Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-22
ARRANGE WORK OF
THE COMMONWEAL
Events Followed by
Lectures, Socials and Other
Interesting Events

At a meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Commonweal Club of the
| Y. w. c. A, held Monday evening, De-
cember Is. at 6.45, a resolution was
passed donating sum of money to
provide wooden gloves for the children
in the Nursery Home of Harrisburg
who attend the public schools. Ar
rangements We're also made for giving
the girls of that home a treat on New
ears afternoon, it being understood
that the Rotary Club was planning for
| the entertainment of the boys on that
day.
Preliminary arrangements were
made for a oinner to the members of
the club and their friends on January
:, the next regular meeting night, at
the Y. w. C. A. followed by a lecture
by Emerson Collins. deputy attorney
general of the State. Tickets for the
dinner will be on sale shortly after
Christmas.
Miss Celia Hinkley and Miss Dolores
Segelbaum were appointed on the So
ctal service committee of the Common
veal Club in place of Miss Wynne Cas-
sci and Miss Daisy kuhns, who had re-
signed. E
Social Service Work
An extended program OF work is
being carried out by the social service
committee. gymnasium is conduct
ed every Saturday evening at the Chill
dren's industrial Home by Miss EliZ-
abeth Killinger and Miss Pearl Yahn.
on the first and third Saturday after
moons of the month, a member of the
mmonweal Club conducts STORY
| Telling Hour" for the children in this
Home. Miss Frances Acuff and Miss
Alice Cusack volunteered their services
for the afternoons in December. If
| possible, the same arrangements will
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second and fourth Saturday afternoons
of the month.
On January % and 23. 1917, DIR.
Thornton b. Penfield, of Englewood,
| n. j., business manager of the Confer
ence on Christian Work in Latin AM
erica which met in Panama during
FEBRUARY, 1916, Will lecture on South
America, under the auspices of the
Commonweal Club, in the John Y.
1 Boyd hall of the Y. w. c. A.
! The program follows: January %.
| 7.45 p. m, South American-Her
Land and Her People; January 23,
at 3 p. m, The Womanhood of South
America; at 7.45 p. m, South Ameri-
| ca-Iier Problems and Her Promise
! Gllustrated). DIR. Pentield made
complete tour of South America after
the conference had adjourned and
studied at lose range the many per-
picking problems that confront the
!
portunity. y cordial invitation is eX-
| tended to the people of Harrisburg to
hear these lectures free of charge.
The mission study classes of the var
ious churches will be especially well
| come.
Other Fine Lectures
The Commonweal Club has prepared
an interesting program of lectures for
| the balance of the year and has in
cluded in the list of lecturers, Thomas
Lynch Montgomery, State librarian;
Miss Helen Glenn. supervisor of the
Mothers Assistance Fund; R. K.
Young, State treasurer; the Rev. Hen
ry w. A. Hanson. Messiah Lutheran
| Church; DR.. Francis d. Patterson, of
the Department of Labor and Indus
try; Kenneth l.. NJ. Pray, of the Pub
| lie Charities Association of Pennsyl-
vania; DR.. Maud C. Exley, of Harris
burg, and other prominent people.
| On the third Sunday in February
the Commonweal Club will conduct a
vesper service at the Y. w c. a.
Miss Kathryn Grant of Pittsburgh.
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Luther ].
Grant of State street, for a week or
two.
Mrs. ]. Ross Hall of New York CITY
is holiday guest of her parents Mr.
and Mrs. r. Wilson Hoffman, 1890
North Third street.
George w. Bricker of 1906 North
Seventh street, and Mrs. A. A. Banks
of 1S43 North Seventh street, are
home after pleasure trip to PLila-
delphia and New York.
I Miss Carolyn Carmichael of Pitts
burgh, is a holiday visitor at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul D. Farley, North
I Third street.
Howard c. Thurston and Miss
Maude Thurston of Philadelphia, will
spend Christmas with their relatives,
Mr.. and Mrs. Rupert Green of State
street.