The Washington herald., 1917-08-28
The President and Mrs. Wilson
attend New National Theater


La Croix is now in France with the
United States expeditionary forces,
Corps of Engineers, and the wedding
will take place on his return.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Fitch Shepard
have gone to East Gloucester. Mass.
where they will spend several weeks
at the Hawthorne Inn.
DR.. William NJ. Pettus and Miss E.
Scmple Pettus. will return to WASH
ington tomorrow from Garden City,
Long Island, where they have been
guests for the past week Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifton d. Pettus. who are SPEND
ing the summer there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tucker X Sands have
sold their residence. 23l9 Tracy Place.
to DR.. and Mrs. Mead Moore. and
have purchased 34u Massachusetts
avenue from Mrs. Kate Babcock. They
will make their home there, taking
possession in the autumn.
Mrs. Henry Z. Jenkins and her small
daughter. Miss Anne Wythe Jenkins.
who have been visiting Mrs. jenkins
mother. Mrs. James Duncan Gate
wood. have gone to Port Jefferson,
L. l., to remain some weeks.
Mrs. Toy Dixon Savage and her
baby daughter. Miss Hildreth Savage,
who have been with Mrs. Gatewood
for a few days, returned to their home
in Norfolk yesterday.
The engagement is announced of
capt. Weston Brown Flint, son of
| the late Col. Flint, of Washington, and
himself a Washington man, to Miss
| Ruth, Ethidge, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Franklin A. Ethridge, of Rome,
n. Y. Miss Ethridge is a graduate
| OF the Brearley school in New York.
and has been much interested in the
| preparedness movement as voluntary
| secretary of the Home Defense League
| OF Rome.
Capt. Flint is graduate of Harvard
'O5, and three years later was gradu-
| ated from the Harvard law school.
While living abroad. Capt. Flint vol
unteered for service in rescue work at
the time of the Messina earthquake,
| as an executive under the noted Capt
! NOW AdmiraD Cagni. King Victor
Emmanuel later bestowed upon him a
medal in commemoration OF his SER
vices.
For six years Capt. Flint was a
member of the First Corps cadets and
saw duty during the Lawrence strike
When war has declared he entered
Plattsburg. was made first lieutenant
on May II. and captain on Aug. Is.
He was one of the 50 men chosen
from each camp to enter the school
of trench warfare. under the French
officers in Cambridge. He is a mem
ber OF the Harvard Club of Boston,
the University Club of Washington,
and other organizations.
Mr.. George Won Lengerke Meyer,
jr., who has been with the Harvard
r. o. T. c., has gone to the camp
at Plattsburg. and Mrs. Meyer. will
take a house there to be near him
while he is on duty.
Lieut.. Frank F. Fox. officers Re-
serve. L. S. A., and Miss Bessie Jen,-
fer. daughter of Mrs. r. II. Demain,
of Morgantown, W. Va. and the late
John Jenifer. were married Saturday
night at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs
J. Irving Cole. Towson, Md, by the
Rev. S. F. CassCn, pastor of Towson
Methodist Protestant Church.
Lieut.. Fox received his commission
at Fort Myer and the ceremony was
FASTENED by his being ordered to re-
port at Petersburg, Va. Miss Jenifer
was attending the training school for
nurses at the Church Home and In
| firmary. Lieut.. Fox is from Blue
| field. W. Va, where he attended the
University Of West Virginia, at Nor
| gantown.
| Mr. and Mrs. Z. G. Clark and chill
dren, and Mrs. Edward kolner and
| family, are among the Washington
people registered at the Lorraine, At
lantic City.