Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-15

Mrs. Elmer L. Ludden (Edith Ia
GAM and small son, Bennett, of Grant,
Pass, Oregon. are coming to Salem fol
a visit soon, and will be the guests of
friends.
This will be the first time Mrs. Lud-
den has been in salem since leaving
here last year, and her coming is the
source of much joy to her friends. AT
present Mrs. Ludden and Bennett are
in Newport visiting the former s par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Raglan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Griffith and
young daughter, Miss Harriet Grit
fifth, arrived home Wednesday from
Pontiac, Illinois. The Griffiths have
large farming interests in the east, and
have been there since early in the sum
mer.
Mrs. Homer H. Smith and her moth
er, Mrs. Annis J. Parkhurst are enjoy
ling an outing at Newport, having tax
en- a cottage there for a week or so.
DR.. and Mrs. J. c. Griffith and sons,
who have been sojourning at Nye
Beach for a week or so, came home
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Evans Flanders
of Portland are visiting the L.. F. Grit
fifth family. Later, the Flanders ex-
pect to go to California for a ~sojourn.
bur. and Mrs. Frank T. Schmidt ana
small son, "Teddy' who have been So
iourning in San Francisco, California,
will be home next week.
Mrs. Schmidt and Teddy as a rule
spend a part of every year in the south
land, usually choosing the summer time.
This year they went south early in
July, Mr.. Schmidt joining them a
month or so later.
Letters from Miss Winifred Byrd,
the popular Salem girl, who has been
studying music in New York for the
past few years, tell Of her interesting
plans for the winter.
Miss Byrd has been asked to play at
a number of large social functions and
musicales in New York during the sea
son, and also has been engaged for
several concerts and entertainments
early in the fall. Her first engagement
is on the seventh of October at Union
Hill, New York, and her second at Vas
sar college, Poughkeepsie, New York,
on October the twenty second. From
there, she will go to Peoria, and Chi
cago, ILL.,, for engagements, returning
to New York in December, where she
will make her formal debut at Aeolian
hall.
Most of the tickets for Miss Byrd's
debut concert have already been sold,
and she is quite elated, as New York.
is filled to overlooking with pianists,
and the musical world there is a trifle
blase. She writes, however, that her
good fortune is due almost entirely to
the efforts of a wealthy New York So
ciety woman, who is a great lover of
music and has not only taken a flat
tering interest in her work, but will
act as sponsor for her this season.
Later in the winter, after her debut
it is even possible that Miss Byrd
may come to San Francisco, as she has
received several letters urging her to
play at entertainments there.
Needless to say, her friends are all
hoping that she will accept these en-
gagements, as she will no doubt stop
here en- route.
Miss Byrd passed most of her sum
mer at Villa Won Campo on Lake Ho-
patcong, a charming little place in New
Jersey, and has only recently returned
to New York.
Miss Mary Elliott, who has been Wis
iting her relatives-Mr. and Mrs. F.
A. Elliott, for several days, will leave
tomorrow for Grants Pass, Oregon, en-
route to her home in Denver, Illinois.
In Grants Pass, Miss Elliott will be
the guest of her sister, Mrs. W.. S.
Parker, who has visited in Salem. on
several occasions.
Mrs. John A. Carson will keep
"open house" at her residence on 1923
South High street all day (~afternoons
and evenings) on Wednesday of each
week during the winter to- assist those
who desire to knit for the soldiers.
1t would be well for the women of
Salem to make haste in taking up this
work, as it is very necessary that we
supply our boys with these wooden COM
forts as soon as possible.
Mrs, John ]. Roberts and her sister,
Mrs, Gertrude Cameron of Boston,
Mass, passed yesterday in Portland.
y
Mrs. Chauneey Bishop and young
son, Robert, will leave Monday morn
ing for Pendleton, Oregon, where they
win be the guests of the Roy t. Bish-
OPP family for the Roundup.
They will be away for about a week
and will be joined Wednesday by Mr..
Bishop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles II. Fisher have
returned from a brief stay in Portland
DR.. and Mrs. Frank Wilbur Chaee
have returned from a delightful trip
to the Sound, They were away for sew
eral weeks and visited friends in Sc
attic, Tacoma and at Oreus Island
Rosario.
Friends of DR.. Chaee ell rejoice 70
know that he has been reelected di-
rector of the First Methodist church
choir.
Miss Marjorie Kay the attractive
young DAUGHTER of Mr.. and MRS. Thorn
as B. Kay, win be missed again this
winter as she is leaving in a week or
so for Eugene to resume her studies
at the University of Oregon. Miss Kay
is a member of the Gamma Phi Beta
sorority.