Russian Symphony Concert Hosts in Presidential Boxes
President Wilson attended a Russian Symphony Orchestra concert in the National Theater with Mrs Wilson and guests including Mrs Bolling and several Misses. Attending diplomats and a long list of officials and socialites filled multiple boxes, with dinners afterward for Ambassador Sato and other prominent figures.
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Mrs. Wilson
Wilson
National Theater
Mra. Bolling
Margaret Wilsn
Miss Bolling
Bones
Benham
Altschuler
Mme Bhakhmeteff
Ward Denys
Denys
Roland Cotton Smith
Miasa Huett
First Subscription Dance at Willard in Pink Decor
The Friday night Willard subscription dance, under Miss Julie Wood, opened at 10 with guests welcomed by Wood. Supper at 12:30, dancing to 2. The pink ballroom glow featured pink candied shed lighting. Notable attendees included Interior Secretary Lane and Mrs Lane, May Gen and Mrs Barnett, Assistant Secretary Franklin D Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt, Col and Mrs Thompson, and other prominent couples.
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the Willard
Julie Wood
Lane
May Gen
Mra Barnett
Navy
Franklin D Roosevelt
Robert M Thompson
Gibson Fahnestock
Montgomery Slair
Charles Glover
William Holland
Secretary and Mrs Walcott Host Dinner For Honored Guests
The Secretary of War and Mrs Newton I Baker were the guests of honor last evening when the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Mrs Charles D Walcott entertained at dinner. Miss Cannon arrived yesterday and joined her father Representative Joseph G Cannon at the Willard for January and February. Miss Virginia Le Seure will arrive in a
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Mra Alien T Treadway
Stockbridge
Mass
Massachusetts
Lansing
Grafton Hotel
Mra
Treadway
Washington
Weeks
Winston
Mra Rogers
Phelan
W Page
Disney
Mra Phillips
the Treasury
Peters
Winthrop Murray Crane
George G Merrill
Mabel Boardman
Greene
Dallinger
Heaton Treadway
Yale
Secretary of War
Newton I Baker
Cannon
Joseph G Cannon
Willard
Abe
Virginia le Seure
Mat
Wilhiam Mitchell
Carolyn Nash
Anita
Ostelle Sanders
Philadelphia
Miss Wash
Charles D Walcott
The
Smithsonian Institution
Twenty-second Street
Ingraham
Portland
Charles J Ferris
Field Artillery
Uo & A
Army and Navy Lab
Mai
Dan T Moore
U S A
Ernest D Scott
U. S A
Eee Watson
May Toseph . Steller
Social Season Recaps From Washington Society News
A string of Washington events features dinners and dances at the Willard and the Lollot Astor, hosting guests from Philadelphia and New York. Notables include Miss Glendenning of New York, Mrs Kalbfus, and diplomats with plans in Jacksonville and St Augustine. Also noted are arrivals, recoveries, and marriages marking society life this winter season.
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John @. Phillips
Boston
Washington
New Hapshire Avenue
D & Walcott
New York
Bishop and Miss Douglas Host At Home
Social notices describe formal calls and receptions in Washington. Mrs George D Ruggles and Miss Ruggles will not receive this afternoon but will be at home on remaining Saturdays in January. Capt and Mrs Richard Creecy arrive at the Hotel Powhatan for a few days. Mrs Milton hosts a large reception on Eighteenth Street in honor of Mrs Sterling and Mrs Berg with an afternoon of music, flowers, and gowns.
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Medorem Crawford
Miss Crawford
Mme Ritter
Frank Peeeside
Loum Reecside
George D Ruggles
Miss Ruggles
Rug
Washington
Miss Douglas
Mra
Richard Creecy
Hotel Powhatan
Capt. Creecy
Marine Barracks
Samuel Burleigh Milton
Eighteenth Street
Thomas Sterling
Senator Sterling
South Dakota
K Edith Berg
Sterling
Milton
Berg
Thomas ¥ P Gore
Senator Gore
Gore
George M Young
Representative Youngs
North Dakota
Milton Johnson
Wiliam H Beck
Yunk Kwai
Misa_Mary Webb
Hileanor Blackburn Washington
Thompson Hosts Admirals Aboard Everglades in Miami
Robert M Thompson arrived from Washington with Rear Admirals Wainwright Adams and Ross along with Stephen Bell and W Kelley to dine aboard the Everglades in Miami. A first dinner since rebuilding followed a blaze that destroyed the upper deck and his autographed photo collection.
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Miami
Fla
Robert M Thompson
Washington
Richard Wainwright
U &N
J D Adams
Stephen H. P. Bell
Rew. Kelley
New York
the Everglades
Albert Ross
U.S N
Kirk Munroe
Jozeph P Greaves
Frederick A Snow
James M Jackson
Eversydes
Col Thompson
Edward M Pendleton to Wed Miss Craven in Philadelphia
Edward Micajah Pendleton of Floyd Virginia and Miss Anne G Craven of Nassau road Philadelphia obtained a marriage license and plan to wed at Craven’s Nassau road home. Pendleton, 33, seven years Craven’s senior, is descended from Edmund Pendleton former governor of Virginia. Craven is daughter of the late M Craven of Charleston South Carolina.
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Washington Post
Philadelphia
Edward Micajah Pendleton
Floyd, Va
Anne G Craven
Nassau Road
Pendleton
Miss Craven
M Craven
Charleston
Miss Catherine Drexel Dahlgren to Wed Emmet
New York reports Miss Catherine Drexel Dahlgren age 22, daughter of Lucy Drexel Dahlgren, applied for a marriage license with Richard Smith Emmet of Long Island. Emmet’s father is Rear Admiral Dahlgren’s son. The couple planned to marry in New York on Wednesday.
