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“iti is reported Chiat ean S. Grew, 
“one of Manchester’s oldest and best- 
known summer residents, is serious- 
ill at his home on Beacon st., Boston. 
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_ Mrs. Robert Stow Bradley gave a 
musicale Tuesday at her Common- 
wealth ave., Boston, residence. Mrs. 
W. 8. Fitz is to entertain at her 
Boston home with music the early 
pt of this month. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Tib- 
_betts, who are living at their cot- 
tage at West Manchester this win- 
fer, entertain friends from Boston 
quite frequently. Mrs. Beebe of 
Boston is a guest of Mrs. Tibbetts 
ut the present time. Last week Mrs. 
Tibbetts was in Milton, the guest of 
Mrs. Frederick Milliken. 
lon. os jateson. Coolidge, who 
q Baie: his winter home with his 
daughter, Mrs. Lucius Manlius Sar- 
gent in Boston, makes frequent 
week-end trips to his estate at 
C goudge Point, Sanpete 
Bdge and Mrs. W. C. Loring 
went to Washington last week to 
ittend a dinner given by Ambas- 
‘sador and Mrs. James Bryce at the 
ritish Embassy. 
SMr. and Mrs. H. V. R. Thayer, jr., 
are in Boston for the late winter 
and have taken apartments at Hotel 
en. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Denegre 
were among those invited to the din- 
her given by Atty. Gen. and Mrs. 
Wickersham in Washington last 
Thursday night. They are living 
this winter in Boston, where their 
daughter, Miss Elaine, attends 
school. 
Mrs. Charles Munn and daughter, 
Uarrie, have reached the continent 
id have joined the son, Charles 
Munn, jr., and family in Paris. 
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Mrs. Harry Pratt McKean of 
Pride’ s Crossing and Philadelphia, 
ind her two sons, have been regis- 
ered at the Touraine, Boston, the 
ast week. 
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WASHINGTON. 
The marriage of William Phillips, 
charge d’affaires of the American 
embassy, London, and Miss Caroline 
Astor Drayton of New York, was 
solemnized at the Rogate church, 
Sussex, Wednesday of this week. 
It was an event of international 
prominence and of especial interest 
to North Shore society folk from 
Boston, New York, Philadelphia 
and Washington, where Mr. and 
Mrs. Phillips are so well and favor- 
ably known. The Phillips’ snmmer 
home is at North Beverly and the 
bridegroom’s mother went to Lon- 
don for the ceremony. 
The President and Mrs. Taft at- 
tended the opening performance of 
‘“The Harvest Moon’’ at the Na- 
tional Theatre, Monday evening, ac- 
companied by Miss Taft and two of 
her college friends. Capt. Butt and 
Commander Palmer were also of the 
party. In the afternoon, Mrs. Taft 
attended Mme. liza Lehmann’s 
song recital at the Columbia The- 
atre. Mrs. Leiter and Mr. and Mrs. 
Preston Gibson (Grace Jarvis) of 
Manchester were in the audience. 
Baron and Baroness Mayor Des 
Planches of the Italian embassy 
leave for the Baron’s new post, Con- 
stantinople, the coming week, first 
going to their home in Italy. The 
North Shore has had the honor to 
claim these among her distinguished 
summer residents for many years. 
The Army and Navy reception 
will be held at the White House 
from 9 to 10.30 p. m., Feb. 8 
Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter of Washing- 
ton and the North Shore, has sold 
her Illinois coal lands, which in- 
cludes the town of Zeigler and 
about 10,000 acres of coal lands, for 
$8,000,000, an eastern corporation 
being the purchasers, if:is said. Jo- 
seph Leiter, formerly operated the 
mine. The new company, it is re- 
ported, will sink another shaft and 
will operate two mines. 
Madame Nabuco, widow of the 
ambassador from Brazil, and a sum- 
mer resident of Manchester, accom- 
panied by her daughter and two 
sons, sailed today for their home in 
Rio de Janeiro. 
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The death of Gen. William F. 
Draper of Hopedale, at his Wash- 
ington home last Saturday, after a 
few weeks’ serious illness, removes 
one of the best known men of the 
country. Mr. Draper was a sum- 
mer resident of Manchester, during 
the season of 1907, occupying the 
Bradbury cottage on Smith’s Point. 
He was ambassador to Italy during 
the McKinley. administration. Fu- 
neral services were held in Washing- 
ton, Monday afternoon. He was 
buried in Hopedale. 
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Among the wealthy Americans 
interested in the endowed theatre 
for Paris and who it is expected 
will back the project, is Otto H. 
Kahn of New York, who in 1905 
was the tenant of the Head cottage 
at Manchester. James Hazen Hyde 
of New York and Paris, will be an- 
other backer. Mr. Hyde was a 
guest of the Kahn family, when they 
summered in Manchester. 
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New York is planning for a huge 
conerete structure, a stadium to seat 
50,000—larger than Harvard’s and 
those of other universities with 
facilities for all kinds of meets. 
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Walter Wellman sailed for Eu- 
rope last Saturday and it is expect- 
ed that he will make an airship 
flight in the future from England to 
France in his Arctic airship. Well- 
man’s family were on the North 
Shore last season at Hast Gloucester. 
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The thousands of wealthy New 
Yorkers and Philadelphians who go 
to Atlantic City for the Easter festi- 
val will be treated to an added at- 
traction of hunt club events at the 
second annual horse show on the 
million-dollar pier. There will be 
a four-day show and space has been 
provided this year for 5000 spec- 
tators, ample room for promenading 
and stabling. 
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Mrs. Alexander Cochrane of the 
Pride’s Crossing colony has opened 
her Boston home this season for 
Mlle. Jeanne Roulet’s oC read- 
ings. 
