Evening star., 1938-11-27
Social News
OF StauntOn
For Week
Miss Gibbs Feted
Before Wedding
Last Night

STAUNTON, Va, Nov. 26.-
There have been many entertain
ments this week for Miss Nancy
Gibbs, whose wedding took place this
evening. and these have added great
ly to the festivities. She was hon.
ored Monday with a bridge luncheon
by Mrs. P. C. Hollis, and Friday with
tea by Misses Agnes and Marjorie
Kivlighan, who were among her
attendants. There was a dinner
party last night, given her by Miss
Josephine Gibbs and Mrs. Virginia
Snead of Woodberry Forest, and a
luncheon today by Miss Margaret
Lasley, another of her attendants.
Mrs. Albert A. Doub of Cumber-
land, Md, is the guest of her sister,
Mrs. w. Murray Hilleary, and Mr..
Hilleary. Mrs. Doub is sister of Col.
Peyton Cochran of this city.
Miss Mildred Clarke, who is stu
dent at the Washington Secretarial
School, spent the holidays here at
her home and had with her as her
guest Miss Ann Middleton of Water
loo, Iowa.
Miss Elizabeth Poole, dean of Mary
Baldwin College, and Miss Elizabeth
Brooke Cochran of Fairfax Hall,
Waynesboro, attended the annual
meeting of the Regional Association
of Deans of Women and Advisers for
Girls of Delaware, Maryland, Vr-
ginia and District of Columbia,
which was held at the National Ca
thedral School in Washington. Miss
Cochran recently was made dean of
Fairfax Hall.
Miss Elizabeth Atkinson has left
for Washington where she will be
the guest for a fortnight of Mr.. and
Mrs. Rozier Dulaney.
Mrs. Hattie C. Jordan
Visiting in Washington.
Mrs. Hattie C. Jordan has left for
Washington where she will spend a
few days before going to Barnsville,
Md. to visit her son, Mr.. Wilson
Jordan.
Miss Mary Grasty Bell, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Bell of
Stoneleigh, has been spending some
time with Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon
Pickett Peyton in Alexandria.
Mr.. Harry Frazier was the guest
this week for a few days of his
daughter. Mrs. Erskine Miller, en-
route from his summer home,
Thornwold, in Greenbrier County, W.
Va, to Richmond.
Miss Ann McCurley has returned
to her home in Baltimore after
spending some time with her sister,
Mrs. William E. Trout.
Mrs. Peter M. Dorsch of Washing
ton, who is visiting her son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Eric
Tattersall at their home here, has
been entertained with several de-
lightful affairs during her stay.
Mr.. James S. Simmons, jr., who
has been a patient for several weeks
in the Mount Alto Hospital, Wash
ington, has returned to his home
here.
Mrs. Hugh b. Sproul
Has Thanksgiving Guests.
Mrs. William Allnutt and her chill
dren, Harriet and Billy, were
Thanksgiving guests of her mother,
Mrs Hugh B. Sproul, at her home,
Brawburn. Mrs. Allnutt has been
here some time. Mr.. Allnutt joined
his family for the Thanksgiving
week end.
Mrs. R. L. Souder of this city and
her sister, Mrs. Ralph Kirk of Pitts
burgh, Pa, have returned from Bal
timore where they were the guests Of
relatives for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles c. Hall Of
Newport News have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Mary
Isabel, to Mr.. John Alexander White
law, son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. White
law of Staunton. The wedding will
take place shortly.
Mr.. F. Graham Cootes of New
York, who has been a guest of DR..
and Mrs. Edwin Burton at the uni
versity, is now established at the
Colonnade Club here until the
Christmas holidays, when he will go
to Richmond for several months.