SOCIETY NOTES 
The Gordon Abbotts and the R. M. Bradleys have 
been spending part of the holiday season at their respec- 
tive estates in Manchester. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Philip Stockton and family are spend- 
ing the week at their cottage in Manchester. 
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Miss Pauline Croll ieft Boston last week to visit Mr. 
and Mrs. Randolph Barton, Jr., in the Green Spring 
Valley, Maryland, over Christmas. She will go to Balti- 
more to spend New Year’s with Mrs. Barton’s sister, Miss 
Sidney Morison, who is a frequent guest of the Crolls 
in Boston and Manchester. 
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Francis R. Appleton, Jr., was among the young men 
who were guests at the dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. 
Andrew Carnegie before the dance at which their daugh- 
ter, Miss Margaret Carnegie, was introduced in New 
York. 
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The marriage of Miss Margaret Russell, daughter 
of the late Gov. Russell of Massachusetts and Mrs. 
tichael Foster of Cambridge, Eng., to Charles Hurd 
Howell, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Dawson Howell of 
Hartford, Conn., was solemnized Tuesday of last week 
at Cambridge, Eng. Among the bride’s relatives here 
are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Russell of Cambridge, and 
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Russell, Jr., of Dedham. Col. 
H. EF. Russell of Manchester and Boston is an uncle. 
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Miss Edith H. Foster and Albert Day Farwell have 
completed the plans for their marriage, which is to take 
place in the First Parish church in Dover on Jan. 6. 
Miss Foster will be attended by her sister, Miss Hilda 
C. Foster, as maid of honor, and also by another sister, 
Miss Barbara Foster, and by Miss Elizabeth C. Farwell 
of Chicago, as bridesmaids. Mr. Lawrence B. Robbins 
of Chicago will be the best man. Miss Foster is the 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. W. Foster of Charles 
River Village and Marblehead. Mr. Farwell is from 
Lake Forest, III. 
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At a family gathering at “Avalon,” Pride’s Crossing, 
on Christmas Day, the engagement was announced of 
Miss Mary Katharine Ayer to Keith Merrill of Minne- 
apolis, Minn. Miss Ayer is one of the daughters of Mr. 
and Mrs. Frederick Ayer of 395 Commonwealth ave., 
Boston, and the North Shore. It is understood that the 
marriage will take place in June at Pride’s Crossing. 
Miss Ayer is a sister of Mrs. George Smith Patten, wife 
of Lieutenant Patten, Washington, D. C., who was form- 
erly Miss Beatrice Banning Ayer. At the time of the 
marriage six years ago, at Pride’s Crossing, Miss Kath- 
arine Ayer was maid of honor. Frederick Ayer, Jr., a 
brother, Harvard 1911, married Miss Hilda P. Rice, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Rice of Boston and 
Ipswich. Other brothers are Dr. James C. Ayer, of New 
York, and Charles F. Ayer, of Boston and Hamilton 
Four Corners. The latter married Miss Theodora IIlsley 
of New York. Other daughters of Frederick Ayer are 
Mrs. William M. Wood, of Boston, Andover and the 
North Shore, formerly Miss Ellen Ayer, and Mrs. Donald 
Gordon of Boston, who before her marriage was Miss 
Louise R. Ayer: Mr. Merrill is a Harvard graduate and 
a successful young attorney. He is at present on Border 
service with his regiment. He holds a commission as a 
lieutenant in the National Guard, 
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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. XIV 
No. 52 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Tuckerman, Jr., went to Phila- 
delphia to spend Christmas with friends. They have 
taken a house at Aiken, S. C., for the winter and will 
probably go South from Philadelphia, although they may 
return to Pride’s Crossing for a few days before going 
to Aiken. Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Warren, brother-in-law 
and sister of Mrs. Tuckerman, will also spend the winter 
at Aiken. Mr. Tuckerman’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
Bayard Tuckerman, are closing their residence at Ipswich 
after the new year, when they will occtipy the house at 
320 Marlboro st., Boston, which they have taken for the 
winter. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Prince of East Wenham 
have leased for the winter the same cottage at Aiken, 
S. C., which they had last year and when Mr. Prince has 
sufficiently recovered from his illness will go down there 
to pass the season very quietly at this delightful resort. 
Owing to the recent death in France of their son, Nor- 
man Prince, and also to the state of Mr. Prince’s health, 
they will take no part in the social affairs of the winter. 
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Mrs. J. L. Chalifoux of Manchester and Lowell has 
been spending the holidays in South Bend, Ind., with her 
daughter, Mrs. John Chess Ellsworth. Mr. and Mrs. 
Lowell M. Chapin (Elizabeth ‘Chalifoux) of Chicago 
were also holiday guests of the Ellsworths. 
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The Misses Amy and Clara Curtis, who have, as 
usual, spent the summer at Manchester, have arrived at 
Pau, France, where they are to pass the winter. The 
Misses Curtis, who have resided abroad for many years, 
returning to the North Shore for the summer months, 
have spent considerable time in England. 
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An important transaction in North Shore real estate 
has just been effected whereby papers have been placed 
on record at the South Essex registry transferring title 
to the handsome summer estate, known as “Seaview,” 
situated on the ocean side of Ocean Spray avenue, Clif- 
ton, near the Hotel Preston. It is one of the finest prop- 
erties in this section of the North Shore, and was owned 
by Charles H. Traiser, Boston. The purchaser is Walter 
S. Place of Boston, who will make extensive alterations 
and occupy next year as a summer home. 
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The holiday season is a most joyous one for the 
residents at “Barrack Tor,’ Topsfield, the home of Cap- 
tain Ernest H. Pentecost and family, for after an absense 
of over two years Captain Pentecost was able to join his 
family for a brief furlough. Though just retired from 
the British naval service at the time of the opening of the 
-esent war, Captain Pentecost immediately volunteered. 
It is more than two years since he has been in this coun- 
y. He returned on the steamship New York last week 
and immediately rejoined his wife, who formerly was 
.arion W. Peirce, and their children at Topsfield. The 
youngest, twin girls, were born after Captain Pentecost 
left this country and he sees them now for the first time. 
He will return early in January. Captain Pentecost has 
an independent command with the North Sea Patrol, ani 
assignment which he has had ever since going into active 
service. He is particularly fitted for this work from 
having been one of the youngest and most capable com- 
manders of the Cunard fleet, his last command being the 
Saxonia, 
