The Washington herald., 1917-09-24
Moving Day in Diplomatic Corps
Engages Ministers and attaches

spent last winter in New York
studying vocal music. Mr.. McClel-
land. Is an executive of the Electric
Bond and Share Company, of New
York.
A small but interesting wedding of
this morning will be that OF Miss
Bertha Niepold, daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. w. Niepold. and Lieut.. DON
aid Kent Mason. U. s. A.. at the
residence of the brides parents in
Fairmont street.
The Rev. John T. Huddle will per-
form the ceremony in the presence Of
a small family party. There will be
no attendants. After an Informal
breakfast Lieut.. Mason and his bride
will go for a short wedding journey
which will take them to Syracuse.
n. Y, where the bridegroom is sta
toned.
An interesting wedding took place
Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock, at
the chapel in the cathedral, when
Miss Margaret Barbara Ross became
the bride Of Lieut.. Charles Douglas
Yelverton Ostrom, United States
Coast Artillery, now stationed at
Fort Barancas, Fla Dean Brate-
nahl performed the ceremony. after
which a dinner was served at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Walter C.
Allen in Cleveland Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Aubrey, Of
San Antonio. Tex, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter. Jean
Deering. to Lieut.. John Wells Bulk
ley. son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Robert w.
Bulkley, of Washington. The we'd
ding is to take place soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Wolf have re-
turned to their home after ten weeks
absence at Poland Springs, Me.
Mrs. Nathaniel Francis. daughter of
the late Chief Justice Fuller. and sis
ter of Mrs. Hugh c. Wallace. who has
spent some time in Paris. has left
there for Chalons-sur- Marine to take
up canteen work under the American
Red Cross.
Mr.. Henry c. Hall. chairman of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, and
Mrs. Hall, have taken the house at
223S . street. and will occupy it early
in October.
Lieut.. John o. II. Pitney. u. s. A.,
and Mrs. Pitney entertained at dinner
last week at their quarters at Fort
Myer. Va. in honor of Mrs. Pitney's
brother-in-law and sister. Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Letter. Mrs. John Pitney. OF
Morristown, N. j.. is now visiting her
son at Fort Myer.
Commander and Mrs. r. B. Brum
NETT have issued announcements of
the marriage of their daughter. Alena
Parthenia, to Mr.. Sydney Demar
Smith, Monday. September II. The
bridegroom is q son of Mr.. Sydney h.
Smith, of the War Department, and
had his brother, Mr.. Dram P. Smith.
as best man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith left later for
their wedding trip. After November 1
they will reside at the Saluda apart
ments, Eleventh and Euclid streets
northwest.
Mrs. Joseph E. Davies has returned
after spending the summer in the
White Mountains in New Hampshire.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Carl Smith, both
Washington artists of note, have ar
rived in Los Angeles. Cal, and intend
TO stay a year on the Coast, carry
ing on during that period their work
in portrait and miniature painting.
They have taken a house in Pasadena.
Mrs. T. F. Schneider and her daugh-
ters, Miss Ethel and Miss Florence
Schneider. who have been spending
the past three months in Newport with
Mrs. SchneiGeF's brother, Capt E. S.
Beach, commandant of the torpedo
station, will return to the Carlo Mon
day, after a weeks stop in New York.
Miss Margarite Heflin, 12i3 VI street
northeast, after visiting her cousins,
the Misses Holderns, near Warren
ton, Va, has returned TO Washington.