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Slightly Off The Record (Continued From Page One) . invited to parties, she literally “TOOK OVER” for the hostess I%ade frequent trips to the Fngidaire to procure ice water instead f.skin? her hostess if some might be served at the bridge table, ’deemed to have a mania for emptying ash-trays before the hostess ‘ possibly get around to it. And she insisted on helping serve the ithments after being told that no assistance was necessary Wo " fto intercede for the poor soul, when she was being preft/gen' * v raked over the coals by saying that she was harmless and did ' ! intend to offend, but had been reared in a small country town t r few Pe°Ple kept maids- and the girls in her strata of life had ’ n in 'he habit of having to help each other. On all sides we were 'It with the same rebuttal with which, we must truthfully admit we , heartily concurred, that regardless of what part of the world "femes from, and irrespective of the size of one’s heme town ii rearmg has been of the best, a lady never takes liberties with * .„ne not even with members of her own family. It has been a long since we read Dale Carnegie’s “How To Win Friends And fLnce People”, but we know only too well, from experience, that ■c,l'v to KEEP your friends, after you have made them, is never nke liberties with them. 1 «r and Mrs. Theodore G. Empie returned to the city on September ■[ir,t from Mamaronack, 'N. Y., where they spent the summer hf Before coming home Mrs. Empie visited her sister, Mrs. ®°” oVewart in Toronto, Canada, for several weeks. Prior to opening 'Empie home at 209 South Fifth street for the winter, Mrs. Empie ®e,h. guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Laurence Sprunt at their summer s ‘ on Wrightsville Beach. Mr. Empie is a patient at James Walker *fmorial hospital, where he is undergoing treatment, vii and Mrs. Carl N. Dunn, Jr., and three children, Jean, Dianna, ,‘carl N- Dunn, 3rd, of Bradley’s Creek, expect to move early next !f j. from the Blake Applewhite home which they have been occupying *e)t,P sound for several years, to Wrightsville Beach where they will «n'j ti,o winter at 6 Channel Drive. ends of Arthur Ferry, son oi and Mrs. Albert F. Perry, will ;n with interest that he is re 11 rating satisfactorily at Mayo 5? • clinic in Rochester, Minn., vino a recent bperation. Mrs. p is”with her son and they ex * __ „ hniriP tnP’prVifr in ter-in-iaw, ivu. auu "***• «vwv«jU r French at their summer home b tVavnick boulevard. William A. F'rench arrived from New York vesterday to join Mrs. French for ' ees-ena ai nis orotper s beach cottage, and they expect to return 0 me i’o.wi tcn-iTOW. Botn form ‘et Wilmingtonians, Mary and Bill preach seem to belong right nere in our midst, in spile of their twen ivoror ii’.ure ;>ea s residence in the metropolis . and each visit to the "old home town” is a signal for many informal but delightful ! "gatherings” in their honor. To say Hu; -he i rencnes are well likeu j ,round these parts would be putting it mildly. * Dr.an d Mrs. Charles Y. Bidgood rif their daughter and son, 1/ ss Betty Bidgftod and Carrington Bid good of Hartford, Conn., returned to their home on Friday after a brief visit at Hie Ocean Terrace botel. Wrightsvslle Beach. Dr. Bid good. a prominent surgeon and neu roligist of the New England states, is the son of Mrs. J. W. Murchison oi 8 1-2 Seventh street. City, and a former Wilmiugtonian. While here to visit Mrs. Murchison, the Bidgoods were the recipients of numerous social courtesies. Mrs. J. Irving Corbett and her sister-in-law, Mrs. T. E. Brown mo tored to Durham on Friday accom panied by Mrs. Corbett's daughter, Mrs. Hunter C. Phelan, Jr., of Dur ham, nee Mary Corbett of this city, who for the past week was the guest of her parents, the Irving Corbetts at their home 1705 Chest nut street. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Corbett expect to return home to morrow after spending the week sd with Mr. and Mrs. Phelan. A charming affair of the Labor Day holidays was the cocktail-sup per given last Saturday evening from 7 until 9 o'clock by Mr. and Mrs. Emmet H. Bellamy at ’heir ocean front cottage on the Northern extension at Wrightsville Beach. Numerous artistic arrangements of garden flowers were placed at in 'ervais in the living room and din •nc room cf 'he cottage, and a de licious buffet supper was served front a beautifully appointed buffet table. _ -'W and Mrs. Harmon C. 