The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-11
SPONSORS BALL AT COUNTRY CLUB Preceded By Dinner and Driv-
 ing Parties DINNER TO THE GENERALS General Stewards Stirring Address on the Subject of Presev-
 ing Southern
 Songs.
DINNER TO THE GENERALS
BY ANNIE kENDRlck WALKER.

BY ANNIE KENDRIcK WALKER.
 The day was brilliant socially. Luncheon and dinner parties proceeded the large balls and musicals of the evening, and every moment was filled with entertain nients. Among the handsomest dinners of the evening was that at which Mrs. Louise Bankhead Pery entertained at the Country club in compliment to a number Of distinguished guests. Brilliant among the private entertainments was the buffet lunchean given by MT. and Mrs. Cupepper Exum to Gen. c. Irvine Walker of Charleston and the young women in his party. Lunching and dining at the clubs were many distinguished guests. In the afternoon the floral parade was witnessed by all the fashionable world club bal comics as we'll as office building being thronged with thousands of spectators.
 No flower pageant was ever more beau- tiful and the enthusiasm of the spectators was equal to that so continuously in evil dence on every occasion of the reunion.
 Quite long into the evening fower-laden autos and traps made beautiful scene along the fashionable avenues, and then began the processions of smart equipages to the Country club a notably brilliant ball being danced there in compliment to sponsors and maids
 Many luncheon parties were gwen yes terday at the Woman's Exchange, num- mer of distinguished guests lunching there in the cafe which is elaborately decorated with the Confederate colors Crimson and white bunting is used in the hand some decorations, the walls draped with bunting and flags intedspersed with the pictures of Generals Lee, Beaureguard. Stonewal Jackson, Forrest, Wheeler, Fitzhugh Lee, President Davis and others. Battle flags used conspicuously in the decorations, which are most showy and eectve.
 Breakfast and luncheon are served daily, and there were 300 guests lunching and effective.
 A brilliant and beautiful occasion was the buffet luncheon given yesterday at o'clock by MT. and Mrs Culpepper Exum to Gen. c. Irvine Walker of Charleston, s. C., the members of his staff and the South Carolina sponsors and maids. The
  an elaborate luncheon was served.
 Among the guests were general Walker, Colonel Harrison Watts, Miss Marcia Myers, Col. Homer Atkinson, Col. J. D. Pendavis, Miss Boyden, Miss Henderson. General Boiling, Gen. Julian Carr, Col. B. H. Teague, Gen. White West Miss London, Miss Davis, Miss Evans Miss Cook, Miss Hobson. Miss Lyons, Miss Scott, Col David Hraxeler, pr. Harvey, Gen. Thomas Brown, Gen. Levert, Pri- vate John Allen of Mississippi pr. Brock of Virginia Colonel Scott of Mississippi, MT. and Mrs Warren of Virginia, Mr. J. C. Lynch of South Carolina.
 Among others invited to meet the dis tinguished guests of honor were MT. and Mrs. Badham, MT. and Mrs. Levert, MT. and Mrs. Koenig, MT. and Mrs. Kidd MT. and Mrs. Eugene Enslen, Jr., MT. and Mrs Berry Baugh, MT. and Mrs. Kaul, Mir and Mrs. Barrett MT. and Mrs. Percy Mr. Morgan Frierson, MT. Robert Abner Brown, Col & P. Gaut MT. Hinds Peevy, Gen. and Mrs. Rufus N. Rhodes, MT. and Mrs. Fulenwder, MT and Mrs. E. L. Brown, MT. Wilson Brown, MT. and Mrs. Frank Fowl1es, MT. and Mrs. Y. D. Kirkpatrick, Miss Mary Kirkpatrick Miss Annie Walker, Miss Bessie May Thompson and her guests, MT. and Mrs. Tomlnson, Miss Joy Tomlinson and her house guests, MT. and Mrs P. G. Shook, Dr. and Mrs. Will Jordan, MT. and Mrs. William Walker, Mir. G. Gordon Craw- ford MT. Edward Crawford, MT and Mrs Ross c. Smith, MT Albert P. Bush of Mobile, Miss Fannie Dunn. Miss Elise Farrior, Miss May Fox, Miss Gladys EnsIen, Miss Edith Thompson, Miss vir- ginia McDavid, Miss Susie Hardie, Miss Luretta Gregg, Miss Nellie Gregg. Mrs Grace Hardie and Miss Hardie of New Orleans.
 Miss lola J. Philpot, sponsor: Misses Virginia Walker and Mary Kate Riley maids of honor, and Mrs. Fitzhugh, chaperon, are here from Pine Bluff, Ark. They are at the Hotel Hilman. The fair sponsor and her two charming attendants are receiving marked social attention.
 Mrs. Jacob Renhardt and two daugh- ters, Miss Annie Louise Renhardt and Miss Dora Reinhardt of Richmond are visiting MT. and Mrs. J. H. Tracy at 2242 Arlington avenue. Mrs. Tracy is daugh- ter of Mrs. Reinhardt.
 Mir. and Mrs. w. l.. Marshall of Mary vile, Tenn, formerly of Richmond, Va. are the guests of MT. and Mrs. Irby, 1403 South Twenty-first street
 Miss Ninon Black, maid of honor for the Alabama division Sons of Veterans, is granddaughter of the late Capt. Will liam R. Julian, veteran of the Mexican end civil wars. Miss Blacks home is at Tuscumbia, Ala, where large camp of Sons was organized and named in honor of her grandfather. She is a niece of the secretary of state, Frank N. Julian.
 Among the galaxy of beautiful and attractive official ladies at the reunion no one has been the subject of more atten- tion nor has elicited more admiration than Miss Sarah Warren Wilkerson. sponsor for the Alabama division, United Sons of Confederate Veterans. Miss