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THE . OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAI PORTLA ND SUNDAY - MORNING, : DECEMBER 23, 1917. M .mi '. to Give Party For the ; Soldier Boys By Nona Lawlrr CHRISTMAS day looms first and fore mo t on the social calendar for this week. Usually devoted exclusively to the home and family gatherings, this yearj there will be in addition, a .huge city party, a city-wide effort to em brace In the day's celebration all of the several thousand soldiers who will be In the city on leave from Camp Lewis, - Vort Stevens and V&naauver Ba.rra.nlca. . Mayor Baker is the presiding; genius over the function and Assisting him will be a long list of prominent society and college women headed by Mrs. Alice Benson Beach, all of whom will help to make the day merry for the visitors. The Auditorium has been chosen as the only place large enough to stage the huge affair and hundreds, of Port land homes will relinquish their daugh ters from the family circle for the aft' ernoon or evening, so that they may helB greet the city's many guests and furnish dancing, partners for them. . There will be a continuous round of "merriment from 1 o'clock Tuesday aft ernoon until 1 o'clock in the morning. with 12 hours' continuous dancing. Four . bands have been engaged and each will - play three hours. The vaudeville houses have promised to- lend their most en " tertaining features for program nunv . bers to be Interspersed between dances, and all in all a gala day is scheduled. The Honor Guard girls will assist on the floor committee and an especial card of invitation is extended to all women of the war auxiliary organlra lions In the city to attend sometime during the 12 hours of entertainment planned. The 25 officers of the aviation corps will assist the Honor Guard girls on the floor committee. All the women Included in these committees and war auxiliaries are invited either to act as hostesses or if they wish to dance to cpmmunlcate with Mrs. Beach on their arrival. Each member of the committee must provide herself with a little Ameri can flag badge. To all the officers and men who attend an invitation is ex tended to their wives, sisters- and sweet hearts to accompany them. Elaborate preparations are being made by members cf the Concordia club for their New Yearns celebration. niuiiuttjr, jjecemoer si. The members and-their friends will be In attendance. There will be cards and dancing. Miss Alberta Bair returned last Tues day from a month's sojourn east in com pany with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brooks of Bend. Ore. They stopped with friends In Minneapolis, thence to Chicago and went to New York where- they passed most of their time. The Y. M. C. 'A. war work council entertainment committee la making elaborate arrangements for a Christ mas, entertainment ,at Vancouver bar racks for Monday evening. Miss Mamie Helen Flynn. chairman of the committee, which includes Mrs. Henry I Corbett and Miss Jean. Mor rison, has secured some interesting and entertaining fsatures for the program. Jane Burns' Albert, soprano, will sing, and the O-W. R. A N. band will play. ' Other soloists will sing In the sick wards, the program Including scores of popular and patriotic songs and a number of Christmas carols. The council and the Portland Honor Guard, assisted by the Haselwood Candy company, will also supply candy and other Christmas gifts. Including , smokes for the men. . Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sharp of Prlne ville are being welcomed here for the holidays with many Informal affairs. They are guests of Mis. Sharp's par ents. Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Morrison. The Washington r5. C.) Star notes the presence there of Mrs.IcLaugnlin and Miss Marian, wfre and daughter of Lieutenant .Colonel Clenard Mclaugh lin, who have taken apartments at Cop ley Court for a short time. Lieutenant Colonel McLaughlin is attached to the Seventy-ninth division. Camp Meade, having .recently arrived from Leon Springs, ,Tx., where he has been senior instructor at the citizens' training camp, Camp "Stanley. Lieutenant Colonel Mc- Laughlln was in Portland for two years "and commanded the Third Oregon on the border last year. s 1 Miss Ellse Oberdorfer. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Oberdorfer of 429 Vista " avenue, and niece of ex-Senator Joseph .Simon, has returned to Portland for the Christmas holidays. Miss Ober dorfer is a junior at Wellesley college. