Evening star., 1932-01-31
John A. Plusge Weds
Miss Eleanor Vivian
At New Britain, Conn.
Cards Issued Announcing
Marriage of Miss Eliza
beth Rawlins to Frederick
Hitz.

11ltZ.
Mrs. RaWlins Hume has issued cards
announcing the marriage OF her daugh-
ter, Elizabeth RaWlinS, to Mr.. Fred
erick Porter Hitz, Wednesday, January
13, in Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs HitZ, whose marriage
took place without informing their
friends, are at home at the Hay-Adams
House.
A wedding of interest was that of
Miss Eleanor Vivian, daughter of Mrs.
James Glanville Vivian of Duluth,
Mimi, and MIR. John Ade Plugge, son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Herman o. Plugge,
whose residence is at 1858 Connecticut
avenue, this city. The ceremony was
performed Saturday, January %, at the
home of the brides uncle and aunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Black, in New
Britain, Conn. The bride wore a lovely
gown Of blue lace and carried bouquet
OF yellow roses and lilies OF the valley.
Her only attendant was her cousin from
Duluth, Miss Eleanor Abbott, who was
in gown of beige lace and carried
sweetheart roses. Mr.. Rowland Lyon
OF this city acted as best man.
After the wedding ceremony the
guests were taken to the Shuttle Mead
ow Country Club, where a banquet
was held, followed by music by Mr..
George Morgan of New York City, a
COUSIN of the bride, giving a group OF
songs.
Mrs. John A. Plugge, is a graduate of
Wellesley College and was a member of
the faculty at Wellesley before her
marriage. Mr.. John A. Plugge was
graduated from the Massachusetts In
Stitute OF Technology in Cambridge,
Mass, where he also completed two
years Of graduate work. Mr.. and Mrs
Plugge will be at home after the 1St
Of February at 1881 TWenty-eighth
street northwest.
Those attending from Washington
were MIR. and Mrs. Herman o. Plugge,
Miss Caroline Plugge, Miss Virginia
and Mrs. John S. West, Mrs. Oliver
H. Chamberlain, Mr.. A. H. Plugge and
Mr.. Gordon Plugge.
A quiet but beautifully arranged we'd
ding took place Wednesday evening,
January 25, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. William A. Pierce, West Falls
Church, Va, when their eldest daugh-
ter, Sarah Frances, became the bride
Of Mr.. Ernest Clinton johnson, son of
Mrs. Hayden, wife of Maj. Hayden of
Fort Sill, Okla. The house was deco
rated with evergreenS and Spring flow
ers, while tall pink candles in Colonial
silver and brass candlesticks, provided
the soft lighting. Just at o'clock, TO
the strains of Chopins "Nocturn,"
played by Mrs. E. M. Onruh, the two
bridesmaids entered through the folding
doors OF the long parlors. dressed in
pastel shades, Miss Charlotte Worth
ingtOn of West Falls Church in pale
pink fiat crepe and Miss Catherine
Hicks of Rockville, Md, in pale green
silk They were followed by the groomS-
man, William Raford Pierce, while from
the hall came the bridegroom and his
best man, Mr.. Ralph Pierce. At the
strains of the Lohengrin wedding march
came the young bride, walking with
her father. who gave her in marriage
She was dressed in a French blue
faiIle crepe, fashioned with hustle effect.
and wore an exquisite coral necklace
that had been worn by one of her
grandmotherS. She carried an arm bou-
quet OF Sweetheart roses, tied with long
satin ribbons of deeper shade of pink.
At the improviseG altar she joined the
briS egrcOm, where the Rev. E. B. Wilcox
Ci the Methodist Episcopal Church of
Falls Church Ofticiated At the close
CT the ceremony the bride and bride
groom stood to receive the congratula-
tens Of the few close friends and rela-
ties who we're present, after which
they went to the dining room, where
the bride cut TIE wedding cake, and re-
treatments were served. Later the
bride and bridegroom left for a we'd
ding journey. Their first stop will be
a. their future home, pretty bungalow
at SandSton, southeast of Richmond,
Va, where Mr.. johnson is employed in
the Government Weather Bureau for
Aviation. This home has been fur
nished for them and ready for occu-
panCy. After brief stop they will con-
tinue their wedding journey through
old Virginia, and to Norfolk, Ports
mouth, Old Point and other places of
interest.
The bride is descended from some of
the earliest families Of Massachusetts,
one Of whom, Elder John White, came
on the Lion, which followed the May
flower. Through David White, her
revolutionary ancestor, she entered the
G. A. R. Society when a little girl. and
later transferred to the Francis Wallis
Chapter, D. A. R., in which she is an
officer and active member On her
mothers side she is descended from the
Lee, Madison and Stewart families of
Virginia, and from the Hatch, Foard
and Watson families of North Carolina,
who migrated to Mississippi, her mother,
Alice Lee Watson Pierce, having been
born at Lexington, Miss, where her
daughter was also born.
The bride was given several show
erS" before her marriage, one at Christ
mas by her D. A R. chapter, and one
recently given by Miss Charlotte
Worthington, at West Falls Church. at
the latter of which she received lovely
apparel, SO wrapped as to form
an arm bouquet, from which hung long
ribbons with TIE cards of the donors.
Among her wedding gifts were pair of
tall silver candlestickS in Colonial pat
tern, from her regent, Mrs. T. S. Willis,
and a lovely Colonial pewter bowl IN
honor of the Bicentennial of George
Washington, this being the appropriate
concert of the year in bridal gifts and
was presented by the vice regent, Mrs
Olaf Saugstad of Arcturus, Va The
brides mother is the second vice regent
7f this chapter.
The marriage of Miss Eleanor
Mirguet, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Mirguet and niece of Miss Ada
T. Poore of Grant road, to F. Vernon
Graves, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
E Graves, of Southeast Washington. |
is announced. The ceremony was per-
formed on Friday afternoon, January
90, at st. Peters Roman Catholic |
Church. in the presence of members
of both families. Rev. Father Paul
E. Norris offiCiated.
Miss Rachel E. Cropsey was the
brides only attendant, and Mr.. Paul
Graves acted as his brOther'S hact r,,ap