New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Miss Witllerlee
will Be Bride
|Of Navy Officer
rneagement TO Lieutenant
lCon,sn,ander Merrill Is An
rounced by Parents, MIR.
and Mrs. W. c. Witherbee
Mrs. Isabel Power Is Wed
srarried to Edward Arnold
by the Rev. DR.. Holmes
IN Churcla of the Messiah

xr and Mrs. Walter G. Withsrhee, of
NJ Henry. n, Y, and this city, an
..,nes the engagement of their daugh-
~ Mss Louise Gautier Witherbee. to
ys.u.enant Commander A. Stanton
u.rrsl,. u. S. N. Miss Witherbee is a
.,.vrber Of the Junior League and the
o-srseas League and served as nurse s
Il IN the Red Cross in the war.
I;susenant Commander Merrill is a
..a 81 Mrs. Merrill, who was Miss
st,aton. of Natchez. Miss. He was
--.arsssd from the United States
ysza, Academy in 1872 In the war he
demanded destroyer. and at present
!. s;s 10 Admiral Mark L. Bristol, High
commissioner st Constantinopie.
The wedding Will take place at the
sa5 ef next month
urs Isabel Trenchard Power, widow
- Jnbu Anthony Power, was married
,.,stsrday - in the Church OF the Mes
In "a Edward ". c. Arnold. Only
-rsat;yes were present at the ceremony,
wa;ch vas performed by the Rev. Dr.
gaIues. The BRIDES only attendant
rss her daughter. Frank Sutton was
NJ Arnold's best man. Mr.. Arnold was
: nernber OF the 77th Division, and was
wounded and gassed at the battle front.
Tbis IS his second maria ge, his first
ziie hsyiag been Miss Dorothy Froth-
irshsm-
Mrs. Edgar Francis Farmer, OF New
p:rhelle. announces the engagement of
tsr laughter. Miss Catherine Farmer,
70 Carr Thomas, OF 45 East Sixty-sec-
md Street Miss Farmer is student
i the AT Students League Mr..
Thomas was graduated from Yale in
ssls SIe was overseas for eighteen
montas with the 18th Field Artillery,
d Divislon. He received the Croix de
Cuarre ard the Distinguished Service
Cross.
George D. Rushmore, who,is to marry
Miss Virginia Odon, of New York, a
daughter of the late John D. Odon, on
saturday in Trinity Church, gave his
farewell bachelor dinner last night at
the Union Club. His guests included
John Munroe, Henry Munroe, George
st George, Charles Coulter, Charles
Weston, Francis Peterson, John Elliot
and F. c. Odom.
Mrs. James P. Woodruff gave large
luncheon yesterday at the Colony Club
for her debutante daughter, Miss Can
dace c. Woodruff. Her guests, thirty
FIVE in number, included Miss Clarisse
de Rham, Miss Marjorie Hughes, Miss
Louise Tripp. Miss Maud Cabot, Miss
Dorothy Collins, Miss Elizabeth Meeker,
Miss May Yeomans, Miss Grace Knox,
Mss Sylvia Goddard, Miss Harriet
Greene. Miss Lispenard Seabury, Miss
Grace Cuyler, Miss Marie Louise Dem
ne, Miss Dora Hotchkiss, Miss Anita
Damrosch Miss Florence Lockwood,
Mss Emily Dodge, Miss Molly Cogs-
veil, Miss Katherine Bright, Miss
psrIa Seidenberg, Miss Anne Burr,
Mss Mary Anderson and Miss Eliza
beth Swords.
Mrs. Frank Briggs Carpenter gave q
lanchson at the Hotel Plaza yesterday
for Miss Janet S. Croll, whose engage
nsnt to Alexander Perry Morgan, son
of Ar. and Mrs. Junius Spencer Nor
gan, was announced recently. IN the
party we're Mrs. Archibald G.. Nc
nVains il, Miss Frances D. Carpenter,
Mss Elsie CrolI, Miss Eleanor Francke,
Mss Adelaide Keyes, Miss Elizabeth
baskerville, Miss Phyllis Hartman,
Miss Lucy Buckley, Miss Julia Fincke,
Mss Dorothy Brown, Miss Josephine
Flood and Miss Helen OuterDridge.
Yrs. Francis William Wigsnd, Of S99
Park Avenue. will give luncheon to-
aag at the Ritz-Carlton for her de-
ssussnte daughter, Miss Thelka c.
Rigand.
The winter ball for ths benefit Of
hs Lcamis Sanitarium will take place
ssnight in the ballroom Of the Hotel
Haza.
Several of the seasons debutantes
WI he present at the luncheon to be
gwen BY Mr. and Mrs William Truslow
Hyas for their daughter, Miss Beatrice
I Hyde, at the Ambassador Hotel on
December %.