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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1924
Page
16
High society notes list officials and spouses leaving Washington for summer homes and institutes. Notable figures include ministers from Guatemala and Estonia, a Costa Rican legation secretary, and Gen Sir Reginald Hopkins with family. Guests at dinners accompany Capt and Mrs James B Mann as they prepare to depart for Fort Dupont Del.
Mrs Wing departs Walter Reed after four years and transfers to Fort DuPont while Miss Katherine Hitchrock returns to Washington from Europe. The piece lists many society visits: Miss Lena Hitchcock in San Francisco with Mrs Temple Potts, the Tuckerman and de Peyster families in Edgemoor, Gen Sir Reginald and Lady Hoskins hosted by Mr James Pariegh, the Spanogies in Chevy Chase, and Maj Gen Hines’s family visits. Also noted are plans of Capt J OR D Cleland and Mrs Cleland at Washington barracks, Mrs Hines’s trip to West Point, Mrs James M. Thomson’s visit to St Louis and Bowing Green, and trips involving Eugene Meyer Jr. and the Donaldson party. Additional mentions include Mrs J Duncan Eliott’s travels to Canada, May and Elliott’s North American motor tour, and arrivals at the Chalfonte Atlantic City and Briacuf Lodge New York trips.
A travel guide listing open hours and locations for the day in Washington. It covers theater listings such as Belasco and Rialto, plus many museums and government venues including the Capitol, Library of Congress, Smithsonian, National Museum, and parks. Open hours vary by site, with many starting around 9 am and ending in late afternoon.
Miss Susie Hubert Coley of Norwalk Connecticut married Lieut George W Smythe in a military wedding at the cadet chapel in West Point New York. Chaplain Wheat officiated. Attendants included sister Mrs Kenneth M Colebarn matron of honor and bridesmaids Elizabeth Coley and Helen Hubbell. Best man Lieut Joseph A Morris. ushers were Lieuts Mesick Berry Keeley and cadets Saltzman Garbisch Wooa Johnson.
On the steamship Bolivar bound from Colombia, seven 10 foot boa constrictors escaped their cages, keeping 32 crew members, passengers, and animals awake for four days. Five snakes were caught. two reached outer air and hid in an awning before a sailor found them. Captain US L Long reported upon arrival in New York on August 13.
Three local men passed the examination for commissions as second lieutenants in the officers reserve corps and were commissioned by War Department orders. The officers are John Marion Payne of the 36th and M Streets NW in military police, Fort Sanders of 328 Ninth Street NE in infantry, and Paul Daniel Steel of 1715 Eve Street NW in the medical administrative corps.
Special to The Washington ron New York Aug 13 Justice and Mrs Oliver Wendell Holmes stay at the Ambassador from their Beverly Farms summer home. Mr and Mrs Isaac E Emerson, just back from Europe on the Majestic, visit before Narrragansett Pier. Mr and Mrs Charles Steele, who went abroad in July, will join Mr and Mrs J Pierpoint Morgan at their lodge in Scotland for the grouse season and fall for New York on Sept 3.
A compilation of service orders from the Ordnance, Quartermaster, Infantry, Engineers, Air Service and other corps notes officers and dates of reassignment, duty shifts, travel to installations, medical transfers and retirements across Forts Sill, Holabird, Benning, Peeing, Letterman, San Francisco and Griffin High School. Included are Maj. James D McIntyre relieved from flying duties, Captains Kilborn Maslin Clerk and Ruatemeyer reassigned, and Lieut Col Wilson placed on active duty as a high school professor.
A list of Navy personnel reassigned or promoted, detailing commands at divisions, naval yards, training areas, and shore stations. Notable moves include Theodore A Kittinger remaining in command of Division 36, assignments to Hampton Roads, Annapolis, and Puget Sound, and various officers transitioning to shipboard or staff duties.
A partial OCR artifact describes a school listing in Southern Maryland tied to Bishop Baltimore and the Xeverlan Brothers. It mentions a four year course and state approval, with a catalog available on request from Leonard Tall? and a location near Breton havk.
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