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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1921
Page
11
The Gamma Pi Beta national convention will meet August 28 to September 2 at Lake Crescent with events hosted by the Seattle Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae association and the active chapter. Delegates will travel by Kappa cars from Colman Dock, tour the boulevard and campus, then attend a 4 PM reception at the Kappa house. It is the first major fraternity conference in the Northwest.
The Seattle Tennis Club hosts a statewide circuit with many entrants. Notable out of town players include Miss Qariss Hurd and her brothers George and Charles of New York City, Carl Gardner, Charles Stickney and Irving Weinstein of San Francisco, and William Ingraham of Rhode Island.
Mrs Howard Knott will host a Friday afternoon tea from 3 to 5 at her Laurelhurst home. The event honors Mrs Cornelius Edward Hughes and Mrs Joseph Knott with invitations extended to Laurelhurst ladies only.
Mr and Mrs David William Brown issue wedding invitations for the marriage of their daughter Edith Leora to Arthur G Anderson at Columbia Congregational Church on Tuesday evening August 16 at 8 45 o clock.
Mrs Imogene Cornett entertained nine guests with an informal tea and dinner for ten at her Caledonia apartment as her brother Mr William Cornett leaves for Eastern Washington for the summer. Mrs Charles S. Wills hosted an informal tea to honor her mother in law Mrs Williams Wills of Los Angeles visiting Seattle for the summer.
Hunt's Point Country Club issues 760 invitations for the Jabber- Wakker Jinke carnival set for Saturday evening August 20 at the clubhouse. A special boat will depart Madison park at 3 o'clock, returning late. Dancing featured. event managed by Guy Bowden and Clarence Peterson.
An advertisement promotes a lemon based beauty lotion made from two lemons and Orchard White. It instructs applying the fragrant lotion daily to face neck arms and hands to achieve a white complexion, claiming stage beauties use it for freckles sunburn and tan without irritation.
Informal bridge compliments Miss Kathryn Armstrong of Oakland invited as guest of Miss Dorothy Wing with Miss Hasel McMillan hosting a few tables this evening. Summer luncheons at the Women’s University Club include Tuesday University of Washington Wednesday Delta Gamma Friday Zeta Tau Alpha. Regular Wednesday matinee luncheon hosts Mrs Edward Townsend and Mr Fordyce Gorham. Miss Morehouse to marry Mr and Mrs Charles Michmeond’s daughter Dorothy to Frederick Vincent Lockman. The wedding is set August 17 at the bride’s parents’ home. Morehouse is a UW graduate and Delta Zeta, Lockman a School of Architecture graduate affiliated with Lambda Chi Alpha.
Elizabeth Kerr prepares to leave for Milla college in Oakland California with a luncheon and swimming party by Miss Helen Schwager and Miss Helen Jordan at the Tennis club tomorrow afternoon. Guests arriving at Cornish School this week to study with Mr E Robert Schmitz include Eva L Alden Terre Haute Vera Frey Benson Ogden Henry Bicknell Honolulu Allen B Dow Yakima P Perkins Salt Lake City Marie Pinney New York Joseph Carey Duluth Abbie V Bissell Chicago and Mrs F A Shepard Chicago.
The Interlaken guild of the Orthopedic Hospital hosts an informal dance at the Yacht Club on Thursday evening, August 18. Tickets from Mrs. F. H. Bates Capitol 4017 or Mrs. F. E. Dodge Capitol 4015. After the show, attendees proceed to Boldt's Advertisement.
A compilation of social club notices for August 10 includes Allah Social Club at Mae Snodgrass home 4857 Oroas Ave with 2 PM start, British American Association basket picnic at Alki Beach with 6 PM coffee, Lorraine Social Club at Masonic temple 2 PM, Aquilla and other lodges meeting at various addresses, and several lectures, picnics, and whist parties across Seattle venues. Invited groups include Eastern State members, Queen City Council, and U.S. W. V. members with details on locations and times.
The Junior members of the Women University club host a picnic at Mrs William H Suttons home in East Seattle on Thursday August 11. Overseas Club Social meets August 9 at 8 pm at ywunse 404 13th ave N with members invited. Dunlap PT A plans a community picnic August 11 at Atlantic City Park with basket lunches and coffee. Carl BE Croson will speak and D HL Painter will lead a community singing. Sunshine Guild meets August 11 at 11 am at Mrs Mabel Longs home 1415 18th Ave NW.
The House Ways and Means Committee, on an informal agreement, approved repealing the ice cream and soda water taxes and a luxury tax on wearing apparel and sporting goods. They agreed no new taxes will be imposed with a 5 percent rise in the corporate income tax. The repeals take effect January 1 next.
The general public is invited to attend the state conference on conservation of scenic resources in the Chamber of Commerce assembly hall on August 15. Secretary Herbert Evison of the Natural Parks Association of Washington announced the event.
Personal notices list multiple households with summer visitors and travelers from Port Townsend and nearby areas. Names include Mr. and Mrs. Albert Charles Phillips and relatives from Los Angeles, Chicago visitors, Hood Canal travelers, Alaska trips, Crater Lake motor plans, Mills College students, and several couples planning weeks away or returning home.
Cynthia Grey answers queries on English monarchs from Edward VI to George V and on washing white socks with soap jelly. Tom explains the Ozark region in Missouri, while others define Gaul and natural resources. An Astoria logger is believed burned in a bunkhouse fire eight miles from Clatsop Crest.
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