The farmer and mechanic., 1913-01-14
NORTH CAROLINIANS
IN THE METROPOLIS
tBY X. $. CARRAWAYo

tBY X. S. CARRAWAY)
New York, Jan. 11.-Mr. and Mrs. /
Joseph Allen, OF South Orange, n. J.. /
have announced to intimate friends OF /
both families the engagement Of their /
daughter, Madeline, to William A I
Slater Jr., son OF Mr.. and Mrs Will
liam A. Slater, of Washington, d. c., /
and grandson Of the late John F. |
Slater. founder of the Slater -Jewett
cotton mills at Jewett City, Conn. |
Miss Allen is the sister Of Mrs. George
Peabody, Of New York, and is one
OF the seasons debutantes. She is II
years old. The prospective bride
groom is not quite quite %. They
met about year ago at dinner
party in Boston.
Slater was a student at Harvard
until December. 1911, when he de-
cided to learn the cotton manufac-
turing business. He donned overalls
and went to work every morning in
big motor car from the family
homestead in Norwich to the Jewett
City mills. His pay was Sc a week.
but after several months the heir to
the Slater millions returned to the
home Of his parents in Washington.
According to Mrs. Allen her son-in-
| law will not go into the cotton manu-
featuring business, but will become
gentleman farmer on his big estate at
Pinehurst, n. G. Miss Allen is quite
enthusiastic over the idea OF being
! farmers wife.
t Prof. Z. L. Worthen, former aeroni-
mist in soils to the North Carolina
department station, who was recently
appointed assistant professor OF ag-
ronomy at the Pennsylvania State col
lege, to succeed Professor Shaw, who
resigned. has taken up his new duties
at the college. Professor Worthen
took his bachelors degree in agricul-
ture from the University OF Illinois
and his masters degree from Cornell
university. He was connected with
the North Carolina department of
agriculture for several years
Miss Agnes L. Harper, of No. sos
West 112th street, has chosen January
Gabe Holmes Groom. OF Wilmington,
, II. G. The ceremony will take place
, at the home Of Dr.. and Mrs Henry E
, Westbay, at No. 219 West Seventy
. first street, and will be very quiet
only relatives and a few intimate
! friends Of the couple being invited tc
, attend. After wedding trip DR.
. Groom and his bride will be at home
, in Wilmington.
, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Temple Gwathmey
= formerly Of Wilmington, who are
! spending the winter In New York a
the Gotham hotel. entertained sevara
Of their friends at dinner in the Ritz
. Carlton hotel Monday night. Among
= their guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Philip
: McFadden and Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
Murchison, all Of whom are forne
. North CarOlinianS.
!, According to a rumor going tn,
:, ;, rounds here this week Thomas J
, | Pence, the well known newspape
man, Washington representative O
= The News and Observer, and ever
:. inch a North Carolinian. is to be tn
successor to William Loeb, Jr, as col
y lector Of customs at New York MI
Pence was publicity director for Gov
!, ernor Wilson in the pre-conventiol
campaign and is close to William F
McCombs, chairman OF the Demo
cratic national committee, being act
ing chairman when AIr. McCombs ha
to be absent. Mr.. Pence has divide
- his time recently between New Yor
= and Washington. Shortly after tn
+ election he took sixweeks' tri
j. abroad for his health. Mr. Pence wa
% years ago. He was graduated froY
u Wake Forest college and then becarn
u q reporter on the Raleigh Post.
decade ago he went to Washin gton t
i represent that newspaper and late
% was employed by The News and OF
a: server as it's Washington correspond
"a dent. Five years ago Mr.. Pence va
r connected with the New York Sun
Washington bureau. MIR. Pence di
valuable work in the recent campaig
a and aided to no little extent the elee
ld ton Of Governor Wilson. Early in tn
l. campaign he picked Governor Wilso
a as the man the Democrats could wi
D. with and started working for hin
lg He has many friends in this city. a
"a Of whom are hoping he will recefy
IN the New York appointment
is
Mr.. II. S. Leard. Of Raleigh arrive
n. In the city Tuesday and is stopping
lie the Hotel Breslin for a few days
lie Gen. J. Fred PieTson has returne
to to bic homo in New York from II;o