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M R S . Grant McCargo and her daughter,
Mrs. Edward Bailey Meyer, will be
hostesses at an informal tea Tuesday
afternoon, May twenty-ninth, from four
until six o'clock in the McCargo home, Woodland
Road. The guests have been asked to
meet Mrs. McCargo's daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Graham McCargo, who was Miss Mary Remington,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip H.
Remington, of Springfield, Massachusetts,
before her marriage last Autumn.
Mrs. Meyer, who has just returned from
the East with Mrs. McCargo, has taken a
house at Greenwich, Connecticut, for the
Summer.
A number of Pittsburghers are interested
in the wedding of Miss Mary Park Kaye and
Mr. John E. Tarrant, of Louisville, Kentucky,
which takes place at half past five o'clock
this afternoon. Miss Margaret Wright Stewart,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lincoln
Stewart, of Aylesboro Avenue, is a
member of the bridal party and Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis A. Park, the former a cousin of Miss
Kaye, of Sewickley Heights, have gone down
for the wedding.
The wedding of Miss Ruth Phillips, daughter
of Mrs. Herbert Clyde Phillips, of Alder
Court Apartments, and Mr. Ernest James
Bisiker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bisiker,
of Ashtead, Surrey, England, the date of
which is Saturday, June second, is to take
place at the home of the bride's brother and
sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H. Houghton
Phillips, in Butler. The Rev. John Ray
Ewers, pastor of the East End Christian
Church, will perform the ceremony. In the
bridal party will be Mrs. Houghton Phillips
as matron of honor and a niece of the bride,
Susanna Idell Phillips, is to be flower girl.
Mr. Douglas Bisiker, of Ashtead, is to be his
brother's best man. Mr. Bisiker's parents,
also his sisters, Miss Louise and Miss Aileen
Bisiker, will come over for the wedding.
Tonight Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Curley, of Elgin
Avenue, will give a dinner dance in the
Country Club of Pittsburgh; Thursday evening,
May thirty-first, Mr. and Mrs. Houghton
Phillips will give a dance at Phillips Hall, the
Summer home of Mr. T. W. Phillips, and the
evening preceding the wedding Mrs. Herbert
Clyde Phillips will give the rehearsal dinner
in the Pittsburgh Athletic Association. Yesterday
Miss Phillips was guest of honor at a
luncheon given in the Longue Vue Country
Club by Mrs. J. B. Yohe, of the King Edward
Apartments.
The bridal party to be in attendance at the
marriage of Miss Eleanor Vail Lewis, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Lewis, of
Devon Road, to Dr. George Vance Foster will
include Mrs. Harry Ranney, of New York,
S O C I E T Y
as matron of honor; Miss Betty Tinker, Miss
Dorothy Taylor, Mrs. Harry O. Brahm and
Miss Marjorie Bartholomew, as bridesmaids;
Dr. Warren Stoddard, of Rochester, New
York, who is to serve as best man, and the
ushers, Mr. William T. Todd, Jr., Dr. William
Weader, Dr. John J. Hay, Captain Frederick
MacMahon, Mr. Carl Conway and Mr. Harry
0. Brahm. The wedding will take place at
half past four o'clock the afternoon of Tuesday,
June fifth, in Calvary Protestant Episcopal
Church.
In honor of their son and daughter-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Hornbostel, whose marriage
was a recent event, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Hornbostel gave a reception the evening of
May twentieth at their home in the Schenley
Apartments. Among the guests were Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Hornbostel, of Beloit, Wisconsin
; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Ungaro, of
Wheeling, parents of Mrs. Caleb Hornbostel,
who was Miss Ruth Ungaro, and Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Armitage, of New York, Mrs.
Henry Hornbostel's brother and sister-in-law.
Early in July Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hornbostel
and Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Hornbostel will go
abroad, sailing on the Patria. They expect
to spend much of their time in Italy.
Several hundred guests from Pittsburgh,
New York and Greenwich, Connecticut, attended
the wedding of Miss Winifred Graham
Croft, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry W.
Croft, of Pittsburgh and Greenwich, and Mr.
William Stavely Wilson, of New York, which
took place the afternoon of May nineteenth
at the Croft Summer home in Greenwich.
