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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 1 PART FIVE ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY -MORNING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1945 PAGES 11 6G i tLF vs Jt MM Pkl ft Miss Margaret Mathews Engaged to Morion Jenks; Wedding Set for Nov. 3 Announcement Made at Small Cocktail Party at Her Parents Home, The Hawthornes, Fairmont, Alton Marriage to Take Place at Christ Church Cathedral. Numerous St.

Louisans Among New York Guests For Early Autumn Season Miss Hope Sweetser and Lt. Philip Dean, U. S. N. to Be Married Saturday at Marion, Mass.

Bride-elect i Granddaughter of Mrs. Charles Nagel. By Frances Conant Richards NEW YORK. Sept. 29.

HOPE SWEETSER, daughter of the Homer Loring Sweetsers, has been in town on a buying spree, preparing for her wedding next Saturday to Lt Philip Dean, U.S.N.R., son of Mrs. Jame3 Dean of Brookline, and the late Mr. Dean. A white -satin wedding gown, short illusion veil, bridesmaids' dresses and a trousseau made up a staggering list. MR.

AND MRS. HARRY BAILEY MATHEWS yesterday announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Margaret Dillon Mathews, to Morton Jenks, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Story Jenks of Chestnut Hill, Pa. The wedding, an important event of the autumn season, will take place at noon Saturday, Nov.

3, at Christ Church Cathedral. After Dean Sidney E. Sweet performs the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Mathews will give a reception at their home.

The Hawthornes, on the Mississippi River bluffs in Fairmont, Alton. i i Otis Field, naval air station at Cross Nurse's aide at St. Luke's Hospital. She has one younger brother, Harry Bailey Mathews III. Mr.

Jenks, a captain in the Army until his discharge last spring, attended St. George's School, Newport, R. I. His New York clubs are Brook. Union and River.

In Philadelphia he belongs to the Philadelphia Club, Racquet Club, Sunny-brook Golf Club and First City Troop, a military organization which originated during the Revolutionary War, In which membership descends from father to son. Mr. and Mrs. Jenks will accompany their son to St. Louis for the marriage.

After a wedding trip Morton Jer.ks and his bride will live in Philadelphia. The marriage will take place at 4 o'clock in St. Gabr'el's Church, Marion, where the Sweetser family has spent many summers. Weather permitting, the bride, a granddaughter of Mrs. Charles Nagel ot St.

Louis, with Lt. Dean and their families, will form a receiving line in the garden of the Sweetser house in East Marion after the ceremony. The bride's two sisters. Mrs. L.

Hoyt Watson (Ann Sweetser) and Mrs. Bruce Foster, who was Elizabeth Sweetser, will precede her down the aisle. Mr. Sweetser will give his daughter in marriage and the bridegroom will have David Lewis, a cousin, as best man. The Sweetsers have invited a considerable number of friends from New York and Boston and are looking forward to the arrival of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Nagel from St. Louis. The length of the honeymoon and the future residence of the bride and bridegroom are up to the Navy. At present Lt.

Dean is anticipating only a weekend leave, which may stretch out into 10 days. He is on duty at The engagement announcement was made at a small cocktail party, also at The Hawthornes, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. John Irving Armistead (Nancy Scudder), in whose wedding a year ago Miss Mathews wns a brirfctimnid. Mr.

Jenks arrived a few days ago to be pienent at the party, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fulton Math-brother and sister-in-law of the bride-elect, also were here. Mr. Mathews was discharged at Boise, Idaho, a few days ago from the Army Air Forces, in which he served as a pilot with the rank of first lieutenant.

His wife and daughter, Maryan Kennedy Adams, have been in Memphis with Mrs. Mathews' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Curtis Adams. A former student at Mary Institute, Miss Mathews was graduated from the Masters School.

Dobbs Ferry, N. and made her debut in 1941 at an elaborate party in the extensive gardens of her parents' home. She is a member of the Junior League. During the war she spent many hours as a Red 0- Visiting Parents. Mrs.

Robert Baldwin Orth-wein and her young daughter, Madeline Baldwin Orthwein, have arrived from their home in Ann Arbor, to visit Mrs. Orthwein's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George King Meyer, 26 Arundel fc 1 r- 1 AND Lt. Margaret TuIPs To Capt.

Robert SIMULTANEOUS announcement was made recently in High Point, N. C. and Karlsruhe, Germany, of the engagement of First Lt. Margaret Elizabeth Tull, Army dietitian, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

William Herman Tull of High Point, and Capt. Robert Oehler Miller of the Medical Administrative Corps. In Germany the bethrothal was made known at a dinner given by Col. Wilbur K. Beach, commanding officer of the 302nd Station Hospital, where the bride-to-be and her fiance are stationed.

Capt. Miller is a son of Dr. H. Edward Miller, 3842 Flora place, and the late Mrs. Miller, who was Miss June Oehler.

