VOL. X. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
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President Taft and family will 
_ conclude their season on the North 
_ Shore on Saturday, the 26th, it is 
_ expected. ‘hough late in joining 
_ the other members of the household 
at Montserrat, the President has 
_ thoroughly enjoyed the last month 
on the shore. Many regard Sep- 
tember and October the best part of 
the year here; surely the last three 
weeks have been ideal for motoring, 
a pastime which the President freely 
- indulges in. Last Saturday Presi- 
dent and Mrs. Taft, Miss Mabel T. 
Boardman and Major Rhoades, the 
President’s aide, leit Beverly early 
for a motor trip to the Berkshires, 
Vermont and New Hampshire. 
They lunched in Springfield that 
day and motored on to Dalton in 
time to dine with Senator and Mrs. 
Winthrop Murray Crane, the latter 
_ Miss Boardman’s sister. They 
. spent the night and Sunday there, 
motoring about through the Berk- 
shires Sunday, with Lenox, Lee and 
_ Stockbridge in their itinerary. 
Monday the party motored on 
toward Vermont, being met at the 
line by. Governor Fletcher and 
_ party. They lunched in Brattleboro 
_. and later in the day Townsend, the 
__ birthplace ot the President’s father, 
_-was visited. They spent the night 
~ with Hon. Rebert T. Lincoln, son of 
_ Presiden Lincoln, at Manchester-in- 
_ the-Mountains. Tuesday the 
trip was continued over the trunk 
road to Montpelier, where Governor 
Fletcher entertained the party that 
night. A big reception was held in 
_ City Hall that night. The following 
morning the President addressed 
the Vermont. Legislature on “The 
Common Soldier of the Civil War,’’ 
_and after the address the party mot- 
_ored on to St. Johnsbury in time for 
lunch, and then on to Bretton 
Woods in the White Mountains 
where they spent the night at the 
Mt. Washington. Most of Thurs- 
_ day was spent on the road to Dub- 
lin, N. H., which they reached that 
_ night in time to dine with Secy. of 
_ the Treasury and Mrs. Franklin 
MacVeagh. The party planned to 
leave Dublin early this morning for 
- 
Beverly. With Mrs. Taft and a 
party of friends the President plans 
to sail away on the Maytlower irom 
Beverly farms late Friday. They 
wul Spend Saturday at Woods Hole 
with W. Cameron Forbes, Governor 
General of the Philippines. Sunday 
they will sail for New York, where 
the President will review the great 
naval parade ‘luesday. He will 
leave New York Wednesday for 
vworcester. He will remain on the 
North Shore much of the time from 
then until a week from the follow- 
ing Sunday, and on the 206th he will 
go to the Virginia Hot Springs with 
Mrs. Lait and will remain there un- 
til he goes to Cincinnati to vote and 
then return to Hot Springs to re- 
main until Congress opens. 
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Many North Shore people are in- 
terested in the wedding on Saturday 
of next week (Oct. 19) at Over- 
brook, Pa., of Miss Mary Bispham 
townsend and Herbert Jaques, Jr.. 
‘the ceremony, at 12.30 o'clock, will 
be at St. Paul’s Episcopal Memorial 
Church, the’ Rev. Dr. Turner, the 
rector, officiating. Charles E. Cot- 
ting, Jr., will be best man for his 
classmate, Harvard, ’11, and the ush- 
ers William Davies Sohier, Jr., John 
Anderson Sweetser, Roger F. 
Hooper, Reginald C. Foster, Wa1l- 
liam ~.De  Ford.* Beal, Wil- 
ham Appleton Lawrence and 
George R. Foster, all of Boston and 
classmates, with Ralph Lowell and 
Francis C. Gray, who graduated 
from the university last June; Gor- 
don Ware, Harvard ’o8, a cousin of 
Mr. Jaques, and Joseph B. Town- 
send, 3d, Caspar W. B. Townsend, a 
cousin, and Clarence H. Clark, 3d, 
of Philadelphia. 
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Wm. H. Wellington and daugh- 
ter, Miss Anna Wellington, conclud- 
ed their stay at the Morgan cottage, 
Smith’s Point, Manchester, last Fri- 
day and returned to their 420 Bea- 
eon street, Boston, home for the win- 
ter. 
ono. 
Miss Elizabeth Sohier has re- 
turned to Beverly from Northeast 
Harbor, where she has spent the 
greater part of the summer. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, October 11, 1912 
No. 41 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The debutante balls will make a 
larger feature than ever this year 
on the  season’s social  pro- 
gram in Boston. The list of young 
girls to be presented is 
very large and as Lent comes early 
these formal. events are to follow 
each other in closer succession than 
usual, beginning next month. The 
first will be the one the Hon. Henry 
Cabot Lodge of Nahant is to give for 
his grand-daughter, Miss Constance 
Gardner, the daughter of the Hon. 
and Mrs. Augustus P. Gardner of 
Hamilton on the 21st of November at 
the Copley-Plaza. Mrs. Augustus 
Thorndike’s is the next on the list in 
honor of her daughter, Miss Mary 
Thorndike. It is set for Monday, 
November 25th, in the large ball- 
room. Miss Thorndike is the older 
daughter, Miss Alice the younger. 
Miss Catherine Silsbee’s ball follows 
on, Friday of the same week (the 
29th). It is in honor of her nicce, 
Miss Elizabeth Silsbee, the daughter 
of Mrs. George S. Silsbee. December 
opens with Miss Mary S. Ames’s 
ball for her niece, Miss Olivia Ames, 
Mr. and Mrs Oliver Ames’ second 
daughter, on Monday, the second of 
the month. Two days later (the 4th) 
Mrs. Edwin §8. Webster is giving a 
ball for the oldest of her three 
daughters, and Mrs..Neal Rantoul’s 
is on the Friday of the following 
week (the 13th), for her only daugh- 
ter, Miss Josephine Rantoul. Jan. 
opens with Mrs. Richard D. Sears’s 
ball for Miss Miriam Sears, who real- 
ly belonged to last year’s group but 
preferred waiting to come out the 
same season with several of her in- 
timates. That is down for Tuesday, 
the 7th, which comes after the first 
Assembly, January 3, and several 
others are scheduled for later in the 
month. 
Miss Dorothy Wilmot of New Or- 
leans is again the guest of Miss 
Katherine Ayer at “Avalon,” the 
beautiful estate of Frederick Ayer, 
at Pride’s Crossing. Miss Wilmot, 
a most charming girl, was Miss 
Ayer’s guest earlier in the season 
and she made many pleasant 
acquaintances while on the Shore. 
