The Washington herald., 1918-01-09
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on Friday afternoon. at the washing
ton Club.
Mrs. Frank Noyes will be at home
on Saturday afternoons in January.
Mrs. Charles v. Wheeler will en-
tertain at a tea today atNher home
in Sixteenth s;rsst. for the Junior
Republic.
Senator James Duvall Phelan was
host at a dinner last evening when
his glests were thu members Of tie
Foreign Relations Committee, and the
Military Affairs AMI Naval Affairs
Committees Of the Senate. who were
asked to meet Scnator Kenyon. OF
Iowa, and Senator Kendrick. Of
wyoming. The honor guests have re-
Gently returned to this country after
visiting the battlefields of Europc.
and told OF their experiences abroad.
Mr.. and Mrs. John z. Osborne. who
are spending the week at the Willard
win leave on Sunday for their home
in Rawlins. Wyo., where their small
daughter. Miss Jean Curtis Osborne
Is visiting Mrs. psborne's sister. Mr..
and Mrs. Osborne passed the holi-
days in Kentucky. They are building
lovely new home in Rawlins.
Mrs. Joseph Letter has left WASH
ington to join Mr.. Letter at their
place near New Orleans for a stay
OF several weeks.
Mrs. James Baker. wife OF Judge
Baker. of Jacksonville, Fla, who is
spending the winter in Washington
entertained at an informal tea dance
at the Willard yesterday afternoon
in compliment to Miss Mary Duncan
Gibson, the debutante daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Richardson Gibson.
Miss Gibson will be the honor guest
at a dinner. followed by n theater
party. which Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Jeffords will give on the evening of
January 1s. Mr.. and Mrs. Jeffords
have Mr.. and Mrs. George Howard's
residence in Sixteenth street for the
winter.
Col. and Mrs. John r. williams
have leased the residence at 1925
n street which they have been oc-
cupying for several months to
Major and Mrs. Ralph Cruise, who
will take possession next week.
Maj. Cruise, who Is from Chicago.
is legal adviser to the Ordnance
Department.
Col. and Mrs. williams expect to
take possession. shortly, of the
home they are building in Massa-
Chusetts avenue and meanwhile
Mrs. Williams will go to New York
to be With her daughter, Mrs. John
Ballentine Pitney.
Mrs. Richard Townsend was hos
tess at a dinner last evening.
Mrs. W. Murray Crane, wife of
the former Senator from Massa-
chusetts, is the guest of her sister,
Mrs. Frederick A. Keep.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Ewell
Thornton are in Richmond at the
: jefferson Hotel where they will
I spend the winter. Mr.. Thornton is
member of the Virginia State
senate.
Benedict CrowelI, Assistant Sec
retary of War, and Mrs. Crowell
have leased the country home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Gist Blair at Silver
Springs. Md. Mrs. Crowell and her
children will reach town about
January Is, from their home in
Cleveland, and will Join Mr..
/ Crowell, who has an apartment at
Stoneleigh Court. They will take
possession of their new home i'm
medlately after her arrival
Mr.. and Nine. Ferdinand de
Mohrenschildt have as their guest,
Miss Leta Livingston Sullivan, of
Philadelphia
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Ross Grayener
who have been spending the holi-
days in Eason, Pa, Mrs. Gravener's
FORMER home, have returned to
their apartment in the Highlands.
Mrs. Gravener will entertain at
a luncheon today at the Army and
Navy Club in honor of Mrs. Dewitt
Riegel who Is a visitor in Wash
| ington.
Surg. Gen. William C. Braisted,
Surg. Gen. w. C. Gorgas, Medical
Director E. r. Stitt, Surg. Gen. ku-
pert Blue, Assistant Surg. Gen, w,
Rucker and Col Louis A. La Garde
all went to New York, yesterday to
| attend the meeting of the National
Board of -.-edical Examiners in that
city today.
Howard E. Coffin has gone to New
York for a short stav