Evening star., 1940-04-14
Miss Barrett
Is Feted at
Parties Given
On Eve of Wedding
To MIR. Smith

WARRENTON, Va, April 13.-
This week end features q number of
entertainments In honor Of Miss
Rice Barrett, whose marriage to Mr..
Douglas Rathbone Smith will take
place April 20. She was given q
cocktail party this afternoon, after
the Middleburg races, by Miss Mary
Selden Kennedy.
Mrs. ]. H. Dorst will give . break
fast tomorrow for Miss Barrett, and
the wedding party will be enter
tanned at q luncheon by Mrs. A. H.
Serre. In the afternoon Miss Sarah
Warren, who Is to be one of the at
tendants, will give q cocktail party
for them at the home Of her grand
mother, Mrs. William Churchill
Marshall.
Miss Eleanor holland entertained
at the Blue Parrot Monday after
noon in honor. Of Miss Margaret
Smith, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. C.
Archer Smith Of Fredericksburg,
whose marriage to Mr.. John Doley
took place today Among the out
of-town guests were Mr. and Mrs.
c. Archer Smith. Mrs. Alexander
Gordon Billingsley, Mrs. Alan Price,
Miss Frances Gary Nash, Miss Anne
Smith, Mrs. Lee Cook, jr, and Miss
Ruth Elmer.
Miss Lucy Stone entertained at
luncheon Tuesday for Miss Mar
garet Noland and Miss Margaret
Smith, the brides in a double we'd
ding this evening in Fredericksburg,
where in st. Georges Church Miss
holland was married to MIR. Stuart
Smith, brother of Miss Margaret
Smith. After the ceremony a recep-
ton was held at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. c. Archer Smith.
Mrs. Robert Krogstadt of New York
City and her son are visiting the for
mers sister, Mrs. Henry T. Oxnard, at
Edgewood. her place at Upperville,
Va. Mrs. Krogstadt as Miss Eu-
genie Pichon, was a popular mem
Der M younger circles q few years
ago. whensMrs. Cxnard and the late
Mr.. *Oxnard mAde their home in
Washington.
The Rev. and Mrs. Paul d. Bow
den, who spent two weeks after Eas-
ter at Fort Lauderdale, Fla, have
returned home.
Mrs. E. Albert Smith has opened
her home near Warrenton after
spending the winter with relatives
at Gatesville, N. G.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melville H. Bearns
and their sons, Melville Sd, and
Stuyvesant Bearns, have returned
from Florida, where they spent
three months.
Mrs. George Latham Fletcher, who
spent the winter in Washington, Is
in Warrenton visiting Mrs. c. f.
Tiffany.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Fletcher. who
returned this winter from Rich
mond, where they lived for several
years, and have since been at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Fletch-
er, jr, have rented and taken pos
session of the Thomas Atkinson
place on Bethel road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel c. Sands and
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at luncheon today before the Mid
dleburg hunt races, honor guests
being the officials, stewards and
judges of the race meet.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Herrell have
returned to their home at Reming-
ton from Washington, where they
spent several weeks with their SON.
in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank KniN.
Mrs. Felix du Pont, who has pur-
chased the Rowland estate, near The
Plains, has as her guest her mother
in-1aw. Mrs. Chichester du Pont
of Wilmington, Del.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Strong,
who have been in Florida since
March l, have returned to Warren
ton and are at Carter Hall, their
l own house being rented until .I,,ne