New Britain herald., 1916-12-02

The following cards have been re-
 ceived by number of local society people:
 Mr. and Mrs. William Thomson
 Sloper request the pleasure of your
 company on Wednesday, the thir- teenth of December at half after eight o'clock in the evening in the gymna- sium of the Young Woman's Christian 1 Association, New Britain, Connecti- cut. Kindly send response to 55 Lexington street. Dancing. Blue Stockings" is the play that 1 has been selected by the High School 1 Dramatic club for presentation later 1 in the winter. Miss Mildred Weld 1 who has rehearsed the High school cast so successfully previously will also take charge of this years play. The cast has been selected. It is: Admiral Grice. Edward Mag William Faraday. .. David Magnuson colonel smith. Andrew RODD Robert Tarvers. Tom HaWksworth James Raleigh. Emory Corbin Henry Steele. John Bachulus Celia Faraday. Irene Andrews Martin. Ward Ma1er
 Iadge. Edith Pouzzner Evelyn. .....,...... Olive Littlehales Phillis. ........ .Ingoberg Fromen Mrs. F'araday. Minnie Paro Orf1. f1........ Ruth McMillan
 The members of the Commonwealth club are anticipating with pleasure the series Of 1ect11rac C1Iioh NJ;co sic Osborn, chairman of the lecture committee, has arranged. As yet but two of the speakers have been defin- itely engaged although it is expected that there will be four of these talks
 The Reverend Herbert A. Jump, formerly pastor of the South Congre- gat1onal church and even more re- gently pastor of the CongregationaI church in Oakland, Calif, will speak at the April meeting of the club His sub Ject at this time will most probably be either "The Beautiful Yosemite' or "Beautifu1 California" on both of which themes he has written books
 On December 12, Dr. Catherine Travis will address the members on the work done in Serbia where she de- voted some time to a baby hospital and in Red Cross work
 MT. and Mrs. Frank l.. Wilcox en- tertained the Berlin Literary society Monday evening at their home. Will liam Shepard presided at the meet ing, and F. w. Stearns had charge of the program, Miss Alice Norton, Mrs. E E. Nourse and Willis R. Saw age assisting him. The theme for the evening was current events Miss 0Y~tnt l; ,J talks on the political situation. Mrs. Nourse spoke on the high cost of living with it's cause and effect and w. R. Savage talked on agriculture, giving also complete description of the re- cent National Dairy fair at Spring field.
 Tuesday afternoon the members of the Woman's club enjoyed a splendid meeting in the parlors of the First Baptist church. Dr. Clinton l.. Bab- cock of the bureau of university travel at Boston, was the speaker and his talk proved a most interesting and instructive one, it's subject being ''The Geography of Scandinavia"
 The announcement that the new history of Berlin is now ready for distribution is of much interest to the people of that town. Miss Catherine M. North wrote the book and Adolph Burnett Benson of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, revised and edited it.
 The New Britain Choral society has announced that this winter it will give two concerts, the first on or about January 25, 1917, and the second in May. The work of the chorus, it is expected, will be splendid at these two events. The names of the solo, ists for the concerts will be an, nounced later.
 Both the Highland club and the Pennington Country club were scenes of reasonable festivities Thursdav when numerous family parties were entertained In the evening, also, dancing was enjoyed by the members and their guests.
 MT. and Mrs. E. c. Goodwin, Miss Florence Goodwin and Miss Mildred Goodwin went to Terryville for the holiday
 MT. ana MrS. William Ii. Hart en- tertained at a large family dinner party on Thursday at their home on Lexington street.
 Maxwell Porter, Kenneth Searle and Donald Gaffney of Yale spent the holiday at their homes here.
 Miss Ruth s. Cook of Portland, Me, is the guest of Miss Agnes Vance Parker Abbee spent Thanksgiving in Syracuse, N. Y.
 Russell Nelson of Maple street is | spending the weekend in New York