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ho 36 WINNETKA TALK September 8, 1928 Smith Club Ball Large Society Event of Early Autumn October 10 Is Set as Day for Annual Smith Club Benefit BY EVELYN DUNCAN The Evanston Smith club, many of whose members are alumnae from Wilmette, Winnetka, and Glencoe, has announced October 10, as the date of the annual Smith ball, an affair which is of great interest to the north shore each year. It will be held at the Ev- anston Country club and the funds thus secured will, as they have each year, provide a scholarship for the fol- lowing year for Smith college for some local young woman. The entire committees, as yet, have not been announced but the various committee chairmen are diligently working to insure pleasurable enter- tainment for their guests that evening and ample financial success to cover their aim. Miss Mary Lois McMul- len of Evanston has been given the general chairmanship of the ball and is also to be in charge of the group which will sell tickets. Mrs. Lawrence Norem of Hubbard Woods, Mrs. Nor- em was formerly Miss Carolyn Case, is to take care of the publicity; Mrs. Manley S. Mumford, printing; Mrs. Ralph H. Maxson, music; Miss Vir- ginia Helm will be chairman of the house committee, and Mrs. Edward Price Bell will head the floor commit- tee. Mrs. Maxson has already completed most of the work allotted to her com- mittee and has given out the interest- ing announcement that Cope Harvey's orchestra will provide the music and that Mr. Harvey himself will add zest to this most mmportant part of any successful ball. There will also be bridge during the evening for those who enjoy this form of entertainment more than dancing. Elizabeth Knode Makes Bow at Garden Tea Today Miss Elizabeth Knode is being pre- sented to society by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Morton Knode, this afternoon at a tea being given by them in the gardens sur- rounding their home at 955 Green Bay road. " Miss Knode, whose popularity as a - debutante has been emphasized these last few weeks by the many parties given in her honor, is a graduate of Westover and will leave shortly for her sophomore year at Wellesley. She has chosen the following girls, manv of whom are also debutantes of this season, to assist her at the tea from 4 until 7 o'clock, Miss Charlotte Picher, Miss Louise and Miss Antoinette Lackner, Miss Jean Stevens, Miss Alice Jacques, and Miss Elizabeth Warren. On Debutante List Miss Louise Badgerow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harve Badgerow of 576 Arbor Vitae road, is the latest Win- netka girl whose name is added to the season's debutante list. Her parents will present her to society next New Year's day at a reception to be held at the Indian Hill club. Miss Badge- row is, however, taking an active part in the debutante parties which are preceding hers this fall and is to give a luncheon next Monday at Indian Hill at which the guests:-of honor will be Miss Jean MacLeish and Miss Elizabeth Warren. Mr. and Mrs. Buckingham Chandler tertained at dinner at Indian Hill hi club last Saturday evening. Engaged Photo by Koehne The engagement of Miss Harriot Peabody Houghteling, sister of James IL. Houghteling of 731 Prospect ave- nue, Winnetka, and Dr. Charles S. Curtis of St. Anthony, Newfoundland. has been announced. Miss Houghteling and her interest in the Grenfell Mission at Newfoundland are exceedingly well known on. the north shore. It was through her friendship with Lady Grenfell that she first became interested in the mission and met her fiancé. Dr. Curtis has for more than twelve years been a mem- ber of the medical staff at the mis- sion in Newfoundland and Labrador and since 1918 has been in charge of its principal hospital and mission sta- tion, located at" St. 'Anthony on the northermost point of the island. Dr. Curtis is a New Englander from the neighborhood of Worcester, Mass. and a graduate of the Harvard Medical school The marriage will take place on Sep- tember 20, at Miss Houghteling's sum- mer home at Fitzwilliam, N. H. Dr. Curtis and his bride will make their home at St. Anthony for a time. Stevens' Garden Scene of Afternoon Wedding A wedding of interest to the north shore is taking place in the gardens of the Raymond W. Stevens' home on Green Bay road in Highland Park this afternoon when Miss Eleanor Stevens becomes the bride of George Cham- pion, ITI. Mrs. Robert Ober Clark of Evanston will be the bride's matron of honor and Miss Lydia Atwater of Ev- anston and Miss Jane Pither of La- Grange will be bridesmaids. Nathan Kuhns Parker of Pittsburgh will act as best: man while the ushers will be Raymond Stevens, Jr. and Carleton Blunt of Evanston. Ray- mond Stafford, the bride's little nephew, will be ring bearer. Mrs. F. Langdon Hubbard, Jr. of Grosse Point, Mich., and Mr. and Mrs. Ansel M. Kinney of Evanston are 'o be among the attendants at the wed- ding of Miss Margaret Grey Scott of Evanston and Donald Waite Rogers. Mary Lothrop Is Bride of Samuel Hill Today Saturday evening, September 8, at 8:30 o'clock, in the Glencoe Union church, the marriage of Miss Mary Lewis Lothrop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mark Lothrop,'to Sam- uel Smith Hill, Jr. son of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Smith Hill of Reading Pa. is taking place. The Rev. James A. Richards of the Winnetka Congrega- tional church will read the service. Fol- lowing the ceremony, there will be a reception for the family and intimate friends at Indian Hill club. The young people plan to live in East Orange, Miss Lothrop will be attended by