The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-24

| tor of the American School of Household ! Economics in Chicago. She at present heads the national committee on Thrift and Elimination of Waste" recently formed for the purpose of aiding the gov- ernment in meeting the problems brought about by the war. Thus Mrs. Mile; | speaks from a rich fund of first hand knowledge on the practical subjects ir which she has been trained and is most l helpful and interesting on account of this 1 knowledge, as well as by reason of her | position and personality.
 l Mrs. Miller will arrive this morning, coming from Montgomery, where she spoke before large audience Monday night. She will speak in all the impor- tant cities and towns in Alabama before returning to Missouri, everywhere urging the great and pressing needs of the hour thrift
 The following from the Mobile Regis ter will be of interest to scores of friends in the city, who so pleasantly re- member Miss Clark, who has several times been the guest of her uncle, Col. Louis V. Clark in this city:
 "A wedding of greatest interest in Mo l bile which takes place in Virginia this week will be the marriage of Miss Lettice Lee Clark to Mir. Franklyn Heard Lyon, youngest son of MT. and Mrs. Thomas A. Lyon of Mobile which will be quietly solemnized at Warreton on Wednes- day, April 25.,
 "The bride who is the only daughter of the late Gaylord B. Clark, will be given away by her brother, MT. Gaylord Lee Clark
 Among the Mobllians Miss Clark and MT. Lyon are expecting for their we'd ding are MT. Windham Lyon, who will be I,f !, Winston Jones. Mrs Archibald Hall and her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Hodgson, Jr., of New York; MT. c. H. Smith of New York, and his wife, nee Helen Clark: Mrs. Hannis Taylor. the brides aunt Mrs Burnet l.. Clark. and her daughter Mrs Lyttleton E. Hubbard of New York, and Dr. Stanhope Bavne-Jones of the Johns Hopkins and New Orleans: an- other aunt. Mrs Alne s. Stump of Wash ington. and her three sons and daughters, MT and Mrs, Robert Stump of Fairfax, Va; MT and Mrs. John Stump Jr. Mr. and Mrs. w. G. H. Stump, both of Balti- more
 "The union of these two members of prominent Mobile families is of interest everywhere they are known, and friends of the family expect to go from some distance to extend their congratula tions to Mir. Lyon and his bride, who is a favor ite not only in Mobile. her birthplace but in Virginia and Maryland where she has grown to lovely young womanhood." :"
 
 One of the most interesting weddings of the springtime, owing to the prom thence and popularity of both young people, will be that of MT. Eugene Ma son Ransom of Columbus, Ga and Miss Clara Lee Marks, which will be bril- liantly solemnized Wednesday afternoon at 4:S0 o'clock at St. Johns Episcopal church, says the Montgomery Advertiser Miss Marks will be attended by her cousin, Miss Sara Smith, as maid of honor, and another cousin, Miss Gypse Boykin, will be her only bridesmaid
 Her sister, Mrs. Frank McPherson, Mrs Oscar Underwood, Jr., and Mrs. Charles Sweet of Columbus, Ga, will be matrons of honor. MT. Frank Lumpkin of Co., lumbus, Ga, will be eIr. Ransom's best man and the ushers and groomsmen will be MT. R. E. Steiner, Jr., MT. Frank Moseley of Union Springs, MT Frank Blalock and MT, Ashby Hill of Atlanta, MT Edward Chancellor, MT. George Col den, MT. Lemuel Hill and MT. George Swift of Columbus, Ga.
 The ceremony will be performed by Rev Edward Ellerbe Cobbs. Immediately afterwards MT. and Mrs. s. B. Marks, Jr. will entertain at a reception for the yOuHS COupleJ rom Q to ( o CLOCK, at their home on Madison avenue. Later in the evening NTr. Ransom and his bride will leave for a wedding trip. after which they will go to Columbus, Ga, to make their home.
 Miss Marks is one of Montgomery's loveliest young women and has many friends throughout Alabama
 MT. Ransom is prominently identified with the social and business interests of Columbus and has host of friends who will welcome his bride most cordially.
 One of the most beautiful weddings of April and marriage of cordial interest throughout Alabama will be that of MT. Gustavus Bergner Fletcher of Philadel- phia, Pa, and Miss Fannie Virginia Ab- ercrombie, which will be impressively sol- ernized Thursday afternoon at 4;30 o'clock at the home of the brides parents MT. and Mrs. Charles G. Abercrombie, on