Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-03
Social Activities

Among the guests at the luncheon to be
given on Wednesday by Miss Cecily Barnes
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Hampton
Barnes, of 1917 De Lancey place. in honor
OF Miss Lorraine Graham, whose engagement
to Mr. Edward A. Bacon has recently been
announced, will be Mrs James Somers Smith,
Jr.. Mrs. Forde A. Todd. Miss Helen Harte
Miss Ruth Hobart and Miss Katherine c.
Lea.
Among those who will entertain at the
opera tomorrow evening are Miss Elisabeth
McMichael. who will occupy Mr.. and Mrs C.
c. Harrison's box; Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander
Van Rensselaer,. who will entertain at dinner
before the opera, and Mr.. and Mrs. G. Brin-
ton Roberts, of Bala.
DIR. and Mrv. George A. Cameron, of
Schoolhouse lane and Green street, German
town, had as tbeir guests over the week -end
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Fisher and Captain
II. Fenton Fisher, Of jamestown, N Y. The
engagement Of Mrs. Cameron's daughter.
Miss Helen Moore, and Captain Fisher was
announced on Saturday.
Miss Isabel strother. Of Baltimore, spent
the weekend as the guest Of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph NJ. Gazzam.
Miss Louise Wanamaker and Miss Janet
Darby, OF Merton, and Mrs J. w. C. Camp
bell of New York. left today for the South,
In Phoenix, Arz.
Mr. and Mrs. Ferreo Brnton. OF 1913 Rit-
tenhouse Square, will return the early part
OF this week from Old Point Comfort. Mr..
Brinton has recovered from an attack of
influenza.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rollin II. Wilbur. of Old
Stone House. st. Davids, have returned from
Atlantic City, where they have been spending
some time.
Mrs. Kane Green, of Bryn Mawr, and Mrs.
Richard f. Norton. of Ardmore, left on Fri
day for Augusta, Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert E. Forster who haye
been occupying an apartment in town for the
early part of the winter. have returned to
Roadside, their home in st. Davids in order
that their son, Lieutenant J. Montgomery
Forster. who has been invaded home, may
be with them.
Mrs. Edward Wait 'Crittenden will receive
| on Thursdays in February from 4 until 6
o'clock. at her home, 1016 Farragut terrace
West Philadelphia. No cards have been
| sent out.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence G. Warner, of
Haverford. entertained last Tuesday evening
| in honor of Corporal l. W. wolbert Parsons.
U. D. M C., who recently returned home after
| eighteen months service overseas. There
were thirty guests
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Baker Jr., OF 600
| west Hortter street, Germantown, are giving
| series of Informal musicales on Sunday
evenings during the winter. Last evening. in
| addition to the musical selections which in
cuded songs by Miss Alice Fidler and piano
solos by Mrs. Letitia Radcliffe Miller. the
hostess read number of Joyce Klmer's
poems.
There will be formal presentation of
| commissions to the officers of the Emergency
Aid aides Of the Falls OF Schuylkill of which
Mrs. Elizabeth Dobson Altemus Is major, this
| evening In America Hall, following the drill
mrs. Altemus has secured the house at $3.50
queen lane and will furnish 1t for a club
! mouse for the aides. Mrs. Altemus's mother
Mrs James Dobson, presented 800 to the
organization. Last week Mrs. Altemus was
hostess at a large dance given for the aides
| In America Hail.
Miss Anne Lola Benjamin was the guest
OF honor on Saturday evening at a gradua-
ton party given by her brother-in-law and
sister, DR.. and Mrs. B. Reibstein, at their
| nome. SOB Wingohocking street Miss Rem
1amin was graduated In the present class of
the South Philadelphia High School for
GIRLS. Among those present were Dr. and
Mrs. b. Reibstein, DIR. and Mrs Lewis Weiss
or Newark; Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Benia-
min. Mr.. Solomon Benjamin, of New York /:
MISS Ray Benjamin, Miss Theima BENJAMIN
MISS Hattie Bheben and Miss Lee Stine