Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-22
|SPOOKY REVELS
OF Y.W.C. A. GIRLS
Many Mysterious Occurrences
to Transpire Next Week
at Association Building

Many queer and mysterious do
ings" will occur next week at the Y.
w. c. A. according to reports cur
rent in various quarters. Just exact
ly what will transpire remains a
dark secret, but If rumors can be re-
lied on, ghosts will walk, masked
figures will fit to and fro, and Jack
OLanterns will grin wickedly from
unexpected corners.
The trouble is to commence Tues
day night at 7.45 o'clock, when the
High School Club, under the direction
of Miss Mary Irwin, adviser of the
social committee, of which Miss Flea
nor Klemm is chairman, gives Hal
loween party in John Y. Boyd Hall.
The guests will come masked and in
costume to the hall where constalks,
clammy hands, ghosts, and many 9TH
er uncanny objects will greet them.
No one but the committee knows ex-
actly what will happen and it won't
tell Miss Elizabeth Garner. adviser
for the High School Club and Miss
Mary Hoffer, chairman of the Girls
Work Department, however, have
been admitted to the secret, Miss Lii
lian Roster is president of this club.
Home Department Party
On Wednesday evening, at 8 o'clock
in John Y. Boyd Hall, members of the
Home Department, including the girls
who live in the building and the va
rious secretaries, will have an oppor-
tunity to encounter all sorts of
spooky things. Travels through dark
passage ways, bobbing for apples,
fortune telling, ghost stories, and
Halloween games will form the eve
ning's entertainment under the direc-
tion of Miss Mildred Erlenmeyer,
house secretary.
Thursday evening. at about 7.3O
o'clock, anyone watching carefully
may see about rs masked figures en-
ter the association building and
stealthily join Miss Ruth Todd, girls
work secretary, who will lead them
to a place of mystery where thrilling,
unearthly experiences will take place.
Being members of the Girl Reserves,
they will be ready for whatever may
occur. This organization is divided
into two corps, with Miss Hilda
Moore and Miss Margaret Nye, as
presidents. A third corps is soon to
be organized, the corps leaders to be
Miss Mary Bright, Miss Nellie Frantz
and Mrs. Tormey. Miss Mary Irwin
is chairman of this department and
Miss Evelyn Smith and Miss Margaret
Smith are chairmen of the two social
committees.
Fridays Events
On Friday evening, double number
of ghostly creatures will haunt the
halls and corridors of the building,
when the girls of the Continuation
School Club, of which Miss Marie
Smith is group leader and Miss wor-
NELL adviser, hold their Halloween
frolic under the direction of Miss
Ruth Warner, chairman Of the social
committee at 7.S0 o'clock in the gym
nasium. Miss Elizabeth Weimer Is
president of this club and about rs
girls are expected to attend the par
ty. Miss Ruth Todd. girls work sec
retary, is in charge of all the clubs
thus far mentioned.
The same evening. at 8 o'clock, in
John Y. Boyd Hall, the girls of the
Industrial Department will hold high
revel with the spirits of Halloween
Fortune telling, apple bobbing, and
all sorts Of games will be enjoyed
The guests are to wear masks and
every industrial girl in the city
whether she be a member of the club
or not, has been invited to attend
Mrs. Mabel Cronise Jones is head OF
this department, Miss Esther Gardner
is president of the Federation, and
Miss Bertha Schubauer is chairman
OF the social committee,