The Washington herald., 1918-07-14

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istration and there isn't anything
that she can't do. She and Kitty
Beach, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
now in the Fuel Administration,
are going to leave town next SAT-
urday to visit Suzanne's brother.
Lieut.. Nathan Chase, u. 8. N, at
Bay Shore. L. ]. Lieut.. Chase has
been on duty at Pensacola, Fla.
for long time, but was recently
In command Of the naval aviation
station. He is about due to be .
lieutenant commander. He and his
on the birth of q daughter, their
first child. on July In Pensacola.
Mrs. Chase will join her husband
at Bay Shore some time next month.
suzanne's younger brother, Vol
ney o., jr., has just entered the
naval academy and though only 1s
years Of age. passed third in the
entrance examinations. He II the
only one OF Mrs. Chase's four chill
dren who was also Capt. Chase's
child. Her second child and older
daughter. Elizabeth married Lieut..
John Mcdonald Thompson. OF this
city, something over q year ago.
It seems strange that both of those
girls should marry men named
Thompson, both from Washington
and no relation to each other. Lieut..
and Mrs. Thompson have been sta
TONED In Texas since their mar
riage. They have q little son, John
Mcdonald, jr., about two months
old. who was Mrs. Chase's first
grandchild. Now she has two, but
you would never suspect she was
a grandmother to see her; she looks
so young.
Katheryn Hitchcock's engagement
was more Of surprise, though II de-
yelops that she has known Blair
Shumaker all her life and that he has
been long devoted to her. Katheryn
always declared she was never going
to marry but her friends always
smiled, knowing that q girl of her
great attraction could never escape;
the men Just would not let her. She
has always had suitors galore. She
too. Is very clever In various ways.
She has a charming voice. She and
her sister, Lena Hitchcock, are &C.
tive workers in the Junior League,
and at all of the big affairs they
have given in the past few years,
those two girls have always had a
prominent part, always had big
part In the preparations, in actually
making the decorations which never
fail to be something out of the crdi-
nary and often quite remarkable-well
I just don't know what the Junior
League would do without Katheryn
and Lena Hitchcock.
They are daughters of Mrs John N.
Speel. wife Of Pay Director Spetl. u.
s. N. They live at Isis K street which
they purchased q few years ago from
the estate Of Gen. r. c. Drum, who
lived there when he was adjutant
general Of the army In the days when
the adjutant generally was equivalent
to the present position of chief of
stan OF the army.
Miss Hitchcock II the granddaugh-
ter Of Gen. Harry White, of Indiana.
Pa, and Of the late Alexander Buei
Hitchcock. Of Chicago. Lieut.. shu-
maker Il the eldest son Of the late
Samuel r. Shumaker, Of Pittsburgh
ana Huntington, Pa, and grandson
OF the late John p. Blair, of Indiana.
Pa Because OF Lieut.. Shumaker's ab-
sence In France no definite date has
been set for the marriage. He was
stationed at Camp Meade all winter |
with the a0th Field Artillery and |
sailed a fortnight or more ago with
the advance party from Camp Meade. |
Each OF the regiments there sent
over a few officers and about twenty
hve men each ahead Of the main body
or the regiment Gen. Joseph Kuhn,
In command Of the Seventy-ninth Di-
vision, I believe. went with the ad-
vance troops. The rest are follow
ing rapidly.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Spottiswood Gar
land sent out cards last week for the
marriage Of their daughter, Mary
Truxton Garland, and William George
Hill on Saturday afternoon, August
3, at $50 o'clock, at their Florida
avenue residence. Mrs. George Ed
wards, the brides sister, will be ma
tron Of honor and in the bridal party
will be Miss Mary Pearre as maid
Of honor and Elizabeth Beach and
Gertrude Thompson as bridesmaids.
TWO out-of-town weddings of WASH
ington people within the last week or
so were those of Lieut.. John Holmes
Magruder, U. 8. N. and Miss Esther
Hosmer, In Marion. Mass, and that
or Miss Marjorie Gordon Helmbold
and Capt. Charles George Mahool, U.
8. A., in Baltimore.
Marjorie Helmbold's marriage was
quite sudden. though her intimate
friends knew Of her engagement. Sew
eral Of them received special delivery
letters on the morning Of the Fourth
asking them to please run over to
Baltimore that day for, her marriage.
Among those who motored over were
Suzanne Chase, Dorothy Mason and
Helene Hamilton.
It Is rumored that one of the next