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THE INDEX, Saturday, June 30, 1928
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DEBUTANTE dates for next season are
already being decided upon and tentative
plans made for the presentation
of a number of girls both in town and
Sewickley. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Oliver Evans,
of South Negley Avenue, will introduce their
daughter, Miss Louise Evans, at a tea dance
in the University Club, September twentysecond.
In December Mr. Oliver Evans will
give a ball in the Pittsburgh Club for his
sister.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Curtis Perkins'
daughter, Miss Margaret Carnegie Perkins,
and Mr. John Speer Laughlin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George M. Laughlin, Jr., of Woodland
Road, were married Friday afternoon, June
twenty-second, in St. Andrew's Dune Church,
Southampton. Swamp oak boughs covered
the walls of the quaint little church, banking
the chancel were ferns and palms and white
peonies and ferns followed the outline of the
pillars and archways. On the altar were
white roses and blue Canterbury bells. The
service was read at four o'clock by the Very
Rev. Percy G. Kammerer, Ph.D., Dean of
Trinity Cathedral, Pittsburgh. The bride,
who walked to the chancel steps with her
father, wore a long gown of ivory moire silk,
simply made, with a box plait down the front
and lace yolk. Lace edged the sleeves that
fell over the hands and the tulle veil, arranged
in cap effect, fell the entire length of
the train. A prayerbook, with sprays of
lilies of the valley as markers, was carried.
Miss Martha Chalfant, as her cousin's maid
of honor, and the bridesmaids, Miss Retta
Johnston, of Lexington, Kentucky, also a
cousin; Miss Beatrice Patterson, of Philadelphia
and Southampton; Miss Phyllis Thompson,
of New York and Southampton, and Miss
Clodagh McCune, of Pittsburgh, wore bouffant
frocks of blue-green chiffon and carried
bouquets of blue and yellow cornflowers. The
medium sized crin hat of the maid of honor
matched her gown and the bridesmaids wore
beige crin hats. Mr. John H. P. Gould, of
New Haven, Connecticut, was Mr. Laughlin's
best man and his ushers were Mr. Frederick
Curtis Perkins, Jr., Mr. George M. Laughlin,
III., brother of the bridegroom; Mr. William
K. Laughlin, Mr. Alexander L. Robinson, his
cousins; Mr. Erl C. B. Gould, a brother-inlaw,
all of Pittsburgh; Mr. Warren M. Wells,
of Stratford, also a brother-in-law; Mr.
James Verner Scaife, Jr., Mr. John H. Ricketson,
III., of Pittsburgh; Mr. Francis Fife
Symington, of Baltimore, and Mr. Carter B.
Carnegie, of Cumberland Island, Georgia, a
cousin of the bride. Owing to a recent death
in Mrs. Perkins' family, only the relatives
and intimate friends were asked to the ceremony
and the tea that followed in the Perkins'
Summer home. Tuesday Mr. and Mrs.
Laughlin sailed for Italy and on their return
in September will go to New Haven, where
Mr. Laughlin will resume his studies in the
Yale School of Law.
Among the wedding guests were Mrs. W.
H. Deming, Mr. F. C. Billings, of Hartford,
Connecticut; Mrs. George M. Laughlin, III.,
Mrs. J. R. D. Huston, Miss Carolyn Huston,
Mrs. Erl C. B. Gould, Miss Martha Brooks,
Miss Eleanor McCargo, of Pittsburgh and
Sewickley; Mrs. W. E. Page, Mrs. Albert
Pease, Jr., of New York; Mr. Randolphe F.
Burke, of Washington, in addition to Mr.
Laughlin's parents.
The rehearsal dinner was given the evening
preceding the wedding by the bride's
cousin, Mr. Carter Beggs Carnegie, at the
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Morrison Carnegie, and Miss Beatrice Patterson's
luncheon the day of the wedding was
among the affairs given for the bride. Mr.
and Mrs. George M. Laughlin, Jr., Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Morrison Carnegie, Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Dilworth and Mr. Grant Smith
were the guests of Mrs. Elizabeth M. Home
at a dinner she gave in her Southampton
home.
