The Columbus commercial., 1907-07-02
SOCIAL HAPPENINGS, PERSONAL MENTION
AND BITS OF INTEREST
GATHERED HERE AND THERE.


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to make all men love you," a
most deserved and we'll merited |
one. Mrs. Russell, as Miss Bill
lups, from early childhood has
had little following of friends,
who have accepted her as their |
type of noble womanhood. With |
a nature true and strong. who
has gripped her friends with
hooks of steel, and with a dispo-
sition particularly sunny and
bright she has brought so much
of gentle patience and Christian
forbearance into her daily walks
of life, that her very presence
brings sunshine into her own
home and into those homes which
have been blessed and honored
by her visits and her friendship.
No truer exemplication of the
widespread popularity and hon.
cred esteem in which Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell are held could have
been shown than by the hun
dreds of costly and magnificent
presents which were showered
upon them in the days previous
to their wedding. Besides the
superb silver service, the hand
soonest and most complete we'd
ding gift of it's kind, comprising
225 pieces, costing ten thousand
dollars, the gift of the Mobile
and Ohio employees, the First
National Bank of Mobile sent
them a beautiful silver and cut
glass ice cream set.
The following special from
Birmingham, Alabama, to the
Commercial-Appeal will be read
with profound regret by Miss
Shoaff's numerous friends in this
city, who wish for DR.. de Graf
fenreid speedy recovery and a
fulfillment of their matrimonial
vows-At the summer home of
the father of the prospective
bride, near Shelby Springs, last
evening, DIR. Seay de Graffenried
of Greensboro, who was to have
married Miss Gertrude Shoaff,
daughter of DR.. w. G. Shoaff,
prominent Methodist minister of
Columbus. Mississippi, was sud-
denly stricken and became un-
conscious, causing the wedding
to be postponed. He was brought
to a hospital in Birmingham to-
day, where he is violently ILL,
being delirious at times, the doc
tors say, from nervous break
down. The entire wedding party
had gathered; the house was
decorated and the wedding feast
had been prepared, when a few
| moments before the time set for
the ceremony the groom suddenly
collapsed, falling heavily to the
floor. CONSERVATION followed.
Physicians were summoned, and
for several hours the mans life
was almost despaired of. DIR.
de Graffenreid had left a sick
oed to keep his wedding date
with his betrothed. Friends be-
lieve that constant work upon a
medical book which he is writing
caused the breakdown. DIR. de
Graffenreid is nephew of the
late Gov. Thomas Seay of this
state, for whom he was named,
and is one of the most prominent
young physicians in Alabama.
He is also an author of some
note.
A large and appreciated audi
ence greeted Miss Matte Lou
Brown Friday evening when she
entertained with q voice recital
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for the Normal teachers. When
Chancellor Kincannon introduc-
ed Miss Brown, he said, she wac
the peer of Nordioa or Gadski to
which the house agreed after
listening to her rendition of q
most delightful program. Miss
Mary Mcclure, q gifted pianist
was Miss Browns accompanied
and delighted every one with
her ready Interpretation as well
as her wonderful technique.
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