Social notes from Washington and nearby society gatherings
President and Mrs Wilson spent the day quietly at the White House with no church visit. Many guests attended dinners and receptions at Alta Hall near Rosslyn, Virginia, including Senators Newlands Hitchock Chamberlain and Wotherspoon, Majors and Misses, and guests from San Francisco. Ministers from Switzerland and Peru left Washington for Lake Mohonk to attend arbitration conferences. Others, such as Mrs McCormick and Mrs Dawson, hosted or joined events around Washington, with frequent travel to New York, Lake Mohonk, and Stockbridge for summer plans and visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francia Bowes Sayre
Washington
Margaret Wilson
New York
White House
Key Pittman
Alta Hall
Rosslyn
Newlands
Hitchcock
Chamberlain
W. W. Wotherspoon
Maj. Connor
Flent
Louis Titus
San Francisco
Cal
New Home at Providence RI Where Mr Brown Engaged in Business
Providence report notes a new home project at Providence Rhode Island tied to Mr Brown who has conducted business locally. The item records the locality and professional link, signaling development and economic activity in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Rv I
Mr. Brown
Garden Party Planned by Mrs Chandler Before Summer Trip
Mrs William Dwight Chandler Jr plans a small garden party on Friday May 29 at 5 oclock at the Richardson family hom e on Grant road Washington to bid farewell to intimate friends before she and her baby Amy depart for Concord New Hampshire to spend the summer with Lieut Chandler s parents The Snyders prepare to leave Marlborough apartment May 31 for Vermont where she will spend the season Col and Mrs Snyder will stay at the Army and Navy Club during her absence Mr and Mrs John B Agen of Seattle have arrived and stay at the Shoreham Dr and Mrs Towner will host a reception at 1204 Newton Street from 2 to 1030 PM for Catholic University students assisted by Mrs OConnor Miss March and Miss Dawson
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam Dwight Chandler, Jr
Charles W. Richardson
Taeut
Col
H. D. Snyder
Marlborough
Snyder Jantes
Vermont
Cot. Snyder
Army and Navy Club
Social Season Travelers and Guests Visit Shore and Mountains
Mrs Boland of Columbus accompanies a guest party by sea to the coast as Mrs Henry B F Macfarland travels to Cap L'Aigle in Quebec to oversee a field stone cottage project. Mr Macfarland plans to join later. Mr and Mrs Sperry arrived from Pittsburgh and will stay awhile at the Hotel. Mr and Mrs J Lesser host a 1039 Columbia Road reception next Sunday evening from 8 to 10 to celebrate their daughter Fannie's confirmation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry B. F. Macfarland
Cap A L’aigle
Murray Bay
Province of
Quebec
Mr. Macfarland
A- B. Sperry
Pittsburgh
Hotel Powhatan
Mrs. J. Lesser
Columbia ‘Road
Fannie
A Tour in the Smart World of Point Lace and Diamonds
Social notes mix royal matchmaking, racing society, and New York gatherings. Tall Campbell, the new Duke of Argyll, draws attention as his family and American heiresses scheme marriages while peers like Leinster and St Albans linger in fragile health. Belmont Park headlines, with August Belmont and society guests observed at Turf and Field Club luncheons before a Lyons France gowns showcase and a Garden City wedding linking Ralph Peters’s daughter Pauline Peters to George Walker Fierpont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misa Elspeth
Campbell
Argyll
Leinster
St. Albans
St Albana
Pauline Peters
Ralph Peters
Long Island ‘Railroad
Dorothy Peters
George Lawrence
Garden City
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Parit
G Street
de Sales
Rauscher
Shirta
Steinway
Xour
Kver
Rational Electrical Supply Co
Yale Laundry
YALE
Switzerland
Lake Mohonk
Mr. and
Mme. Pezet
Mme. de Pezet
A. Washington Pezet
Mr. Pezet
New England
John Rodgers
Miss Meyer
Julia Meyer
Countess Gizycka
Senator
Mrs. Townsend
Portland
Michigan
Isaac Stephenson
Mia
Joshua Hodgins
Margaret Hodgins
Lfeut
Nelson A. Miles
Richmond
Mrs. C. M. Hamilton
Capt
Mrs. Philp Walker
Seventeenth Street
Virginia
John Guest
The
Northumberland
X. L. Mavrendi
Alexandria
Egypt
Elmer Black
Mra
Robert Sedgwick
Lenox, Mass
Abram Dimon
Mrs. and
Miss Dawson
Joseph T. Dawson
Edina J. Dawson
M Street
Emma B. Dawson
Kenealy
Minne Holland
Agnes Gelland
Marie Rice
Annie Repetti
Irene Pole
Julia C. Wise
Mollie Hackesley
Annie Myers
Ella Smythe
Lilian C. Brady
Nan Anderson
Eva. Ronnie
Regina Watkins
Kath
Barrett
Joseph “T. Firepatriark
Willis
M."whelan
B.J. Dawson
Walia -F.tastet
J. Fred Brady
Virginia Christie
Huldekioper
Fréderic Walters Huldekoper
Eighteenth Street
Huldekoper
Frederia L
Reginald 5. Huldekoper
Jake Brown
Hester Singer
Aldia Brown
Sculley
Raymond Hoover
Mrs. Eldvinge'Jordan
Annapolis
Mies
Lucy Fitzgerald
Miss Marjory Moncur
Shoreham
West Virginia
Eleanor Ramsey Beall
Beall
Wellsburg
W. Va
Chevy Chase Seminary
John B. Agen
Seattle
EDDY
Tettenborn
White Mountains
J.H. Small & Sons
York—Walsani
Broadway
Mrs. Boland
Columbus
Ohio
Kann Sons & Co
Guimpes
Jomestia
George Bernard G
Fifth Avenue
Porn Berete
Baia
Fortune
Tall Campbell
Duke of Argyll
Finlahas
United Hunts Racing Association
Belmont Park Terminal
August
Belmont
William
Halsted Vander
Poel- Saw -Reyvourn
My. 0.G. Ni
Ames
J. Vani Alen
Newport
Van
Alen
Gtewold Jean
Thompson
Dart
Thomp
Turf and Field Club
Montaigu la Montagne
Tyler’ Morse
J. Lee Tatler
R. Horce Gallatin
James Brown and
Heraughter
Angelica Brown
Albert Eugene Gallatin
John W. Minturn
Judah Howe Sears
Vander Poel
Lyons
France
Corbellie
Mme. Poincaré
Chamber of Commerce
Department of the Rhone
Swit & Company
Washington, D
Union Trust Co
West
Heurich Brewing Co
Meyer’s Military Shop
Pennsylvania Ave
N. W
TeVelpet
Jorden's
11Th St
Capitol Bedding Co
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