PNDICATIONS point to an early season on the North 
Shore. Weeks in advance of usual, people are open- 
ing their houses and are preparing to establish thetr 
households by the seashore for the summer. Many are 
in the habit of going to Europe this time of year for 
a brief holiday, or for a several months’ tour; not so 
this year. The expositions in California will attract 
many, and in some such cases the servants and house- 
hold will be established at the seashore so as to have 
everything in readiness when the heads of the families 
return in May or June. Everything points to an early 
and a long season at the North Shore this year. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Alexander S. Porter, Jr., of 185 Marl- 
borough st., Boston, opened their house at Manchester 
Wednesday for the season. Later this month they will 
go to the Virginia Hot Springs to remain until the first 
of May. | 
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Mrs. S. V. R. Crosby was down from Boston to 
her West Manchester house over the week-end, with a 
house party of eight young people, in honor of her son 
Henry Grew Crosby. Among others in the party were 
Katherine Crosby, Elizabeth Beal, Nathaniel Thayer, 2d, 
and Edward Bangs. Mr. and Mrs. Crosby and their 
son and daughter are spending Easter over in Washing- 
ton with Mr. Crosby’s family. They will be down to 
Manchester again over the week-end of the 17th to 19th 
of April. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Boylston A. Beal, with a party of 
young people, are shortly leaving Boston for California 
to visit the Panama Exposition. They expect to arrive 
home on May 3. 
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Congratulations are being showered upon Mr. and 
Mrs. Edward Wigglesworth (nee Sarah Rackemann) on 
the birth of their first-born, a son, last Saturday, March 
7th, at their home in Boston. He will be named 
Edward Wigglesworth, the eighth to bear this distin- 
guished family name. 
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_Mr. and Mrs. Evans Dick, Jr., are receiving con- 
gratulations upon the birth of a daughter, at their home 
in South Dartmouth, Wednesday of last week. Mrs. 
Dick is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Tuckerman 
of New York, who are making a stav of a few weeks 
at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, before going to their sum- 
mer home at Ipswich. Sa 
The engagement has been announced of Miss _Isa- 
bella’ Coolidge Councilman, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
William Councilman, and Francis Wigglesworth, son of 
Mr. and Mrs. George Wigglesworth of Milton and Man- 
chester. Mr. Wigglesworth is a senior at Harvard. 
Miss Councilinan was one of this season’s debutantes. 
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THE first social event of importance on the North 
Shore this season will be the wedding of Miss Kath- 
arine Lawrence Putnam and Harvey Hollister Bundy, 
at the picturesque little Unitarian church, at Manchester- 
by-the-Sea, two weeks from tomorrow—Saturday, April 
17, at noon. The Rev. James Ropes of the Harvard 
divinity school will officiate. Miss Mary Parkman will 
be the only attendant, and Nathan H. Bundy of Norfolk, 
Va., the best man. There will be no ushers. Mr.. Bundy 
is a son of Mr. and Mrs. George Bundy of Norfolk, 
who will come up for the wedding, Mrs. Bundy having 
recently returned home after a visit with the Putnams. 
The guests at the ceremony are to be confined to the rela- 
tives and a few of the most intimate friends, but the 
reception which follows at the summer home of Mr. and 
Mrs. W. L. Putnam at Manchester, will be large. The 
young people are to make their home in Washington. 
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Mr. and Mrs. William Sheafe, who have been in 
California for the past few months, returned home this 
week. They will stay at the Hotel Lenox, Boston, until 
they come to their summer place at Gloucester. 
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The marriage in the Episcopal church, Webster, on 
Wednesday morning, April 14, at 10 o’clock, of Miss 
Esther Slater, daughter of Mrs. Horatio N. Slater, and 
B. Sumner Welles of Islip, N. Y., will attract many 
Bostonians and members of the North Shore colony. 
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The corner stone of the National Headquarters of 
the American Red Cross, dedicated to ‘““The Memory of 
the Women of the Civil War,’’ was laid at Washington 
by President Wilson, last Saturday, March 27, in the 
presence of a distinguished audience, including former 
President ‘Taft, and members of the Cabinet, the Su- 
preme Court, the Diplomatic Corps, the Senate and the 
House of Representatives. A feautre of the exercises 
was a historical address by Miss Mabel Boardman, of 
Manchester, who is one of the leading spirits in the 
Red Cross movement. 
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Joseph Clark Grew of Boston and Manchester, first 
secretary to the American embassy at Berlin, will prob- 
ably be chairman of the American commission to be ap- 
pointed to inspect German ca~ps- for war prisoners. 
Mr. Grew is the son of Mr. end Mrs, Edward Sturgis 
Grew of 185 Marlboro st., Boston, whovce siirvrer estate 
is at West Manchester. He was graduated from: Har- 
vard in 1902; in 1905 he married Miss Ahce de Verman- 
dois Perry of Boston. 
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Mr. and Mrs. André William Regeio of 40 Fair- 
field st., Boston, will spend the su.nmer at Nahant with 
Mrs. Reggio’s mother, Mrs. Charles T. Lovering of 
Commonwealth ave., Boston. 
