The Washington herald., 1918-05-10
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Ill. accompanied by their children.
Mr.. Mccormick has closed their
home In New Hampshire avenue
and IL with George +. Porter. at
2S2s California street.
Edwin n. Hurley. chairman Of the
Shipping Board. entertained at dinner
last evening at his home in Massachu-
setts avenue. In compliment TO
Charles NJ. schwab, the recently APP
pointed head of the Shipping Board.
The guests included men prominent
In Official life in Washington
The family house party. which Mr..
and Mrs. Hurley have been entertain
ing for the greater part of the win
ter. has now broken up. Lieut.. and
Mrs. Edward N. Hurley. jr.. are at
present in Chicago and Mrs. Raymond
Hurley, who was formerly Miss Betty
Taylor. Of Kansas City, No., has gone
home for q visit Lieut.. Raymond
Hurley Il on the stan of Brig. Gen.
william L. Nicholson, U. 8. A, at
Camp Meade, Nd, but Is at Ft. sill,
Okla. just now on temporary duty.
Mrs. L. E. White entertained an in
teresting company Of about 10 couples
at an informal dance last evening
at her home in the Conduit Road in
compliment to Mrs. West. wife OF
Commander Clyde Gray West. u. S.
N. stationed at Norfolk. She is the
guest OF the Misses Clark, daughters
Of Congressman and Mrs. Frank
Clark. Some Of the other guests were
the Misses Clark. Miss Stuart, Miss
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Ter and Lieut.. Labat of the French
army. Mrs. Clark will give q lunch
con in the Speakers dining room at
the Capitol today in honor Of Mrs.
West.
Miss Margaret Perrin will be
bridesmaid at the marriage of
Miss Janet Sheppard, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John s. Sheppard, jr.,
of New York. and Ensign Charles
Lane Poor, jr., U. S. n, which will
take place tomorrow in the chan
eel Of st. Thomas Church. New
York. The other attendants will
be Miss Cecily Boviard. Miss Anne
Thorne, Miss Curry Dake Metthews
and Miss Sophie Duer. A reception
will follow the ceremony which has
been hurriedly arranged on account
of the bridegroom's orders.
Mrs. Thomas c. Dawson Is accept
ing no invitations previous to her
marriage tomorrow to NJ. Philip
Charles Soyez. of the French High
Commission, owing to the hurried
date of the wedding. The services
will take place Saturday morning
quite privately, according to the
ritual of the Roman Catholic
Church. Mrs. James Hitchcock, of
Steubenville. Ohio, will be the ma
tron of honor and the witnesses
for the bride will be Senator Albert
3. Cummins and Col. Lawson Fuller,
and for the bridegroom, NJ. Jacques
Marguerite and N. Renard. The
bride and bridegroom will leave i'm
mediately after the ceremony for
a motor trip and will later be al
home in the brides present home,
1916 Nineteenth street.
Mrs. Charles Mills Hinkle and
Miss Jean Hinkle. accompanied by
Miss Heron. have gone to Hot
Springs. Va. making the trip from
Washington by automobile.
Through the courtesy of Mrs.
Loren Johnson, who is giving her
beautiful garden at 21OS Sixteenth
street northwest to the members of
Company No. 1, Navy Auxiliary Red
Cross, there will be given on the
afternoon of May Is an afternoon
bridge and tea from $3.50 to s
o'clock. The members of this COM
pany wish to raise sufficient funds
to enable them to carry on their
work in surgical dressings during
the summer. Mrs. Alexander Sharp
is chairman, Mrs. Loren johnson
vice chairman, and Mrs. Sophie L.
Rutherford treasurer.
Mai. Gen. and Mrs. William NJ.
Black, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Frederick
v. Abbott, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Will
liam l.. Marshall. Brig. Gen. and
Mrs. Henry Jervey, Brig. Gen. and
Mrs. Charles Keller. Col. and Mrs.
Henry c. Newcomer, Col. and Mrs.
Joseph Earle and Mrs. Edgar Jad-
win, wife of Col. Jadwin. will be
in the receiving line at the sub
scription dance to be given at
Washington barracks tomorrow
evening at . o'clock, by the women's
committee for engineer soldiers.
The Engineer Band will play for
the dancing. and already a large
number of tickets have been sold.
The proceeds will be used to buy
wool for the making Of knitted gar
ments for engineer soldiers.
Miss Ellen A. Vinton and Mrs.
Vinton, of 2S52 Ontario road. will
be at home today. 4 to p. m, the
occasion of Mrs. Vinton's eighty
fifth birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Speer, OF 1921
New Hampshire avenue, announces
the engagement of their daughter,
Katherine Bradley, to Lieut.. Jun
ius L. Powell. u. s. N, of this city,
now at Camp Lee. Va. The we'd
ding will take place shortly owing
to possible orders to the bride
groom-elect to go overseas. Miss
Speer is an accomplished and bril-
liant musician and pianist, who
spent some years in Germany COM
pleting her education. Mr. and Mrs.
Speer have made a wide circle of
friends in Washington, where they
have lived a comparatively few
years.
Mrs. Knapp, wife OF Capt. John
Harrison Knapp. U. s. N, will leave
today to spend the weekend at An
napolis with Capt. Knapp's uncle
and aunt, the superintendent of the
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