The Washington herald., 1912-09-12

Kenneth. which is run by Dan ]. sully.
whore he Is comfortably housed.
Formal announcement has Just been
made of the engagement Of Miss Agnes
lie Roy Edgar. youngest daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Newbold Edgar. to Stew
art Edmund Davis. son Of the late Ed
mund Davis.
Miss Edgar is now at Southampton
with her parents, and the wedding will
take place quietly on their return to
town at their home in East Thirty
ninth Street, New York.
Mrs. C. Peyton Russell, OF Sheridan
Circle. has just purchased a lot in
Watch Hill and will build a summer
home there. She expects to return to
Washington on October Is. after visit
Ing friends at Tuxedo Park.
| Mr.. Lee McClung, Treasurer of the
United States. has returned to the city.
He has been on a hunting trip in New
England.
Representative and Mrs. Nicholas
| Longworth are now in New York at
the Ritz-Carlton. Mr.. and Mrs. Bourke
| Cochran gave a theater party in their
honor on Monday night.
| Mr.. and Mrs, Preston Gibson, who have
been visiting on the North Shore. re-
turned to Newport on Monday in order
to be present at a dinner party given at
the German Embassy by Mr.. Haniel Won
Haimhausen.
| The season at Newport is decidedly on
the wane Mrs Oliver II. P. Belmont
has already closed Marble House and
has gone to New York. After few
days spent on Long Island, she and Mrs
Harold S. Vanderbilt will go to Wtscon-
sin. Mrs Stuyvesant Fish Is leaving
Newport for Hot Springs, Va. The Clar-
encs Dolans are returning to Rosemont
| Pa, In time for the Bryn Mawr Horse
Show. The season, however has closed
| In a blaze of glory, with the horse show
and the Wilson and ColfOrd balls. The
latter was one OF the most spectacular
affairs of the summer. and had been
carefully planned by Mrs. Colford. who
was Miss Clara Waterman Knight. Of
Philadelphia. The affair was a masked
! ball, preceded by a dinner, at which
thirty-four chosen guests were present
After the dinner dominoes were donned
and the entertainment melted into one
Of general mystery. So carefully were
| the incoRnitos preserved that even the
best of friends failed to recognize each
Miss Marie Routh is visiting friends in
Pomfret. Conn. She will return to
| Washington during the first week in
October.
Miss Amy Hyacinth Drury's engage
ment to Lieut. Nelson winslow Picker
ing, U. S. N. is announced. Miss Drury
Is the daughter of Lieut. Col. Drury, OF
the British army. their home being In
Weymouth, England. The wedding will
be in October. Lieut. Pickering comes
from Annapolis. Nd.
Mr. and Mrs. Hennen Jennings, who
have been travelling on the Continent.
have taken passage for New York on the
steamer Olympic. which sails September
Il. Their relatives. Mrs. William Hold
ding and Mrs. o. y. Ogden. expect TO
make the trip with them.
Mr.. BENJAMIN Saunders Minor has re-
turned from his vacation and has open
ed his house in Connecticut Avenue.
Mrs. Theodore Mosher has given up
her apartments at the Portland and gone
10 reside at the Grafton Other promi-
nent washingtonians who will occupy
apartments at the Grafton this winter
are Or. ana Mrs w sinclair bowen
Mr. and Mrs. Upshur Moorhead-
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Andrews. who
spent the summer at Sunapee Lake, are
to return to Newport next season. hav-
ing leased The Ledge" in Gibbs Ave-
nue.. from Mr.. and Mrs. James Andrews
Swan. Mrs. Andrews was formerly Miss
Curry Connally. of Washington.
Miss Martha Goldman gave an after
noon tea at her residence in Bellevue
Avenue, Newport, on Septemer 10.
Baron. Won Booze, of the Russian En-
bassy. has arrived in New York and is
staying for a few days at the St Regis.
Director General John Barrett. of the
Pan-American Union. has gone to Bur-
lington. Iowa, to attend the annual con-
vention of the Upper Mississippi River
Improvement Association.
Mrs. Richard H. Townsend. who has
been visiting Mr.. and. Mrs. Peter Goelet
Gerry, at Bar Harbor. during August
and September. gave a luncheon at the
Swimming Club in Bar Harbor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph W. Hills, who
have spent the summer in Maine and on
the Jersey coast, have returned TO their
home in Nineteenth Street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter B. Brooks, jr..
and Miss Evely Brooks will leave Bal
timore to-day for New York to await the
arrival of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward T.
Stotesbury, of Philadelphia and Wash
ington, who are returning from Europe
DR.. and Mrs. William L. Robins and
Miss Palmer have returned to this city.
The engagement has been announced
of Miss Margaret Disosway, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. J. Disosway. of At
lanta. Ga, and James Fuller Mckinley.
captain Seventeenth United States Cav
airy. The wedding will take place
September IS at Black Mountain, n. c..
the summer home of the Disosways.
The Rev. W. W. Memminger. pastor Of
the All Saints Episcopal Church, will
officiate- Only relatives and intimate
friends will witness the ceremony. Mrs.
Winship Nunnally, of Atlanta, will be
matron of honor, and Capt. Mckinley
will have his brother officers as grooms-
men. Mrs. Grayson Heidi, of Atlanta.
Ga, who was the beautiful Miss Grace
Mckinley. is the only sister Of the
groom. who is the nephew of the late
President Mckinley. Miss Disosway
made her debut three years ago. and
has been much courted during her