Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-02
Social Activities


John 4. Groome and Mrs Groome. of WIS
Clinton street. whose marriage TO Miss
Gladys Davies league. daughter or MI ana
Mrs John Milling cranston. OF Augusta
Ga. will take place on Saturday. lett this
afternoon for Augusta, where his ushers IN
that city will give dinner tomorrow night
in his honor. and that of the Philadelphia
ushers at the Augusta Country club.
The Augusta ushers include Lieutenant
Nesbtt league. l.. $. A.; Ensign Dawson
league. l.. $ ~: Mr.. Penrose league.
Major Thomas Barrett. Sd. l.. :. A.. Captain
Julian Barrett. Mr.. Frank II. Barrett ana
Lieutenant Jacob Henry Lowry.
The best man will be Captain Thomas
Cadwalader, and the ushers from this city
Mr.. W. Leland Thompson. Lieutenant J.
Vaughan Merrick. Ir., Mr., David Van Pelt
and Mr.. whitney Wright.
Among those who will go down to Augusta
for the wedding Mrs. John &. Groome.
Mrs. J. Willis Martin, Mrs. W. Leland
Thompson and Mrs. G. Dallas Dixon, j.,
and Mr. II. c. Groome and Miss Susan
Groome. of Warrenton, Va, will also attend.
An interesting engagement announced to-
day is that of Miss Susanne Smith. daughter
of Mrs. l.. Howard Weatherly, and Iieuten-
ant j. Henry Ernst, Jr., of New York. Lieu
tenant Ernst. who is member of the
Twenty seventh Division returned from
overseas last week
DR. and Mrs Thomas 6. Ashton. of 1914
South Rittenhouse Square. have issued nvi-
tatons for a Mask and Wig party on Satur-
day evening. April 20. in honor of their
daughter, Miss Anne Ashton.
Among the guests at the dinner which
Mrs Louis Rodman Page. Jr.. of 2Ol5
Locust street. will give on Friday evening
in honor of her niece and nephew. Misss
Banning Grange and Mr.. Herman *. Grange,
will be Miss Eleanor +. Dunning. Miss Jane
Hepburn. Miss Lysbeth Boyd, Miss Christine
"A lal
Ellen Douglas Lloyd Miss Elaine Sullivan
Mr.. Cooper Smith, Mr.. Thomas Robb, Jr..
Mr. Henry 4. Berwind. Jr.. Mr.. Alexander
Sellers. ,Tr Mr. Edward Jeffereys, Mr.. Arthur
d. Smith Jr., and Mr.. Lippncott ,olket
Mr.. and Mrs. William Struthers Ellis and
their daughter. Miss Cptra Ellis. of Fox
Hill Farm. Bryn Mawr. are spending some
time at the Traymore. Atlantic City.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Herbert Bel. who have
been living in Washington this winter. have
returned and will entertain informally on
Friday evening at Black Wood, their place
in Devon. Mrs Bell was Mrs f. Hutchin-
| son Galoney.
( Mrs Thomas Mexican and Miss Nancy
Mexican attended the opera last night
Comman nder Robert II. $. Lowell, L. s. A.
and Mrs Lowell. of Boston. have taken an
| apartment in Pelham court. Germantown.
| Commander Lowell is stationed at League
Island.
Mrs. F. II. Walsh and her daughter Miss
| Phyllis Walsh. 6O12 Drexel road. Over
| brook, among the Lenten guests at the
Hotel Chelsea, Atlantic City.
Mr. and Mrs. James NJ Ferguson. of 12l
! Argyle road, Ardmore and their children
| are spending month at the Glaslyn Hotel,
| Atlantic City.
Mrs. Donald Flanigen. of 5939 Drexel
! road. Overbrook, has returned home from
| visiting friends in Nentnor.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard y. Knight, of over
brook are visiting Mr.. knights parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. G. knight, of 81 South
| Nashville avenue. Nentnor Mr. and Mrs.
| Marion avenue, Nentnor for the summer -
A novelty dinner party will he given in
| honor of Mr.. Raymond Radciff McAdams of
| Boston. by Mr.. Harry DetZ and Mr.. Charles
| +. Ward at the home of Mr. McAdams, ZIG
North Thirteenth street, Saturday
evening. There will be forty guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Moore McCoach. of
| 5S4S Addison street. are receiving congratu-
| lations on the birth of a daughter Mrs.
| McCoach Miss Edna May Sasse before
her marriage.
Dr. and Mrs. Ray Parker. of Ehrenield,
| Pa, formerly of Germantown are being
| congra tulated upon the birth of a son on
! March 2b. Mrs. Parker Will be remembered
as Miss Helen James. of Norristown.
| Mrs Ida NJ. Hoffner, of 305 Lincoln ave-
| nue., Collingdale, announces the engagement
| of her daughter, Miss Mary Jane Hoffner, to
| Ensign Louis p. Harrison, l.. S. N, of Los
| Angeles, Calf The wedding will take place
| in the near future.
| The marriage of Miss Marjorie Daily, of
| 364l North Seventeenth street, and Mr..
| Irving w. Blemker, OF Evansville, Ind, will
| take place on April at o'clock in the
| First Baptist Church, of Parksburg, Pa. The
| bride will be attended by Miss Dorothy
| Wolff. of this city. as maid of honor. Lieu
| tenant c. II. Blemker, the bridegroom's
| brother, will act as best man. After the
ceremony Lieutenant and Mrs Blemker will
| start on wedding trip to Evansville, Ind,
| where they will make their home.
| A surprise party given in honor Of
| Mr. Harry s. Sylk his eighteenth birth
| day at the home of his mother, Mrs. Eleanor
| Sylk. Alb West Cambridge street. Among
| the guests present were Mrs. l.. Sylk Mr.
| and Mrs Samuel Hum, Mr. A. NJ. Hunn
| Sergeant Major S. NJ. Hum, Corporal S.
| Tuchman, Miss Rose A. Hum, Miss Rose NJ
Hum, Miss Elizabeth Bobman, Miss Frances
| Silverman Miss Eva Share, Miss Bessie
| Bellmore and the members of the Diamond
Social Club, who were Mr.. lsidore Kayte
| Mr.. j. G. Greenbatt, Mr., Isdore Cohen, Mr.
| Herman Cohen, Mr.. Harry Cohen, Mr.. A.
| Samuelson, Mr.. A. Herscher and Mr.. Louis
| I'einberg
Miss Vaneeta Huyette has returned from
| a visit in New York and southeast Connecti-
Germantown.
City Appointments Announced
The following city appointments were an