The age-herald., 1901-08-02
Notes and Personals.

Notes and Personals.
 There were a number of fashionable wo- men in town shopping yesterday in spite of the warm day. and many society peo- pie were lunching in the cafes. At the ~Omans Exchange a bevy of Birming- ham bellies acted as cashiers. including Miss Lucy Dwyer. Miss Suzanne Aston and Miss Edna Snow
 pr. and Mrs. charles Clifton Terrell of the University of Mississippi. arrived yes- terday from Kentucky, where they spent July and are the guests of MT. and Mrs. Edmund Taylor Taliaferro.
  Miss Edith Lester of Rome, Ga, is the guest of the Misses Lewis.
 Mrs Robert Jemison and Miss Annie Jemison will leave today for New York and Asbury Park. MT. Jemison Is already in the East
 The card party at the Country Club last night was an unusually delightful event, assembling a large number of the members and their guests, the ball room being afterwards used for an informal cotillon.
 MT and Mrs Rufus N. Rodes will leave today for Asbury Park and New York. Mrs. Thomas M. Owen of Montgomery is receiving a cordial welcome from her friends during her visit to Birmingham. She was one of the most admired and popular young women who ever lived in Birmingham, and is one of the most bril- liant and ch yming women of the South. Among the Southern women who will spend a part of August at Old Point Com fort Is Mrs. Darlington Semple. formerly of Birmingham and now of New York Mir and Mrs. L. J. Haley left yesterday for Virginia.
 Mrs Erwin Craighead has returned to Mobile.
 Mrs Edward H. Cabaniss has gone to Lookout Mountain.
 7 Miss Jamie Head and Miss Louise Jack son are the guests at a house party in Faunsdale.
 Major Charles J. Allison left yesterday for New York
 Miss Mamie Moore and Miss Alice Moore are among the Birmingham young women at Blount this season.
 Mrs. J. L. welch and Miss Dillon Welch have gone to Alabama White Sulphur Springs where they will spend the re- mainder of the summer.
 Miss Lizzie Morris Mason is with Mrs. W. c. Garrett's party at Belleview.
 
 Miss Mattie Vance has returned from Oneonta, where she visited the Misses Roberts Miss Gertrude Roberts re- turned with and will be her guest for sev, weeks on Fountain Heights.
 Mrs S. P West and children have gone to Talladega on a visit, and will remain until the schools open. They will be the guests of Mrs. M. M. Frazer. eA>< ~<~%~~<%<~-<->-<> pounds of freight he usually billed it at 500 or 300 pounds. The trick was not de- tected and hence the railroads have been defranded out of thousands of dollars. The new system by which the railroads expct to protect themselves went into ef- feet yesterday. The system is simply the formation of weighting and inspecting bureau It was formed by the Southern Railway. the Louisville and Nashville. the Illinois Central the Nashville. Chat tanooga and St. Louis. the Kansas City. Memphis and Birmingham, the Cincin- nati, Hamilton and Dayton and several others.
 The territoy to be covered is all that east of the Mississippi River south of Washington and Cincinnati.
 H. W. Wolf is the general manager and his headquarters are in Atlanta J. c. Armistead Is manager for the state Of Alabama, and Is called the chief inspec- tor He was formerly claim agent for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Lou Is.
 The chairman of the board of directors is H. F. Smith, formerly traffic manager i, of the same road.
 The plan of the work follows: Every agent at every small station In Alabama will be appointed a sub-lnspector and paid for his work. Tn the large towns like Birmingham. Mobile, Montgomery and Washington, there will be two in- spectors or weighers on duty, one to weigh the solid freight and another to weigh the merchandise freight, These officials have not yet been named.