The Washington herald., 1918-04-11

CtpllOn q le" ycdES dBO.
Miss Katherine Clark Culver and
Rodney williams, whose engagement
was announced last December. will
be married Saturday in the chantry
of St Thomas Church, New York.
The reception, which will be small,
will be at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Potter Killing, Miss Culver's
stepfather and mother. Bishop James
Henry Darlington, OF Harrisburg, Pa,
will oficiate.
Miss Culver Is a granddaughter OF
former Senator william Andrews
7 Clark. She was bridesmaid at the
marriage Of Miss Edith Temple Oracle
and Dunbar Burchen Adams last De-
cember.
Curiously enough another OF Edith
Oracle Adams bridesmaids Is an
nouncing matrimonial plans.
DR.. and Mrs. Frederick Peterson, of
New York, have announced the en-
gagement Of their oldest daughter,
Miss Frederika Peterson, to Lieut..
Theodore Darlington Jessup, of the
SO5th infantry, Camp Upton, q son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wynans Jessup.
Lieut. Jessup's mother before her
I was 2nASS
| Of Philadelphia He attended Hamil-
ton College and was graduated from
the first officers training camp at
PIattsburg. He has three brothers
in the service.
/ Miss Peterson has visited in Wash
ington and was bridesmaid at the
marriage of Miss Edith Temple Oracle
to Mr.. Dunbar Burchell Adams in
December.
Mrs. William Heimke, OF the Dres-
den; is so seriously i'll that her sister,
Mrs. Frances Z. Bassett, of Chicago,
has been called to her bedside.
Mrs. George Howard. Mrs. Wood
bury Blair. Mrs. Guy Norman, Miss
Helen Cannon and Mr.. Ward are
among those who have taken tables
for the auction bridge tournament
( to be held at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edison Bradley. 1928 Connecticut
avenue on the evening Of Friday. April
10, at 9 o'clock. for the benefit of
the Red Cross Helpers Auxiliary,
1754 NJ street. Many men and women
! bridge players prominent in Wash
| ington society will take part in this
tournament, which will be under the
leadership of Mr.. Milton Work, the
well known bridge player. who has
so successfully conducted many tour
naments throughout the country this
season for the benefit OF war relief
work.
The committee in charge of the ar
rangements includes Mrs. George
Howard, Mrs. Horace westcott and
Mrs. A. Garrison McClintock.
The Norwegian minister and Nine.
Bryn have taken again for this sum-
mer the cottage at Blue Ridge Sum-
nit which they occupied last summer
and Nine. Bryn and their children
will go there as soon as school closes.
the minister making them visits
whenever his official duties permit.
Mr.. Maurice Francis Egan, United
States minister to Denmark, who is a
guest of his daughter, Mrs. Elmer
Murphy, expects to go to New York
Saturday for a short visit. Mr.. and
Mrs. Egan since their arrival in this
country have been the recipients of
constant attention from their large
circle of friends.
Harvard men in Washington will
nave d Ine
Washington Harvard Club at the
Chevy Chase Club tonight at 1880
o'clock. This will be the second
large gathering OF Harvard alumni
this winter, the first having been
at Rauscher's at Christmas time,
when 375 men were present. Sena-
tor Henry Cabot Lodge, one of the
senior alumni will address the
meeting.
The officers of the club for 1918
are: Col Samuel E. Winslow. Rep
resentative from Massachusetts,,
president; Pickering Dodge, treas
urer; and Capt. John Washington
Davidge. secretary. The committee
! in charge of the dinner is Walter
r. Tuckerman. chairman, James W.
Prentiss and Joseph s. Hamlen.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Mayer, of 2022
Sixteenth street northwest, who
have been at the hotel st. Charles
in Atlantic City. have returned to
Washington.
Mr.. Alexander Hunter Gait has a
conspicuous part in the cast of
The Merchant of Venice" to be
given by Mr.. r. D. Mclean and
Odette Tyler and a company of
Washington players on April 19 for
the benefit of the American Mill
tary Hospital in France and the
George Washington University
Hospital in this city, at the Belasco
Theater. Others in the cast are
Mrs. Maud Howell Smith, Miss Imo-
gen Fairchild, Mr.. Henry F. Dolan,
Mr.. Maurice Jarvis, Mr.. Edward B.
White, Mr.. Edward D. O'Brien, Mr..
Findley s. Hayes, Mr.. Alexander
Hunter Gait, Mr.. A. B. Black, Mr..
Lawrence K. Downey, Mr.. John E.
Mckenzie, Mr.. Edward n. Hall and
Miss Madeline O'Brien and the AL
hambra Quartet.
Miss Imogen Taylor, known on
the stage as Imogen Fairchild, will
play Jessica.
Miss Marie Louise Owens, daughter of
DR.. and Mrs. Clarence ]. Owens. gave
reception and dance last night at
her parents home, Oak villa" River.
dale Park, Md, in honor of a group of
officers stationed at Fort Meyer. The
guests Of honor were: Capt. w. X,
Quigley, 18th Engineers, of New Ha-
ven, Conn: First Lieut.. Victor II,
Browning, 37th Engineers, of San An
tonic. Tex: First Lieut.. Raymond e.
Mitchell. S7th Engineers, of Buffalo,
N. Y; Second Lieut. Norman E. EN-
mons, 9th Engineers, of Hartford,
Conn.,. and Second Lieut.. L. H. Alline,
9th Engineers, of Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Among the guests were schoolrnates
Of Miss Owens from Fairmont Semi
nary. They were: Miss Elizabeth
Glenn of South Carolina: Miss AiIleen
Smith of Washington, Miss Marjorie
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