The Washington times., 1917-09-07
THE SOCIAL SIDE
BbI Mission Is
On Visit Today
To Gettysburg

Members Of the Japanese mission
varied the program OF dinners and
Iuncheons which have been given in
their honor this week by. a trip to
Gettysburg today. They started this
morning by motor and will be escort
ed over the famous battlefield In
the party were Vice Admiral Takes
hita and Major General Sugano, Com
mander Ando and Lieutenant Colonel
Tamakawa, all OF the mission; the
military attaehe of the Japanese EN-
bassy, Lieut.. Col Takezo Mizumachi;
Commander Vlscount .Mesamichi Hot
ia, assistant naval attache; Minoro
FULL and Yoshio Iwate, also Of the
embassy staff; Brig. Gen. James. A.
Irons, u. s. A., and Capt Charles c.
Marsh, U. S. N.
The Belgian Minister. E. de Car
tier de Marchienne, entertained last
evening in compliment to Viscount
IshIi, chief of the japanese mission,
the dinner having the interesting
Montgomery, Country Club as Its set
ting. Among the guests were the
Ambassador OF Japan, Aimaro Sato;
David Franklin Houston, Secretary OF
Agriculture; the Speaker and Mrs.
Champ Clark, Senator Willard X.
Salisbury, Senator and Mrs. Frances
Salisbury, Senator and Mrs. Francis
G. Newlands, Senator Frank b.
Brandagee, Senator Joseph E. Fre-
linghuysen, Third Assistant Secretary
OF State and Mrs. BreckinrIdge, Long,
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Cary T.
Grayson, Masanao Hanihara, Japan
ese consul general at San Francisco;
Elshiro Nuida, third secretary OF the
Janapese embassy; Mrs. J. Borden
Hartman, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Nor
gan Hill, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert B.
Ruddock. Miss Josephine Patten and
Clifford Carver.
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The military attache OF the Japan
ese embassy, Col. T. Mizumachi, en-
tertained at dinner last evening in
honor OF Gen. Hugh L Scott, U. S. A,
and General Sugano. head of the mill
tary section of the mission. The din
ner was served at the Metropolitan
Club. The guests were seated at a
large table adorned with japanese
Asters Of different colors. Among the
guests were Maj. Gen. Tasker Bliss,
Maj. Gen. Erasmus Weaver. Maj. Gen.
Henry G. Sharpe, Surg. Gen. William
c. Gorgas, Maj. Gen. Joseph Z. Kuhn,
Brig. Gen. George o. Squires, Brig.
Gen. Henry p. Mccain, Brig. Gen. Will
liam II. Black, Brig. Gen. james
A Irons, Col w. w. Harris, Cox p. d.
Lochridge, Col. William S. Graves, Col.
Charles w. Fenton, Col. Palmer 4.
Pierce, Major Taylor. Major Coates,
and members OF the japanese mission
and Of the embassy staff.
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Miss.Dorothy Holbrook, whose mar
trisge to Lieut.. Sargent Prentiss Huff,
u. S. A. will take place tomorrow.
was the honor guest at a luncheon
which Mrs. Martin B. Stonestreet
gave today at the Army and Navy
Club. The other guests were Mrs.
Paul Sleeper. OF Newport News, Va;
Miss Christine Waggaman, and Miss
Adelaide Morris.
Mrs. Stonestreet, who arrived in
Washington Wednesday, is spending
a week with her uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. r. c. Tilghman. Before her
marriage to Ensign Stonestreet, U. S.
N, Mrs. Stonestreet was Miss Esther
whiting, of this city.
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Mrs. Paul Sleeper. OF Newport
News. Va: is visiting her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Ashby Leavell. at
their home in Chevy Chase. Mrs.
Sleeper will leave Washington Mon
day to visit near Culpeper, Va, Tor
fortnight. after which she will return
to washington to be with her par
ents for a month or so before return
ing 10 Newport News. Mrs. Sleeper
was Miss Mildred Leaven. Her hus-
band was formerly a naval officer,
but is now connected with the New
port News shipbuilding Company.
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Capt. and Mrs. r D. LaGarde are
at the Astor Hotel in New York for
a short stay. o.
Miss Mary Custiss Lee has gone to
white Sulphur Springs for an inden-
mite stay.
Mrs. TaImnEe to Visit spFinES-
Mrs. T. Dewitt Talmage, accom-
panied by her daughter, Miss RebeeeA
Collier, will go TO White Sulphur
Springs. this evening for the re-
mainder OF The month. Mrs. TAlmage
and Miss Collier spent the summer
at York Harbor, Ne. They have been
spending a few days at the willard
Mafpa IN lVhIfe