Mrs. Frank Cross gave a reception in Cincinnati

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

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RECEPTION GIVEN BY MRS. CROSS.

Mrs. Frank Bradley Cross gave a beautiful reception in Cincinnati last week, the following notice of which is in the Cincinnati Enquirer of Sunday. Mrs. Cross formerly lived here and was one of the prominent hostesses of Lexington society:

"Mrs. Frank Bradley Cross entertained with a fascinating reception in honor of Mrs. Frank B. Cross, Jr. (Mary Pounsford), which took procedence [sic] precedence in this week's proceedings. The wonderful array of flowers, arranged most artistically in bowls and tall, slim vases throughout the handsome rooms; a gracious receiving line, devoted to the hostess and the guest of honor; a delightful company of interesting people and a tea table the like of which has not been excelled for beauty of arrangement or charm of its presiding spirits, combined to make this first reception of the autumn a notable one.

"Among those who looked in to offer their felicitations were Mrs. A. Clifford Shinkle, Mrs. Llewellyn Hemingray, Mrs. William Goodman Eaton, all of whom succeeded each other at the tea trays; Miss Mabel Thrall, the hostess' sister, andher niece. Mrs. Frederick Swope, and Mrs. Harry Pounsford, the bride's mother, who assisted in the hospitalities of the afternoon; Mrs. Casper Henry Burton, Mrs. Bradford Shinkle, William T. Burton, Mrs. C. B. Mathews, Mrs. W. Alexander Julian, Mrs. Stanley Lawson, Miss Goodall, Miss Adele Goshorn, Mrs. Victor Price, Mrs. Goodrich Rhodes, Mrs. J. W. Herron, Miss Eleanor Herron, Mrs. Walter DeCamp, Mrs. Daniel Wilson, Mrs. Fleiming (Anne Wilson), of New York; Mrs. C. E. Caldwell, Mrs. Albert James Bell, Mrs. J. K. Pollock, Mrs. J. C. Hobart, Mrs. Florence Foraker Matthews, Mrs. W. F. Wiley, Miss Martha Burton, Mrs. Rufus B. Smith, Miss Oriel Camacho, Mrs. Morrison Waite, Miss Elizabeth Blake, Mrs. W. G. Eaton, Miss Mabel Thrall, Mrs. Swope, Mrs. H. G. Pounsford, Mrs. J. N. Roberts, Mrs. Douglas Allen, Miss Natalie Powell, Mrs. J. B. Holmes, Mrs. Walter Franz, Mrs. Dawson Blackmore, Mrs. J. M. Withrow, Miss Julie Galvin, Mrs. Este Lee, Miss Marion Deveraux, Miss Jane Dinsmore.

"Among Covingtonians who enjoyed the affair were Mrs. William G. Walker, Mrs. Shelley Rouse, Miss Queen, Mrs. Fannie Queen Wilshire, Mrs. William Ranson, Miss Katherine Fox, Mrs. Thomas Morgan and her pretty dark haired daughter, Miss Margaret Roth Morgan, Mrs. W. P. Hobson, Miss Lucy Gayle, Mrs. Polk Laffoon and Mrs. Harry Brent McCoy.

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