The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-14

graceIul 1DlS0 10 ne Week.
Europe Is the magnet that will
draw many Of our travellers
across the seas this sum mer. and
authorizations are fast centering
around journeys soon to be un-
dertaken. Earliest of the leave
takers are Mrs. Maer and Miss
/ VinsOn, who leave Wednesday for
1 Wales, afterwards the continent.
On the twentieth Of June, Miss
Conway will sail, accom- panied
! by several Colum bans. among
whom are Miss WorthingtOu,
Miss Mary Harrison, Miss Lila
Franklin and Miss Lavinia Rob
iertson. Misses Lucy and Anna
Banks are included in Mrs. FAC
Smiths party, which has also en-
gagged passage on one Of the
steamers announced to sail next
month. Miss Bette Clay, still
claimed as Colum bian, has de
cided to spend her season OF rest
and recreation in the South of
| France.
Mrs. John A. Nelson has re-
turned from Greenwood, where
she has been visiting her daught-
err. Miss Lizzette Nelson. While
there, Mrs. Nelson was a guest
at Mrs. Henderson s Grand
mothers Dining. an annual en-
tertainment that is so thought
full and gracious a courtesy upon
the part of Mrs Henderson. All
the details suggest the long ago,
and are eXquisitely observed,
old fashioned flowers, syringas,
/ pinks, jessamine, bringing pict-
ures of stately gardens, decorate
the table, old fashioned music is
played during the dinner, and at
the end tOasts are given On
this last occasion a beautiful
toast, May old age, serene and
bright, And lovely as a Lapland
Night, Attend thee to thy grave"
was drunk to the hostess by the
thirty guests present Then fol
lowed a concert when war songs,
sentimental songs loved in other
days, were sung with will and
with dear and tender memories.
In the series of students re
citals at the College this spring,
none has introduced a more gift
ed musician, nor has been more
favOrably received than that at
which Miss Maggie Lay appear
ed as the sOlOist Friday evening.
Her performance gave emphatic
evidence of a genuine musical
nature that has responded to
careful and splendid cultivation,
and the program was warmly APP
/ plauded The final numb Der, The
Waltz Heroic" was accorded re
/ peated encOres. Miss Lay will
be graduatedlwith high hOnOrs
from the department of music at
! the forthcoming commencement.
In the accounts of the annual
ball of the Brooklyn Southern
Society on the evening Of the
! thirteenth Of April many familiar
names are noted, and among the
guests mentioned are Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Lanier Sykes, Miss
Newman of Atlanta, Miss Kin
ney of Birmingham, Miss Bailey
and Miss Maud Stark of Mem
/ phiS, the latter remembered as a
visitor to Columbus some years
ago when her uncle. Mr.. Burns,
was a prominent railroad official
here, Mr.. Caswell A. Mayo, Cap
tain Charles McGhee and Mr..
Roger Topp.
His Columbus friends will
learn with much interest of the
marriage of Lieut.. Noble J. Wiley
of the United States army to
Miss Hulett Trapp, the wedding
occurring in the Philippines
where the groom's regiment is
now stationed. Lieut.. Wiley is
the son of Congressman Wiley Of
Alabama, who was Lieutenant
Colonel of the Fifth Immunes,
and is recalled as the popular
young soldier conspicuous in the
social pleasures of a gay sum-
mer
Several days are set apart up
on the week before US. On Tues
day afternoon Miss Anna Banks
entertains the Tuesday Whist
Club, Tuesday evening the Sing
in Skule Beginment' heralded
as the merriest of comedies will
be presented at the Opera House
for the benefit of the Daughters
of the Confederacy Later in the
week Mrs. Hampdem Osborne
will be the hostess of the Ladies
| Whist Club.
Mrs. Cornelius Hardy has the
sincere sympathy Of countless
| friends in the death of her broth
er, Hon. William q. Bibb. which
sad event occurred in Montgom-
cry Tuesday after a lingering i'll
ness. Mr.. Bibb was a promi-
nent Alabamian who had long
served in the State legislature
and was regarded as a lawyer of
exceptional ability.