NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
- MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1911. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The golf committee of the Essex County club, Man- 
chester, have sent out notices of the season’s golfing 
plans. The regular Saturday handicap competitions 
y ill continue ur to Sentember 2d. These competitions 
aie onen to all members and their guests and to the 
uiembers of the Myopia Hunt club. Prizes are given 
{1 best net and gross scores. On Saturday, July 8th, 
the members returning the eight best net scores will 
qnalify to play off during the month of July at handi- 
cap match play for the Handicap Challenge cup. A 
suitable prize to the winner and runner up. On Satur- 
day, August 5th, the members returning the eight best 
cross scores will qualify to nlay off during August at 
ratch play, at scratch, for the Scratch Challenge cup. 
A suitable prize to the winner and runner up. Regular 
Mixed foursome Competitions will be held on _ the 
Wednesdays of July and August. Entries must be made 
in pairs. These competitions are open to all members 
und their guests and to the members of the Myopia Hunt 
club. The Ladies’ Golf Committee for 1911 is Miss 
Tiarriot Curtis and Countess de Chambrun. Special 
invitation tournaments, open to members and their 
euests, will be held for Manchester cup July 20, 21 and 
22, and for Essex cup on August 17, 18 and 19. The 
Massachusetts Amateur championship will be played at 
Manchester on September 4 to 7 inclusive. Much inter- 
est will center in the annual July tournament to be held 
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 20, 21 and 22. 
This tournament is for members of the Essex County 
Club and their invited guests. <A qualification round of 
exzhteen holes to be played on Thursday, July 2oth. 
Gold Medal for best gross score. The first sixteen will 
qualify to play off at scratch, 18 hole matches, on 
the mornings and afternoons of Friday and Saturday, 
for the Manchester cup. The winner’s name will be 
inscribed on the cup and he will receive a suitable prize. 
The cup must be won three times to become the prop- 
erty of the winner. The second, third and fourth six 
teens will play off at Handicap match play for prizes. 
As a guide to the Committee, contestants are requested 
tc furnish their lowest handicap rating in any club or 
association. An entry list will be posted in the elub 
house and members are requested to make their entries 
cr those of their guests by 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 
toth. Post entries will be received. The course will 
he open on Wednesday to those entered for the tourna- 
ment upon payment of the regular visitors’ charges. 
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Herbert W. Mason and family of Boston, who were 
at Manchester last season are occupying their new 
summer home off Heartbreak road, Ipswich, after several 
weeks’ auto tour of the Berkshires and New York. 
Turing their absence, their little daughter was the guest 
of Sally Porter, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex- 
. ander S. Porter, Jr., of Boston, at the Porter summer 
home, Cobb avenue, Manchester. 
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Mrs. Jere Abbott has gone from West Manchester, 
where she has been spending the early summer, to 
Northeast Harbor, Me., for the balance of the season. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The presence of the W. A. Burdens of Southampton, 
L. I., at the Stevens cottage, Summer street, Man- 
cnester, this season brings another prominent New York 
family to the North Shore. Mrs. Burden was formerly 
Florence V. Twombly, a relative of the Vanderbilt 
families. She is in mourning for the late Mr. Burden, 
who died a few years ago, and will spend a compara- 
tively quiet summer. Her two little children are daily 
visitors to the Singing Beach. 
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There is great rejoicing in the household of Charles 
T. Dukelow, of Brookline and Manchester. Their first 
little son arrived Saturday, June 24th, at their summer 
home on Masconomo SPE 
Mrs. Maynard Ladd of Boston and Manchester, and 
hitle daughter, Gabriella, spent the past months from 
December to June in Italy. Dr. Ladd spent six weeks 
with them. They are now domiciled in the small Mor- 
gan cottage, Smith’s Point, Manchester. Mrs. Ladd 
was formerly Anna Coleman Watts and is a clever 
sculptor. 
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The wedding of Miss Ethel Gibson of Boston and 
Nahant and Dr. Freeman Allen of Boston, will be sol- 
emnized at Nahant July 2oth. Miss Gibson and Dr. 
Allen have many friends on the North Shore who will 
attend. 
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I’. B. Fraser, who is occupying Miss Adele Thayer’s 
estate at West Manchester with his family, has char- 
tered the yacht Edmee owned by Commodore Schafer, 
of the Larchmont, N. Y., Yacht club, for his use this 
season on the North Shore. The family are enjoying 
many cruises in this vicinity. 
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Mr. Plummer of Boston, was the holiday guest of 
Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Porter of Boston and Beverly Farms. 
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Mrs. W. B. P. Weeks of the Beverly Cove cottage 
contingent, is entertaining her mother, Mrs. Wash- 
burn, Mr. and Mrs. Weeks are Bostonians, who have 
the Claflin cottage for a second season. 
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W. DeFord Beal of Boston and Beverly, served 
as an usher at Kingston, June 29th, when the nuptials 
of Miss Judith Drew Barker of Jamaica Plain and John 
Stoker Miller, Jr., Harvard ’r1, a resident of Chicago, 
were solemnized at the Kingston Unitarian church. 
PE OTOL 
Curtis Guild, former governor of Massachusetts and 
newly appointed ambassador to Russia, left Boston last 
Friday for New York, accompanied by Mrs. Guild. 
“hey sailed for Russia Saturday. Mrs. Guild is the 
ihird Massachusetts woman to accompany an ambassa- 
dor to St. Petersburg. Over a hundred years ago Mrs. 
John Quincy Adams went to Russia with her husband, 
and much more recently Mrs. George von L. Meyer 
accompanied her husband, when he was appointed to 
the post by President Roosevelt. 
