The Washington herald., 1922-01-02


have a small group of her close
women friends to receive the guests
with her.
Chief Justice Smyth of the Dis
trict Court of Appeals was a
luncheon host at the Shoreham
OF ten gentlemen.
DR.. Ralph Jenkins will entertain
at a stag party this afternoon.
turned from a short stay in New
York.
Miss Julia Mason and Mr.. and
Mrs. Philip II. Patchin entertained
at AZ masquerade dance Saturday
evening at the formers home, 1906
Florida avenue.
The marriage of Albert Hal
stead, jr., son of Albert Hal
stead. formerly of Washington and
now counsel general at Montreal.
Quebec, to Miss Agnes Mary Car
penter, daughter of Paul ID.
Carpenter, of Milwaukee, Wis. will
take place at the st. Regis in New
York, January 5. Mr.. Halstead's
father was formerly a Washington
newspaperman, but went into the
Consular Service and was lately
American consul in Vienna. His
mother was Miss Alice Wilcox. of
Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Crittenden Marriott
of Washington and Louisville, Ky,
announces the engagement of their
daughter Katherine to Lieut.. will
son Burnett Higgins, Corps of En-
gineers. u. s. A. No date has been
set for the wedding. but it will
probably occur in the early sum-
mer. Mis- sMarriott was a debutante
of the season of 1920-21. Lieut. Hig-
gins is a West Point graduate of
the class of 1920 and the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Clifton T. Higgins Of
Des Moines, Iowa.
Karl Halla. counselor of the
Czecho- Slovakian Legation. with
Nine. Halla and their children,
sailed from New York Saturday on
La Lorraine for Prague. They are
not expected to return to Washing
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Pugo of st.
Charles, Iowa, while visiting Wash
ington, are stopping at the Shore
ham.
Representative Frederick c. Hicks,
of New York, member of the Com
mittee on Naval Affairs, is acting as
host to a distinguished party Of
French officials attending the con-
ference, on trip to the battle
field of Yorktown.
The party left Washington Fri
day and spent Saturday at York
town and visiting the naval train
ing station at Norfolk. They re-
turned yesterday morning.
Mr. and MSs. william J. Harper,
2426 Nineteenth street. arc receiv-
ing congratulations on the birth OF
a son on December 30. He has been
named Robert Lewis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Sheerer have
visiting them their niece. Miss
Frances Gates. who is a senior at
Smith College.
Mrs. Elonzo Tyler. who has been
spending some time at Wardman
Park Hotel, will leave for Chicago
the latter part of the week, where
she will remain several weeks.
Miss Elizabeth Putnam, of Daven-
port. Iowa, Is making a brief visit
with her brother and sister, Mr..
and Mrs. George r. Putnam, in
Bancroft place.
Mrs. Victor Kaufman enter
tanned a company of ten ladies at
luncheon at the Shorenam Satur-
day.
Mrs. Bernard Litchfield. formerly
Miss B. Antoinette Gaigher, and
baby son, Bernard. left Christmas
Eve for Jacksonville, Fla, to join
her husband for the winter.
Miss Helen Montgomery enter
tanned on Wednesday evening in
honor of Miss Elizabeth Carr and
Miss Miriam Reiter, of Baltimore,
house guests of Mrs. Samuel Bur-
leigh Milton. She was assisted by
her sister, Mrs. Arthur E. Brown,
recent bride of Capt. Brown, u. 8.
a n large CofHpdHy, IhSiuuinS d
number of the seasons debutantes,
enjoyed dancing.
Joseph Pulitzer, jr., of St. Louis,
Is at the Shoreham.
The marriage of Miss Ida g. Ship
ley to A. Chester Brown, of Ten
nessee. took place at Emmanuel
Baptist Church at 5 o'clock Thurs
day afternoon, the Rev. G. G. John
son performing the ceremony. The
church was decorated in Christmas
greens and palms. The bride who
was given in marriage by J. w.
Zimmerman wore a travelling suit
of taupe trimmed in beaver. Her
hat was Of gold lace, touched with
blue. and she wore a corsage bou-
quet of brides roses. Her only at
tendant, Miss Marian A. thinner
man, wore a black lace dress with
a nasturtium color taffeta hat. She
wore a corsage bouquet of butterfly
roses. Walter Brown, brother of the
bridegroom. acted as best man. Att