The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-21
SOCIETY ACTIVE
 FOR SOLDIER BOYS
nv PATRIoTIC PATRICIA

| AhblStOut NONGHlUeT SN.--iDpSNielA't AAN
 past week end was full of prominent
 events for prominent folk The two gov
 ernors have been feted at a continual
 rounds of festivities. The dance for Gov i Emmerson Harrington and Gov. Walter ] P. Edge, gwen at the Country club on i Saturday evening, was attended by many visitors from other places.
 Gen. Charles Barber and Mrs, Barber entertained the New Jersey visitors, Gov ernor Edge and staff, at an elegant din- ner party at their home on Saturday
 evening. Colonel and Mrs. Little on 1 tho same day entertained the Maryland
 governor at a dinner at the camp. Gov | ernor Harrington and Governor Edge
 were both honor guests at a dinner at 1 the Alabama hotel, to which a number of ! officers and prominent civilians were in- | vited. The Young Mems Christian as- ! sociation banquet was also made more i enjoyable by the presence Of GoVernor Harrington. General Rafferty honored 1 the governors with dinner and informal reception at division headquarters Scores of visitors who came to at- ! tend the dance Saturday evening, re- mained until Monday noon in order 70 witness the imposing review Of all or | Camp McClellans troops, which occurred | at o'clock Monday, another honor for | Governor Edge Those who saw the ifn-
  passing in review for Governor HarrinS- ! ton Thursday, assured the visitors chat | it would be a pageant well worth seeing. Governor Harrington could not be pres l ent at this review, as urgent business 1 made it necessary for him to leave Mon- | day morning.
 1 Mrs Harrington, Miss Mary Harrington and 6-year- old Billy Harrington will I remain in Anniston for another month, | to be near Mrs. Harrington's son, Lieut. Emmerson Harrington Jr., and MS. | Harrington, his bride. Mrs. Harrington, | Sr., is refusing all invitations on account I of being in mourning for her father, who died last June. and also on account or l her i'll health. She welcomes most cor dially all callers, however, and has charmed all who have met her. She has not entertained at all since becoming the first lady of Maryland" Mrs. liar ringtons big mother heart has been | touched by the kindness of Alabamians | to her soldier boy, of which she often speaks with deepest appreciation Lieu tenant and Mrs. Harrington, Jr, have | made friends by the score since coming l to Anniston. who delight in showing honor to their lovely mother.
 ] Anniston certainly is profiting from the results of Cupid's darts. Nearly ev- cry week brings some attractive bride to | ! ton of a romance between Capt. Lewis | Hill, a popular Camp Mcclellan officer 1 and Miss Marie Eugenie Schmetz of Pittsburg, Pa, occurred when they I were wed on Thursday The bride and | her mother came to Anniston on account of Captain Hills inability to leave at I the appointed time for the ceremony. l Capt IT. w. Hastead and Mrs. Hal
 stead, who are spending the winter here 1 Captain Halstead being with the New Jersey troops), announced Sunday the 1 engagement of their daughter. Miss Cora Ruth Halstead, to MT. Louis B. Dau- mant of Jersey City. The announcement
 caused great interest here, as the Hal ! steads, who have the Waterman bunga-
 low have won many admirers during l their stay in Anniston.
 l Capt. Withgott and his charming I Maryland bride are being constantly 1 feted at round of parties. Mrs. With gott spend last summer at Chevy Chase, having learned much that will make her services Invaluable in Red Cross work l Mrs. Bryan, the bride of Richmond Blue, who arrived recently, is young and pretty and a member of one of Virginia s most aristocratic families.
 Mrs Almond (Margaret Crook, whose military wedding in September elicited so much interest, is receiving cordial welcome from her hosts of friends. Her ! been at Gettysburg, has been ordered Ito a southern training camp. Mrs. AL mond is the guest of her parents, MT and Mrs. s. l.. Crook.
 l The Young Woman's Christian asso citation invited their friends to an old fashioned house warming on Tuesday when it's new clubrooms were throwr open to the public.
 The chairman of the war work commit
 tee Mrs s. P. Kennedy. assisted by hel
 committees and the director of thu
 Young Woman's Christian association
 work here. Miss Mary Kirk acted al
 hostesses for the occasion.
 The high school girls were received il
 the afternoon. In the evening an inter
 esting musical programme in charge o
 Miss Carrie Knox and several inspira
 tional talks were enjoyed.
 number of lovely gifts from Blrming
 ham women added to the comfort ant
 attra activeness of the clubrooms Tn ) Birmingham women, who have the in l terest of the Young Woman's Christian
 association work at heart, realize the i'm
 portance of man work committee II Anniston, and have entered into tn l plans of the leaders here with helpfu , earnestness
 will spend the next few months in Ne'