The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11
SOCIETY IN MOBILE

Mobile. July 10. = Especially = Mrs Charles Shawhan CNarcissa Maupin Shawhan), parliamentarian, journalist author and club women of this city, has just received notification of her appoint ment as state vice president of the Ala bama auxiliary, League of American Pen Women. The officers of the league, national headquarters of which are at Washington. D. C., send Mrs. Shawhan greetings and congratulations upon her appointment. and state that the Alabama auxiliary has Tive wires" among it's membership. The state auxiliary was organized three yeafs ago by Mrs Shaw han, and includes besides the Mobilians on it's roster, number of talented writ CTS and musicians throughout the state, to whom the news of Mrs Shawhan' s appointment will be of interest
 Mobiles social world was grieved at the news of the death here Tuesday ot Mrs Helen Deas Maury, widow of James H. Maury, widely known cotton factor Of Mobile and New Orleans. The funeral took place Wednesday afternoon from the family home, 602 Government street. Mrs. Maury was a daughter of the late MT. and Mrs. William Ross, and was a noted belle of the seventies her beauty being celebrated all over the south and at the fashionable resorts of the north, where the family summered. While a ra- tive of Mobile, most of her married life was spent in New Orleans, she coming here again after the death of her hus- band some years ago. Mrs. Maury is sur vived by two sisters. Mrs. Minnie Ross Abbott and Miss Jennie Ross of Mobile; two brothers, William B. Ross of St. Louis and Jack Ross of Mobile; two daughters, Mrs. I. c. Stauffer and Mrs. R. Lyons of New Orleans, besides several grandchildren and other relatives.
 Dr. and Mrs. Adrian Taylor are leav- ing in August for Picking China where Dr. Taylor is medical missionary for the board of missions of the Baptist church.
 Mrs Margaret Billups Russell, whose work as Bible teacher among the Pres byterian churches and colleges of the south is well known, sails next monCh for Japan and China, where she will spend several months in travel.
 Miss May Leatherbury was one of the local girls who flew from this city to Rolston's hotel at Coden, where she joined her friend, Mrs. Ed Robinson, for the week end. The plane used was the Curtis F. of Biloxi.
 A gay colony of Mobilians are sum- mering at Point Clear on the eastern shore Of the bay, this season. Among them are the J. Curtis Bush family, Mrs. Joseph Lyons and children, Mrs. J. G.
 
 Bestors, Mrs. Albert P. Bush and chill dren, Mrs. Barry Lyons, MT. and Mrs. Charles Hall, the Dargan Ledyards. Miss Mamie Triplett and Mrs John T. Cochrane.
 The Garret Van Antwerps are motor ing through to Michigan, whence they will go over into Canada, returning south by way of Niagara Falls. They have with them their son. Cooper Van Antwerp, and expect to be gone until September. Mrs A. w. Brooks and son, Curtis, left Sunday to spend the summer on Lake Michigan. With a party of friends they expect to locate in Weequetonsing, an Indian place offering a cool climate and l attractive waters.
 Mrs. Alanson Wood nee Bessie Hincy- | ley of Mobile, came up from her Flor | ida home last week, and was the guest | of her niece, Mrs. Frank Leslie of this ! city, en route to the White Mountains. |