Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-02
lH. STEVENS ENTERTA|Ns
WITH ANNUAL PICNIC
81 Grove Are Sir Frederick and
60 Lady Williams-Taylor.
Col. BRANCH AND WIFE HOSTS
They Give One OF Seasons Most Sue
ccssful Dinners, With Many Rich
IL monders Among Gucsts-Varied
Social Affairs During Week.
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ssts%WH1TE SULPHUR SPRINGS. w.
Va. September Though reluctant 10
SSsee the passing OF a happy August
Rtchmond sojourners at the springs
arc losing no moments from the hosts
>of social events that are featured this
week. George w. stevens issued in
yitations to an annual picnic which
was given this year at Lake Whlte
Grove on Saturday. where over 1JO
sojourners met Sir Frederick and Lady
Williams ylor. of Montreal. MIR.
y Stevens has offered his cottage on
Copeland Hill TO the titled guests dur
cling their stay at White sulphur.
Colonel and Mrs. James r. Branch.
lewhose invitations are always accepted
with the greatest pleasure, gave one
Z OF the largest and most successful! din
2spers of the season on Saturday night
Il in the Greenbricr following MIR.
# SteYenss picnic. Sir Frederick and
and Mrs. Garrett B. Wall, Mr.. and
Mrs. DcSoto Fitzgerald. Elmore d.
Hotchkiss, Jr., MIR. and Mrs. Thomas
+ Is. Scott. Miss Ellie Kerr Branch and
Mrs. r. q. Cabell were prominent
among the forty guests present
Mrs. Edward T. Robinson, who has
passed eight weeks at the White this
summer. started Gil Wednesday for her
hon.e in Richmond. Mrs. Il JDinsou is
she record guest at White Sulpndr,
= having come mere Tor over twenty con-
secutive summers.
~ Granville q. Valentine believes in
doing his bit in big bits" In response
tC call for aid for the Italian forces,
which Mrs. benjamin Miller, of Phila-
delphia. made in n recent talk at the
Greenbrier. MIR. Valentine offered to
send large shipment of conrentrat ted
meat Juice to be used in the hospitals
at the front This is among other
cmost needed articles for the wounded
soldiers. Mrs. Miller, who is chair
man of the Italian committee of the
emergency aid of Pennsylvania. has
been active in working for Italian re-
lief since the outbreak of Austrian
Ihostilities in the Alps. She went to
Virginia Hot Springs on Thursday,
Where she will pass week before re-
turning to Philadelphia.
Miss Doreen Fitzgerald. who passed
a few days at the Homestead, returned
on Monday, and has Miss Virginia
Christian, of Richmond as her guest
at Hawley Cottage.
Among the many dinners and lunch
cons going on at White Sulphur this
week was large dinner given by Miss
Elizabeth Lowndes. OF Cumberland
Md, for over thirty guests. Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas E. Scott, Colonel and Mrs.
James r. Branch, Mr.. and Mrs. Garrett
b. wall were among the Richmond
colony present
-hieses NatileFlnc ana Jeanne Nc
Laughlin. of New Brunswick, n. j..
gave luncheon on Wednesday for
over thirty guests They start north
next week, where they will tour the
Rerkshires for a fortnight.
Mrs Garrett Buckrer Wall, who
tied with Mrs. Thomas &. Paine on
the frst round of the Blind Boyle
Handicap Tournament on Saturda,-
won the silver cup presented by the
Greenbrier Calf Club.
prominent among arrivals this week
are w. Frank Powers. George w. War
ZEN. H. C. Workman, Jr.. and William
"a. "nlte. OF Richmond. who came for
week OF golf: Washington TAYLOR. Of
Noriolk: Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Taylor,
OF Newport News, Va, and w C;
Somerville. H.. OF Memphis, who joined
MIS-. william G. Somervil!e
Martin NoSel assistant treasurer Of
the united states, and Mrs Nocel ar
IiVen on Wednesday from New YORK
10 pass ten days at the C;reenbrinr
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick V. Wishart ~
the Hotel Astor: Mrs. Beverly ID. Har-
RS, DR.. and Mrs NJ. A. Ramisez
Hichard Fl. Gaines. Mrs. f.. Blum and
MISS anita Blum, DR.. and Mrs. s poi
ni, lno1nas DarriGan and Phelan
York this week. NC"
James Nj. Waterbury. Jr.. REM
montague. the well-known polo nI,vam
ana n. W. Henderson came from Eeu,
10TH on saturday to devote a net.
70 solt and ether i. outdoor snorts
0ooert Young BERNARD of pbii,da,
n'hiA' and Eorman H. Maxwejl -,
hIaoelphia' passed the wecL-ena
nere' soinG over the eighteen boias
daily. hoies