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BROOKLYN LIFE. R. and Mrs. Waverly W. Hallock, of 171 Lefferts place, announce this week the engagement of their daughter, Miss Helen Davies Hallock, to Mr.

Tom Cromwell Lawrence, of London, England. IT appears by a dispatch from Dallas, Texas, that the uncertainty regarding the precise date of Mr. Paul Libbey's wedding day was settled by his marriage in that city last Monday to Miss Frances Dixon, daughter of Mr. W. J.

Dixon, of Palestine, in the same State. The ceremony took place at the home of the bride's grandmother, Mrs. J. M. Dixon, and was performed by Bishop Garrett, of Texas.

The bride and groom will, of course, make their home in Manhattan. the June wedding calendar is to be added that of Miss Serena Marie Bushnell, daughter of Mr. Ezra De Witt Bushnell, who is to be married to Mr. John Jones Kerr on the evening of Monday, the first. The ceremony, to which only a few are invited, will be followed by a large reception from nine until half-after-ten o'clock, at 205 Berkeley place.

CARDS are out for the wedding of Miss Dorothy Raegener, of daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Christian Raegener, 4 East Sixty-sixth street, Manhattan, to Mr. Leo Joseph Matty. The ceremony is announced for eight o'clock, at the home of the bride's parents.

The Raegeners formerly lived on President street, in this borough. THE wedding of Miss Lena Louise Tyler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Tyler, of 680 Ocean avenue, and the Rev.

Cornelius Thurston Chase will be celebrated at the Flatbush Congregational Church, of which the Rev. Mr. Chase is the rector, at five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, June the tenth. CARDS are out for the wedding of Miss Viola De Nyse, Mr. daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Morton De Nyse, and George Brower Bolton. The ceremony will be performed Wednesday evening, June seventeenth, at eight-thirty-o'clock, by the Rev. Dr. James M.

Farrar, of the Reformed Church, at the house of the bride's parents, 310 South Fifth street. It will be a quiet home wedding, and Mr. Rodman Woolley Hicks, of Brooklyn, will act as best man. IRS. CHARLES F.

STOPPANI, who was formerly Miss Evelyn Henry, is visiting her mother, Mrs. William Henry, of Berkeley, California, but will return to her home this month. Three years ago she was studying to be a professional singer, and, with a chaperon, occupied a studio in Carnegie Hall, at which time she met Mr. Stoppani, who then lived in this borough. She is a handsome young woman of unsual height and magnificent physique, and such a stage presence, combined with her dramatic soprano voice, which was being trained for a Wagnerian would have been greatly in her favor in a professional career.

Her younger sister, Miss Ora Henry, is a clever girl who graduated with brilliant honors at the University of California, and, though but a little over twenty, holds a. professorship in one of the Western colleges. CONTINGENT of Brooklyn residents will run up to TwiA light Park, over Decoration Day, to open their cottages, among them the George Wood Wingates, of 1100 Dean street; the Charles C. Whitneys, of 260 Garfield place, and the William Nathan Belchers, of 33 South Portland avenue. Bliss Carman will, as usual, occupy a cottage in the park, and his friends, James Whitcomb Riley and John Barry, will pass the summer there also.

Mrs. John Shepard Stanton, of 54 South Portland avenue, will open her beautiful Onteora Park cottage on Monday. Miss Harriet Halsey, of 141 Clinton avenue, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Samuel J. Tilden, at Lebanon.

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Luckenbach, of 104 Eighth avenue, accompanied by Mrs. Luckenbach's niece, Miss Elsie May Lathan, left this week for Mount Clements, Michigan, and on their way home expect to make a sojourn in the Thousand Islands. Mr.

and Mrs. H. Audley Clarke, of Berkeley place, have recently taken possession of their summer residence at Jamestown, Rhode Island. Among the passengers on the Teutonic, which sailed from New York last week, was Mr. McLane Van Ingen, of 35 West Forty-eighth street, Manhattan.

Mr. and Mrs. Rodolphe L. Daus, of 1419 Pacific street, accompanied by Miss Henriette L. Daus, Miss Emma Daus and Master William Thallon Daus, left town for their country place, "Bon Abri," Arverne, on Saturday of last week, to remain until the first of November.

MR. and Mrs. John Hannah have opened their country place at Oyster Bay, one of the pleasantest homes in that vicinity. Mrs. Hannah was a Miss Elizabeth Lunt, of this borough, and her husband is a cousin of the Misses Hannah, of Strong place, who, by the way, are spending the year in England.

Mrs. Henry I. and Miss Helen Y. Judson will spend a considerable portion of the summer at the Waumbeck, in the White Mountains, as will Mr. and Mrs.

Dalley and Mrs. Austin Flint, of Manhattan. The J. Frederick Kernochans have opened their attractive summer residence on the Highlands of Navesink, New Jersey. The country in that vicinity is particularly well adapted for horseback riding, in which the young people of the Kernochan family all excel, particularly young "Fred" Kernochan, who, it will be remembered, was one of the victorious Orange County team in the Hunt Club class at the recent Brooklyn Horse Show, and Miss Mary Kernochan, known as "Daisy" by her intimates, who was maid of honor at the Sloan-Field wedding, at Lenox, last July.

