The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-17
News of Society and Activities iGii of Women
 

city they have turned their time to ac- count for comforts for the sailors, and the day was spent in making sleeveless sweaters
 Mrs. E. w. Barrett was mentioned among the guests and that Is proof posi- tieve that knitting is the thing, for whatever Mrs Barrett does in Birming- ham is done by everybody else who makes any social pretense at all. The women there are highly patriotic, any way. For a long time, since the food problem first began obe discussed, the very best housekeepers of the city have been cutting down their meals by cur tailing the number of courses. Now hostesses are falling into the Hoover line with wartime refreshments-a glass of iced tea for the summer gatherings, without sandwiches or cakes, which is the plan similar to the one we will no doubt adopt with our parties when Mrs. Pinckard returns from her vacation and sets the entertainment ball in motion.
 Mrs. Richard Johnston wrote from there to her sister Miss Myrtle Miles, who departed for her old home to spend week. that she wolud give her an op- portunity of exchanging greetings with all her old friends at an informal tea which would be on the simple lines now in vogue Miss Miles has spent a busy year in Montgomery, pursuing literary
  portunity of knowing her as well as they might if she were on pleasure bent. Theirs Is the loss. She Is truly out of the ordinary for attractiveness, being one of the most charming conversation alists one could wish to meet.
 Myrtle can draw the best word pie lures I have ever heard" says one of her friends who knew her when she was an element in Birmingham society. She Is a type all her own, and dresses in dashing manner that always catches the eye. Her penchant Is for stripes, very striking, but she carries them off with a dash that was the subject of discussion at feminine gathering recently where it was unanimously agreed that she did it in a way that nobody else could equal, and 1t takes something unusual for woman to derive admiration from other women.
 "Wednesday evening at o'clock in the First Baptist church, on Greens boro avenue, Miss Adele Harrison will plight her troth to Dr. Jack Montgom- cry of the University of Alabama says the Tuscaloosa News
 Beautiful wedding music will be rem dered by Mrs. Perkins, Mrs. Harry Neal Eddins and Mrs James F'itts Aston before the ceremony, which will be performed by Dr. George Reed of the First Methodist church, assisted by Dr. L. o. Dawson. Miss Harrison will have as her maid of honor her sister, Miss Katie Belle Harrison, and her first bridesmaids are her cousins, Miss Addie May Mitchell of Selma and Miss Leila Wood of Birmingham. The bridesmaids include Miss Mary Werner, Miss Evelyn Ashley and Miss Ethel Kennedy.
 "Dr. Montgomery has asked Dr. Stew art Lloyd to serve him as best man and the ushers included Dr. R. S. Hodges, Dr. Lee Hagood and pr. Frederick prouty.
 Immediately after the ceremony the bridal party, close relatives and out-of town guests will be entertained at an informal reception in the brides home on Queen City avenue and owing to the prominence of the families of pr. Mont gomery and Miss Harrison, the mar riage IS an event of statewide impor- tance and interest
 The following from the Army and Navy Journal will be of interest to friends in this, his boyhood home, and the home of his parents. MT. and Mrs. A. B. Mckinney, Twelfth avenue south;
 Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Eben Swift, U. S. A., of Fort Leavenworth, announce the engagement of their youngest daughter, Katherine Palmer Swift, to Lieut. Carl Fish Mckinney, U. s. infantry. Miss Swift arrived in Leavenworth last fall with her parents, when General Swift was commandant of the Army Service schools, previous to his assignment as a commander of brigade of cavalry in Texas During her stay there she has been one of the very popular young women and leader in social circles in the garrison. Lieutenant Mckinney is a graduate of the West Point class of or, and is aide to General Swift"
 Following the announcement in the same issue of the Army and Navy Jour- nal is a notice of Lieutenant McKin- ney's promotion to the office of captain, with rank from May 15, 1917.
 Miss Bessie and Stella Windham and Miss Kitty Lownley of Columbus, Miss, woh are the guests of Miss Edrie Cobb, tertained They were the weekend guests of Mrs. Warles Mosley at Vir- ginia City, near Bessemer, at a house party. Among the guests were Miss Cobb, Misses Windham, Miss Lownley, Miss Cecil Jones, Mrs. Clifford Bradley. The young men of the town have given several affairs in their honor.
 Mr. and Mrs. William James Cameron announce the engagement and approach- ing marriage of their daughter, Mar garet Ketcham, to MT. Frank Edward Spain, the wedding to take place Satur- day, July 21, at the home of the bride 8 grandmother, Mrs. George R. Ward on South Twentieth street. No cards.
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