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NOMINEES FOR REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTION, CITY OP BAY ST. LOUIS.
Fog, Mayor:
R, W* TOULME
For Secretary and City Auditor: RICHARD MENDES
For Treasurer: JAS. II. BREATH
For Marshal:
R. J. MURTAGH
For Assessor and Tax-Collector: F. II. EGLOFF
FOR ALDERMAN?Ward One. ROBERT L. GENIN,
Ward Two:
P. J. M?GINN
Ward Three: C. C. GRAY
Ward Four:
R. W. WEBB.
CITY ECHOES.
Spring Millinery ? Mrs. OTTO SANGE.
Do not fail to see Miss Welch?s display of imported Iris -ware. It is beautiful.
Mrs, Rene de Montluzin?s many friends w^Jt gladly learn of her recovery from a week?s illness.
Spring Millinery at Mrs. OTTO SANGE?S. No left over stock; all fresh and new,
Mrs. L. M. Gex and dainty little Miss Vivian Ducatel spent Wednesday at
in his yard.
Mr. Smelkcr was about 45 years of age; a native of Greenville, Ohio. Some 1G years or more he was married in this city to Miss Florence Gardebled, to which union several children were born.
LENTEN SERVICES AT CHRIST CHURCH .
a. m.?Morning Prayer 7. p m.?Evening Prayer
-Instruction Class at
Sunday, 11 and Sermon, and Sermon.
Monday, 3 p. m. the Rectory.
Tuesday, 10,30 a, m.?Morning Prayer in the church.
7 p. m.?Home Bible Study at the residence of Mrs. J. L. Harris. Subject: Was It a Whale That Swallowed Jonah?
Wednesday, 7.30 p. m.?EveningSong.
Thursday, 10.30 a. m.?Holy Communion.
Friday, 7.30 ? Holy Hour?s Service. Address by Rev. H. II. Sneed, Rector of Gulfport.
St. Patrick?s Day (Thursday, March 17)?The Festival of St. Patrick will be duly observed at Christ Church. 10.30 a. m.?Holy Communion and short address by Rev. Dr. Logan. 7.30 p. m.? Evening Prayer and Sermon by Rev. Dr. Duffy. Subject:	St.	Patrick	a
Child of tho Church; Catholic, Apo s-tolic, Episcopal, Ephesian (Johanine).
A cordial invitation given to those services. All wolcoraed at Mrs. Harris? Tuesdays, 7 p. m,
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Keeping abreast with the largest and successful banks of the country and fol-owing a policy adopted by the safe and conservative banks, at the annual meeting of the Merchants Bank last October, a resolution was adopted whereby the bank should be audited by a firm of recognized certified accountants, to be selected at a subsequent meeting of the board of directors. Since the State of Mississippi has no traveling audi tors similar to those of the U. S. governmen t.
large ciass 01 auims wau wm icuavc their First Communion this Sunday. Every morning masss is said at 7:20, followed by instructions. The services are well attended despite tho inclement weather and bad roads. It is expected that more people would attend but the road near the Chapel is almost impassible, especially since the recent rains. The choir is composed of the following: Misses M. J. Henderson, Virginia Bourgeois, Margaret Bourgeois, Delia and Imelda Haass.
During his stay here Rev. Father Ilusser is the guest of Mr. John L. Henson at Oak Holm.
Mrs. Richard Attaway returned Sunday after spending some time in the city, with her son, Willie Imbert.
ADDRESS ON WASHINGTON?S BIRTHDAY.
Essay selected and read by Miss Gussle E. Ansley, class ?10, at publlo school oelebratlon of Washington?s birthday. Miss Ansley Is a UdUghter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Emmet Ansley.
On this great memorial day of the American nation we turn naturally to the life and words of the ?Father of our Country? for instruction and inspiration. The lofty lessons of love of country and pure, unselfish patriotism may well, with each returning year, be learned anew from the fountain-head. As the years roll by there is, if I mistake not, more loving thought bestowed on Washington, the statesman, than on Washington, the general. In Washington?s noble and tender farewell address to the American peoplo we see the re suit of a pure, unsullied, unselfish life in the clear and distant vision which is sometimes granted to the pure in heart But let us not think that Washington?s words of a hundred years ago have nothing to teach today. He saw also plainly the pass to which blind adherence to party has brought us in the closing years of the nineteenth century and our complete subserviency to the party leader.
We cannot, I think, more fittingly celebrate the birthday of the greatest of all patriots and more effectually review our own patriotism than by discussing the great modern movements and tendencies in our political and social