The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-17
NOTES AND PERSONALS.

The shops were thronged yesterday.
many well-known women being seen IN
the fashionable shopping districts. while
at the luncheon hour several bright ana
congenial parties were made up here ana
there The weather, decidedly cool tor
the season, made the day an ideal one
and summer gowns to be worn at the
mountains and at the shore looked very
charming to the women selecting them.
There have been few departures for
either the mountains. the country, or the
seashore as the season has not advanced
far enough to close town houses. Not I'M
til after the June weddings will the sum-
lnar exodus begin.
The weddings will bring many distn-
gui.hed guests from out of town. ar.
and Mrs. Cullom will have guests Mr.. and
Mrs Kinney and Mrs. Birch will enter
tain several wedding guests and later In
June Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hamilton will
have several house guests for the we'd
ding of their daughter, Miss Rebecca
Hamilton, to DR.. Lokey, which Is to be
home affair
There will be many people going abroad.
Mr. Dudley Lawrence of New York, whose
marriage to Miss Kate Birch of Birming-
ham will take place on June |, will, with
! his bride pass the summer travelling in
Europe. Mr.. Culpepper Exam and MISS
Kinney. whose wedding on June 7 Will
be an event of great brilliancy, are con-
templating going abroad. Miss Kinney
passed last summer In Europe.
Mrs Kinney and Miss Kinney are still
in New York
Mrs Henry Bramlette Gray is to be
Miss Kinney's matron of honor, and she
will make a notably handsome one, and
Miss Kinney will certainly be very
beautiful bride. A number of events VIII
precede the wedding, and Mr.. Exum's
bachelor dinner will be the most inter-
esting of the many dinner parties given
at The Bachelors.
Mrs. C. p. Orr will leave for her cot
tage at Mentone early in June. She has
three charming daughters at school in
Canada, and in New York, and she will
not leave until their return.
Miss Elizabeth Haley of opelika will
arrive today to be the guest of MISS
Alma Feagin.
Mrs. ]. D. Moore gave a very smart
luncheon yesterday to twenty guests.
Miss Marguerite White gave a delight
full card party yesterday Afternoon
.
Miss Elizabeth Shelley will leave in
June for TT. Desmoines to pass the SUM.
mer with her brother, Capt. James Shell
ley, Z. S. A.
Lieut.. Henry NJ Bankhead. U. S. A.,
and Mrs. Bankhead will sail for the
Philippines Mrs. Bankhead is one of the
most interesting women in the army set.
She has Travelled extensively, is brill
liant conversationalist and is very
charming hostess in the American colony
in the Philippines.
The New York Herald contains the fol-
lowing:
An engagement of considerable interest
was announced last week. that of Miss
Grizelda Houston Hull. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs George II. Hull of Tuxedo, to
Capt Richmond Pearson Hobson, U. s.
N. The wedding will be very quietly cele-
brated at the home of the brides parents
in Tuxedo Park. on Thursday, May %.
AS Captain Hobsons father died quite re-
Gently none but relatives and few In
innate friends will be present. The couple
will make their home at the old Hobson
homestead, Magnolia Grove, Greensboro.
Ala.
The ancestors of both Miss Hull and
Captain Hobson were associated in the
south in the building up of North Car
DINA, Tennessee and Alabama Miss Hulls
mother was Miss Lucia Houston, daugh-
ter of Judge Russell Houston of Ken
lucky.
DR.. and Mrs Felix Tarrant and little
daughter will leave at noon today for
ten-days' visit to Old Point Rock Valley.
in north Alabama, the boyhood home Of
the doctor.
Mrs. T. G. Bush has returned from
Mobile.