The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-20
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FREDA MEREDITH Telephone Madison 1898
FRlEDA MEREDITH DrETz, Editor


Mrs. westmoreland Davis Received
informally yesterday afternoon from
to O'Clock in the executive mansion
for the last time this season. These
affairs have been of much interest in
Richmond society during the past six
weeks and they will probably be con
tfnusd In the fall. Palms, hyacinths
and narcissus were used in decorating
the drawing room yesterday and the
centerpiece OF the tea table was a tall
vase Of American Beauty roses As
sisting Mrs. Davis Ia receiving and
presiding at the tea table were Mrs.
q. /. Heniss, Mrs Randolph williams,
and Mrs Malvern {. Patterson.
Engagement Announced at Party.
At n card party given IN Harrison
burg last week by Miss Bessie Peck
and Miss Virginia Harnsberger In the
home OF the latter, the engagement OF
their friend, Miss Enid Slpc. to Lieu-
tenant George W. Brent. OF Alexandria
was announced. The announ cement
had bean kept secret until after the
card games when the guests were
given roses as favors and within the
rose petals cards bore the names OF
Miss Sipe and Lieutenant Brent The
wedding VIII he celebrated In the near
future.
Guests at the party, all Of whom
have friends IN Richmond. were.
Misses Margaret Logan. Anne cum
Minis, Lille Belle bishop. Mary
Bauserman. Mary v Ynnccy. Mary
Dorsey Sipe, Enid Slpe. Deiucla
FLETCHER, Eliza beth Harnsberger. Viz /
g.nia HarnEberger. Bessie Peck. Anna
Lewis and Virginia Ztrkle. Jessie
Conrad, Elizabeth Hsss Mrs. w.
Gillespie Sprinkel. Mrs. Harry Lee
Dechert. Mrs. Bucius : Fletcher and .
Mrs. Samuel p. Fletcher
Engagement of Miss Carroll
Mr. and Mrs. William s, Carroll Of
staunton, formerly OF Lynchhurg,
have announced the engagement Of
their daughter, Ishelle Iaymau to
Lieutenant Tracey Q TuthHI, Z. = A..
Of New York. now connected with the .
1Twenty-second infantry at Long Is
land
Miss Carroll is a graduto Of Ran .
doiph-Macon college sud unH recent /
~ was mem Der NJ thc faculty. She .
3s granddaughter OF tbs late John
w. Carroll and IS q member o. a very .
prominent Virginia family.
Personals.
Mira C. A. Stevens, Of Roanoke. F.
who has been spending several davs I'm .
Petersburg to Ne near her son. Kyle 3,
81 Stevens. stationed AT Camp Lee. IS
visiting friends IN this city
Mrs Brady, Mrs. . NJ Murchlson. /
and her little daughter. Nell, Of .201a |
Stuart avenue, left Monday eevning /
for Dursnt. oklahoma where they will !
spend several weeks with Mrs. 13rady'a .
daughter. Later they will 60 10 Dallas I
Texas for visit with relatives and /
friends
Miss Marie Cheatwood. Of Chin
n.
Howard Myers at her home in Nor
folk.
Mrs. William Forbes Sc visiting Mrs +
W. A. Whaley al her apartment in /
Armistead Bridge Court Norfolk.
Mrs. Lewis Ianghorne has returned !
10 her home IA Salem after a visit /
with Or. aud Mrs, Thomas Cary John /
son. of Ganter Park.
Miss Katherine Goodwin. OF Roches-
ter. N y. Is visiting friends in this
city.
Mrs. H.. c. carroll OF this city Is
visiting friends ia Wuona, Va.
I'm Route to Colorado.
Miss Fan and Ann Lee Of Irving
ton. passed through Richmond yester-
F
Mcdonald Lea, en- route 70 Hot
Springs. Arkansas. and Denver. /
Colorado. They expect to return to
Virginia in about three weeks by way
OF the Great Lakes and Niagara Falls.
Gard Party Postponed.
The subscription card party which
was TO have been given by the Lee
chapter, Daughters Of the Confederacy
this Thursday afternoon In the Home
for Needy Confederate Women. has
been postponed until after Lent
SCribhICws Meet
The Scribblers will hold their reg7t-
lar meeting this evening at sac
o'clock In the home Of Mrs, Henry
-Avlett Sampson, 1877 West avenus
At the Women's Cub.
This afternoon at 80 O'Clock IN the
Womans club DR.. Mary Riggs Noble,
ef the war work council Of the Young
WoTnans Christian association, viii
give an address on What America
Expects Of Her Girls" Mrs J. Ali
son Hodges is chairman of the after
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