Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-30
INDIAN SUMMER HOLDS
IS s BASKERVILLE WITHIN GRIP
Chestnuts Ripening on Mountains,
Where Jack Frost Occasionally
-, sssss Appears, Causing Sharper Air.
GAY WINTER is PREDICTED
Onicsrs at Nearby Camps Spend
s.sssWeek-Ends at Grove Park Inn.
-sGolf and Dancing Prominent in So
SC1al Life of Resort.

u ASHEVILLE. n. c., September 90
Indian summer, declared by many to
s.the most beautiful season OF the
year in the Land of the Sky" has
Ashcville firmly in it's grip. The balmy
mountain breezes Of summer have given
way to sharper. keener mir. imbued
with the tang of the far-off mountain
peaks. where Jack Frost is beginning
to appear at times. and while the days
are still delightfully."- warm the night
air demands light wrap. Chestnuts
are ripe on the mountains, and guests
at Grove Park Inn have already or
Ganized several parties to hunt the
delicious nuts. afterwards roasting
them In front of the huge fre-places
In the big room" of the inn.
Every indication points to the gayest
winter season in the history of the city.
The proximity OF the training camps
at Greenville and Spartanburg permits
the officers of the two camps to spend
their week-ends in the city. and they
Como over In large numbers for the
saturday night dinner dances at Grove
Park Inn, which are beginning to take
on quite military aspect.
Among the recent arrivals at Grove
Park Inn are Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
J. McAuliffe, of st. Louis. who are
spending their honeymoon at the Inn.
Mrs. McAuliffe was. before her mar
riage on September 4. Miss Florence
Bright Jones, prominent in the social
and literary worlds of ST. Louis Mr..
McAulifre is connected with a subsid-
larry of the Jnited States Steel COM
pany at st. Louis. and is n brother of
Joseph j. Mica ulffe, managing editor
4 the st. Louis GIobe-Democrat. one
Of the leading papers OF the Mississippi.
Valley.
MANY Of the guests at the inn spend
much OF their time at the Asheville
Country Club where golf and dancing
are the order OF the day almost daily
Each guest at the inn automatically
becomes member of the club. and as
some prominent wona presides at the
tea table each Saturday afternoon. the
club is popular rs rendezvous for
both Asheville and visiting members of
s2clety. 1mpromptu tournaments have
been held on tae golf course practically
every day this week and have attracted
great interest.
ladfeE- husily engaged in knitting
sweaters muff1ers and other articles
for~t the boys in brown who will soon
be somewhere in France" Knitting.
cards and the afternoon concerts on
the huge pipe organ prove most pop
ular with those ladies not athletically
inclined.
Among the recent arrivals at Grove
Park Inn are: Jay ]. Andrews. Pitts
burgh; ]. N. Goddard and chauffeur.
Atlanta: Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Block. St
Louis: Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L. Holmes. Jack
sonville; Miss Annie Oates, Flat Rock,
n. e.; DR.. r. S. Wilder. New York City:
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. II. Carn Jr, New
York; E. D. HaiGht. Brooklyn: ] Hoyt.
Raymond Z. Cox and r. p. Potter.
NeweHork; Dabney Ramseur. Birminy-
ham; Major and Mrs. C. 3. Earle and
child, Spartanburg; Captain Llewellyn
Sale. NJ. R. c., st. Louis; Captain and
Mrs James T. McAden. Charlotte; j. C.
Miller. Philadelphia: R. c. Steinhart.
Havana, Cuba; r. r. King. Richmond;
j: NJ. Dewberry, Louisville; Mrs. c.
E-s,Skoop and Miss Shoop, ST. Louis:
Mr.r@E e. Roland Snader, Jr Philadcl-
phta; Mrs Charles Cummings Collins.
st, Louis; r. G. Young and Adam
Haskell. Chattanooga; Bli:s Knapp,
Boston: Mrs. ID. T.. Gardner, Toledo:
Mrs. Ninton Lidder. Charlotte: Mr.. and
MIS-. j. NJ. Casscll, Miami; Mrs w. p.
Smith, Miami; Mr.. and Mrs. +. T.
Dickinson, New York; Mrs. John e
Dewey and Miss Carolyn Dovey. East
Orange. n. j.; Mr. and Mrs Paul T.
Jones, New York; Lieutenant and Mrs
r. H., Cruger, New York