Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04

BEVERLY, Mass, August 3.-Alur-
ing In their variety have been the
offerings set before Washington colo
riists on the North Shore in the week
Just closing. Tennis week at the Essex
County Club produced o keener interest
In that sport than ever, and the courts
at that club and at Myopia and Mont
the week.
The yachting season all along the
North Shore Is close to reaching its
height, q season notable for the splen-
did entry list and for the number OF
new craft in commission. There has
been the usual round of luncheons, teas
and dinner parties at the cottages. clubs
and hotels, but for the most part they
have been informal, small affairs.
OF q wider interest were the food
sale at Burneside. the Summer home
of Miss Katherine P. Loring at Prides
Crossing, by which the Beverly Health
Center benefited. Mrs. Augustus P.
Loring, IT., of Prides Crossing and
Mrs. Lloyd Nichols Of Beverly Farms
were the joint chairman OF the COM
mittee in charge of the successful
affair. The Stillington Hall presenta-
tionS proved as popular as usual and
attracted many of the Summer colo
niStS during the week. Tonight Mr..
and Mrs. Lyon Weyburn are entertain
ing at their Prides Crossing home,
when the Opening and the Closing
Night of the Manager Night Club" will
provide many novel attractions, and
Summer colonists will play some Of the
leading roles.
Community Service Fair
And Other Attractions Listed.
nL~ ~~~,,aY ao,,.,,a,,,,ft~, ea,.,,ina Pair
will be held at the Community House
in Hamilton Wednesday and Thurs
day. Misses Nancy Whitman, Rose
Sterns, Alice Burrage, Isabel Lawrence,
Mary, Catherine and Cornelia Pente-
cost are giving a fair at the Gables,
the .Junkins estate at Beverly Farms,
for the benefit of the North Shore
branch Of the Massachusetts, Society
for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Chill
dren, and in which many Of the Sum-
mer colonists are interested.
l. Mai. George S. Patton, u. s. A,
| and family are at Green Meadows,
their country home in the Myopia dis
trict at Hamilton. The Pattons have
fbeen in Washington. Maj. Patton re-
| Gently completed his service in Homo
lulu and in the Philippine Islands, and
several Of the horses which he used In
| the islands have been brought on to
Hamilton. The PattonS are keen on
/ hunting, and their stables shelter some
! of the finest hunters in the Myopia
district.
Mr.. Keith Merrill has come on from
Washington to join his family at Ava
lon, the Merrill Summer home at
+, Prides Crossing. The estate is one OF
the most attractive In the colony and a
Few Summers ago, while the Merr1ls
were abroad, it was occupied by Secre-
tery Of the Treasury Andrew w. Mel
lon.
Mrs. William c. Carr Of Washington
has been visiting Mrs. Jacob L. Loose
at Sea Rocks, her Summer home IN
the Eastern point district at Gloucester
Mr.. and Mrs. Letters Home
Scene Of Notable Wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Letter have some
wonderful things at their Edgewater
home at West Beach, Beverly Farms.
Their mansion house is filled with treas
ures and on the green is one Of the most
attractive swimming pools on the North
Shore. Surrounding the pool, picture
spot, is a marble walk on which many
teas and luncheons have been served
during the season, but the latest addi-
ton to the advantages of a North Shore
home was discovered at the wedding OF
Mrs. Letters sister, Mrs. John Ballen-
tine Pitney, when she became the bride
of Barbour Huston Rawls. Some New
York friends came over for the wedding
and the breakfast which followed, but
they did not come by train, boat or
motor. They came by air and travelled
on big passenger-carrying plane. The
plane landed on the beach almost In
front Of the Letter home, the guests
paid their respects to the newly weds and
then In the afternoon climbed aboard
the carrier for an air trip to New York.
They came over In something like two
and q half hours, and of course there
was large gathering at the beach to
see the machine hop off. When the
motors began to work and the propellers
hum, the sand was kicked up in a way
that would have made wonderful sand