Evening star., 1935-06-16
Family Will
See Midwest
Alexandrians Leave
Today on Trip
by Motor.


ALEXANDRIA, Va, June l5.-
Capt and Mrs. Charles M. Shopper
son and Miss Imogene Baxter Shep-
person will leave tomorrow by motor
for @ trip through the Middle West
and will visit relatives In Caddo,
Okla, before returning home.
MRS. Charles F. Holden. president
of the Alexandria Garden Club; Mrs.
Francis E. Carter, the retiring presi-
dent: Mrs. Gardner L. Boothe, Mrs.
Louis s. Scott and Mrs. Richard T.
Hammett were at Orkney Springs
this week for the annual convention
Wednesday and Thursday Of the Gar
den Club of Virginia and the annual
rose show of the Spotswood Garden
Club of Harrisonburg. The local
club is one of the 26 members Of the
State organization.
Miss Ellen Ticer has left for
Guelph, Ontario, where she will be
the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
A. L. Charlesworth. Mrs. Charles
worth formerly was Miss Elizabeth
Hogarth Smith of this city. Miss
Ticer was one of the bridesmaids at
her wedding to Mr.. CharleSworth last
September.
Mrs. Clarence c. Leadbeater, Mrs.
Howard Bradley Bloomer, jr., and
Miss Mabel Smith left this week to
motor to Florida, where they will
spend some time.
Representative and Mrs. A. Willis
Robertson and their two sons have
gone to their home in Lexington, Va,
where Mrs. Robertson and the boys
will remain for the Summer. Mr.
Robertson will stay In washington
until the end of the congressional
session.
Mrs. John de Marr is home from
visit to her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
c. A. Cease, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Two engagements announced last
week are of interest in Alexandria, as
both the prospective bridegrooms are
sons of former residents. Lieut..
Charles B. Elliott, jr, U. 8. A., who
will be married later this month to
{ Miss Polly Shannon Taulbee, daugh-
ter of Col. and Mrs. Joseph F. Taulbee
of Randolph Field, is the son of Col.
Charles B. Elliott, u. s. A, who is a
native Alexandrian and is the son
of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Henry r.
Elliott. Col. and Mrs. Elliott now are
at Fort Shafter. in Hawaii. The other
bridegroom-to-be is Mr.. Clagett Bowie
Of Baltimore. son of Capt. and Mrs.
William Bowie of Washington, whose
engagement is announced to Miss
Olivia Goode Coulter, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. William Merrick Coulter Of
Baltimore and Towson. Md. Mrs.
Bowie formerly was Miss Elizabeth
/ Taylor Wattles and lived in Alexan-
dris all her life until her marrisge.
She is the daughter of the late Mr..
Starr WattleS and Mrs. Caroline Clag-
EFT Wattles, and is a sister Of Mrs.
| Thomas Alexander Lee and Mr.. Henry
/ Starr WattleS.
| Mr.. Joseph E. Bariesas of this city
was one of the ushers at the wedding
/ of Miss Emma Louise Parker, daugh-
ter Of Mrs. Spotswood Hayes Parker
and the late DR.. Parker, and Mr..
Robert Smith Dodd, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Edward Dodd of Cleve-
land Heights, Ohio, which took place
Saturday evening, June 8, in the
University of Virginia Chapel in
/ Charlottesville.
Mr.. John Hunter went to Char
| lottesville Monday. where he was an
usher at the marriage in the univer-
sity chapel that evening of Miss
Louisa Lay, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Beirne Lay of Gildersleeve Wood. near
/ the university, to Mr.. Woodbridge
1 Brown Morton, jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. Brown Morton of New York
City and Morland, in King George
County.
Invitations have been received from
Mr. Harry Garner Haskell for the
marriage of his daughter, Elizabeth
Denham, to Mr.. Allison Fleitas, son
| of DR.. and Mrs. Joseph Fleitas of
Chestnut Hill, Pa, Saturday AFTER
noon. June %, at S o'clock, in Trim
ity Episcopal Church in Whining
ton, Del. Following the ceremony
there will be a reception in the home
OF the brides father, Hill Girt Farm.
on st. Salem lane in Wilmington.
The marriage of Miss Elizabeth
Vaugnt of Jacksonville, Fla, to the
Rev. Francis Burke of Roanoke took
place Friday afternoon, June Z. in
Emanuel Chapel of the Virginia Epis-
copal Theological Seminary. The
Right Rev. Robert Carter Jett, Bishop
CT Southwestern Virginia, officiate6.
The bridegroom had been ordained
to the diaconste Friday morning in
the seminary chapel by Bishop Jett,
In whose diocese he will serve until his
ordination to the priesthood The
Rev. and Mrs. Burke left shortly after
the ceremony for a Southern wedding
trip, and after July will live in the
rectory in Alta Vista, Va, where Rev.
Burke will be in charge of st. Peters
Church.
The marriage Of Mr.. Thomas
Chauncey of this city to Mrs. Iva
Florence Walker Osgood of Brooklyn
took place in that city last Sunday
afternoon, with Rev. Luther D. Gable
of the Lutheran Church officiating.
Mr.. Chauncey has reached his 10th
year and is lifelong resident of
Alexandria. The bride Is 81 and has
known Mr.. Chauncey since they were
both quite young. It was not until
both had been married and widowed
and had children and grandchildren
that they decided to marry. Mr..
Chauncey has built new home at 30I
South Columbus street. and there he
and his bride will live.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. w. Davis announce
the marriage Of their daughter, Lucy
EliZc beth In Mr. I,ou of