The San Francisco call., 1909-10-06
News Of Society
Across the Bay

AhLAND, OCT. o.-Mlss bIhei
| Amann, chosen to Join the ranks
- of the brides of the early
winter. naming Wednesday, Novem-
ber 3. as the day of her mar
riage with Lawrence Boyle The
wedding will take place at the Twenty
third street residence of the brides
parents Mr. and Mrs w e. Amann.
Miss Frances Amann will serve her sis
ter as maid of honor. The two brides
maids, Miss Alma Perkins and Miss
Gladys Amann, will complete the bridal
party Miss Amann has been well liked
among a coterie of the younger girls
and her approaching marriage is being
made the occasion of some delightful
entertaining. Boyle is young busi-
nessman of Seattle.
Only a few of the closest friends have
been asked TO witness the marriage of
David Nelson and Miss Hazel Newsom,
which will be solemnized Saturday
evening at the home of the brides pa
rents in Claremont park. The service
will be marked by extreme simplicity.
Miss Sara Nelson. a sister of the bride
groom, will be Miss Newsoms only at
tendant. After their honeymoon the
young couple will establish their home
in Oakland.
Miss Minna Conger has added an
other name 10 the long list of brides to
be who will be entertained during the
winters festivities. The announcement
of her betrothal to Charles Lewis
which was made recently, was one of
hostesses are planning elaborate affairs
in her honor. Miss Conger is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. s. B. Conger.
She has taken prominent part in the
social affairs of the younger set. Her
fiance is the son of DR.. A. N Lewis and
Mrs Lewis. The Conger and Lewis
families are widely known throughout
the state.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Chickering, Miss
Else Schilling and Miss Beatrice Simp
son will be the guests at a house party
during the early October days at the
William G. Henshaw ranch in Mendo-
elmo county.
Friday afternoon Mrs. Ralph Kirk
ham Blair will make Miss Mary Pond
the fiancee of Edgar Jones, the guest of
honor at luncheon at her home in
Alameda. Mrs. Blair has included a
dozen friends in her invitation. The
wedding of Miss Pond and Edgar Jones
a w
evening, October 90
Miss Ruth Houghton. who in Novem-
Der will become the bride of Seymour
Hall. and Miss Airline Johnson, whose
marriage with George Towne is set for
an early December date, will be the
honored guests at the elaborate lunch
con at the the Country club tomorrow,
over which Mrs. William Thornton
White will preside as hostess. More
than 40 friends have been invited. Mrs
White is herself bride of but year,
her wedding last November being the
most brilliant of the winter.
Two notable weddings will be solem-
nized tomorrow evening, both taking
place at. beautifully planned house
ceremonies, with only the families and
a few close friends as guests. At the
home Of her aunt, Mrs. H. II. Hender-
son, in Berkeley, Miss Lee Brecken-
ridge will plight her troth to Joseph
Ingram Thomas, prominent mining
man of Salt Lake Miss Elsie Cole has
chosen the sixty second anniversary of
her grandmother's wedding day for her
marriage with Bennett Routh Bates.
The engagement of Lynn Stanley and
Miss Oleta Best was announced this
afternoon at a prettily appointed lunch
con at WHICH the Oii cACSb Ch-
tertained dozen close friends at the
family home in San Leandro. Miss
Rest is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Best. Stanley is a young busi-
nessman of San Jose. Plans for the
wedding have been perfected for the
evening of October 10.
The marriage win be quietly cele-
brated at the suburban home of the
Bests.
Miss Alice Locke will attend the bride
as maid of honor.
Robert Pitcher. a prominent Joliet,
Ill. merchant, is now visiting Miss
Birdie Pitcher at her East Oakland
home, with his wife. They will leave
shortly for Los Angeles, and from there
they will proceed home by slow stages,
visiting various other cities on their
way.
ALAMEDA. Oct 5-Mr. and Mrs
George Frier of 2117 Santa Clara ave-
me celebrated the fortieth anniver-
| sary of their wedding this afternoon.
Many friends called to rejoice with the
couple and to extend congratulations.
Mr. and Mrs Frier were married in
Toronto Can, and have lived in Ala
media for. 80 years. They have eight
lchildren. Among the guests today were
! Mrs William Harstedt. Miss Katherine
lanes. Mrs Robert F'rier Mrs. Mani
fold. Mrs. Cram, Mrs. Bird, Mrs. c. H.
white. Mrs Louis Lutticken, Miss Mat
tie Bacon. Mrs. Harry IIderton and Miss
Alice Gaffett.
MAN BURNS IN ALcoHoL-Tacoma. oct o.