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Manchester, Mass., 
SOCIETY NOTES 
“*Old Place,’’ the seashore home of the Frank B. 
- Bemises at West Beach, Beverly Farms, is one of the 
most picturesque in that section of the North Shore. 
Though not as extensive as many others, it has many 
charming features, including a beautiful Italian garden, 
built this last summer on the opposite side of the street 
from their cottage. A pretty green house, on modest 
lines, has just been erected at the farther end of the 
garden and a gardener’s lodge has also been built. Mrs. 
Bemis returned recently from a motor-trip along the 
She is now at Lenox for a visit with Miss 
Heloise Meyer. Mr. Bemis is expected home shortly 
from a hunting trip to Vancouver, where he has been a 
month. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Ezra C. Fitch of Boston aia Man- 
chester announce the engagement of their daughter Hel- 
en to Mr. Julian P. Weegee of Brooklyn, New York. 
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Agassiz Shaw returned Monday 
to their country estate at Beverly Farms after a month’s 
visit at Peterboro, N. H: Mrs. Shaw was Miss Bird of 
East Walpole, before her marriage, and her sister mar- 
ried Governor Bass of New Hampshire, who lives at 
Peterboro. 
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Mr. and Mrs. iisabaer S. Porter, Jr., are at their 
Manchester cottage for the autumn. They returned this 
week from a short trip Ne ete 
Mr. and Mrs. J. Sawyer , Wilson, Jr., of Baltimore, 
have concluded their season’s stay at Beverly Farms 
and have gone to Stevenson, Maryland, where they have 
a country estate ‘‘ Wilton Wood”, not far from Balti- 
more. 
Mrs. Richard J. Noes owl open her house at Man- 
chester Cove, next Monday, for the autumn season. Miss 
Grace Monks has been visiting Mrs. Charles P. Coffin 
at Chocorua, N. H., but will return to the Shore to-mor- 
row to attend the Auchinclos-House wedding at Bev- 
erly Farms. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Parsons King, of the Pride’s 
Crossing colony, who are in Europe for a brief holiday, 
were at Aix-le-Bains, Age a! week. 
Mr. and Mrs. William Hooper, after a visit of many 
weeks at Bar Harbor, have returned to West Manchester. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Livingston Hoyt, and their 
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Weldon, 
are spending the autumn at Staatsburg- on-the-Hudson, 
N. Y., where they went early in the season, after clos- 
ing their New York house. Mrs. Hoyt was one of the 
Appleton girls of Ipswich, before her marriage. They 
have been oceupying the William Endicott, Jr., cottage 
at Beverly Cove this summer. 
Friday, September 13, 1912. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. X 
No. 37 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. E. C. Wheeler, Jr., was the winner last week 
of the Ladies Handicap Challenge cup (golf), at the 
Essex County club. The eight contesting for the cup 
were Miss Harriot Curtis, Miss Mellus, Miss Covel, Miss 
Tucker, Mrs. E. C. Wheeler, Jr., Miss Margaret Curtis, 
Mrs. Spencer Borden, Jr., and Miss Frost. Mrs. Wheel- 
er played from scratch, and made the 18 holes in 90. 
Miss Frost made the round in 121, but her 35 handicap 
gave her a net score of 86. In the playoff between these 
two, Mrs. Wheeler won, and thereby became possessor 
of the eup, presented by H. H. Stevens. Miss Stevens 
won the cup last year. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Preston Gibson came up from New- 
port over the week-end and were guests of Mrs. William 
F. Draper and her daughter, Miss ses Preston 
Draper at Manchester. . 
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Tyson, of Sea street, Manches- 
ter, gave a very pretty dinner-party of sixteen covers 
at the Essex County Club last Saturday night. Their 
guests included Mr. and Mrs. Lester Leland, Mr. and 
Mrs. J. B. Waller, Dr. and Mrs. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. 3B. 
C. Weld, Mr. and Mrs. Proctor, George Tyson, Mr. 
Cowles, Miss Bradley ae ae Dalton. 
Rear Admiral H. G. O. Colby, who has been at 
‘Red Lodge’’, Harbor street, West Manchester, all sea- 
son, leaves to-morrow on his annual trip to the Rangeley 
Lakes. He will be accompanied by his brother-in-law, 
Charles E. Cotting, who is also of the West Manchester 
colony. 
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A dance is to be held at the Hamilton Town hall 
this Friday evening in aid of the Beverly Hospital. Mrs. 
George von L. Meyer and Mrs. Rudolph Agassiz are in 
charge of the affair. Tickets are $3 and $5 each. Danc- 
ing will begin at 9 o’clock. Byrnes will furnish the 
music. Supper will be pee. 
Mrs. Samuel Powel of Providence, who has a coun- 
try estate at East Greenwich, R. I., is at Manchester 
for a short visit with her mother, Mrs. John Pickering 
Putnam, who is still at me Brownland cottages. 
J. R. Hodges of the Beverly Farms summer colony 
has gone to Garrison, N.-Y., for a visit at the summer 
home of the Richard C. Colts. He is visiting his young 
friend Samuel Sloane Colt, who was on the North Shore 
this summer for a visit with young Hodges. 
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The Frederick Princes have concluded their stay 
at Newport and are again at their country estate, 
‘‘Princemere’’ East Wenham, where they will do more 
or less entertaining this autumn during the polo matches 
at the Myopia Hunt club and especially during the holi- 
day season. For the winter, they will go, as usual, to 
the Southern part of France. 
