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Mrs. Andrew Sumner Braznell, of East
End Avenue, has announced the engagement
of her granddaughter, Miss Sarah Adelaide
Ashcom, to Lieutenant Wilhelm Paul Johnson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Paul Johnson,
of Johnstown. Miss Ashcom is a graduate
of the Mary Lyon School at Swarthmore and
Lieutenant Johnson was graduated from the
United States Military Academy at West
Point.
The wedding of Miss Louise Graham,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Henry Graham,
of Le Roi Road, and Mr. Earle Alfred
Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Brown,
of New Haven, Connecticut, took place in the
South Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Saturday evening, June twenty-third. The
Rev. Sheridan Watson Bell performed the
ceremony. Roses and cibotium ferns banked
the altar and at each side of the prie dieu
were standards filled with roses. The bride,
who was given away by her father, wore a
gown of white satin, made with basque effect
and long, close-fitting sleeves. Chantilly lace
and pearls trimmed the gown and the rose
point and tulle veil, worn over the face, was
arranged in cap effect, with a band of pearls
and orange blossoms. Two small rose point
butterflies finished the veil, which fell in the
effect of a train. Roses and orchids formed
the shower bouquet. Miss Louise Covell, as
maid of honor, wore a gown of sunlight yellow
taffeta, built in bouffant style. She carried
an arm bouquet of garden flowers, tied
with tulle that matched her gown. Mrs. Bertrand
Richardson, of Cleveland, as matron of
honor, wore a similar gown in ciel blue. Bouffant
taffeta frocks were worn by the bridesmaids,
Mrs. William Bryce McQuiston, who
was in Ophelia pink; Mrs. Altha Nabors, of
Uniontown, in orchid, and Miss Florence
Beavers, of Columbus, Ohio, who wore Nile
green. They carried garden flowers. Mr.
Dwight Brown, of New York, served as his
brother's best man and the ushers were Mr.
Bertrand Richardson, of Cleveland; Mr.
Altha Nabors, of Uniontown; Mr. Edward
Williams of Osceola; Mr. Lute Owry, of
Philadelphia, two cousins of the bride, and
Mr. William Bryce McQuiston. A reception
and supper at the house followed the ceremony,
with Mr. and Mrs. Graham and Mr.
and Mrs. Brown receiving with the bridal
party. Mrs. Graham wore beige Chantilly
lace, with corsage of orchids, and Mrs. Brown
was in apricot green, with corsage of roses.
Upon returning from a trip that includes Yellowstone
National Park and the West, Mr.
and Mrs. Brown will be at home in Thomas
Boulevard.
The shore of Lake Constance, between
Switzerland and Austria, was the scene for a
picturesque wedding that took place Saturday,
June sixteenth, when Miss Valerie Helen
S O C I E T Y
Schindler, of Glarus, Switzerland, was married
to Mr. William Irwin Moyer, of Windemere
Court, Philadelphia, formerly of Pitts­
burgh. The ceremony took place at high
noon at Villa Gruenau, Kennelbach, Austria,
the home of the bride, who is well known
here, having visited Mr. Moyer's mother,
Mrs. Irwin Moyer, when she made her home
in the Schenley Apartments. The bride is
the daughter of Mrs. Marie Schindler. Among
the guests at the wedding were the bride's
brother-in-law and sister, Count and Countess
Rudolph Sarnthein, of Innsbruck; Dr. and
Mrs. Fritz Schindler, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Kuster, of Zurich, Switzerland; Miss Anna
Margeretha Schindler, who is a prominent
sculptress of the Academy of Fine Arts in
Austria; Baron and Baroness Gustav Wagner-Wehrborn,
of Cornbirn, Austria; Frau
Steffy Schultheiss-Geyer, of Zurich, celebrated
Swiss violinist; Dr. Sanford Moyer, of
Philadelphia, Mr. Moyer's brother, and about
fifty other notables from Switzerland and
Austria. The bride, who comes from an old
and illustrious Swiss family, is well known
in Europe as a concert violinist, having
played in all the large cities of the Continent.
She studied at the Manegg School in Zurich,
Fetan in the Engadine, Switzerland, and also
in the Conservatory of Music in Geneva. Mr.
