The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-08
TOPICS OF GENERAL INTEREST Brilliant Dinner Party to MT.
 Corey of New York NOTES HERE AND THERE Wedding Announcements of Interest To Southern soclety-Promlnent
 Episcopal Women To Meet
 In Birmingham.
 
NOTES HERE AND THERE

MT. William E. Corey, president of the United States Steel corporation. was the guest of honor at a dinner given last evening by MT. and Mrs. George Hearne crookard at their residence on South Nineteenth
 The table decorations were of sweet peas, hundreds of them being used in the elaborate floral scheme and in the corsage bouquets for the ladies in the party. A large gilded hat filled with sweet peas formed the central decoration The dinner cards were hand-painted in sweet peas through which were drawn bows of tulle in the sweet pea tints The ices, frozen as strawberries, were served in glded baskets tied with tulle
 Mrs. Crockard wore a dinner gown of white chiffon cloth and real lace. The dinner company included MT. Corey and the guests who are travelling with him in his private car, MT. W. D. Dickson, Mr. John Refs, Mir. Thomas Morrison, MT. A. c. Dinkey, MT. ID. G. Kerr, MT w. T. Palmer and also MT. George Cor don Crawford, MT. and Mrs. W. w. Crawford, MT. and Mrs Walker Percy, MT. and Mrs. Ross c. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Badham.
 MT. George Gordon Crawford will give a dinner this evening at the Country club to MT. William E. Corey.
 Mr. Walker Percey will give din- ner on Thursday evening to MT. Corey.
 The second of the dinners to be given by MT. Crawford to MT. Corey will be on Friday evening at the club.
 A number of prominent Episcopalian women will attend the annual convention of the Women's auxiliaries of the Epis- copal diocese of Alabama which will be held in Birmingham early in May. Mrs. T. O. Smith, Mrs. T. U Walter and Mrs C.. T. Randall are members of the committee from the Church of the Advent, which is arranging for the meeting. There will be about 20 delegates. Miss Emery O. New York, who is general secretary of the auxiiaries, will be present. The date for the convention was originally set for May 10, but it has now been decided to hold it May 15. The business ses-
 
 4Advent.
 Among the most prominent weddings of the Easter season will be that of Miss Pauline Curran, of New Orleans, who is so well known in Birmingham, and MT. Bishop Chapline Hodges also of New Orleans. It will take place on April 22 at Trinity church. Mrs. E. M Tutwiler. Jr., of Birmingham will be matron of honof
 Mr. and Mrs. Curran recently gave brilliant dinner to their daughter. The table was beautifully decorated with Watteau baskets filled with valley lilies ano orange blossoms and the places were marked by small white satin bags filled with rice and tied with white silk cords, the names of the dinner guests being traced in gold.
 Mrs. Preston Blake of Lexington, Ky, has joined her husband, Dr. Preston Blake in this city, and they are at home at 21OS Tenth avenue, south. Dr. Blake is the newly elected pastor of the South side Baptist church, and he has already made scores of warm friends. Mrs. Blake is a notably charming and attractive woman, and the family is most interest ing one.
 Mrs. Morris Newman has returned to New Orleans and has as her guests Mrs. Edgar Adler and Mrs. J. M. Wilzin of Birmingham.
 Mrs. Annie VanHoose has been staying recently with Mrs. Allan Harvey Wood ward, but will leave today for visit to Tuscaloosa.
 Mrs. Virginia Clay Clo1 ton, shc is or a visit to Mobile, is rcpeatrg her social triumphs of ''belle of the sixties" and at recent brilliant gathering of Mobile women she gave delgihtful talk of ante bellum days.
 The engagement of Miss Albertine Billet of New Orleans and MT. Henry James King, Jr., has been announced, the wed- ding to take place on April 29.
 Col and Mrs. D. H. Burgess of Mobile so we'll known in Birmingham will spend the summer abroad, and will be accom- panied by Miss Ethel Burgess, who is in school at -on-the-Hudson.
 An important meeting of the Nurses Graduate association will be held this aft ernoon at the FIilman hospital.
 While the recent visit to the south of Mrs. Roosevelt seems to have been filled with pleasure to her, and she returned with only happy memories, it may be said that those who were with her in her