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The Week incident of the week which created widespread interest was the announcement by Mr. and Mrs. Rodney A. Ward of 319 Garfield Place of the engagement of their oldest daughter, Miss Josephine Allen Ward, to Mr. Bogert Greenwood Southack.

Miss Ward, since her debut in December, 1906, has been quite as active socially on the Heights as on the Hill. The Wards are prominent in the Westhampton colony, where their pretty summer home, Snug Harbor, is situated. Miss Ward is a niece of Mr. Timothy L. Woodruff.

Her is the son of Mrs. F. T. Southack of 588 West End Avenue, Manhattan and a nephew of the late Colonel Henry Patchen Martin of this borough. The latter, who died a year and a half ago at Rusurban, as he called his home at 1018 Fulton Street, was one of the most active members of St.

Luke's Church, to which he gave with great liberality. account of the recent death of Mr. George A. Stanton Othe wedding of his daughter, Miss Alice Rowland Stanton, and Mr. Hamilton A.

Hill, which is to take place in June, will be an exceedingly quiet affair. The ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday the twenty-third, at Stanholm, the Stanton summer residence at Kennebunkport, and only relatives will attend. Mr. Hill is the son of Mrs. Hamilton A.

Hill of Boston. INVITATIONS are now out for the wedding of Miss Annie Burchall Crary, daughter of Mrs. Lillie Howell Crary, and Mr. William Hadwen Starbuck, son of Mrs. and the late William H.

Starbuck of 8 East Sixty-fourth Street, Manhattan. The marriage will take place in the First Presbyterian Church at five o'clock on Wednesday, the twentieth, and will be followed by a reception at the Pierrepont-Henry, 161 Henry Street, where Mrs. Crary has been residing since giving up her house at 8 South Portland Avenue. The reception will be an exceedingly small one, invitations to it having been extended only to relatives and the parents of the bride's attendants. There are to be two matrons of honor, Mrs.

Ambrose E. Ranney, sister of Miss Crary's fiance, and Mrs. DeWitt Huleatt 'Roberts (Marion Frazier), at whose wedding last month Miss Crary was a bridesmaid. Miss Ruth Rider, Miss Marie Lott, Miss Kathleen Richardson and Miss Elizabeth S. Weeden are to be the bridesmaids.

Mr. Ambrose Elliott Ranney of Manhattan' will attend Mr. Starbuck as best man, while as ushers he has selected Mr. James Harle and Mr. Robert Bonner, also of Manhattan; Mr.

Samuel Lloyd of Philadelphia; Mr. Alfred Milligan of Elizabeth, N.J., and Mr. Frank Howell Bulley and Mr. George Wilshear Bulley, cousins of the bride. of the largest of the June weddings will be that of Miss Louise Bird Earle, the elder of the two attractive daughters of Mr.

and Mrs. William Pitman Earle of 123 Lincoln Road, Flatbush. Thursday evening, June fourth, is the date chosen for the marriage of Miss Earle and Mr. Lewis Blyth Hughes. The ceremony will be performed at the Church of the Pilgrims at half-past seven o'clock and will be followed by a small reception at the Earle home.

OT. MARK'S CHURCH, Brunswick, was the scene last week Wednesday of the marriage of Mr. James Moore Rhett, son of Mrs. Roland Rhett of 90 Willow Street, and Miss Elisabeth Nightingale, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

William Nightingale of Brunswick. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. R. Elliott Boykin and the bride's only attendant was her sister, Miss Hazel Nightingale. Mr.

William Brisbane Rhett, brother of the bridegroom, acted as groomsman. The bridegroom, like his brothers, has been one of the most active members of the Crescent Athletic and Dyker Meadow Golf clubs and has attained high distinction as a golfer. The Rhetts are of distinguished Southern ancestry but Mrs. Roland Rhett, who was Miss Julia Lowndes Brisbane, has been a resident of Brooklyn for a number of years and her sons' are engaged in business together in Wall Street. Mr.

E. Lowndes Rhett married Miss Frances Marvin Fairfax, a sister of Baron Fairfax of Cameron. Mr. and Mrs. James M.

Rhett will make their home at 15 Clark Street. the wedding of Miss Grace Chapin, daughter of Mr. A and Mrs. Alfred C. Chapin, who is to be married to Mr.

William Beverly Rogers in Grace Church, Manhattan, on the first day of June, Mrs. J. Gordon' Douglas is to attend the bride as matron of honor. The ushers will be Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, who is a cousin of Rogers; Mr.

Albert Z. Gray, whose wife is a cousin; Mr. William Rhinelander Stewart, Mr. Alexander Keogh and Mr. Kenneth Budd.

bride-elect and her parents are now 011 their way home from abroad, being due in New York next week. FEW, Miss girls on Nellie the Dingee; Hill have SO there SO genuinely naturally popular widewas spread interest in her marriage to Mr. Clinton Stephen Lutkins which took place last week, Thursday afternoon at 175 Clinton Avenue, the residence of her mother, Mrs. Charles Dingee. The ceremony was performed at five o'clock by the Rev.

