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THE INDEX, Saturday, January 7, 1928
t|7 S O C I E T Y
MISS Dorothea Chess, daughter of Mrs.
Walter Chess, of Bennington Avenue,
has chosen Saturday, January fourteenth, as
the date for her marriage to Mr. Robert
Markham Marshall, of Pittsburgh. The wedding
will take place in the Protestant Episcopal
Church of The Redeemer in Forbes
Street, with the rector, the Rev. Dr. Robert
Nelson Meade, reading the service at half
past twelve o'clock. A small breakfast will
follow at the house. Miss Chess' only attendant
will be her niece, Cynthia Stowe Heffron,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Heffron,
of Greenwich, Connecticut.
Thursday afternoon Mrs. Samuel McClay
and her daughters, Miss Cora Henderson Mc­
Clay and Miss Ellen Gayle McClay, gave a
bridge at their home in Devon Road. The
guests, who included the debutantes of this
year and last, were asked to meet Miss Florence
Carroll, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
C. Carroll, of College Avenue, and Miss
Elise Whittemore, of St. Louis, who is visiting
Miss Ellen McClay.
Mrs. Robert B. Kernohan, of Pembroke
Place, has gone to Thomasville, Georgia,
where she will spend the Winter at Three
Toms Tavern.
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Eaton, of South
Braddock Avenue, have announced the engagement
of their daughter, Miss Dorothy
P. Eaton, to Mr. William R. Davis, son of Mr.
and Mrs. George C. Davis, of Spokane, Washington.
Miss Eaton, after graduating from
the Thurston Preparatory School, entered
Wellesley College and is a member of the
class of 1929. Mr. Davis is a graduate of
Washington State College and a member of
Omega Phi fraternity.
Monday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Charles J.
Ramsburg, of East Drive, Sewickley, gave a
tea dance in the Allegheny Country Club to
present their daughter, Miss Harriet Nourse
Ramsburg. Mrs. Ramsburg wore a gown of
pale lavender satin, with corsage of Cattleya
orchids. Her hat was a deeper shade of velvet.
Miss Ramsburg wore a straightline
frock of yellow moire and a toque of velvet
in the same shade. Her flowers were Pernet
roses and lilacs, tied with gold ribbon. Miss
Margaret Ramsburg, another daughter of the
hosts, who was one of the aides, wore bois de
rose Georgette with a small grosgrain hat of
the same shade. Mrs. A. T. Heyn, of South
Orange, New Jersey, a houseguest of the
Ramsburgs, wore black velvet trimmed with
rhinestones. Among the other house guests
was Mr. Graham MacDonald, of New York, a
Hotchkiss classmate of Mr. Charles J. Ramsburg,
Jr.
Assisting were Mrs. Edward D. Gilmore,
Mrs. Frank R. Dravo, Mrs. James Crossan
Chaplin, Mrs. Samuel G. Cooper, Mrs. George
S. Patterson, Mrs. James D. Rhodes, Mrs.
George C. Hutchison, Mrs. John Joy Edson,
Jr., Mrs. Nelson R. Van Kleeck, Mrs. C. C.
Taliaferro, Mrs. Glenn T. Braden, Miss Nancy
Saturday, February fourth, is the date
Miss Frances Schoen, daughter of Mrs. William
Henry Schoen, of Fifth Avenue, has
chosen for her marriage to Mr. Lewis A.
Park, of Pittsburgh and Sewickley Heights.
The wedding will be a small home affair.
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Miss Anne King Scott, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James King Scott, of Devon Road, Mrs.
William Scott, of Devonshire Street, gave a
dance Monday evening in the Pittsburgh Golf
Club. Mrs. Scott wore black velvet and her
granddaughter wore white chiffon with Pernet
roses as her flowers. Holiday greens
decorated the ball-room, the mantels were
banked with pink begonias and on the supper
tables the same flowers were used.
Tonight Miss Scott will be honor guest at
a dinner that Mr. and Mrs. William R. Scott,
of Northumberland Avenue, will give in the
Golf Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart H. Robinson, Mrs.
Franklin T. Nevin and her son, Mr. Henry
Nevin; of Sewickley, have gone to Florida for
the remainder of the Winter. They made the
trip by motor.
At eight o'clock the evening of December
thirty-first the wedding of Miss Dorothy Burleigh,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Burleigh,
of North Negley Avenue, and Mr. Orval
Courtney, of Somerset, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas ,H. McClaskey, of Pittsburgh, took
place in the Burleigh home. The service was
read by the Rev. Herman T. Reinecke, associate
pastor at the Third Presbyterian
Church, and the Rev. Dr. George C. Fisher,
Jr., pastor of the Highland Presbyterian
Church. The bride wore a pearl-embroidered
MISS EM1L1E WRIGHT
gown of white satin, built with uneven hem­
Daughter of Mr. Arthur Wright, of Utica and
line.
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Her tulle veil, also embroidered with
York, whose engagement to Mr. Graham Johnston,
pearls, fell from a headdress of pearls and
son of Mr. and Mrs. Norwood Johnston, of Pittsburgh
and Pinehurst, North Carolina, was announced recent­
orange blossoms. Her flowers were white
ly at a luncheon given in the Ritz-Carlton, New York, roses and lilies of the valley, in a shower
by her sister, Mrs. H. C. Buckminster. Miss Wr ght bouquet. Miss Marion Frank, Miss Julia D.
attended Dana Hall and is now finishing at Pine Schenck and Miss Phoebe A. Henning,
Manor. Mr. Johnston, after preparing at the Hill cousins of the bride, as maids of honor, wore
School, was graduated from Yale in 1926.
Hamilton, Miss Margaret McCready, Miss
Marie McBride, Miss Elizabeth George, Miss
Mary McMahon, Miss Mary Childs, Miss
Juliet Hillman, Miss Mary McCIung, Miss
Anne Marshall, Miss Carolyn Gilchrist, Miss
Jane Edson, Miss Virginia Goldsbury and
period style frocks of pink crepe de chine,
with chiffon in a deeper shade of pink lining
the uneven hems. They carried pink roses,
snapdragon and sweetpeas. Carol Thorne,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Thorne, of
Edgewood, as flower girl, wore a frock of pale
Miss Jane McKelvy, of Youngstown.
pink crepe de chine, trimmed with pink and
blue ribbons, and carried a leghorn hat filled
Dancing followed the breakfast that Mr. with rose petals. The Rev. Harry H. Gra­
and Mrs. Winfield K. Shiras and Miss Anne ham, of Tennessee, formerly of Pittsburgh,
Shiras, of Ellsworth Avenue, gave Monday in served as best man. Following the reception
the University Club. Sharing honors were and dinner Mr. and Mrs. Courtney left for
Mr. and Mrs. Winfield K. Shiras, Jr., and Mrs. the East. After March first they will be at
Shiras' brother, Mr. Starling Winston Childs, home in Somerset.
of New York.
To present her debutante granddaughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Burdick, of Von Lent
Place, have announced the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Frances Burdick, to Mr.
Charles Cromwell, Jr., of Baltimore.
Mrs. Paul Sexton Hardy, of South Dallas
Avenue, will leave next week for La Jolla,
California, where she will remain until
Spring.