Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-01

the Blue Ridge mountains will be in
attendance.
Friends in this city are interested
in the announcement of the engage
ment of Miss Carol Rutter Of Spokane
and Mr.. 3. Lawson Wiley Of Blacks
burg, Va, which was announced Sunday
at Spokane. Miss Rutter is the daugh
niece of Senator Miles Poindexter and
Mrs. Poindexter. The marriage was to
have taken place In June, but the war
has made the young peoples plans In
engineer. graduate of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute. The young peo-
at the home of the bride-elects
brother, Mr.. Robert Rutter. in Ellens-
burg. Mr. Wiley has been living in
the west for two years. With his bride
he will ultimately make his home in
Virginia.
Miss Rutter was a recent guest of
Senator and Mrs. poindexter.
Miss otie r. Nelson left this morn
ing for Chautauqua Lake, N. Y, and
Detroit. Mich.
Mrs. Sankey Bacon, wife of DR..
Ba con, U. s. N, and their little daugh-
ter have arrived at Washington and are
visiting Mrs. Bacon's mother, Mrs
Hugh T. Taggart. DR.. Bacon is on duty
at the Great Lakes training station.
Miss Marjorie Helmbold. who is Wis
iting Miss Margaret Kennedy at Cham
bersburg, Pa, accompanied Miss Ken
nedy and her parents on trip in their
private car to Niagara Falls last week.
Mrs. John +. White is leaving WASH
ington this evening to Join Mr.. White
at their summer home. Bay View
Farms, on Lake Chautauqua, N. Y.
Among the prominent New Workers.
in the city at the willard is Mrs. Nell
son Henry, who is very active In war
relief work, being chairman of the
emergency committee Of the Militia of
Mercy. of which Mrs. John Hays Ham
mond is president, and captain of the
second canteen division of the Nation
al League for Women's Service. which
is a part of the cooperative ma
chinery of the Red Cross refreshment
unit, and numbers 900 women. who
have already prepared and served can
teen ratious for several thousand of
our soldiers.
Miss Betty Byheld and her house
guest. Miss Christine Hannah of Pc
tcrsburs. Fla, will go to Atlantic
city Friday, to be the guests for the
week end of Justice and Mrs. George
bowney, the latter an aunt of Miss
ByfieId.
Miss Virginia Maxwell, daughter of
Mir. ana MIS-. William X. Maxwell OF
Cincinnati, has arrived at Washington,
to remain until after the marriage of
her cousin, Miss catharine Pace. on
September ]. Miss Maxwell. like Miss
Pace, is granddaughter of the late
cx-Solicitor General Samuel f. Phil
lips. She is Il student at the University
Of Cincinnati
Miss Ellen Sydney Kent is spending
several weeks at Orkney Springs, Va.
Mr.. John Beaver White of New York,
now with the food commission, and
Mrs. White have leased the residence
Of Mr.. ana Mrs. Arthur Dswell, 1864
Wyoming avenue, for year and will
take possession September H. Mrs
White is spending the Summer at I'ucua
Vista. Mrs O%well and her children
are SncHHinG TIL" summer at her cottage
at Mountain Lake Park Mr.. Oswell
expects TO join his family little later.
Mrs. Fred bennett will leave Washing
ton today for visit to Mr. and Mrs
Joseph Witt'nan at their Place, the Isle
Of Pine, Thousand ISla lds Mrs bennett
VIII later go to n. York for a visit
Mi 9 Dorothy bennett. VINO has been the
rE'G"t "f MAJ. and Mrs. Edward Barrett
Il h'h1yGan. Wis, has been extensively
entertained and IL now their guest at their
country home at Green Bay, Wis
The marriage of Miss Sarah Elizabeth
Earr, daughter Of Mr. and Mrs Louis l.
Barr, and Raymond Cornweu Simpson