The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22
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IrvingtOn.
Miss Atkinson is a guest of Miss Moore.
Miss Grace Carver is visiting friends in
Anderson.
Mrs. 1. n. Watts. of Winchester. is Wis
iting Mrs h. +. Tfbbott
Miss Evelyn Jeffries will spend Thanks
giving with Miss Ollie Pharis I'm Franklin.
Miss Laura Bennett will go to her home,
In Kokomo. for few days visit next
week.
Miss Ida E. Gilbert will spend the
Thanksgiving holidays at her home, in
Rushvilie.
Miss Mabel Barnhill, of Charlottesville.
was a guest of Miss Retta Barnhill for
several days last week.
On the evening of Nov II the ladies of the
Downey-avenue Church gave fruit shower
in honor of Mrs. h. Il. Wise, at the home
of Mrs. u. Is. Carver
A concert of unusual merit was given in
the college chapel on Thursday evening un-
der the direction of MIR. Frank Ketcham.
by the ArenS Glee Club.
Miss Gertrude Moore gave a small Thin
BILE party in honor of The her guest Miss kath
avenue, on Wednesday afternoon, from To
) o'clock.
Mrs. f. c. Thompson returned last
Wednesday from Franklin where she has
been visiting relatives. She has as guests
now MIR. and Mrs. John A. Thompson. of
Edinburg.
The Alpha Phi Psi fraternity at Butler
has Initiated five new MEMBERSHIPS Eliza
beth Davis, SO; Miss Mabel Hauk, Miss Jo-
anna O'Connell, Miss Brownie Hailand and
Miss Sophia Smith, 90
Miss Elizabeth Eunice Fisher gave an in
teresung talk on Dress Reform" to the
young women OF Butler College on Friday
afternoon in the Association Hall. Miss
Fisher was Miss Bridges's guest
Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke has invited the
members of the Woman s Club and of
the Tuesday Club to her home tomorrow
afternoon to hear Miss Fisher talk on
Modern Movement in Dress Reform"
The first guest day of the Irvington Tues
day Club will be held on Tuesday, Dec. u,
when Miss Laura Ream, of Indianapolis,
will read "a paper. The club and its friends
will be entertained at the home of Mrs.
Albert Johnson.
Lucius b. Swift delivered an address at
the Downey avenue Church on Tuesday
evening. His subject was "Ciyil-service
series to be given under the direction OF
the literary clubs of lrvington.
The Sophomore class at Butler has elected
Graham; vice president, Anna Hoton Will
Jams; ecIetary, Arson Washburn; treas
urer, w. r. Billings; marshal Wilmer VIII
son: poet, James Stevens; historian, Fred
The Irvington Tuesday Club met last
week at the home of Miss Jessie Ludlow. on
Ritter avenue. Mrs. Catharine Kingsbury
read paper on "Wycliff and the ReLorma
ton" and Mrs Omar Wilson discussed The
Hundred Years War" The conversation
was led by Mrs. Braden; its subject was
Joan of Arc
The members of the Sheridan Dramatic
Club who were in the plays given before
a large number of guests in the college
chapel last spring will give the plays In
Edinburg next Friday night for the benefit
of the Society of Kings Daughters The
plays are "A Lapse of Genius" written by
Miss Stevenson; THE Bicyclers," and He
and She"
Mr. Thomas Shipp. SO. at Butler, left for
Lafayette Friday to attend the meeting
of the Indiana College Press Association
The Butler Collegian, of which Mr.. Shipp
is editor has been made the official organ
OF the association, which consists OF the
college papers of Franklin, Earlham, Pur-
due, Rose Polytechnic, Wabash, Indiana
University, DePauw and Butler.
Professor Hugh Miller and Mr.. Willis M.
Blount will go to Philadelphia next week
to attend the twenty-fourth biennial ma
tional convention of the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity, which will be held from Ny:
"a to %, inclusive. Phi Delta Theta is called
the National Greek Letter Fraternity, it
| having sixty-eight chapters in colleges In
the United States, with a total membership
of 1881. The convention will adjourn and
go in a body to witness the Cornell-Penn-
| sylvania Thanksgiving football game.
The Irvington Woman's Club observed its
| guests day for the month of November on
| last Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
| The paper of the afternoon was an orig
| inal story by Miss T1bboIt, entitled. "A
| Nights Vigil; Story of To-day. Those
| assisting the hostess were Mrs. J. c. Barn.
| HILL Mrs. Clarence Forsythe, Mrs. Orville
| Caryin, Miss Butler and Miss Braden. The
next meeting of the club will occur Nov
| 80 at the home of Mrs. NJ. r. Williams.
| This months Collegian appeared last
| week. 1t contains as frontispiece pho
tograph of Hugh Tn. Miller professor of
| French and history. Miss Mabel 1fbbott
| contributes a good poem on ''Thanksgiv-
| ing Miss Jessie Christian translations
after Anacreon; Alcman and Alcaens, three
| Greek lyrics Miss Marietta Kies has an
| interesting sketch and comparison of the
| characters of Thomas Hardy's Tess" and
| George Eliots Maggie" Professor ID. G.
| Browns article on the visit Of DIR. Doerp-
| field. the famous achaeologist, to America
| is of especial interest, as Professor Brown
| heard not only his lecture at Chicago Uni
| versity, but also on the Acropois in Athens.
| He describes him both a man and a
| scholar Miss Bridges contributes series
| of short book reviews; Mr.. Mott Flint, a
| clever sketch entitled "Dux Femna Facti
| and Mr. Robert Wilson Hobbs a short
| Thanksgiving story.