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SOCIETY NOTES 
American Beauty and Killarney 
roses were used in the attractive 
decorations at the buffet supper Mr. 
and Mrs. Harry Darlington, Jr., 
gave in their home in Irwin avenue, 
Northside, Pittsburg, Wednesday 
evening of last week supplementing 
the theatre party at the Nixon, 
given in honor of Miss Mary Black 
Snyder, a debutante. Ten boxes 
were occupied, the guests including 
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Curry, Jr., of 
the Magnolia colony, and the Misses 
Marion and Lois McGinley of the 
Manchester contingent. 
The Billings cottage on the Shore 
Road, Magnolia, has been sold to 
H. C. Converse of Boston. <A plot of 
4 aeres of land on the Shore Road, 
Magnolia, near Strawberry Brook 
has been sold to L. M. Cuthbert of 
Denver, Colo. Both sales were 
made through Johnathan May’s 
agency. 
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The C. Howard Clark, Jrs., of the 
West Manchester colony, are now 
settled at their city residence, 1706 
Locust street, Philadelphia, after 
an autumn stay at Chestnutwold 
Farm, Devon, Pa. The farm will be 
kept open for week-end parties. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Rey. Dr. Robert Collyer of New 
York, an annual summer resident of 
East Gloucester, pastor emeritus of 
the Chureh of the Messiah, New 
York, reached his 88th birthday last 
Friday. He is also among the dis- 
tinguished people who are enter- 
tained by Mrs. James T. Fields at 
her summer home at Manchester 
each season. eee 
Seeretary Watson of the United 
States Golf association has made 
known the applications for the 
championship events for 1912 so far 
received. The Essex County club 
is among the clubs desiring the 
amateur championships, open cham- 
pionship and women’s championship 
matches. The annual meeting of the 
association will. be held at the 
Bellevue - Stratford, | Philadelphia, 
January 13th. 
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Eben D. Jordan of Boston and 
West Manchester is in the Carolinas 
on a shooting trip. 4 
Mrs. U. S. G. Curry will serve on 
the music committee for the annual 
charity ball in Pittsburg New Year’s 
night in the Hotel Schenley _ ball- 
room. 
BREEZE 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Merrill 
of Smith’s Point, Manchester, after 
spending the autumn in Hamilton, 
where they had the George von L. 
Meyer cottage, are now settled for 
the winter at Hotel Puritan, 390 
Commonwealth avenue, Boston. 
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Prominent among the sojourners 
in Washington this week were Lord 
and Lady Decies and the latter’s 
father and brother, George J.- Gould 
and Jay Gould. 
The master’s dinner, which is 
made the occasion annually, on the 
Saturday following Thanksgiving 
Day, to compliment the master of 
the hounds for the success of the 
hunting season, in arranging for the 
runs and attending to other details, 
was given at the kennels of the 
Myopia Hunt club in honor of James 
W. Appleton, who has just com- 
pleted his first year in office. The 
company consisted of 33 members 
and associate members who ride to 
hounds, and all were eloquent in 
their commendation of the skill and 
address exhibited in the discharge 
of his official duties by the guest of 
honor. 
Salem’s New 
Corner Store 
ONLY SIX MORE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING DAYS 
WHY NOT DO THEM AT SALEM’S NEW CORNER STORE 
WHERE DEPARTMENTS HAVE BEEN 
WHERE STOCKS HAVE BEEN 
ENLARGED 
INCREASED 
WHERE THE SALESFORCE IS LARGER THAN EVER BEFORE 
WHERE THE VALUES EXCEED ALL PREVIOUS YEARS 
All of the above reasons and scores of others why it is to your advantage to do your 
Holiday Trading at the Webber Corner in 
TOWN HOUSE SQUARE 
GOMMENGING TUESDAY, DEGEMBER 19 OUR STORE WILL BE OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL GHRISTMAS 
GOMMENGING MONDAY, DEC. 18, THE OPENING HOUR WILL BE 8.30 A. M. 
