

Ia class touched by no other organiza-
 Besides personal work and comfort extended to the storm sufferers in west Alabama. the Salvation Army has
 sent more than s2009 200 mattresses
 and quantities of food and clothing.
 During the past week Captain Dal- l las Holder of the Anniston corps took l a young girl from the Calhoun county jail and placed her in the Birmingham | refuge home. The matron of the home | ad no place for the girl to sleep, as the home was full to overflowing, but
 she procured cot and added this case 10 her burdens which she assumes al- | ways so cheerfully. There are twenty other girls in this home from Annis-
 ton. Motherly matrons talk and pray | with these girls. besides extending l physical comforts. When they leave | the home employment is found for 1 them and Salvation Army lassies con- | tinue to guide them on their way i thus saving hundreds of girls every 1 year from sin and degradation. Tn 1 Birmingham. where tine principal work | of the Salvation Army is carried on | 3,516 down and cutters" were sur- | nished clean beds ard food free of | charge and in the Gulf division of the | Army more than rocco were accom- | nodated. , 1 IHt IuOtd Ol tIt AlnlSboi LOlle ls OiiiN | S11, 900 How small, compared to the
 amount of distress this money will bring. Anniston has never failed in any vital project and it is believed that dur ] ing the coming week the legion will | have enough volunteers to bring this movement for the home service fund to
 a speedy, victorious finish. As Frank | lin Lane says. If we were not all made 1 to do this kind of work, then the teach | inc If ba haap in vain - Memorial Day was observed by the loyal and patriotic members of the Will | liam Henry Forney chapter, United 1, Daughters of the Confectionery. with ap- , propriate exercises at the library on Mon- ] day afternoon.
 1 Rev. S. K. Hodges introduced the speaker of the afternoon Dr. Clarence w.. Daugette. president of the State Nor
 nal school, at Jacksonville. who deliv- 1 cred an eloquent address paying beautt- | full tributes to the heroes of the sixties.
 At the close of his talk. little Miss Mary
 Young presented Dr. Daugette with a
 beautiful bouquet of flowers.
 Mrs. A. Kyle Smith, of Salisbury, N. C..
 whose beautiful voice has been so uni-
 versally admired during her visit to An lniston, sang "Suwanee River" receiving hearty encore, and Miss Katherine Her ren gave the veterans much pleasure Dy singing When You and I Were Young, | Maggie" Mrs. Smith Miss Herren and
 Miss Carrie Mcclure Knox, who accom-
 panied the singers, were presented with corsage bouquets.
 | Mrs Elizabeth Jones, of Murfreesboro
 who has spent the winter with Mrs. Ho--
 ace Miller and has rendered valuable as- sistance to the William Henry Forney i chapter, was also presented with flowers and voted an honorary member of the | chapter.
 i In a most impressive manner Mrs. J.. E. Aderhold, the president of the chapter gave crosses of honor to eleven brave Confederate soldiers. After the exercises at the library the Daughters journeyed to | the Anniston and Oxford cemeteries, where all the graves of the Confederate l dead were decorated with quantities Of spring flowers. The graves were marked last week by a U. D. C. committee with | iron crosses.
 1 A training school for Sunday school workers was conducted at Parker Memo rial Baptist church during the past week, l the classes being conducted by a coterle l of the states most prominent teachers | Miss Annie l.. Williams of Birmingham, who taught classes in primary work. is
 former beloved Annistonian, who, dur 1 ing her residence here was valued mem-
  teachers were Mrs. J. F. billiard, Miss l Townstead and MT. Emmett Moore, or Birmingham. On Tuesday and Weakness
 day evenings an address by Dr. John All ford Porter, of Atlanta, was an enjoyable l feature of the session.
 | The members of the Country Club en- Ijoyed a most delightful entertainment at the clubhouse on Friday evening. Miss Catherine Roberts gave book reviews se- lected from the book shelves of popular authors. and cello numbers by Mss | Juanita Noble, piano selections by Prof. K E. Horst were enjoyed. A dance foI- lowed the programme, the dance music being furnished by Miss Roberts mrimba
 orchestra of five talented musicians. The Chautauoua Circle met at the library on Tuesday afternoon, when Mrs. William Ross Lloyd and Miss Carrie Sterne led an interesting programme on
 'The Old South' by Thomas Nelson Page.
 The members of the Progressive Wednesday Study Club in addition to contributing a large amount for the H. brary book fund and to aid in furnish ing the library clubroom have recently placed ornamental lights the steps or the library. Other donations were made this month by the club for the Addie Weaver Home and to the clubs adopted orphans, one in France and one in Ar menia.
 Mrs John Wilson, who will attend the Confederate reunion in Montgomery this week as one of the sponsors, has chosen for her maids of honor Miss Louise Espes of Athens and Miss Leila Green of Anniston.
 Announcement of the engagement or Miss Augusta Mattison and MT. Charles Henry Pinnell was of interest to large circle of friends The wedding viii oc- cur early in July.
 A large number responded to the ap-
 peal from the home service department
 of the Red Cross for the Haleyvilie
 storm sufferers. and large amount of
 clothing and also generous contributions
 of money were sent from the home
 service office on Wednesday.