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SOCIETY NOTES. 
The wedding of Miss Isabelle 
Coolidge and Samuel Sprague Stev- 
ens will take place Saturday (to- 
morrow) at two o’clock at Blynman 
Farm, Magnolia, the summer home 
of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Cool- 
idge. Mr. Stevens is a son of Mr. 
and Mrs. Horace H. Stevens of 
Beacon street, Brookline, and Sum- 
mer street, Magnolia. Horace S. 
Stevens will be his brother’s best 
man. The ushers will be Edward 
Stevens of Brookline, William H. 
Coolidge, Jr., the bride’s brother; 
Thompson Sampson of Boston and 
F. W. Barker, Jr., of Syracuse. 
Miss Josephine Stevens, Miss Mar- 
garet Carlton and Miss Eleanor 
Bradley of Brookline and Miss Alice 
Tiffany, of New Bedford will be the 
bridesmaids. The ceremony will be 
performed by the Rev. Edward T. 
Sullivan of Newton Centre. Later 
there will be a reception, when Mr. 
and Mrs. Coolidge and Mr. and Mrs. 
Stevens will assist in receiving. The 
young people are to make their 
home in Holden, West Virginia. 
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Mrs. Francis G. Vandergrift and 
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Hartley of 
Fifth avenue, Pittsburg, who have 
been spending the greater portion of 
the summer at the Oceanside, Mag- 
nolia, left last Friday for New York. 
They spent a few days at the me- 
tropolis, then went to Atlantic City 
for the early weeks of September. 
They are registered at the Marlbor- 
- ough-Blenheim. 
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The marriage of Dorothy Whit-— 
ney, daughter of the late William C. 
Whitney and sister of Payne Whit- 
ney, who is at Manchester this sea- 
son with his family, and Willard 
Straight, was solemnized yesterday 
at Caux-sur-Montreaux, Switzerland 
where the bride has been staying 
with her sister, Mrs. Almeric Paget 
of London. Mr. and Mrs. Straight 
planned to go to China after the 
wedding as Mr. Straight has charge 
of the Morgan interests in that 
country. 
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SOCIETY NOTES. 
Each season on the North Shore 
is productive of interesting an- 
nouncements in the way of engage- 
ments. A well known and represen- 
tative Manchester summer resident 
thus brought into the social lime- 
light is Matthew Bartlett of Boston, 
and his fiancee is Miss Serita Lin- 
coln, only daughter of Mrs. Arthur 
Lincoln (Serafina Loring) of Boston. 
The Lincolns have spent much time 
abroad, also two seasons in Wash- 
ington and their summers at Bar 
Harbor. Mr. Bartlett is the son of 
Nelson Slater Bartlett and a brother 
of N. S. Bartlett, Jr., Augustus 
Bartlett and Mrs. Edwin A. Board- 
man. Mr. Bartlett was graduated 
with the Harvard class of ’01, and 
is affiliated with the Tennis, Racquet 
and Athletic clubs of Boston. 
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Admiral J. HE. Pillsbury, U.S.N., 
and Mrs. Pillsbury of Washington 
and Magnolia have been visiting 
their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Babcock 
at the Granliden, Lake Sunapee, N. 
H. Mrs. Otis Luke and Miss Luke 
of Beverly Farms are registered at 
the Granliden. 
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Among the North Shore events at 
which Mrs. George D. Widener of 
Philadelphia and West Manchester 
has been the guest of honor was an 
elaborate dinner given last week by 
Mrs. Alfred Codman of the Nahant 
colony. 
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Miss Eleanora Sears, who is back 
from Canada where she entered in 
the tennis tournament on Niagara- 
on-the-Lake, has been invited to 
contest in the ladies’ invitation ten- 
nis tournament which started at 
Newport today and was a star com- 
petitor at the Labor Day horse show 
at. Newport. 
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Among those who made flights 
with aviators at the aviation meet 
at Squantum last Friday, was Miss 
Marguerite Le Breton of the West 
Manchester colony, sister of Lieut. 
David Le Breton, U.S. N. 
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SOCIETY NOTES. 
Richard J. Monks, a prominent 
Boston business man of the _ elder 
generation, died suddenly at his 
summer home in Manchester Cove, 
early Saturday morning, aged 75 
years. He was at his office in the 
Monks building, Congress _ street, 
Boston, on Friday and his death was 
entirely unexpected. Mr. Monks 
was born and brought up in South 
Boston. He and a brother started 
business life as flour dealers. Years 
later he became treasurer of the Wo- 
burn gas light company, retaining 
the position for twenty years, and 
remaining a director till his death. 
He was for many years trustee of 
the J. P. Monks estate, and at the 
time of his death trustee of the 
Monks building trust. He had been 
connected with the South Boston, 
Arlington and Mattapan gas lght 
companies. Mr. Monks belonged to 
the Essex county elub. His wife, 
who survives, was Miss Jenny Bb. 
Page. He leaves a daughter, Miss 
Grace B. Monks, and a son, Allan 
B. Monks of New Orleans. His fam- 
ily have spent the summer on the 
North Shore for more than twenty 
years and are well-known residents. 
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Monday evening, September 18th, 
a reception will be tendered Mr. 
and Mrs. John Hays Hammond at 
the Hawthorne Inn, Casino, East 
Gloucester, by the Gloucester Day 
Committee. Mrs. Taft and Miss 
Taft and other distinguished friends 
of the Hammond family are ex- 
pected to be present. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Russell Tyson, who 
have been in Europe all summer, are 
sailing from France on the 23d of 
this month. They will spend Octo- 
ber with Mrs. Tyson’s mother, Mrs. 
Bradley, at the family homestead in 
Brattleboro, Vt. 
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Secretary of the Navy George von 
L. Meyer after a short hunting trip 
in Seotland with John Lambert Cad- 
walader, sojourned in Paris and 
vicinity, then went on to London. 
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