The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
AsheviHe F Plans Third Annual
 Horse Show

ASHEyILLE, N. c., March s.
 Plans are maturing for the third an-
 pual horse show to be held April 9, un-
 Ter the auspices of the Biltrdore Forest
 Country club. At the exhibition held
 East spring there were 125 entries, in-
 eludins some of the finest specimens of Ihorseflesh in Dixie. Two prize win ming entries, which will be shown again
 pext month are Dixie King, the five
 gaited thoroughbred stallion. and Anne,
 the three-gaited show mare, both the
 property of Mrs. Arthur s. Wheeler.
 Both animals will alco be entered in |the Pinehurst show. Horsemen from
 Pinehufst, Raleigh, Charlotte and
 knoxville are arranging to; bring their
 blue ribbon winners here. for the event.
 Officers of the Biltmore Forest Rid
 ing academy include Thomas Wadley
 Raoul, president; Mrs. 1aArthur s.
 Wheeler; vice president; Captain A. D.
 Chipman, secretary, and Randolph Ball, Treasurer. In addition to the above,
 It's board of directors includes Mrs
 Horace Ely, Burnham s. Cclburn,i pudge Junius c. Adams, Dr. c. V.
 Reynolds, Julian A. Woodcoek, Mrs.
 Frederick Boyer, W. P. Taylor, A. k.
 Barton and Samuel F. RaveneI. A number of southern universities
 lnd high schools gathered in Asheyille
 during the week. for the first annual |mid-winter relay carnival. The event
 was held at the Wentworth hippodrome
 hnd was, attended by several hundred bpectators. The University of North
 Carolina led the colleges, in points bcored with AS and attained first place fn six of the eight events. In the high |bchool group Charlotte emerged with ||S0 points. with Asheville a few points |behind.
 The half-million-dollar George Van
 derbilt hotel and the new History Bat Fiery Park, which will supplant Ashe EEille's oldest tourist hotel, are well under construction and will be, opened &n July for the summer season. The Battery Park will be under the man. |sgement of Wilbur Devendorf, who has Fun the hotel for the past few years, |while the George Vanderbilt, will be |Sinders the direction of the Foor Ho- Del corporation, which operatesfa a num- Der of modern hostlries through the |bouth. The latter hotel will serve as
 mOnument to the industry and fore Eight of the late George W. Wander Ebilt, who took an early and eoDspicu- bus part in the upbuilding of western North Carolina. At Judge Charles W. Hoffman of the
 Cincinnati court of domestic relations, Ewho has heard over 10000 divorce Eases since he presided over the court, left Asheville early in the week. after Staying q few days at Wentworth Inn. Commissioners of the Methodist |Southern assembly were elected at a
 recent meeting at Lake Junaluska as Follows: Bishop V. w. Darlington of Huntington, w. Va, president; Dr.
 George R. Stuart of Birmingham, k. 70. Jackson of Tampa, John R. Pep per of Memphis, Bishop James Can bon, Jr., of Washington, T. s. South .Eate of Norfolk, E. l.. Brown of Ashe- Eille, and H. J. Sloan of Waynesville. Green D. Warren of Atlanta was ap- pointed councillor for Ashnoca Camp For the summer term beginning July T. Kells Boiand and Tom Hinman, Also of the Georgia capital, will be as- tsistant councillors.
 March visitors at the Langren in- flude J. W. Shill, James c. Long, ]. EN. Moss, Frank H. Armstrong, J. F. Palmer, Mir, and Mrs. Hugh Hickman &nd F. A. Vance of Birmingham; Miss
 Anne Phipps, of Columbus: Hugh Ba
 pannon, of Jasper; Johns 0. Stone, of
 Macon W. l.. Sanderson, of Meridian,
 Miss, and w. D. Smyth, of Dothan. q Mir. and Mrs. II. T. DeBardeleben, of
 Birmingham; have joined friends at *srove Park Inn for an extended so- &ourn in the mountains.
 The Princess Anne hotel is entertain Ing J. P. Perkins, of Anniston 1; Miss Brace Packard, of Wilmette; Mir. and zdrs. Charles F. Rowland, of Savannah;
 Mrs. J. H. Maxwell, of Beaver; John T. Carter, of Anderson Miss Henri knne Early, of Washington, and Mrs. sN. B. Harrison, of Atlanta.
 Peter Turner, of Birmingham, ar lived here early in the week and will EFisit friends for several months at kDteen, where the United States public heaith service hospital is located, in
 which there are now several hundred slisabled veterans. I Miss Kathleen Lange and John E.ange, IT,. left for New Orleans sev- zral days ago to witness the Mardi Gras celebration in the Creole City.
 Mrs. Asbury c. Barnett departed for
 Birmingham early in the week to pass D fortnight with her parents, Mir. and
 Mrs. Downey. &N Mr. and Mrs. A. Edgar Atkinson, H.
 Marcus and J. E. Rauls have returned
 0 Montgomery after a long visit in the nf fha 2Iv D