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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1916
Page
8
Helen and Warren arrive home tired from an auto party. A well-dressed neighbor woman asks for help with a key and risk of break in. They discuss the strange visitors, prepare a late supper, and deal with worries about an unsafe apartment entry as they settle in for the night.
The President and Mrs Wilson return to Washington from a Hampton Roads cruise. Secretary Baker and Maj. Gen. Scott depart tomorrow for Plattsburg to observe a four day hike with 7,900 recruits. Captain and Mrs Baldwin plan a Newport motor trip. The Agriculture Secretary and family stay at Woods Hole then return later in the week. The Assistant Secretary of Commerce returns this week from a Pacific coast trip.
A string of social notices details Mrs James A Grigg and Miss Mary Grigg returning to Richmond from Washington D C while Senator Joseph T Robinson and family return from Colorado Also listed are Mrs Albert L Mills heading to Martha's Vineyard with daughter Mrs Emil P Laurason and Gen Mills plans to join later In August Other travel plans include Mrs Du Bose Miss Katherine Du Bose Comdr and Mrs Claud Price heading to Atlantic City and more relatives heading to Bar Harbor Moosehead Lake Mattapoisett Northport and Atlantic City for summer visits and postings
Miss Blanchard Scott daughter of Gen and Mrs Hugh L Scott visiting Worcester Massachusetts will next week visit Mrs Howard E Perry at her Casco Bay home. She has been guest of Miss Beatrice Clover at Etberon where Admiral and Mrs Clover own a cottage for the season. Mrs Lea Latimer and children plan to leave August 10 for Canada for the autumn. Capt and Mrs Theodore Baldwin and Miss Judge plan a motor trip from Washington to Newport and the North Shore. Theodore Baldwin has spent days as guest of the Governor of the Federal Reserve Board.
Bar Harbor Maine July 30 RAXPOM notes society at Sonogee hosted by Mr and Mrs Lyman H Kendall. Guests included Gen Horace Porter Henry Taft Walbridge Taft Holton Herr Mrs Arthur Weeks Pierpont Davis Evelyn Biddle and J Manning. Meteorological glow kept island lit as bells rang and trains saw reservations surge.
Several Washington figures plan travels and visits after summer season. Alice Hutchinson to Onquit Maine with sister. Mrs. Ross of Albany joins later. Albert Ordway's granddaughter Valeria Padelford to accompany at Willard, then to Jeffrey New Hampshire. Hewsons return to perform at Hotel Lafayette. Mrs Page Slufty visiting Berryville Virginia. Kettenrings of Defiance Ohio guests at Wonderwall West Springfield New Hampshire. Mrs Kettenring formerly Mrs W Hoopes of Washington. Mrs Austin McCarthy hosts sister Mrs George Perry Stone of Houston with George Stone Jr. Mrs W H Small returns to Parkersburg. Lulu II Waters attends osteopaths convention in Kansas City then Marshalltown Iowa, Duluth and Buffalo, back by Sept 1. William Coyne, Katherine Gallagher, Marion Forreal of Wilmington Del. motor to Washington for weekend at Willard.
Samuel Parrish hosted a tea at his Southampton home to honor Cardinal Gibbons with Bishop Dennis J. O'Connell of Richmond. Attending were Col. and Mrs. Henry May of Washington, and the Montgomeries of Washington, D C. The event occurred on Main Street as summer visitors gathered.
White Sulphur Springs W Va July 40 The usual church services were held at St Thomas Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches followed by outdoor activities. The afternoon pools were crowded and boys played ball in the water. Mrs Henry Rutledge Burat of Charleston entertained guests at the Fines Club dinner. Guests included Mr and Mrs John Kohisaat Judge and Mrs William H Brawley Mr and Mrs James B Weir Mrs Edwin Carsons Mrs John Herndon French Mrs H Rowland Clapp Mrs Kellogg Brawley Miss Madeline Ladley and Miss Josephine McClure. Madeline Ladley left for Charleston this morning but will return for the horse show. Mrs Thomas W Symons of Washington has been away two weeks and returned Saturday Col and Mrs Olver W Dudley of Danville arrived today. Mr and Mrs Charles B Howry of Washington DC and Richard W Reynolds of Norfolk were late arrivals.
