Evening star., 1909-06-13
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| interested will be celebrated at $50 O'Clock
| this evening in the home of Mr.. David
| Garland Whitehead when his sister. Miss
Ella Guy Whitehead, will be given in mar
| riage to DR. Theodore Hough of the Uni
versity of Virginia The Rev. Dr. L. T.
| Whitehead of Baltimore will officiate.
| Mrs. Henry D. Perkins of Baltimore will
| be matron of honor and DR.. Robert p.
| Bigelow of Boston best man. The only
other attendants will be the ribbon hold
| ers, little Frances Miller and Robert
| Housh Brown. a reception for the i'm
! mediate family will be given after the
| ceremony: Then DIR. and Mrs. Hough
will sail next week to remain abroad until
| october !, when they will have their resi-
| dence at the University of Virginia, where
Dr. HouSh occupies the chair of physi-
oloSy.
| telegram has been received by Dr.
| George Ross of Richmond announcing the
| marriage of his brother, Judge Erskine
Mayo Ross of Los Angeles, Cal, and Mrs
Ida Hancock Tuesday, June 1. The tele-
| gram aroused special interest here, where
| Judge Ross lived after his graduation
| from the Virginia Military institute and
| his service with the cadet battalion at
the battle Of New Market during the war
| between the states. He moved to Califor-
| MIA in 1863 and entered the law office of
his uncle, MIR. Cameron Erskine Thorn,
formerly of Virginia. When quite young
| man he was elected to the supreme state
bench and now occupies the position of
| United States circuit judge of the court
| of appeals. He intends, as his friends
| here are pleased to note, to return to Vlr-
| sinia. after an absence of twenty-five
years, in the early autumn in company
with his bride and his son, Robert Ers-
| kline Ross.
Miss Roberta NJ. Crawford and Miss
| Julia G. Arenspaugh will leave for New
| York Monday and sail Wednesday on the
| Germanla for an extended tour.
Mrs. JANUS B. Morris and her niece,
| Miss Elizabeth Kent King will sail by
the Mauretania Wednesday to spend the
| summer in England.
Miss Katherine Allen of Erie, Pa, who
has been In Florida and other southern
| points during the winter and spring,
George Ambrose Alien of Richmond,
leaving yesterday for home.
Richmond and Petersburg people are
| much pleased over the social success of
a Virginia woman, Mrs. cambridge
Spottswood of Petersburg, who has been
| in London since the opening of the sea-
son, and was recently invited by Mrs.
| Paget to meet King Edward VII at her
house, Coombe Warren, Kingston on
| Thames. Mrs. Spottswood. who Is very
| lovely and accomplished woman, has as
| a souvenir of her acquaintance with the
| king a handsome diamond ornament. he
| having lost bet on the Derby to her.
Miss Polly Robins. who has been spend
ing some months in New York city, will
return to Richmond this month. Mr..
and Mrs. William Gray have opened their
| country home, Northheld, in Cumberland
county and will occupy it until late au-
tumn.
Mr.. and Mrs James Ashley Moncure
and family and Mrs Herbert Gray are
spending June with relatives in Cumber-
land county.
Mrs. Robert Page Grymes is with her
daughter, Mrs. Henley, at Winterpock,
Chesterfield county. She will be Joined
i in July by Lieut.. Robert +. Wright, u.
S. N, and Mrs. Wright, who will come
from the Pacific coast TO spend the sum-
mer in Virginia and be for a part of it at
Tappahannock, Essex county.
Mrs. George Fisher formerly of Pow
} hatan county, but now of Richmond, an
nounces the engagement of her daughter
Agnes Caroline to Mr.. Norfleet Saunders
Smith, the wedding to take place late In
June. The engagement is also announced
of Miss Louise Swami, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John c. Swami, to Mr.. ]. Frank
Davis. The date of the marriage is fixed
for June 80.
Little Miss Irene Langhorne Gibson of
New York city, who has been the guest in
Richmond OF her cousin. Miss Nancy
Perkins. on West Franklin street, was
guest of honor at a theater party given
by Miss Martha Wall this week Mrs
Garrett B. Wall chaperoned the party and
In the box were Misses Gibson. Perkins
Sally Wilson Gordon, Ethel Scott Cabell
and Emily Thomason. The Misses Glib
son, accompanied by Miss Nancy Perkins
left yesterday for the Gibson summer
home, Islesboro, on the Maine coast.
A pretty episode of the week for a num-
ber of Richmond girls was a banquet
given in the dining room of Henry Clay
/ Inn, Ashland, Wednesday evening by the
Kappa Alphas of Randolph Macon Col
lege The dining room was decorated with
. magnolia blossoms and crimson roses and
hung with college pennants and state
flags. Pretty souvenirs given guests We're
engagement books in dull green suede
emblazoned with the fraternity insignia
and the letters K. A. in crimson and gold
Toasts were proposed and college songs
sung during the progress of the banquet
and sixty guests were seated at small ia
bles around the center where the toast.
master stood.
Miss Peachy Harrison and Miss Lula
!, G. Winston, two of the most attractive
and accomplished young women in the
Richmond College circle. have taken their
Il. A. and b. S. degrees at the college
and won scholarships emitting them to
course at Johns Hopkins University
next year. Miss Nellie Birdsong, who
has been studying at Columbia Univer-
sty, New York city, has won honors
there that will enable her to complete her
course at Columbia next year. Miss Bird
song will represent her university in the
students conference to be held this month
at Silver bay, Lake George.
The wedding OF Miss Alma Estelle
Wright and Mr.. William Finley Blair of
Greensboro, N. c., was celebrated
Wednesday evening in the home of the
. bride, the Rev. Ryland knight officiating.
The bride, goWned in a handsome travel
ing costume and carrying a shower Of Ill
les of the valley. came in with her broth
er. MIR. William G.. Wright. Mr.. Henry T.
Blair was best man and Mrs. Waverly
Scott, wearing white over pink with a
bouquet of pink sweet peas, was dame of
honor.
In the homo of the Rev and Mrs
Joshua S. Hunter of Ashland Thursday
evening the wedding of their daughter
/, Margaret to DIR. 1vey +. Lewis was cele-
brated, the Rev. ]. Wiley Bledsoe and
the Rev. W. H. Edwards officiating
There were no attendants. The bride
wore white satin trimmed with lace and
pearls. Her veil was caught with orange
blossoms. DR.. and Mrs. Lewis will re.
main north during the summer and. after
September 15 be at home in Ashland. DR.
Lewis has the chair of biology in Ran.
dolph-Macon College.