NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
VOL. IX 
SOCIETY NOTES. 
Many dinner and luncheon parties have kept so- 
ciety on the North Shore very active this week. On the 
list of entertainers were Mrs. J. W. Blodgett, who gave 
a luncheon at Pride’s Wednesday for twelve guests. 
The Francis L. Higginsons of Pride’s, had a luncheon 
for twelve on Tuesday, and a dinner company of twelve 
was entertained by Herbert M. Sears yesterday. Last 
evening Mrs. A. P. Gardner was a dinner hostess at 
Pride’s and will extend like hospitality tomorrow eve- 
ning. Mr. and Mrs. Bryce J. Allan gathered eight 
guests for dinner at ‘‘ Allanbank’’ Tuesday evening and 
cu Wednesday evening of next week will entertain 
fourteen guests at dinner. On Monday, Mrs. Lucius M. 
Sargent gave a luncheon at her beautiful new summer 
rniansion at Pride’s. Mrs. John L. Gardner of Boston 
was Mrs. Sargent’s guest over the last week-end. Mr. 
and Mrs. Wm. A. Slater also dined a number of guests 
on Monday and Tuesday evenings at their Beverly Cove 
summer home. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner M. Lane of Boston and 
Manchester sailed from New York Wednesday morning 
for a short European trip. 
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The U. S. S. Mayfiower sailed from Beverly Farms 
liarbor today catrying President Taft and family to 
Islesboro, Maine, for a week-end visit with Mrs. Thomas 
McK. Laughlin, Mrs. Taft’s sister. Miss Helen Taft 
went to Islesboro early aes nde to visit her aunt. 
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond L.. Royce of High Cliffe 
Lodge, Bass Rocks, together. with Miss Harriet M. 
Wright of Dorchester, were guests of Admiral Bolles 
at the launching of the ‘‘Rivadavia’’ at Fore River last 
Saturday. They motored back in time for the annual 
ball at the Oceanside, Magnolia. 
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Hon. Joseph Gurney Cannon, Congressman from 
Danville, Ill., is in Boston the guest of John W. Weeks. 
Hon. Mr. Cannon will visit the North Shore during his 
stay, Magnolia particularly, as the Cannon family have 
summered at the Oceanside hotel in past seasons. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Phillips Blagden Thompson and son, 
Kidward, are back at Beverly Farms after visits at 
Southampton, L. I, and Bar Harbor. Little Hlizabeth 
and Phyllis Thompson are ee at Southampton. 
Miss Marjory Lee is again identified with her sum- 
mer home life at Beverly Farms after an enjoyable 
visit at Newport with the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. 
Rodolphe L. Agassiz. The Misses Lee are entertaining 
Miss Virginia Wainwright at Beverly Farms. 
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There has been a very pleasant interchange of vis- 
its between the families of Judge LeBaron B. Colt of 
Providence and §. Reed Anthony of Boston, and Bev- 
erly Farms since the engagement of Miss Elizabeth L. 
Colt and Andrew Weeks Anthony has existed. Miss 
Colt has been entertained at Beverly Farms and mem- 
bers of the Anthony family have been spending a por- 
tion of this week with Judge Colt and family in 
Providence, 
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MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1911. 
SOCIETY NOTES. 
S. Parker Bremer was a passenger on the out-going 
Ealtie last Thursday to join Mrs. Bremer and daughters 
in Europe, who have been abroad since the middle of 
June. During the summer Mr. Bremer stopped in Man- 
chester with his peer setae, R. Bremer. 
Harrison Tweed of the Beverly Farms summer col- 
cny has been prominently identified with the August 
society events at Narragansett Pier. Mr. Tweed at- 
tended the dinner dance of the Bryn Mawr Polo elub 
aud the Harry Harrison luncheon at the Pier last week. 
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Congressman and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth arrived 
on the North Shore this week for another visit, after a 
prolonged stay at Bar Harbor. 
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The engagement is announced of Miss Elizabeth L. 
Colt and Andrew Weeks Anthony, Harvard ’09. Miss 
Colt is the oldest daughter of Judge and Mrs. LeBaron 
b.-Colt (Mary Ledyard) of Waterman street, Provi- 
cdenee, whose summer home is ‘‘Chestnut Lodge,’’ Bris- 
tol, R. I. She is a member of the Agawam Hunt Club. 
The sisters are Miss Primrose and Miss Beatrice Colt. 
Mr. Anthony is the older son of Mr. and Mrs. 8. Reed 
Anthony (Harriet Weeks) of Commonwealth avenue 
and ‘‘Rose Ledge,’’ Beverly Farms. His sister is Miss 
Ruth Anthony, one of the prominent debutantes of a 
year ago last winter. The engagement was announced 
al a family dinner party last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. 
Colt (Ethel Barrymore), brother and sister-in-law of 
Miss Elizabeth L. Colt, were present. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Russell Tyson of Chicago, who 
spent the early weeks of summer at Manchester and 
then went abroad, are taking the cure at Baden Baden 
aiter a stay at the Crillon, Paris. 
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Clement F, Houghton and son, William, of Boston 
and Coolidge Point, Manchester, have been in Pittsfield 
as the guests of Mrs. Houghton’s mother, Mrs. James 
D. Colt, who had been the Houghtons’ guest on the 
North Shore. Mrs. Houghton has been registered at 
tte Louisburg, Bar Harbor. 
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Mrs. George D. Widener of Philadelphia and West 
Manchester, has been at Newport as the guest of Mrs. 
Alexander Clark. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Winthrop of the Hamilton 
eolony have returned from Lenox, where they were en- 
tertained by Asst. See’y of the Navy, and Mrs. Beekman 
Winthrop. 
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Among the race entrants at the Berkshire Ilunt 
rices on September 9th, at Lee Pleasure Park, Lenox, is 
\ Henry Higginson of Lincoln and West Manchester. 
The Hunt ball will OURS: paca this year as usual. 
Senator Winthrop Murray Crane, son-in-law of 
Tion. and Mrs. W. J. Boardman of Washington and 
Manchester, has joined his family in Dalton. The 
Cranes are now enjoying a sojourn at their villa at 
Mt. Pleasant, Windsor. 