A large crowd of 300 or more gathered at the Narragansett Country Club for a tennis match in Narragansett Pier. Miss Sarah R. Baldwin hosted a luncheon for clergyman W. M. Grosvenor at her Cliffs cottage, with guests from New York Baltimore Providence and Worcester attending services at St Peter's by the Sea. The Casino hosted another large luncheon crowd with Malcolm Stevenson entertaining Mr and Mrs Harry W Harrison and others.
Beverly Massachusetts July 30 fear of sharks in the bay cuts beachgoers at Beverly beaches. Small sharks captured offshore. Racine ranch at West Beach popular, with a race praised between mounts owned by Miss Eleanora Sears Judge William S Moore and William McLaughtin. Academy of Annapolis cadets among Beverly visitors. Battleships Ohio and Msn… cruise near North Shore as rendezvous at Yaqu Bay nears. Lunch at Myepla and Essex County clubs. Miss Dorothy Bicker from Virginia stays with Mina Marion Miles at the Chickcott Magnolia cottage.
Saratoga Springs July 30 crowds and horses surge to a record meet atmosphere with top thoroughbreds and heavy turnout. Turfmen report more horses and better ones than ever before at any U S track. Notable happenings include a Route to the Derby retirement of George Smith and a car wreck near Poughkeepsie injuring Mrs Butler.
Atlantic City N J July 30 The crowd today was perhaps the most cosmopolitan the season yet had produced Conspicuous in the throngs were Mayor and Mrs John Purvey Mitchel of New York who motored to the shore last night and intend to return late this evening or early tomorrow They had with them Mr and Mrs Donn Barber Although they did not meet Mr Mitchel many times during the day was close to Mayor James H Preston Jr of Baltimore Mr Frederico Alfonso Peret for many years Ambassador from Peru and until his resignation last March dean of the Latin American diplomatic corps at Washington with Mrs Peret are here for an indefinite stay Joe Tinker manager of the Chicago Cubs of the National League arrived here today
Newport, R I July 39 Among the nights dinners was one by Mr and Mrs Perry Belmont at Belcourt for New York Governor Charles S Whitman and his wife Mrs Whitman There were six guests Gov Whitman left on the 19 o clock boat tonight Also entertaining were Mr and Mrs Ogden Mills lunch partners today included Mrs R Livingston Beeckman Mrs Nathaniel Thayer and Mrs Spencer F L Eddy Consul General Gaston Libert and the Misses Libert will stay three days The Mills party will remain with Mr and Mrs Ogden Mills over Monday Fitz Eugene Saxon joined Dr and Mrs Alexander Hamilton Rice
Henry Adams of Washington held a large luncheon at Ashintully farm in Tyringham to raise funds for Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow of Boston. Frederick Sterling of Cleveland, nephew of Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, joined Mr. and Mrs. Choate in Stockbridge. Sterling is an American embassy secretary at Petraograd on leave, soon heading to San Francisco. Mrs. Richard Aldrich of New York attends, and Miss Angelica Gerry returns to Newport.
Wr. and Mrs. Wardman with party depart Hot Springs by car for Washington and will be away several days. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Albert, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wardman, and Mrs Barney Barnam join, with guests Alice Scarborough and John Bearborough of Cincinnati at Boxwood Farm luncheon hosted by Mrs. M. Fy Tal and Miss Gladys Ingalls. Arrival today includes Capt. Bell Campbell of Washington. Hot Spring.
Nangely Me July 30. Mrs annuary Wesley Perego of New York announces the engagement of her daughter by a former marriage Miss Leontine Curtiss to William T Ball son of the late Tor William T Ball a famous New York surgeon. They traveled here by automobile from New York and will spend the summer at Interlaken near Dodge Pond after passing through Newport.
An extraordinary orange glow stretched across the western skies as a dramatic fire lit the horizon. Residents reported a vivid sunset-like phenomenon lasting into the late afternoon while authorities coordinated emergency calls and police inquiries.
Special to The Washington Post from Los Angeles reports that Mrs Christine Buist Pierce, who secured an absolute divorce from Dr Horace Pierce of Santa Barbara, is now earning money as a Balti more Hotel switchboard operator to fund travel to Moorestown New Jersey and avoid further parental assistance. The couple wed in Moorestown in 1904 and moved to Los Angeles before Pierce returned to his parents in Santa Barbara amid family strife.
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