Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-17
J JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
The Boy Scouts, Troop No. l, of Wayne, Gave a
Surprise and Farewell Party to Their Assistant
Scout Master Before He Left for Georgia

Ar Joseph 1erhes Nii''' - - 60
y. ~ the Machine Gun Company. sixth
\ \.,r,ent ~ of the National Guard OF Penn
s,s.p,a. left on Sunday for the camp In
s..o,a Joe Wilson comes OF good OLD
sss,inp stock-let me tell you-his an
-,ors having fought in the Revolution
"a IN the war Of 1912.
,us Grandfather Major II. H. Wilson,
-, in the Civil War. He Is related to
~. yerkes family of Bucks County as
vell as the Wilson's
rns marty on Friday evening took the
ar, Of a surprise-and 1t was-ln the
.'u ssnse of the word. Joe was dining
-,,h a friend, and when he returned
sams the Boy Souts were there to greet
~ They drilled, gave bugle calls and
n .,od and. in fact, did every kind of
,,unt they knew of.
:, ,vas n good old.fashioned party, with
j, gingerbread, doughnuts, cakes and
.,hsr homemade goodies; and the boys
.-.sented Joe with a radium wrist watch.
Among the Scouts who were present
!, ,he marty we're Herbert and Earl Hen.
,.rson. Paul wentworth, N. Allen Barr,
= Amos Dotterer, Wesley Long, Nor
~ Cooper, Maxwell Hunt, Robert Field,
w,mln Bunting, Wayne Reed Linmore
brock Brentford Mackey, Richard Nc.
v,r,sy George Christman, Percy Steyens,
Henry McCandless, Billy Cochran, Robert
rraper and Fred Cooper.
rEoRGE JARVIS, I'd. of Indianapolis
" spent couple of days last week with
~. auht, Mrs. Robert Sturgis, at La
hurnums, Chelten Hills, the old Sharpless
,lsce which Mrs. Sturgis's mother, the
,te Mrs II. r. NJ. Sharpless, left to her.
And where she and Rita spend the sum-
ners. They live in New York in the
vipter YOU know. Well, Mr.. Jarvis was
mn his way to Annapolis, having been
made an ensign in the Navy Coast Re-
,eyes. He was in training in Newport
,Or couple of months, and had but just
received the appointment.
n NHESTNUT HILL has really started
y canning and preserving, to say moth.
hg Of making surgical dressings, but
the DRESSINGS Is uIl Olu SlOIys llt OUtSl-
nut Hill Branch of the National League
FOR Womans Service-Gee Swiz, l won
Der why they don't begin to call it by
III initials-was formally organized last
Wednesday at the, headquarters, S41l
Germantown avenue, as l told you at
the time, and flourishing classes were
formed for canning and preserving and
another for surgical dressings. There
re still number of people at home
around Chestnut Hill, and most of them
were at the meetings Mrs. Walter
Clark was one of those present, but, in
deed. she's always present" these days,
when there is work to be done for the
Red Cross, Emergency Aid, Feeding the
/ Troops or anything else which helps our
great cause and country. Mrs. George
Woodward, another very public.spirited
roman, also attended, and Mrs. Bruce
Ford, Mrs. Frederick Landstreet, Mrs.
N, Wright, Jr., and Mrs. Franklin S.
EdmOnds
Mr. AND MRS. EDWIN N. BENSON,
Az JRp are visiting Mrs. Benson's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs Jones Wister, at their
cottage in Cape May at present, but they
are also going to North East soon for the
resi- OF the season. Do you know the
Nster cottage at Cape May, at the cor
net OF Beach avenue and Ocean street?
Ns Just across from the Stockton baths,
oAcks on the Star Villa, sides on the
lafayette and faces the ocean. 1t is q
euge cottage, and Mrs. Wister has owned
lot many year. In fact, II was hers
Nnen she was Mrs. Weightman, and
summer after summer she and her at,
uactive daughters spent at that quiet
Her daughters are awfully
Ee'V especially Ethel, who is Mrs. Ben.
"a' Louisa, who is Mrs. Jack Straw
nluse' and Bertha, who married a New
iOlk doctor about ten years ago. I
nsVer can remember that mans name
1er'ha Is very small and fair, with violet
" and dark lashes, Ethel also is fair
wits not so small She has dark eyes
s'u Mshes, too, and Louisa Strawbridge
tive
n liH Baroness Fritz Won Hitler, of ELL.
uOn, and her sister, Mrs. Archibald
Auuafd will trip north and will go
Tiuy 10 Gibraltar Island on Lake Erie.
,s hey will join their parents, Mr.
A,s' Charles d. Barney, at their sum-
% nome. Mr.. Hubbard is at Fort
Niagara, YOU know.
- GROSS work seems to have taken
nO'u OF the heart of every woman TO
extent that she is not content to
ner headdress at home when she
70 the mountains or seashore.
HeAr that at Beach Haven while the
~ nsh In the bay from early morn TO
~ eve the women, young and old,
ana ALL knit, knit. knit, make ban.
~' oathrobes, surgical dressings and
shirts. Altogether, it is quite
Dusy little resort. There's always
"ns'hins doing.
% interesting to their friends to
sn. mat Mr.. and Mrs. d. English
Gu -u' 'r" of West Rittenhouse street,
N n.'1antOwn, are being congratulated on
"rth OF a LITTLE da,,oh.o A..