Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-23
Mostly About People

The Summer Social Register of
1921, which has just appeared. shows
some Interesting statistics of the dis
trsbution OF prominent families dur
ing the summer months. The sea-
shore receives more guests than in
iAnd resorts. which condition of affairs
corresponds with last years There
- marked increase in families
abroad this year. due to more settled
conditions in Europe. There is a
decided decrease in marriages for this
year. In some respects this register
tAllies with statistics in Wilmington.
There is a goodly group of Whining
tonians spending this summer in
Europe, but the numbers at the sea-
side seem to be about equalled by the
families occupying summer homes in
the surrounding country or in the
mountains of New England or Penn
sylvania- Then too there are the
restless vacationists. who motor from
place to place. enjoying both the 81
lencc of mountain forests and the
murmur of the sea.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward f. Hanna. for
merly of Wilmington, but now OF st.
Augustine, Fla, are visiting this city.
Miss May Norris of Cranston
Heights and Miss Mary Norris of Will
mington are visiting their grand
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. James Norris
o. Newport.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee J. Martin are
spending week at Atlantic City.
Mrs. NJ. F. Butler of Philadelphia,
formerly OF this city. announces the
marriage OF her son, Benjamin #.
Butler, son of the late II. NJ Butler
and nephew of the late f. S. r.. But
Ter, to Miss Jennie s.. keables of
Perkintown. n. j.. on Monday. July IL.
Miss Marian Truax has returned
from a weeks visit at Ventnor, y. j.
Ms. Samuel Mckay is spending
several days with relatives IN Centre
Vile
Several Wilmingtonians are planning
10 spend August at Asbury Park and
Ocean Grove, Y. J., Mr.. and Mrs. |
George Sallowav and Miss Anna Hall |
will motor there the FIRST of August |
Mr.. and Mrs. George E. King viii also |
leave the first of August for Asbury |
Park. Miss Sarah Garrett and Miss |
Elizabeth b. Johnson will 60 to Ocean |
Grove Monday. Misses Mabel and |
Bertha Houpt are already spending some
time there.
Mrs. NJ. T. Leonard of Union Park
Gardens returned home Thursday from
a week s visit to Mrs. William G. Hutton
at her cottage st Charleston. Maryland.
Mrs. William Corey viii return next
week from q visit to Atalntc City.
Miss Julia Powell OF Philadelphia is
visiting Miss Alma Tall of the \. ".
{. A.
Word has been received Of the engage |
ment of Miss Selma Bachrach OF Phiia- 1
delphia to DR. Charles 5. Schater OF that /
city. Until two years ago Miss Bach |
rach WAS resident of this city. She IS
graduate of the Wilmington High |
School and of the pioneer class OF the
Women's College, University OF Della /
ware. She took q prominent part IN all
college activities, having been leader OF
the Glee Club and president OF Student |
Government She Is now president OF |
the Women's College Alumnae AssocIa-
ton.
Next "Wednesday at o'clock Miss |
Ethel NJ. Carpenter, daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. J. B. Carpenter, viii become
the bride Of William J. BiessInger. The
wedding will take place in West Presby-
terrain. Church, Rev. Z. Franklin Smiley, |
officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Wingate and son
Prank are spending the week at the
Hotel Rodney, Lewes, Delaware.
Misses Anna White, Miriam Cameron /
and Helen Warren Smith will leave 1
Philadelphia about the first Of August
70 go by boat to Boston. After spending
few days there, they will tour New
England and take q trip on Lake George.
They will spend week In the Catsklll
Mountains before returning home.
Mrs. Elizabeth Carton and Miss
Katherine Carton have returned from
Bowers Beach and are leaving for a
ten days stay at Wildwood, n. j.
X. F. Cross is at Atlantic City.
: William A. Glover is visiting relatives
b. Charlestown, Md.
Miss Elsie Patterson leaves the end
Of this month for New Hampshire where
she viii remain during August
DR.. and Mrs. Boyd Baker are spend
ing the summer at their cottage at Weed,
Maine.
Mrs. H. Fletcher Brown is stopping
at the Hotel Mount Washington, Bret
ton Woods, y. III.
Mrs. +. p. Moody and Miss Eliza
beth Blanken are spending two weeks
at Chincoteague, Va.
Mrs Walter Hackett, Miss Drueilla
Hackest, and Miss Ruth Hanna are
visiting relatives in Seaford.
Gerald Smith, senior at the Uni
versity of Delaware, who has been at
tending the summer r. O. T. c. Camp
81 Plattsburg, is spending some time in :
Canada before returning to Wilmington.