Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-14
annual event OF much interest in that sec
ton of the state.

annual event OF much interest in that sec
| ton of the state.
| Miss Helen Stevens of Richmond. daugh-
| ter of Mr.. George w. Stevens. has been as
| sisted by her friend. Mrs. Morris of I'LL
| nois in devising means of amusement and
| diversion for a party of young people as
| senbed by Miss Stevens invitation at Vir-
| ginia Manor. her fathers country place in
Rockbridge county. Among the guests were
| Misses Helen Tanner. Louise Selden and
| Mary Mouton of Richmond, Miss Boyian
| of Raleigh. N. c., Miss Goodwin of Fincas-
| tie, Va. Mr.. Morris of Illinois. Mr.. Richard
Saunders of Richmond. Cadets Beckner,
| Poague, Nichols, Riley and Fraser of the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Messrs.
! James Cecil. Paul Stevens and George w.
Stevens. jr.. of Richmond.
| Much interest is felt in Richmond regard
| ing the wedding on July "a of Miss Louise
Baskerviile. daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Burgwyn of Bristol Va. The wedding
will be celebrated in Boydton, Va Miss
Matte Baskerville of Richmond, the cousin
and Messrs. w. S. Drewry and Glessner
! Harrison will be included in the members
| of the groomS party.
Mr.. William McCreery Ramsay of West
over, Va, reached home from California
| last week extremely i'll. He is now at
private hospital in Richmond He and Mrs.
Ramsay, as owners of one of the most beail-
| tiful of the James river homes and dis
pensers of Virginia hospitality after a
| lordly old-fashioned regime, are known
widely here and elsewhere through the
state, where news of Mr.. Ramsay's illness
will be heard with the sincerest regret.
Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Dooley have
closed Maymont. their beautiful subur-
ban home near Richmond, and will spend
the remainder of the summer travelling
throughout the north.
Judge and Mrs. Beverly T. Crump are
enjoying the midsummer season at Mount
Airy, the ancestral home of the Tayloes,
Mrs. Crump's family, in Richmond county,
Va.
Mrs Thomas L. Bocock of Richmond will
be the hostess of Beauvoir, the Virginia
Daughters of the Confederacy building at
home of the president, looking out upon
August l.
The Misses Tyler, daughters of President
Lyon Gardiner Tyler of William and Mary
College at Williamsburg, Va. are hostesses
of a house party during this week. Inc
home of the president looking out upon
the green of the college campus. was used
by CORVALLIS for headquarters shortly be-
fore the siege of Yorktown it having been
built in 1872. Being accidentally burned
by the French on their way 10 Yorktown,
it was rebuilt by Louis XVI out of his
private eXchequer. 1t is still substan-
tial brick structure
IS Nancy Patton, the pretty young
Mrs. Patton of this city, has just returned
from Cuba, where she has been for some
time, the guest of schoolmate. Miss
Patton thinks Cuba a delightful place to
visit and her experiences there incline her
to consider Cubans the gayest and most
courteous people in the world.
Mr. and Mrs. F. D. HotchkisS have
opened their country home on Ivy road,
near the University of Virginia. Miss
Elizabeth Hotchkiss has a bevy of young
friends with her usual, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry S. Hotchkiss and little son are
spending some time members of this
pleasant household.