Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1893-08-03
LOCAL SOCIETY NEWS.
Charles Cotton Will Give a
Party on the Delaware.
WILL 60 ON TIE TUG MAJESTIC

WILL 60 ON THE TUG MAJESTIC
Each Fellow Invited Has the Privilege of
Taking His Best Girl AIOng-MaDy Go
to various Seaside Resorts-o Others Take
Their Ways Towards the Big Fair.
Select Councilman William Finley
Brown, well-known in this city and
state. is one of the members of the Phil |
adelphia Councilmanic party which went
on a clam bake jaunt to Narragansett
Pier and Boston last evening. Mr.. Brown
accompanied the Delaware Legislature to
Chincoteague Island this spring.
Cards are out for the wedding of Miss
Alice Johnson and Letter-Carrier Lewis
w. Scheu, on Wednesday, August 16, t
$50 o'clock, in Calvary p E. Church,
Third and Washington streets.
Miss Madge Swift, of Philadelphia, is
the guest of Mrs James II. Mehaffy.
Misses Annie Sweeney and Mary
Kelley are sojourning for two weeks at
Atlantic City.
The Patriotic Order Sons of America
will give novel excursion to Colchester
Beach on August 16. They will 60
down the Delaware river TO Delaware
City and then through the Delaware and
Chesapeake canal to the Chesapeake bay
The novelty Of the excursion is creating
an amount of interest among the friends
of tn order.
Mice Tf1,o1 8 =.
guest of friends in this city.
Miss Bonnibell Hume and Miss Helen
Hume, of this city ar, with friends in
Menva, Delaware county, Pa,
Miss Reba Lloyd has returned to her
home in this city from a three.weeks'
visit to Bellevue, Nd.
Miss Ida Beach, of Seaford, is visiting
friends here.
Misses Halle and Nellie Lloyd, of No
pa West Fourth street are visiting
friends and relatives near Sudlersville,
Md.
Captain and Mrs. Edwin Kershaw and
two daughters, Bessie and Mamie, Of
this city, will soon start on a six weeks
stay in Lewes anu Rehoboth.
The last entertainment of the auxill-
any course of the New Century Club will
be given to morrow evening. The course
numbered eight entertainments, for each
of which an excellent program was pre-
pared. The last of the series will be a
musicale and the cantata, Songs of All
Naffora - will no civ brr1 onn1 kortr
talent.
There was a solemn and bea utiful
service at the Convent Of the I'M
maculste Heart in West Chester yester-
day morning when ten young women re
ceived the full habit Of the Order of the
Immaculate Heart, aud thirteen made
their profession and were gilen the
white veil Of the novitiate. There were
present many clergymen, and a large
number of the relatives and friends OF the
young women Rev. DR. Kennedy. of the
Seminary Of st Charles Borromeo. was
celebrant Of the mass, and be was as.
sisted by Rev. John F. Herman, Of
West Chester.
The ceremonies were begun by the
can idates vending their way in silent
procession into the chapel. Seating
themselves before the altar, each one
made her profession in clear voice.
The novices were clad in black, with
white wells, while those who professed
wore the full white bridal dress, typical of
brides Of Christ The latter, at the close of
the ceremony were given the black habit
and white veil, and the former were made
full sisters by the exchange of the white
veil for the black one. After kneeline
at the altar where the customary cues
tions were put and answered as to their
knowledge OF the step there and then
tskeo, eacl one read the written
VOWS of poverty, chastity and obedience.
Then golden ring was placed upon the
third finger of the right hand of each
and the black veil upon the head fol
lowed.
Rev Dr. Kennedy addressed the YOUNG
ladies. He reviewed the darker side oil
the picture which the days observances
would ever BE- before the minds of the
participants. touching very pathetically
upon the worldly ties of friendship and
love which are forever severed, tn,
separation from home and friends mos
dear
Mass terminated the exercises. aut
the relatives aud friends were at lib
erty to have social intercourse with tb
The ouly young woman Of this cit,
who took the veil was Miss Lizzie Mui
ligsn. She will be known as Siste
Mary Geraldine, Miss Ellie McCol
Tough, of West Grove, Pa, few mile
north Of this city, assumed the ma ne o
Sister Mary Andrea
Rev. Dennis j. Flynn was the onl
Wilmington priest present.
Miss Sallie L Croes and Miss BERT
Drummond. of this city, are visiting rels
tives near Newark.
Miss Mary Cassidy NJ sses Maggie an
Nellie Bourke al Miss Carrie PetIicrew
are enjoying frolicking among the wave
of Atlantic City.
Miss Florence Martin of PHILADELPHIA
is visiting relatives in this city.
Fifth Auditor of the U. S. Treasur
Thomas Holcomb W in town to day.