The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-19
STATE SOCIAL.
MONTGOMERY.

1 nuDIldl event Di DiOilbAl1NSo 'taA@ 19@1 1-e1.
 interest throughout the south occurred on i Wednesday afternoon at the home or MT
 and Mrs L. B. Halonqu;st, when their daughter, Mrs. Sophie Nieholls was mar
 rled to Major Charles Lewis Potter of 1 Duluth, Minn As Miss Sophie ffalon-
 quist a few years ago in this city. her beauty. intelligence, wit and her charm 1 of manner made her a belle who repeated
 the eonquests of her ancestors, the women
 of the famous Byrd family of Virginia,
 to which belonged Evelyn Byrd, the toast
 of two continents and the prototype of
 hsreines of romance. As Mrs Nich5lls,
 she has preserved her empire over hearts i that own the resourceful and attracti ns
 which the years have added Whlie the, i took nothing nothing away from her beguiling Personality. MaJor Potter $ i of the United States army corps uf e;i. gineers, and made many friends in Mont i gomery when, few years ag9, he Wal stationed here In government service win l Captain Price.
 The social functions of the week opened 1 with the bi-weekly german on Monday 1 evening of the Beauvoir club, Mr. Edwin 1 Howell Lewis leading, assisted by Mrs. 1 F. A DeFuniac. Among the dancers
 were Mrs Sarah Webb deCampi, Miss l Caroline Hannon, Miss Rebecea Pollard, i Miss Ethel Pelzer, Miss Lucille Wilkinson,
 Miss Willie Browning Haralson, Miss ] Mary Kirkpatrick, Miss Annie Lowe, Miss | Llll Tinsley, Miss Louise Marks, Miss I Minna Dent, Miss Bessie Winn, Miss Bes- | sic Thorington Miss Sallie Baker, Miss I Nell McKinnon, Miss Rosa Land, Miss Caldwell Miss Daisy Moody, Miss May 1 Hnfpbif14nn Mi4g Lucie Lane and Miss Josephine Nor
 wood, Mr. Clifford Lanler, Mr. Temple 1 Seibels, MT. Emmett Seibels, MI. Warren | Tyson, MT. S. O. Izlar MT. Edward Lyle, | MT. T. C. McClelland, Mir. J. P. Bullock, MT. Tracy Lay MT. H. Lay, MT. William I C. Oates MT. J. II. Faunce, MT Otis Will l Hanson, Mr Allen Northington, MT.
 Harry Shorter, MT. Prank Miller, MT. 1 Shepard Roberts, MT Archie Arlington, MT. Catrevis, BIr. Charles Pollard, MT. l McPherson, MT. ArchieNTyson, MT. Archie 1 Tyson, MT. Archie Mckinney, MT. Masse l Anderson, MT Joseph Billing, MT. P T. 1 Sayre, Mr Merrill Moore, Mir Charles | Gunter
 The Tintagil club met with Miss Sophia | Holmes and discussed French opera,
 when the hostess presented a study on 1 Les Huguenots, Miss Lucy Cobbs gave i a sketch of Meyerbeer as the exponent | of grand opera, and Miss Sadie Wyman l spoke of Jenny Lind in Meyerbeel's l operas. The Tintagil is a club of young ladies, many of whom are highly gifted, and engaged in teaching and in literary | pursuits One member, Miss Nimo 1 Greene, Is well known throughout the l country as the author of King Arthur l and His Court" which is on the supple
 mentary reading list of the Birmingham | public schools.
