New Britain herald., 1915-03-27

The annual meeting of the Com monwealth club was held Tuesday evening, at the Grammar school hall, with a good attendance
 George $. Talcott as treasurer made his annual report
 The receipts were: Balance on hand $5.S7, membership dues Sl29, SUD- pers $S8.G5. lectures $7O.61, total re- ceipts $294.O7, expenditures S24S.07 ! balance on hand $46.O6. The clubs
 assets amount to S55.73. Secretary Y.
 l.. Hagen gave brief review ot the
 year. Carl Ebbesen reported suo
 cessful lecture season. G. $. Talcott
 reported for the membership cont
 mittee a total of 1S0 members. Mrs.
 w. B. Montague, as chairman of the
 social committee reported that three
 suppers had been held. The nominat-
 ing committee composed of Mrs. Bu@l
 B. Bassette, Carl Ebbesen and Mrs. 1.
 D. Russell, reported the following nominations: President, William F..
 Brooks; secretary, w. l.. Hagen;
 treasurer, George $. Talcott; chair
 man of the lecture committee, Carl Ebbesen; intelligence committee, Mrs. I. D. Russel1; civic committee, Mrs. Buel B. Bassette; social committee,
 Mrs. w. B. Montague; membership, Mrs. Stanley H. Holmes; membership of executive committee. E. H. Prior. They were elected.
 President l.. P. Slade introduced Mayor George A. Quigley as the speaker of the evening.
 The mayor spoke on "City Prob lems," and laid special stress on the dangers of wooden tenement blocks.
 The state meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be held in the Congregational church in West Hartford on Tuesday. Wednes- day, March 30 and 31st. At this meet ing the state officers will be elected. the state constitution revised and plans and advice given to the dele gates who will attend the Twenty fourth Continental congress at Wash ington, D. C., April r.
 Among those of Esther Stanley chapter, D. A. R., who w:sl be pres ent at this meeting will be the la dies who have been elected delegates of local chapter to attend Continental congress-: Mrs. William C. Hunger ford, vice regent; Mrs. Frank J. Por- ter, Miss Frances Whittlesey, Miss Flora Humphrey and Miss Katherine Wilbor. Mrs. William F. Brooks will attend as regent of Esther Stanley chapter. D. A. R.
 - The Hartford Wellesley club met at the home of Miss Florence X. Camp of Russell street, this city, this I, ,f ternoon were Miss Camp. Miss Louise H. Noble and Miss Bessie Oldershaw. Y Miss Crofut read a report on the February meeting of the graduated council.
 At the request of President Pendle- ton the New Haven club cordially in vites the mem bers of the Hartford and Bridgeport clubs to attend the annual luncheon Saturday, April ?, at 1:30 o'clock at Hotel Taft, Parlor A. President Pendleton who will be the guest of honor is desirous of meeting the three clubs and it is hoped that a large number will at tend.
 The young ladies, members of the Alpha Alpha sorority are sparing no efforts in making their annual danes as brilliant a success as usual. The affair will take place Friday evening, April 9th, at Booths hall. The dec- orations are in charge of the Har- graves Decorating company and Judd's orchestra will furnish the mu- sic. The patronesses will be Mrs George Traut, Mrs. Dugald McMillan, Mrs. Loomis Killane. Mrs. G. F. At water Mrs. Oliver Judd, Mrs. Herman Strosser, Mrs. Harvey Kingsley, Mrs. William Wells, Mrs. Tallmadge Swift, Mrs. Thomas Grove, Mrs. Coomhes and Mrs. R. w. Egan.
 Charles F. Smith, president of Lan- ders, Frary & Clark and one of New Britain's most prominent citizens has generously presented a model of Eli hu Burritt entitled "The Learned to the New Britain h. stitute.
 The model shows the blacksmith 1 working at a forge, while his eyes are resting upon a book, pcrched on the 1 rod above his fire
 It will be of interest to the many l local friends of Mrs. Rose O'Brien- Milcke of New York, to learn that she l sang at the concert given by the New 1 Y ork Oratorio at Carnegie hall, We'd ] nesday. as the contralto soloist Tn Bach's Magnificent and Wolf-Ferrari's La Bita Nouva. {;
 The young ladies of the Philathcca class of the First Congregational church held t charming and success full cake and candy sale, this after noon at the home of Mrs. William C. l of Russell street.