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Show Ik Newport Will Entertain President F BY CONSTANCE CABBUTHEBS. By Leased Wire to The Tribune WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. It Is not , often that Newport has the honor .o entertain a president of the United ' States, although It has been tho honor i every year of entertaining men who say who shall be president. When President Tafi visits Newport next month there t will be an cleaborate scries of cntertaln- e muntH :it the palaces of tho mutl-mll- 9B llonaire kings and queens of society in JmWm his honor. The president will be the H' guest of Senator and Mrs. George Pea-body Pea-body Wetmoro, who havo been ata-ylng lgK; at Hot Springs. Va., before going to their i j Newport mansion. It is also expected E) that President Toft will visit Senator Hit Nelson XV. Aldrlch. Senator Aldrich is Hff building the costliest and handsomest I residence along the New England coast. K9$ Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen Taft will be I there. There will be dances and dln- Hm ners planned for the president's family, .f and lavish fetes upon the spacious lawns H ) of the palatial estates will be seen. This H Is what President Taft likes. Ho dc- mW lights in society In dancing. In dinners ) and in the companionship of the 1 wealthy and fashionable people who are 9 f supposed to make up the "400." K'f Will Wed Naval Officer. Mrs. Thomas Clary of Great Falls, flf Mont., announces the engagement of nor ' ' daughter, Grace Genevieve, to Lleuten-ant Lleuten-ant Percy Wright Footo, U. S. N. Miss j, Clary was educated at tho National Park E: seminary. Forest Glen. Md., and has K' traveled extensively. Her grandfather ji was a pioneer cattleman and ranch Hf owner of the west, and was ono of the Bv. most prominent men In Montana. Lleu- B' tunant Foote Is a member of tho class of - 3001, United States Naval academy, and BHfc Is serving on board the United States BB steamship Louisiana. He was recently BB7 on duty at the United States naval gun jmW factory nt Washington, and is a member BJ of the Army and Navy and Chovy Chase BV clubs. His father was Major Footo of B the southern army, and was adjutant B general of the troops furnished by North H' Carolina during the last two years of tho B' civil war. B; Miss Katherlne L,cech, daughter of Bftj Mi-s. Leech of this city, who Is to be BM married to Lieutenant Thurston Hughes, BVf U. S. A.. In October, has gone to the Bl. ' United States fortress at Fishers Island, Bk ' New York, to spend the remainder of the rfiBV Bummer. Km . Idaho Girl to Marry. MB Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Fitch, for- Bi mcrly of Washington, now of Richmond, B Ida., ennounco the engagement notice, BK , of their daughter, Emily Whitney, to BJ . Albion K. Parrls of this city. Miss Bj ' Fitch Is a granddaughter of the late B)' Mr. and Mrs. Oscar A. Stevens of Wash- Bt, ' ington. The wedding will take place B at the home of the bride's parents in the BJ, ' early part of October. k: Gen. Wood in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Wood of tho new chief of B staff of the army have come to Wash- BY Ington to spend the balance of the sum- Bj mer with General Wood at Fort Myer IB; In the comfortable quarters of General IB, ' J. Franklin Bell, retired, whom General i Wood succeeds. General Wood returned BJU. to New York after qualifying for the Hi I office. General and Mrs. Wood will come am) Into Washington during the winter and QBI ! probably occupy an apartment for the EB I season. Mi, To Wed in St. Paul's. &' A wedding fixed for October 26 Is uH I that of Miss Mary Emily Cassard and K Paymaster Dallas Bache Walnwrlght, Jr., ffm! , U. S. N.. to take place In St. Paul's )Mm j church, Frederlckstown. Md. Tho bride rMfj will be attended by Mrs. Nichols, U. S. . N., as matron of honor, and by Mrs, Be. Faith Sanford, daughter of Lieutenant !W,' Colonel James S. Sanford. U. S. N., as B' maid of honor. There will be no brldes- B. maids. Paymaster Frederick P. Wil liams. U. S. N., will assist the bridegroom bride-groom as best man. Colonel Sponcer Cosby, U. S. N., superintendent su-perintendent of grounds and buildings in the District of Columbia, has returned from Brussels, Belgium, where ho acted ac a delegate from the United States at the International Roads congress. He and Mrs. Co3by are at (heir country place at Lennox, Mass. |