New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
Homecoming Fete
OF Soldiers Weeks
Event for Lenox
Parade, Ball and Dinner
Are Features of Gala Dav:
New Seal Is Presented
Town by Major Turnure
Special Correspondents

Special Correspondence
LENOX, Mass, July 26.-A home
coming reception for the Lenox soldiers
Thursday afternoon was the big affair
this week. The town appropriated 81 500
for the reception and Major George E.
Turnure was chairman of the commit
tee. All Of the town was hung with COL
ors; parade, a dinner at Curtis Hotel
for $50 men at which Major Turnure
presented the soldiers with diplomas, a
baseball game between Pittsfield and
Providence teams of the Eastern
League, massed band concert and a
bail in the town hall we're the principal
features.
Major Turnure has presented to the
town new seal, reproducing the old
courthouse and bearing the motto Of
the house of the Duke of Richmond and
LenoX, TOR whom the town was named.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forsyth Wickes have
been visiting Mrs. George Griswold
Haven. Henry D. Whitfield has been q
guest of his sister and brother-in-law.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie Mrs.
Selden Burchenal has been with her
mother, Mrs. John Hutton, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnston L. Redmond
lett Stockbridge, where they were with
MI. and Mrs. j. Woodward Haven. for
llVoH on the Hudson, where they
opened the Redmond country house.
Mrs. William D. Sloane is in New
port visiting Mrs. Vanderbilt. Mrs 81
llott r. Shepard went on to Bar Harbor
from her annual visit with Mrs. Sloane
and Mrs. John Henry Hammond. of New
lork, is at Elm Court during Mrs
Sloane's absence.
Lieutenant Count Vincent do Wier--
blckl of France, who was member of
the French High Command, is visitine
With Mr.. and Mvs Charles Rob;nson
smith. Mrs. Smith is the counts sister
AMONG tte arrivals a Tie Cottages
are Mrs Matthew c. Butler. to visit
Mrs. Robert Winthrop; Miss Beatrice
L34ohgman, with Miss Margaret French
-lrs. hees Alsop, to pass some time
With her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
". Chaplin, and Miss Mary NJ. Hart. to
visit Miss Emily W. Biddle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan R. Hanna will
start next week for the White Noun
talns by coach. Mr.. Hanna will have
relays Of his horses at various places
along the route. They will be away
about ten days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Spalding, who
were married at Ridgefeld, Conn, last
- ~. have been stopping at the
AAo'Nl 1oP4L" wall. Also tnere are Mrs.
'.a! Mclean. Mrs. Samuel Wakeman
Andrews, Mr.. and Mrs Benjamin F.
Speilman and Mrs Joseph c. Willetts.
n New York, and Mr.. and Mrs. Elliot
{. Brown, of Roslyn, Long Island.
Miss Helen Rutherford Russell.
whose marriage to K. Lawrence Benson
Will take place in Trinity Church, New
! ork. has been visiting with Miss Kate
Winthrop at Groton Place Miss Win
throp will be one Of the bridal party.
Arrivals at Curtis Hotel include M.
and Mrs. Henry Forbes McCreery, of
New York, who were entertained
by the cottagers. Mr. and Mrs Ramsey
Houget gave a luncheon for them at
Stockbridge. Mr. and Mrs. Robert NJ.
Janney, of Philadelp phia, have been at
the hotel on their way to the Breton
Woods. Mrs Robert Maclay and Miss
Eleanor Forde, of New York, are at
the Curtis for the season
Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Grant
and Miss Grant, of Summit, n. j.; Mrs.
Charles II. Post, Miss Katherine NJ.
Post and Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Brew
ster ir., of New York, are at Red Lion
Inn, Stockbridge.
Edward c. Gregory and Misses Fanny
X. and Isabel NJ. Gregory. of New York,
are at Heaton Hall, Stoclsbrdge