 Other functions were the meeting of the | No Name club with Mrs. Frank Stolen werck; the Mothers union with Mrs. I. I Veil, when the members discussed 'The l Children of Others; of the Jokers' Card l club with Miss 1nel ar Vass: the Tuesday | Card club with Mrs. Forney Stevenson, | when St. Valentine gave the tone to dec- | oratons and score cards; the Saturday l Card club with Mrs. William Stuart. The
 severely cold weather prevented the ses-
 sions of some of the clubs~
 1 One of the most delightful and elegant
 private functions of the winter i'll Mont
 gomers' est.ae off in the handsome home I of Mr ants Mrs. J. Walter Black on 1 Tuesday arternoon, when they gave to
 their Montgomery friends the pleasure | of an sntrJduction to their sister, Mrs. l Israel Putnam Black of Philadelphia. and l their friends Mrs. and Miss Putnam of
 Boston. Mrs Black daughter, Mrs Pcrcy 1 Black, assisted in wei si1lins the guests, l and presiding at the ,efresh rent tables, were Mrs. Charles Tn gpaa .Irs. Halls 1 Janney and Miss Janie Htll Other ladies 1 who contributed as associate hos;esses to the charm of the occasion %eie Miss l Barnett Mrs. Moore, Mfs William l Stratford. Mrs Walter Fisk, Mrs. i-esley Gilbert. Mrs Farley, Mrs. Arthur Pelser, | (Fafa Ire | W. Patterson, Hrs. Bell, Mrs. Anderson, | Mrs. Cassels Mrs J. M. de Cottes, Mrs. | T. G. Jones' Mrs. Will Black, Mrs. Bur nett Miss Fisk, Mrs. Florence Harris, l Mrs. Le Bron, Miss Lae Moore, Mrs
 Laneham Mrs. Ray Rushton Miss Mat | tie Mcqueen, Mrs. Vass, Miss l>rkpat- rick, Mrs J. M. Fallxner, Mrs. ' T. Ruff, | Mrs John Jones, Mrs Robert Barrett,
 Mrs. Hannon and Miss Soa,h.
 Mrs. Charles Westcott entertained at | cards complimentary to Mrs. ]. M. -An- l derson
 Mrs. Philip Harrison tf New York is
 with Mr and Mrs L. B. l'a.enanist, hay ing come to the Nicholls-Potter wedding
 Miss Josephine Halonauist came up from
 New Orleans for the wedding of her sis
 ter, Mrs. Sophie II. Nichols.
 l Among visitors to the city are Miss
 Mentz of Kentucky, with her brother
 MT. George Mentz; MT. and Mrs Morgan
 thaler and Mrs. s. H. Townsend oi | Cleveland, O., with Mir. and Mrs. J. N | Hall; Mrs. w. H. Coleman and son, Wade l Hampton, Jr,, with her parents, Mir anC
 Mrs. J. r. Thornton; Mrs. Harry String
 fellow, here for the marriage of hel
 friend, Mrs. Nichols: Mrs Dupont Gner, l of Macon, Ga, with Mrs. Arthur Flow
 CTS; Miss File May Barnes of Talbctton
 Ga., with Mrs. E. P. Williamson; Mis- | Mary Ellis Graham of Prattville witt
 Mrs. Palmer Elsberry; Rev. and Mrs , Horace Y. Owen of North Carolina witt | her parents, Judge and Mrs. T. G. Jones | Miss Rosa Land of Selma with Mis- | Helen Scott; Mrs. Frank Rieke of Ken ! lucky with her sister, Mrs. A. D. Sayre | Mrs. Harden Fitts of Mobile with her par \ ents, MT. and Mrs. Peyton Bibb.
 | MOBILE.
 , Mobile, February 1S-(specia1.) .)-Whil there were galore this week. the one bil
 ball was the Manassas club cotillol
 Wednesday evening given by the younge
 members and led by Mr. L. c. Dorgai
 with Miss Morris Clarke. A beautiful
 bouquet of white carnations was pre-
 sented Miss Clarke by the club. Sixty
 or seventy couples took part and MT
 Dorgan led some original figures, notably
 the game of bid euchre played with hu
 man cards. Among the visitors present
 were Miss English of New York, who is
 the guest of Miss Marcia Burgess ano
 Miss Alice and Miss Elizabeth Fritchey
 of Lancaster, Pa, guests of Mrs. Horace | Clarke.
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