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Durham are vis - Itlng In Boston with Mr. Durham's moth er, Mrs. R. L. Durham, and his sister, Mrs. Jones. They have been east about a month and plan to return shortly after the first of the year. . Mr. and Mrs. Lovell WHUers (Isabella Macleay) returned Tuesday from their , "nuuiug uip, ana are tocaiea in weir .new home, at 7S4 Perlander street, the house which was formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs, Van Ruysdael. ,r Mrs. Frederick D Kuettner was host ess Friday at a large and most suc cessful card party given in the assembly ;room of Hotel Portland, the proceeds going to the Dr. Lovejoy fund for motn rs and babies of France. Twenty-two - tables were arranged for bridge, aim light refreshments followed the game. Forty-seven dollars was netted for this worthy, cause. Miss Adrienne Sheraanski has arrived from Mills college to pass the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mr. and Mrs. William Walter, who were, married in Tacomav arrived In Portland Tuesday, and. will reside, for tho present, wUhMrsrv Walter at her residence, S3 North Twenty-first street. Mrs. B. Holman, who went to Tacoma w mo n aiier-xoKum. nuptials, re mained to visit Mrs. Leonard, formerly ams niiak xiexier oi tills city. v Thursday afternoon Mrs. Susie Fennel Pipes entertained most delightfully la honor of Anne Shannon Monroe, the well , known writer. Miss Monroe read one Of her latest short stories and a trio made up of Genevieve, Jack and Dor othy Fraier, violin, cello and piano, gave a most interesting number. Holly and polnsettia' decked the rooms and tea was 1 served. Mrs. Harry Deal Torrey and Miss Mary Frances Isom pre&ded over u the tea table. Those present were ; ' Mrs. Margaret Burrell. Mr. Gordon Voorhtea Mrs. Torrey, Miss Genevieve Thompson. Mrs. Frederick Strong. Mrs. Robert W. G. SMITH &, CO: - .; tLOKGAM BUK City JBOJsT OB HE. Strong. Mrs. William L. Wood, Miss Frances GUI, Mrs. Lee Hoffman, Miss Margery Hoffman. Miss EHsa . Grelle, Miss Susie Smith. Mra J. E. Berthola, Mrs. J. B. BUderback, Miss Isom, Mra John Besson, Mra Thomas ' Carrlck Burke, Mra M. L. Pipes, Mra Theodore Brown, Mrs. Harold M. Sawyer, and Mrs. von Ettingnler. Messages of sympathy are finding their way to the relatives of Mra Ira manuel Meye.r, whose death occurred Wednesday evening. Mrs. Meyer is a sister of Mrs. L N. Flelschner and of Mra Harriet Meyer. Mr. and Mra Dent Mowrey are ex pected to arrive Saturday to pass Christ mas with Mr. Mowrey's mother. Mra L. Mowrey, at the Westminster apart menta Much entertaining la being done in an informal way for Mrs. Slgfrled Unander, who is visiting her sister, Mra Alice Benson Beach. Mrs. Unander la convalescing from a serious jllness In New York this falL m m m Mr. and Mra Fred H. Green, who have recently removed from their real dene on Hawthorne avenue and are now domiciled in King street, were in formal hosts at dinner Wednesday eve ning. Their -guest Included Mr. and Mra Guy Webster Talbot. Mr. and Mra David T. Honeyman and Mr. and Mrs. Chester G. Murphy. Miss Miriam Hilton has issued, cards for a dancing party to be given on Wednesday evening at her home, 88? East Fifty-second street north. Several young people of the high school and col lege sets will be guesta Mr. and Mra Ralph Watson have as their house guests for the holidays, Mra Watson's, sisters and their husbands. Mr. end Mra Charles E. Ramp of Salem and Mr. and Mra George Rudolph of Klam ath Falls and their son, George Ran dolph. Mra Carl G. Llebe returned home Fri day from a delightful " eastern trip of three months' duration. She. visited her sister Mrs. Fischer In Chicago and with friends in New York. Dr. Mabel Akin will entertain on Mon day night with a Christmas treat, din ner and tree for 27 of the little children of the widows' pension bureau. Miss Laura Akin will assist her mother. Hill Military academy was the scene rof a delightful holiday party on Thurs day nigni, wnen ac me inviiauon oi me faculty about 80 of the younger girls as- sembled at the school to give the cadets a surprise. The boys had gathered In the large class room for the regular study hour and were listening to a lec ture by the head master. Professor J. W. Daniels, when the guests arrived, and dancing became the principal diversion of the evening. Among the girls who attended" were the Misses Kan Mont gomery, Gretchen Taylor, Luclle Mc Clung, - Elisabeth Wiggins, Frances Lounsbury, Miriam Hilton, Lucia Wat son. Florence' Hrtman, Luclle Me Corkle, Ruth Ladd, Elizabeth Gardner. Betty