The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-02-24
NEWS OF WASHINGTON SOCIETY
lVOn1ens Prohibition Reform DriUe
Wins Interest of younger Marrieds' y
Getting Takes Place at
Home of Mrs. Charles
Parker Stone

arker Stone
Members Of the smart
Younger married set ara
Interested in the Women 5
rganisation for National
rohibition Reformm move
nent, launched in New
Fork by Mrs. Charles Il.
abin, and being carried on
q Washington by Miss Bell
surnee.
Last week this group
net at the home Of Mrs.
CHARLES Parker Stone to
pledge their support to the
rive now being conducted
y the capital.
Mother and Daughter
Mrs. Stones mother, Mrs.
rederick H. Brooke, is inter.
sting herself in this anti
Olstead' crusade, so 1t is quite
aturaI that her daughter, the
primer Frances Mckee, like
Use, should carry on the
PORK among her friends. Ac-
Ording to reports, the drive
lere Is meeting with much
uccesS among members Of the
mart residential set-whose
attic cry is Down with pro-
ibition!" Few Of the little
eilow cards now In circula-
ION as a pledge Of support to
1e drive have landed in the
crap basket.
In return for these signatures,
aoge cards were issued by Miss
ELI Gurnee, urging the Signer
b attend the wet" hearings In
congress.
Capable
TO 80 back to the younger
et, q more capable organizer
han Mrs. Stone cannot be
ound. Before her marriage
he was executive head Of most
4 the Junior YAaR1le Under.
akings. When a group Of
iris had to assemble for this
r that, the answer was "get
FRANKIE" Mckee to do It,"
Mrs. Hoover Receives
Mrs. Hoover is receiving a
mall group Of ladies this after
icon at the White House at
80 o'clock.
The Attorney General and
6rS. William Dewitt Mitchell,
be Secretary Of Commerce and
4rs. Robert Patterson Lamont,
nd the Assistant Secretary. Of
az Treasury and Mrs. Walter
wing Hope, who have been
pending several days at Yea
aan's Hall, in Charleston, s. c.,
eturned to Washington today.
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Envoy in New York
The German Ambassador and
rau Won Prittwitz are at the
sitz Tower, New York, for a few
lays.
Mrs. David P. Kaime. of
Vashington, D. c., accompanied
1y Miss Gladys Kaime, were
uests at Hotel Del Monte, Del
Monte, Calf, for the past few
Jays.
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Drexel,
Who have been spending the
past few months in Washington,
vii return to New York on
March 4.
Returns Here
Cleveland Perkins has return.
% to Washington from New
York.
Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock is at
The Ambassador Hotel, New
Cork, from Washington.
Celebrity Breakfast
Mrs. Virginia King Frye, past
president Of the National League
b American Pen Women, will
Be sponsor for the past presi.
tents table at the celebrity
breakfast Of the organization,
Friday noon, at the willard
Hotel. She will have .as her
personal guests her daughter-in-
law, Mrs. G. Rex Frye, Of De-
eroit: Mrs. Lucian T. Royal and
Mrs. Arthur hyde Buell.. Mrs.
EDITH Kingman Kern, who is
Also o past president, will enter.
lain q party Of guests at this
liable, when she will have with
her Mrs. william Allen Wilbur,
pr. and Mrs. James r. Robert
ION and Mrs. o. B. Campbell.
Mrs. Robert Love Taylor,
widow Of the late Governor
Taylor, Of Tennessee, viii be
The guest Of Mrs. Elizabeth
Burgess Hughes CollisteT, who
b sponsor at the table Of the
executive board.
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Luncheon Today
MRS. Frank Noske was
hostess at q bridge luncheon
today ct the Dodge Hotel in
celebration of the twenty-fifth
anniversary Of her marriage.
The guests were Mrs. Joseph
Williams, Miss Lucy Scaggs,
Mrs. Guy r. Stuart, Mrs. VIII.