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CHAEITABLE AND FEIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
ANCIENT OEDER OF FOEESTEES
FRIENDLY SOCIETY,
Registered under the Friendly Societies Act, 1875.
Court " HuTOHESON," No. 5802.
Tliis Order lias been instituted from time imme-
morial, and is now the largest Friendly Society in
the world. Its principal objects are to afford pecuni-
ary aid and medical attendance and medicines to its
members during illness, and at death to secure pay-
ment of £10 for funeral expenses and £7 for a
member's wife, besides taking a fraternal interest in
the widows and orphans of deceased members.
The sick benefits are as follows : —
10s. 6d. per week during illness for first 26 weeks.
6s. 6d. " " second 26 weeks.
4s. 6d. " as long as illness continues.
All members (from the date of their initiation) are
entitled to the services of the court sm-geon and
medicines free. Coui-t surgeon, William Carr, M.B
CM., L.E.C.S.E.
The above Court meets in the Wellington Palace
Halls, Commercial Eoad, every alternate Tuesday at
7.30 p.m., and all information can be had from the
secretary, And. B. Reid, 100 CathcartRd., Govanhill.
THE DOECAS SOCIETY FOE THE CITY OF
GLASGOW, BELVIDEEE, KNIGHTSWOOD,
AND GOV AN COMBINATION FEVEE AND
SMALL POX HOSPITALS.
Pres., Mrs. W. Gray, Nunraw Castle, Haddington;
secretary. Miss Telford, 9 Clydeview, Partick; trea-
surer, Mrs. Napier, Woodlee, Windsor Circus.
The aim of the Society is to provide warm clothing
for the poor fever patients when about to be dis-
missed from the comforts of the hospitals to their own
homes. In too many cases their original clothing is
scanty and utterly insufficient to protect even a
vigorous person from the cold. But for the aid of
the society they would, when divested of the warm
suits provided for use within the hospital, be sent
out in tattered garments, as well as with enfeebled
bodies, almost certainly to the permanent injury of
their health. The utmost care is taken that the
articles are given to the needy and deserving only.
There is no convalescent home for poor fever patients.
THE GLASGOW ANTEIM AND DOWN
BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.
135 London Street.
The objects of the Association are to cultivate and
maintain a friendly intercourse between the natives
of Antrim and Down residing in Glasgow and its
neighbom-hood, and to raise a fund for the purpose of
affording temporary relief to any of them who, from
sickness or any other emergency, may stand in need
of charitable assistance.
Patrons, Lord Trevor, London; Lord Arthur W.
Hill, M.P., Down; Thomas Greer, Esq., J. P., M. P.'
Carrickfergus ; William Ewart, Esq., M.P., Belfast-'
Arch. M'Laren, Esq., Glasgow; A. J. Larke, Esq.'
Glasgow; hoD. president, James Hamilton, Esq., 22
Hope St., Glasgow ; president, John Campbell, Esq.,
Old Basin, Fossil Road, Glasgow; vice-president'
Ales. Robertson, 74 Crown Street, Glasgow; trea-
surer, Robert Ewen, Esq., 124 North John Street,
Glasgow ;. secretary, James Barnett, Esq., 234 Cum- I
berland Street, Glasgow. |
THE FIFE, KINROSS, AND CLACKMANNAN
CHAEITABLE SOCIETY.
Instituted December 15, 1887,
Incorporated therewith is
THE GLASGOW FIFESHIRE SOCIETY,
Instituted in 1759.
Patron, Sir Charles Elphinstone Adam, of Blair
Adam ; president, Wm. F. G. Anderson ; late presi-
dent, the Hon. Wm. M'Onie, Lord Provost; vice-
presidents, Andrew Mitchell, Win. Johnston, and
Edward E. Catterns ; treasurer, W. E. Crombie ; secre-
tary, J. C. Eeid ; directors, for Fife, Iilessrs. Alex.
Buchan, Wm. Key, Robt. T. Rankin, Henry Sten-
house, James Robertson, Andrew Cousin, James E.
Motion, J. Mitchell Boyd, and Dr. J. Lindsay Steven;
for Kinross, Messrs. Laurence Stocks, Jas, F. Elder,
and David Eoy ; for Clackmannan, Messrs. Peter
Bleloch, Thomas Frame, and James Beveridge.
The principal object of this society is to afford
pecuniary aid to indigent natives, or widows, or chil-
dren of natives, of these counties resident in or near
Glasgow. The subscription of £\. Is. per annum for
four years, or £4 4s. in one sum, constitutes mem-
bership to parties eligible by connection with any of
these counties; and persons willing to be enrolled
are respectfully solicited to communicate with the
treasurer or secretary of the society, or any of the
directors. Office, 217 West George Street.
COMMEECIAL TEAVELLEES' SOCIETY OF
SCOTLAND.
Office, 217 West George Street, Glasgow.
Funds, £50,846 ; Benefits paid, £54,397,
John G. Couper, Esq. (Mann, Byars, & Co.), pre-
sident; D. Mitchell, 51 Miller Street, vice-president;
Eobert Gourlay, treasurer ; J. C. Eeid, C.A., 217 West
George St., secretary and deputy-treasurer; T. Marr,
F.I.A., 35 St. Vincent Place, actuary; M'Grigor,
Donald, & Co., law agents ; Professor W. Leishman,
M.D., 11 Woodside Crescent, surgeon ; Professor D,
Maclagan, M.D., 28 Heriot Eow, surgeon for Edin-
burgh; Messrs. Jervis Coats, jun., A. MeUish, Gilbert
Innes, Wm. Connell, Jas. Irons, AVm. Gibson, John
Macdonald, John Hay, Wemyss Walls, Alex. Camp-
bell, Arch. Ferrie, and Alex. Dunbar, directors.
A member of this society who has been 12 months
enrolled, on being incapacitated by disease, accident,
or infirmity, from following his usual avocation, is
entitled to receive £1 per week. On the death of a
member who has been 12 months enrolled, the so-
ciety pays £10 as funeral allowance. Annual meet-
ing in Glasgow on the fourth Friday of January. The
directors meet on the first Tuesday of each month.
THE GEAND ANTIQUITY SOCIETY
OF GLASGOW.
The objects of this society are the relief of its mem-
bers in infirmity or old age, and the securing of a pro-
vision to the widows of members in indigent circum-
stances. Persons eligible for admission to the society
are burgesses, who are also the sons and grandsons
either by the father's or mother's side of burgesses.
The entry-money is £2 Bs. 6d., excepting that for
the sons and sons-in-law of members, who are admitted
upon payment of the sum of £1 2^. Gd.
Clerk, Thomas Weir, 207 Ingram Street,
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