The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-29
in SOCIETY

Emil Heyn, OF Detroit, will sail for
Europe, Tuesday morning. from New
YORK. on the North German Lloyd
Kronprin1essin ceeile.
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Memorial and patriotic exercises
VIII be held Tuesday evening, by Gold
en- Rule lodge, Star OF Bethlehem. In
the lodge rooms, No. "a Grand River
ave. Speeches, music and recitations
VIII form the program. with refresh
ments at the close.
MISS Mary Commons, pianist, Will
give recital. Friday evening, In the
North Woodward Congregational
church. Miss Commons is a pupil OF
Miss Elizabeth johnson, of the De-
troit Conservatory OF Music.
Smith College club will give a re-
ception In honor OF Marion lie Roy
Burton, president of Smith college,
Friday, June 8, In the home OF Mrs.
Lee 3. McCollester, No. 655 John r.
st. Miss Burton comes TO Detroit TO
give the graduating address at Tie
commencement exercises OF the De-
troit Home and Day School.
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The annual commencement exer-
cises OF the Detroit Commercial col
lege will be held Friday evening, June
2, In the Church OF Our Father. The
class numbers 119 graduates, the larg-
est In the history OF the institution.
The diplomas will be presented by
Mayor Thompson, the class address
made by the Rev. K. c. Billings and
the invocation by the Rev, Lee s. Nc
Collester. Music and recitations Will
be included in the exercises.
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The Mendelssohn club will give its
annual concert, Monday evening, In
Harmonic hall. There will be a Choir
Us OF 80 voices, accompanied by
string orchestra and solos by Miss
Ellen Marshall, contralto; Ralph
Stone, tenor and Victor Preston, bas-
So The club Is erecting fine club
house on Concord-ave.. which II IL
hoped will be ready for occupancy
June Is.
The river ride of Ashlar lodge, No.
81, F. & A. M, Monday evening. on
the Tashmoo, promises to be one or
the most successful excursions given
under similar auspices. The boat wiz
leave the Griswold-st. dock at 1880
O'clock. and the lodge members, their
ladies and friends will go to Tashmoo
park, where a stop will be made two
hours for dancing in the pavilion. On
board the boat entertainment Will be
furnished by the Ashlar Minstrels,
string orchestras and good soloists.
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Miss Fay Floody, a piano pupil OF
Lob nf
Conservatory of Music will give a
graduating recital, Monday evening. IN
the conservatory hall Other recitals
to be given in the school this week in
clude: Pupils OF Frank Stephens,
Tuesday evening; graduating recital
by Miss Lucille Pearson and Miss
Winfred Laphan, pupils of Miss Mabel
Guess, wednesday evening; Miss
Georgia Barton, pupil Of Miss Minnie
Caldwell. graduating recital Thurs
day evening.
The first convention OF the Michi-
gan Authors association, to be held
In the Hotel Cadillac, Thursday, June
I, will include a morning Ereception
and registering of members; noon
dinner: Informal reception TO wiz
Carleton, the poet, who Is expected
to attend; business session from TO
1880 o'clock; evening reception to Wis
itors and to Governor Chase s. Os-
born; evening program, during which
the speakers will he Norman Hackett.
w. c. Sprague, G.. NJ. Burton, Will
Lexington Comfort, Kirk B. Alexand.
er and William F. Cornell.
Attractive young ladies' and mat.
rons armed with baskets and trays OF
flowers will station themselves at
various posts In the downtown dis
trict, Saturday, in the hope OF Turing
money in exchange for the posies,
into the Golfers Of the Van LeuvCn
Browne Hospital School for Crippled
Children. Automobiles loaned by the
various motor car companies OF the
city will carry the chaperones to aid
from the hospital school, No. 33 Ken.
ilworth-ave.. with fresh supplies OF
flowers. to the young ladies on the
street corners. There Is a heavy
mortgage on the institution and IL Is
hoped TO raise a substantial sum, by
Flower Day, toward lifting this debt.
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The public is invited to visit the
practical gardens conducted under the
auspices of the Twentieth Century
club for public school children, at
Kirby-ave. and John R.-st., and Law
ton-ave. and West Grand-blvd., on
Tuesday and Friday afternoons tor
the former, and Monday and Thurs
day for the latter, after $3.50 o'clock.
The children have each plot Of
ground four feet wide by 30 feet long,
and. under the instruction OF Frank
Dancer, a practical gardener, each
child is taught how to care for the
plot. The product OF the ground will
be given to the children as plants
and vegetables grow.
Miss Olivia Fitzpatrick. who las
been living in Detroit with her uncle
and aunt, Col and Mrs. Ogden Raj
ferty. the past year while attending
the Liggett school, will leave, June Z,
for A summer in England, as the
guest of distinguished relatives. Miss
Fitzpatrick Is the granddaughter of
LADY Olivia Fitzpatrick, Of Flint.
wales. a niece of Mrs. Corvallis
west and q cousin of the Duchess of
westminster, with all Of whom she
will visit. Before returning TO Detroit
Miss Fitzpatrick will go to Germany