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Halley’s comet, which has been so 
elusive in the ethereal world of late, 
made entrée into the social world on 
Monday, according to the announee- 
ment from Washington, which said 
that President Taft and party saw 
the comet Monday evening through 
the big 26-inch telescope at the 
United States Naval observatory. In 
the party were Mrs. Taft, Charlie 
Taft, John» Hayes Hammond and 
Gen. and Mrs. Clarence R. Edwards. 
Gen. and Mrs. Edwards, by the way, 
plan to spend part of the summer at 
the Oceanside at Magnolia as usual. 
The seventh annual horse show to 
be held Memorial Day at Chestnut 
Hill promises to be an important so- 
cial event. Many from the North 
Shore will attend. 
The fourth annual puppy show 
and field day of the members of the 
Airedale club of New England was 
held last Saturday at Chestnut Hall. 
Robert Jordan’s entries won two 
blues, the premier position in the 
three to six months’ class and again 
in the nine to twélve months’ class. 
for females. The best product of the 
show was a remarkably good look- 
ing dog entered under the name of 
J. R. Thorndike, and titled Thorn- 
dike Vampire. It took the blue m 
the six to nine months’ class and 
also carried off the special for the 
best dog, either male or female, in 
the show. 
Mrs. Hall McAllister is planning 
to give another series of musicales at 
the North Shore this summer, the 
first to be held in July. The places 
and dates for the musicales will be 
announced later. 
Theodore Roosevelt, jr., and his 
fiancée, Miss Eleanor Alexander, of 
New York will arrive in Littleton, N. 
H., May 380, accompanied by Mrs. 
Alexander and a maid. The party 
will stay at Elliott hall. The Alexan- 
der summer home, ‘‘ Mount Vernon,”’ 
is located here and is one of the fin- 
est of the Profile cottages in the 
Franconia Notch, and has been re- 
furnished as a wedding present from 
the bride elect’s mother. 
President Taft will go to Yale on 
June 21 for commencement day ex- 
ercises, when his son Robert, will be 
graduated. Robert Taft will receive 
the degree of B. A. He has stood at 
the head of his class and won schol- 
arships in keeping with family tra- 
ditions, and special honors will be 
given with his degree. 
3 At the fintels : 
The Oceanside hotel at Magnolia 
will be opened on Friday, June 10, 
at luncheon time. From the large 
advance booking for the month of 
June, it is evident there will be a 
large number of guests on hand for 
the opening. Manager Phenix and 
his staff of clerks are getting the 
hotel in readiness to open. Guests 
may call at the hotel for inspection 
of suites at any time. A. G. Flan- 
ders, formerly of the Somerset hotel, 
Boston, and of Hampton Terrace, 
Ga., has been engaged as steward 
for the coming season. A small addi- 
tion is being built to the hotel at the 
present time to give accommodations 
for the shop to be condueted there 
this summer by Hodgdon & Ken- 
nard, the State street, Boston, dia- 
mond merchants. 
Lady Ballinger, who has been a 
guest at Pride’s Crossing of Gordon 
Dexter and family, left the North 
Shore Wednesday for Hancock, N. 
I. 
Mr. and Mrs. Newell Bent of 
Southboro and Boston, will spend 
July and August at The Oceanside, 
Magnolia. Mr. Bent. will combine 
business with pleasure during his 
stay on the Shore, for he will be 
the manager. of the North Shore 
branch of the stock exchange office 
of W. C. Langley & Co., of Boston 
and New York, which will be opened 
at The Oceanside the first of July. 
Two seasons ago the Bents had a 
cottage at Manchester. 
Mrs. C. B. Porter arrived at Bev- 
erly Farms the first of the week. 
She is eccupying the George M. 
Cushing cottage. x 
Ilerbert M. Sears and daughters 
Lily and Phyllis who have been 
abroad since early winter are ex- 
pected to return very shortly when 
they will come directly to their sum- 
mer home at Pride’s Crossing, which 
The date of the marriage of Miss 
Barbara Higginson to Barrett Wen- 
dell, jr., has been definitely fixed for 
Saturday, June 18, and it will be 
solemnized at Pride’s Crossing at 
the summer home of the bride-elect’s 
father, Francis L. Higginson. J. A. 
Lowell Blake will be the best man. 
The HUigginsons will move down to 
their estate at Pride’s Crossing dur-- 
ing the coming week. 
Jacob Rogers and family moved 
on from New York Wednesday and 
are occupying their large bungalow 
on Mystery Isle, 
’ Beverly Farms. 
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At the annual meeting of the My- 
opia Hunt elub, held at the kennels 
in Hamilton last Saturday, the fol- 
lowing officers were elected: 35. 
Dacre Bush, president; Wilham I. 
Seabury, secretary and_ treasurer; 
George S. Mandell, master of 
hounds; Dudley P. Rogers, captain of 
polo team; Herbert C. Leeds, captaim 
of the green; Nathan Matthews, 
Philip 8. Sears, Robert Stevenson, jr., 
and Frederick Winthrop, stewards. 
The above-named officers constitute 
the executive committee. The at- 
tendance numbered about 30. The 
membership in the club is limited to 
100. Pres. Bush enters upon his fifth 
term of office, master of hounds, 
Mandell upon his 10th. Mr. Seabury 
has held the joint office of secretary 
and treasurer by annual elections 
since 1898. The elub dinner, which 
followed the business meeting Satur- 
day, was, as all preceding affairs of 
the kind have been, a red-letter oc¢ca- 
sion for all participants. 
George A. Goddard and family of 
Boston have arrived at their cottage 
at Beverly Farms for the season. 
The J. Harrington Walker family 
of Detroit arrived at Magnoha for 
the season today. 
It is said that B. Frank Puffer, 
the Fifth avenue, New York, photog- 
rapher, will be on the North Shore 
this season and that he will engage 
rooms at the North Shore Grill club. 
is being put in readiness for them. 
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison K. Caner of 
Philadelphia and Manchester gave 
a large dinner and dance last Friday 
evening, at the Merion Cricket club, 
Philadelphia. 
their Manchester 
early next month. 
Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter has chosen 
‘‘Hdgewater’’ as the name of the 
villa which is being built for her at 
The name is most 
summer home 
appropriate, as the new _ house 
stands just’ at the water’s edge, 
when the.tide covers the white sands 
of West Beach. The estate of John 
Shepard at Swampscott is also called 
‘“Hdgewater.’’ 
Ex-Governor and Mrs. Curtis 
Guild have forsaken Nahant, where 
-they have been in the habit of sum- 
mering, and will be at Swampscott 
this season. 
Prof. George Fillmore Swain of 
Boston is at his Ipswich estate, 
which he purchased from Dr. R. B. 
Parker, on Spring street, Town hill. 
They will move on to— 
