The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-30
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL .


Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Morris were
surprised at their home, 27 Huntins
street. Saturday evening, by member!
of the Star Pinochle club. The par
ty was Of the nature Of a house warm
ing and Mr.. and Mrs. Morris were
presented with a sectional book case
telephone stand and chair and a cop
per plaque. William Heating made
the presentation. Dancing and game:
followed later in 1.-THE evening and So
los were rendered by a quartet com
posed of Mrs. Clinton Chase, Mis-.
Della Callahan, George Lynch and AL
bert McKie. At midnight a buffe
lunch was served. The guests in
cluded: Mr.. and Mrs. G. Lynch, Mr.
and Mrs. E. Lynch, Mr.. and Mrs. C
Chase, Mr.. and Mrs. A. McKie, Mr.
and Mrs. r. Scanlon, Mr. and Mrs
w. Heating, Mr.. and Mrs. S. Dan:
lin, Mr.. and Mrs. J Lynch, Mrs. w
j. Billiard and the Misses Della anG
Margaret Callahan, Mary Lynch, Lena
Lewis, Frances and Mary Dunleavy
Margaret Mullaly and the Messrs. Jas
and George Lynch, Francis Sheridan
and Leo Norriss.
The coming on Monday Of Rev
Henry r. Rose ID. of Newark, N
'"The House of Dreams before mem.
bers of the Bridgeport Art League
at The Stratfield ball room, is much
looked forward to by members of thai
organization. DR.. Rose lectureo
here before the league last year a,
which time his beautifully colored
lantern slides and his interesting talk
which illustrated these, were greatly
admired. The lecture on Monday
will deal with the Congressional Lii
brary in Washington which DR.. Rose
calls '.The House of Dreams
Miss Isabel Stevenson Yoemans -o1
New York and George Plarr Brett
Jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. George P
Brett of New York and Greenfield
Hill, will be married August IS, al
Plymouth, Mass, at the summer
home of Miss Yoemans parents, Mr.
and Mrs. George D. Yoemans.
A meeting Of the Mothers club was
held last evening at the home of Mrs.
James Brereton, 1882 North avenue,
and the evening was devoted to social
entertainment. The guests wore
masquerade costumes.
In honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Brewer
Whitney who will leave Feb. II for
Los Angeles, DR.. and Mrs. Roy E.
Tuthill will entertain this evening
with5a bridge party.
Dinner in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis b. Curtis, who also are plan
given this evening by Mr.. and Mrs.
Ellie N. SperrN Of 800 Park place:
Covers for IL have been laid.
& "Rudyard Kipling-His Life and
Works was discussed yesterday at
the meeting of the Salamagundi club,
which was held at the home of Mrs.
Charlotte Plat, 81 Harral avenue.
The Iota Sigma club will be the
hostesses at the dance of the Fedora
ton Of Industrial clubs which will be
held Friday evening in the Seaside In
stitute. The dance is open to any
member of the association and men
friends may be invited.
The Red Cross Society of the Ger
man Reformed church will hold its
regular meeting at 2:30 o'clock to-
morrow in the church parlors, instead
of next week.
AS a complimentNt to Miss McGrath,
leading woman in the Lyric stock
company, the Mary C. Wheeler Circle,
Lady Foresters,,, will hold theatre
party at the Lyric tomorrow evening.
Miss NMcGrath is member of the or
der. The circle will hold a reception
in Lyric hall on Thursday evening.
An unusually pleasant evening was
spent at the Washington Park church
last night by the members of the OFF,
cial board and their wives. It has
been the custom for sometime for the
men to have a dinner together, but
on this occasion they opened the door
and had their wives as their guests A
very efficient committee consisting Of
Mrs. o. /. See, Mrs. w. B: Gilbert,
Mrs. Laura Cole and Mrs. G. G. Conk-
lin, had charge of the supper ar
engagements and they were of such a
character as to live long in the recol-
lections of those present. The menu
consisted Of turkey dinner. At the
close of the dinner there were short
addresses by the representatives Of
several organizations on the topic,
What Can the. Official Board Do to
Help My Organization. H. A. Chaffee
represented the Sunday school, Mrs.
G. g. Conklin the Epworth league,
Mrs. W.. B. Gilbert the Woman's
Home Missionary society, Mrs. Laura
Cole the Woman's Foreign Missionary
society, and Rev. Everett Burnes the
Mems society, At the close of the
addresses social evening Of new and
old games was spent in the Sunday
school room under the direction of
Mrs A. E. Penfield and Mrs. E. G.
SpargO.
The Canadian government received
a request from the Town Council Of
Tutherglen,. Ont, for the admission
into Canada of a citizen Of an enemy
country A bond of $500 is offered
for his proper conduct.