The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-17

ed the dinner guests with a few
picture post cards Of the house
and grounds. An Aunt and Uncle
OF n of the ladies in the party
that evening liked the looks of the
views on the post card so well
that today they are registered al
Greenville Manor for two weeks.
They are Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Nc.
Closkey. Of Pittsburgh, Pa. The
niece who mailed them the card
is Mrs. Andrew H. Harriss Jr.,
Of 500 Dock street. Other guests
at Greenville Manor who have ar
rived recently are Mrs. Harold
Selfridge of Santuit, Mass, the
Cape Cod country, and Mr.. and
Mrs. H. j. Davidson of Millbrook,
New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hope
Crawford, Jr., arrived in the city
yesterday to spend the weekend
with Mrs. Crawford's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. Douglas Taylor at
their home $40 Market street, aft
er a. wedding trip OF two weeks
spent in Bermuda. Prior to their
marriage on Saturday, November
2, Mrs. Crawford was May French
Taylor of Wilmington. May and
Bob made the trip to Bermuda
and back by plane, and will leave
early this week for Charlotte
where they will make their future
home.
Mrs. Nelson MacRae returned
last weekend from Pinehurst
where she spent a week with
friends a e n d ing a wonderful
houseparty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert F. Perry
have returned from Pinehurst
where they spent a week.
Mrs. Jennie Gilchrist Hill left
last Saturday night for Phila-
delphia to spend several days
with her son, Gilchrist Hill who
is a student at The Hill School.
While away Mrs. Hill will also
visit New York.
Mrs. Calder Atkinson Of Coro-
nado Beach, California, is the at
tractive guest Of Mrs. William M.
Atkinson at her home 315 North
Third street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ashton L. Cooley
Of Myrtle Beach, S. c., formerly
of this city, spent last week at
their Wrightsville Beach cottage
on West Greensboro street.
Corbett Stovall, sou of Major
and Mrs. Harry Stovall. left last
Monday for the West coast where
he. has accepted a position with
the Consolidated Vultee Airplane
Co. in San Diego, after spending
his terminal leave from the navy
with his parents here. On Sunday
night Mrs. Stovall entertained a
few friends Of Corbett's most in
formally at a farewell party at
her home in Oleander.
MI. and Mrs. Leslie r. Hum
nell left last night for New York
city where they will spend a week.
Leslie Hummell and his son, Will
Hicks Hummell, returned on Mon
day last from Goldsboro where
they spent the weekend with the
formers mother, Mrs. Hummell.
Friends of Hugh MacRae, son
of Mrs. Nelson MacRae, of 602
Market street, will be interested
to know that he Joined the sac.
fraternity at the University Of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. David Jones
returned last Sunday night from
Fayetteville. where they were the
weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ned Grady after attending the
Duke-Wake Forest game in Dur
ham on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Wilson have
returned to their home in the Ole.
ander Court apartments after
motoring to Richmond for a stay
Of several days.
Mrs. Charles J. Becker has re-
turned to her home in Oleander
after a visit of several weeks
spent in New York city with her
daughter and son-in-law. Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Dunnigan. Mrs. Dun
nigan is he former Margaret
Rocker of Wilmington.
Mrs. M. Ashley Curtis and Miss
Jennie Murchison expect to move
into their recently remodeled and
redecorated home at 220 North
18th street this week. When Miss
Murchison and Mrs. Curtis came
back to Wilmington from Wash
ington, D.. c., to live last winter.
they purchased the home of Mrs.
Thomas M. Green which at that
time was a two family apartment
house. Since early spring archl-
tects and interior decorators have
been busily engaged converting
the place into a handsome. spa
cious, comfortable one family
home, with every known modern
device for efficiency and labor
saving. These. two popular ladies
f., who were Wilmingtonians until
about 1918 when they moved to
the nations's capital to live, are
the sisters of DR.. David R. Muir
Gibson of this city.
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