The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20

as charming as usual and attended by
 the beaus and belles of the social world
 as well as the coterie of young married 1 folk.
 Mrs. Ed Lewis will be one of the host
 esses to entertain in compliment to Miss | Bessie Moore. She will give buffet luncheon at noon on January 8. The members of the bridal party to be in attendance at the marriage of ! Miss Carr and Mr. Kelley on the even i ing of December 30 at the Church Of the 1 Advent are announced as follows Miss
 Mary Carr, a sister of the bride, will be maid of honor; MT Howard c. Kelley was chosen to be his brothers best man. i The bridesmaids will be Miss Susan Angel, Miss Charlotte Graham. Miss Cor nelia Stephenson. MT. Irby T. Angell, MT. Michael Nolan and MT. Ernest Pom eroy will be groomsmen and MT. George Bates Kelley and Mr. Wilbur Edrald Kel- ley, ushers.
 The Kelley-Carr bridal party will be given a dinner party on the evening of December 29 by the groom's parents, MT. , and Mrs. W. L. Kelley, at Fountain Heights
 MT. and Mrs. ". G. Robinson will give a dance on the evening of December 2S in compliment to their daughter, Miss Ellie Gordon Robinson, and her guest, Miss Grace Nelson of Norfolk Va. About 100 young people will be invited.
 Among the pre-nuptial events in eel ebration of the marriage of Miss Bessie Moore and MT. John Armistead will be dinner at which Mrs. c. H. Ungerman, MT Armistead's sister will entertain tho bridal party on the evening of Jan uary 8.
 Mr Armistead will give a dinner Sat urday evening, January g.
 Mrs. Robert Ewing will give tea on the afternoon of December from 3 to o'clock in honor of her sister, Miss Martha Armstrong, who will spend the holidays with her.
 Lieut.. Gov. and Mrs. Henry Bram- let Gray will entertain informally on New Years eve.
 Despite the forbidding weather yester- day Mrs. James McLesters tea in com pliment to Mrs. Thomas Whitwell Bow ron was attended by more than 100 of the fashionable set. Mrs. McLester is always a graceful hostess and the afternoon proved par ticularly charming in contrast to the [ outside gloom.
 The residence was tastefully decorated in the Christmas colors, holly, flowers i and the merry red Christmas bells be- | ing employed in graceful detail. The din- l ing room, however, departed from this 1 scheme. The table was decorated in | pink, a large central bouquet of pink | carnations contrasting with the white of ] the laces covering it. Pink candle shades !, shone through a silver tracery. l Mrs. James McLester, Mrs. Joseph Me Lester and Mrs. Thomas Bowron re- l ceived the guests in the drawing room. In the library were Mrs. Henry T. Dean and Mrs. Owen Gillespy, while in the dining room and reception rooms were Miss Edith Bowron, Mrs. Hardeman Meade, Mrs. Temple Seibels, Mrs. J. A. Van Hoose, Mrs. c. ". Ufford and Mrs. George Harris.
 Mrs Bowron, who is one of the love- ly brides of the season, was notably at tractive in a blue messaline frock gar nished with trimmings of rare lace.
 MT. Michael Nolan will return from Pennsylvania tomorrow to spend the hol- idays at home.
 Miss Edna Moores luncheon in compli-
 
 Lynda May Handley will be an event of December 29.
 MT. and Mrs. ". B. Russell of Athens. Ala, announce the engagement of their daughter, Irene to MT. J. l. Blount of Birmingham, the marriage to be cele- | brated at noon, December S1, at the Pres | byterian church.
 MT. and Mrs William Ryland Owen an- bounce the engagement of their daughter, ! Carrie Lucretia, to MT. Frank w Ryland the wedding to be consummated on the afternoon of Wednesday, January 6, at the family residence in Jonesboro. l MT. and Mrs. W. w. Elliott announce | the engagement of their daughter, Olive Doris, to MT. Harry W. Dearlng, the mar l rlage to be an event of Christmas week. At the Southern club this evening, 1 from to 9:30 o'clock, the following pro- 1 gramme will be rendered by Calmans | orchestra:
 overture-The Merry Wives of Windsor l (NicolaD.
 Selection-Mam' selle Mischief (ziehrer). :. Fantasia-Die Walxuere (Wagner)
 Song-When I Am Away From You l (Daly)
 Selection-The Mimic World (Jerome and 1 Furth).
 Waltz song-smarty (Harry van Tilzer).
 Selection-Falstaf (VerdD. | Waltz-Violets (WaldteufeD.
 Selection-Fluffy Ruffles (Francis and | kern).
 March-Summertime Rarry van Tilzer). The marriage of Miss Bessie Nugent and
 pr. Harley R. Shands of Jackson, Miss,
 was one of more than passing moment, l It was said to be the most important event socially that has taken place in ] Jackson for many months. Miss Nugent visited Miss Fannie Dunn in Birmingham and has scores of friends who will be in- | terested in the account of her wedding, which appeared in the Jackson Daily ] News. It says in part: l Promptly at the hour appointed for | the solemn service the bridal party ar rived at the church, which had been ar | tistically decorated with the marked sim | nllcity and elegance which are typical of i the brides fine taste. At the altar stood l the beloved bishop, the Rt Rev. Charles ! B. Galloway, who had come from afar for l the purpose of thus performing the sacred l ceremony by which the lives of pr. Shands and Miss Nugent were to be ] united for life The music, superbly ren- 1 dered, gave notice of the arrival of the | bridal party, and soon thereafter to the stately measure of the wedding march. l there entered into the brilliantly lighted i church the loveliest bridal party which , its walls have enshrined in many and many a day.
 | Serving their friend in tho capacity ] of groomsmen and ushers wers the fol-