The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

| tain several hundred guests. From the l small card party to the informal 5 o'clock 1 tea, or from the large ball to the din
 ner of 200 or more covers the service is always ample.
 The links are the finest in the south, | and the golf tournaments are largely at I tended by other clubs of the Southern | Golf association. Tennis courts, bowling alleys, billiard and pool rooms, spacious | lockers with baths adjoining, leaving
 nothing to be desired by the most fas- | tidious club man.
 l The club governors have always placed l the clubhouse at the disposal of Birming | ham women whose husbands are members 1 of the club. The links are also for their convenience, and there are many
 women golfers to be seen on them any fine day.
 The club, entering upon a new admin isAration, with MT Webb Crawford as president, has never been more prosper ous. MT Eugene L. Brown, vice pres ldent, and MT. R. B, Mcdowell secre- tary, together with the board of gover- | nors, MT. Erskine Ramsay, MT. Walker Percy, MT. J. J. Ashton, Mir. A. L. Fulen- I wider, MT. H. l.. Badham, Mr. R. II. Baugh, MT Frank B. Fowlkes and MT. Thomas Bowron, represent a large and | influential membership of the club, which in point of membership Is one of the
 largest in the south, there being FOO mem-i bers including resident, nonresident, as- socate and temporary. Just now the club grounds are most at traetlve. It would be difficult to find a more beautiful setting for a club house. Red mountain, at the height of it's summer splendor seems to encircle the club house and from its balconies the terraces dip in lake holding shadows of clouds and tints of June sky.
 Colonel and Mrs Leonard Yancey Dean of Eufaula announce the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth Simpson. to MT. Cyrus King Hartsell of Birmingham, the wedding to take place in November. The announcement is one of wide social interest, both in southern society and in Pittsburg and New York. Miss Dean ;s the youngest daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Dean and is a charming and beauti- full young woman. On her maternal side she Is of the Lewis Washington descent and on her paternal from the Blands and Randolphs of Virginia. Her mother is one of the most prominent women in the state. being one of the D. A. R. regents and also Colonial Dame. Colonel Dean was member of Governor Jelks staff and was reapponted on the staff of Governor Conner
 Their handsome home in Eufaula has been for years the center of a brilliant hospitality, and Miss Dean was reared in the beautiful old homestead She is typically southern in appearance, tall, ex- ceedingly graceful and has the gracious manner of the southern belle.
 Mir. Hartsele is the youngest son of MT. and Mrs. o. M Hartsell Of Pttsburs and is a member of an old and represen- tative family of Allegheny. He is we'll known in society in this city.
 The wedding will he one of the brilliant events of the autumn.
 Mrs R. D. Johnston of Birmingham, one of the regents of the Mt Vernon association. recently spent ten days at Mt Vernon, during the council assem- biy of regents. The regents meet an- nually The appointment of a regent is for life. Many of the regents are now quite old. It is most interesting and patriotic gathering. Every year these regents journey to Mt. Vernon, arrange for the continued preservation of Wash ington's home look after the furnishing of Mt Vernon and place wreathes upon the tomb. Every year, too, Increases the number of visitors to the tomb of Wash I ington. No foreigner of any distinction ever visits this country without going to Mt. Vernon. Americans, millions of them, have never seen the tomb of Wash