The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1907-06-13
Shoaff-De Graffenried.

Mr.. Blake.
Shoaff-De Graffenried
The Rev. and Mrs. James Watts
Shoaff announce the engagement of
their daughter. Gertrude Watts. TO
DR.. Thomas Seay de Graffenried of
Laurel, Miss. The marriage will be
celebrated on the afternoon Of June
the twenty-fifth, at "Elmwood." No
invitations will be issued.
The Wednesday Whist Club.
Mrs. H. F. Simrall will entertain
the Wednesday Whist Club on Fri
day afternoon, the fourteenth.
Mrs. Mary Lipscomb Hargrove of
Kansas City, who is now visiting DR..
and Mrs. J. w. Lipscomb, gave de-
lightful talk at the First Methodist
church last Tuesday afternoon on her
travels in the East. She entertained
her audience with vivid pictures of
foreign lands through which she jour
neyed with obseryant, appreciative
back memories that her friends glad
ly share. Mrs. Hargrove dwelt par
ticularly upon the Mohammedan
world and the condition of its wom-
en-, their state of servitude, the mar
row boundaries of their lives. She
sketched with graphic touch, and the
afternoon was greatly enjoyed.
Miss Worthington ard Miss Blan-
ME Shields left yesterday morning
for New York Miss Worthington
has been very successful in making
up the party, which numbes fifteen.
this season. Miss Rosalie Calm of
Meridian and Miss Duke Of Scooba
will be among the Mississippians who
will enjoy the European tour under
Thursday on one of the Italian lin
ers, and will not be homeward bound
until early fall.
The graduates in the department
of stenography at the college have
graceful greetings from the class of
1907. An unique toast for good
luck and good fortune is first present
ed, followed by an inspiring para
graph or verse for every day of the
week, thoughts so appropriate and
we'll selected that one finds oneself
saying with oliver Wendell Holmes,
Blessed are they who have said our
goods things for us
Miss Vesta Wood of Columbus,
Miss, spent yesterday morning in
Birmingham as the guest of Miss
Willie May Parker. Miss Wood left
on one of the noon trains for Nash
Vile, where she will attend COM
mencement exercises at Vanderbilt
She will be the guest of friends in
Nashville for the month of June
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Mrs. Annie T. Sales friends will
! juries she sustained by a fall last
week Her left wrist was broken
and the arm severely sprained, but
she is now much better, and was able
! to leave Friday for a visit to Mr.. and
Mrs Thrower at their country place
near Mayhew. 81,
| A feature of the A and NJ. com
mencement last week was the alumni
| banquet on Tuesday evening Prof
Welborn, who has been engaged in
/ important work for the government
was POSTMASTER, and Prof. c. E
Saunders, superintendent of the
Greenwood schools, the orator of the
occasion.
Now that summer has claimed its
own, picnics are in order, and every
| day or two outings of one kind or
another are arranged Numbers OF
/ the younger set had a picnic at Lake
Park on Wednesday, and again on
Friday spent merry day on the
banks of the Luxapalila.
Mrs Rebecca Bibb is expected
about the fifteenth to be the guest OF
her sister. Mrs. Carleton. Mrs. Bibb
will remain in Columbus until the re-
turn of Mrs. William Bibb of Mont
gomery, who will visit California and
the West.
Mrs. T. H. Sharp left Tuesday for
Memphis to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Robt.
Henry, Jr. Mr.. Henry, who has been
prominently connected with the Mis-
sissippi press, is now on the staff of
the Commercial Appeal.