Social Happenings On the North Shore by Ruth Risley
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- Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 May 1918, p. 3
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- Ruth Risley
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- Newspaper
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- Poem by Amelia Josephine Barr
Engagement of Helen Carson Plate, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Plate of Akron, Ohio, to Leonard Starkel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis T. Starkel, 925 Oakwood avenue.
Wedding of Miss Alice Maynard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Arnold Maynard, 815 Greenwood avenue, to Charles Wayland Braithwaite, on Wednesday, May 1. The coupe will be at home July 1 at 906 Greenwood avenue.
Kenilworth Players under didrection of Oliver Hinsdell presented three one-act plays, "The Florist Shop," "Lonesomelike" and "The Latest Cure for Insanity" at the Community House in Winnetka last night to raise money for Dr. Alice Barlow-Brown and the war fund of the Winnetka Woman's Club. Participants included Marion Keehn, Osborne Cooke, Alexander Lovedale, Jessie Cresap, Roy H. Barrett, Mrs. Henry Taylor, Jr.; Margaret Fitch, Claude Edmonds, Mary Taylor, Edwin B. Wheeler and Mary Bangs Edmonds.
Mrs. Edward Fichberk of Sheridan road near Seventh street elected recording secretary of her Big Sister Society.
E. P. Gowing, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Parker Gowing of Winnetka, received his C. E. degree at Princeton university and then left for Camp Lee, Petersburgh, Va., to enter the Engineers' Officers' Training Camp.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hannah have sold their home at 923 [unclear] Greenleaf and have taken the Ralph Lounsbury home at 1120 Elmwood avenue. The Lounsburys are moving to New York.
Mrs. Hugh Kendall Boice of West Orange, N.J., and Mrs. W. A. Williard of Omaha, Neb., have returned home after spending the week with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Snider, 730 Washington avenue.
Mrs. Walter Butz, 802 Lake avenue and MRs. Samuel Cohen, 1231 Forest avenue returned Monday from a visit to their daughters in Madison, Wis. The girls are the Misses Helen Butz and Esther Cohen at the University of Wisconsin.
Mrs. J. T. Crippen of Mount Vernon, Ia., visited the W. C. Shurtleff home, 815 Lake avenue, enroute to her home from Florida.
Mrs. Warren Wynn and son of East Orange, N.J., are visiting her mother-in-law, Mrs. James Wynn in Evanston. Mrs. Wynn was formerly Miss Martha Lusted, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Lusted, 1212 Elmwood avenue.
Lee Kirtland, 616 Lake avenue, entertained friends on Saturday in honor of his birthday.
Mrs. Harry W. Mons, 921 Oakwood avenue, was hostess on Friday to several Chicago public school teachers on their annual vacation.
Patriotic luncheon will be given by Mrs. Frank Jones, 1118 Forest avenue, on May 16, proceeds to go towards the purchase of a Liberty Bond by the North Shore Catholic Woman's League.
Manuka Club will be entertained by Mrs. John Kieft, 121 Forest avenue on Monday.
Mrs. Luther D. Bradley and her two daughters, formerly of Wilmette, will leave for Litchfield, Conn., after a visit with Mrs. Bradley's sister, Mrs. G. W. Kaufman in Evanston.
Mrs. Francis C. Stiffler, 1119 Lake avenue, leaves Monday with her two children, Francis Jr., and Carol Jean, for Wooster, Ohio, to visit her parents, Dr. and Mrs. George N. Lucarck.
Miss [?] Nora Palmer, 1132 Forest avenue, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lawrence Tower at El Paso, Texas. Mrs. Tower was formerly Miss Helen Palmer.
Mrs. George Paddock has returned to her home in Kenilworth after visiting her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Bowen, in Evanston.
Mrs. William R. Chedsey and son of State College, Pa., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lloyd Hammond, 833 Greenwood avenue.
Mrs. Mary E. Springer, 707 Central avenue, has returned from a winter's stay with her daughter in San Francisco, California.
The Comanci Card Club will meet Tuesday with Mrs. William Leech on Washington avenue.
Mrs. W. B. Davies, 530 Forest avenue, was hostess to one of the Tuesday Luncheon and Bridge clubs this week.
Mrs. W. O. Belt, 601 Washington avenue, returned from a visit in Washington, D.C.
Miss Alice Shurtleff, 815 Lake avenue, returned from Milwaukee to visit.
Mrs. Charles J. Carlsen, 501 Washington avenue, returned from a visit in Florida
Mrs. G. F. Blymyer, 626 Lake avenue is visiting in Madison, Wis.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Hubbell have rented their home at 1025 Elmwood avenue and moved to Evanston.
One of the Tuesday Luncheon and Bridge Clubs met this week with Mrs. George Whie, 1101 Greenwood avenue.
- Date of Publication
- 9 May 1918
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Braithwaite, Charles ; Maynard, Alice ; Plate, Helen ; Starkel, Leonard
- Local identifier
- Wilmette.News.288689
- Language of Item
- English
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