The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-09

r DEAR .d nnGk1 % ,9o ssas ssD5'pssF sss as is AVA lightful vacation days are over and no more hay, lazy hours are to 1 be spent idling at the shore or in the i country, for the opening of school next week and the busy round of seasons work will begin in earnest.
 1 But really, Becky, I don't believe I ever remember to have seen such a people-that is most of them-certain- l ly have remaied in town, or near enough to be here on many occasions.
 And now, with the approach of the i fall and the cooler days, plans for au- tumn weddings will just loom up large on the social horizon
 1 One of the pretty popular girls said to me: Hattie Highlands, we are sure that the season will be active socially. for the Red Cross, Navy league and other war relief work Is to be done and milady will certainly find little time that hangs heavily on her hands. Now, how many purely social affairs develop remains to be seen.
 Last week was an unusually busy lone for the late summer, and several announcements of engagements came | as refreshing bits of social news, and numerous informal affairs were given for brides-elect and for out-of-town visitors
 By far the most brilliant event of the
 
 dred Fox and Alvin Baum, on Wednes- day afternoon at Temple Emanu Fl. My, she was darling bride They left at once for trip to Michigan. to be gone several weeks.
 This week the wedding of Susie Jolly Perry and Mir. William Given will at tract must attention. She is being beautifully entertained and the wedding party is certainly having very jolly time, being "wined and dined" day and night
 A wedding which came as a great surprise to many was that of Beatrice Robbins and Charles Anderson, which took place very quietly yesterday | was a surprise but all the neighbors lasked me where I had been for the past year, when I made the remark. The wedding was to have taken place l in December, but the cruel, hard war changed their plans and as the old blows no one body good"
 i saying goes: Its an i'll wind that | forming a procession over mile long. This was said to be the most impressive Idemonstrat ton ever seen in Birmingham. 1 Through the assistance of the Birming- ham workers many towns and county or lganizations have been formed and others are constantly asking for aid in the way | of speakers and experienced workers. l Birmingham has been asked to furnish 5000 knitted sweaters, 5000 mufflers, 5000 papiprpsp opf pwpripstplpeptsp, 300 airs of socks. Your officers have replied We will do our art,,' and we will The ques- | ton now is, "How soon can we do it? Every woman in the country who can knit. whether she Is member of the Red Cross or not. is asked to enroll her name at Red Cross headquarters, 4o9 Twentieth street, north, and secure directions and materials for knitting.
 | These headquarters, generously donated l by MT. c. R. Nabb. are oen every day of Uy MT. O IS ~ dpD, dl0 opch every udy Ol The work that we are doing, we realize, is just a beginning, but we intend to do our part always and the Birmingham 1 chapter may be depended upon for steady reliable effort, and prompt re- sponse to directions from headquarters. l Secretary of War Newton R. Baker has appointed national library war council I for the purpose of raising funds to pur- chase libraries and books for soldiers and sailors in camp wherever assembled. Leading men and women in the various states have been appointed members of | the war council Among the women of I the state that have been appointed is 1 Mrs J. A. Rountree of Birmingham, who l received the following telegram from Washington announcing her appointment las follows:
 l Secretary of War Baker has appointed I national library war council, Frank A. vanderlp, chairman; other members, Asa l G. Candler. F. P. Claxton. J. Randolph . Coolidge, Jr., Mrs. Josiah E.. Cowler,