Evening star., 1932-10-25
SOCIETY
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tained at dinner-dance at Wardman
Park Hotel Saturday night in honor of
Miss Mary Bixler Of this city and DR..
Schuyler ColfaX Enck, jr.. of Harris
burg, Pa, whose marriage will take
place November 26.
The table was beautifully decorated
with yellow chrysanthemums, ferns and
Fall leaves. Yellow candles completed
the color scheme.
Among the other guests were DR.. and
Mrs. Leroy Hyde Miss Peggy Byers,
Mr. Bernhard Spille Miss Catherine
Lantel and Mr.. William Rippard.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Aubrey Hastings
have returned from New York and have
as their guests Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
D. Widdemer of New York. Mr. Wild
demer will speak at the convention of
the American Public Health Association.
Miss K. l. Sayers of Dufield. Derby,
England is a guest at the Dodge. Miss
SayerS has been in this country through
the Walter Hines Page memorial
scholarship, and is now en- route to
England
The annual Halloween dance of the
Wesley Heights Club will be given Sat
urday, October 90, with the committee
in charge of arrangements including
Mrs. Dean M. Rathbun, chairman: Mrs.
Ralph Barnaby, Mrs. Harry r.. Bates
and Mrs. Peyton R. Evans. Prizes will
be awarded to the best dressed man,
the best dressed woman, the most
originally dressed man and woman. and
prize to the funniest costumed person.
Mrs Sidney A. Benedict of Chestnut
Hill. Philadelphia, is the guest of Mrs
Frank w Halsey in her apartment at
Wardman Park Hotel for a short time
Old Virginia Families
Connected Through Engagement.
The Rev and Mrs. James j. Chap
man of Orange County. Va. who are
now in Japan, have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Ellen Ritchie Chapman, to Mr.. John
Irving Woodruff The wedding is to
take place next Spring. Miss Chap
man is a granddaughter of the late
Lieut.. Col. William H Chapman. who
served under Col. John S. Mosby in
the Confederate Army, and on her
maternal side of the late Mr.. W. W.
Scott of Orange County. Va. Both
families have been prominent in civic
and military life in Virginia over 200
years and are related to the Washing
ton, Lee, Barbour Madison and Wills
families. Mr. Woodruff is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jaffray Woodruff
of Frascati, Somerset, Va. and a
grandson of the late Mr.. and Mrs John
r. P. Woodruff of Irving on Hudson,
N. Y. but later of Orange County, Va,
and is also a grandson of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Alexander Duer Irving of
SunnySide. Irving Hudson, where
Mr.. Woodruff was born. He is great
great-greatnepheW of Washington
Irving and is related to many old New
York families. Miss Chapman is a
student of the School of Horticulture
in Amber, Pa.
Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong of New
York who had planned to reopen her
apartment at the MayfloWer this week
is leaving tomorrow for New York and
will not return to Washington until
the early part of November.
Tomorrow Mrs. Strong will meet Mrs.
Rushmore Patterson in New York City
and together they will conduct an eX-
tensive campaign for President Hoover
in Rochester, Mrs. Strong'S home, and
in surrounding small towns.
Mrs. Wilson Compton, president of
the University Women's Club, who as
sisted Mrs. Strong and Mrs. Patterson
at a meeting held in washington last
Spring for the enforcement of the
eighteenth amendment, is planning to
join them in Rochester the end of the
week and will also make several ad-
dresses before going to the Middle West
to continue an active campaign she
has been conducting in Michigan.
Representative and Mrs. Thomas S.
Mcmillan of South Carolina were guests
at the Woman's National Democratic
Club yesterday at the weekly forum
luncheon given by the club in their
honor. Representative Mcmillan was
the guest speaker, taking as his sub
ject, Why Roosevelt Will Win"
Mrs George NJ. Eckels, one of the
members of the board of governors Of
the club, introduced Representative
Mcmillan. Mrs. Atlee Pomerene, Mrs.
Walter Wyatt, Miss Caroline C. Graves,
Mrs Edward K. Campbell and Mrs.
Lewis Underwood of birmingham, Ala,
were others at the table with the
speaker.
Others at the luncheon were Mrs.
Samuel Herrick, Mrs. Claude r. Porter,
Mrs Winifred Artaud. Mrs. Thomas
W. Page, Mrs. j. B. Wychoff. Mrs. M
A. j. Markley, Mrs. Basil Manly, Mrs.
Joseph E Davies, Mrs. William Mitchell,
Mrs John T. Vance. Mrs. Peter j. Nc
Govern, MIS-. BateS warren, MIS-. II. n.
Pilson, Mrs. Earl Warren, Mrs. Frank
Hiram Smell, Mrs. Samuel Major. Mrs.
Edgar B. Kay. Mrs. James T. Newton,
Miss Helen Newton, Mrs. Frederick
Young Mrs. Daniel c. Roper, Mrs. A.
G. McClintock. Mrs NJ H. Tighe, Mrs.
Rufus w Weaver, Mrs. Charles War
ren, Mrs. Donald Macdonald, Mrs.
Dumas Malone, Mrs. Clarence I. Hen
Erickson, Mrs. Lester j. Pollock, Miss
Mae Helm, Mrs. E. Rust Smith. Mrs.
Alexander Bull, Mrs. C. F. Taylor, Mrs.
B. K. Ogden, Mrs. Ogilvie Shumate,
Miss Beaufort Kelley and Mrs. Pierre
M. Bealer.
Mrs. John D. Claybrook of Austin,
Tex, who is attending the Public
Health Conference sessions at the Will
lard Hotel, is the guest of her sister,
Miss Marion Smith, and her brother,
Col E. B. Smith, at 1120 Twenty-fiftn
street northwest.
Miss Ida Dennis of the Al-States