The Washington herald., 1917-11-05
Despite Serious War Preparations,
Society Plans Interesting Week

reception 1Or members OF DOtn
families only at Delmonico's. Mr..
Lethbridge and his bride will have
only a brief honeymoon. for he has
Joined the Royal Flying Corps in
Canada an reports for dpty on No
vember 12
The bride will have her sister, Mrs.
Mildred o'Donohue. and Mrs. Ethel
Miller for her matrcns Of honor, and
, Thomas Kelly will be the best man.
Serving as ushers will be Maitland de
Gorgoza. Louis p. Bassave, jr,
Harold Parker and John p. Slattery.
The Rev. Stewart Chambers will Of
fciate.
Mr.. Lethbridge is the son OF Capt.
Walter A. Lethbridge. of the British
army. His mother was a Miss de
Monte. He is a grandson Of Sir Wroth
Lethbridge. of Sandhill Park. Taun-
ton. Somersetshirc. England, and is
related to the Earl OF Effingham and
Lady Carrarvon. Miss Taylor Is a
granddaughter of the late John
Thomas Bivins and the late DIR. lie
Roy Mortimer Taylor. both of Wash
ington. She will accompany Mr..
Lethbridge to Canada.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Small Frank
lin, OF New York, son-in-law and
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic B.
Jennings. have leased the residence,
1912 Sixteenth street. for the season.
and are now residing there.
Invitations were received here this
week for the marriage of Miss Doro-
thy Madison Brown. daughter. of Mr..
| and Mrs. Madison Brown. of Center
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| Foster, Coast Artillery Corps. u. S.
r.. the ceremony to take place in st.
PauFs Church, Centerville. Saturday
evening. November II, at s o'clock.
The bridegroom is the oldest son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James R. Foster, of
! Glenville, Fauquier County. Va
Mrs. Alice Gates Ladd was dinner
| hostess Saturday evening for a party
! that went on later to the dance at
! Rauscher's- The guests of honor
were Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Griffin, of
/ Detroit. the latter a bride Of last
| April, who is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. A.
p. c. Griffin, while their son is at
/ the Fort Myer training camp. The
other guests were Mrs. Lloyd
/ Chandler, Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Gates
| Boutell, of Philadelphia; Miss Leslie
Cameron, Maj. George B. Comfy.
Capt. F. A. Doniat, Lieut.. Theodore
Chandler and Mr.. and Mrs. Boutell
Mr.. William Averell Hartman, of
Arden House. Hartman, n. Y, is
spending a few days in Washington.
All of the arena boxes have been
sold for the New York horse show at
Madison Square Garden, which will
Opar,
to Friday, the entire proceeds of thr
, show to go to the National Red Cross
Society. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward T.
StOtesbury, Cen James A. Buchanan.
I L. S. A, Of Washington, who keeps
his string at his Virginia country
place. Ayrshire" Upperville, Va,
and has several entries in the New
York show; and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
/ \. Mum, are among those who have
( boxes and will entertain Washington
guests all during the show.
! Mrs. Preston Gibson and Miss Betty
! Gibson have returned to Washington
after spending some time at Leesburg,
| Va.
The Counselor of the Persian Lega-
; ton and Nine. Ali Kuli Khan and
: at East Hampton. l. l., have returned
3 TO Washington and are established al
ZIP Wyoming avenue for the winter.
The annual linen shower and tea for
/ the benefit of Providence Hospital will
be given at the Hospital Thursday.
November p, at p. nj. The tea will
be preceded by a card party.
The Park View Social Club enter
| tanned it's members and friends at a
dance on Halloween.
| Fifty couples attired as ghosts
danced to the strains of a stringed
orchestra. The hall was dimly light
! ed and beautifully decorated with au-
! tumn leaves, goblins, witches. cats
and pumpkins.
Through the efforts OF the following
members the affair was a great sue
, cess. The Messrs. Lutz, Buscher, Cul-
verwell. Morris. and Darr and Mrs.
! Kerr, Mrs. Rogers, Mrs. McFadyen,
Mrs. Carpenter, Mrs. Lutz, and Miss
Shannon.
| Refreshments appropriate to the oc-
casion were served by the Misses
Wood.
A quiet wedding took place Satur-
| day morning at 10:30 o'clock at the
rectory of st. Aloysius Church, when
/ Miss Rosa Veronica Collons, daugh-
| ter of Mrs. Mary Collins, was mar
I ried to Mr.. Ralph Rhodes Shropshire,
/ of Augusta, Ga. The Rev. Paul r.
/ Commit performed the ceremony in
| the presence of the immediate rela-
tives. Mr.. and Mrs. Shropshire left
/ Immediately for a trip to New Orleans
and after December l will be at home
| in Augusta, Ga.
On interesting welding took place
Saturday at noon at the Vermont Ave-
nue. Christian Church, when Miss
Marie Louise McCabe. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry r. McCabe, became
the bride of Mr.. James Forrest Wal
ker, Of Gaithersburg, Md. The cere-
mony, which was witnessed by the
| immediate families, was performed
by the Rev. DR.. Bagby. There were
no attendants.
| The bride wore a travelling gown
of taupe colored cloth with hat to
match and a corsage bouquet of or
chids and roses. Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ker left later for New York and upon
| their return will reside at Gathers
Ours' mu. Inc Drlde Is graduate OF
Penn Hall. at Chambersburg, Pa.
DIR. and Mrs. William st. Clair Cor
don, of Richmond Va, have issued
| invitations for the marriage of their
daughter. Katherine Roy, to John
Barry Cary, Oldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. Archibald Cary. also of that
city, now serving as first lieutenant
in the United States national army,
and stationed at Camp Lee. The we'd
| ding will take place Saturday even
ing, November II, at o'clock In the
| Second PreshYterian Church Rinh-