Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1936, Page 22

In the Hunt Country ‘Activities Among the Horse-Lovers of Virginia and Maryland. By Nina Carter Tabb. NUMBER of people from Wash- A will motor to Gloucester Coun- ty, Va., tomorrow to attend the Gordon Spencer and Mary Wehb Bpencer, wh.ch will take place in old noon at 5 o'clock. Margaret Gordon Spencer is marry- Conn., whose father, the Rev. George | C. St. John, will perform the cere- Mary Webb Spencer is marrying En- sign Edward Farwell Dissette, U. S. N. bert Osburn, rector of Abingdon Church. lilies, green ferns and garlands of | Southern smilax. Directly after the by Dr. and Mrs. Blair Spencer at their house, Five Gables. Dr. Spen- of his daughters in marriage. He will escort his youngest daughter, Mary ington and Northern Virginia double wedding of Misses Margaret Abingdon Church on Saturday after- ing Seymour St. John of Wallingford, mony. They will be married by the Rev. Her- The church will be decorated with | ceremony a reception will be given cer, father of the brides, will give both Webb, to the altar and his brother, Thomas Peachy Spencer of New York, will walk up the aisle with Margaret Gordon. Mrs. Page Maxwell is entertaining the bridal party and guests tonight at a supper party before the wedding rehearsal. Mrs. Leigh Noyes, mother of the brides, is visiting Mra. Maxwell. Many homes in Gloucester are filled with wedding guests and nu- merous parties are being given in their honor. The wedding of these charming young girls, descended from Virginia'’s oldest families, will be at- tended by many socially prominent people. Among the guests arrived are Mrs. James Dissette, mother of Ensign Dissette, and her daughter, Jean Dissette; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hubbard and Robert Hub- ard of Detroit, Admiral and Mrs. Thomas Cook, U. 8. N.; Capt. and Mrs. Donald Bingham, Mr. and Mrs. William Meredith, Sylvia and Jac- quelin Meredith of Washington, Mr. and Mrs. St. George Bryan of Rich- mond, Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Car- doza and Mr. and Mrs. Lomax Gwath- mey. Young people back from schools and already | NG _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936. colleges are arriving daily and it prom- ises to be a very gay season for the Gloucester County younger set. Win- ston Frost, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Frost, is here after having been gradu- ated from Harvard University Tues- day. He will play on the Fauquier- Loudoun polo team this season. George Greenhalgh, jr., just graduated from Yale, brought six classmates home and is entertaining them at a house party at Springsbury, the lovely place his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Green- halgh, sr., bought on the Shenandoah River between Millwood and Berryville. Back from V. M. L are Alex Carter French Crepe or Satin Lacy or Tailored Styles Just when you need lots of slips for summer—here is a sale that will en- courage you to supply your needs in grand fashion! Pure-dye satin and smooth French crepe—all with deep seam-to-seam shadow panels. And all seams reinforced! white. Sizes 32 to 4. LINGERIE—STREET FLOOR Tearose and Beverly, Gwynne Taylor, jr.; John B, Adams, Lewis Keyes and Irvin Mich- elson who were graduated on Wednes- day” Randolph Charrington and Randolph Whittle are in Warrenton for the week end. Moncure Lyon, M. N. Kadick, Thurston Corbell, Neville Major, Front Royal; Mackenzie Tabb and Hugh Kerr, underclassmen at V. M. I, were recent arrivals. John Dulany De Butts of Greens- boro, N. C.,, whose father and grand- father also came from this part of Virginia, delivered the valedictory at V. M. I. Wednesday. He said in part, “Always V. M. I. men have been well heads known in military circles. Every mill~ tary engagement from the day when the entire corps marched out to fight as & unit for their cause in New Mar- ket, up through the World War, when hundreds of V. M. I. officers fought for our country, has had numerous graduates of this institution as its leaders. Gen. John J. Pershing ex- pressed the feeling of the military heads when he dubbed V. M. L. ‘The West Point of the South."” Hundreds of V. M. I. Alumni go back each year for finals. Among those who paraded around the Corps of Cadets this week were men from the class of 1870 to the class of 1935. The oldest alumni present were J. L. Waring of Wilmington, Ohio, class of *70; Col. John Letcher of Lexington, Va., son of one-time Gov. Letcher of Virginia, class of "73, and H. McCue of Fishersville, Va., class of *74. Among MOVING : SMITH'S TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. 1313 You St NW. North 3343 the summer fashion picture White—by long odds the favorite in Summer hat fashions! 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