The age-herald., 1898-04-24
M0MIGOMERY.

The weeks pleasure opened with an im- promptu musicale Monday afternoon, when Mrs. Laban Tyson assembled some of her intimate friends to hear again the we'll trained voice of Miss Mamie Harrison of Opelilla. Miss Harrison has enjoyed and profited by the advantages of European study, having been at one time a pupil of Madame Marchesi of Paris.
 Mrs. Tyson again opened her beautiful home on Tuesday afternoon in a reception to her guest, Miss Harrison.
 The reception at the box party given Tuesday evening to MT. and Mrs. J. A. Kirkpatrick to their visitor, Miss Mary Dean Scott of Richmond were Misses Scott, Craik, and Juliet Craik; Messrs. Clifford Lanier Paul T. Sayre and w. A. Gunter, Jr. After the play a dainty midnight luncheon in courses was served at the we'll known home on Court street.
 The closing ball of the Standard club, which took place on Wednesday evening, was one of the most brilliant of the season, and a fitting climax to the series of affairs given during the winter It was the usual "calico ball." when the ladies are expected to appear in gowns of some cotton ma terial. The visiting young ladies were Miss Dena Holzer of Birmingham, Miss Cornelia
 
 Louisiana
 Society is indebted to the Bell family for great pleasure in the beautiful and art istic wedding of it's daughter, Miss Mary Petre Bell, and Mr. William Berrian Kelly, at the First Presbyterian church. Quantities of Miles, roses and palms transformed the pulpit end of the church into a garden, which was shut off from the body of the building by floral gates. These were opened by four little girls to admit the bridal party, numbering forty-two, while Mendelssohn's wedding march was rendered by choir of some twenty friends. Two "honored maids" Miss Lizzie Berney and Miss Car olyn Hanover, gowned like the bride, in white, carried clusters of annunciation lilies. The maid of honor, Miss Mary Vr- ginia Graves, of Birmingham, was lovely in pink mousseline de soie over pink taffeta, with bouquet of La France roses, while the twelve bridesmaids, who wore white with pink trimmings, and carried bouquets of lilies tied with illusion. The ushers were Messrs. George McGough, P. T. Sayre, John Arlington and Judge Armstrong. The at- tendants were: Dr. Forney Stevenson and Miss Fannie Matthews, MT. Jack Thoring- ton and Miss Caroline Beale, MT Robert Noble and Miss Rebecca Pollard, MT. Wal ter Bennettand Miss Helen Gunter, MT. Ed ward Fowler and Miss Annie Pearson, MT. Jake Faunce and Miss Juliet Craik, Mir. D. Leslie and Miss Lucy OConnell MT. J. Kirkland and Miss Willie B. Haralson, MT. Robert Farriss and Miss Fannie Jeanette Tatum, MT. Dennis Carr and Miss Alabama Brown, MT. w. M. Williams and Miss Montague Wade
 The best man was Mir. White Kelly, brother of the groom. The bride entered the church with her brother-in-law, MT. John Randolph. Little Julia Thweat and Fedora Randolph were the ring and cushion bear CTS The brides gown was white Duch- esse satin, trimmed with pearls, and her bouquet was of bride roses. After the church ceremony the bridal party and in- innate friends were entertained at the home of the bride, on Moulton street.
 In all Montgomery there Is not a resi- dence more admired than that of MT. and Mrs Charles Gordon Abercrombie, on Perry street, and there on Friday afternoon Mrs. Abercrombe was lat home to her friends. Among the ladies who assited in receiv- ing the guests was Mrs. S. w. John of Birmingham.
 At the annual convention of District Grand lodge of B'Nai Birth, which meets today in Vicksburg, Miss, MT. De Jalma s. Housman, a young lawyer of Montgom- cry, delivers the oratl0n.