London, Mary Hughes. Katherine Allehoff, Esther Cushman. Gladra Wat- kins, Luclle Reslng, Shannon Pettlnger, Florence Nelson, Edith Strowbrldge, Bessie Walch, Mary Holmes, Eleanor Kllham, Dorothy Metschan, Madelaine Steff an, Louise Irving and Rose Irving. Before the dance started, commissions were presented. The awards were follows: Recommended for lieutenants. Cadets William Young and George Hart' ness; appointed quartermaster ser Amidst All . . , Festivities The tailored woman Commands attention. The distinctive thV in dividual are ' apparent in her grace and man k ner. This leading es , tablishment prides itself on accomplishing; such effects . in all its gar ments. . geant, Alfred Burkland ; corporals, Irving Day, Donald Austin and George Daugh tey; color corporals, Stanford Osmers and Richard Ball ; bugler, Harold Dagg : corporal and bugler, Russell Page; rec ommended for non-commissioner officers. Cadets Donald Miss, Carson Nile. Dex ter Packard. Harold Churchill. R. L. Strickland, Hugh Horton, Vernon John son, Gael Green and William Hartman. These and several of the other cadets left on Friday for their homes to pass the Christmas holldaya The dinner dance planned for this month was postponed because some of the boys had left for their vacation. It win be an event of the earlyjpart of the new rear, '7 -, , , Tom Dobson, who jtas been in Cali fornia for the past few weeks, returned home and is visiting his mother. Mra Amy Dobson, until after the first of the year, when he will return to his work In New York. Society is anticipating the of the San Carlo Grand Opera company in i-oruana at the Municipal Auditorium January 7 to 12, when line parties will be the favorite mode for entertaining. Mra Herman Heppner went to Tha Dalles on Thursday ' to arrange for a large party from that city. Miss Dorothy Bliss entertained last week with a dinner party honoring MisS Heien names ana her fiance. Albert Allen, whose wedding will take place December 28. Seated around the table were Miss Barnes, Miss Jeanette West, Miss Beatrice Porteous, Mra Walter Bliss, Miss Bllsa Mr. Allen. Marlon Stokes and Owen MerritL F, S. Stanley, nls 'daughter. Miss Cor nelia, and little son, Frederick, are dom lolled for the winter at the Alvarado apartmenta Mr. and Mra Charles G. Arnold are . a now domiciled at the Hotel Slllman la Spokane where they plan to make their home, as Mr. Arnold's business interests are now there. Mra Arnold has been visiting friends In Seattle and Tacoma since ner departure from here some weeks ago and has enjoyed much en tertaining. With a number of Seattle friends she went to Victoria, B. C.for a large ball given there for the Duke of Devonshire, governor-general of Can ada Mra Arnold will be missed by hosts of friends in Portland where she frequently entertained. . Mra Katherine 'Daly is belnr welcomed home from a two months' absence from the city. Mra Daly has en Jo yew a most delightful trip. She first visited her son. Bert Daly, In Detroit. Mich., and Christmas Shopping List of Timely Suggestions L FOR WOMEN Suits Coats Waists Skirts Furs Dresses Corsets Sweaters Bath Robes Petticoats Umbrellas Jewelry . Open a charge account with ns where you can always pur chase any merchandise you wish and "pay us as you get paid. OPEN TOMORROW I $5.00 A MONTH ' 428 Between Eleven til - iir later went to California, where she was much entertained. She visited at Mare Island with Captain and Mra John M EUloott for several days and was also entertained In San Francisco by- friends, including Mra Alfred Kelly. Miss Gladys Moore, bride-elect, was the guest of honor at a mlseellaneouJ shower given by Mra E. L. Barnett and Mra a A. R. Barnett at their noma 1888 Cleveland avenue. Saturday afternoon. The house was beastlfully decorated with flowers, the color scheme . being red and green. Those present were Mesdames Kyle. Sarah Moore, T. I. Perkins, Dora Bolter, Otto Lane, Roy Burnett, victor ' A. Strom of San Francisco and Misses Florence . Kemp, May Kyle.' Elizabeth and Sybil Elliott. Emma Bracher. Beatrice Brown eU and Mary Hay. m m m Miss Dorothy Logan entertained for a number of, her school friends from Miss Catlin's school Thursday afternoon t the home of her parents. Mr. snd Mra John F. Logan in Thompson street. A feature of the afternoon was a program of songs given by her uncle, Tom Dob son. A dainty collation was served at 4 o'clock. Mra Philip Gosltnsky of San Fran clscp arrived last week to visit her mo5ar. Mrs. R. Jacobs, and much en tertaining is being done In her honor by her hosts of