The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17

ADVEH The consolation fell to Miss Morits. of New York, and was a book. Mrs. Elm ma Well won the booby. tin soldier AFrER-rHE-rLAr SUFFER- FOR MRS. LYMAN.
 Thursday night after the play. Mir. and Mrs. Leon Well entertained fifteen guests at buffet supper in honor of
 The dining room. with its handsoin. Flemish oak furniture was beautiful with pink roses and ferns. The table was artistically appointed with cut over delicate rose toned satin-
 PROFESSOR cALLowAY.s
 Montgomery should bs very proud of sical compositions are attracting so much attention in the East, not only from program makers. but publishers known WI musical cs magazine. nd stude. has contained his compositions At a TO. cent concert his Horal suite consisting of three different numbers. entitled, The Rose. The Violet. and "The Fly.
 Invitations have frequently been ex tended to Professor Galloway to vistf the East. the American musical center. and give recitals made up of his own accepted. preferring to remain quietly at his routine duties. and giving express sion to his moods in his pleasing rnp- sieal compositious- MISS POLLARD A GUEST OF HONOR, At very large buffet luncheon given by Mrs. Louis c. Woodson. of BirminR ham. Miss Rebecca Pollard, of this city .-.r .E A<s.
 The Birmingham papers pronounce the affair one of the most beautiful Of the season. ssz-----,r-sz
 Miss Pollard wore pink silk gown. gomery girl, Miss Clara Lee. a grand daughter of the late Colonel Charles T Pollard.
 Miss Pollard was one of the receiving party at Mrs. John E. Weakley's teS Tor Miss Martha Dabney.
 SUMTER MAYS BALL
 The friends of Sumpter Mays Ball. of Atlanta. but native 5asn ..rstsd son Q. M0ns in Knowing of his remarkable literary aud business success as a book reviewer. Nc handSomer, or happier, young man ever than was Mir. Ball in his first twenties After his college days he became a leader among the smart younger set of Atlanta society. Then his health failed. and he lived in the West few years. Growing homesick. he returned to At lanta, where his parents resided. The afternoon following his return home he was the victim of street car accioen. by which he lost his right arm ana reg.
 A man with less courage would have been broken of spirit by this terrible calamity, but Sumter Mays Ball, with the fighting blood of many southern heroes in his veins, took counsel or ms valor and madc a stand for career.
 Becoming a shut-in he became a stu dent In a little while he found his vo- catfon--a book reviewer. The foiiowIn& story from The Atlanta Georgian teiis of his success.
 MT. Balls triumph over apparent de- feat is one of the most inspiring stories. of current biography:
 The leading article in the January Book News Monthly appears under q name which is coming into more ana more prominence in the magazine world. The Nwriter is Sumter Mays Ball, of this city, and the article is Chandler Harris as author and editor. Apart from MT. Balls work, by the way this issue will be of especial in- terest here, as it Is a memorial 10 uncle by Mrs. Leonora Beck Ellis. on the life and work of the greater writer.
 Mir. Balls article is notably concise ject. and is beautifully illustrated-one of the pictures being that of the late Evan ~P. Howell wfo suggested that MT Harris write the Uncle Remus
 A wide circle of friends in Atlanta and other cities will be interested to read Of MT. Balls success in the ht- erary hed[ At glance at the maga- zines for the month of January, the eye meets his name and work in many of the standard publications, and among those which have accepted his work are House and Garden. Electrical | M -l- TDuwtr .NrnS Sa and The Reader, Popular Mechanics. Town ands Country Lippincotts,. Les lies Weekly. Engineering ana Mining Journal Taylor Trotwood, Cassier's s country 5a' Life in America, Mining World, The Technical World, Electrical World and others. Besides these achievements, 1t is also known among in preparing a series of articles for both The World of Today and Leslis's week. ly.
 While the energies of the aver uuantity of work which Is each month appearing from MT. Balls pen in the best magazines of the day, this writing is only incidental, for he conducts one of the largest and most successful of | newspaper syndicates, his book reviews 1 appearing in The Birmingham Age' Herald The Montgomery Journal, New | Orleans Item San Antonio Light, Jack- | son (Miss) News Little Rock Demo- crat, Augusta Herald, Charleston Post Arkansas Gazette, Charlotte News. Ra- ! leigh Times. Richmond Evening Jour- nal, Knoxville Sentinel, Nashville Ten. nessean, The Electrical World of New York, Railroad Age-Gazette of New York, Electrical Review and Western Electrician. Engineering and Mining Journal Engineering Record, and so on
 His work Is characterized by AA Hd' mirable directness and strength of style which makes it always readable, and therefore easily marketable. Few