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By Thomas Heggen Mister Roberts of the USS RELUCTANT, crossed and re crossed the tedious breadth of the Pacific fight the war ■ • • a war against those nebulous adversaries: apathy, tpdium and boredom. Mister Roberts is a kind of a hero and no one who reads the story will doubt that heroism. gING£NG WATERS „ By Ann Bridge becoming increasingly popular the country over, SINL fp'G WATERS provides a strikingly provocative theme of the Albanian way of life and standard of civilization that !s rapidly disappearing under the pressure of modern industrialism. wCome in for these and many other fine and new books. Headquarter* for school supplies, Commercial office forms and equipment, gifts, and greeting ^ards^^^^^^^ Printed Christmas Card books now on display for your early selection. (fames (Boo k .St ore I 'U Chestnut St. Phone 6187 *• and two daughters, Peggy and Mary Ann ftonson, nave returned from Bermuda where they spent the past several weeks, after a week’s stay in New York before sailing. The Rorisons are again at home in Oleander. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert C. Dean have returned to their home at 715 Dock street in the city, after spend ing the summer at the Hanover Inn at Wrightsville Beach. Miss Emma Bellamy Williamson delightfully entertained a few friends most informally at cocktails last Sunday afternoon from 5 until 7 o'clock at her summer home on South Lumina avenue, Wrightsville Beach, in honor of Joe Gozzans of Philadelphia, who was spending the Labor Day holidays with friends at the beach. Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Halsey have returned to their home in Forest Hills after spending the month of August at Wrightsville Beach where they occupied one of Dr. James F. Robertson’s apartments on East Raleigh street. Miss May Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Douglas Taylor, expects to leave tonight for New York city accompanied by her sis ter, Mrs. Charles E. Noell of Dur ham, nee Lossie Taylor of Wilming ton, and Uncle Russell Clark ot Tarboro. While in New York Miss Taylor will select her trousseau. The wedding of May Taylor and Robert Crawford, Jr., of Ruther fordton will be a brilliant social event of Saturday, November 2, at St. James Episcopal church, fol lowed by a wedding reception at the Cape Fear Country club. Dr. and Mrs. Donald B. Koonce and young son, and Dr. and Mrs. Junius C. Smith have returned Irom an extended stay at Blowing Rock where they were guests at the Mayview Manor. Mr. and Mrs. W. Dougal Mac Millan, 3rd, and family of Chapel Hill, have returned to their home after spending the Labor Day holi days with the former’s father, W. D. MacMillan and Mrs. MacMillan at their home on Bradley's Creek. Mr. and Mrs. A. Glenn "Holt and little daughter, Elsie Eert Holt, of Burlington, returned to their home by motor on Wednesday after spending the summer months at Wrightsville Beach where they oc cupied the Curtzwiler cottage oe the ocean front at East Raleigh Street. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Cronly of 323 South Third street are occupy ing the Curtzwilar cottage on the Northern extension at Wrightsville Beach for the remainder of Sep tember. Mrs. Charles Bolles, Jr., and two sons, Charles 3rd and Miiton Bolles, of Chicago, have returned to their home after a visit of a n?onth with Mrs. Bolles’ mother, Mrs. Morris Caldwell at Wrightsville Beach. The Eolles’ and Mrs. Caldwell occupied one of the Cameron apartments on the Northern extension. Dr. and Mrs. R. Bryant Hare and two sons have returned to their home at 11 Magnolia Place from Harbor Island where they spent the summer. Mrs. T. Michael Ramsaeur of Baltimore with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Landon Wellford and their two children of Charleston, West Va. are residing ~~ ■' Mrs. Freeman Entertains At Lovely Party Mrs. Jere D. Freeman enter- I jtained at 1 o’clock yesterday with | |a buffet luncheon, in honor of the former Miss Mildred Stevens and Karl McGhee whose wedding took place