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Show SAUNTERINGS I H ' Mr. .and Mrs. John F. Cowan announce the fli 'engagement of their daughter Frances to Horace M D. Bowman. The wedding will take place this B afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Cowan home on M Second avenue. H The announcement was made at a dinner fl given by Mr. and Mrs. Cowan at the Alta club Bj last evening at -which thirty guests were enter- tained. The dinner was served in the gold room 1 of the club, which was profusely decorated with M American beauties and the same flowers were B used in beautifying the table. After the guests M were seated, they found at their places a minia- H turo newspaper announcing the important event m and congratulations were fairly showered upon B the happy people. Then followed one of the gay- H est dinner parties of the season, which was not H over until midnight. H Besides Mr. and Mrs. Cowan, Miss Cowan and H Mr. Bowman, covers were laid for Messrs. and M Mesdames L. J. Gilmer, D. G. Richards, B. F. fl Baum, J. S. Selfridge, Mr. and Mrs. John Breeden B of Helena, the Misses Carolyn Cowan, Geneva H Savage, Edith Godbe, Gulia Dix, Gladys Savage, M Bryan Houston, Lucile Clark, Ethel DoffI meyer H and the Messrs. Itussel L. Tracy, C. H. Jones, H. M J. Cooper, W. H. Stark, Will Caine, Carrol Bintz, H Francis Critchlow and Brent Rikard. H At the wedding of Miss Cowan and Mr. Bow- H man this afternoon, the Rev. John Malick will offl- H ciate. The ceremony will ibe performed in the H presence of the relatives and half a hundred friends and following an informal reception, the H young people will leave for California on their H honeymoon, returning in November to make their H home here. H The wedding of Miss Cowan and Mr. Bowman H is one of those delightful surprises to which so- H ciety is treated now and then, and while few H were aware of the engagement, some of the more B intimate friends have known it for a fortnight. H Miss Cowan is an exceptional young lady of ver- H satility and genuine accomplishments, and though H l they greatly vary, she has always perfected her- H self in everything she has undertaken. She is B known as one of the brightest girls in the city H and state and is extremely popular with all who H know her. Mr. Bowman is one of the younger H leaders in his profession and well known in busi- ness, club and society circles. The match is H generally regarded as an ideal sort of an affair. H H A copy of the London Times of recent date Bj announces the engagement of David Crawford H Lindsay, second lieutenant of the 11th Black H Watch, only son of Dr. and Mrs. David Moore Bj Lindsay of this city to Miss Enid Fortescue Flan- H nery, younger daughter of Sir Fortescue Flannery B' Bt M. P. and Lady Flannery of Wethersfield B Manor, Essex. . The engagement comes as a sur- B prise to the host of friends of Crawford here, B and in fact to his father, Dr. D. Moore Lindsay, B who was notified only recently of it. Mrs. Lind- B say is in London, where she lias been since early B spring. H B Mrs. Samuel Newhouse arrived here on Wed- fl uesday evening and is at her prettily appointed B apartments in the Newhouse, where she will be B for the winter. Her mother, Mrs. Mary Stingley, B also arrived from Los Angeles and is with her. B Mrs. Newhouse is looking as smart and charm- B ing as ever and her friends are delighted to have B her back again. That she is glad to return, goes B without saying, for London, during the past year B has been anything but a pleasant place to reside B with the terrible news regarding one's friends on B the front a matter of daily occurrence. Mrs. B Newhouse says that nothing ever looked so fine B to her as the good old U. S. A. She will be en- lBt1 tertained considerably during her stay which, it is hoped, may bo prolonged for many months. Tho wounds received in the battles at the Tennis Ten-nis club last Saturday afternoon are not yet healed and from everything that is being said by the different participants, it will be some time before everything is in accord in the little clique, MISS ENID FORTESCUE FLANNERY AND DAVID CRA WFORD LINDSA Y, WHOSE ENGAGEMENT WAS RECENTLY ANNOUNCED IN LONDON most of the members of whom are usually so busy attacking other people that they haven't time to fight among themselves, but the rule was changed on Saturday last and a lot of ugly scars remain. Sometimes it is safer to serve tea without rum. We have a communication from P. Lycurgus Williams, asking that we mention that he entertained en-tertained elaborately on Monday evening. Colonel Holmes' gift of the late Harry Cul-mer's Cul-mer's beautiful picture of Shoshone Falls to the Commercial club was a generous act in line with the many fine things Colonel Holmes has done for the club in the past. At a christening which occurred at one of the fashionable churches on Sunday there was consternation con-sternation when tho party arrived ot the church, the young father exclaiming: "Great heavens, I've forgotten it." "Forgotten what?" asked the wife. "Why, the bottle of wine. Don't you 'break one over the youngster's head when you christen it?" And the funny part of it was, that that was his sty idea of a christening. Mrs. John C. Niven will leave for Los Angeles i j tomorrow .after a visit of a month here with her j! parents, Mr. and Mrs. Waldemar Van Cott, dur- E ing which she has been the recipient of much social so-cial attention. F. E. McGurrin arrived from California the first of the week and after attending to some business matters, returned to Oakland. He was the guest while here of Mr. and Mrs. Edward McGurrin. The American theatre is now laying claim to the prize for cleanliness, the management stating stat-ing that the entire liouse is cleaned every night after the last performance in order to protect the ,gowns of the 'Jadles who drop in during the day and dvening. Something for those who care to remember. A beautiful affair of Thursday was the tea given by MW. Itussel C. Woodruff and Miss Adelaide Ade-laide Woodruff in honor of their guest, Miss Gertrude Gert-rude Schwarz of Brookline, Mass. The Spirit of Liberty Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution met on Thursday with Mrs. R. E. Weight. The next meeting of the chapter will be at the Ladles' Literary club on November eleventh. Miss Lucllo Clark, who has spent the greater part of the year with relatives In Los Angeles, has returned home and will be here for a week or two before going to Texas, where she will visit friends. An informal dinner dance will be given at the Commercial club oa the evening of October 21. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Whitley entertained at an elaborate dinner on Tuesday in honor of Mrs. J. E. Bamberger. Mrs. J. R. Walker left for San Francisco on Tuesday, where, she joined Mr. Walker for a visit to the exposition. Miss Grace Cowie has given up her dancing classes and will go to New York, where she will join Florence Fleming Noyes. Co!onel and Mrs. D. C. Jackling and their party who are in Alaska, are expected to arrive here the latter part of the week. Arthur V. Callaghan will leave for Juneau to day and will be gone about three weeks. In honor of Miss Edith Bull, the guest of Mrs. Edna Callaghan, Mrs Lewis B. McCornick gave a luncheon on Wednesday and on Friday, Miss Anna McCornick entertained at the Rotls-serie Rotls-serie in her honor. The Utah club has been organized for the season and half a dozen dances will be given at the Hotel Utah during the winter. Mrs. John C. Niven gave a luncheon at the Ro-tisserie Ro-tisserie on Tuesday at which covers were laid for a dozen friends. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Salisbury entertained at a dinner at their home on Tuesday in honor of Bishop Joseph S. Glass. Miss Mary Lynch and Courtney Lynch gave a dancing party at the Ladies' Literary club last evening for a large number of their young friends. An elaborate reception of Wednesday was that of Mrs. Henry K. Klingender, who entertained at the Newhouse in honor of Mrs. George N. Ifft. An interesting announcement of an engagement engage-ment is that of Mrs. Dorothy Kelly to William B. La-Vielle. The wedding will take place Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day. |