Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-27

The charge d'affaires of italy. Count
Alberto Marchetti. will leave Washing
ton the end of the week. and will sail
Saturday for two-month leave of ab-
sence in his native country.
Former Senator and Mrs. Peter Goelct
Gerry, who have spent month at their
Biltmore Forest home, have left for
their home at Warwick, r. I.
Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs Baker will present
their daughter. Miss Caroline Pryor
Baker to society at tea dance We'd
nesday, November 81, in the Hotel May
flower.
Mrs Marie S. DisSton Grant, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob S. Disston of
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. was mar
ried Thursday to Lieut.. Col. Schofield
Andrews, the ceremony taking place in
the Washington Cathedral, Canon G.
Freeland Peter officiating. Col. and Mrs.
Andrews will be at home after their
wedding trip at 424 West Mermaid lane
Mrs. Andrews was the widow of
Mr. Patrick Grant, 3D.
Mrs Frederick E. Harrington will be
the guest Of honor and speaker at the
Friday afternoon tea at the Congress
sional Club this week.
The engagement is announced by Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur H. Lea of Philadelphia
of their niece, Miss Mary Frances Loud,
to NJ. Edouard LeGhait of the Belgian
foreign office in Brussels. and son of M.
Raymond LeGhait. Belgian Minister to
Austria. Miss Loud is o daughter of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Elliott Loud
OF Boston, and was presented in Phila-
flPInhfQ NJ L>oJI
which they gave several years ago in
Bellevue-S tratford
M. LeGhait is grandson of the for
mer Belgian Minister to this country
and Nine. LeGhait, the latter a daugh-
ter OF the late Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Payson of Washington and Paris.
Former First Lady Buys
Eastern Shore Maryland Home.
Mrs. Thomas J. Preston of Princeton,
N. j., has purchased an estate near
Queenstown. on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland. Mrs. Preston was before her
marriage Miss Frances Folsom and she
first married President Grover CIeve-
land. the ceremony taking place in the
White House. Mr.. Richard Cleveland
OF Baltimore, son of Mrs. Preston, COM
pleted the negotiations for the sale of
the property which overlooks the Wye
River and was formerly owned by Mr..
Herman Kehn Of. New York, who has
recently purchased Rutledge, the es-
tate of Mr.. George L. Bryan.
Miss Adelaide Lewis, president of the
Garden Club of Fairfax, is extending
to the members of all Garden Clubs in
Washington, Georgetown and nearby
Maryland cordial invitation to at
tend the third annual Spring show of
the Garden Club of Fairfax, which will
be held on Wednesday afternoon, from
to o'clock, in Willard Hail. at Fair
fax. Exhibits may be made by any
amateur gardener and prizes will be
awarded in each class The sweep
stakes prize, however, an antique silver
basket from the Dixie Galleries,
wrought in London in 1894 by the
silversmith John Edwards, must go to
some member of the local club, accord
ing to the stipulation of its donors, Mr..
and Mrs. Harley Peyton Wilson of
Holm Hall in Fairfax County.
Mrs. Frederick Richardson of Fair
fax, secretary of the club. is entertain
ing at luncheon at her home on We'd
nesday for the Garden Clubs of Fairfax,
Alexandria, Leesburg. Warrenton. Eau
quier-Loudon and Winchester. Honor
guests will be Mrs Edward Gam and
Mrs. w. M. Jardine of Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bowie Chapman
left this morning for Castine, Me, to
spend a week.
Mrs. Kenworthy, wife of Capt. VIII
liam B. Kenworthy, U. S. A., is visiting
her parents. Col. and Mrs. John A.
Ludeen, at their home, 2139 Wyoming
avenue. She will return the latter part
of the week to her home at Fort Brady,
Mich.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer, who
were in Washington for few days, have
returned to their home in New York.
Mrs. Rafael r. Gown and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. John D. Schoonmaker. jr., will
motor from the latter's home at King
ston, N. Y, to New York and will be
at the Weylin for the week Mrs. GOWN
and her daughter, as Miss May I. Gown,
made their Winter home in Washington