The Morris County chronicle., 1908-05-19
SOCIETY HAPPENINGS.

Members or society were out IN full
force at the first dance of the spring
season at the Whippany River Club
last Friday evening. Before the ball,
dinners we're given by DR.. Leslie d.
Ward and Mrs. Herbert e. Ward,
small tables being set in the ball room
for about eighty-tiye persons, the room
being cleared for dancing at eight
O'Clock. Decorations were dogwood
boughs, palms, orchids and roses. The
guests were formally received by Mrs.
r. II. Williams, Mrs. Gustav Kissel,
Mrs. B. Nicoll and Mrs. Dadmun.
Guests at Mr.. Wards dinner we're Mr.
and Mrs. Benjamin Nicoll, Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Ii. Williams, Rudolph
H. KiSsel, Francis HI. Kinnicut, Ken
meth Schley, Mr.. and Mrs. George E..
Dadmun, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert D..
Foote, Mr.. and Mrs. w. North Duane,
Mr.. and Mrs. John f. Dryden, Mr..
and Mrs. e. A. Day, Colonel and Mrs.
A. r. Kuser, Mr.. and Mrs. Ridley
Watts, Miss Jane Swords, Miss Ellen
Bryce, Harry E. Hoy, Mr.. and Mrs. r.
v. Lindabury, Mr.. and Mrs r. A.
Grannis. Jr., Walter B. Wood, Mr.
and Mrs. Wynant D. Vanderpool, Mr..
and Mrs. f. r. Dryden, Miss Hopkins,
Mrs. Wakefield Sherwood, DR.. and
Mrs. @. NJ. White, Uzal H. McCarter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncey G. Parker, r.
Suffern Taller, Frank Murphy, Jr.,
James Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Henry p
Phipps, Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott Smith,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar B. Ward, Miss
Marie Bryce, Miss Helen Shelton,
George J. Little, Miss Lucy Linda
bury, Mrs. Oscar Coles Ferris, Miss
Marion Swords, Miss Pilot. Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. E. Ward Mr.. and Mrs. Dudley
Olcott, second Dr. and Mrs. d. Hun
ter McAlpin, Mr.. and Mrs. John Muir
ray Forbes, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. q. Pal
mer, Mr.. and Mrs. George G. Henry,
Mrs. Ripley, Judge and Mrs. e. H.
Gary, Mr.. and Mrs. John /. Water
bury, Mr., and Mrs. T. H. Powers
Farr, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas A. Edison,
Chancellor and Mrs. Pitney and Frank
lin Murphy.
Miss Nina Howland, who has resided
on James street for many years died
last Saturday of heart trouble. She
had been i'll since last fall and spent
the winter in the South seeking bet
ter health. a sister, Mrs. Ford, sur
wives her.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Mex. Twombly en-
tertained house party over the week
end at their country place, near Madi-
son. Their guests attended the dance
given last Friday night at the Whip
pany River Club.
Herman Behr has sailed for Europe
He has translated a book of English
poems into the German language
lately.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Macculloch
Miller have returned to "The Knoll
for the season.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Claflin will re.
open their Morristown house within
the next week or ten DAYS.
Mrs. Thomas Mast expects to here,
after make her home in New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dudley Olcott, ID, are
back in their Normandie Park sum
mer home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis A. Thebaud arr
! in Europe.
Dr.. and Mis-. William Elmer Whee
lock will go to Easthampton for tht
summer on or about June l.
Mrs. Frederic WOOD and family eX
pect to go to Europe early in July tt
be gone until autumn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel WinShip, for
mer residents of Morristown, are now
living in Hempsted, Long Island.
| Everything is aonormably quiet a.
present in Morristown society circles
The bridge tournament for the ben
eft of the Speedwell Society will b,
given at the Whippany River Club OF
Wednesday.
Clergymen of the Newark Diocese O
the Episcopal Church Will be enter
tained at dinner at the Morris County
Golf Club on May 20.
The winners at the Tuesday Bridge
Club last week were Mrs. II. s. Loud
Mrs. e. S. Kip and Mrs. Granville M
White. First and second prizes were
silk stockings and the third prize hand
kerchiefs.
Miss Coghill entertained a party o.
sixteen at luncheon at her home il
Normandie Park last Tueseay.