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SOCIETY NOTES 
A southern girl, who is receiving a 
great deal of attention in Boston this 
winter is Miss Elizabeth Sears Har- 
rold of Westover, Va. She and her 
mother, Mrs. Sears Ramsay, have 
leased the T. R. Wheelock house on 
Commonwealth avenue for the season. 
Mrs. Ramsay gave an elaborate re- 
ception at the Copley-Plaza tor her 
daughter this week. The decorations 
were novel and extremely pretty. La- 
ter Mrs. Gordon Prince will entertain 
for the charming young Southerner 
and it is expected that her hospitality 
will take the form of a dinner. 
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Owing to the death of Dr. Arthur 
T. Cabot, the invitation to the recep- 
tion, which Mrs. Charles M. Cabot of 
Boston and Beverly Farms was to 
have given at her Boston home last 
Friday for her daughter, Miss Nancy 
Cabot, were recalled. 
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A January wedding, which will in- 
terest North Shore Society circles as 
well as Boston will be that of Miss 
Hannah Draper Osgood, daughter of 
Mrs. Edward Louis Osgood of Bea- 
con street and Hopedale. She will 
marry Henry Hotchhiss Townsend of 
New Haven, Yale ’02. Miss Osgood 
was presented with her sister, Miss 
Fanny Osgood, in 1902 and both 
were members of The Sewing Circle 
of that year, and of the Vincent Club. 
Miss Osgood is a cousin of Mrs. 
Thomas B. Gannett, Jr., and of Miss 
Margaret Draper of Washington and 
Manchester. The exact date of the 
wedding has not been decided upon. 
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Miss Francis G. Curtis has re- 
ceived many congratulations on her 
nomination as a candidate for school 
committee of Boston, on the Citizens’ 
Municipal league committee, which 
followed her nomination for the same 
office by the Public School association. 
She is a daughter of Mrs. Greeley S. 
Curtis. The family is still at Man- 
chester, remaining very late as usual. 
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Miss Aline ft arbell 
Mraduate N. E. Conservatory 
Piano Teacher 
Appointments may be made for 
Saturdays by addressing 
MISS ALINE TARBELL 
5 North Street Manchester, Mass. 
Telephone 9-4 
of Music 
References: 
Wallace Goodrich; F. Addison Porter, 
Supt. Normal Department N. E. 
Conservatory of Music. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. John Hays Hammond is still 
an active worker as a member of the 
Woman’s ‘Titanic Memorial Fund 
Committee and at her home at Glou- 
cester Monday she made announce- 
ment that Mrs. Andrew Carnegie had 
contributed $1000 ae fund. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Bartlett of 
Beverly Farms will spend the coming 
months at 10 Monmouth court, Long- 
wood. 
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Mrs. Curtis Guild brought her Bos- 
ton visit to a close Monday and Tues- 
day sailed from New York on the 
Kronprinz Wilhelin to join her hus- 
band at his post in St. Petersburg. 
While on the North Shore and in Bos- 
ton, Mrs. Guild has been extensively 
entertained. One of the most elab- 
orate of the fetes given in her honor 
was the dinner last week at the Cop- 
ley-Plaza hotel, where Mrs. Guild was 
the guest of Mrs. L. Tucker Burr. 
Mrs. Guild was beautifully gowned in 
deep blue liberty satin with a bodice 
of cream lace brightened with jewels 
and with jewelled ornaments in her 
coiffure. 
Miss Louise McAllister, daughter 
of Mrs. Hall McAllister, is having a 
brilliant season in Boston. Mrs. H. P. 
McKean has done and will do many 
delightful things for her. Chief among 
them will be the dinner Noy. 21 and 
the dinner-dance Dec. 5. Both of 
these events are anticipated with keen 
enjoyment as Mrs. McKean’s success 
as a hostess is widely known. She 
was one of the most frequent enter- 
tainers on the Shore this summer. 
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Miss Amy O. Bradley’s debutante 
reception Tuesday afternon was large- 
ly attended. It was given by her 
mother, Mrs. Richards M. Bradley, at 
216 Beacon street, Boston, which will 
be the residence of the family this 
winter. Red carnations adorned the 
tea table. The following-named young 
women served the guésts: Miss Elsie 
Coolidge, Miss Alice Wesselhoeft, 
Miss Eleanor Cabot, Miss Nancy 
Cabot, Miss Marion Sprague, Miss 
Theresa Weld, Miss Grace Eliot, Miss 
Charlotte Baylies, Miss Elsie Burr, 
Miss Elizabeth Burrage, Miss Mar- 
garet Lincoln, Miss Doris Taylor, 
Miss Penelope King, Miss Marie Mer 
rill, Miss Mary Lord and Miss Edith 
Gilman. Next Tuesday night Miss 
Bradley will be the guest of honor at 
a dance at the Chilton club. The 
Bradleys summer at Smith’s Point, 
Manchester, 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Miss Elizabeth Prescott Bigelow of 
Boston and Manchester is mentioned 
among the Americans who will be 
presented at the Court of St. James 
this season, says the Boston Trans- 
script. Miss Bigelow is the daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Prescott Bigelow. 
She made her debut last season 
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several weeks she has had as her guest — 
Miss Margaret Russell, daughter of 
the late Governor William E. Russell. 
Miss Russell during the days of her 
father resided in Cambridge, 
Michael Foster of Londan she has 
lived abroad. 
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James Bryce, the British ambassa-— 
dor to the United States, informed — 
but 
since the marriage of her mother to 
President Taft at Washington Satur- — 
day of his resignation. His departure 
for England is regretted by Washing- | 
ton people and he will be missed next — 
season by North Shore circles, for he 
was a frequent visitor here. His suc- 
cessor is Sir Cecil Arthur Spring- 
Rice, who has had a brilliant career 
in diplomatic and political circles dur- 
ing the last few years. He was edu- 
cated at Eaton and Balliol College, 
Oxford, and entered the war office 
and subsequently the foreign office. 
His first appearance in the political — 
world was as assistant 
Lord Granville. 
Sir Cecil was minister and general 
consul to Persia, where he was decor- 
ated by the Sultan. 
secretary to 
made minister plenipotentiary 
Sweden and, later, ambassador to 
Berlin. He received the order of 
Knight Commander of St. Michael — 
and St. George in 1906. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Sumner 
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From 1906 to 1908 — 
In 1908, he was — 
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Townsend, who were of the North — 
Shore colony last summer, have been 
making a motor trip to their country 
home in Woodstock, Vt. ~ At Man- 
chester, last summer, they entertained 
lavishly. They have opened their 
town house at 92 Mount Vernon St. 
for the winter season and are at home 
the first Sunday of each month. On 
Sunday, November 
give a musicale. _ 
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The date of the wedding of Miss 
Laura Merriam of Washington and 
James F. Curtis of Boston and Man- 
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25th, they will ; 
chester-by-the-Sea has been set for — 
Nov. 26, Tuesday afternoon at the 
home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and 
Mrs. William Rush Merriam. The 
affair will be rather private with only © 
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a few besides the members 
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families to witness it. Tee : 
