Washington Society Dinners for Bride Elect Miss Wilmer
Complimentary dinners and theater plans in Washington honor Miss Rebekah Wilmer and her bridal attendants. Residents Draper and Draper host at their K Street home with Mr Thropp also giving a bachelor dinner. Guests include Mrs Taft and Mme van Rappard with a flurry of social events noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iss Rebekah Wilmer
William F. Draper
Margaret Draper
Washington
New York
K Street
Rebekah Wilmer
Thomas Alexander Scott Thropp
Fashion notes and social tea events in Washington society
A Washington column describes outfits including a velvet hat and magpie colored suit with lace, noting Mrs Gipson’s white flower. It covers Miss Cryder hosting a musicale at her N street home with Florence Coombe and Miriam Larking performing, tea by Mrs Ridgely, and social plans of several titled guests visiting New York, Fort Myer, and Portland during the Christmas season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cryder Wos
N Street
Florence Coombe
Miriam Larking
Walter Bruce Howe
Mildred Rider
William Barret Ridgely
Howard Reeside
New York
Elizabeth Reeside
Washington
Morgan Couple Plans New York Opera Trip For Weekend
Dr and Mrs Gerry Morgan head to New York on Thursday to attend the opera and spend the weekend with friends Ensign Richard Evelyn Byrd on duty aboard the Dolphin has returned to Washington navy yard and is joined by Mrs Byrd Mrs Byrd has been visiting her mother Mrs Joseph Ames in Norfolk Gen and Mrs John A Johnston will not stay at their Massachusetts Avenue home but will occupy an apartment in New York for the winter
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. L. Willard
New York
Washington
Miss Sweet
Norfolk
Richmond
Mrs. Scriven
Gerry Morgan
Richard Evelyn Byrd
U.S. N
Dolphin
Washington Navy Yard
Mrs. Byrd
Joseph Ames
John A. Johnston
Massachusetts Avenue
Joan Ohl
Army and Navy
Edwin A. Warfield
Maryland
Fidelity and Deposit Company
Baltimore
Waldorf-Astoria
Warsaw
Poland
America
Intercollegiate sports gains names linked to presidents
Yale and Princeton recruit high profile athletic prospects from notable families. Yale’s Charley Taft and Newell Garfield, and Princeton’s Dick Cleveland, are poised to bolster varsity teams with football and baseball potential. Plus social notes on Edwin A. Warfield and Count Ledochowski family movements and a Socialist Sunday school program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arfield
Cleveland
Taft
Newell Garfield
James A. Garfield
Charley” Taft
Wiliam Howard Taft
Yale
Dick” Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Princeton
Tigers
Harvard
Washington
Charley" Taft
Charley
Old EU
Lnto
Garfield
Notable Society Figures Attend Services and Outings in Hot Springs
Special to The Washington Post from Hot Springs Virginia on November 21 reports society members attending church services. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt participated in church events, while Bancroft, Ludlam, and others enjoyed automobile trips to White Sulphur Springs for luncheon. Socials included game dinners at Oak Grove and luncheons at Fassifern Farm, with many society figures observed riding, driving, and socializing around town. Gov Clifford B. Willison and wife from Connecticut also visited Bridgeport after the season’s civic activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Hot Springs
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Presbyterian Church
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Episcopal Church
ED. Bancroft
David Ludlam
White Sulphur Springs
Robert Batchellor
Robert Stowbradley
Rob Nert M. Burnett
Oak Grove
F. T. Chandler
Victor Metzler
Fassifern Farm
Samuel Powell
Thomas Ives Hare Powell
Newport
William J. Sturgis
Charles Brinton Goxa
Ofr
F. M. Ferrin
Beatrice Gordon Pratt
Bankers at White Sulphur Springs Golf Links
A party of 75 bankers and brokers arrived by special train from Cincinnati and coal country, with members from New York Philadelphia Baltimore Boston and other cities. They visited golf courses and the surrounding mountains while awaiting Thanksgiving. Notables include De Forest Hicks Seligman and Osborne. Sir Richard Crawford and Lady Crawford joined Lorenzo Semple for a weeks stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
White Sulphur Springs
New York
Charleston
W. Va
Cincinnati
West Virginia
Beverly Bogert
W. W. Miller
Morris Parker
George S. Coe
de Forest Hicks
Joseph L. Seligman
Norman Ream
Charles R Miller
Philadelphia
George H. Stickney
Francis King Carey
Philip Poe
Baltimore
de Courtney Forbes
Boston
James L. Phillips
J. Breckinridge Bayne
A. Robert Elmore
A. F Hopkins
Washington
S. Reynolds Hitt
Robert S Hitt
Mme. S. Rougot de Lisle
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Paris
William and Mary Dining Room
G Street
Eleventh Street
T. Pi Culley & Sonclusive
Tith St. NW
Wash
D. C
Globe “Wernicke
F Street
Coats
Rosa Colla
Cade
Rok B Fer
SMOOT
Ff Jellete Fare
SrReEr Nw
Schmectie Bros. Co
7Th St. N. W
Heller’s Hair Store
Seventh Street
N. W
H. Abramson
Abramson
N. Ww
Four Leaf Clover Creamery
James F. Oyster
9Th & Pa. Ave
John A. Gottsmann & Co
Pierce Street
Smart
William Howard Taft
Patten
Eugene Hale
New Haven
Mme. van Rappard
Mlle. van Rappard
Netherlands
Champ Clark
Allentown
Humphrey Redfield
Secretary of Commerce
Mrs. Redfield
Amherst College
Gizycka
Charles B. Carter
Marie
Patton Buchanan
U. S WN
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
C Edward Carter, Jr
Beverly Price Evans
Virginia O'Neil
Margaret Pettus
Walter T. Cahill
Meriden
Conn
Elizabeth Edmonds
Frank Edmonds
Wallace B. Phillips
Henry Buchanan
C. Edward Carter
A. O Thomas
Donald Boyden
John Fox
U. S
Michigan
Elvie Eliott
Kilbourne Place
Carter
Eliott
John Dyer Howard
Preston Gibson
England
Flora Wilson
Robert Russell
the Highlands
Spain
William Miller Collier
Auburn, N. Y
Arvers
Mra
Philip H. Torrey
Don Carlos
Mra. Torrey
Dion Williams
Peking
China
Socialist Party
Socialist Sunday School
Old Masonic Temple
Ninth and
F Streets
Mother Goose
Lapor
Julia Parks
Grace Watt
Anna Wexler
Swift & Company
Washington, D. C
Kann Sons & Co
STH BT. and
PENNE
AVE
Copenhagen
Byron
Delft
Inter
Oe. EU
Society
Clifford B. Wilson
Bridgeport, Conn
Coal Country
14Th St. N. W
Ieee
Claus
Leos
St. N. W
Julius A. West
Pianos
FSS
AE. Cunningham & Co
Mammoth Cloak and Suit House
Highlands
Wmmectiont Avenue
California
George 4. Mills
Whene
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