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Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 35

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DETROIT FREE PRESS yW-H'J wayv. Sunday. July lg Section News of Wedding Starts Part Plans Peter L. Day will officiate as best man and the guests will be seated by Edward Francis Mayne, Willis McNabb, Philander Harrington and the bride-elect's two brothers Joseph and Charles. IS HONOR OF Capt.

Clifford S. Cooper, commandant of the Grosse He Naval Air Station, and Mrs. Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Leander R.

Knight, of Elba Island, entertained at dinner Sunday evening. The honorees are to leave the Island at the end of the month. Additional covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. William R.

Badgett and Col. and Mrs. Charles E. Beauchamp, who, with their three boys, John gette, Mrs. Frederic Low Low-rie, Mrs.

Charles Fell, Mrs. Earl H. Turner, Mrs. Lawrence E. Sawitzky, Mrs.

Whitney Sawyer, Mrs. James M. Stone, Mrs. Frederic W. Overesch, Mrs.

Ernest Newman Stanton and Mrs. John A. Hookey, the latter of Wyandotte. FOR HER MOTHER Mrs. Augustus C.

Read, of Philadelphia, Mrs. Morris Edward Van-Vliet hostessed a luncheon followed by contract Friday. Before returning to her home, Mrs. Read, accompanied by Mrs. VanVliet, will go to Boston to spend two weeks with another son-in-law and daughter, Dr.

and Mrs. Franklin F. Snyder. Part of their trip will take them to Cape Cod. nie, Buddy and Sammy, are spending the summer with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Christopher C. Sherwood. Col. Beauchamp has just finished a special course at the Armed Forces General Staff College in Norfolk, where they have lived this past winter.

Mrs. Edward B. Short has returned to her home in Cedar Falls, Ia, after a fortnight with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Waj-ne D.

Jewell, a fortnight of gay parties that would have taxed the endurance of even a sub-deb. Included in the list of friends who entertained in her honor at luncheons and contract parties were Mrs. Reginald E. Leg- BT JESSAMINE WEST GROSSE ILE Grosse lie's young married and college seta are again casting their thoughts on another round of pre-nuptial parties now that the wedding plans of Mary Elizabeth Aus-terberry have been announced. She is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John Earl Auster-berry and her fiance is Raymond George Day, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. G.

Day, of Upper Hickory Island. The ceremony will be performed in St. James Episcopal Church in the late afternoon of Sept. 4 by the Rev. Warner Lewis Forsyth.

Mary has asked her sister Dorothy to be her maid of honor and the bridesmaids will be Mrs. Peter Leonard Day, sister-in-law of the bridegroom-elect; Virginia Auster-berry, of Detroit, a cousin; Elinor Ypsen, of New York; Mrs. John Stevens Mather and Connie Lou Overesch. Cathedral Vows Read for Localites For her Informal Saturday Marjorie Ann Cole chose a coat dress of champagne taffeta with a tiered lace petticoat matching; it in color. She was married to Daniel Marvin Clarke, son of Mrs.

Pickard Clarke, of Xorthlawn in the chapel of Blessed Sacrament Cathedral. Mr. and Mrs. John Francis Cole, of Atkinson are the bride's parents. The bride's champagne-toned ensemble was completed by satin pumps and a small hat of Fhirred illusion veiling.

She carried a champagne orchid on a muff of ivy. Her sister Helen Cole, honor maid, was in a dressmaker suit of aqua and the flower girl, Betty Lu Goetch, of Rogers City, wore aqua organdy. She is the bridegroom's niece. O. W.

Pickard, was best man. store is completely air-conditioned1 Store Hours, 9:30 to Saturday, 9:30 io 5 4 H. V- Bride-Elect Makes Plans WOODWARD AT STATE Hubfr Photo MRS. DANIEL MARVIN CLARKE Clinpdmst Photo. MRS.

GERALD NELSON MURPHY Miss Babcock Wed on Saturday Better Dresses, third floor for July Rites Shirley Wagner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Wagner, of Elyria, formerly of Detroit, will become the bride of John Harrigan, son of the Millard J. Harrigans, of E.

Jefferson on July 31. The bride-to-be has asked Helen Chafbonneau to be her maid of honor. Bridesmaids will be Marilyn O'Connor, Mrs. John J. Wagner, of Elyria, and Mrs.

Robert W. Wagner. Mr. Harrigan has asked his brother William to be best man. Seating the guests will be Donald Hume, John Wagner, John Ross and James Wagner.

The wedding will take place at the St. Mary's Church in Elyria. Daytime, dinner and formal dresses for misses and women. Were $29.95 to $79.95. now.

Her sister Maylou Ann Babcock was honor maid. She wore pale yellow marquisette with a matching poke bonnet. Maids dressed in light blue marquisette, Included Sharon Ludwig, Marlta Lorainn Witte, of Waterville, and Mary Lou Hoey, of Dexter. Others were Lorainne Murphy, sister of the bridegroom, and Patricia and Eleanore Boyle, of Milford. held at the Whittier Hotel and in the afternoon the bride's parents were hosts at the reception In their home.

The pair left on a wedding trip to the Adirondacks, the bride wearing a dusty rose gabardine suit with white and gold accessories. Their new home is being constructed on Moross Road. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis T.

