The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-09
HOOVER'S. SON
ITO WE'D
SOON
Marriage to Miss Marga-
ret Watson, of Calf, to
Follow Graduation
BY JEAN ELIOT.

"4E announcement that Herbert
C. Hoover, jr., son Of the Sec
retary of Commerce and Mrs.
Hoover. is to wed Miss Margaret
Watson, of San Francisco on June
25 calls attention to the romantic
way in which history is repeating
itself. For Mr.. Hoover and Miss
Watson are graduating together
from Leland Stanford University,
Just as Herbert Hoover, ST., and
Miss Lou Henry did some thirty
years ago to be married not very
long afterward. Secretary and MRS.
Hoover, however, started house
keeping in the wilds Of China,
where Mr.. Hoover's career as
mining engineer took him; and one
wonders if young Herbert Hoover
is following in his fathers foot
steps in his choice OF rowing
profession as well as in selecting
a wife from among his classmates
at Stanford.
Although Miss Watson is a San
Francisco girl, the daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Douglas S. Watson, the
wedding is to take place in Palo
Alto, where Leland Stanford Uni
versity is situated and where the
The engagement was announced
about year ago.
Secretary and Mrs. Hoover are
starting for California tomorrow
and will arrive in time for COM
mencement, the wedding and the
festivities which will precede It..
After that a vacation, which the
Secretary has announced will be
largely devoted to "going fishing"
Mr.. Hoover Is a keen and most
successful angler, Mrs. Hoover aid
ing and abetting him in this sport
as she has in most Of the activities
Of his tremendously varied career.
Now that the Bureau of Mines is
being transferred from the Interior
Department to the Jurisdiction of
the Department of Commerce the
Secretary will have an unofficial
helper under his own vine and fl,
II ee, for Mrs. Hoover specialized in
metallurgy at Stanford, while her
husband was studying mining and
engineering. And after their grad.
uation the Hoovers coIIabors.ted on
q translation of "Agricola de Re-
Metallica,' which has since been a
standard text book in schools OF
mines.
1t is said that Secretary Hoover
would rather dabble in mining af-
fairs than in any of the multi.
farious activities which engage his
inexhaustible energy. He was a
mining engineer of recognized
merit at twenty-one; and between
1895 and 1913 he practiced his pro-
fession in the United States, Mex.
leo, Canada, Australia, Italy, Great
Britain, South Africa, India, China
and Russia.
TO VISIT NEWPORT
NEXT WEEK BY MOTOR.
The Minister of Sweden and Nine.
Wallenberg will leave Washington
by motor next Monday for the north.
They will arrive in Newport July
and will be the guests there of Mrs.
John Aspegren for about a week
Nine. Wallenberg will sail July
on the Drottningholm for Sweden
to pass the summer and the minister
viii join her there later.
y 4
Mrs. Leigh Palmer will leave
town on Sunday evening for Char
lottesville, Va, to attend the grad
uation of her son, James McKeldtn,
from the University of Virginia.
Mr.. McKeldin has recently been
elected to the Phi Beta Kappa.
Mrs. Palmer will have as her
guest for a few days Mrs. Arthur
Lee, who will arrive the latter
part of next week from Ventnor,
N. j., where she is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins.
From Washington Mrs. Lee will
go to Elkins, w. Va, where she
will spend the summer. With her
for the summer will be her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Stoddard P. Johnston, of
New York.
The Counselor of the British En-.
bassy and Mrs. Henry Getty Chiffon
will close their house here in K
street about June 81 and go to Man
chester, Mass, to spend the summer.
Mrs. Henry Benning Spencer and
her daughters. Miss Violet Spencer
and Miss Louise Spencer, will leave
the latter part of this month for
Watch Hill, r. l., where they will
spend the summer
TO RETURN HOME
FOR HUNTING SEASON. :,