The age-herald., 1899-09-20
NEWS AND GOSSIP
 OF SOCIAL WORLD Two Assembly Balls for the
 Coming Season. FIRST ONE IN DECEMBER Autumn Weddings a.d Other Ca tie5 Will Make the Early Part of the
 Season Brilliant Enough Dance at Country Club
FIRST ONE IN DECEMBER
BY ANNIE KENDRrcK WALKER


 The Birmingham Assembly will be re- organized in October, and the first ball will be held the first week in December.
 The assembly managers intend giving their second ball in February The assem- bly was first organized last season and the first ball, which was given at the Florence, was the exclusive function of the winter. It took place on the Monday preceding Ash Wednesday, and the belles and beaux who attended will recall in years to come the snowstorm on the night of the first Bir- mingham assembly. The carriages were forced through drifts of snow, and even the laces shivered. The ball was pre- eminently the most beautiful function of the winter and the two "assemblies' to be held the coming winter will be distinctly brilliant. Henry B. Gray is the president of the assembly, Jack w. Johnson vice. president, Hampton Smith secretary, and Webb Crawford treasurer. The board of control includes Mrs. Jack W. Johnston, Mrs. John w. Tomlinson, Mrs. Charles o. Locke, Mrs. Allan w. Haskell, Mrs. Ed ward W. Barrett, Mrs. Robert Jemison, Mrs. Robert H. Baugh, Mrs. Walker Percy, Mrs. H. l.. Badham, Mrs. Richard Ram doph, Mrs w. H. Kettig and Mrs. Webb Crawford The management of the assem- bly,, it is understood, will be like that of the Philadelphia and New York assemblies.
 The season will not be at it's height until after the assembly ball, but with the au- tumn weddings and their attendant dinner parties, society will be quite gay enough through October and November The club houses in town open usually in November, and with the accustomed gaieues or Thanksgiving week this last month of the glowing autumn is always one of the most delightful of the season. One of the most charming functions of November will be Halloween party at the Country club. The ballroom will be by that time enclosed with glass, and with the blazing logs in the Dutch fireplaces will come a series of smart affairs at Birmingham's Country club On Hallow'e cen night the lights will probably not burn as brightly, but this will not interfere with the number of ghost stories that will be told and if belle of the evening should become alarmed at a dusky corner, where perhaps the freight did not geam brightly, there would be numberless other frightened ones who will no doubt be able to scare the "spooks' away.
 In any event, when the stories are told there will be Welsh rarebits to be made, and after this the evening will close with dance in the beautiful ballroom, which has been the scene of so many pretty affairs this summer, and where the Country club members and their guests enjoyed dance last night.
 Wednesday is the popular day at the club, but owing to other engagements in town tonight the Country club members received last evening.
 Mrs L. Crozier-French the secretary of the woman's board, requests that all per sons desiring premium lists of the woman's department of the State Fair will make application at the Birmingham Woman's club which is the headquarters for the board. The secretary Will take pleasure in forwarding the premium lists upon appli- cation.
 Allan Talbot, of Richmond, recently ar- rived in Birmingham, and will make his home in this city. MT. Talbot, who is one of the popular and well-known clu5men of Richmond, is a brother of Ellis Talbot, of Birmingham.
 MT. and Mrs R. H. Snyder and their lt- tie daughter, Gladys, were in the city yes terday. They were en route from AsheviHe N C., to their home in St, Joseph, La.
 Major Charles D. Allison and his little son are at present at the Florence, where they will remain until Mrs. Allison's re- turn from the east, when they will go to housekeeping in the residence in Tenth avenue which is now occupied by pr. Cum ningham Wilson.
 Mrs. Kettig of Louisville. who has fre- quently visited her son. William H. Kettig, in Birmingham, will leave shortly with a party of friends for Europe.
 Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Liddons will occupy their house in Eleventh avenue, South, early in october.
 MT. and Mrs. George H. Estes and their family have taken possession of an attrac- tive house in Tenth avenue for the winter.
 Molton Smith, of Mount Pleasant, is spending the week with his parents, MT. and Mrs. Joseph R. Smith, Jr.
 Miss Kate Meade IS among the Drleht teachers at the Powell school this session.
 II. R. Johnston is at Hot Springs, N c.
 Mrs George Cruikshank left yesterday for Tuscaloosa.
 Miss L. Graham Crozier left yesterday for Atlanta.
 Miss Bessie Brown has returned from Tuscaloosa.