old time Portland frienda Mrs. Robert McBride" entertained in formally at a bridge luncheon Saturday the affair being one of the chain of parties now being given to raise funds for the People'sMnstituta The following women were present, each of whom will give in the near fu ture an afternoon of four persons thus endlnsr the chain: Mra Herbert & Mc- Cutchan. Mrs, Charles L. Russell. Mra Harold N. Laurie, Mra r rea urn, Mra John J. Valentine. Mra L. H. Max well Mra James Judson Crossley. Mra R s. McCarl. Additional guests were Mra Burt Boynton Brewster, sister of Mra Crossley, and Mra Reed McBride Jean Lauderdale). Members and trlends'of the Rose City Park club are looking forward with great anticipation to the holiday party to be given at the clubhouse. Fifty seventh and Sandy boulevard, Friday. Bridge and "500" will be played, and dancing wUl start promptly at 8:80. The hostesses of the evening are: Mrs. F. C. Wheeler. O. J. Ferris. Jess H. Dunlap. Charles L. Wheeler. Carl F. Caufield. A. M. Crawford, Philip H. Pater and Miss Georgia B. Howe. FOR MEN AND BOYS Smoking Jackets Umbrellas Mackinaws Furnishings Underwear Bath Robes Jewelry Suits Coats Hats -'Shoes Shirts - (MONDAY) EVENING $1.00' Washington St. . and Twelfth. Streets Wedding Was Simple But Very Pretty JII8S WTNNIFRED "HTTBER and Holt Wilson' Cooklngham were married Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock with a simple boms ceremony at the resi dence of the bride's father. Oskar F. Huber, la North Twenty-first street. Dr. A. A. Morrison read the ceremony and Miss Elisabeth Huber and Preacott Cooklngham. sister and brother ofthe bride and bridegroom, were their only attendanta The wedding was charming In its absolute simplicity. The bride came in on the arm of her father, at the appointed hour. 4 o dock. She was a plcturs of glrlMh beauty la her wed ding robs of whits satin unadorned ex cept for a few sprays of orange blos soms and tulle In the sleeves and about the bodies. The dress was mads In fall skirted drapes ia short round length. Her veil of tulle was deeply bordered with point applique lacs and was fash ioned with a coronet of the lace banding her hair and stayed with sprays of orange blossoms and bows of silver rib bon. The Tell was then draped with the corners, the laos falling la deep polnta Her bouquet was sf orchids, sweet peas and bonvardla. Miss Elisabeth Huber was most charmingly gowned In whits chiffon and carried a shower bouquet or the deep pink Ophelia rosebuda The drawing room, where the ceremony was read, was arranged In a floral bower of white chrysanthemums and greenery. an improvised attar being ejected In a window recess before which the couple plighted their vows. The ceremony was witnessed by the relatives and a very few of the bride's most intimate frienda A buffet supper was served after the ceremony and the dining room was prettily decorated with Christmas sur gestions of scarlet polnsettia and holly. Miss Charlotte Sherlock and Mra Ed ward L. Brown, aunts of the bride and bridegroom, presided over the dining table. A feature of the ceremony was the white satin kneeling cushions which have associations dear to the couple. They were made by Mra B. O. White house, grandmother of Mr. Cooklng ham. for the marriage of her daughter and Edward Cooklngham. Later, Mra Cooklngham lent them to Miss Emma Sherlock for her marriage to Oskar E. Huber. y Mr. arid Mra Cooklngham went to Gearhart for the wedding trip and on their return will make their home with Mr. Huber until spring. Mra Louis Lang, who has been visit ing her relatives in Baltimore, will re turn to Portland shortly after the first of the year, coming via San Francisco where Mr Lang will join her for a short stay before coming noma Miss Margaret Bronson passed Tues day in Portland, the house guest of Mra Julius Louissoa. She was sa route to California from her home la Wrangel. Alaska. Miss Laura Akin, daughter of Mr. and Mra Otis F. Akin, has arrived from Berkeley to spend the Christmas holi days with her parents and frienda Miss Akin is a popular Chi Omega girl. alias xiamet unroin entertained a number of her young school friends Sat urday evening with a most delightful young people's party at the Portland Heights club house. . . Aiarsarec i em pie ton came up from California last Monday to pass wm nouaays witn her parents. Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Templeton. Miss Templetoa Is one of the popular students at the University of California. She will re turn to college ,boit January 10. Tuesday afteri.ooii. next. Laurelhurst club members and their friends will en joy an afternoon at cards at the club house. Mra Melbourne T. Abel and Mra C B. White acting as hoetessea Wednesday afternoon, the Laurehurst Study club win meet at the club house Tomorrow Your Diamonds, Jewelry, Watches, Leather Novelties A Established Sine . - M - . - at S o'clock, with Mrs. Mabel Holmes Parsons acting as leader. . On Tuesday at Ternooo Mrs, Melbourne T. Abel and Mrs. C B. White ware hoet- esses at the club houss for the bers and friends of the Lauralhurst dub Ladles' Tuesday Afternoon ' Card club.1 . Despite Us weathes a seodlv number vers present, and an eajeyable afternoon was spent at bridge and left, the prises la bridge being taken by Mra P. K. Kabeashads and Mra J. M. Letter sad let by Mra Ferdinand K. Reed and Mrs. P. A. Ketchhelmer. On . Menda afternoon the Laurelhurst Club Study dub will meet at I s'clook. with Mrs, Mabel Holmes Parsons, as leader. Mrs. Parooas, sa the ' same evening, at the dub house, will-deliver her lecture. The isewiy rosttiar Criticism.-, to which the public la cordially Invited. At the Hotel Portland last Tuesday evening the Now" England society sn- Jeyed what was considered as one sf Its meet pleasant evenings sf the year. Even though the' weather was vary un favorable, a very largo number off members were present. A splendid program, consisting of a piano solo by Mra Louise Oanty Christian, vocal solos by Miss Lorraine Lee. readings ry Miss Olga noUlngby. mandolin so! by A. J. darks and Interpretative dancing under personal direction of Miss Axa Genevieve Paget and con sisting of 'The Naiad- (by Louise Hat field). "Ml trees Mary. Quits Contrary- (by .Katherine Pierce) and "Serenade Badlso (by Ruth Taylor), and vocal solos by Mra Orrel Rose. The Oregon State Teachers associ ation will hold Its annual meeting this week in Portland and the official head quarters will bo at Hotel Portland. The social affair of the convention will be a luncheon to bo given in the grill Friday for 100 out of town delegatea On Christmas day? Amelia Ruth Olesy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Olesy. 818 Minnesota avenue, will be united In marriage to Chester A. Weber, this being the climax of aa early Jefferson high school romance. After a reception st the homo of the bride's parents the couple will leave for an extended trip through California Mr. and Mra J. T? Hearn of 1014 Hoi gate are receiving felicitations upon the arrival of a son. born December 14. Mrs. Clyde Etana whose portrait Is Her First If you would ask any woman what she wishes for Christmas, the chances are she would name some article of jewelry obtainable at Feldenheimer's. . Store Open Tomorrow Evening Mail Orders Will Receive Our Prompt Personal Attention & C. Jewelers, Silversmiths, Optician 1863 Los I - I j . . V II re produced ta society today, la one of the patronesses for the White Shrine of Jerusalem benefit dance to be given for the benefit et the Eastern Star and the Masonic hornet. Miss Martha Levitt left last Sunday for an extended trip east, where aha will bo the guest of her sister, Mra A. M. Dotnb, snd friends In Milwaukee and Chicago. She will also visit In New York before returning noma Mr. and Mra John Yexerskl are being showered with congratulations over the arrival Sunday. December 18. of a baby daughter, who has been named Valerie Catherlna e Mra Charles' L. Wheeler, prominent Ban Francisco society woman. Is s guest at Hotel Portland. While note she to being extensively entertained by Portland frienda " Hugh McLain and Miss McLaln are up from Marsh field and are guests at Hotel Portland. Mra A. B. - Warnock -and daughter. Last Opportunity Choice It might be a wrist watch in some clever new design, a dia mondi charmingly mounted, an unique set of table silver or some other worth-while gift selected from our large stock. r eio.en neimer Miss Anna Warnock and Sites Ldlan Warnock. left this morning for Timber. Or., to spend Christmas with . Stan ford D. Warnock. e ..' Mra Willis Van Horn Is down from' Wenatcheo for a few days and Is a guest at Hotel Portland. : .- Mrs. F. R. Mitchell has dosed up her collage at Seaside and returned to Portland for the winter. Sale. Period Furniture Continues 'S.Kugel&SoD .130 Tenth Street Makers of ArtUUs Fsmltnrs Open Evenings Until Christmas - fresh - every slay.N Morrison si, ' hot. , . a .t- "1 MOWERS Kl.inVr A . 1 101. . , t A 0 Silverware, Clocks Optical Goods and Umbrellas Washington Street at Park . VISITING CARD , rtORTrtWESTERTt BANK BL0G. r i