Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-13
Alexandria
Girl to Wed
At Danville
Miss Barbara School,
field Will Become
Bride of J. c.. Miller.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special DlSpatcn TO Inc StdT'
ALEXANDRIA, Va, October IL
Invitations have been received from
Mr.. and Mrs. John Harrell School
field for the marriage of their daugh-
ter Barbara Lizora 10 Mr. John Cliff
ford Miller, jr, son of Mrs. John
Clifford Miller and the late Mr.. Mil
Ter of Richmond and Beauregard, near
Brandy. Va, Saturday evening. Oc-
tober 26, at 9 o'clock in the Main
Street Methodist Episcopal Church
South. in Danville, Va. Mr.. Charles
M. Shepperson. Sd, a classmate OF
the bridegroom to-be at the Virginia
Military Institute. will be one of the
ushers. Mr. Shepperson will go to
Richmond october "a to attend the
bachelor dinner Mr.. Miller will give
that evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Herbert Bry-
ant have issued invitations for the
marriage of their daughter Ruth to
Mr.. George Plummer Smith. jr., of
Morristown, N. j.. Saturday after
noon. October Is, at o'clock in St.
Paul's Episcopal Church. Following
the ceremony there will be large
reception in the home of the brides
parents at sol North Washington
street. Miss Bryant is descended
from families which have been living
in Alexandria since the very early
Colonial days when the town was
known as Belle Haven. She is the
granddaughter of the late Capt. and
Mrs. j. c. Herbert Bryant and of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sinclair
TAYLOR. and is a descendant of John
Carlyle, who built the famous Carlyle
House in this city, where Gen. Brad
dock was a guest before starting on
the fatal Fort DuqueSne expedition
and where so much other Colonial
history was made. The house is now
a museum. Miss Bryant will have
as her matron of honor Mrs. j. Brooks
Nichols. jr., of Morristown, sister Of
Mr.. Smith. and her other attendants
will be Miss Emily North King Of
Warrenton. Miss Mary Kress Of
Quantico, Mrs. Dudley S. Knox, the
former Miss Lalla Harrison Lynn, and
Mrs. Calvert Brent Morgan, both Of
Washington. Mrs. Morgan formerly
was Miss Caroline Fitzhugh Morton
of this city, daughter of the Rev. DR..
William j. Morton, until recently rec
tor of Old Christ Church, and Mrs.
Morton. Mr.. William DeForrest
Smith of Morristown will be best man
for his brother, and the ushers will
be Mr.. William Sterling Robey of
Rochester, N. Y; Mr.. Langdon
Peters of Montclair, N. j.: Mr.. John
Kay, Mr.. Frederick Ford and Mr..
James Monroe Mclean. all of Nor
ristown, and Mr.. John Carlyle Her
bert Bryant, brother of the BRIDE
elect.
Miss Ida Randolph Mason of
Richmond will arrive Monday to be
the guest of her brother in-law and
sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor Burke.
Miss Mason, who is general secretary
of the National Consumers League,
will give an address before the BUSH
ness and Professional Womens Club
Wednesday evening in Gadsby's
Tavern.
Mrs. Frederick G. Duvall and her
daughters, Miss Anne Duvall. Miss
Katherine Duvall and Miss Caroline
Duvall, went this week to Richmond
where they will make their home in
the future. Mrs. Duvall will be a
member of the faculty of st. Cath
crimes School and her daughters will
be students there during the present
session.
Mrs. Scott B. MacFarland returned
this week after three months travel
in Europe and has joined Lieut.
Comdr. Mcfarland in their home at
COL Queen street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Bradley
Bloomer, jr., left today for Mays
Head. N. c., where they will spend
the week end and celebrate the first
anniversary of their marriage, which
took place October 10, last year, in
Christ Church.
Mrs. A. D. Willard. jr. and her
young daughter. Courtenay Willard,
have returned from a visit to her
mother, Mrs. Courtenay. at Mundi
Point, Va.
Mloo bclld AllIlc MuIlCc, OduSIlCCk
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Sinclair Munce,
formerly of this city, and Miss Susan
Stuart Gibson, whose mother, Mrs.
Churchill j. Gibson, formerly was
Miss Gay Lord of Alexandria, both of
whom will be among the seasons
debutantes in Richmond, were guests
of honor at cocktail party given
last evening by Miss Edith Hancock
in the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Beverley Hancock, and after
ward at buffet supper given by Mr..
Craig Miller, jr. Later they attended
the antebellum ball given by Mrs.
Langbourne Meade Williams for her
debutante daughter, Miss Anne Armi-
stead Williams, in her home, Kinloch,
in Essex County. Another of the
Richmond debutantes this Winter
will be Miss Margaret Brooke, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. George boswell
Brooke. Before her marriage Mrs.
Brooke was Miss Sue Herbert of this
city.
Mrs. Kate Kersey announces the
marriage of her daughter, Mary, to
Mr.. William H.'Duty, son of Mrs. Guy
Duty and the late Mr.. Duty, Monday,
September 80, the Rev. L. J. Roster