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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
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fHE GOLDEN EAGLE FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
(Registered under Act of Parliament.)
Office, 40 Union Street, Glasgow.
A. Swanson, secretary.
This Society provides a marriage portion for young
)eople; an income durins; sickness, both for male
md female, medical attendance and medicine free ;
ilso life insurance and endowment, as well as a
tension for life after 65 years of age.
Auxiliary.
Golden Eagle Institutes — 69 Union St., Glasgow,
md 37 Frederick St., Edinburgh. Secy., A. Swanson.
>hop and warehouse girls and domestic servants out
if situations are boarded at a very cheap rate. Members
ire assisted during sickness either at their own homes
ir taken into the institutes, and also in seeking
Jtuations.
GLASGOW MISSION TO THE ADULT
DEAF AND DUMB.
Established 1822.
Objects — 1. To provide extended Religious and
jecular Instruction among the Deaf and Dumb
hroughout Glasgow and the West of Scotland, after
hey have quitted School 2. To visit the sick, un-
■mployed, and other Deaf and Dumb persons at their
'lomes. 3. To assist the Deaf and Dumb who have
food characters in obtaining employment. 4. To
lirovide an Interpreter where necessary. 6. To grant
relief in cases found to be really deserving.
! Patron — The Queen; hon. presidents, H.R.H. the
"rince of Wales, The Marquis of Lome, K.T. ;
)resident, the Hon. the Lord Provost; vice-presi-
ents. Sir J. Burns, Bart., Sir Jas. King, Bart, John
"ilson, Esq., M.P. ; directors, Rev. Dr. D. Macleod,
'lev. Dr. Bruce, Rev. G. G. Green, M.A., G. M.
Cerr, D. M'Cowan, Henry Watson, Robt. Gow, Geo.
mith, Wm. Ker, Wm Agnew, J. Tasker, F. W. Allan,
I". M. Slacleod, and David Edward ; treasurer, J. M.
ilacleod, C.A., 101 St. Vincent St.; missionary and
ecretary, John Henderson, Institute, 158 W. Regent
'treet ; assistant secretary and collector, W. Wright.
SCOTTISH CLERKS' ASSOCIATION.
(Registered under Act of Parliament.)
Instituted 1886.
Elead Office, 81 St. George's Place, West George
Street, Glasgow.
General Secretary, Thomas Berrie.
The objects are — To insure members against loss
hrough want of employment, sickness, old age, and
eath ; to provide medical attendance and medicine,
,nd annuities, and to introduce to employers, free of
] Large, clerks of good business capacity and character.
fIGHT ASYLUM FOR THE HOUSELESS, AND
HOUSE OF INDUSTRY FOR INDIGENT
FEMALES.
71 North Frederick Street.
James Campbell, of Tullichewan, president; the
Ion. the Lord Provost, Thomas Watson, and Robt.
Ring, vice-presidents ; John Arch. Roxburgh, 3 Royal
Ixchange Square, treasurer; Robert Brodie, 77 St-
i'iacent Street, secretary.
GLASGOW AND WEST OF SCOTLAND
COMMERCIAL FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
Office — 65 West Regent Street.
John Spence (J. & T. Gilfillan & Co.), president ;
Alex. W. Forbes (J. & T. Brown & Co.), vice-presi-
dent; committee of management, George M'Ghee,
Wm. Austin, Samuel Barclay, James L. Macdonald,
George Silcox, Wm. Muirhead, Robert C. Hamilton,
John Strang, John Denholm, Wm. Rankine, W. A.
Sloan, J. M. Macmillan ; surgeon, John Pirie, M.D.,
26 Elmbank Crescent; manager, William Hart, jun.,
C.A., 66 West Regent Street.
This society is established to provide, at modwate
rates of premium, for the relief of members during
sickness or other infirmity, and for a sum to be paid
at death. The benefits are, 20s. per week during
sickness and £10 at death. Copies of rules and
forms of application may be had from the manager or
any of the office-bearers.
THE FIFE, KINROSS, AND CLACKMANNAN
CHARITABLE SOCIETY,
Instituted December 15, 1837.
Incorporated therewith is
THE GLASGOW FIFESHIRE SOCIETY.
Instituted in 1759.
Patron, J. Thomson Paton, Esq., Alloa; president,
T. Stark Brown ; late president, E. Brown Fleming ;
vice-presidents, John Dempster, Wm. Anderson, and
J. R. Motion ; treasurer, George W. Younger ; secre-
tary, Henry A. Reid ; directors, for Fife, Jas. Barclay,
John Livingston, Wm Robertson, Dr. J. Crawford
Renton, Thos. Martin, Wm. Kidston, jun., Ruthven
R. Todd, C.A., Alex. Birrell, and Arcti. Robertson ;
for Kinross, John L. Whyte, G. A. D. Scott, and
Alex. Brown ; for Clackmannan, Daniel Dewar, Alex.
Bryson, and Prof. Ferguson, LL.D.
The principal object of this society is to affi)rd
pecuniary aid to indigent natives, or widows, or chil-
dren of natives, of these counties resident in or near
Glasgow. The subscription of £1 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, 108 West George Street.
INCORPORATION OF HAMMERMEN.
Deacon, Andrew Maclean, 4 Princes Gardens,
Dowanhill ; collector, Duncan Campbell, Carntyne
Foundry, Parkhead ; late deacon, James Fergus, 58
York St. ; late collector, David Richmond (Lord
Provost), City Tube Works, 35 Rose St., Hutcheson-
town; master court, John Thomson, 3 Crown Ter.,
Dowanhill, Alexander Davie, 113 Argyle Street, John
F. Miller, 109 St. Vincent Street, David Tullis, St.
Ann's Works, John St., Bridgeton, Jas. M'Ewan, 50
Peel Street, London Road, Dugald M'Corkindale, 65
West Regent Street, Wm. Robertson, 15 Gordon St..
Wm. A. Kinghorn, 81 St. Vincent Street, Robert
Sutherland, 4 Bothwell Street, Thomas C. Guthrie,
29 Waterloo Street, Hugh Mnir, 7 Kelvingrove Ten,
West, and Robert Stevenson, 80 Brown Street, city ;
tlerk, A. Craig Paterson, LL.B., 45 West George St.
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