The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK
 IN SOCIAL WORLD
Writers Club to Receive In At-
 tractive Quarters
VISITING WOMEN MEMBERS
Informal Receptions and Motor Car Parties Will Be Included in To- days Social Events for League
 Visitors-Dinners Given.


 | At the club rooms in the city hall the members of the Birmingham Writers club will receive informally throughout the week in compliment to the visiting
 women of the league The reception room,
 No g, will be the general rendezvous for the women members of the league. They will be received there this morning oy
 members of the club, will be expected to register and will receive the invitations | for the entertainments in their honor. The
 visiting women will be made 10 feel that l the rooms of the Writers club are at | their disposal for informal receptions, for 1 committee meetings and as a general ren-
 dezvous during the meeting of the league.
 It is hoped that they will find the club
 rooms convenient and will frequently visit
 them during the week, being assured of
 cordial welcome from the members of l the club.
 l Following the informal reception this | morning upon the arrival of the league
 members, there will be the opening ses-
 sion at the city hall, and the Writers club | will be represented In it's address of well come by it's president, Mrs. J. Asa Roun- ! tree
 The social features of today will also
 include an auto party after the luncheon
 hour the party to start from the city hall | at , o'clock The visiting women in the | party and their hostesses will arrive zen auto" at the residence of Mrs. Rountree. corner Eleventh avenue and Eighteenth | street in time for her reception, which | begins at o'clock Assisting the hostess 1 in receiving will be the members of the l club and group of women not club mem
 bers The occasion will be delightfully."- in-
 formal. as most of the guests will con-
 cludc their auto tour there, no time being | allowed for a return to the hotels or to | the private residence where the women in
 the party are being entertained.
 A majority of those who have house
 guests will entertain at dinner parties this 1 evening at their own homes or the clubs.
 but there will not be any formal enter | tainments the first of these To be the brilliant ball at the Country club on Wednesday evening.
 Mrs J. A. Rountree, who receives in- | formally this afternoon at I o'clock, in | compliment to the visiting women of the league, will be assisted in receiving by the
 members of the Writers club, and also | by d number of other women, among | whom will be Mrs John Hollis Bankhead, 1 Mrs. Joseph F. Johnston, Mrs. John W. | Tomlnson. Mrs J. W. Sibley. Mrs. G. IT. Sibley. Mrs. James Bowron, Mrs. John ] l.. kaul, Mrs. Robert Jemison, Mrs. Rob-
 crt II. Pearson. Mrs. C. T. Randall, Mrs.
 Charles c. Brown, Mrs. R. D. Burnett.
 Mrs. C. M. Tardy. Mrs. Richard F. John-
 ston, Mrs F. E. Davis and Mrs. George | Griffin.
 The large and interesting membership | of the Inuternational League of Press | clubs includes number of prominent | women writers. Several of them hold
 positions in the league besides fulfilling
 similar duties in such organizations as
 the American League of Pen Women, the
 National Woman's Press association and
 the various press associations throughout
 the country whose membership is com
 posed exclusively of women.
 Among the visiting women arriving to- 1 day will be: Mrs Edward Heating, Zen
 yer, Colo; Miss Laura Lawler, Mrs. 1 Charles Higgins. Mrs. C. r. Cochran, Miss 1 Parks, St. Louis, Mo; Mrs. C. Frank
 Rice, Boston, Mass; Miss Elizabeth Kel- | ley, Denver. Colo: Mrs. Harriet Hayden
 Finck Mrs. Anthony lrinck, Mrs. Jose | phine Segal. Mrs. A. k. E. Nesbitt, Miss Ia raj M
 Ter Miss C. Jessica Donnelly, Miss J. q.
 Fling of Philadelphia; Mrs. William | Robert Vawterm, Richmond, Va; Mrs. | H. Winslow Tegley, Mrs, George s. Beck, | Miss Beck. Reading, Pa.; Mrs. Martin | Murray Miss Hart, pr. Catherine Sweeney of Wilkes Barre, Pa; Mrs. Jose | phine A. Rich. Mrs, Belva A. Lockwood, | Mrs. Lydia Adams Williams, Dr. Adeline
 E. Portman, Mrs. Ruth G. Pealer Miss
 Jennie F. Richardson, Mrs. F. NJ. Still
 man, Mrs. William Beck, Miss Mable | Louise White, Miss Della Hiue Merzt, | Miss Jessie A. Griswold Washington, D. | C.. Mrs. Robert B. Mcintyre. New York: | Mrs. Ada Cable. Pittsburg, Pa; Miss | Libbie L. Morrow, Miss Corine k. Green ley, Nashville. Tenn; Mrs. l.. Crozier French, Knoxville, Tenn; Miss Will Allen | Dromgoole, Nashville, Tenn; Mrs. Oscar 1 r, Peoples. Cartersvlle, Tenn; Mrs. | Catherine P. Haden, Nashville, Tenn:
 Mrs. Cora E. Depuy, Detroit Mich; Mrs.
 Melvin R. Burdick, Detroit Mich.
 Mir and Mrs. w. r. Aldrich expected
 to come up from Rajah Lodfe last even
 ing for a week in town, but Mrs. Aldrich
 has been quite indisposed for several days and has postponed her visit, al- though she had made several social en- agreements for the week. MT. and Mrs. Aldrieh expected to be among the guests
 at the reception and cotllon at the club on Wednesday evening and at the several events of the week. In the group Of distinguished visiting women of the week Mrs. Aldrich would have been one of
 the most brilliant and interesting, and had she been well enough she intended to entertain several of the well-known
 women writers at her mangniicent lodge.