Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-03-02
Mostly About People

General James II. Wilson and Mrs
Katherine Wilson will entertain al dim
ner. this evening, in honor Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Merrick They have in
vitcd 10 meet them, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
B. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs John =
Nields, Miss Anne Gray, Miss Mary
Cooper, Colonel John Montgomery Of
Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, and
Captain Lyman, L. :. 4.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Carpenter and
Frank Carpenter, Jr., left for Boston
last evening. TO visit Philip Carpenter
and Allan Carpenter, Of the L. = Naval
Flying Corps, at the Massachusetts
Institute Of Technology. They will re
main about q week.
Philip and Allan Carpenter, after
training at tho aviation school At Clay
mont, last summer, went 10 the ground
school at "the Tech for ten-wceks'
course that will be completed in about
three weeks.
Mrs Paul Wilson and her children and
Miss Ethel Trliman returned home,
this week, after spending several weeks
at Palm Beach, and several othor south
, Crn resorts.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Belts went TO
Atlantic CITY. today, 70 stay week.
Mrs. LEONARD 4. Yerkes and Miss
Laura Anory left today for Jackson
vile. Fla, n Join Mr. and Nrp Harry G.
Haskell, and then 20 10 Palm Beach for
fortnight
Mr. and Mrs Henry Hopes went ~
Atlantic City, today. for tho week-cnd,
and Miss Henrietta H. Hoopes Il visiting
her aunt, Mrs Olin Bryan - Overbrook-
Pa
Mrs. stewart lee has bcen spending
several weeks NJ Atlantic City, and will
return next week
Mrs. John Woodriss of Orange. Va, Is
spending a week with Miss Evellna IN
Pont.
Joseph Gales Ramsay is nome from
| Princeton for the weekend, staying ~
Dalhoisre with Mrs. w. g. Ramsay.
Mrs. Charles v. Bardeen Of Madison,
! Wis is staying with her daughter, Mrs
1 Frank la Mote until Easter.
4 very dulet wedding took place,
today a. noon, 1T 81 Andrews p.
| Church. when the rector, Rev Richard "
| TrapnelI united William NJ Francis and
| Miss MarVaret " Bowen, daughter NJ
| Mr.. and Mrs. Levi X Bowen 81 Newark
| The BRIDE WAS married IN her travelling
| frocl of blue treco cloth, and wore with i
| q picture hat of black georgette crepe and
satin, and corsage bouquet 81 violets
and orchids.
After the ceremony, there was a we'd
| ding breakfast, with only the immediate
| families present. 1T the home 81 rhe
groom's parents, Sheriff and Mrs. Theo-
| dorc w. Francis The bride and groom
lett this afternoon for a tnp south that
will incllrie Palm Beach and the Florida
KEYS. Cuba and New Orleans They viii
reside At bob Delaware avenue
Judge and Mrs. William ;. Prickett
were at Towerville, Pa, on Monday,
attending = family party given 10y Mrs.
Pricketts mother. Mrs. J. l.. Polk. in
honor Of her son, Rev Samuel Polk, VINO
is about TO leave for France. Mr.. Polk
has been granted a year leave OF ab-
sencc. from his church in Lawrenceville.
y. j.. that ~ might be selected by he
Presbyterian General Assembly 10 re-
spond 10 a call from General Pershing
for ministers for welfare work IN the axmy
He wa.s~ selected bv the Presbyterian
General Assembly because Of MS very
keen interest IN young people and n
athletics. an interest that has helped
greatly with his success N the ministry
This evening at O'Clock, the mar
rage OF Miss Marion Evelyn Molly,
I'll
TO DR.. Hamilton Bradshaw of Whining
ton, will be solemnizcd in the Methodist
Church At Lewistown, Pa, Rev. Mr..
Miller officiating The bride viii be
given In marriage by her father, and VII
be attended by Miss Sarah Fetz of Lewis
town as maid OF honor, and by Miss
Florence Miller and Miss Margaret
Wren OF Lebanon, Pa, rs bridesmaids.
DIR. Bradshaw will have for his best
man Frederick F Chapman OF Whining
ton, and the ushers will be DR.. Charles
NJ. Stine, Wilmington; VIII J. Brlsbln
and William Banks, LeSistown, Pa,
and William II. Bradshaw, Lansdowne,
Pa
DR.. and Mrs. Bradshaw viii 20 to
Florida for a fortnight's wedding tnp,
and on their return will be al home after
April I. at 23l5 West Seventeenth street
Mrs. William Stine Of this city is q sister
Of the bride.
Or. Bradshaw Is the son OF Mr.. and
Mrs Samuel p Bradshaw of Nutley,
\. l., and grandson Of the late, we'll
known Hamilton Bradshaw of Brooklyn
y y He received his doctor degree a
Johns Hopkins University and has been
connected with the experimental station
OF the T. l. du Pont de Nemours and Co.
for about ten years. For the past year
he has been director in charge, and he IS
known as one Of the sblest chemists in
the station.
Mrs. Coleman du Pont has been al
her home here, this week, and will return
to New York City, where she and MIR.
du Pont arc spending the winter. early
next week Before coming to Wilmington
Mrs du Pont was IN Chicago and Louis
villc, ny, visiting hostess houses erected
bv the \ ". G. A.
At the Great Lakes Naval Station, just
outside Of Chicago, the y W &. A. has
one hostess house where over 5000 visitors
have been taken care OF, and now another
house il being erected There are between
%, 900 and 10000 men at the station,
and this necessitates extensive accommO-
dations for the women folk who visit
them The other hostess house, thst
Mrs. du Pont visited was at Camp
Yacharx. IT, vior near / ol,isx-ilia and there