The San Francisco call., 1908-08-22
The Smart Set

n 4NfI1AlIONO are out IOT the mar
riage of Miss Marie dAlary Fechet
and Captain Dana Willis Kilburn,
which will be celebrated at high
noon on Wednesday, September 2, at
Benicia, Cal. Major and Mrs. Eugene
Fechet are well known in San Fran
cisco, where they lived few years ago
and where their daughter was great
favorite. 1t was while in Manila last
year that the engagement of this at
tractiye girl and Captain Kilburn was
announced. Miss F'echet and her mother
returned home few months ago and
have been the guests OF Colonel and
Mrs. ]. Walker Benet at Benicia. The
wedding will take place from the Benet
home, and the daughter of the house,
Miss Laura Benet, will be the brides
only attendant. She will wear white IL
fusion over ffowered pink silk. The
bride will be gowned in a magnificent
creation of ivory satin trimmed with
rare lace Captain Kilburn and his
bride will start for the Philippines
within few days of their wedding.
The Foster wedding in San Rafael
this afternoon will be the most i'm
portant social event of the present
week, and, in fact, for some time past.
The Foster family afways has been one
of the most prominent in the state, and
her many friends are glad that Miss
Anna did not decide finally TO have only
the members of the family witness the
ceremony, as it was. at first feared she
would. About 200 guests will be pres
ent this afternoon to offer their con-
gratulations and good wishes to the
bride and bridegroom. An attractive
feature of the wedding is that it will
take place on the lawn under the trees.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. i. SHADES are estab-
lished again at their home in Palo
Alto after an enjoyable trip to the
orient. They travelled by motor almost
all the time that they were In China
and Japan.
Miss Christine Judah is spending
week or two with friends at Tahoe tav-
ern.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. p Farnsworth, with
Miss Laura Farnsworth and Miss Ger
trude Palmer, are at klamath Hot
Springs. where they will spend about
fortnight.
The merry house party which has
been enjoying such an unusually good
time at the Van Ness ranch in Napa
county for several weeks past has
broken up finally and it's members have
returned to their homes here Those
composing it were Miss Amy Brewer,
Miss Nora Brewer. Miss Merritt Reid,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Denman, Philip
Westcott, A. L. Nickerson, Frank Nc
Coppen Brewer and Thomas Van Ness.
Their time was spen, in thorough en-
joymcnt of all sorts of country sports
fishing, swimming, riding, driving and
tennis playing-and all declare that the
time sped along far too swiftly
Mr.. and Mrs. Laurance irving Scott
and Miss Margaret Newhall. who have
been motoring for the last month, have
returned to Burlingame.
Mrs. CASTOR S. Ashe was hostess on
Thursday at the Town and Country
club at a luncheon given in honor OF
Miss Madeleine Bohrmann, whose mar
riage to Clay Miller will be an i'm
portant social event of next week. The
table was decorated with combination
of purple and lavender sweet peas. and
the group that gathered around it to
do honor to the charming bride elect
was composed of Mrs. Henry Clay Mil
Ter, Mrs. Frank B. Findley, Mrs. Charles
Foster of Ross, who is an aunt of Miss
Bohrmann; Mrs. Francis Davis, Miss
Margaret Bender and Mrs. Clarence
Percy Nicholson.
Miss Margaret Bender. who has spent
the last year and half as the guest
Of her cousin. Mrs. Sloat Fassett. in
the east, has returned to her home here.
Mrs. George B. Sperry is in town
for few days from her country place
at Alta.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Scott are now at
Bartlett Springs, where they will re-
main few weeks longer, returning to
their home in San Francisco about the
middle of September
Mrs. J. Leroy Nickel will leave her
home in Menlo Park about the middle
of September. She will be accompanied
by her eldest daughter. who Will go
for her first year to an eastern finish
ings school, returning here to make her
debut next winter.
Count Klingspor, who has resided
for some time in San Francisco, where
he was attache to the Swedish lega-
tion, sailed on August is on the Kaiser
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