Evening journal., 1893-08-22
LOCAL SOCIETY NEWS.
Where Wilmingtonians Are
Spending These August Days.
HAPPY PIoEIoKBRs AT sPBLLPoT


mantle Park with Dancing. supping
and Games.
Miss Blanche Cole and Miss Lillian
4Felemeir gave picnic in Shellpot Park
ID last evening The young people went
#put at o'clock in the afternoon and
#spent the time in games, swinging and
& *dancing Supper was served at 6 O'clock.
5Dancing was the amusement Of the
Hevening
Mrs Fellemeir, Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Stidham
q and Mrs. McKenney chsperoned the
B party.
s Among the picnickers were: Miss Mollie
s Matthews, Miss Mamie Welsh Miss
LILLIAN Pennell Miss Helen Jack Miss
& Jessie Kates Miss Lizzie Hayes,
Miss Elva Woodrow, iss Jennie
collins, Miss Emma Hayden, Miss
Elsie Blair, Miss Lizzie Townsend, Miss
Viola Belts, Miss Lola Shortlidge, Miss
Bessie Vandeick, Miss Nellie Hutchison,
of Baltimore
Charles Nelson, of New Castle; Harvey
McClade, of Dover; George Allen, Harry
McKenny, Howard Smith, Harvey Short
4 idge, Perlie Blair Clarence Vandeiclx
81 George Thomas, Edward heck, Frank
g HSipple, George Colebert. Frank Adair,
ames Grant and Howard Reid
81 Miss Loleta Carswell, of Philadelphia,
"a s the guest of her aunt, Miss Ella Wit.
tenbe on Tatnall street. Tomorrow
they will go to Kennett Square to visit
relatives.
Miss FlOssie Carrie is at Cape May.
James g. Knowles and his two daugh
(. ters, Misses Ella M. and Hattie, are
stopping at the Chalfonte, Cape May.
William Marshall and wife are at the
zbbitt, Cape May.
Miss Hattie w. Turner, of this city,
has joined the increasing group of Della
var cans sojourning at the Traymore,
Atlantic City.
Leslie v Christy, Of the Street and
Sewer Department, has returned from a
trip through Maryland.
John A. Newell, the baseball player,
who has been playing in the Southern
League this summer, has returned to his
home in this city.
Miss Annie Berman, of this city. is on
weeks vacation ia New York city.
James w Ponder returned from Mil
on yesterday and left to-day for Chicago
md the faI West.
Victor B woolley has returned from
seaford, where he has been visiting
relatives.
The marking Of the size in women's
Shoes has always been a source OF troubl e
10 the shoe dealer, because every woman
is more or less sensitive about the size
Of her pedal extremties, says q Phila.
delphia writer Some large manufac.
turers recognized this fact some time
bgo, and managed to catch a great deal
pf feminine trade by marking their shoes
half size below the right measurement.
When a beauty with a No. 3 foot
Found that she could wear one OF
The q shoes made by the firm
Df Heel q Toe, she was inwardly
pleased, and insisted on having that
kind of shoe altogether. This scheme
caused such confusion, however, that
Il has been abandoned, and the diff
Guilty has now been overcome by :
secret system which several firms hav,
agreed upon Nearly all the shoes
now sold in this market are so stamped
hat the shoemaker is permitted (,
give Miss Vanity pair that fit her
irrespective of the number that nigh
be stamped therein.
Foster Miller, of Chester, was CUES
OF his mother in ills city yesterday.
John Baker. f rmsn Of the Dove
IlaIu hoa Ia.
weeks in this city, returned tome yesteI
day.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal.
NEW YoRK, Alg % -Wilmingtonian
who registered at the New York Hotel
yesterday were: w Spencer, j. +
Wright, at the Windsor Hotel; S. P
Mitchell is in New York buying good
for Mitchell & Bash, Of Wilmington
He is stopping at the Hotel Savoy.
John McCullon. Charles McCullio
and George Crumlish have returned froi
Atlantic City where they have bee
spen ing pleasant week by the sea.
Fra, els J. Ward and Oscar Mary
have returned 20 this city from trip {
the Worlds Fair
Mrs. w. T. wcoters, of No 616 Jacl
son st Get, and her neice, Miss Edr
JumIis, are visiting friends nel
Slaughter's station and Willow Grow
in Kent county.
Miss Margaret Blskely, Of Chester.
the guest OF Mrs w. D. Palmer, in tn
city.
Mrs A. NJ. Good, of this city, is visi
ing the fami y Of r. Asher NJ. Fell,
Doylestown, Pa,
w d. Palmer and wife, of this cit
have returned home from two week
stay at Nairagansett Pier.
Mss Addie Macklin, Of this city, h
gone to Osean Grove, on a two weeb
stay.
Mrs. George Tumlin, Of this city, le
here to day for an extended visit amor
friends aud relatives at Seafor
nanf