The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-07

AhLAND, Aug. 6.-One of the
| notable house parties of the
month will gather at Palm
Knoll, the Perkins residence in Yer
non heights, within a fortnight. The
different members of the large family
viii come together for a happy reun-
ion. 1t has been some time since they
were all together, various interests
usually keeping them far apart. SEN
ator George c. Perkins will return
Tuesday from Washington, D. c.; Miss
Alma Perkins has been with her uncle
in the east and will accompany him to
California; Mr.. and Mrs Cleveland Ba-
,ker will close their home in Tonopah
for several weeks, spending them in
Oakland; Paymaster Fred Perkins, u.
S. N, and Mrs. Perkins, who have been
in Seattle for the last few months, will
visit at Palm Knoll en- route to the
orient, where the young naval officer
has been ordered.
Later in the year Mrs. George C.
Perkins will make an extended trip to
Japan, joining her son and his wife.
Another son who has been travelling
abroad will return to California in Au-
gust
Miss Mae Perkins has been in Cali
fornia all summer, motoring to various
points of interest in her new car, in
Guiding trip to the Yosemite and sew
eral runs down to Santa Cruz.
Mr. and Mrs. Murray Orrick left
early in the week for the north. ex-
pecting to spend several interesting
weeks in Seattle as the house guests
of Mrs. Orrick's sister, Mrs. Irving Bur-
Til1 Mr. a ND Trc
Seattle early in the summer and estab-
lished their home. Burrills business
interests will keep him in the north for
a number of months.
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Borland will
leave next Thursday for an extended
eastern trip to attend family reunion,
which will be enjoyed in the old home
place in Orange county, New York.
Mrs. Borland's mother, Mrs. Cornelia
Weymer, still occupies the family
homestead, which was built 104 years
ago by her grandfather. In New York
Mr. and Mrs. Borland will be joined
by DR.. Ray e. ellison and Mrs. ellison,
who have been spending the summer
abroad, and the party will return to
California early in October.
Mrs. Waller Cole is coming to Oak
land about the middle of the month to
spend some weeks as the house guest
of her sister. Mrs. Bernard p. Miller.
Her return visit to the bay cities will
be the inspiration for social affairs of
the early winter Since the wedding
which made Miss Winifred Burdge the
bride of the young Nevada attorney,
Mr. and Mrs. Cole have lived in Tono-
pah. They have given up their home
there and in October will go to Carson
City to live.
The wedding of Charles Jay WeIch
and Miss Blanche Hostetter will be q
quiet event of tomorrow, taking place
at the Hostetter family home In Thir-
teenth avenue. Miss Grace Hostetter
will be her sisters only attendant
Mr.. and Mrs. william Jarvis and Mrs.
William Kleeman have returned to
town after motor trip to Congress
springs They are planning an inter-
esting trip to the north.
The Equal Suffrage Amendment
league of Oakland will enjoy unique
gathering Saturday afternoon, August
IA, at Piedmont park, when they make
Mrs. Florence Kelly of New York their
guest of honor at an informal al fresco
luncheon to which they are inviting
all women of the bay cities interested
in their efforts. A box luncheon will
be served, each guest being asked to
bring with her a cup and spoon.
At q o'clock in the Eucalyptus amphi-
theater Mrs. Kelly will give an ad-
dress, announcing as her subject. ''Suf-
frage. the Great Remedy" Mrs. Kelly
is the second vice president of the Ma
tional Suffrage League OF America, be-
sides being secretary of the National
Consumers League of America and one
of the trustees of the child labor COM
mission. She is a graduate of Cornell
university and is recognized practi-
toner of law, having practiced in the
state of Illinois During the season
Mrs. Kelly has been a member of the
faculty at the summer school in
Berkeley.
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