New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-16
Helen Griffin
Is Engaged to
Hugh ID. Cotton
Invitations Are Out for
Wedding of Miss Tjader
to Captain G.. p. Smith
ON Thursday, April 20
Motor Corps Gives Dance
Miss Margaret NJ. Eaton To
BE Bride Tomorrow in
Chantry of ST. Thomas's

eldest daughter, Miss Helen de Forest
Griffin, 10 Hugh D. Cotton. son Of j.
Leslie Cotton, 10 East Eighty-tifth
Street, and Mrs. Cotton, of Paris. Miss
Griffin is sister of Miss Kate Wy
man Griffin and a niece of Mrs. Shep
herd X de Forest. Mr.. Cotton belongs
70 the Union Club. He served as first
lieutenant in the 47th Infantry, 4th
Division, during the war. No date has
been set for the wedding.
invitations have been sent out by
Mrs. c. Richard Tjader for the mar
riage of her daughter. Miss Karin
Maria Tjader, to Captain Gypsy Pat
Smith, Northumberland Fusiliers,
British Army, Thursday, April 20, in
the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.
The ceremony will be at A o'clock.
Miss Margaret Montgomery Eaton,
daughter of Mrs. Theodore H. Eaton,
OF Detroit and New York, will be mar
ried tomorrow to John Weeden Grout,
son of Mrs John C. Grout, of this city.
The wedding will take place at
o'clock in the chantry of ST. Thomas's
Church at 20 East Fifty-fourth Street.
Mrs. Berrien c. Eaton, of Detroit, will
be the matron Of honor and Miss Marie
O. Smith, of Fredericksburg, Va, will
serve as maid of honor. Reginald D.
Grout will be his brothers best man
and Albert Rothwell, of this city; Ru-
fus Frost, of Worcester, Mass; Orrin
and Philip Wood, of Brookline, Mass,
will be the ushers. The rector, the
Rev Dr. Ernest NJ. Stires, will perform
the ceremony and will be assisted by
the brides uncle, the Rev. William W.
Clark, of Brookline. After their
honeymoon Mr.. Grout and his bride
will make their home at 206 West
Eighty-sixth Street. She is Junior
League girl and during the war served
in the Motor Corps. He was a lieuten-
ant in artillery and for several months
served in the Army of Occupation.
At the Ritz Carlton last evening
reception and dance was given by the
Motor Corps of America for the benefit
Of its transportation of infantile pa
ralysis cases, one of its most interest
ing works in peace time. The guests
included members of the diplomatic
corps, consular service, representatives
OF the army and navy, clergymen and
city officials, and were received by Colo
mel Helen Russell Bastedo and her
staff. Major Jennie E. Gay, Major Hen
retta Davis, Captain Adele S. Colgate,
Captain Grace Anderson, Captain Jessie
Ernst. Captain Helen Lissncr and Cap
tain Cornelia Bennett. None was in
uniform, this being abandoned for the
occasion in favor of evening gowns.
There was an incidental entertainment
b. Nine. Trentini and the Lee children,
who appeared in a special skit.
Brigadier General and Mrs. William
Carroll Rafferty, entertained at dinner
last evening in the state apartment of
the Waldorf-Astoria. The dinner was
followed by bridge. The guests in
Guided Mr.. and Mrs. De Forest Grant,
and Mrs. James 7. Terry, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. Van Vechten Olcott, Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick s. Goddard, Mrs. James II.
Barr, Mrs. William Lowe Rice, Mrs
Charles II. Jones, Mrs. Curt Reisinger,
Miss Mary Wooley. Miss Virginia Ten
Eyck Rice, Miss Julianna Cutting, How
land Pei, Philip Rhinelander, Harry
Batcheller. A. T. Doremus. Frederick
Gallatin, Maury Paul and w. Trumbul
Thomas
"hiie not large affair, the dance
given last evening by Mr.. and Mrs.
arthur Curtiss James at their home,
80 East Sixty-nnth Street, was a
notable one, and included not only
some Of the older set. but the younger
as we'll, for it was in honor of Mrs.
John {. Brinton, Of London. and her
daughters. the Misses James. Mrs.
brlnton, who has been passing the win
yer IN this country, much of the time
a. Pain Beach, was formerly Mrs.
%iliie James and is a cousin of Mr..
James. She has hosts of friends in
new York, who remember her hospital
ity'in London before the war and were
g.ad OF the opportunity of meeting
her again. She was one OF the most
popular hostcsses in England during
the late King Edwards reign. and he
vas the guest Of her and her first
hrs Harry Payne Whitney has in
sHa'ions out for luncheon to-mor-
s w at her home, 81 Fifth Avenue, for
pt:, and Mrs Charlemagne Tower, Of
ar,hiiadeiphia, whose son, Roderick
Tower, will be married to Miss Flora
.rsyne whitney on Monday in st. Bar
etaoiolnew's Church. Miss Whitney's
nance will give his bachelor dinner
NT-morrow evening at the Racquet and
tennis Club.
III, Mrs. Starr King Walker, Of 1873 East
ahlrty-eighth Street, announces the en-
ssgeinent OF her daughter. Miss EVELYN
SMneidon Walker, to F. Whitney Morrill,,
,a.ss alker IL granddaughter of the
s e.. James o. Sheldon She is Spence
Sshooi girl, and made her debut sew
w VA seasons ago. During the war Mr..
, no.f''i served az an ensign in the
naval aviation force, and previonslv
. ss member Of Squadron A. He was
graduated from Harvard
toloncl and Mrs. Clarence Hoason of
Isn orange, y. j., gave a dinner and
ssa', last evening for Miss Ellen
..asek,oh, of Trenton, fanc6e Of their
~ Heofge Hodson, at which thew an
%% sd the enlargement Of their
azhter. Miss Leila Payne Hodson. to
M,aren Eastman Rogers, Of Laurel.
liz. The wedding Of Miss Stockton
ava mr. Hodson Will take place in juno.
AZ ne last Of the Senior Dances far
-. ~ season TOOK place last evening at
me Hotel Plaza.
s.Mrs Henry Gchniewind, Of 3 East
ss,sh'y-ninth Street, viii give dinner
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