Mrs. Lewis Andrew Day as matron of honor. Her bridesmaids will be Miss Christine Baumann of Winnetka Miss Vera McDermid of Glencoe, Miss Esther Everett of Minneapolis, Miss Gwendolyn Mills of Evanston, Miss Margery Steele and Miss Helen Strong of Hartford, Conn. Mr. Day will act as best man for Mr. Hill, and the ushers will be Dr. Ches- ter Carroll of New York, James J. Gib- son of Wilmette, Prescott Lothrop, II, Hiester Nuhlehberg of Kansas City, William Sessions of Chicago, Alvin Spats of Reading, Pa., Louis Water- mulder of Chicago, and Boyd Wilson of New York. Among the out-of-town guests who have arrived for the wedding are Dr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Hill of Reading, Pa.; Mrs. James Humphreys of Bos- ton, Mass.; Miss Fanny Clapp of Farmingham Center, Mass.; Mrs. George E. Whitney of Boston, Mass.; Mrs. Grace L. Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Munce of Swarthmore, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Hill and family of Elmira, N. Y. Indian Hill Is Setting for Sherman Reception The tea which Mr. and Mrs. Roger Sherman of 213 Linden avenue are giving this afternoon at Indian Hill club for their daughters, Miss Louise Dickinson Sherman and Miss Eleanor Buttolph Sherman, will be one of the large affairs of the season. The girls who are to assist from 4 until 7 o'clock include Miss Theodosia Smith, Miss Margaret Quan, Miss Cynthia and Miss Suzanne Kohlsaat, Miss Kath- erine Adams, Miss Mary Louise Fen- ton, Miss Patty Foresman, Miss Mari- anne Stevenson, Miss Helen Dawes, Miss Louise Badgerow, Miss Josephine Dennehy, Miss Jean Armstrong, Miss Marianna Ruffner, and Miss Lois Truesdale. Engagement Announced The engagement of Miss Doris Cochran and Charles D. Klotz was an- nounced last Wednesday by Miss Cochran's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ro- bert John Cochran at their home in Emporia, Va. Mr. Klotz is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Klotz of 88 Indian Hill road. Though the ex- act date has not been set the wedding is planned for the near future, Dinner for Debutantes Mrs. Rufus Dawes and her daugh- ters, Miss Margaret and Miss Helen Dawes, of Evanston, were hostesses at a dinner Thursday evening given in honor of three of this season's debu- tantes, Miss Elizabeth Knode of Win- netka, Miss Jean MacLeish of Hub- bard Woods, and Miss Elizabeth War- ren of Evanston. Mrs. Earl Green, 315 Warwick road and Crystal Lake, entertained forty- eight guests at luncheon and bridge at the Club Vista del Lago recently. Winnetka Home Open for Garden Benefit for Disabled Vets Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Foster Alden, 352 Linden street, Winnetka, will open their home Saturday, September 8, from 1 o'clock in the afternoon until 11:30 at night for a basket picnic and lawn fete for the benefit of the work of the Daughters of the Republic. Cards will be played during the after- noon, for which prizes will be given, and games and other entertainment will be provided. The cement floored garage will be the scene of dancing in the evening to the music of the Great Lakes band. Clubs and organizations are invited to be present and participate, and those attending are requested to bring well-filled supper baskets as they may be called upon to take care of one of the disabled ex-service men from the Speedway and Great Lakes hospitals who will be there. Fortune telling is to be one of the diversions, and ice cream, soft drinks, red hots, and coffee will be on sale. Miss Letitia M. Baldwin of the Edgewater Beach is commander of the Daughters of the Republic. Miss Edith Visgar will. act as chairman of cards. On the committee with Miss Baldwin are Mrs. Edward Kiefer, Mrs. T. F. Champness, Mrs. P. D. Mac- Gregor, Mrs. John Adams, Mrs. John R. Caverly, and Mrs. Celia Schiff, of the Edgewater Beach hotel. Assist With Ticket Sale for Sousa Band Concerts Mrs." A. Montague Ferry, president of the Winnetka League of Women Voters, and the following members of that organization will be in charge of the sale of tickets in Winnetka for the afternoon and evening concerts to be given by John Phillip Sousa and his band Saturday, September 22: Mrs. William F. Brown, Mrs. R. C. McNa- mara, Mrs. William G. Hibbard, and Mrs. J. N. Vander Vries. The concerts will be given in the Patten gymnasium as a benefit for the North Shore Associate alumnae of Northwestern university and the Ev- anston League of Women Voters. Sousa has adapted some of the best "in' music to band playing and will make his concert selections from this. As encores he will offer some of his best known marches. A meeting of the band committee was held Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Martin Kent Northam in Evanston. Labor Day Canter Marks Opening of Riding Club About twenty-five members of the Indian Hill Riding club thoroughly en- joyed the invigorating early autumn air last Monday. They participated in an early morning ride for about an hour and a half and returned to the club for breakfast. This was partaken of in a new stable which has been built especially for hunters and but re- cently completed. The weather for the next month or so will probably be ideal for riding and the devotees of this sport at Indian Hill are to have many special events this fall which will be announced shortly. To Be Circle Hostess Mrs. Louis Ashman of Deerfield will be hostess for the first fall meeting of the Hawthorn Lane circle on Sep- tember 19. Each member has been asked to bring her own luncheon for a lawn picnic at 1 o'clock. Bridge will be played during the afternoon. -\ eh RL) RN tn J Gt ow