Miss Theodosia Shaler, daughter of Mrs.
Theodosia S. Reynolds, of West Sixty-ninth
Street, New York, and the late Mr. Harry
Gibson Shaler, of Pittsburgh, was married to
Mr. H. Vincent Davis in the chapel of St.
Bartholomew's Church, New York, Monday
at high noon. Dr. Clifton Macon read the
service, a breakfast following at The Barkley.
Miss Alma Clarita Mestres attended the
bride, who was given away by her brother,
Mr. Harry Gibson Shaler. Mr. Charles Sutherland,
as best man, and the ushers, Mr.
Charles R. Moeser and Mr. Richard A. Mestres,
completed the wedding party. The
bride is a talented musician, graduating with
highest honors from the King-Smith School
in Washington last year, after preliminary
training abroad. At her wedding Dr. D. Mc-
Williams played a special musical program,
including "Theodosia's Wedding Song," composed
for the occasion by Dr. August King-
Smith. Mr. Davis, a son of the late Dr. H.
V. Davis, an eminent English physician and
surgeon, is a member of the Hill School faculty
at Pottstown. He served in the World
War with the Twenty-seventh Division,
American Expeditionary Forces, winning a
lieutenant's commission and awarded for distinguished
service. Mr. and Mrs. Davis are
now in the Northern Woods for the Summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Milholland, of Wellesley
Avenue, left Wednesday to motor to
East Hampton where Mrs. Milholland will
spend the month of July with Mr. and Mrs.
J. Clarke Milholland, who have taken a house
there for the Summer. Mr. Milholland will
remain over the Fourth of July at East
Hampton and will return for the month of
August.
Mrs. John M. Freeman and Miss Evelyn
Freeman, of Ellsworth Avenue, are at Bass
Rocks, Gloucester, Massachusetts, for the
Summer.
Mrs. Charles W. Brown and Miss Agate
Brown, of Academy Avenue, Sewickley,
sailed Wednesday on the Carinthia for the
North Cape.
Miss Lida Brickell Repp, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert M. Repp, of South Atlantic
Avenue, and Dr. Edward Harper Rynearson,
of Rochester, Minnesota, son of Dr. and Mrs.
Edward Rynearson, of Howe Street, were
married Tuesday evening, the wedding taking
place in Christ Methodist Episcopal
Church. The pastor, the Rev. Dr. Albert E.
Day, performed the ceremony before an altar
banked with garden flowers. The bride's
gown was of white satin, trimmed with insets
of rose point lace and built with court train,
lined with flesh-tint brocade. Rose point
edged her tulle veil and her flowers were
white roses and lilies of the valley, in a shower
bouquet. Miss Martha Cooper, as maid of
honor, wore a bouffant gown of pale green
taffeta, finished at the left side with a large
bow of yellow taffeta. Frocks of yellow taffeta,
with green bows, were worn by the
bridesmaids, Miss Eleanor Baton, Miss Eloise
Wilson, Miss Agnes Bane, Miss Sally Rawstorne,
Miss Mary Thompson, and Miss Virginia
Rossell. They all carried Dresden bouquets.
Mary Josephine Walton, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Richmond Walton, was
flower girl and the men completing the bridal
party were Dr. Rynearson's best man, Mr.
Sylvester Rynearson, a brother, and the
ushers, Mr. Robert M. Repp, Jr., Dr. Edward
Williams, of Altoona; Dr. John Day Garvin,
of Pittsburgh; Mr. William Wirt King, of
Carthage, Missouri; Dr. Scott Oehrle, of
Monongahela; Dr. Warren R. Wilkins, of
Toronto, Canada. A reception and supper at
the house followed the ceremony. After a
Western trip Dr. and Mrs. Rynearson will be
at home in Rochester.
Mrs. Finley Hall Lloyd, of South Negley
Avenue, has gone to Elfin Camp, Magneta- Mrs. Marcus W. Acheson, Jr., and family,
wan, Ontario, Canada, where she will remain of Morewood Place, have gone to Nantucket
until early in October. for the Summer.