The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29
l YESTERDAY EVENTS IN SOCIETY WORLD Mrs. Copeland EntertainS the Wives of Visiting Surgeons NOTES HERE AND THERE A Number of Distinguished Women Are Visiting Birmingham During
 the Convention of South
 ern Surgeons.
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 One of the most brilliant events of the season was the reception given yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Benjamin Griggsby Copeland in compliment to the wives of the visiting surgeons who are attending ern railway. This is the first occasion that these surgeons have ever met as far south preceding conventions having been held in Washington, D. C., and at Old Point Comfort and elsewhere. Many of the distinguished surgeons are accom- panied by their wives and their presence has added to the brilliant social side of the convention.
 Among the prominent visiting women at the club were Mrs. W. A. Applegate of Washington, D. C., Mrs. H. F. A. Lemon, also of Washington, Mrs. Lucius Lotion of Entoria, Va, Mrs. R. M. Tilley of Concord, Tenn, Mrs. Isaac M. Taylor of Monganton, N. C., Mrs. Dunbar Roy of Atlanta, Mrs. Charles H. Starkell of Illinois, Mrs. F. M. Miller of Knoxville, and a number of others.
 Among the hostess friends who assisted her in receiving were Mrs. Robert H. Baugh, Mrs. George Eustis, Mrs. Henry Fowlkes, Mrs. George Stubbs, Mrs. Lacey Mastn, Mrs. Edward Solomon, Mrs. Percy Nixon, Mrs. w. E. Evans Mrs. w. w.. Crawford, Mrs. Cunningham Wilson, Mrs. George R. Ward, Mrs. Augustus Colvin, Mrs. J. D. Moore Mrs Frank Holland Lathrop, Mrs. J. Campbell Maben, Jr., Miss Elizabeth Hutton, Miss Annie Pear son, Miss Flora Orr and Miss Helen Eustis.
 Mrs. Copeland, very beautifully gowned
 white and carrying pink roses, was a charming picture at the head of the re- ceiving line. There was an orchestra in the balcony upstairs, and the entire club house was used for the reception. In the private dining room buffet luncheon vas served with coffee and frappe. The decorations were of pink peoples. Mrs. Copeland received from to 6 o'clock, and hours proved quite short for the many guests who called.
 The loveliness of the afternoon gave the visiting women a beautiful picture to remember, as the grounds about the clubhouse have never looked more invit- ing. The many visiting women expressed their admiration of them, together with the elegant little clubhouse as setting for Mrs. Copeland's delightful hospitality.
 The many friends of Mrs. Braxton Bragg Conner and Miss Conner are well coming them on their return after passing the winter in Florida and later in Ha- vana They went south some weeks ago and passed some time at that wonder fully charming place-Naples-on Gulf. They were there at the same time with Major and Mrs. Frank Y. Anderson. Later, in Havana, Mrs. Conner and Miss Conner had brilliant vist socially in the Cuban capital. The most distinguish ed attention was shown them in official circles, and while their stay was so in- teresting it was somewhat curtailed by the outbreak of yellow fever.
 
 J. A. MacKnight has given to an in- teresting little booklet on Montevallo. MT. MacKnight Is now editor of the Colum- biana Sentinel, and he is also devoting some time to the preparation of series of booklets which contain bits of his- tory of this state, and set forth the ed- ucatonal and commercial features of cer- tain sections particularly favored by cli- mate and natural advantages.
 In his "Bit of Lombardy' there is an extensive article on the Alabama Indus- trial school for girls, which is profuse- ly illustrated. In his description of that pretty country about Montevallo and its early history MT. MacKnight says:
 ..Montevallo is the Latnized name of village in Alabama which started out near the beginning of the last century under the name of ''Wilson's Hill" All of the historlans-even the Hon. D. S.. Lyman, who has probably given most time and thought to the subject. seem unable to account for the origin or deriva- ton of the name. Some say, however, that it signifies "a little mountain In a valley" As this exactly describes it's
 
 situation, why look further for a, mean ing?
 "The points about it which are well settled are these: It is the oldest set clement in what is now Shelby county, having been founded by Jesse Wilson and his family, Nho made a corn crop on an old Indian clearing there in 1874, soon after General Jackson had whipped the Creeks at the great battle of the Horseshoe Bend, on the Coosa river, some 30 miles to the eastward. Edmund King, who came over from Georgia in 1877. built his home on commanding site upon one of the 'littlo mountains of the valley. The quaint mansion still stands and is the home of its present owner, l.. N. Majors, and his widowed mother. Mrs. Majors has recently given 6 plot of ground near it to the city for 9 small park Like the Wilson lands the King lands have been divided up among many owners.
 Tn the period between the first settle ment. and the coming of the railroad in 1853 the settlers were situated very