Moyer, who is descended from the early Pilgrims,
graduated from the University of
Pittsburgh in the class of 1921, later attending
Yale, the Sorbonne and the Alliance Francaise,
in Paris. He is a member of the Mayflower
Society of Philadelphia and the Sons
of the American Revolution. After an extended
wedding trip through Europe, Mr. and
Mrs. Moyer will come to the United States
to make their home.
Mrs. J. Judson Brooks, Jr., and family, of
South Linden Avenue, have gone to Hyannisport,
Massachusetts, where they will remain
until early in September.
Mrs. William R. Jarvis and family, of
South Graham Street, are now at their Summer
home, The Camp, Orleans, Massachusetts.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fell and Miss Kathryn
Fell, of Waldron Street, Squirrel Hill,
have left for California, making the trip by
motor. They will take up their residence in
Los Angeles, after stopping at Grand Canyon,
National Park, and other interesting
places. They expect to be in Pittsburgh
again the first week of September.
The bridal party to be in attendance at the
wedding of Miss Marjorie Moore Harbison,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Harbison,
of Pine Road, Sewickley, and Mr. Walter
Brooke Stabler, will include Miss Barbara
Book, as maid of honor; Mrs. Erdman Harris,
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of Cleveland, and Mrs. Elliott Bates, of New
York, as matrons of honor; and as bridesmaids,
Miss Helen Harris, of New York; Miss
Eleanor Harris, of Toronto, Canada; Miss
Grace Clarke and Miss Betty Wray, of
Sewickley. Mr. Laird Stabler, of Nashville,
Tennessee, is to serve as best man and the
ushers will be Mr. William Laird, Jr., of Wilmington,
Delaware; Mr. Ambler Moss, Mr.
Walter Gray, of Richmond, Virginia; Mr.
Leslie Glenn, Mr. Henry Tyler, of New York;
Mr. Elliott Randolph, of Warrenton, Virginia;
Mr. Joseph Chim, of Charlottesville,
Virginia, and Miss Harbison's two brothers,
Mr. Harris Harbison and Mr. Samuel P. Harbison,
II. The wedding is to take place Monday,
July second. Mr. Stabler is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Stabler, of Wilmington.
The marriage of Miss Harriet Barker,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Pierson
Barker, of Shady Avenue, to Mr. Edward
Jackson Thompson, son of Mr. Andrew Curtin
Thompson, of Phillipsburg, took place in
the Barker home the evening of June twentysecond.
The Rev. Henry H. Forsyth, pastor
of the Sixth Presbyterian Church, performed
the ceremony, assisted by the bride's brother,
the Rev. Dr. John Bryant Barker, of Smithfield,
Ohio. Miss Rachel Stevenson was her
cousin's maid of honor; Miss Martha Jane
Opie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard R.
Opie, and Mary Louise Tatnall, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tatnall, Jr., of Wilmington,
Delaware, were flower girls and Mr.
John Colvin Wright, of Bedford, was Mr.
Thompson's best man.
Mrs. Chester Marsh Van Kleeck, of East
Drive, Sewickley, sailed Wednesday on the
Berengaria, for Europe, where she will travel
for several months.
Miss Isabel Baldwin gave a luncheon at her
home in Thorn Street, Sewickley, for Mrs.
Van Kleeck before she left for the East.
Mrs. Kingsley Kahler, of Princeton; Miss
Janet Bullitt, of Philadelphia, and Mrs.
James Hall, of Baltimore, came on for the tea
that Mrs. John Joy Edson, Jr., gave in the
gardens of her home, Joy Gardens, in Sewickley,
the afternoon of June twenty-third, to
present to her friends her daughter, Miss
Jane Edson. Following the tea Mrs. Edson
gave a dinner for fifty or more guests in the
Allegheny Country Club.
Tuesday night Mr. and Mrs. James Barlow
Cullum, of Centennial Avenue, Sewickley,
gave a dinner dance in the Allegheny Country
Club for Miss Edson and last week she
shared honors with Miss Nancy Pemberton,
of Philadelphia, the guest of her aunt, Mrs.
Donald Thompson, of Edgeworth, at a luncheon
Mrs. Thompson gave in the Allegheny
Country Club.