The Washington times., 1920-09-11
HAPPENINGS In SOCIETY
Notes of the Diplomats -GrOOme-
TOland Wedding Interests Capital


Carolina.
sLieut. Comdr. and Mrs. Clarence
Nelson Hinkamp will leave Washing
ton in two weeks for California. Com
mander Hinkamp has been ordered to
duty on the u. S. 5. Mississippi ana
Mrs. Hinkamp and family will make
their home at Long Beach.
Commander and Mrs. Hinkamp
have lived in Washington two years
and have had a house at lT2o II street.
Miss Helen Hill Hopkins. who has
been making a series OF visits I'm Ten-
nessee and Virginia. returned yester-
day to her home In Biltmore street.
Mrs. Samuel Gordon, OF Brooklyn.
N. Y, formerly Miss Lillian Weisen-
berg, OF this city, Is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Weisenberg'
at their home, I5o Harvard street
Mrs. Thomas +. Walsh is spending
a week with her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Bealc
Mclean, at their Virginia estate near
Leesburg. She will return to Wash
ington Monday.
The Paymaster General, Rear Ad-
mlral Samuel McGowan, u. S. ~. Is at
Atlantic City stopping at the Hotel
Miss Katherine Knight. daughter
of Rear Admiral and Mrs. Austin M.
Knight, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
n. Perry Phelps at their home In
Baltimore. George Bacot will enter
tain at dinner tonight at the Balti-
more Country Club in honor OF Mr..
and Mrs. Phelps and their guest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Reeside will
return next week from Deer Park,
Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tucker Sands. OF Rich
mond and Washington. announce the
engagement OF their daughter, Miss
Virginia Lee Minor Sands, to Robert
b. Roosevelt, jr.. OF New York and
Washington. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert B. Roosevelt. OF Washington,
and grandson of the late Robert Il.
Roosevelt, one time Minister to Hol-
land.
Miss Sands makes her home in Nor
folk, Va.
Miss Lindsay Wood and Miss Mary
CustisLee are among the bridesmaids
at the marriage today in Warrenton'
Va, of Miss Susan Townsend Groome,
daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Con-
nelly Groome, and Robert Ioiahh.
second of Philadelphia.
The wedding took place at noon at
st. James Episcopal Church. Rev.
Roberts Coles of Warrenton perform
ing the ceremony, and was followed
by a reception and wedding breakfast
at "Airlie" the home of the orides
parents near Warrenton.
The bride who was given In mar
riage by her father. was attended by
Miss Nancy Binney Dunning as maid
of-honor and eight bridesmaids, in
cluding Miss Wood and Miss Lee. the
others being Miss Atlee Downs, Phila-
delphia; Miss Lorraine Disston, Phiia'
delphia; Miss Elizabeth Welch, Phila-
delphia; Miss Mary Ernestine Apple
ton, Warrenton, Va; Miss Eleanor
Harris. Aldie, Va. and Miss Nancy
s. c. Carnegie. Boston. Mass.
Little Miss Saddle Harris. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Harris. CT
Warrenton, Va, was train bearer.
Jemas E. Gowen of Philadelphia
was the best man, and the ushers in
cluded Edward Dale Toland, Richard
III. r. Toland and owen Jones Toland,
all brothers of the bridegroom,
Gaspar G. Bacon of Boston, William
Darlington of Westchester Pa, and
Samuel Wagner, Emile Geyelin. Alex
ID. Thayer Curtis Allan, Frances
Boyer and Eckley Coke, all of Phila-
delphia-
turn from a wedding trip, will MAX
their home on Kent Road Wynned-
wood, Pa.
Mr.. Toland is the son Of Mrs
Pa.
Baroness Meyes de Schauensee and
Max and Robert Meyer de Schauensee,
of Philadelphia, accompanied by Rob-
ert Toland and Mrs. Jesse Nalle, also
of Philadelphia, spent a few days in
Washington and left thiSmorning for
Warrenton, Va, to attend the wed
ding of Mr.. Toland's nephew, Robert
Toland, Cd, of Wynnewood and Phila-
delphia, and Miss Susan Townsend
Groome.
Miss Katherine Hitchcock, who has
spent the summer at Fort Strong
Mass, on the North Shore, will re-
turn home next week.
Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Henry l.. Cooper
have arrived in Washington, where
Colonel Cooper has been assigned to
duty in the office of the chief of in
fantry.
Mrs. Faber Stevenson has been call
ed to New York by the serious illness
of her mother.
Mrs. Thomas G.. Winter, of Min