The Washington times., 1920-08-14
HAPPENINGS IN SOCIETY
Secretary Colby Has Guest-Patter-
SON Reeve Wedding-Important
Engagements
DANBRIpoE COLBY. Secretary of
Engagements

~ American Ambassador 10 Russia,
who IL making a short visit In Wash
ington. Mr.. Colby Is himself ma
tive or St. Louis and his father and
Ambassador Francis were old friends.
Mrs. Colby and her daughters are
spending the summer at Easthampton.
l.. l., where they have a charming
cottage.
The Argentine ambassador, DR.. Le-
Breton, went yesterday TO New York,
where he will spend the weekend
Mrs. Baker, wife Of the Secretary
OF War. Is at the Walter Reed Hos
pital with her younger daughter, Miss
Peggy Baker. who has had her tonsils
removed. They will return to Beau
voir this afternoon.
COLONEL PATTERSON WEEDS.
Miss Eleanor Reeve. of Brandy
wine, Nd. and Lieut. Col. Robert
Uric Patterson. Medical Corps. u. s.
A. wfli be married tonight at 8
o'clock in Epiphany Church. The
date Of the wedding was advanced
owing to q change In Colonel Patter-
sons order. Consequently the cere-
mony will be simple. but IL will be
attended by a distinguished little
company including the Secretary OF
War and Mrs. Baker and Gen Peyton
G. March.
The acting rector of Epiphany. the
Rev. Robert Evans Browning will Of
1ciate. Tne bride will be given In
marriage by DR.. Robert Early Baden.
Of Brandywine. Prince Georges
county, and will have Miss Alice
Toon Of New York as her maid of
honor and only attendant Major
William Lay Patterson. brother Of
the bridegroom. who is stationed at
Camp Zachary Taylor. KY. will be
best man. There will be no recep-
tion, Colonel Patterson and his bride
leaving for their wedding trip inn
mediately after the ceremony. They
teenth street.
Miss Reeve came to Washington
from Brandywine yesterday and has
been staying at the Burlington with
little group OF guests from other
cities who are here for the wedding.
Among them are Miss Anne p. Toon.
Of New York. sister of the maid Of
honor; Miss Lillian Proctor, of Lum-
berton, N. c.; Miss Millicent Mckee,
of Baltimore; Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
p. Homer, of Boston. Colonel Pat
terson's mother. Mrs. William B.
Patterson, is also here. having come
from her home in Manassas. Va
DR.. Cary T. Grayson. who has beer
attending the races at Saratoga
Springs, N. Y. has Joined his family
at Blue Ridge Summit, Pa DR.. Gray
son Is expected back In Washington
sometime next week.
Raymond T. Baker. director Of the
mint, has gone to Lenox. Mass, to
spend the weekend with Mrs. Baker
and their small daughter. Gloria He
will go from Lenox to New York on
Monday. remaining until the end Of
the week in the office Of the United
States mint there E--..,,-. y
Congressman and Mrs. william n.
Bankhead, of Alabama, have an
nounced the engagement of their
daughter. Miss Jeanne Bankhead. to
Morton McMichael Hoyt. The mar
riage will take place in the near fut-
ure at Bar Harbor, Me. Miss Bank
head. who is a Granddaughter Of the
late Senator John II. Bankhead, Of
Alabama, made her debut in Wash
ington two winters ago and was a
great belle. She is unusually pretty
tdleHlcu. SlSlCLs 1hioS i al
lulah Bankhead. has achieved success
on the professional stage.
MISS PERKINS TO WED.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward E Perkins Of
New York and Genoa, Italy, announce
the engagement of their daughter,
Miss Argenta Beard Perkins, to Luis
Antonio Pensherrera, who is attached
to the Legation of Ecuador.
Miss Perkins is with her parents
at Spring Lake. N. j., where the mar
riage is to take place. on August %.
at the Essex and Sussex Hotel She
is a granddaughter of the late Col
Oliver Thomas Beard, and a niece
of Anson McCook Beard of New York
and Tuxedo Park, and of William
Mosgrove Beard, of New York. Her
sister. Miss Olive Perkins married in
January. 1919. Marchese Stefano d.
AMIGO, in Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perkins spend much
Of their time in Genoa, and have
MRS. BARNETT AT WAKEFIELD.
Mrs. George Barnett, who has been
making a series Of visits in New Eng
land, spent a day or two in WASH
ington and left yesterday for Wake
field Manor, her place in Virginia
Mrs. Barnett's mother, Mrs. c. p.
Montague, is with her for the sum-
mer.
Mrs Harry Leo Rust. Jr-. who has
been at Christmas Cove, Me-. with
Mrs Harry Lee Rust, sr- has re-
turned to Washington. She is inter
ested in the new Washington
Theater Company project and will as
sist in the designing of costumes
which are to be made in Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Clay Haber-
sham Colquit and their small son are
spending some weeks at Deer Park.
Nd. with Col. Charles H. Heyl and
his family.
The commercial adviser OF the Dan
ish legation, Robert Nalentinus ac-
companied by Gunnar Gregersen
member OF the Danish Society OF En-
gineers and president of the institute
Average Raise in Salary Of
ployees Since 1916