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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
39
Clearance sale offers reductions on women's outer garments including lingerie dresses linen jumper dresses linen tailored suits figured lawn dresses and serge tailored suits. Some items reduced a third or half others at fractions of value. Lingerie dresses feature white light blue violet and pink with val enciennes lace and Irish medallions. Semifitting coats full skirts and lined options appeal for early fall.
Linen Jumper Dresses offered at $15.00 each, previously $30.00 and $35.00. Silk Dresses also jumper style with lace yoke and sleeves. Linen Tailored Suits feature semifitting coat and full gored skirt, ideal for morning wear at seaside or mountains. Numerous styles available.
Priced at five dollars each, dresses formerly twenty dollars. Describes tucked batiste yoke and full gored skirt with a variety of colors. Located on the third floor at G Street.
Clearout sale offers a LOT of men’s two and three piece summer suits in brown tan gray olive and fancy mixtures. New seasonal finishes cut in latest fashion with high grade suits at one third to less than half price. Also blue and black unfinished worsted and serge suits in single and double breasted coats.
Miss Elise Alexandrine Hoban of Washington and Miss Elsie Seymour, daughter of the late Lieut. Charles Seymour, U. S. N., and Mrs. Seymour, are part of a midsummer marriage circuit with engagements to William Dunlop Owens, a surgeon in the U. S. Navy, and other society unions planned in Newport, Elberon, and Seabright. Generals, admirals, and society figures attend dinners and visits from Hot Springs to Bar Harbor as alliances and travels shape a season of weddings and social duties.
Steam yacht Mirage led from Newport to the pier ten miles, outrunning Alfred Vanderbilt’s Walthra with Miss Eleapora Sears at the wheel. Rainey, guests aboard, and Sears earned applause after the race, while a salon hat dispute at the New York Exchange for Women’s Work drew attention alongside Newport social news.
A varied set of visitors to Bretton Woods and Mount Washington Hotel last week includes Mr and Mrs William Loyd Garrison and party from New York to Boston by motorcar. R Suydam Grant motored from Newport and plans a brief stay, with Mr and Mrs Fowler and companions also attending. The Earl of Granara plays tennis at the Casino, Beatrice Mills and Mrs Ogden Mills observe, and Beatrice Mills may be engaged later. A humorous photo of university students serving as waiters at the Elenore resort highlights lively social activity and flirtations at the hotel.
West End Long Branch August 1 Many society leaders have joined the committee planning a charity circus on August 29 opposite the Deal estate. Notable participants include Joseph M. Byrne John G. O Keefe Thomas F. Smith Joseph J C Donahue Jr John B Dillon Louis C Haggerty and many others with residences in the area. The event features a Roman chariot race by Miss Beatrice Schwab and Sidney Schwab in three horse chariots. Proceeds will support Protestant Roman Catholic and Jewish charities locally.
Mary Jane Perry died August 9 1908 leaving most of her estate to children and grandchildren. Trusts of 10000 for Ida Young and 8000 for four grandchildren funded by American Security and Trust Co as trustee. 2000 to Ross Perry and 500 to Elisabeth Ross plus home watercolors. Maud Tosa and Elizabeth Master receive 500 each, Nannie Johnson 100. Furniture to Ida with keepsakes for others. 300 to Children’s Hospital and 500 to St Paul’s Church wardens trustees for Rock Creek Cemetery care. 500 to Trinity parish for Sunday school 200 to church poor fund. Will dated March 18 1889. Ross Perry named executor without bond to divide remainder among sons.
Lenox Massachusetts August 12 Berkshire Hunt selects Harry Livingston Lee of Lenox and Lawrence Smith of Smithtown Long Island as judges for the hunt races at Lee Pleasure Park on September 12. The event tops the Berkshire autumn calendar and partly replaces the Lenox horse show not held this year. Entries prepared by New York figures including L Vonstade Shot ter Van Schick Shaw Sidway Frothingham Burden Bull Dows. Miss Anna B Shaw hosted a dinner at the Homestead for guests Mr and Mrs Grant Walker of Boston with several locals invited people include Folsom Shaw Clarke. Some literary society guests attended a French lecture at Coldbrooke villa.
Newport social and sporting life shifts from the bay to shore as the yacht club fleet departs. The Casino buzzes with visitors while lawn tennis events are postponed. Notables attend musicales at White Ho me and dinners as plans for Cornelius Vanderbilt memorial work progress.
Dr Murray Gas Motter, deputy health officer and chief inspector of the district, resigns to join the marine hospital service. The move raises his salary from 1400 to 2500 yearly. Motter will take a short vacation before starting new duties, plans to yacht on Long Island and relax at Lake George. He has been with the district health department since spring 1608, with only a summer away for scientific meetings in Leicester and Heidelberg. It is understood A L Murray will be appointed deputy health officer and chief inspector.
Five thousand copies of the President's letter to Washington boys and girls are printed by the Washington Playground Association. The letter will be read this afternoon at play grounds and distributed to older children afterward. Dr Curtis of the Playground Association of America will send copies to other playground systems.
King Edward arrives at Ischl for a brief visit with Emperor Francis Joseph. The two rulers tour nearby areas and reserve a 30 room suite at the Hotel Elizabeth. Talks with Austrian officials focus on Turkey and the Balkans with a pledge to avoid action until a new regime is tried. Diplomatic circles view Edward’s Berlin and Kronenberg meetings as significant but nonbinding gestures toward closer Britain Germany Austria-Hungary relations.
Henry P. Bowen and Christina Ralston were married aboard the South Dakota at Mare Island with Chaplain McAllister officiating. This marks the first marriage solemnized on a U S ship at Mare Island and was witnessed by the ship's company.
Joseph Mikulec, a 25 year old Austrian traveler, arrived in Washington after a 13 000 mile walk and a five year circumnavigation effort. He weighs 144 pounds, wears a blue orange sweater bearing “A trip around the globe,” and plans to continue to San Francisco then Sydney before Japan and return via Russia and Germany.
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