The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-03

Club is the fad with society and
u all the past week the dining
rooms and wide porches have beer
nlled with gay supper parties, more
or less formal, and numbers of motor
cars are parked outside every evening
Among the affairs last week was a
very beautiful dinner-dance given by
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. T. d. Myers in honor
OF their daughter. Miss Frances Myers.
Dinner was served in the long room
opening on the terrace, and the guests
were seated at little tables. Candles
shaded in crystal and gold and guam
( titles OF white flowers were the decor
atoms.
The guests, who included some OF
Miss Myers's intimate friends, were
Misses Julia Joynes, Caroline Rem
4 holds, Elsie Lindsey. Edith Taylor,
/. Fanny Crump, Sarah and Berta Hamil-
4 ton, OF Petersburg; Anne Royal Dud-
ley Powers, of Flint Mich; May Car
i michael. OF Cincinnati Grace Hamil-
ton. of Baltimore; Carolyn Martin.
Helen Adams: Messrs. Addison Rem
holds. William Trigg. Macdonald Well
ford. CroXton Gordon, Charles Wat
kins. Hiram Smith, Stuart Christian.
Charles Whitlock, Archer Hobson,
Pickett Lathrop. John Akin Branch.
Erskine Buford. Churchill Gibson, Will
liam holland. John Wingo, Thomas At
kinson. Evans Lindsey, Ellyson, Lii
burn Myers, ST. George Cooke, De-
Graffenreid Hobson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Myers and Mr.. and Mrs. Barksdale
Lathrop.
Others dining at the club various
evenings in the past week were Misses
Katie Meredith. Helen Barksdale, of
Clifton Forge, Va; Lettuce Woodward,
Nancy Lee Janney, of Leesburg; Kath-
crime Hoge. Jean knox, Mary Butler,
Cora Duke. Julia Ryland, Archer
J9ynes, Elizabeth Carter. Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Nelson Carter. Mr.. and Mrs.
Knox Wilson, Mrs. Keene. MI. and
Mrs. Andrew Pizzini, Gessner Harrison.
Lewis Grant, Seldom Jones, Wins Will
son. John Elicit, Kent Rawley, E. S.
Burwell, Richard Darlington. Edwin
Pitcher.
House Parties for the Fourth.
Miss Elizabeth Gaines. of Warren
ton, Va, is entertaining a charming
house party for the week end over the
Fourth at the home of her parents |
Colonel and Mrs. Grenville Gaines.
Miss Gaines will give dinner party |
and entertain at cards in honor of her
house guests, who will be Miss Julia
Joynes, of Richmond Lttleton Taze-
we'll. OF Norfolk; John Pinner, of Suf-
folk: William Gaines and James
Douglas. of Alexandria.
Mr.. and Mrs. Haskins Hobson are
3 also hosts Of very attractive house
party for the next few days Their |
of indianapolis; Miss Beulah Arm I
strong, OF baltimore; Mis-. Patty Hob
son, Dr.. Hobson, of Newport News; Mr..
and Mrs. Charles E. Ashburner and
children. of stanton; Macon Hobson,
of Baltimore. and T. M. Hobson. OF
, Richmond.
Miss Lucy Ford Workman and
Charles z. Workman ILL., left last
week to attend a house party given
by Joe Beach, who is student at the
University of Virginia, at New London,
Conn. The house party is being given
for the Hartford boat races, and
a number of charming entertainments
have been arranged for the guests
Leave for the North.
Miss Mary TrayIor left yesterday
for West Point, \. Y, where she Will
attend the dance given by the cadets
on Monday evening. Later Miss Tray
slor Will go to Atlantic City for several
days Miss Anne Traylor leaves this
week for the Adirondacks, where she
will be member of a house party for
several weeks. Both Misses Mary and
Anne Traylor will be the guests OF
their grandmother at Nantucket, Mass. |
for part of the summer.
At Orkney Springs.
A party of fifteen including Mrs. |
William Ellison, Mrs. c. r, Smith and
family and Mrs. T. D. Newell and
children left Friday morning TO spend
the summer at the Orkney Springs, in |
the Valley Of Virginia. Bishop Robert |
A. Gibson and family will also go to
the Orkney springs next week for the
summer months.
Returned From Wedding Trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Kahn. who
have been spending some time travel
ing in the North on their wedding
trip, have returned to the city and will
be at home to thei friends and rela-
tives at 10 East Clay Street.
Spend Summer in Europe.
Villa 'Eltison. of 205 East Frank
lin Street., will spend the summer in
Ireland and England. He will. visit
relatives and see the home OF his fam
fly for the first time in many. years.
A. Caperton Braxton, member of the
law firm OF Braxton & Eggleston, OF
Richmond. left last week for New
York, from which place he sailed on
Saturday for Cherbourg, France, on
board the American liner Philadelphia
Mr.. Braxton, who will remain in Eu-
1ope about two months. will spend
most of his time climbing the noun
ea!ns OF Switzerland. He is accompa-