Bo ey NO RT oH 
MAGNOLIA HOTELS. 
There has been a noticeable de- 
cline in the hustle and bustle of the 
busiest season Magnolia has ever 
had, during the past week. Take a 
couple of hundred people out of 
Magnolia and there is a big hole 
left, figuratively speaking. There 
are not more than 400 guests at Mag- 
nolia today. The Hesperus closed 
this morning. The Oceanside will 
be open until the last week of the 
month. The hotel has the largest 
September booking in its _ history, 
which emphasises two things,— that 
Magnolia is increasing in popularity 
as a summer resort, and that The 
Oceanside is a big factor to this end. 
The finals in the Oceanside tennis 
tournament were played this week. 
The only match not yet played is 
that between Miss Alice Thorndike 
and Miss Eleanora Sears. Miss 
Thorndike won the ladies’ singles 
and Miss Sears holds the cup. The 
match between the two is to deter- 
mine the holder of the cup for the 
coming year. The finals of the five 
tournaments will be found in an- 
other column on this page. 
Many of the guests bidden to the 
Stevens-Coolidge wedding at Mag- 
nolia Satuday afternoon are making 
the Oceanside their headquarters. 
Judge and Mrs. Woodmansee of 
Cincinnati, who have been spending 
the summer at the Oceanside, have 
returned to their home. Judge 
Woodmansee, though not as young 
as most of those competing in the 
tennis tournament, is still a very ac- 
tive player and knows many of the 
better points of the game. He put 
up a good game in the mixed doubles 
with his young daughter as partner, 
and sueceeded in defeating Miss 
Helen Taft and Miss Curtis. Judge 
Woodmansee was the one to sue- 
ceed Miss Taft’s father, our Hon- 
ored President, on the supreme 
bench of Ohio. 
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Devlin 
and daughter have gone on to the 
Woodstock Inn, Vermont, after a de- 
lightful stay at the Oceanside. They 
will remain there through the au- 
tumn before returning to Detroit. 
Mrs. J. M. Hood of Baltimore left 
the Oceanside Wednesday for the 
Homestead at the Virginia Hot 
Springs, where she will spend the 
autumn, 
Mrs. J. M. Withers, Miss Withers 
and Pierce Withers are among the 
westerners*remaining at the Ocean- 
side until the season closes. Miss 
Withers is among the most popular 
of the younger set at the Oceanside 
this season. She was one of a party 
of young people to have dinner at 
SMH vO "Ran 
Ferncroft Inn last night and to en- 
joy the informal dancing. The 
Withers are from Kansas City. 
General and Mrs. George lL. 
Andrews after a summer at the 
Oceanside, as usual, are spending a 
few days at Mrs. Andrews’ old home 
in Salem, before going on to Wash- 
ington. 
Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Hood, who have 
been coming to the Oceanside since 
it was built years and years ago, 
have just concluded another season 
and have gone to Bretton Woods for 
an autumn sojourn before settling 
at their Lowell home for the winter. 
Miss Wilder is with them. 
Mr. and Mrs, George A. Upton re- 
turned Thursday from their trip at 
Maine, and are renewing acquain- 
tances about the hotel. Mr. Upton, 
it will be remembered, was the for- 
mer owner of the Oceanside. 
Among those remaining at the 
Oceanside until it closes are: Miss 
Irene Cramp and maid, Mrs. J. S. 
Coates and Miss Helen Coates, Phil- 
adelphia; Mrs. J. M. Gilkerson, St. 
Louis; the G. H. Crockers of Fitch- 
burg; Mr. and Mrs. George E. Car- 
ter and Miss Eleanor Bradley, 
Brookline; Mr. and Mrs. Roger M. 
Wendell, Jr., Miss Wendell and Mrs. 
M. R. Wendell, Miss L. M. Wendell 
and Mrs. Albert W. Hobart of Bos- 
ton; Miss Mary I. Lewis, Philadel- 
phia; Mrs. William H. Willis and 
Misses Fifelle and Florence Willis, 
Columbia, Mo.; Mrs. A. P. Tapley 
and Miss Tapley and maid, and Clar- 
ence G. Croll, Boston; Captain W. 
