Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-18

| OF the Junior Portland Hunt club, par
ticipated in closed paper chase this
afternoon at Portland. On account of
health conditions the riders did not go
to the club house after the chase as
originally planned, but postponed their
annual meeting and election to a later
date, when they will be the guests of
Mrs. Oswald West.
| Miss Mabel Garrett, who is teach
ing in the Woodburn high school this
winter, returned to .Woodburn today,
in view of the contemplated opening
of the schools Monday. Miss Garrett
has been spending her enforced vaea-
ton with her mother, Mrs. Ida Gar
rett, of 152 North Thirteenth street.
Mrs. R. W. Walton will return to
Lebanon tomorrow to re-assume her
duties as principal of the Lebanon high
school, following a few weeks illness,
during which she has been in Salem
with her parents Mr.. and Mrs. W. D.
Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will R. Peters and ba-
by, who have just arrived from Ev-
[erett, Washington, to make their home
in Salem, are staying at the Marion
hotel until they are permanently To-
Gated otherwise. Prior to their residence
in Washington they lived on a farm
in Indiana, having come west about a
year ago.
Major L. A. Walton, who has been
visiting his mother, Mrs. James Walton
at her home on Center street during a
ten day furlough, will leave tomorrow
evening for Houston, Texas, where he
is stationed.
Miss Margaret Garrison, who is
teaching in one of the Portland high
schools this winter, is passing the week
end in Salem as the guest of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Garrison.
Miss Jane Curtis of Portland is in
Salem for the Legislature, holding the
position of private secretary to Rep
resentative II. T. Idleman. Miss Curtis
is staying at the residence of Mrs. q.
A. Wood on North Church street.
Miss Helen Ellis, a student at Will
lamette university, has returned to Sa-
lem after visit with her parents at
Grants Pass. Miss Ellis makes her
home with Mrs. f. S. Barton during
the school year.
Miss Mercedes Sims of Portland is
being entertained in Salem as the
house guest of Mrs. w. S. Mott.
! Musical America, Of New York City,
in its issue dated January 4, devotes
nearly one page to an appreciation OF
the life and music career of the late
Hartridge whipp, Oregon baritone,
who went from Portland to New York
City last year to make his future head
quarters in the national metropolis. In
his recent sudden death from influenza,
American song has sustained a loss OF
much significance. Having appeared in
concert at Salem two years ago, Mr..
Whipp has always been delightfully."-
remembered by q most appreciative au-
dienee of Salem friends.
He was about to leave New York
for Minneapolis where he was engaged
to sing with the Minneapolis Sympho.
ny orchestra under Emil Oberhoffer
) December 29, on which day he was
buried. Mrs. Whip was at his side in
death, as she was during his remark.
able career, which had its great up
swing from tho time the younp tari.
tone met her. Then Lenora Fisher, or
ganist at one of the large churches in
Portland, Ore, she was also aeeompan
list and coach, and in this capacity
proved so invaluable to his life that
their eompanionship developed into
marriage.
/ When Mr.. Whipp arrived in New
York, where he came on the sugges-
tion Of Conrad v. Bos, who assured him
that success lay easily within his reach
his first Aeclian hall recital estab-
lished him beyond a question and he
was in demand far and wide. Mrs.
Sawyer had booked most remarkable
series of winter engagements and his
winter was replete with some Of the
finest engagements that ever fell to
the lot of young artists.
] The late Mr.. Whip passed his ear
Ily boyhood in Denver, Colo, where ne
was a member of cavalry troop in
the Colorado nation guard. About u or
IA years ago Mr.. Whip arrived in
Portland and at first was engaged in
the insurance business Very soon, the