The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-27
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The couple met last night week ago aS a bah in Vinegar Bend. The young lady had only recently come to C1txuneile from Stockton, Cal. having been with reiA- tives there for eosne time. Announce ment had been made that on October a. next, she was to be married to . well known young man of the Southern part of Mobile County. The couple left for Cftronelle tonight and tomorrow will go to Walker County, Alabama, to visit the groom'e mother. who resides near Jasper. Colonel Luigi Lomia, who has been or. dered transferred from command of Fort Morgan to Fort Bakef, Cal, will leave Monday with his interesting family for his new post, Fort Baker. in San Fran cisco harbor: and one of the most im- portant stations on the Pacific coast. Major Slaker. who will assume command at Fort Morgan will arrive tomorrow.
 Customs Collector W. F. Tebbets. who has been seeking to have a branch of the hydrographfc offlce of the United States government established here said this af- ternoon that he has met with enoour- agement. He has received e lot of nt- erature and charts which will prove of great benefit to maritime interests, A. N. Johnson, the colored editor and undertaken, who assaulted T. N Harris. negro physician, was fined in the Infe- rier Criminal Court today $2s and costs and placed under 500 peace bond for Dr. Joseph Patt this afternoon filed A suit in the Circuit Court against Benja- min T. Houston, a liveryman, for $5, 900 personal damages. The two had a fight on Royal Street Thursday.
 Mobile Society News. As inevitable as fall openings, autumn aust clouds, are the rumblings that her. ald autumnal weddings. Cupid is natur- ally supposed to have gotten in some good work under the summer moons and the dear. gossipy, lover-loving public
 seizes with avidity on the smallest straw and blows it in the direction where they think 1t ought to go, regardless of the delicate summer zephyrs that set it mov- ing. The tiniest pun of smoke they are sure. comes from a fire hotter than the signs Of lcve-lorn youth and bigger than that which destroyed Chicago, and with the best intentions badly directed, they ring the wedding bells to put it out No one is exempt-no one free from sus- picion. regardless of race, age or pre- vious conduct or condition. No girl feels
 
 her supposed engagement will not be placarded the length and breadth of the town. No girl can even take a pleasure trip to New York with impunity, for so surely as she does, "trousseau' is whis- pered knowingly far and near-and so carefully is her every purchase watched that she feels as if she were a shop litter under suspicion.
 But everybody knows the wolf story and how after many false alarms the old wolf really did come at last. And so we understand that he has come to us this fall and is going to eat up a number of suspicious and suspected cases. Invita- tions aren't out yet, and we are not au- thorized to make any announcements, but we all recognize the cases labelled genuine" They are all well known so- cially, and in the business world the grooms-to-be take a prominent stand. The weddings will take place in November, dates ranging from the 4th to the very end. Miss Kathleen Williamson, who goes to Coden next week to begin her school du- l ties, is having many charming proofs of the affection of her girl friends and the | regret with which they see her leave
 them. Friday afternoon Miss Kitty AL | len gave a o'clock tea in her honor. l and there gathered at her invitation as | pretty a bevy of girls as one could hope | to see. Among them were Misses Venetia | Danner, Kate Crawford, May Prince, Ger | trude Smith, May Threefoot, Theo. Will
 Hanson, Elsie Fry. Corinne Orton, Clara | Ross, Saida Billups, Julia 0nd Margaret
 Lake, Blanche and Sue Pianck. | This afternoon a pretty luncheon was
 given in Miss Wiliamson's honor by Miss
 Saida Billups, whose guests included only
 the classmates of the pretty guest of | honor.
 An engagement formerly announced is
 that of the pretty society editress men, 1 tioped in this column a day or so afo. | Miss Mary Holmes to MT. William Mickle
 The wedding will take place October ! in
 the Government Street Presbyterian | Church.
 l Among the passengers returning on the | Mallory steamer from New York today | were J. J. Worthington, MT. and Mrs.
 Samuel White, R. s. Robbins, Mrs. J. H.
 Zelincker and family and T. c. Candidus.
 Mrs. J. syd Robbins reached Mobile | today after an absence of several months
 spent in travelling on the Continent. Miss Annie Benjamin Lyon has return
 ed from a visit to her sister, Mrs. Fred
 Ingate in Beaumont Texas.
 Dr. George Ketchum and Mrs. Robert l Gage are expected home today on the l Mallory steamer.
 Mrs. Malone and Miss Ella Malone are | home after a six weeks stay in Suggs- | vile, Ala.