F. Pineckard, New Orleans. 
Prominent among the arrivals at 
Magnolia for an early autumn stay 
are P. T. Francis and Miss Francis 
of Troy, N. Y. Mr. Francis was for- 
merly U. S. Minister to Belgium. 
He is now owner of the Troy Times, 
one of the most influential news- 
papers in New York state. 
Mrs. Reginald Gray and her son, 
Reginald, left the Oceanside Thurs- 
day, after a delightful summer. 
They have returned to their winter 
home at Chestnut Hill. 
The J. C. Kerrs of Brooklyn, N. Y., 
intended to leave the Oceanside to- 
day for a round of visits on Long 
Island. Miss Kerr is remaining at 
Magnolia until the season closes. 
Ovington Bros., the New York 
coneern with summer branches at 
Magnolia and Bar Harbor, have at 
their Magnolia shop an unusually at- 
tractive display for season-end pur- 
chasers, of very latest novelties from 
Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Florence, 
including a large assortment of 
specialties for Christmas gifts. 
BRE#EZE 
SOCIETY NOTES. 
The Clement S. Houghtons will be 
among the first of the Manchester 
cottagers to close their houses for 
the season. After a delightful sum- 
mer at their own house on Coolidge 
Point, they will return to Chestnut 
Hill on the 15th. Mr. Houghton 
leases on that date for the Canadian 
Fishing club for his annual fall fish- 
ing trip. 
The management of the Sales- 
room of the Industrial School for 
Crippled and Deformed Children at 
28 Central street, Manchester, wishes 
to announce that there are many at- 
tractive and useful articles still un- 
sold which they hope to sell before 
closing September 20th, in order to 
end a successful season for this char- 
ity. 
_ Miss Ella Harding of New York, 
is showing a very stunning line of 
autumn and winter models in ladies’ 
and misses’ gowns at her summer 
shop in the Donchian building, 
Magnolia. Through a typographical 
error last week, we made it appear 
in Miss Harding’s advertisement 
that her shop was on 4th street, New 
York. As a matter of fact she has 
splendid new quarters at 6 and 8 
East 46th street, opposite the Ritz- 
Carlton. 
MAGNOLIA TENNIS. 
MIXED DOUBLES. 
Semifinals. 
G. Sturgis and R. Newton beat Mrs. Rich- 
ardson and G. L. Hamilton, 6-0, 6-3. 
Miss E. Baker and E. M. Hayden beat G. 
Solari and Sidney Overall, 8-6, 6-3. 
Finals. 
Miss Baker and E. M. Hayden beat G. 
Sturgis and Miss Newton, 8-6, 6-3. 
MEN’S SINGLES. 
Finals. 
Drummond Jones beat A. C. Butler, 6-1, 
6-4, 6-1. 
Championship Round. 
Drummond Jones beat G. C. Caner, 6-2, 
6-4, 5-7, 7-5. 
LADIES’ DOUBLES. 
Semifinals. 
A. Thorndike and Mrs. John Cutler beat 
E. Baker and M. Boyd, 6-3, 6-1. 
H. Morse and H. Penhallow beat E. 
Sigourney and M. Prescott, 6-3, 6-0. 
‘ Finals. 
Miss Thorndike and Mrs. Cutler beat Miss 
Morse and Miss Penhallow, 6-2, 6-3. 
LADIES’ SINGLES. 
Finals. 
pute Thorndike beat D. Ballantyne, 6-4, 
6-4. 
Championship Round. 
Miss Thorndike and Miss Eleanora Sears 
(holder of cup) have not yet played. 
MEN’S DOUBLES. 
Semifinals. 
Tailor and Penhallow beat Rainey and 
Weil, 6-1, 6-3. 
Overall and Potter beat Wadsworth and 
Seggerman, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. 
Finals. 
F. B. Taylor and C. 8S. Penhallow beat 
Apa Overall and Charlie Potter, 6-1, 
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