The record-union., 1899-10-01

her home in st. Louis on Monday night.
While here she has made many friends,
who regret her departure.
Mrs. Clark Croker of San Francisco
spent few days of this week with her
daughter, Mrs Robert McCreary.
Among our young ladies who con-
template spending the winter months
in the East are Miss Adelaide Upson,
Taylor.
The first meeting of this new school
year Of the Theta Chi Fraternity was
at the home of George Beard on Sat
urday night. After attending to 5usi-
ness and laying out new work for the
coming year, a tempting supper was
served.
Two of the Alpha Sigma girls of our
High School, who have recently entered
the University of California at Berke-
ley, have been made members of two
OF the fraternities-Miss Kate Willis of
the Gamma Phi Beta and Miss Gwen
dolyn Mathews of the Kappa Kappa
Gamma
w. F. George and wife spent a few
days this week in enjoying the cool
breezes of San Francisco.
William Briggs left the first of the
week for Harvard, where he will enter
on his Junior year.
Mrs. P. N. Hawby of Oakland IS
visiting Mrs. G. w. Locke of this city,
With the coming brown days Of fall
are the weddings of several of our fair
daughters. Already Cupid is making
inroads on the younger set. His darts
seem to be flying to the right and TO
the left, but truly this time we hear
his shaft glanced straight to the
right"
Mrs. o. Harvey of Gait accompanied
by her daughter Genevieve, will pass
through this city the first of the week
for New York to attend the wedding
of Charles Bentley.
The engagement is announced OF
Charles M Campbell and Miss Bertha
Dawley. Their wedding tour will be
spent abroad, and possibly will extend
as far as Egypt and the Holy Land.
| Miss Nellie Siddons is now spending
a few weeks visiting friends in San
| Francisco.
Miss Ev,o;Ixr nyI,o,,opcop hepO
spending a part of the past month as
the guest Of Mrs. r. 1. Bentley at
| Sausalito.
! Miss Lizzie Glide expects to leave di-
rectly after her brothers wedding for
an extended trip East.
| Dr. and Mrs. c. C. Simmons spent
few days the past week in San Fran
cisco.
Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Anna Yule
are visiting friends in San Francisco
| Mrs. S. B. Wood is up from San
Francisco to attend the State Conven-
ton Of the w. C. 7. U. this week
Misses Grace Peterson and Lily
Geasslin have been visiting friends
for the past month, the guests Of Miss
c. Stopped. They leave for Decota to-
day.
On Saturday afternoon, at the resi-
dence Of her parents, a delightful fare
we'll party was given by Alma Soule to
her little friends, Caroline and Mildred
Hatch, whose parents returned the fol-
lowing Wednesday to their old home
in Vermont. The guests were: Caro-
line and Mildred Hatch, Carl Miller.
Meta Pearl, Eddie Walker, Ruth
Walker, Pip Walker Harold and Earl
Curtis, Agnes Newman, Millie and Ma
bel Webber, Joe Knowles and Angie
Bonner.
The engagement is announced of Fl.
Taubner Goethe, a we'll known and
popular young business man of Sacra-
mento, and Edna P. Johnson, daughter
of Professor Joseph w. Johnson, Prin-
cipla of the Hardness Grammar
School. Miss johnson is an accom-
plished young woman, widely known
in the community, a pronounced favor
ite, an ardent lover of music and
well-known instrumentalist, her per-
formances on the violin having graced
many local entertainments.
The eightieth birthday of Judge Hen
ry Starr was celebrated in San Fran
cisco last week, September 24th. Judge
and Mrs. Starr went down to spend
week with their daughter, Mrs. S. B.
Wood, and family. After a big birth
day dinner the rest of the relatives in
San Francisco, to the number of tWen-
ty-five, gave them a genuine surprise
party Violin, cornet and piano solos.
duets, vocal and instrumental solo by
two Of the ladies and two gentlemen
and light refreshments, with hearty
congratulations, made the evening a
very pleasant one. The Judge is a re-
markably well-preserved man for his
eighty years, and boasts of not an un-
sound tooth, nor a bald spot on his
head, nor a wrinkle in his face, nor
corn on his feet He came to Cali
fornia in the fall of 50, and has been
District Attorney, City Justice, mem
ber of the LEGISLATURE. He has been