The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-01-02

touches, while in pretty gowns, Mrs.
j. S. Love, ]. P. Hayden and two club
girls, Miss Annie Belle Mcleod and
Miss Ethel Turner, dispensed delicious
fruit punch during the entire evening.
Mrs. Love was wearing blue crepe de
chine, with pearl banding and lace.
Mrs. Hayden wore pink messaline,
| with an overdress of black lace. An
immense white hat, trimmed in pink,
completed her costume. Miss Nc
| Leods lovely gown was of black silk,
lavishly trimmed in lace. Miss Tur-
ner wore pretty gown of pink bro
led satin. finished with applicae ~
tiny pink rosebuds.
The other girls of the club, Misses
Nellie G. Rowan, Virginia Mcleod
and Ruby Marguerite Lea. received
in the different reception rooms and
were chaperoned and assisted in re-
ceiving by some of this city's most
prominent and exclusive matrons and
their husbands. Miss Rowan wore a
pretty yellow crepe de chine gown, with
pearl trimmings. Miss Mcleod was
wearing a, beautiful gown of white
messaline, with silver garnitures
Miss LEAFS handsome gown was of
yellow hand-embroidered messaline
yelled in chiffon.
In one parlor, with its background
of green and white, stood the formal
receiving line, composed of the first
and only young matron in the club,
Mrs. William l. Quealy, now of New
Orleans the club chairman, Miss
Katie L. I. Allen, Hon. and Mrs. ]. R.
Tally, Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Camp, Mr..
and Mrs. T. w. KEENAN,. Mrs. Quealy
looked lovely in blue panne velvet,
with overdress of spangled net, and
trimmed in wide silver banding about
the corsage, She carried Killarney
roses and ferns. Miss Allen wore an
empire gown of rose pink crepe de
chine, with silver pasamenterie and
silver fringe, and carried an arm bou-
quet of bride roses, carnations and
ferns. Mrs. Tally's gown was of pink
silk and messaline, with overdress of
dewdrop chiffon.
Mrs. Camp wore a handsome lace
robe over satin. Mrs. KEENAN, was
wearing beautiful gown of black chif
fon over white chiffon, and finished
in jet bands.
Receiving in the palm garden, the
second parlor and corridors was an
other club girls, Miss Nellie c. Allen,
Mr. W. N. Driver and Mr.. H. j. Brit
tan, Mesdames Henry Turner, E. R.
Farrell, Albert R. Herren, Duncan F.
Matheson, of Robinwood, Miss, ]. S.
Harrison, John Hugh Mcleod of
Bogalusa, La; Stephen M Burr; Miss
es Mary Ellison, Emmie Smith and
Anna Maxcy Camp. Miss Allen wore
= a black velvet gown, with garnitures
of jet bands and jet tassels. Her hat
was large black picture one, with
. ostrich airgretts. Mrs. Henry Tur-
ner, white marquisette over messaline,
hand-painted in roses; Mrs. Farrell
wore white lace and lingerie over
pink; Mrs. Herren was in soft blue
silk, with trimmings of panne velvet
and lace; Mrs. Matheson's gown was
of black crepe de chine, velvet and
lace; Mrs Harrison was wearing a
gown of gray crepe de chine over
blue messaline and tiny roses fin
a, ished her costume; Mrs. Mcleod ap-
peared in black mesaline, with net
overdress and attractively trimmed in
fringe; Mrs. Burr wore black embroid-
cred net over green messaline Miss
; es Camp, Ellison and Smith wore
lacey white frocks over green slips,
carrying out the color scheme of the
reception.
-, The chaperones for the evening were
Mr. and Mrs. Butler Mechanism, Mr..
: and Mrs. w. c. Rodgers and Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry T. Allen. Mrs. McClanahan
, was wearing a handsome gown of vel
low messaline, with beaded fringe
and chantilly lace. Mrs. Rodgers
gown was of blue messaline, with
. draperies of black marquisette; Mrs.
Allen was gowned in black silk, with
lace garnitures.
/ In one parlor green and white fav-
ors were given each guests, these
\ were boutonniere of white hyacinths
and maiden hair fern, and single long
st mined white carnations, chrysan-
themums or bride roses with ferns
for the ladies. A corps of waters