Murphy, of Fisher Road. 10 10 28 38 For the third time, the heirloom prayer book was carried down the aisle in a bride's hand when Margaret Mary Babcock spoke her vows to Gerald Nelson Murphy. They were wed at St. Paul's on the lake shore on Saturday morning. The book which held the bridal orchid and the silk Chantilly lace which trimmed her gown had been previously worn both by the bride's grandmother and by her mother.

Reception MRS. COLE CHOSE pastel print for her daughter's wedding and the bridegroom's mother was gowned in aqua crepe embroidered with gold. Following the rites, the family and out of town guests breakfasted at the Wardell-Sheraton Hotel. A reception at the home of the bride's parents was held in the afternoon. Out of town guests were William Walker, of Chicago; Mr.

and Mrs. Norman Grigg and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Goeteh, of Rogers City; the Joseph Coles, Mrs. Joseph Campbell, Mrs.

John O'Malley and Stella Dwyer, of Cleveland. Others were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ickes and Mrs. Frank Kennedy, of Washington, and Mr.

and Mrs. Harry Johnson and Mary Fitzgerald, of Akron. The pair is honeymooning in Northern Michigan. Group of Designers' originals, daytime dresses and suits, dinner and formal dresses for misses and women. Were $59.95 to $225 and less y2 Honeymoon FRANC'S MURPHY was his brother's best man and guests were seated by Philip Meathe, Norman Michaux, Joseph Barton, Theodore Corbett, John Claus and James Babcock, brother of the bride.

The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Babcock, of Moross Road, was in heavy ivory slipper satin. Its only trim was a deep peplum of the lace and a fan-shaped lace ripple at the slashed hemline.

A wedding breakfast was reduced, second 24 38 48 Savings of and more Fine wools, dress styles in navy and black; sports types in white and pastels. Misses', women's and half sires. Formerly priced from $59.95 to $98.50. SUMMER SUITS. Rayon gabardine and 10 Below rayon fabric.

Formerly $22.95 to $35, now Priscilla double I Sports sltop9 second floor Final sate of sportswear. Group includes dresses, 91A skirts, slacks. Excellent values at Group of playcfothes reduced Group of Better Dresses 930 Shoes reduced, fifth floor" 8.89 12.89 Papkes Photo MRS. JOSEPH TOUSCANY Formerly Formerly 19.93 to 29.93 Miss Hickey Speaks Vows White suedes with blue, black, red, brown or green trim; linens in bluelygreen, tan, black, white; multicolor suedes; patents, suedes, calf and reptiles in black, blue, brown, green, grey and red. All sizes but not in every style or color.

The bride's flowers were purple asters and American Beauty roses. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stewart Hickey, of Bishop Road. Amond H.

Touscany, was best man for his brother. They are the sons of- the Amond H. Touscan ys, of Berkshire Road. After a reception at the bride's home, the couple left for a honeymoon trip through the East. In St.

Clare de Montefalco Church, Marion Hickey and William Joseph Touscany exchanged marriage vows in an informal ceremony at 11 o'clock Saturday morning. The bride, who chose a simple gray street-length dress with cape effect at the shoulder line, was attended by Mrs. Frank Wilberding. The honor matron and only attendant was gowned in aqua. With it she wore a matching picture hat and carried a colonial bouquet of mixed blooms.

Budget Shop, sixth floor Dresses, rayon crepes, dressy or tailored, print combinations, two-piece wools. Were $14.95 to $25, now 9 collar on a I 'x! I Beautiful new fall suit Jfel tailored by Freiss in Juilliard's Wj'4 wool worsted gabardine, Sg- IJ with intricate hand-picked ff is cdqes and skirt. Charcoal, grey, Scenic, green. fX and Moorish brown. Sizes 10 to 18.

$799S I --i i I fflt "A MJU -i A Xv GRIM Childreirs Shop, fourth floor Spring coats and suits in broken sizes and fin c-art si colors. Were $19.95 to $35 8 12 14: Children's and teens' suits in broken sizes and a-o 1 A colors. Were $29.95 and up Children's and teens' dresses in wools, rayon In the Fisher Building crepes and cottons. Broken sizes and colors. so Were $7.95 to $21.95 $7 10 Group of Formals.

Were $29.95 Miscellaneous Sportswear. Group in- nt eludes blouses, skirts and hats I1SSJ to 2.89 lust in time to solve your vacation wardrobe Junior Shop, fourth floor Dresses, rayon prints, rayon crepes, cottons and butcher rayons. One-and two-piece styles, now Wool shorties in navy and pastels, Were $39.95 to $55 s2 7 911 22 to 32 Now to $25 (values to $59.95) '4 Main Floor Reductions Group of first quality nylon hosiery, sizes 8'A and f( 9l2 only. Regularly $1.50 1U Group of first quality nylon hosiery in sizes 8'A and Q( 9l2 only. Regularly $1.85 Also a group of slightly irregular nylons in 15- and 20-denier 1.39 Now $7 to $I5 (values to $29 95) 1IHASTIC Sales Final flOxb Sliojl MAIN FLOOll Lingerie, slips, gowns; rayon taffeta petticoats.

Broken sizes, now 73 Off 'tiiin mC and wed. All Sales Final i i.

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