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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
SONS OF TEMPERANCE FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
Geand Division of Scotland.
This Society is composed entirely of total abstainers,
and is thus enabled to give the same benefits as non-
abstaining societies for a smaller contribution. Uni-
form entrance fee 2s. 6d., contributions from 4d. per
week according to age. Benefits 10s. weekly in sick-
ness, £10 at death, medicine and attendance free.
Funeral fund only, payments from one halfpenny
weekly; sums insured, £5 to £50; children of mem-
bers eligible for insurance.
George Morrison, 92 St. Vincent Street, Grand
Worthy Patriarch ; John Moodie, 3 Nithsdale Street,
Strathbungo, Grand Scribe; John B. Slimon, 4
Seyton Avenue, Langside, Grand Treasurer.
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SOCIETY OF
SCOTLAND.
Office, 217 West George Street, Glasgow.
Funds, £57,34:9 ; Benefits paid, £75,735.
Bailie James M'Lennan, president; D. Mitchell,
119 Virginia Place, vice-president; Robert Gourlay,
treasurer; J. C. Reid, C.A., 217 West George
Street, secretary and deputy-treasurer; M'Grigor,
Donald, & Co., law agents ; Quintin Chalmers, M.D.,
I Derby 'Ter.,Sandyford,W., surgeon; Professor Sir D.
Maclagan, M.D., 28 Heriot Row, surgeon for Edin-
burgh ; Messrs. Thos. Maltman, Ai-cb. Moir, Jervis
Coats, jun., Gilbert Innes, Stephen Hindle, David
Work, William Gibson, John MacDonald, John
Forrester, Archd. Ferrie, Wm. Connell, and James
M'Auslin, 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 February. The
directors meet on the first Tuesday of each month.
THE BALMANNO BEQUEST.
Founded by the late Miss Balmanuo, in 1856, for
providing annuities of £20 each, to unmarried ladies,
natives of Glasgow, not under 40 years of age, who
have been brought up in the prospect of independence,
and accustomed to superior society, but who from
adversity may have fallen into reduced circumstances.
There are at present seven annuitants.
Factor, J. Eosburgh Strong, C.A., 110 West
-George st.
AGED WOMEN'S SOCIETY.
Mrs. Buchanan, Antermony House, Milton of
Campsie, president ; Mrs. Scott, Clippens House, and
Miss King, 17 Blythswood Square, vice-presidents;
Mrs. E. Caird, the College, treasurer; Mrs. Candlish,
6 Ashtoii Terrace, HiUhead, and Miss M'Ewen,
II Park Terrace, secretaries; W. M'Ewen, Esq.,
11 Park Ter., auditor. This society has for its
object the relief of widows and unmarried women
above GO years of age. Before receiving assistance
they are visited at their houses. Any person sub-
scribing 20s., or two subscribers of 10s. each, are
entitled to recommend a pensioner. Twenty ladies
act as visitors, who, with the office-bearers, meet on
the first Wednesday of every month, in the Religious
Institution Rooms.
THE MARSHALL TRUST.
This endowment is constituted under the scheme of
the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act, 1882,
as extended by the Local Government (Scotland) Act,
1889, and the free income is applied in awarding
free scholarships, industrial training bursaries, higher
education bursaries, advanced evening class scholar-
ships, and university bursaries, and in certain
circumstances for the material assistance of children
educated under the scheme. The children selected
must reside in the counties of Lanark or Stirling,
and are required to attend a public or state-aided
school within said counties, and must be "orphans
or fatherless, or children whose parents or relations,
not being in receipt of parochial relief, are unable to
clothe, educate, and maintain them, and ought not,
in the opinion of the governors, to be required to
apply to the parochial board for such aid, provided
always that no grants shall be given where the total
income of the parents exceeds £70 per annum."
Factor, Archd. Foulds, 74 Bath street ; clerk, James
Alexander, 194 West George street ; superintendent,
Wm. Mitchell, 134 Wellington street.
THE ST. GEORGE'S BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
IN SCOTLAND.
Patron, The Earl of Glasgow; directors, Geo. Lowe,
Esq., Chas. C. Mowbray, Esq.; treasurer, F. D. Rait,
Esq., 34 Buchanan St. ; secy., Henry Ferry, Esq.,
89 Bath Street ; solicitor, James Muirhead, Esq.,
54 West Nile Street ; honorary physician, Dr. Wood
Smith.
The society was instituted in the year 1844, and
has for its objects the assistance of English people in
poor circumstances, resident in Scotland, more espe-
cially the assisting the return to England of families
no longer able or likely to obtain maintenance else-
where. The membership consists of Englishmen, or
the children of English parents or parent, or the
husbands of English wives, and in order to qualify
for membership, a donation of not less than £3 Ss.,
or an annual subscription of not less than 10s. 6d.
is necessary. The rules provide for an annual
meeting of the society being held on St. George's
Day, when the oiSce-bearers for the ensuing year are
elected. Since its institution, the society has been
the means of doing much good, and the accumulated
funds now amount to between £700 and £800,
GLASGOW ANNANDALE ASSOCIATION.
This Association is composed of persons connected
with Annandale by birth, relationship, or otherwise.
Its object is to cultivate friendly intercourse between
Annandale residents in Glasgow and neighbourhood,
and to supplement the work of the Glasgow Dumfries-
shire Society in its social aspects by the promotion
of the Glasgow Annandale Reunion, and by other
methods. The latter specially include the mainten-
ance of a reading-room where the Dumfriesshire papers
can be seen, and which is open to all persons in
any way connected with Annandale, every Monday
evening during the winter months. Annual subscrip-
tion for ordinary members, 2s ; life membership being
constituted by a payment of £1 Is., either in one sum
or by four 3'early instalments of 5s. Sd. Secretary
and treasurer, J. J. Haining, 302 Buchanan Street.