The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
Society

visits here of and on during the
summer.
Mrs. Robert c. Jefferds. who was
the guest Of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Cooper, has returned
to her home in Charleston, w. Va.
Mrs. Francois Berger Moran mas
given the use of her home at the
request of the committee for a
meeting to be held in the interest
of the Sweet Briar College $1,000
900 fund. Thursday afternoon at
4:30 o'clock. Bishop Harding will
offer the Invocation and Represen-
| tative r. Walton Moore of Virginia
will preside, and both arc patrons
of the event.
The meeting is of a social nature
and to awaken interest in the
school. and among the speakers will
be DR.. Emile Watts McVea, presi-
! dent of the college.
Lady Nancy Astor, of England. Is
honorary chairman for the drive and
DR.. Thomas Nelson Page represents
| the college in Washington. Among
the patrons for the meeting are Mrs.
Newton d. Baker. Secretary Daniels.
Mrs. Burleson, Senator Carter Glass.
Senator Claude Swanson, Mrs. Hen
ry d. Flood, Mrs. E. F. Andrews,
Mrs. George Barnett. Mrs. John c.
Davidson. Mrs. Charles b. Howry,
Mrs. +. B. Cotton Smith. DIR. S. w.
| Stratton, Lieut.. Col. Junkin, George
Nicholson, Mrs. Clarence A. Aspin-
wall and p. p. Claxton.
|
Gently in command of the hospital
and Mrs. Mabel Graham Billings
lea, of Westminster, Nd. were
married Saturday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Billingslea's mother,
Mrs. Walter r. Graham, in Balti-
more.
During the war Colonel Manly
served as chief surgeon with the
American Expeditionary Forces
and was stationed at Baume,
France. Mrs. Billingslea is the
widow of Lieut.. Col. Charles c.
: Billingslea, who commanded at
Camp Meade while that cantonment
was in course of construction.
Roland S. Morris. United States
Ambassador to Japan. and Mrs.
Morris are guests in Stamford,
Conn, of George Pratt Ingersoll.
Mrs. ]. ]. Brown. of-Newport. r.
l., who was in Washington for a
visit, has gone to New York. where
she will sail shortly for London,
where she will be the guest of
Lady Hope Johnston and is to at
tend the June garden party at
Buckingham Palace.
Lieut.. Col. Francis T. A. Junkin,
! U. S. A, and Mrs. Junkin will leave
Washington tomorrow to motor
| through the Shenandoah Valley to
Lexin gton, Va, the old home of Col.
Junkin. where they will visit Gen.
in-law and sister, at the Virginia
Military Institute. From Lexington
they will go to the Greenbrier, White
Sulphur Springs, for a visit, and will
later motor to their summer home,
Jerseyhurst on Lake Geneva, Wis
consin. Miss Alice Miriam, the pro-
tege of Mrs. Junkin, will join them
in the West for the rest of the sea-
son.
Col. and Mrs. Junkin occupied
Twin Oaks. the country home of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles J. Bell, for some
months, going there in the autumn,
and they have spent the past few
weeks in. the city home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bell, on Connecticut avenue. It
Is probable they will return to
Washington for next winter.
Mrs. Clara w. MacNaughton an
nounces the. engagement OF her
daughter, Marie, to Arthur Powell
! Davis. president of the, American
Society of Engineers. Miss Mac
Naughton, who has been overseas
! for some time. sailed from Antwerp
on June 2. The wedding will prob
ably take place in the late summer.
Countess Lillian Nostitz, who
spent the past month visiting in
Washington. sailed Saturday for
France. She is the wife of Gen.
Nostitz, formerly military attache OF
the Russian Embassy In Paris, and
who Is now with Gen. wrangers
army defending the Crimea against
the Bolsheviki. Count Nostitz was
during the war chief Of stan of the
imperial guard regiments, and gen.
leral a-la-suite of Nicholas IL, and
during the Kerensky regime he filled
an important and PROMINENT post on