Saturday evening at the home of the bride’s parents. The dining room of the Free man home at Forest Hills was decorated with white chrysanthe | mums and gladioli. In the living room, where the guests were seat ed at small tables, t h e flowers were yellow and fuchsia. ^‘le guests at the luncheon in cluded the wedding party, out-of town friends and relatives here for the wedding, and members of the families of the couple. * * * | BIKTH ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. Julian W. Godwin announce the birth of a daughter Susan, August 30 at Marion Sprimt annex. at one of Dr. James F. Robert son's apartments on East Raleigh street at Wrightsviile Beach for tne remainder of the season. Mrs. Ramsaeur is the former Almyeria Stevenson of Wilmington. Prior to 1 her marriage Mrs. Wellford was , Betty Ramsaeur of Baltimore. General and Mrs. Kenneth C. Royal of Washington, D. C., ar rived at Wrightsviile Beach yester day where they are the charming guests of Mr. and M.s. Hargrove Bellamy at their summer home, 17 J^ast Columbia street. General Roy all is U. S. Under-Secretary of War, and all North Carolinians are just ly proud of the fact that he is a native of Goldsboro dividing his time in civilian life, before the war, between Raleigh and Goldsboro! The beautiful and fascinating Mrs. Royall was formerly Margaret Best of Warsaw who attended St. Mary’s school at Raleigh with many of our own Wilmington girls. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Graing er have returned to their home in the city at 1507 Market street after i summering at Wrightsville Beach where together with Alice Graing er’s brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. William Clark James they occupied one of Dr. James F. Rob ertson’s apartments on East Ra leigh street. Visitors down from New Bern last Sunday and Monday whp spent the day at Wrightsville Beach with i Mr. and Mrs. Sam C. Sweeny end ! their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. ! and Mrs. Alfred D. Ward of Chapel Hill, who are their guests for two weeks, were: Mrs. William F. Ward, Miss Rose Carraway, Miss Catherine Richardson, Miss Gail Turnbull, Miss Joan Turnbull, Wil liam F. Ward, Jr., and Kennedy Ward. General John Van B. Metts and his daughter, Mrs. Spottswood Hunt nee Josephine Metts, have return ed to their home in Raleigh after spending tw’o w'eeks at Wrightsville Beach where they resided at one of the Hinton apartments on Sou\ Lumina avenue. Miss Lizzie Lee and her niece, Nancy Lee Duckett of Raleigh, have returned to their home after a brief visit with Mr. and Mrs. Er nest Peschau at their Northern ex tension cottage on Wrightsville Beach. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Vass of Con j cord, who have recently moved to j our vicinity to live have purchased ; Dr. A. D. P. Gilmour’s cottage at -20 South Lumina avenue, Wrights, ville Beach, as their year around home. Mr. Vass is connected with the civil service in Greensboro .but visits his family here frequently. The Vasses had as their attractive i guests over the Labor Day holi I days; Mrs. J. W. Jones, Mr. and j Mrs. Harper Jones and children, Peggy, Dan, Carolyn, and Wayne j Jones, and Milton Pruitt, all of Ox ! ford; and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Pru den and children, Tommy and ! Charles of Windsor, Mr. Pruden re cently received his discharge from the army with the rank of Lieute nant Colonel. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur I. Jeffords, Jr., of Savannah, returned to their home last Monday after spending a week with Jane Dunham Jef ford’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Dunham at their home 1736 Orange street. Jane was the lovely bride who was married last December at St. John’s Episcopal church to Capt. Arthur Jeffords, who is prom inently connected in Charleston, S. C. and Savannah. So, it was very fitting that on her recent visit home she sang the offertory solo at the II o’clock services last Sunday at St. John’s. Jane Jeffords is a sing er of note and has dope solo work at almost every church in Wilming ton. She is now the leading soloist at St. John’s Episcopal church in Savannah. Miss Joyce Dunham of 1736 Or ange street left on Saturday night to become a member of the faculty