Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-02-17
Personal Notes of Interest
In the City's Social World

This week will be gaily concluded I
when several luncheons. dances and
dinners will be given this afternoon
and evening. Today there will be
luncheon in the Hotel DUPONT, by the |
Alumnae Association of the Misses
Hebb's School, a luncheon by Mrs.
Leonard wales Brinton. at her former |
home Greenacres. Wyncote. Pa, a
polo marty this afternoon at the Coun- /
try Club. to be i'm the nature of a /
dansant and given by Miss Esther A. !
Bancroft; a dance this evening by |
Mrs. William G. Coke, in honor of her I
niece Miss Emily Appel. Of READING |
Pa. and a dinner party this evening |
By General James II. Wilson and Miss |
Katherine Wilson.
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General Wilson and Miss Wilson will |
give their dinner party this evening
IN honor of Major and Mrs. Mark
Brooke. who recently moved TO this
CITY. and Mrs. y. G. Williams, OF Mile
ton, Mass. who arrived last oight TO
visit the wilson's for a fortnight Their
ether guests will be Major and Mrs
Frank o Whitlock. Mrs. James A.
Draper. Miss Anne Gray. Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry b Thompson. Andrew C. Gray,
John A. Lloyd and former Judge David
T Marvel.
The polo party which Miss Esther
A. Bancroft will give this afternoon at
The Wilmington Country Club. will be
q most delighiful occasion 10 Is the
first "Merry Whirl" reunion party
since that happy event was concluded
last week Her guests will include
The members OF the polo dance which
made such lift at the "Whirl.". Miss
Bancroft it will be remembered, had
ono Of the leading parts i'm tho dance.
Those who comprise the poloists are:
Miss Frances Durham, Miss Alice
Johnson. Miss Margery pyle. Miss
Jean Evans. Miss Mary Armstrong,
Miss Elizabeth Reese, Miss Mary
Curtis. Miss Elizabeth Edsall. Miss
Elizabeth Patterson, Miss Anne Gar
rcit. Mrs Philip ID. Laird. and Har-
court Burns. George Benkhart, Guy
Stollenwerck. Leonard Kirby, John
Jessup. Donald Satterthwait, Henry
Robertson, Andrew Fletcher, Edward
Bispham. Stanley Lawton, Arthur
Ketcham. and John Sellers.
Mrs. +. w. Curtis. Mrs. John Ban
croft and Mrs. Richard Ruse willscha-
perone the dance.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harold Perot Keen
Will entertain informally at dinner
on Monday evening at their home
Kynlyn. Bellevue. in honor of Miss
Helen Anderson Of ottawa. Canada.
who Is the guest OF the Misses Girvin,
Of Philadelphia. Covers will be laid FOR
twelve guests
The subscription dinner dance In
he rose room of the Hotel DUPONT. on
Monday evening and the d. A. r..
State luncheon, at the Hotel dupont.
on Tuesday. are leading events
on next weeks social calendar.
Among those who will entertain at
Sinner before the dance on Monday
evening. will be Rodney Thayer MIR
and Mrs. Irenee DUPONT and Mrs
Henry p. Thompson.
At The u. A. r. luncheon on Tues
day. patriotic colors will be used and
The entire function will strike a
strong patriotic note. Mrs George
Thatcher Guernsey of Independence.
Kansas, Mrs. Robert G.. Hogan, OF
Baltimore. and Miss. Emma Crowell.
OF Pennsylvania, will be the guests Of
honor
Mr.. and Mrs. Irenee DUPONT Mr.
and Mrs. II. Fletcher Brown, DR.. and
Mrs. James A. Draper and Mr. and
Mrs. Walter S. Carpenter win COM
prise a party which will leave here
about February "a, for Palm Beach.
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Mr.. and Mrs. John W. Causey en-
tertained at a Red Cross bridge par
~ on Wednesday evening and their
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Har-
rington, Miss Harrington, Of Dover
who is visiting them. Mr.. and Mrs
Charles A. Patterson. Miss Jane
Doremus and Major and Mrs. F. o
Whitlock
Miss Mary Curtis left yesterday 70
New York to visit friends for a weel
or ten days.
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Mrs. Frank o. Whitlock entertain
ed Informally at tea yesterday after
noon in honor of Mrs. Mark Brooke
wife of Major Brooke. United State
Engineer. who was recently assigne
TO this city. Major and Mrs. Brook
have taken apartments at the BelvC
dere.
Wilmington win have its first IVA
bride" when the marriage of Mis-
Dorothy Fox Corkran. daughter Z
Mrs Willard +. Corlxran. and Lieuten
ant William Putnam Cherrington, |
S. A., of Fort Preble. Portland Har
Dor. Me-. will be solemnized in IN
Protestant Episcopal Church in Port
land, at o'clock next Thursday even
ing. Miss Corkran. who has been Wis
lung Mrs. Walter Hess. of Portland
LOT several weeks. decided TO hastel
her wedding when il became know
.nal no ohcer In the army could b.
lleea from duty for even day becaus
VI lhe International situation. Mis-,
SVlMah and Lieutenant CherrinetoI
nau INTENDED 10 be married in lime
captain Richardson, L. S. A.. will n,
sile GROOM best man. Lieutenant an
MIS- walter Hess and Iieutensr
ana Mrs. harrington Slanniaan VII
were married last week and who lurr
Wise had TO curtan their wodding ~,
VIII also attend the bride and groor
Lieutenant Cherrington and his mi,
Will mot be able to take a weddir
trip because leaves Of absence Ina.
been withdrawn. They will ma
their home for awhile at Fort Preb
Mrs. Corkran will leave here tom,
row for Portland. to attend her dams