Dr. Robert MacDonald and was followed by a reception. in Society. Pink roses and daisies were not only used throughout the rooms as decorations but the pink and white garbed attendants carried bouquets of these blossoms. Miss Dingee, who made a lovely bride in her wedding gown of white satin and duchesse lace, carried lilies-of-the-valley and orchids.

Miss Grace Bedford, the maid of honor, wore Cluny lace over pink and carried pink roes, while the bridesmaids, Mrs. Ernest C. Wills of Belle Haven, Miss Jane Lutkins of Nyack, N.Y.; and Mrs. Frank Dingee and Miss Helen C. Wood of this borough, wore frocks of pink messaline and carried bouquets composed of roses and daisies.

Mr. George Read MacAlister of Englewood, N.J., was best man while those acting as ushers were Mr. Albert Percy of Manhattan; and Mr. Morton Lexow and Mr. Edmund B.

Walker, both of Nyack. special interest to those representatives of Brooklyn society who frequent Cedarhurst or the South Shore of Long Island was the wedding in St. Bartholomew's Church, Manhattan, last week Wednesday afternoon, of Miss Florence Bourne, the elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G.

Bourne of Oakdale, and Mr. Anson W. Hard, who is a familiar figure in the Rockaway Hunting Club. set. Bishop Greer, assisted by the rector, the Rev.

Dr. Leighton Parks, performed the ceremony. Miss Bourne's only attendant was her younger sister, Miss Marjorie Bourne, whose gown was of pale blue chiffon and old lace, while the bride wore a princesse costume of white satin trimmed with duchess lace and carried lilies-of-the-valley and orchids. Mr. De Courcy L.

Hard was groomsman and Mr. J. Henry Alexandre, Mr. Clarence C. Pell, Mr.

Philip Bayer, Mr. Bernon S. Prentice, Mr. Seymour Johnson and Mr. Theodore P.

Dixon the ushers. The wedding reception was held in the ballroom of the Gotham. LAST Polk week to Mr. Tuesday Richard the C. marriage St.

of John Mrs. of St. Dorothy Louis, Kitch- was solemnized very quietly in Manhattan, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Dr. David G.

Downey. Mrs. Polk is the widow of the late Van Leer Polk of Memphis, to whom she was married a year ago last February at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Crowell Hadden of 71 Remsen Street. Mr.

Polk died very suddenly last December. Mrs. Polk is a' daughter of Mrs. Frederick McHenry Kitching. A Tithe Friends Church on the Hill last Thursday evening Marion Heaton Taber, daughter of Dr.

and Mrs. James Russell Taber of 263 Ryerson Street, was married to Mr. William Clark Adams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Adams of Wooster, Ohio.

The ceremony, which was performed by the bride's father assisted by Dr. Robert E. Pretlow, pastor of the church, took place under a canopy of apple blossoms. Miss Taber, who made a strikingly handsome bride in her Empire gown of soft clinging satin, was given in marriage by her uncle, Mr. Adna F.

Heaton of Poughkeepsie. Her veil of tulle was crowned with orange blossoms and she carried a shower bouquet of lilies-of-thevalley. She was attended by her sister, Miss Edna Russell Taber, as maid of honor, and by Mrs. Samuel Willis Rushmore of Plainfield and Mrs. Oscar Garfield Pouch, all gowned alike in hand-painted robes of white chiffon and princess lace and carrying shower bouquets of apple blossoms with sprays of American Beauty roses.

Mr. William Kirk of Manhattan was the groomsman and Mr. William Lloyd Pierce of Brooklyn, Mr. William Simpson of Manhattan; Mr. Edward C.

Smith of Poughkeepsie and Mr. A. R. Anderson of Princeton, N.J., were the ushers. The ceremony was followed by a reception at the home of the bride's parents, where the rooms were profusely decorated with apple blossoms and palms.

The future home of the bride and groom will be in Boston. ESTHER WHITNEY and Miss Louise Morgan Miss Strong of this borough both took part in the concert in aid of Hope Farm, the protectory for Protestant children, which was given by the advanced piano pupils of Henry Holden Huss at Mendelssohn Hall, Manhattan, 011 Thursday evening. Miss Geraldine Morgan, violinist; Miss Eva May Campbell, soprano, and an orchestra from the New Yolk Philharmonic Society assisted at the concert. Miss Whitney was heard in Huss's "Etude and Miss Strong, with the orchestra, rendered the first movement from Mendelssohn's Concerto in Minor. Others who played were Miss Florence Crawford, Miss Isabel Sloan, Mrs.

E. Gonzalez Pierson, Miss Elizabeth L. Carpenter, Miss Rosamund Niles, Miss Marion Coursen, Miss Julia Andrews, Miss Helen Rapallo Sloan and Mr. Edwin Stodola. Among those from this borough or of direct Brooklyn interest 011 the patroness list were Mrs.

Charles B. Hewitt, Mrs. Gustav Heubach, Mrs. Philip Lee Gill, Mrs. Richard Lytton Edwards, Miss Rebekkah Crawford, Mrs.

Henry Holden Huss, Mrs. Henry E. Ide, Mrs. Russell C. Leffingwell, Mrs.

John Stephens Melcher, Mrs. Robert Greer Strong, Mrs. Joseph H. Sutphin and Mrs. Charles C.

Whitney..