The wedding was planned for an outdoor
affair but on account of the weather took
place in the living-room. The Rev. Dr. Hugh
Thomson Kerr, pastor of the Shadyside Presbyterian
Church, performed the ceremony.
The bride wore a gown of white satin,
trimmed with rose point lace. Orange blossoms
held her tulle veil in place and she carried
calla lilies. Miss Eleanor Graham Croft,
a twin sister of the bride, as maid of honor,
wore a gown of French blue tulle, with
matching picture hat and frocks of peach tint
tulle, with hats to match, were worn by the
bridesmaids, Mrs. Richard Graham Croft, of
Greenwich, sister-in-law of the bride; Mrs.
Edward Dewing, of Hartford; Mrs. Joseph
Donner, of Buffalo; Miss Anna K. Childs,
Miss Margaret Wright Stewart, Miss Mildred
Burgwin, Miss Phyllis and Miss Louise Tot-
ten. Their flowers were delphinium, roses, lace
flowers and sweetpeas. Mary Augusta Bickel,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Bickel
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brother's best man and the ushers were Mr.
Elliott S. Phillips, Mr. Archibald MacNichol,
Mr. Richard Graham Croft, of Greenwich;
Mr. J. M. Reckley Potts, of Stamford; Mr.
Enos W. Curtain, Mr. Prescott Legardiner, of
New York; Mr. Elliott H. Downs, of Montclair,
New Jersey; Mr. Herbert R. Garside,
of Pelham, New York; Mr. Deane W. Colton,
of Brooklyn, and Mr. John R. Dunlap, Jr., of
New Canaan, Connecticut. After six weeks
in Europe Mr. and Mrs. Wilson will return
to make their home in Greenwich. Mr. Wilson
is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John
Alexander Wilson, of Brooklyn.
Among the Pittsburgh guests at the wedding
were Mrs. Grant McCargo and her
daughter, Mrs. Edward B. Meyer, Mrs. William
Terrell Johnson, Mrs. John Worthington,
Mrs. William Lincoln Stewart, Mrs.
Howard Hale McClintic, Miss Margaret Mc­
Clintic, Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hammond,
Mrs. James Wood Scully, Mr. J. Henry
O'Neill and Mr. Charles A. McClintock.
Only the immediate families were present
Tuesday evening at the wedding of Miss
Betty Boyer Taylor, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe T. Taylor, of Lytton Avenue, Schenley
Farms, and Mr. Jay Fishell Pigman, of
New Haven, formerly of Pittsburgh, the son
of Mrs. Margaret A. Pigman, of Mt. Pleasant.
On account of the serious illness of Mr. Taylor,
the wedding plans were changed. The
Rev. Dr. Alonzo J. Turkle, pastor of Trinity
Lutheran Church, North Side, performed the
ceremony. The bride wore a gown of ivory
charmeuse satin and her flowers were lilies
of the valley, gardenias and orchids, in a
Colonial bouquet with ostrich fringe. Miss
Helen L. Hassinger, of Reading, as maid of
honor, wore a frock of turquoise blue chiffon;
the matrons of honor and the bridesmaid,
Mrs. Jay H. Overpeck, Mrs. D. C. Franklin,
sisters of the bride, and Miss Virginia Blackmore,
wore chiffon frocks shading from
fuchsia to pink. They carried Colonial bouquets
of roses and garden flowers. Mr. and
Mrs. Overpeck's daughter, Janice Boyer
Overpeck, as flower girl, wore a frock of pink
chiffon and carried pink rosebuds. Mr. Morris
N. Pigman, of Mt. Pleasant, served as his
brother's best man and the ushers were Mr.
Jay H. Overpeck, Mr. D. C. Franklin, Mr. H.
0. Huttle, of Pittsburgh, and Mr. Thomas L.
Cort, of Mt. Pleasant. After June fifteenth
Mr. and Mrs. Pigman will be at home in New
Haven.
and a niece of the bride, as flower girl, wore Mr. and Mrs. William Bacon Schiller, who
a ruffled Kate Greenaway frock of yellow have been abroad since January, traveling in
organdie, with leghorn hat, and carried a Africa and Italy, arrived yesterday in New
small Colonial nosegay of roses and forget- York and are expected at their home on Seme-nots.
Mr. James H. Wilson served as his wickley Heights in a day or two.