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July and August, returning te 
SOCIETY NOTES 
~The Essex County club at Manchester has been 
the center of life along the North Shore this week. The 
tennis matches Thursday, to-day and to-morrow are at- 
tracting large numbers of people. The best known 
players in the country are on hand for this invitation 
round robin’s men’s doubles. These include Wright 
‘and Whitney, Clothier and Gardner, Larned Brothers, 
Wrenn and Watson, Niles and Dabney. The following 
10.30, Niles and 
Dabney vs. Wrenn and Watson; 11.00, Clothier and 
Gardner vs. Larned Bros.; 3.00, Wright and Whitney 
vs. Larned Bros.; 3.00, Clothier and Gardner vs. Wrenn 
and Watson; 5.00, Clothier and Gardner vs. Niles and 
Dabney. 
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Saturday night parties are getting to be quite the 
thing at the Hssex County club. Last Saturday evening 
Miss Dorothy Jordan was hostess for a party of thirty. 
Following the dinner dancing was indulged in, Miss 
Jordan having brought on from New York City an or- 
chestra of colored musicians for the occasion. Among 
the young people there were: Misses Margaret Thomas 
and Eleanora Sears, Mrs. William A. Russell, Mr. and 
Mrs. Reggie Boardman, Harrison Tweed, Dudley Pick- 
man, Mr. and Mrs. 8S. D. Warren, Reginald Fitz, John 
Reece, Amos Lawrence, Wm. A. Burnham, Jr., and 
George Whitney. Miss Jordan is to be hostess Satur- 
day afternoon at an informal luncheon, ‘at the club, 
of a dozen eovers. The house party of young people 
‘at J. Harrington Walker’s new summer house at Mag- 
nolia, will be at the club Saturday afternoon for lunch- 
eon, too. Saturday night Mr. and Mrs. Philip Stock- 
ton are to give a dinner-dance for a party of twenty 
young people. They, too, have arranged to have an 
orchestra of colored musicians from New York. 
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The ladies’ entertainment committee of the Es- 
sex County club—Mrs. Gordon Abbott, Miss Mabel T. 
Boardman, Mrs. A. L. Devens, Mrs. Lester Leland and 
Mrs. Washington B. Thomas—are arranging for two 
big dinner-dances at the elub on the evenings of Fri- 
day, July 26, and Friday, August 23rd. Dinner will be 
served promptly at 8 o’clock. Tables must be engaged 
from the steward and will be reserved in the order of 
application. 
Mrs. Richard J. Mens oy Miss Grace Monks of 
“*Edgewood,’’ Manchester, will be at the ‘‘Sea Sidc 
Inn,’’ Seal Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine, duriny 
Manchester the middle 
of September. Mrs. Monks is now visiting Mrs. Wm. lL. 
MeKee of ‘‘Blithewold,’’ Bristol, R. I., and Miss Monks 
is passing the week with the Robert Morses, at ‘‘Grass- 
mere,’’ Falmouth. 
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“‘Komonin,’’ Ralph Henry Barbour’s bungalow on 
Mt. Pleasant avenue,East Gloucester, has been rented 
for the season by Mrs. J- Sparhawk Jones, of Philadel- 
phia, who, with her daughters, arrived last week. 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, June 28, 1912. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
The first of the Wednesday afternoon band concerts 
at the Essex county club will be given next Wednes- 
day by the Salem Cadet band. These concerts always 
draw a large gathering of the summer colonists from 
all sections of the shore and numberless little functions 
result,—such as afternoon teas, luncheon parties, din- 
ners, ete. The concerts will be given every Wednes- 
day afternoon through July and August at 4.30 o’clock. 
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Miss Harriot Curtis and Mrs. E. C. Wheeler, Jr., 
the latter succeeding Countess de Chambrun as a mem- 
ber of the Ladies, Golf committee of the Essex Coun- 
ty club, announce a handicap match play mixed four- 
some on the elub links on July 10, 11, 12 and 13. A qual- 
ifying round of 18 holes will be played Wednesday, 
July 10th, the eight best net scores to qualify for match 
play. Thursday the first round of match play and on 
Friday the second round, with the finals on Saturday. 
Entries for this event must be made in pairs. On Au- 
gust 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 there will be a ladies’ handicap 
match play foursome tournament. Entries for this 
event must be made in pairs and will close Saturday, 
August 3. These two events will be open to invited 
guests and to members of Myopia, Montserrat and 
Nahant clubs. 
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Miss Elizabeth Bigelow showed great skill when 
she drove the tallyho party from Boston to A. Henry 
Higginson’s private races, recently. On the coach were 
Mr. and Mrs. Prescott Bigelow, Mr. and Mrs. James 
C. Barr, James Davis and others, who with many North 
Shore people, including Miss Eleonora Sears and George 
Lee, were entertained at tea by Mrs. Higginson. 
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Last Friday night W. Cameron Forbes, Governor- 
General of the Philippines, a Bostonian, was honored by 
a banquet given by the Commercial club of Boston at 
the Algonquin club. Among the guests present were 
S. Parker Bremer, George Wigglesworth, Henry L. Hig- 
ginson and Col. Wm. D. Sohier of the North Shore econ- 
tingent. 
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Mr. and Mrs. John G- Forrest and children of Kan- 
sas City have taken possession of ‘‘Treetop,’’ the Man- 
chester cottage of Ralph Henry Barbour, for the sum- 
mer. Ralph Osborne, of Cambridge, Mrs. Forrest’s 
brother, will also be at ‘‘Treetop.”’ 
Mrs. Lathrop Brown (Helen Hooper) was in Boston 
for the recent Roosevelt-Richardson wedding and also 
for the Country club races at Chestnut Hill. 
Mrs. G. Howland Shaw chas removed her household 
from 23 Commonwealth avenue, Boston, to her Hale 
street summer residence at emdie Crossing. 
Oliver Ames and family of Boston have coneluded 
their sojourn at their country estate at North HKaston 
and opened their Pride’s Crossing estate for the season. 
