Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-24

Miss Margaret Smith, Mrs. L. S. Hand | ley, Mrs. Zac Smith, Mrs. T. o. Smith, | Mrs. B. F. Moore and a number of | charming girls, among whom were
 Misses Mary Clare Miner, Mamie Pear
 son, Maude Terrell. Lila Smith, Augusta | Sharpe, Mary Cleary, Laura Ferguson. Patti Ruffner, Lila Smith, Elise Ball, l Sarah Rogan, Mary George Linn, Sophie
 Inzerman, Corrie Handley and Bessie | Snyder.
 The music and recita tions were espec- | ially fine The beautiful rooms were | decorated with chrysanthemums and | palms, and the dining room, where the | delicious refreshments were served, was | exceedingly attractive with many ta- bles adorned with exquisite embroideries, flowers, cut glass and silver. A large | sum was realized for good cause. and charming evening was enjoyed by very many friends.
 | The following elegantly engraved invi- | tation has been received from friends of long ago, and its coming has awakened | the pleasanteSt memories of a friend
 ship formed in that dear old town. Flu | faula. And mingled with these memo | ries are the wishes for all future good
 to the dear young girl who is so soon to | wed:
 "Col and Mrs A. Hamilton Leftwich | request your presence at the marriage of
 their daughter, Marietta Shorter to MT. Edwin Bennett Young on Thursday
 evening, December 5. 1895, at 7:30 o'clock, | in the Church of the Advent. Spartan 1 burg. s. C."
 Miss Marietta Shorter Jeftwich is the
 granddaughter of the late Hon. Eli S.
 Shorter of Eufaula, and is beautiful l representative of distinguished Ala
 bama family.
 | The following invitation is being sent | to the friends of the Philhedonian club: '"The Philhedonian club will be pleased
 to have you attend the reception and | german to be given on Thursday, De- , cember 5, 1895. to MT. and Mrs. Van Hess Scholar. R. S. V. F."
 | The gentlemen of the club intend to l make this reception memorable one in the history of our city. The club l rooms will be profusely and tastefully decoraesd for the occasion and an elab- | crate supper will be served. Many mar ried friends will be invited and the Phil hedonians will inaugurate the admira- ble custom of having few of their mar | ried lady friends to receive their guests. | Every one who is interested fin social
 matters will rejoice in this innovation | and will hope to have it become regular | custom with our clubs after this. This arrangement differs somewhat from l chaperones and gives to a club entertain l ment a certain distinction that can be I
 to club function much of the surround
 ings of a private entertainment and
 thereby adds to its elegance.
 Speaking of this popular club, the Phil l hedonian, another one of it's prominent | members-an attache of the Louisville | and Nashville railroad-will be married
 on the 18th of December to Wetumpka
 belle, daughter of banker of that city,
 who has large real estate interests in l Birmingham. This will be great social | event in our neighboring town, and the l bride and groom, after a brief wedding 1 journey, will return to Birmingham to
 permanently reside.
 | The Clionian club was entertained by
 Mrs. G. M. Cruikshank on Friday after noon. Mrs T. l.. Robertson was his | torian of the meeting, and Mrs. John | Wheeler read an essay upon Indian Names and Their Origin" Mrs. Robert | McLester read a sketch from Mrs Au- | gusta Evans Wilson's "At the Mercy of l Tiberius." Current events were discuss | ed by the club, and the quotations were 1 from the poems of Judge A. B. Meek
 Mrs. Cruikshank served delicious re- | treatments, when the Clionian club ad-
 journed to meet next Friday afternoon | with Mrs. B. F. Myatt.
 The reception which was to have been | given the local Baptist Young Peoples
 union by the union of the Southside Bap-
 tist church, on Thursday, November 28,
 has been postponed until Thursday. De- cember 5.
 | While the wedding bells are preparing | to chime for one sweet maiden, whom | knew in the pretty town which crowns | the bluffs of the broad Chattahoochee | river, another, who grew into beautiful l womanhood in that same old city has | fallen asleep with the sweetness of life | barely tasted. On Tuesday morning. l when the angel of death crept noiselessly l into the beautiful old home. he found l dear Louise Shorter ready for the long l journey, and tendcrly the angel folded | her into his embrace and bore her home
 ward And with her going pure, noble. sinless life was transferred to realms of | perfect bliss.
 As gently as the falling of an autumn
 leaf her young, sweet life came to a close while it was yet day" In the glory of | the autumnal sunshine, with the splen- l did blossoms of the early winter cover l ing her fair young form they laid her | to rest in the beautiful cemetery at Eu- l faula in the early spring time of her ex- | istence She fell asleep before she heard l the discords of life and has awakened amid the perfect symphonies of angels harps She fell asleep with the sun | shine of life around and about her: she l has awakened in the splendor of the light | which comes from the great white | throne. A beautiful existence which | brought only joy and happiness to all about her, an existence complete and well | nigh perfect, has come to an untime- | ly end. To those who remain. to her fa- | ther and mother, her sisters and brother. l the sympathy of friends throuhout the | south Is extended at this time of their agony and distress.
 l On next Thursday afternoon-Thanks- giving Day-an unusually attractive mu-