Lt. Tull was graduated from St. Joseph's College, Emmets- if-: "t- "Vj 1 TO Miss Blumeyer To Become Bride OfW.B.GIadney INFORMAL announcement has been made of the engagement and approaching marriage of Miss Estelle Geisel Blumeyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A.

Blumeyer, to William Benjamin Gladney of Elsberry, Mo. The wedding is planned for Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 30, in the rectory of St. Louis Cathedral with the Rev. Thomas F.

Durkin officiating. After the 5 o'clock ceremony, a reception will be given at the Blumeyer home, 41 Washington terrace. Attending the bride will be her younger sister. Miss Susan Antoinette Blumeyer, as maid of honor. Edward G.

Behrens will Continued on Page 3, Column MISS MARGARET DILLON MATHEWS, daughter of Mr. and MriHarry Bailey Mathews who will be wed November 3 to Morton Jenks of Chestnut Hill, Pa. The engagement was announced yesterday Jules Pier low Photograph f- .1 BRIDES Engagement O. Miller Announced burg, and did post-graduate work in dietetics at St. Mary's Hospital, Detroit.

In May, 1944, after receiving her commission as a medical dietitian in February of that year, Ehe was sent overseas. She is now head dietitian at the 302nd hospital. The prospective bridegroom received his preparatory education at Institute Walter in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and was graduated from Harvard College with the class of 1940. He has been in the Army for four years, two of which have been spent with the 302nd hospital.

He is a brother of Miss Martha May Miller and Miss Dorothea Miller of St. Louis and the Rev. Edward O. Miller of Cincinnati. The wedding will take place in late October in Karlsruhe.

Camp Edwards, Mass. To Attend School in East. THERE has been a boom market this week on polo coats. cardigan sweaters, saddle shoes and moccasins, items the well dressed girl insists on having for boarding school and college. Visiting mothers and their daughters have been keeping business men's hours, leaving their hotel after early breakfasts in order to be first in line when stors doors open.

Late in the afternoon the same shoppers return, laden with packages. Mrs. Edgar Rand and her daughter, Jeanette, for instance, kept this 9 to 5 routine during their recent five-day visit at the St. Regis. Early Wednesday morning Mrs.

Rand took Jeanette to Bryn Mawr, Pa, to enroll her for the winter term at Miss Shipley's School, then Mrs. Rand went to Philadelphia to visit friends who have acquired a 260-year-old home. "Franny Rand and Jeanette Continued on Page 4, Column 3. x. -Mania Schireif Fh olograph -X BRIDES Roblnson-Reifh Wedding Is Event In Columbus, Ga.

Special to trie Post-Dispatch. COLUMBUS, Sept. 29. ONLY members of the immediate families assembled in the post chapel of Fort Ben-ning this afternoon for the marriage of Miss Patricia Ann Keith of St. Louis and Sanford Robinson, a corporal for 18 months overseas, now an officer candidate at Fort Benning.

The ceremony was performed at 5 o'clock by the post chaplain, and afterward the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Frazier Reith, gave a dinner at the Ralston Hotel, where they are guests. The bride, unattended, was given in marriage by her father. Continued on Page Column 4.

MISS ESTELLE GEISEL BLUMEYER, who will become the bride of William Benjamin Gladney of Elsberry, October 30. The betrothal has been made known by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. B'umeyer.

Edwro Studjo Fhotoirana MRS. ROBERT WAYNE WILSON, a bride of September 19 at the Naval Air Technical Training Center, Millington, Tenn. The former Miss Sara Jane Leslie, yeoman, third class, WAVES, she is a daughter of Mrs. Richard Alexander Pierce. A mhA.

v. i MRS. FRANK L. DAVIS whose marriage took place Tuesday, afternoon at the -home of the bridegroom's parents, Dr. ano! Mrs.

Frank L. Davis. The bride is the former Mrs. Clair Olson (Eleanore Bergstrom) of Minneapolis. Capt.

Davis is an Army FIRST LT. MARGARET ELIZABETH TULL. Army dietitian, who will be married to Capt. Robert Oehler Miller, MAC. late next month in Karlsruhe, Germany, where both are serving with the 302nd Station Hospital.

Capt. Miller is the son of Dr. H. Edward Miller. MRS.

SANFORD ROBINSON. Before her marriage yesterday in the Post Chapel at Fort Benning. she was Miss Patricia Ann Reith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Frazier Reith.

The bridegroom, an officer candidate at Fort Benning, spent 18 months in Europe. Jules Plertow Photograph LT. ELIZABETH R. POLLOCK, WAC. of Chestnut Hill.

fiancee of Capt. Lem W. Bowen, U. S. son of Mrs.

Julian P. Bowen of Grosse Polnte, and nephew of Benjamin G. Chapman. Both he and the bride-to-be are serving in France. She is a well-known sculptress and author.

Jules Plerlow Photograph surgeon..

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