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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1908
Page
39
Woodward and Lothrop New York Washington Paris department store informs customers that during the heated term the store will pose at 5 o clock on Saturdays at 1. Shoppers by phone may call Main 5300 and ask for the Mail Order Department. Orders will be executed with the least possible delay.
WHIS presents rare furs with one third to nearly one half off regular prices. Every piece is guaranteed exact as represented and pre made for the sale. A selection of skins including Blended Squirrel Russian Mink Eastern Blended Fox Black Fox Caracal Labrador Seal and Persian Sable is offered with optional special ordering to apply sale prices.
The social column reports multiple weddings and engagements. Miss Caroline Louise Smith weds Lieut. James E. Abbott in a D.C. ceremony with Marine Band music. Miss Alice Lucas Bauterbach and George Bauterbach wed in a Pentecostal Church. Mary Elizabeth Barber announced engagement to Samuel Goodacre. Ambassador Creel returns from Atlantic City. various families and guests are noted across Washington, Newport, and Atlantic City social circuits with travel to Chicago and Pacific destinations.
The social swirl around ex Lieutenant Granville Fortesque, cousin to President Roosevelt, centers on a perilous auto crash near Ipswich. Reports say he lay critically ill at Myopia Hunt Club, while experts were summoned from the city. officials later deny his presence there and say he has not been seen since the accident.
In lively 1920s tone, the piece praises American women as capable and engaged across roles from students to nurses and teachers. It notes society at Saratoga races, lists prominent attendees, and reports on Newport social dances between Mrs Goelet and Mrs Beeckman. It also discusses对 Herrick’s views on American women, local reactions, and Mrs Drexel’s London move and decor ambitions.
In Paris a large crowd attended the wedding of Madeleine Anne Marie Fallieres, daughter of the French president, to Jean Joseph Bay, amid church state separation tensions. The ceremony at the Madeleine featured nuptial mass and a procession to Elysee for a civil marriage officiated by Mayor Roger Allen, with Premier Clemenceau present and diplomats observing.
A wedding at the Elysee palace featured a breakfast for close family friends. The Church of Madeleine was modestly decorated with no special ceremony. One curate said mass and Father Riviero gave the benediction. No discourse was delivered and the bride received many gifts.
Visitors enjoyed a lively Berkshire outing with driving, dinners, and luncheons in Lenox Mass Aug 10. Social rounds featured Mrs M Dwight Collier Osceola House and Mrs S Parkman Shaw Redwood hosting events for Mr and Mrs Grant Walker of Boston and Mrs C R Reach of New York.
Newport New Jersey August 10 under gray rain threatening weather Newport had a quiet Sunday despite the New York Yacht Club visiting. Many yachts came ashore for lunches and dinners but their presence was mainly observed. Mr and Mrs Witham Storrs Wells hosted a musicale at Chetwode their summer home with many summer colony residents attending. Miss My Lott of Australia contralto appeared for the first time in town with Mr Francis Bowers a New York baritone and Bruno Hubbn accompanying. Mrs Ogden Mills continued nightly entertainments drawing younger guests to meet Lord Granard Mills guest Mrs Willem Payne attended.
A long list of guests arrived by automobile to Narragansett Pier in Rhode Island on August 10. Mrs J0 Beard and companions from Glen Cove Long Island and Palm Beach visited the Mathewson and entertained guests. Other couples from Meriden Cheshire Buffalo Boston and New York arrived at various hotels and inns to tour New England, including Bretton Woods and the mountain region, with multiple autos noted in the week’s social arrivals.
Western Long Branch notes exciting outdoor events over the next three weeks. A lawn tennis tournament opens today followed by an upcoming invitation golf tournament at the Dear Gol Club with contestants from across the United States. Social events include dinner parties by Mrs Crusius and Mrs Byrne, a charity fair at the Hollywood Hotel August 21 for the Home for Crippled Children, and a dance with costumes. Local residents and visitors, including Charles J. Schwab and Commodore Rosenthal, are hosting and attending gatherings through August 27 while others travel to Smithtown and Saratoga.
Street to Mr George W Eustis will be quietly celebrated in Seadwight Aud Bust 20. Miss Beatrice Schwab will go to Citlta wold in the Adirondacks this week but will return to take part in the amateur circus. Mr and Mrs Henri Wertheim will return to Bernardsville New Jersey this week after a visit to Mr and Mrs Henry Selig man, Mr Conrad Peters of New York visiting Mr and Mrs Louis F Bertach man in Gallflee.
GYMEKHAWA, SEASON'S EVENT, Bar Harbor, Me. Aug 12 program at North east Harbor features a costume ride eye and spoon races umbrella race obstacle race and Gretna Green race with patronesses including Mesdames Armour Arnold Blodgett Budd Duboix Dickey Disston Huot and many others.
President Roosevelt spent a quiet day at Sagamore Hill with no visitors. He read undisturbed for hours, handled executive matters via his secretary, then rode with Mrs. Roosevelt toward Glen Cove. Secretary Forbes returned to Sagamore Hill in the evening with important business, while Miss Ethel Roosevelt visited friends in Manchester Massachusetts.
John Dudley longtime District resident and Navy Yard expert in small arms construction was buried yesterday afternoon in Congressional Cemetery. He had been ill five years and was survived by a wife. He earlier worked at the arsenal and was sent to Japan and Turkey on government rifle missions.
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