Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
Richmond Society.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

special correspondence OF Inc STAR.
| RICHMOND. Va. August %. 1908.
| A most interesting announcement has
just been made by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Catesby Jones in relation to the en-
gagement of their daughter. Rosalie
Fountaine. to Mr.. John Grant Armi-
stead of this city. The wedding will
| take place in November at ST. Pauls
Episcopal church. and is to be a pretty
affair. Miss Jones made her debut two
seasons ago in Richmond and is a
bright and charming young girl She
is the granddaughter of Col. Edmund
Fountaine of Hanover county. president
of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad when
it was the Virginia Central, and owner
of a splendid estate in the Old Dominion.
The prettiest girls in Richmond are to
attend the bride-to-be, whose tiance is
also a descendant of an old and famous
family.
With the close of August many of the
matrons and maids belonging to society
circles here, who have taken part in the
gayeties at White Sulphur Springs and
rendered the season phenomenally at
tractive this year. will begin their pre-
parations for return home or an adjourn
ment to country houses where house
parties will be all the vogue during
september MI. ana MIS- lnOmdS M.
rutherford and their daughter. Miss
GWendolyn. will go to Virginia Hot
Springs. to spend several weeks Mrs
William Ruffin Cox and Gen. Cox
have been at the Hot Springs since the
first of August. Mr.. and Mrs. George
Cole Scott and Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Blu
ford have been occupying the Lauier
Dun cottage at this Virginia spa since
the return of Mr.. and Mrs. Scott from
Europe. last July.
Invitations have been received from
Mrs. Edward Bowdwitch of Albany, n. Y.
for the marriage Of her daughter. Mysie.
to Mr.. Otway Byrd. of upper Brandon on
the James river. The marriage will take
place September 8 at Pointe au Pic Can
ada. where Mrs. Bowdwttch has country
residence. Upper Brandon has been put
in beautiful order for the reception of the
bride and the river community is. much
pleased at the prospect of her spending
several months Of each year among them
Mr.. Byrd Is descendant of Col William
Byrd of Westover. and upper Brandon be-
longs to the group of famous houses that
have given to James river and the ad
jacent country in Virginia the name of
the American Adriatic."
George county, are entertaining house
party. the members of which include Mrs
Bernard Guest. Mrs. John Guest. Miss
Mary Guest. Miss Courtney Crump and
bcEudTQ 1OOD Oh HlcnHOnQ, MISS
Lila Alvey of Hagerstown. Md; Miss
Carol Preston Of Washington. D. c.. Mr..
John Graves, Miss Barbara F. White and
Miss Nancy Darling of King George.
Mr. Beverly Harvie. who has Just recov-
cred from a severe illness In Cincinnati
which occasioned much anxiety to his fam
lily and friends in Richmond. is spending
some time, accompanied by his wife and
little boy, with Mrs. Harvie's parents, Mr.
anil Mrs Rnhorf Cha NH RI a Of
Park avenue. Mr.. Harvie's mother and
sister. Mrs James Harvie and Mrs. James
E. Cannon, who have been travelling
abroad during the summer. are expected
to be in Richmond about the first of
September.
Mrs. Swanson will return from spending
month at her country place. Eldon, near
Chatham, Va. Monday next. The gov
ernor is already here, and the mansion
which has been undergoing renovation and
Improvement will at once be thrown open
Mrs. ]. Taylor Ellyson who was severely
injured by fall at Hot Springs. Va.
in July. has not yet sufficiently recovered
to be brought home. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Willard. who have been touring England
and the continent of Europe during the
summer, landed in New York Friday and
reached Richmond today.
Bishop Beverly D. Tucker of the diocese
of southern Virginia reached Norfolk last
Tuesday from London. England. where he
had been attending the Lambeth confer
ence of bishops of the church. Mr..
Beverly d. Tucker. jr. who has just
completed a three years course at OK
ford University, England where he held
the CeAl Rhodes scholarship. accom-
panied his father home His ordination
as priest of the Episcopal Church will be
an interesting event of tomorrow in ST.
Paul's Church. Norfolk. He will at once
enter upon the duties of his first charge
at the Episcopal Church of Boydton Va.