Near by the Kernochans, at the Water Witch Club, will be Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Perry, of the Old Bay Ridge family. Mrs.

Perry, who was Miss Caroline Neilson Watts, is distinguished by great charm of manner. They will leave Water Witch for Europe early in July. Mr. Perry's niece, Mrs. Pierre Lorillard Ronalds, the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William Perry, sails for Europe this week. PETER'S picturesque church at Galilee, will be the ST. scene of a pretty wedding on Wednesday, the 10th of June, when Miss Madge Niles, youngest daughter of Mr. Lucien H.

Niles, and twin sister of Mrs. John Jay Knox, whom she so strongly resembles, will be married to Mr. Sewell Boardman, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Barnes Boardman.

According to present arrangements, Miss Niles will have her three sisters, Mrs. Knox, Mrs. Raymond Lesher and Mrs. C. L.

A. Whitney, as matrons of honor. Mr. Boardman's brother, Mr. Philip Boardman, will be his best man and Mr.

George Boyd and Mr. Henry Gruner will act as ushers. The ceremony will be followed by a large reception on the lawn at the Niles residence, Monmouth Beach. Owing to the social prominence of the family, this will serve to open the season at the Beach. The bride-elect is a sister of the late Phillip Bradford Niles, who married Miss Sarah Brookman, now Mrs.

John Torrance Vanneck. Mr. and Mrs. W. Eugene Kimball, of 302 Clinton avenue, have joined the Glen Cove colony for the summer.

This will bring Mrs. Kimball near her sisters, Mrs. Herbert Lee Pratt and Mrs. William Van Anden Hester, both of whom have cottages there. important event on the social calendar of next week is AN the wedding of Miss Ethel Parker, daughter of the Rev.

Dr. and Mrs. Lindsay Parker, and Mr. J. Morris Robinson, of St.

John, New Brunswick. The ceremony will, of course, be performed by the bride's father, in St. Peter's Church, State street, near Bond, of which he has long been rector, on Wednesday evening at eight o'clock. Miss Parker will be attended by Miss Susan W. Sherman, as maid of honor, and by Miss Edith McGee and Miss Josephine Deghuee, of this borough, and Miss Ella Fowler and Miss Ellen Greppo, of Manhattan, as bridesmaids.

Mr. Allan Bertram Harrison, of St. John, New Brunswick, will act as best man, and Mr. Morgan Taylor, Mr. L.

F. A. Prince, Mr. Frederick T. Sherman, junior, and Mr.

James Walker, of this city; Mr. Cortlandt Robinson and Mr. Frank de L. Robinson, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, as ushers. There will be a reception at the rectory from half-after-eight until ten COME degree fashionable Brooklyn interest attached to the wedding of Miss Mary Newbold Patterson, daughter of Judge and Mrs.

Edward Patterson, to Mr. Richard Walden Hale, of Boston, on Thursday of last week, in the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Manhattan. Miss Frances Louise Hewlett, of the bride's brother, Mr. Edward Liddon Patterson, who will be married at Hewletts, Long Island, on the ninth, was one of the bridesmaids, the other attendants being the Misses Eleanor and Elizabeth Patterson, Miss Jane Cuyler Sims of Philadelphia, Miss Ethel Douglas Merritt, Miss Amy Mills and Miss Eleanor Stuart Patterson. They were all in the daintiest of gowns, composed of white de chine over an extremely delicate shade of pink silk.

The groom was attended by his brother, Mr. Robert S. Hale, and the ushers were Mr. Edward Liddon Patterson, Mr. Arthur Cox Patterson, Mr.

Moses Williams, Mr. William Bazeley, Mr. Frank Grinnell, Mr. Robert Pendleton Bowler and Mr. Arthur Hill.

The Rev. Dr. D. Parker Morgan performed the ceremony. THURSDAY afternoon, of last reception week at Miss her Kate Vanderveer Albehome, on marle road, Flatbush.

Receiving with Miss Vanderveer were Mrs. John Duffield Prince and Mrs. Edward Bennett Vanderveer, while Mrs. Adrian Vanderveer, Mrs. Mesereau, Mrs.

Raynaud, Mrs. Perkins, Miss Margaret Vanderveer, Miss Upson, Miss Bridge, the Misses Matthews and Miss Cutter assisted in entertaining the guests. A dinner for the assisting and receiving party followed the reception. The attractive decorations in the reception rooms were in pink and green, and in the dining-room green and white. THE Quogue, invariably Long large Island, Brooklyn will be contingent augmented at the this Post House, by summer Mr.

and Mrs. Homer A. Lattin, of South Portland and avenue, their daughters, Miss Mary Lattin and Miss Ruth. Lattin, and by Mr. and Mrs.

James L. Brumley, of South Oxford street,.