Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
Alexandria Society
Events of Interest
In Week. Chronicles
Weddings. Past and in Pros.
pect. Adorn the Calendar.
Pleasure Excursion List
ed-Visitors Being Enter
tanned.

Mr.. and Mrs. Richard B. Washington
and Mr.. and MRS. Wilson Selden WASH
ington were in Annapolis Saturday,
August 80, for the marriage in st. AIMS
Episcopal Church that afternoon of
their brother, Mr.. Francis Ryland
Washington. to Miss Rebecca Holmes
Tyndell, daughter of the Eey. DR. and
Mrs. Charles Moves Tyndeu OF Terra
Haute, Ind. The ceremony was per-
formed by the brides father and MIR.
Julian Howard washington was best
man for his brother. The bridegroom
Is the youngest son of Mrs. Washington
and the late Mr.. Lawrence Washington
is a nephew of Mrs. Eleanor S. Wash
tngton Howard, the last of the Wash
tngton family to be born at Mount Yer.
non. For several years Mr.. Washington
has been commandant at the Shenan-
doah Valley Military Academy in VIM
chester. Following the ceremony In
Annapolis Saturday there was an in
formal wedding breakfast for the two
families at the Peggy Stewart Inn. Mr..
and Mrs. Washington viii live In SAL
isbury, Md.
Mr.. Grigsby Shackelford Of the facul-
ty of the Episcopal High School and
Mrs. Shackelford announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Evelyn
son of Col and Mrs. Walter L. Murfee
of Marion, Ala. The wedding will take
place in october in Emmanuel Chapel
at the Episcopal Theological Seminary.
Mrs. Charles William Wattles has left
fcs Honolulu to join her son, Lieut..
TEoznas L. Wattles, u. S. N.
Miss Ellen TIGER has returned from q
visit to Miss Emily Carter Saunders in
Saluda, Va.
Miss Gwendolyn Orr Is q guest Of
Miss Sarah Arthur In Asheville, N. c.
DR.. and Mrs. J. C. Major have been
visiting the formers parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Waverly Major, In Saluda.
The marriage of Miss Frances Haw-
kins Purnell, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
James @. Purnell of Charlotte, N c., to
the Rev. George Purnell Gum, son Of
Mrs. Gum and the late Rev. Sterling
Gum Of Lynchburg. took place at noon
"Wednesday in the chapel Of the Epis-
copal Theological Seminary. The Right
Rev. Robert Carter Jet, bishop Of
Southwestern Virginia, officiated, as
sisted by the Rev. DR.. Bergman Green,
dean Of the seminary. Miss Mary Pur-
nell was maid of honor for her sister,
and Mr.. Carter Gum Of Lynchburg
was his brothers best man. The BRIDE
groom was ordained to the deaconate at
son returned here for his marriage. He
Is now rector of several churches In
More Parish, Campbell County. Mr..
and Mrs. Gum will live In Alta Vista,
Va.
\ guest of Miss Betty Lowe Smyth on
North Washington street, has returned
TO her home in Charles Town, w. Va,
accompanied by Miss Smyth.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Leitch have re-
turned from a visit to Mr.. and Mrs.
W. w. Chelf in Culpeper.,
Mr.. Frank Mtcheloacn ana ms
daughter, Miss Nellie Michelbach, ar
rived home last week after spending
the Summer travelling In Europe.
Miss Magdalene Wright Is at home
after a series of visits with relatives In
Raleigh, Pinehurst and Silver Spring,
N. G.
Miss Lyia Nicholson spent last week
end at Bay Ridge, Md.
Mrs. r. NJ. Dow of Atlanta Is the
guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Her
bert j. Baker.
Miss Christine Munoz Is back from
FarmviIle, where she was member Of
the faculty at the Summer school OF the
State Teachers College.
Mrs. Rathbone Smith and her sons,
Douglas and Billy Smith, returned Fri
day from a motor trip to Lexington,
XIV. where they were the guests Of Mrs.
Smiths brother-in-law and sister, Mr..
and Mrs Charles Poser. They were ac-
companied home by Mr.. Waller Smith,
who has been spending the Summer
with his uncle and aunt.
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. William J.
Morton and Miss Caroline F1tzhugh
Morton have returned from Orkney
Springs where they spent the month
Of August.
Mrs. Mamie Pattie Anderson Of Ro-
anoke Is a guest Of her cousin, Mrs.
Robert d. Woolf.
Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor Burke and their
two children are spending . week at
Virginia Beach.
Mrs. Arthur M. King and her chill
dren, Bette and Frank King, are at
nome after spending several weeks in
Marshall, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman r. Lawler Of
Salisbury, Md, have been the guests
If the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Blunt.
Miss Elizabeth Ramey Is at home
after q visit to her cousins, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence Washburn Denote. In
Newton, N. j.
Mrs. Charles Power and Miss Kath-