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SOCIETY (Continued From Second Page.) Clarke County. Miss Hume is a gradu ate of Mary Baldwin College. Staunton. Va. Mr. Carr is a descendant of the j Carr and Wharton families of Virginia and is a near relative of the late Rev. i Dr. Henry Marvin Wharton, for many years pastor of Brantley Memorial Bap tist Church, Baltimore. He is a gradu- j ate of Washington and Lee University, j Lexington, and is connected with the news department of the Winchester Evening Star and several other busi ness interests in the Shenandoah Val ley. The wedding will take place in the late Summer. Mr and Mrs. George H. Smith enter tained at the dinner dance on the Shoreham terrace Saturday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Horning. I Their other guests were Mr. and Mrs. I William Kehoe and Mr and Mrs. Walter ! Art? It was a wedding anniversary j dinner, as Mr. and Mrs. Horner had been married seven years. The marriage of Miss Doris Ruth Bishop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Bishop of this city, to Mr. Junior Francis Crowell of Kenney, 111., j took place Saturday. June 18. at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, in the Ninth ! Street Christian Church, the Rev. j Clifford H. Jope, the pastor of the I church, officiating. An appropriate j program on the organ was rendered by Prof. Joseph O. Harrison, and the church was attractively decorated with palms, ferns and cut flowers. The bride was given in marriage by ί her father and was attended by her ! siiter. Miss Mildred Elsie Bishop, as maid of honor. The bride wore a gown of French blue chiffon with white silk turban and carried a bouquet of J bride roses, with her sister, in a harmonizing shade of green chiffon I with a white brimmed hat, carried a bouquet of ophelia roses. Mr. Carl Watson acted as best man j and the ushers were Mr. John M. Smith. Mr. Charles Bray, Mr. Jerome Schleeper j end Mr. John Henrickson. Immediately after the ceremony the ! members of the wedding party were the guests of the bride's parents at dinner at the Capitol Park Hotel, after j which a reception attended by the rel atives, was given at the family resi- | dence, 5714 Sixteenth street northwest. Later Mr. and Mrs. Crowell left on a trip by motor to visit the parents of the bridegroom at Kenney, 111. After July 4 Mr. and Mrs. Crowell will be at home to their friends at 5714 Sixteenth street northwest. Mrs Clara Keck Heflebower. presi dent of the National League of Amer ican Pen Women, who has been attend ing the meetings of the national execu tive board of the league at the Willard, has returned to her home in Cleveland. Mrs. Nelson Hartson, her niece. Miss Vola Drury. and Miss Dorothy Dono van are sailing from New York today on the S. S. Carinthia for the Niyth Cape Russian cruise, at the conclu lion of ■which they will spend some time in Paris and London before returning tc this country. Miss Kosanna emun was in Miumr town, Ν. Y., over Sunday having gone there to be a bridesmaid for Miss Eliza beth Cross, daughter of Mr. William E. Cross, at her marriage to Mr. Thomas DeWitt Vandervoort, which took place eaturday evening. Miss Margaret Halsey, daughter of Capt. William F. Halsey, U. S. N„ and Mrs, Halsey, was married Saturday eve ning in the Naval Academy Chapel to Mr. Preston Lea Spraunce of Wilming ton, Del. The bride was given in marriage by her father. Mrs. Lawrence Maxwell Schmidlapp of Cincinnati was matron of honor, and the bridesmaids included Miss Elizabeth Woodward of Norfolk, Va.: Miss Saint Clair Smith, daughter of Rear Admiral and Mrs. Saint Clair Smith, now stationed in Panama; Miss Deborah Halsey Turnbull and Miss Louise Spottswood Spraunce of Wil mington. sister of the bridegroom, and Miss Janet O. Patterson of St. Johns, Newfoundland. Mr. William Willing Spraunce was his brother's best man. The ushers were Mr William Frederick Halsey. brother of the bride . Mr. Ferninand Lamotte. 3d. and Mr. Henry Canby of Wilmingto'n; Mr. John Ranck of New York, K. Vanderlip of New York, Mr. Horace Hoopes and Mr. Clement Hoopes of Wilmington. Mr. Leroy Nicol of Buffalo, Ν, Y., and Mr. Mark Balis of Philadel phia. Immediately after the ceremony there was a reception at Ogle Hall, the home of Mrs. Clarence Erskine Clement. Popular Virginia Couple Announce Engagemer' Mr. and Mrs. Leln>d C. Carr of Lees burg, Va„ nnnounre the engagement of their daughter. Marion Powell, to Mr, William Jordan Luck of Middleburg. Va No date has been set for the mar riage ceremony. Miss Carr is a graduate of State Teachers' College, Harrisonburg, and for the past three years has been a mem ber of the faculty of the Middleburg Public School. Mr. Luck is a son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Preston Luck of Middleburg, and is a graduate of Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg. He later attended the Uni versity of Virginia, where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega Fra ternity. He Is now engaged in busi ness In Middleburg. Mrs. Jennie Buckner Capers Is vis iting her son, Mr. Childress Buckner Gwyn, at his home, 1749 Park road. Mrs. Capers attended the Confederate reunion in Richmond. A very pretty wedding took place Tuesday. June 21. when Miss Francis Louise Perkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Perkins, and Mr. Chester A. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller of New York, were married in the rectory of St. Joheph's Catholic Church by Rev. J. T. Kennedy. The bride was given In marriage by tier father and wore a white silk net over white satin. Her tulle veil was held ty a wreath of orange blossoms, and she carried a shower bouquet of bride's l-oses. Mrs. Archie Perkins, sister-in-law of Wed in June t MRS. ARTHl'R JOSEPH LA PORTE, Who, before her marriage, was Miss Gladys Emilie Canfield, the ceremony being performed by Mgr- Pace, vice rec tor of the Catholic University. —Harris-Ewing Photo. the bride, was matron of honor and wore blue lace. She wore a picture hat of transparent straw trimmed with pink ribbon, slippers and gloves of pink. She carried pink roses and blue del phinium. The bride's other attendants were Mrs. Milton Piror. sister of the bride, and Mrs. Guy Perkins, her sister-in law, and their dresses were of pink net with picture hats of pink transparent straw, with blue ribbons, slippers and gloves of blue. They also carried pink roses and blue delphiniums. Little Mary Ellen Croggins and June Hughes were flower girls and were in frocks of blue and pink net. They car ried pink rosebuds. The bridegroom had as his best man Mr. Roy Godfrey and the ushers were Mr. Guy Perkins and Mr. Nelson Per kins. brothers of the bride. After the reception Mr. and Mrs. Miller left for a wedding trip by motor, going to Ocean City, Atlantic City and a visit to the former's parents in New York. Mrs. Miller traveled in blue and white crepe suit with blue accessories. They will make their home in Norfolk, Va. Among the out-of-town guests were Mrs. Garnet Greenly and her daugh ter, Betty, of Chambersburg, Pa : Mrs. Henry Mattingly and her daughter. Thelma. of Southern Maryland; Mrs. James McGuire of Potomac. Va., and Mrs. G. Alexander of Kentucky. Mrs. Joseph Getz, formerly Miss Doro thy Ridgeway. was given a gift party Wednesday afternoon by her grand mother, Mrs. Clare Cronise. in Silver Spring. Md. The other guests were Mrs. Samuel Turner, Mrs. John Donahue. Mrs. Frank Turner, jr.: Mr. Maw Mockabee. Mrs. John Mangum. Mrs. John Phine. Mrs. Carroll Turner. Miss Carroll Gene Turner, Mrs. Alton Alford, Mrs. Frank Turner, Mrs. Lottie Asian, Mrs. Arthur Clarke. Miss Doris Joan Clarke, Mrs. Lester Finchaur, Miss Ruth Vantine, Mrs. Mae Fales, Miss Catherine Mahoney, Mrs. Fred Smith. Mrs. How ard Cheney. Miss Gene Smith. Mr. James Turner and Mr. Leslie Turner. Mr. and Mrs. Getz. whose marriage took place in December, joined the com pany in the evening for a reception. Miss Kathryn Β Bentz and Miss Esther E. Johnson of Tucson, Ariz., are guests at the Dodge. Mrs. George G. Whitney and her three daughters, Barbara. Ann and Margaret, will leave in July for Minne apolis, where they will be the guests of Mrs Whitney's mother, Mrs. W. L. Martin. Mrs. Fred Louis Volland. division president of the U. D. C„ has returned from a week's visit to Richmond, where she attended the Confederate reunion and was one of the official ladies, serv ing as matron of honor. HOLD HAMILTON INQUEST Investigate Cause of Death of In diana Man. ESPANOLA. Ontario, June 27 (JPk— An inquest will be held today to deter mine the cause of the death of Frank G. Hamilton, Fort Wayne. Ind., publisher, who was found Saturday with a bullet wound in his head and a shotgun in his hands. Hamilton was found by Fred Brown, his hunting guide, about five hours after he had expired. He had spent the pre vious night chatting with Brown and two other men They slept at nearby camps and said they heard no shots fired. fsleep - Qoaxers Sleep will woo you. You'll «ink into glorious, blissful slumber the first night that you lie upon this new tspe of inner spring mattress. It cannot pack—develop a trough in its middle. Rows of resilient springs cushioned in downy felt make every sleep ing position comfortable bevond words. A number of beautiful patterns which we have for your selection. We can make such a mattress out of sour old one at a cost of only $9 and up. All work done in one das. Purchase beds and bedding here at our low factors-to-vou prices and save the retailer's profit. Ζ ARAN'S Mattress & Box Spring Co. 903 Ε St. N.W. 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