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New York, Jan
Catherine ‘Drexel Dahlgren
Lucy Drexel Dahlgren
Richard Smith Emmet
James
Long Island
Twelfth Night Ball for Confederate Memorial Home
Washington Camp 305 staged a large Twelfth Night dance in the Raleigh for Confederate Memorial Home. Nearly 400 attended with matron of honor Mrs Gilmer Brentzer and sponsor Mrs Suzanne Chase. numerous patronesses and committee chairmen guided reception, arrangements, and floor.
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Sons of Confederate Veterans
Washington Camp
Raleigh
Confederate Memorial Home
Gilmer Brentzer
Suzanne Chase
Olive Plant
Duncan Uleteher
J Willard Ragsdale
William C Gorgas
Sammuel Spencer
Francis Nash
ML F Merwin
John Mo Hicker
George S Coyington
Edwin T. Parker
Mary Curtis Lee
George B Ashby
William S Stamper
Edward A Brand
Tributes to Louis P Shoemaker Honored Brightwood Group
Tributes to Louis Pierce Shoemaker former Brightwood Citizens Association president filled the regular meeting at Brightwood Public School. Resolutions of esteem arrived from Northeast, Petworth and Connecticut Avenue associations. Eulogies were delivered by Kay Saul Callaghan Ergood Lambert Holman.
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Louis Pierce Shoemaker
Brightwood Citizens’ Association
Brightwood Public School
Northeast Citizens Association
Petworth Association
Connecticut Avenue Citizens Association
Shoe- Taker
Charles W Kay
John A Saul Daniel Callaghan
Willam McK Clayton
Jesse L Ergood
Wilton J Lambert
Pastor Goes to New Charge at Epiphany Chapel
Rev C F Edwards resigns after five years as rector of Epiphany Chapel South Washington and moves to Macon Missouri to helm a parish. His successor Rev Joseph T Ware from Mount Savage Maryland will assume duties February 1. Interim services led by Rev Mr White. Rev Dr Randolph H McKim will speak aftertomorrow evening service.
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C .F Edwards
Epiphany Chapel
South Washington
Macon
Joseph T. Ware
Mount Savage
Mr White
Randolph H McKim
Russian Orchestra Delights Washington Audiences At National Theater
The Russian Symphony Orchestra of New York debuted in Washington at the National Theater with Tschaikowsky RimskyKorsakoff and Rachmaninoff works. Emma Roberts and Walter Chamburg accompanied, delivering a lively program of Slavic melodies and orchestral color. A Bayonet drill and militiaman uniform pay note followed, with guardsmen hearing a new regulation on clothing allowance and the Third District of Columbia infantry practicing bayonet exercises amid cooler morning air.
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New York
Washington
National Theater
Tschaikowsky
Rachmaninoff
Altschuler
Tschalkowsky
Emma
Roberts
Ashe
Walter Chamburg
Misa Roberts
Star
San Antoni Texan
Third District of Columbia Infantry
Confederate veterans entertain West Virginians in Washington
The West Virginia Society of Washington hosted Confederate veterans at a meeting in the Lubbitt with a program of reminiscences of Civil War service in Dickett's division. Entertainment included a piano solo, a vocal performance, and a ventriloquist act. A special committee was formed to plan the third annual banquet of the 90 quiets for February 17 at the Lubbitt, with a larger Confederate veterans entertainment panel and a separate banquet committee led by Col J William De Grange and assistants.
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West Virginia
West Virginia Society of Washington
Dickett
Eo B Russell
Oscar Feath
Frank Green Henry
Baker
Confederate Veterans’ Entertainment Committee
Zen
Www Scott
William de Grange
Brock Smith
C H. Livingston
Oscar Price
Charles H Knott
Abe Barr
J Ward Mankin
Thomas W Keller
John F Green
Harry Lee Ho
Col J William de Grange
W. T Georges
C H McGinnis
Lea B Russell
Todd C Sharp
John Lyon
Frank W Legge
L On
Magan
Harry G Shaffer
W H Wentze
R F Manin
G. T Kirkpatrick
Bolden-Pumphrey Nuptials at Rockville Church
The Washington Post reports the marriage of Miss Sarah Ann Pumphrey of Dickerson and Charles J Bolden of Barnesville at the minister’s home in Rockville Maryland The Rev A T Howard presided as officiating pastor at the Baptist church ceremony ages 19 and 135 likely a transcription error this entry notes the home venue for the ceremony.
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Apiab
Washington Post
Rockville, Md
Jane
A T Howard
Sarah Ann Pumphrey
Dickerson
Thia County
Charles J Bolden
Barnesville
Welcome Home Guardsmen Planned by District Committee
A special Military Service Legion committee at the Masonic Temple outlined plans to welcome district guardsmen returning from the border. They prepared a card index form to match returning soldiers with employment desires and to canvass business leaders and merchants for job openings. The effort involves District commissioners and railway companies with leaders Col Clarents Vo Sayre Maj Hodgesoon Capt Sheridan Kerrec Capt John J. Brooks Capt Ud Richard Lamb How ard Fisk and Albert F Ferguson.
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Military Service Legion
Masonic Temple
Thirteenth
New York Avenue
Northwest
Col Clarents Vo Sayre
Foo& Hodgesoon
Sheridan Kerrec
John J. Brooks
Richard Lamb Howard Fisk
Albert F Ferguson
Capt Ashford Wins Gold Medal in Military Surgeons Prize
Capt Mahlon Ashford MC USA won the gold medal and 300 dollars in the Henry and Wellcome prize competition conducted by the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. Assistant Surgeon General W C Rucker A.F.P. HS received a silver medal and 200 dollars.
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Mahlon Ashford MC
USA
Henry & Wellcome
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