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6 THE INDEX, Saturday, April 14, 1928
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W I T H the coming of Spring, events
for the Summer are being planned
and the dates announced. June seventh,
eighth and ninth has been decided on for
the Allegheny Country Club's annual Horse
Show, to be held on the club show grounds,
Sewickley Heights. So successful has been
the show in the past few years that it was
decided to make it a three rather than a twoday
affair this time.
Another event listed for the Allegheny
Country Club is the Sewickley Dog Show, to
be held on the horse show grounds Saturday,
June thirtieth as a benefit for the Social
Service of the Allegheny General Hospital.
Miss Martha Lewis MacCord, daughter of
Mrs. Thomas Charles MacCord, of Cathedral
Mansions, has chosen Wednesday, May ninth
as the date of her marriage to Mr. Biddle
Arthurs, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Biddle
Arthurs, of Center Avenue.
The wedding of Miss Elizabeth Stevenson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McCurdy
Stevenson, of Denniston Avenue, and Mr.
William Bryce McQuiston, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Curtis McQuiston, of Bartlett
Street, took place Tuesday evening in the
Stevenson home at eight o'clock. The Rev.
Henry H. Forsythe, pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian
Church, performed the ceremony,
assisted by a cousin of the bride, the Rev.
Dr. John S. Barker, of Smithfield, Ohio. The
bride wore her grandmother's wedding gown
of white satin, built with short, tight-fitting
bodice and long full skirt. Rose point lace
finished the low neckline and the tulle veil
fell from a band of Carrick-ma-Cross lace,
held in place with clusters of orange blossoms.
Pink and white rosebuds formed the
Colonial bouquet. Miss Rachel Stevenson,
as her sister's maid of honor, wore a gown
of orchid taffeta, built with tight waist and
full scalloped skirt; another sister, Miss
Sarah Stevenson and Miss Harriet Barker,
as bridesmaids, wore similar frocks of pale
silver green taffeta. Colonial bouquets were
carried by all the bride's attendants. Mr.
Stuart McQuiston served as his brother's
best man and the ushers were Mr. John B.
Stevenson, a brother of the bride and Mr.
Albert Diss, of Cleveland, a cousin of Mr.
McQuiston.
Following the reception Mr. and Mrs. Mc­
Quiston left for their wedding trip and on
their return they will make their home in
Wilkinsburg.
In the bridal party for the' wedding of
Miss Anne Simpson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Simpson, of Wallingford Street,
and Mr. George M. Rowland, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. George M. Rowland, of Kinsman
Road, are Miss Ruth Simpson, as her sister's
maid of honor; Mrs. G. Allan Wentworth, of
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Skowhegan, Maine, Mrs. William Neilson,
Miss Janet McLean and Miss Marion Clark
as bridesmaids; Mr. Stowe Hilder, of Hartford,
who is to serve as best man and the
ushers, Mr. Paul C. French, Mr. Robert W.
Leavitt, of New York; Mr. Newton F. Mc-
Keon, of Paterson, New Jersey; Mr. Philip
Shambaugh, of Chicago; Mr. C. Gundy Lane,
of Canal Winchester, Ohio; Mr. Herbert
MISS MARIE BOGGS McBRIDE
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McBride, of Grant
Street, Sewickley, gives a breakfast today for the
bridal party to be in attendance at the wedding of
Miss Mary McCann Woods, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Woods, of Sewickley, and Mr. Edward Alexander
Proctor.
Simpson, brother of the bride; Mr. John D.
Ritchey and Mr. Herbert Carroll. The wedding
takes place this afternoon in Calvary
Protestant Episcopal Church at half past
five o'clock.
Miss Eleanor McCargo, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Grant McCargo, of Woodland Road,
was one of the bridesmaids at the wedding
of Miss Magda Merck, daughter of Mrs.
George Merck, of Llewellyn Park, West
Orange, New Jersey, and Mr. Huntington D.
Sheldon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis P. Sheldon,
of New York and London. The ceremony
took place Thursday in the chapel of
St. Bartholomew's Church with a reception
following at The Plaza.
Owing to illness in the family the wedding
of Miss Elisabeth Wightman Mellon, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Alexander
Mellon, of Negley Avenue, and Mr. John
Birge Sellers, son of Mrs. Harry D. Sellers,
of Westminster Place, which was to have
taken place April twenty-eighth, has been
postponed to a later date.
At half past five o'clock Wednesday afternoon
the wedding of Miss Louise Cunningham,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James R.
Cunningham, of Rippey Street, and Mr.
Ernest R. Center, of Salt Lake City, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore L. Genter, of Paris,
took place in the Cunningham home. The
Rev. H. T. Chisholm, of East Brady, performed
the ceremony. The bride wore an
afternoon frock of gold lace over gold cloth
and carried yellow roses and orchids. Miss
Hillma Cunningham, as her sister's maid of
honor, wore a gown of pink chiffon and carried
pink roses and blue delphinium and Miss
Gertrude Cunningham, another sister, as
bridesmaid, wore a frock of buff chiffon. She
carried a Colonial bouquet. Mr. David Harold
Genter served as his brother's best man and
Mrs. Florence Chisholm Douglass played the
wedding music. A reception and buffet supper
followed the ceremony. Upon returning
from a Southern and Eastern wedding trip,
Mr. and Mrs. Genter will be at home in Bluefield,
West Virginia, after May first.
Among the out of town guests at the wedding
were Mr. Center's mother, who arrived
Tuesday night from Paris; Mrs. Carl M.
Deakin, who was Miss Amelia Lee before her
marriage in the Autumn, and Mr. Grant
Wainwright, of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Genter, of Baltimore; Mr. and Mrs. William
Baird, of Greenville, and Mrs. Margaret Atwood,
of Sharon.
Tuesday afternoon, April seventeenth,
Mrs. Lawrence C. Woods, of Sewickley, will
give a bridge in the Edgeworth Club. The
guests have been asked to meet Miss Martha
Barrett Byrnes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence P. Byrnes, of Sewickley. The wedding
of Miss Byrnes and Mr. Calvin Wells,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Wells, of Bryn
Mawr, will take place Saturday, April twentyfirst.
Covers will be laid for thirty at the breakfast
Miss Marie Boggs McBride, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William McBride, will give today
in honor of Miss Mary McCann Woods,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Woods, of
Sewickley, and Mr. Edward Alexander Proctor
whose wedding takes place today. The
guests include the bridal party and out of
town friends who have come on for the wedding.
The rehearsal dinner was given last
night by Miss Gladys Clarke daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles M. Clarke.
Mr. George Hamilton Flinn, of Pittsburgh
and New York, Mr. Harry Payne Whitney,
Mr. Frank L. Crocker and Mr. Frederick K.
Sheesley, of New York, were hosts recently
at a dinner dance in the Casino, White Sulphur
S rings, entertaining thirty guests.