The San Francisco call., 1909-08-13
News Of Society
Across the Bay


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! NAKLAND, Aug. 12.-Mrs. Florence
IL ] Kelley of New York, a woman
distinguished for her brilliant at
tainments and broad mind, will be
made the guest of honor Saturday in
Piedmont park, when the women of the
suffrage amendment league hold their
! first regular meeting of the year. Mrs
Agnes Ray, president of the organiza-
ton which is showing so vigorous
growth, and the officers associated with
her have sent out a large number of
| invitations to those who, they think
might be interested In their work, and
! areNasking all such women to partici-
pate with them in the weeks important
| gathering. An al freseo basket lunch
| con will be served at half after II un-
der the palms, the members of the
league furnishing coffee. No program
/ is arranged for this informal hour The
public is included in the invitation TO
Mrs. kelleys talk, which will be given
| in the eucalyptus amphitheater at 2
o'clock, the subject announced being
| Equal Suffrage-the Great Remedy"
Aside from the current interest which
! is being manifested in the movement
Mrs. Kelley is woman we'll worth
hearing, and in her frank and fearless
way has won the admiration of a wide
circle of friends during the weeks
which she has spent IN California this
year. She is secretary of the national
| Consumers league, with headquarters
in New York, a trustee of the national
child labor commission and vice presi-
dent of the national equal suffrage as
sociation.
Captain Martin Brigham and Mrs.
Brigham will reopen their Thirty
second street home August Is. They
will return to town after 10 weeks
spent in an attractive camp near Cas-
tella. Mrs. Mott and her two gifted
daughters completed the personnel of
the little family party.
The wedding of Miss Maryland Price
will be an interesting event of the
early September In the few weeks
which will elapse before her marriage
day the young bride elect will be the
inspiration for number of delightful
affairs, the more elaborate of which
will be the large reception over which
Miss Maud Goodwin will preside as
hostess later in the month. Miss Price
| is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace
Price of East Oakland, a girl who is
favorite among a little coterie OF
| friends
Mrs. George Martin was the motif for
one of the elaborate affairs of the
week today, when her sister in law,
Mrs. Charles D. Bates Jr., entertained
at bridge at her attractive home in
Adams point. About 40 close friends of
Mrs. Martin were included in the hours
pleasure which was rounded out by the
discussion of a dainty supper For the
last several years Mrs. Martin has pre-
sided as mistress over one of the beau
tiful homes in Berlin. Her visit to
California as the house guest of her
mother, Mrs. Charles D. Bates, is be-
| ing made the occasion of some delight
fully informal entertaining by those
friends who knew her as the charming
daughter of the Bates household.
Miss Grace Wastell, whose marriage
to James Scott of San Francisco will
interest society early in September, will
be the inspiration for a gathering of
friends Saturday afternoon, August 21,
for which Mrs. George Perry has sent
out cards. Miss Wastell has chosen to
be married from her brothers home in
Portland and with her father and sis
ter will leave August 26 for the north,
her wedding being named for Wednes-
day of the following week.
Miss Adele Ehrenberg will be a Tues
day hostess, asking several friends TO
be her guests quite informally for the
afternoon. Miss Alice Maurer whose
betrothal was announced early in the
winter, is inspiring the occasion Miss
Maurers marriage with DR.. William
Bacon will be an early September event.
taking place at the family home in Ala
media. The Maurers have spent the
season at their summer place in the
Santa Cruz mountains, where they en-
tertained a number or house guests.
Saturday Miss Louise Eastman. the
beautiful bride elect of Samuel Weston.
will be the motif for large card
party for which Mrs. Benjamin Bangs
has sent out cards. The wedding of
Mr.. Weston and Miss Eastman will he n
notable event of the coming month.
taking place in ST Johns Presbyterian
church in Berkeley,
The wedding of Frank Borland Davies
and Miss Anne Evans will be an Aug
ust event. although the bride elect is
keeping the exact date of her marriage
a profound secret. After the quiet
ceremony Davies and his wife will tour
Canada before continuing their journey
TO England, where they will reside at
the Davies family home in Lancaster.
BERKELEY, Aug. 12.-The wedding
of Miss Elsie Cole and BENJAMIN Bates.
graduates of the university with the
class of 1908, has been set for the first
week in October. The young couple
have been the recipients Of much at
tention in the social set since the an
nouncement OF their engagement this
summer. The ceremony will be per-
formed in the home of the bride elect
in College avenue near Derby street.
Both Miss Cole and Bates were
prominent members of the class of
1908 She was a member of the Pry-
tanean society and was a leader in the
literary activities.
Bates, who is a mining engineer and
is at present manager of large Mex
lean mine. is a graduate Of the college
of mining OF the university. He is
member of the Sigma XII scientific So
ciety and the Tau Beta Pi engineering
fraternity. He will make his home