Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20


 people of the Central Presbyterian church at the handsome South Highland
 home of MT. and Mrs. J. R. Smith. Jr,, next Friday from to Il p. m., will be very attractive and charming social fune-
 tion. Invitations have been only sent to married friendss the young ladies and
 gentlemen are expected and cordially in- vited to be present without formal invi- tations. Twenty-Five of our pretty Blr-
 mingham belles will receive with Mrs. Smith, and all the details point towards
 great and positive success. | Mt. James Kendrick of Kansas City a very promising young Alabaman. who | has won distinction in his new home is visiting his aunt Mrs. John A. Walker, | on Tenth avenue, South Highlands. Miss Ethel Hodgson of Mobile, one of the leveliest and most fascinating belles
 of our state, went to Montgomery yester- | day afternoon, after a very charming | visit to her cousins MT. and Mrs. J. M Davidson. Miss Hodgson will immedi-
 ateiy go to Pensacola to visit her friends,
 Lieutenant and Mrs. Bull of the United 1 States army.
 As there are number of Birmingham
 women who are graduates of the famous
 Lucy Cobb Institute of Athens, Ga.. the | following extract from the Atlanta Con | stitution will be pleasant reading: This week everybody is astjr at the | Lucy Cobb institute, all making ready | for Lucy Cobb day. Committees are at work designing badges of blue and white;
 teachers are arranging programmes; oth- | CTS are addressing cards of invitation; | some are practicing and some are speech | making. so that the time outside of | school hours is filled with busy work. All connected with the school are | bending their best energies to make the | day a success. The Seaboard Air Line | has granted the very low rate of $145 to the pupils, patrons and friends of the Lucy Cobb with a limited ticket of ten days. This low rate will induce hundreds to go up at that time. It is expected that Athens will be there en masse. This week there will be sent out cards of invitation to the pupils and patrons of the Lucy Cobb. The cards will read:
 'Alumnae reunion-Lucy Cobb insti- tute-Auditorium hall, Friday morning, November 29, at Il o'clock. The honor of your presence is requested.' No cards will be sent out in Athens, but through the columns of the daily pa- pers the whole town will be invited.
 "The 2Sth of November is university day, and the 29th being Lucy Cobb day it is hoped and expected that the entire city will pay these two noble institutions the honor of attending the exposition in a body.
 AIlPT the DfOSTdn1T1 or eXPTCIS6S IS rendered in the auditorium the ladies of the Lucy Cobb, the trustees and their wives and the alumnae will receive the friends and patrons of the school in the assembly hall in the woman's building. Dainty refreshments will be served dur ing the day, and refreshment cards will be distributed from the Lucy Cobb par lors on the 18th and 29th by Miss Sarah Mcbride, the charming graduate in charge. Mrs Lipscomb, the present principal, and Miss Rutherford. the one of former years will go up this week for the purpose of calling the Atlanta alum nae together, to appoint committees and to provide for every detail connected with the Lucy Cobb day.
 Ut goes without saving that on this day there will assemble in the hall of the auditorium the largest number of pretty maidens and handsome women that has yet been gathered together with a com mon Interest and loyal love- Mrs. Fred Har1ie has returned from an extended visit to Virginia relatives. accompanied by her son, Mr. Fritz Hardie, and her little daughter, Frances.
 Miss Maggie Adams returned a few
 days ago from visit of several days to the Atlanta exposition.
 The Tuesday Afternoon Whist club was delightfully."- entertained by Mrs. James
 Weatherly. The prize, an exquisite1y
 lovely china cup and saucer and silver
 coffee spoon, was won by Mrs. J. F. Gra-
 ham, After the game of whist Mrs.
 Weatherly served delicious refreshments.
 The club will meet next Tuesday after
 noon with Mrs. Jack Q.NCohen on High
 land avenue.
 Messrs. T. T. IIillman, B. B. Conner, s.
 w. Lee and George l.. Morris have re-
 turned from a weeks shooting at Swan
 Lake Miss. They were unusually for
 tunate and brought back with them sew
 eral hundred ducks as evidence of their
 good luck.
 Mobile is already astir, preparing for the carnival Mir. T. c. DeLeon is active ly engaged with the preliminaries, and it
 ;s intended to make of next Mardi Gras the most ornate and joyous ever known in the Gulf City. The object in beginning so early with the preparations is to thor oughly advertise it and to make every
 appointment and detail as satisfactory as those of the New Orleans carnivals
 AS MT. DeLeon has charge of matters the success of the undertaking is already assured.
 The Augusta Chronicle of Sunday has
 these items of charming Birmingham girls, who are now visiting that city: Miss Katherine Morrow is the guest of MISS f1dttle Dutiers Ou upper 6TSeUt street."
 Miss Addie Evans Of Alabama is the guest, of Mrs T. H. Stafford. Miss Evans is an unusually attractive woman. and her stay in Augusta is appreciates by her numerous friends"
 The musical recital at the Church of the Advent last night was a rare treat to the appreciative audience present. Professor Boyce is a magnificent organ ist,' and played glorionsiy last evening Miss Won Navarra's solos and the an- thems and chants by the choir were de- lightfully rendered and elicjted the warmest commendation. The selections were of the highest order. and the most thorough and careful training was evil dent in all the choir work. Miss Won Navarra Is an artist. whose fine voice is always admired and applauded by Birmingham audience.
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 From the Augusta Chronicle this item of@interest is taken:
 "One of the lovliest and certainly the mast artistic bOok I have ever seen was