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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1917
Page
10
Postmaster Merritt O Chance says women will not be used as mail carriers in Washington as a war necessity. Draft summons have limited to 20 mail carriers, despite efforts elsewhere to replace men in service.
President and Mrs. Wilson golfed after arrival at the White House from a week end on the Mayflower. Diplomatic guests and society figures gathered at the Willard and in Henderson Harbor, with Red Cross fundraising at the Myopia Club and various social arrivals in Washington, New York, Bar Harbor, and Newport.
Mrs Edwin H Tillman will leave Washington mid month to open their Jamestown cottage in Rhode Island, joined by Miss Margheritta Tillman from Allenhurst New Jersey. Also traveling: Mr Edwin H Tillman Jr from Annapolis Naval Academy, and a party including Mrs L B Fraser and family. Mrs Lee Stubblefield heads to San Francisco with daughter Lolita then to New Orleans for the winter, returning in spring to reopen Massachusetts Avenue home. Mrs Wilson Brown to Asbury Park for several weeks. Mr William Bullitt spends a few days at Lafayette with wife. Mrs Mary C Waters and son Daniel Waters stay at the Vanderbilt Hotel in New York.
Mrs Johnaton travels to St Louis due to her husband’s duty as major illness grips his wife. Miss Genevieve Johnston accompanies her mother since June. Mrs Marriott relocates to Louisville visiting sister Mrs Norton while daughter Katherine spends summer at Blue Ridge camp. Mrs Ellsworth and son Worth Bagley to Balsam Grove for Vera House and John Mish House wedding. Eleanor and Charlotte Wilkins visit southern Maryland with grandmother for Mr and Mrs Blackistone. Dr Joseph Small vacationing at Spring Lake New Jersey. Rev George W Atkinson Jr departs Georgetown for Eagles Mere PA then Atlantic City with cot tage stay and Maine auto trip planned. Catholic alumnae war relief committee hosts food lecture for members tonight in Carroll Hall introduced by Rev Father O Hern. lecturer Dr Cora Smith King on food conservation.
A posse of 37 of the Souths most beautiful girls from Tennessee Mississippi and Arkansas hunted Senator Kenneth D McKellar in Washington last night. The bachelor senator was not located by midnight and the hunt may continue today. The visitors arrived as guests of J H Lackey of the News-Scimitar and are staying at the Raleigh Hotel before heading to Cincinnati.
George M Sunday, campaign manager for Billy Sunday the evangelist, telegrammed William Knowles Cooper of the Y M C A that Sunday will be in Washington January 1 1891 to conduct a revival and trail hitting campaign extending through January and part of February. The evangelist arrives at the request of city ministers and laymen. Details will be arranged after a conference with local clergy and lay leaders. A local committee will be appointed to organize the effort.
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