at Dobb’s Ferry on the Hudson, N. Y., an exclusive private school for boys. Joyce taught French and Spanish for two years at New Han over high school, and during the past summer she was a social case worker for the Traveller’s Aid. Frequently we receive favorable comments on our letter to you from former Wilmingtonians who are now residents of other cities. Such a note reached us this week from Mrs. FrancFs C. Curtzwiler of 2211 Maplewood avenue, Toledo, Ohio, who tells us how much she enjoys reading "Slightly Off The Record” every Tuesday morning, as it keeps her informed of all the gay gocial whirl at home, which she would never hear about otherwise. Com ing from one so amply qualified socially and intellectually as Fran ces Bailey Curtzwiler, her remarks are a distinct compliment. Affec tionately your friend, VIRGINIA. ' r * Jean Craven Becomes Bride (Continued From Page One) played. Mendelssohn’s march from a A Mid Summer Night’s Dream was used as the recessional. Rev. J. W. Miller, pastor of the church, officiated. The vows were spoken before arrangement of greenery and fern interspersed by seven branched candelabra holding cathedral tapers. E. Fielding Clark of Newton, was the bridegrooms best man. Ushers W'ere D. G. Craven, of Winston Salem, uncle of the bride, Frank A. Clark and O. Leslie Clark of Clarkton, and Dr. David D. King of Lumberton. The bride who was given in mar riage by her brother, George K. Craven of Baltimore Md., wore her mother’s wedding gown of ivory brocade satin. The bodice and sleeves were of lace and chiffon. The full length train was joined at the waist. The veil of tulle, ex tended the full lenglh of the train. She carried a bouquett of white roses and tube roses centered with a white orchid. Miss Margueritte Craven was her sister’s maid-of-honor. She wore an aqua satin dress and carried a bou quet of Talisman roses. Miss Mary Louise Craven, sister of the bride, Misses Trudie Clarl; Of Clarkton and Catherine King of Lumberton, cousins of the bride, and Mary Jon Thomas of Jones boro, were the bridesmaids. Their dresses were of aqua satin and they carried bouquets of purple as ters. Little Miss Ann Clark Troy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Troy, of Rosehill, was flower girl. She wore an olj fashioned dress with full skirt which extended into a train and carried a miniature nosegay of white roses, tuberoses and asters. Master Fielding Clark son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Fielding Clark of New. ton was ring bearer. Mrs. Robert Kindred, Craven, | mother of the bride, wore a black , lace gown and shoulder bouquet of pink roses. Immediately after the wedding a reception was given by the bride’s aunts, Misses Amanda and Alice Clark at their home. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Robert Kindred Craven and the late Mr. Craven, and the grand daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. George Lennon Clarkton, of Clark, ton. She was graduated from Queens college in Charlotte, where 1 ■ Breathtaking I Beauty i I * When muskrat looks like mink . . . and mouton . looks like beaver . . . and China lamb looks like Persian—it’s not a mirage but the ingenuity of ace furriers. In cne huge collection, we’ve as sembled these beautiful, luxurious furs, styled with tremendous sleeves, a fdll or fitted sil houette, a sunburst display of prime, densely furred skins. 113 Market Street MRS. ROSCOE EDGAR LESTER—Of Buchanan, Va., who before her marriage on August 31 at St. Paul’s Lutheran church here was Miss Carolyn Ann Grotgen, daughter of Mrs. Carrie M. Grotgen and the lat:- George L. Grotgen of Wilmington. she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. In the past year she has done recreation work with the American Red Cross in the South eastern area. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hedblom of Colo rado Springs. He was recently dis charged from the army, a lieuten ant in the Medical Administration corps and will receive his studies at Colorado college, where he is a member of Phi Gamme Delta fraternity. Mr. and Mrs. Hedblom will make their home in Colorado Springs, Colo. Goiter trouble is caused by mal functioning of tne thyroid gland in the neck. 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