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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1915
Page
10
The Woodward and Lothrop outlet on Eleventh Street offers a remnant day with a wide range of men and young men suits, gray Scotch mixtures, and Palm Beach fabrics at deep discounts. Also featured are numerous oxford styles and leather shoes, plus boys garments and dress linens on multiple floors with marked down prices.
Friday Special in Men's Wash Ties features ties made from Imported Madras and Cheviots with white grounds and self and colored stripes. Priced at 25 cents each, these are marketed as good looking for hot weather wear. Additionally Bathing Suits are discounted with several price cuts across multiple qualities.
A large assortment of real linen laces in widths from 1% to 21% inches with insertions. Special late season sale of unusual quality and style. Main floor G street offers laces at 5c per yard.
Large and extra heavy scarlet blankets, 24 pairs, pure wool warp and filling with no weaving defects. Border has slight color run. Ideal for outdoor sleeping. Originally $9.00, special price $6.00 per pair at floor eleventh street.
Society at Saratoga Springs draws crowded clubhouse and grandstand on the tenth day of the bathatta meeting in a scene of ongoing interest. Notables include Virginia Atetandre of New York visiting the Seportas and new arrivals Mrs Gilroy and Mrs Northrop. Gov Whitman and party from Albany dine at the Casino, with many society figures observed in boxes and fashionable attire.
White Sulphur Springs W Va Aug 12 The 250 guests at the lawn party danced in the hotel ballroom yet praised the season's brilliant affair Colton Lane Stern and Thomas B Paine led the dances All is in readiness for the horse show opening tomorrow with 500 guests hoping for sunny weather Arrivals today include Mr and Dr Charles Douglas of Washington and Joseph Ryan of Cincinnati
Washington social brief notes recount visits by officials and families including Secretary of State Lansing and relatives. Senator-elect Charles Curtis and family relocate to new home on Belmont road. Details of campaigns, marriages, and residences of Curtis clan cited, with mentions of Leona Curtis and Miss Dolly Curtis in Boston and Topeka.
Newport society circles a notable marriage as Miss Margaret F Andrews, daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul A Andrews, marries Mr Morgan E Belmont at Rockry Hall. The ceremony features Harvard classmates as ushers, a noon wedding, 12 30 to 3 reception, and a grand weekend among summer residents with polo, dog show, flower show, and social events in Newport.
Assistant Solicitor of the State Department and Mrs Hampson Gary depart for Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs for weeks. Miss Frances Hayes of Waco will join them and later accompany to Asheville North Carolina returning in September. Miss Marcia Murdock and Lieut Harvey Delano announce a August 28 wedding in Wichita. A ceremony at Bethlehem Chapel of the Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul unites Miss Florence H Light and Dr Alexander W Williams. The couple leave for a Philippines trip. he serves as first lieutenant in the U S Army Medical Corps.
Miss Winnie Hall Blanchard, daughter of William A Blanchard, married Carl Louis Oswald yesterday at 11 30 in the Church of the Incarnation. The couple will reside at 1212 Girard Street after September 15 and honeymooned through the Adirondacks. Other notices report name changes and travels of family members including Dr. and Mrs. Lawson and Capt and Mrs Langhorne alongside Delos Blodgett and relatives visiting San Francisco and Yellowstone Park.
Mrs John R Williams of Washington has left Beverly Massachusetts after visiting her daughter Mrs Joseph Laiter at Edgewater-at-the-Farms to visit friends in Portland Maine. Mr and Mrs Aksel Wickfeld of Swift Moore Prides Crossing are visiting friends at Newport. Mrs M G Haughton to entertain at a musicale at her summer home Prides Crossing Friday afternoon.
Mrs George T Marye wife of the American ambassador to Russia issued invitations for a luncheon to be presided over by her tomorrow afternoon at her Burlingame home. Guests will travel from San Francisco for the event then attend a garden party at Mrs George A Pope’s Burlingame home.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew of New York spoke informally on Peace and War at the Business Men's Parl Club in Pittsfield as he summers in western Massachusetts. The news also lists a string of summer movements.
The wedding of Nora J Rabbitt to J Thomas Shailcross was held at 1229 Girard Street Northwest with Rev P C Gavin officiating. The bride wore French blue taffeta with blue embroidery and a lilies of the valley bouquet. Guests included J M Thomson Mrs Charles Dana Gibbon and others. reception followed before the couple departed for Old Point.
Bar Harbor hosts a series of resort events with winners from Northeast Harbor dominating many contests. Charles D Dickey of New York led in the obstacle race while Francis Chambers and David Hayward followed. Newport showcases the annual flower land plant exhibit by the Newport Garden Club with Vanderbilt estate grounds converted into display plots and funds raised for Belgian and Serbian farmers. Admiral Fletcher invites officers and wives to a private screening of The Battle Cry of Peace aboard the Wyoming.
More than 180 guests from yachtsmen polo and cricket players tennis and other sports attended a sportmen dinner and ball in Narragansett Pier to aid the Emergency Hospital fund. Grand march led by Henry E Kane in a white tennis suit with Miss Dorothy Norris in a white St Moritz costume. Guests included Miss Florence Kane, Talbot Hanan, and families from Washington Baltimore and Newport.
Boston society reports Rev and Mrs Bassl King visiting former Ambassador and Mrs David Jayne Hill at their Cohasset summer home. Also seen are former Gov John D Long and Mrs Long of Hingham, who paused there during a White Mountains drive en route to Intervale.
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