The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-09
NEWS OF THE DAY
 IN SOCIAL WORLD Gossip of Prominent Folk Here
 and Elsewhere DINNER AT COUNTRY CLUB Prominent Visitors Over A. B. and A.. Entertained by MT. Bradley-ln-
 formal Entertainment-An-
 cements-Personas.
DINNER AT COUNTRY CLUB
BY MYRTLE MILES.

BY MYRTLE MILES. 1 A portion of the balcony at the Coun- try club deliberately decorated with lux. i urant palms and other tropical plants was the scene last evening of one of the most beautiful dinners ever given 1 in Birmingham. MT. Lee c. Bradley was 1 the host and his guests included 50 of the visiting officials of the Atlanta, Birming- 1 ham and Atlantic railroad. The table was placed under a canopy formed of l small incandescent lights which were so draped as to cast a brilliant glow over the festive scene; indeed, the dinner in it's every appointment was a climax of decorative art. The place cards were exquisite. There was the greatest origi- nality shown by the artist, who depicted scenes along the route passed by the railway, painting with equal skill pie turesque mining scenes, locomotives and steamships, the latter representing the steamship line In which the company is also interested. Pretty girls in bathing suits were among the decorations used on the cards, these being suggested by the resorts along the coast to which the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic ex- tends.
 Other features of the dinner were also charmingy apropos to the occasion. the ices, which were imported from an out of-town dealer, being replicas of tiny locomotives The cakes were handsome ly embossed with the Atlanta, Birming- ham and Atlantic monogram
 Mir Bradley and his guests formed a group of men distinguished for both cul- ture and wit. A number of toasts with their brilliant responses added to the enjoyment of the evening.
 There were a number of luncheon parties at the Southern club yesterday, among them being numbered visitors who came to Birmingham over the new rail road. Mrs. Jack w. Johnson, Miss Daisy Moody Miss Hannah Elliott, MT. Rosser, | Dr. Elkins and MT. Arkwright were l members of MT. H. M. Atkinsons party. i They are all former Atlanta friends of MT. Atkinson.
 | MT. and Mrs. Edward B. Pennington announce the engagement of their daugh- ter, Theo, to MT. Henry Galt Braxton. the wedding to be one of the events of October.
 1 Mrs. E. H. Spiva and Miss Stella Spiva will entertain the North Haven circle tomorrow afternoon. The feature of the i entertainment will be "an afternoon with southern poets"
 Miss Mary Lou Cobb entertained several i friends last evening at dinner party at her home on Fourteenth avenue, south, In honor of Miss Leila Wood, who will 1 leave today to enter school in Nashville. There were only eight young people gath cred about the table, most of them being school boys and girls. Miss Cobb's guests 1 included Miss Leila Wood, Miss Mary l Forbes, Miss Nette Bell, Mir. Lee Allen l Brooks, MT. Alfred Porter MT. Melville Davis, Mr. Clarence Stobert. The guest of honor, Miss Wood, is the attractive daughter of MT. and Mrs. Sterling Wood. She will attend St. Cecelia academy this year.
 Miss Sarah Law, who has been the 1 guest of Mrs. John L. Parker, has re- 1 turned to her home in Livingston. l Miss Brett Reid has returned from Kim berey.
 Major Weathers of Roanoke Is the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Woods. on Thirteenth street, south.
 Mir and Mrs. Walker Percy will leave tomorrow for Hot Springs. Va, and other points of interest. They will be accom- panied by their daughter, Miss Ellen Percy, whom they will leave in Philadel- phia, where she will continue her studies at Ogontz.
 Mrs Charles Edward Buck of Chatta nooga spent several days of the past week l in the city. She left Monday night for Louisville, accompanied by her little l daughter, Susie Haskell Mir. and Mrs. Buck will not return to- Chattanooga until | late in October.
 MT. John Miller Bradley, the son of MT. and Mrs. John G. Bradley. returned Mon- day night from Colorado, where he has spent the summer months. Mrs Daisy Wendell has returned from Florence and Is at home with Mrs. Agnes 1 Hankinson at 1925 South Seventeenth street.
 Miss Julia Ware is visiting friends in Florence.
 1 Miss Marianne Hamilton who has been ] the guest of MT. and Mrs. Price McKin- ney at their home in Thousand islands, i for the past month, was d member of a l party who motored to Cleveland, O., lost week.
 MT. Frank P. Culver, Jr, will leave this morning for Nashville, where he will en- ter the sophomore class at Vanderbilt university. 1 Miss Aline Klrkman has entered the ! Loretto academy at Loretto, Ky. : Mrs. William Sibley of Warrior, who was formerly Miss Kate Marshall of this | city is the guest of Mrs. w. E. B. Davis.
 Miss Linda May Handley has asher ! guest Miss Bessie Bailey.