SOCIETY NOTES 
Miss Florence Lee of Brookline 
and Beverly Farms, was formally 
presented to society Monday after- 
noon at a tea given by her mother, 
Mrs. George Lee, at the Lee resi- 
dence on Boylston street, Brookline. 
Several hundred guests were present 
to greet the debutante, who is the 
third daughter to be introduced by 
Mrs. Lee. The reception room, 
where Mrs. Lee and Miss Lee wel- 
comed their guests, was decorated 
with palms, white and yellow chrys- 
anthemums and pink roses, and the 
tea-room was banked with these 
blossoms. Among the guests were 
several of this season’s debutantes 
and many representatives of this 
year’s Sewing Circle, of which Miss 
Lee is a member. Miss Lee was 
dressed in a gown of blue satin and 
Mrs. Lee was in dark blue satin with 
overdress of black chiffon. The 
pourers were all from this year’s 
group of debutantes. Among them 
were Miss Nancy Barton of Worces- 
ter; Miss Elizabeth Almy of Cam- 
bridge; Miss Caroline Fessenden of 
Chestnut Hill; Miss Elsie Williams 
of Boston; the Misses Ellen and Ida 
Rldridge of Lincoln; Miss Elizabeth 
Bigelow, Miss Caroline Cabot, Miss 
Katharine Walker and Miss Suzette 
Long, all of Boston; Miss Esther 
Slater and others. An _ orchestra 
played and the younger set enjoyed 
_ dancing, quite informally. Miss Lee 
is a cousin of Mrs. Alice Roosevelt- 
Longworth. Several entertainments 
including a number of small dances, 
have been arranged in Miss Lee’s 
honor by her mother and will be 
given later in the season. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Mitchell 
are again at ‘‘Glendyne,’’ Manches- 
ter, after two weeks’ absence. They 
spent a week in Washington and a 
week in New York. About January 
15th, they will leave Manchester for 
a trip to the Bermudas. 
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Tomorrow in Philadelphia will be 
held the annual army and navy foot- 
hall game, which proves to be each 
vear such a_ great society event. 
Sec. Meyer is expected in the Quaker 
City, also President Taft, if his re- 
eent bad cold has passed away suf- 
ficiently to permit him to do so. 
MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1911. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Two bench shows of much future 
interest to society are those of the 
Toy Spaniel club of America and the 
French Bulldog club of New Eng- 
land. The former will be held in 
New York, December Ist and 2d, and 
the latter in Boston, December 12th 
and 13th. At the latter show, Rob- 
ert Macdonald of Hamilton will be 
a judge. 
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Mrs. Charles Stedman Hanks and 
her family of the West Manchester 
contingent, have taker an _ apart- 
ment at 373 Commonwealth avenue, 
Boston, for the winter. Last year 
when Miss Clarina Hanks was pre- 
sented, the family occupied the 
George von L. Meyer house on Bea- 
con street, Boston. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Oakes Ames of 
North Easton went to New York, 
Wednesday, and sailed Thursday on 
the Almirante for a month’s cruise 
in the tropics, visiting Jamaica, Co- 
lon and Santa Maria. Mrs. Ames’ 
daughter, Mrs. Frederick G. Hall, 
joined the North Shore colony last 
season, taking a cottage at Hast 
Gloucester. Mr. and Mrs. Hall pur- 
chased a fine building site there this 
fall. They plan to have their new 
summer home ready by next season. 
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The marriage of Miss Bertha Sias 
and Henry Morton Priest is to take 
place early in the new year—Jan. 
10th—at the residence of Miss Sias’ 
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. 
D. Sias, at 115 Bay State road, Bos- 
ton. The Sias summer home is at 
Wenham. 
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The National Horse show in Madi- 
son Square Garden, New York, this 
week has had a generous North 
Shore representation. Miss Elean- 
ora Sears, whose hostesses for the 
week have been Mrs. Reginald C. 
Vanderbilt and Mrs. H. B. Hollins, 
came in for much social attention. 
Mrs. Payne Whitney has also been 
identified with this coterie. EH. T. 
Stotesbury, father of Mrs. Sidney E. 
Hutchinson, of the Beverly Farms 
colony, has won many blue ribbons 
during the show, also Judge W. H. 
Moore, of the Pride’s contingent, in 
the various classes. 
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VOL. IX 
NO. 47 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The Essex County club, Manches- 
ter, is proving a very popular spot 
for week-end parties for those who 
cling so devotedly to country life 
on the North Shore. Last Friday 
evening Thomas B. Gannett, Jr., 
who wedded Miss Dorothy Draper 
of Hopedale Tuesday, gave his 
bachelor dinner at the club. It took 
the form of a stag party to the best 
man and ushers at the wedding, and 
other gentlemen friends, 27 guests 
in all. On Saturday evening, De- 
cember ninth, Miss Katherine Tweed 
of New York and Beverly Farms, 
will give a dinner-dance at the club. 
These are a few of several functions 
which will be on the social calendar 
of the club during the winter season. 
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At a recent large and handsomely 
appointed reception given by Mrs. 
Wm. P. Snyder of Willpen Hall, 
Sewickley Heights, Pittsburg, to in- 
troduce her daughter, Miss Mary 
Black Snyder, among the hostess’ 
assistants was Mrs. John R. McGin- 
ley of Pittsburg and Manchester. 
Miss Lois McGinley, one of the 
debutantes of the Pittsburg season, 
was also identified with the func- 
tion. 
00909 
President Taft sent congratula- 
tions to Beverly at the dedication 
of her new YMCA building last 
Sunday. 
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Mrs. Randolph M. Appleton and 
daughters, the Misses Julia and 
Sybil Appleton, of New York and 
Ipswich, were passengers on the 
Nieuw Amsterdam, which arrived in 
Rotterdam the middle of last week, 
sailing the day after the wedding of 
Miss Woods and Mr. Sturgis at St. 
Paul’s church, Boston. They came 
over from Europe in June on the 
Romanic. Most of the winter will 
be spent in Venice. 
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The drag hounds of the Myopia 
Hunt club met Tuesday afternoon at 
The Kennels and yesterday after- 
noon at Topsfield Common. To- 
morrow morning at 9 o’clock the 
meeting place will be Underhill’s 
Corner. The fox hounds have met 
Monday and Friday mornings of 
this week. 
