Evening star., 1925-09-20
ALEXANDRIA SOCIETY

Mr. and Mrs. James Keller and Mr..
and Mrs. Floyd Keller are visiting
relatives in Romney. w. Va.
Mrs. F. Erwin Ludwig and Miss
Gretta Ludwig have returned from
Linden, Va, where they spent the
past several weeks.
Mr.. Walter u. Varney, jr., left last
week to visit his cousins, Maj. and
Mrs. w. G. Jones, in Jacksonville. Fla.
Mr. Thomas Varney has left for VIII
liamsburg to resume his studies at
William and Mary College.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Gardner and
Miss Dorothy Gardner have returned
from a visit to relatives in Wakefield,
r. 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lee entertained
at dinner Saturday evening to celebrate
their second wedding anniversary.
The guests were Mrs. w. F. Grose of
Jacksonville Fla, sister of the hostess:
DIR. and Ms. Bennett Hammond, Mr..
and Mrs. J. 9. Watson and Mrs. D. w.
Beck.
Rev. S. C. Vernon of ST. Louis is
the guest of Rev. and Mrs. p. L. Yer
non at the parsonage of the First Bap-
tist Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Crymes of
Washington were the week end guests
of the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. J. Crymes.
Miss Genevieve Peyton Shepperson
entertained Wednesday evening at the
home of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles NJ. Shepperson. on South
Washington street, in honor of Miss
Mary Strange Morgan of Raleigh, N.
c.. who is the guest of Miss Jeanette
Yates Cochran. Bridge was played
during the early part of the evening.
and later a number of young men
Joined the party and there was an in
formal dance The guests. in addition
to Miss Cochran and Miss Morgan, in
cluded Miss Dorothy Arnold of Wash
ington, Miss Mary Cabell, Miss Mary
Hunt Roberts, Miss Inez Moore, Miss
Margaret Moore, Miss Dorothy Nor
ton, Miss Elizabeth Warwick, Miss
Margaret Warwick, Miss Sarah Bayol,
Miss Polly Maigne, Miss Margaret
Randolph, Miss Virginia Wilkins, Miss
Carolyn Burgess, Miss Margaret Rob-
inson, Miss Alice Harding, Miss Kath-
crime Fisher, Miss katherine Thomp-
son, Miss Ruth Grim, Miss Mildred
Baker, Miss Mabel Blunt, Miss jose
phine Gregg. Miss Louise Carlin, Mr.
George Darst, Mr.. Davis Jackson, Mr.
John Hughes, Mr.. Richard Ross, Mr.
Robert Ross, Mr.. Raymond Wolford
Mr.. Ashby Warfield. Mr.. Vincent
Young, Mr.. Tom Moncure, Mr.. Robert
Whitton, Mr.. Lionel Beeton, Mr.. Nor
man Lawler, Mr.. Stanleigh Swan, Mr.
Jack Robinson, Mr.. Chester Pierce,
Mr.. Edwin Pierce. Mr.. Arthur Rector
Mr.. Cecil Brown, Mr.. Tom Hulfish and
Midshfpman Jack Pohl.
Prof. Ralph McBurney, formerly of
this city. now head of the school of
bacteriology at the University of Ala
bama, has returned to his home in
Tuscaloosa, Ala, after visit to
friends here and to his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. George McBurney, in Wash
ington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kent White and their
children are back from a visit to Mr..
Whites parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
White, in Waynesboro, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Howell of
Pittsburgh are guests of the formers
mother, Mrs. Charles w. Howell, on
South Royal street.
Miss Cora Smoot and Miss Loula
Smoot are visiting their sister, Mrs J.
Clinton Smoot, in North Wilkesboro,
N. C.
DR.. and Mrs. Arthur Vaughan
Bishop, who have spent the Summer
touring in Europe, We're guests last
week of the latter's mother, Mrs
Elizabeth Hoffman, before leaving for
their home in Georgetown, KY.
The marriage is announced Of Mrs
Alice G. Gordon to DR.. Bergman
Green. jr.. Monday, September IA. in
Denver, Colo. DR.. Green is the only
child of the dean of the Virginia Epis-
copal Theological Seminary and Mrs
bergman Green, and spent several
years of his childhood in this city when
his father was rector of Old Christ
Church. He is a graduate of the
Episcopal High School and the Uni
versity of Virginia, and had overseas
service with the A. E. F. during the
World War. DIR. and Mrs. Green will
live in Denver, where the doctor is
connected with one of the large hos
pitfalls.
Mr.. Joel Kidd has left for Richmond
after visit to his son and daughter
in-law. Mr.. and Mrs. Wayland Kidd,
on Duke street.
Mrs. George Gordon Asher, who has
been visiting friends in Los Angeles
and San Francisco, is now the guest
OF friends in Portland, Oreg., and will
visit Seattle and Vancouver, B. c., be.
fore returning home
Among the members of the younger
set who have left In the past week to
return to college are Miss katherine
Leadbeater, to Sweetbriar College:
Richard Wright, to Washington and
Lee University, lexington; Stanley
King, to William and Mary College,
Williamsburg; Kenneth Stabler, Arm
istead Boothe, Jack Roberts, Urban S.
Lambert, jr.; Earl Knight, Edgar
Bayol and Jack Howard, to the Uni
versity of Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Eddington have
returned from a visit to the latter's
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert A. Zachary, in Atlantic City,
Mrs. Bertha Fishbach of Marshall.
Va, Is the guest of her brother-in-Iaw
and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry r.
Padgett. in Mount Vernon Park.
Mrs. r. A. Wilkinson entertained at
luncheon Friday, when her guests
were Mrs. Jennifer Broaddus, Mrs.
Alexander S. DoDiphan, Mrs. J. A.
Carpenter. Mrs. A. J. Nails, Mrs. ].
Fl. Rollins, Mrs. John Gary and Miss
Lucy Gary.
Miss Edith Fairfax entertained Fri
day evening for DIR. and Mrs. Paul
Weber and Miss Edith Weber of
Brooklyn, who We're the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry E. Posey. The others
present were Miss Linnie Curtis of
Washington, Miss Mary Curtis and
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