Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-05

r. AND MRS. FRANCIS KING VAIN
AI WRIGHT. of Bryn Mawr will give a din
ner of 16 covers tonight before the masque ball
at the Merton Cricket Club
Mr. and Mrs Wanwright's guests will he
Mr. and Mrs. Philemon Dickinson, Mr.. and
Mrs Jesse Williamson I'd. Mr.. and Mrs Glenn
ent Reeves Wainwright, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
l., Fouke MIR. and Mrs Samuel A. Grocer.
Miss Ella Brock. Andrew Wheeler Jr.. Joseph
N. Du Barry, Sd, and c. willing Hare.
Miss Ellanor c. Thompson, whose marriage to
r Williams Roberts OF Bnla, will take pluce
in st. James Episcopal Church, Thursday,
Aprll 90 at I o'clock. has chosen Miss Margaret
corlies Houston for her maid OF honor, and
her sisters, Miss Phoebe r. Thompson and Miss
Marie Louise Thompson as her bridesmaids.
Following the ceremony reception win be
held at the home of the brides parents, MIR, and
Mrs. Charles Trotter Thompson 2li6 Spruce
street.
william II. Scott, of School House lane
nounces the engagement OF his daughter. Miss
Dorothy Scott, to Maurice a. Webster.
Mrs John +. Brown, Jr of Mathor avenue
wyncote, has issued invitations for n bridge
party on Friday evening. April 16, at o'clock
honor in that a bronze tablet has been placed
on the Norris Littell house. the corner of
Germantown avenue and High street. The
tablet was placed by the site and Relic So
ciety and gives evidence of the fact that the
house is on the site of the first botanical
garden in America planted by Dr, Christopher
Witt, who born in England in 1876 and
died in Germantown in 1866. 1t is also stated
that the house the home of Elizabeth
Morris, botanist, and her sister, Margaretta
Hare Morris, who discovered the habits OF the
17-year locusts and was the first woman to
be made member OF the Philadelphia Acad-
emy of Natural Sciences
Lieutenant Lindsay Coates Herkness and
Mrs. Herkness, who stationed in the
Philippines are receiving congratulations on
the birth of a Mrs Herltness will be
remembered as Miss Carlota La lame OF 2Ol3
Pine street
Mr.. and Mrs, Richard d. Wood, of 263 South
22d street, have taken cottage at Cape May,
wher they will spend the summer.
Mr. and Mrs II. H. Barton. who occupied
apartments at the Stenton during the winter
months returned to their home in Walnut IInl,
Holmesburg. on Thursday, April l.
the Mexican border, will spend Easter at the
shore Lieutenant O'Donnell will return to his
post about April l5.
Mrs. William N Morice of 5932 Overbrook
avenue, win give dinner Wednesday, April
21, at the Germantown Cricket Club in honor
OF Miss Florence Peace Smith and Dr. Robert
G. Torrey, whose engagement announced
recently. The guests will include Mr.. and
Mrs. William Hurst Mr.. and Mrs Aubrey Bunt-
ing, Mr.. and Mrs Emlen Hare MIR. and Mrs
Arthur c. Coahan. Mrs. ]. Nelson Purviance,
George Purvance
Mr.. and Mrs. n. Holingshead Taylor. of 77O9
st. Martins lane. will give dinner-dance to-
night in the Bellevue -Stratford in honor of Miss
Christine Stockton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
N. Allen Stockton Jr There will be about $50
guests present.
Mrs Harry Is. Cartright Of Springfield and
Navahoe avenues, will entertain at bridge on
Thursday April s. at her home.
Walter Underwood, of Cincinnati. has been
spending several days at the St James.
Mrs Ferdinand L. Fetherston, who spent the
late winter at the Laure-in-the Pines, Lake.
wood, N j.. expects TO open her town house,
1924 Arch street, Thursday.