The Washington herald., 1911-05-24

spent last winter while the Admiral was
on sea duty.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Downing will give
dinner dance at the Chevy Chase Club
next Saturday evening in honor of Miss
Jessie krogstad and Mr.. William Arthur
Burton. whose marriage is one of the
events of next month.
Mrs. William Beiden Noble and her
daughter, Mrs. Sherman Miles. will
leave Washington Saturday for Atlantic
City for stay Of several weeks.
Mrs. Robert Hinckley and Miss Gladys
Hinckley will spend part of the summer
in Europe. They will sail from New
York June Q. and return to this coun-
try the latter part of August and go to
Bar HarbCr for the remainder of the
season.
Col and Mrs. John r. Williams and
Miss Dorothy Williams have closed their
Washington residence and gone to Forest
Glen. Md, for the early summer.
The delegates to the fur seal confer
ence in Washington will be entertained
at luncheon to-day by the Secretary of
State. Philander c. Knox.
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans, L. S.
N, retired, and Mrs Evans will go to
Newport this week to visit their daugh-
ter-in-law. Mrs. Frank Taylor Evans.
THY Minister from Switzerland and
Mime. Ritter and their children will sail
tomorrow for Switzerland to spend the
M IiriC will {Aiy,
abroad the latter part of July.
Miss Frances Sullivan, who was the
house guest of Mrs. Knox, wife of the
Secretary of State, is now visiting Miss
Marguerite Barbour, daughter of Mrs
James F Barbour. Miss Sullivan will
go 10 THE Woods Radnor, Pa. where
she will join her parents at their sum-
mer home.
Mrs. Alfred w. Bjornstad will leave
Fort Leavenworth, Kans.. shortly and
come to Washington to join her husband.
Capt Bjornstad, who is now stationed
here.
Mrs. Arthur s. Cowan and her small
son, James Houston. have gone to Fort
Ethan Allen, VT, to spend the summer
Gen. and Mrs. John W. Foster are at
Lake Mohonk, where the Peace Con-
ferene is in progress. Mr.. and Mrs.
Lansing will remain at the Foster home
here until next month.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Annie Bruce Carr. daughter of the late
Gov. Elias Carr, of North Carolina, and
Mr.. Douglas Bovard Sterrett, of this
city. The wedding will take place In
Washington early In June.
Mr.. and Mrs Howard Harvey and their
son William, Of Baltimore, were here
for the weekend guests of their rela-
tive, Mr.. Wilton Harvey, in Langdon
Heights. They made the trip by auto
mobile.
Miss Ethel Norris has gone to West
Point. n. Y, where she is the guest of
her sister. Mrs. Glassford.
Mrs. Murray, wife of Maj Gen Ar
thur Murray, U. S. A. is entertaining
Miss Fannie Hoyle, of Fort Riley. Kans
After stay here of a couple of weeks,
Miss Hoyle will go to New York to visit
her fathers brother, and then to West
Point to visit her sister. Mrs. Herr. wife
Of Lieut.. John K. Herr.
Miss Porter, daughter Col. Porter. U. g.
NJ. c., has been on a visit to Annapoli
where she was the guest of Mrs Porter,
wife of Commodore Theodoric Porter.
Mrs Donald Petit Morrison wife OF
Ensign Morrison, U. S. N, who is now
g. Annapolis visiting her father and
mother. Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ. Morri-
son. will on the completion of her visit
there come to Washington to be the guest
Of Mrs. Morrison, mother of Ensign
Morrison, and in July will join her hus-
band at Provincetown, Mass
Mrs. Thomas Knox. of Fort Monroe, Is
here, the guest of Capt. and Mrs. George
A. Nugent.
Miss Jean Wilson. who has been con-
fined to the house for seven or eight
weeks on account of an accident, has re-
covered sufficiently to be able to appear
tonight on the programme to be given
for the benefit of the Homeless Waits"
of the Florence Crittenton Home. at the
Chevy Chase Seminary. Others who will
appear are Miss Hood. soprano; Mr.. Jo-
seph Matthew, tenor; Miss Goff. contralto,
and the Marine Band.
Miss Edith Oracle. who was appointed
maid of honor to the sponsor in chief
at the national reunion of the Confed-
crate Veterans. to represent the District
OF Columbia, returned to Washington
yesterday. While in Little Rock, Miss
Oracle was lavishly entertained. and at
the grand parade was given tho post Of
honor in the first car-tkat Of the spon-
sor-in-chief On her return Journey Miss
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Tenn, and stopped at Portsmouth, Va.
where she was the guest Of honor Of
Miss Margaret Dongan. Miss Oracle cut
short her Western trip that she might
take the part Of the heroine In a three
act drama to be given at the Cairo on
Monday evening. May q. for the benefit
Of the aged clergy.