New Britain herald., 1923-11-17

dent held a very interesting and well attended meeting Tuesday afternoon at the First church chapel, when the prize winning contributions to the clubs literary contest were read and the winners announced. Mrs. John kirkham had charge of the contest and the judges were Miss Margaret Porter of the Normal school, Mrs. W. P. Felt and the Rev. William Ross. Each group of contributions wos read and by each judge separately and then a comparison of their decisions was made, the name of the writer not being disclosed until after the papers had been read before the club. In the group of serious articles Mrs Gail c. Porter was given first prize for very scholarly paper on Myth ology and Primitive Man" The ori- gin and development of the myth in ! connection with the development of [ man was traced. Second prize went to Mrs. r. B. Hungerford for her pa l per entitled Hebron descriptive of the old Connecticut town of that name. Mrs. Samuel McCutcheon read these papers.
 The first award for poetry was for delightful poem by Mrs. Austin l.. i Stowell called Stars" Two second 1 prizes were awarded to Mrs. M. W. Davenport for her contribution Of ITO Beloved Child" and Miss Florence | A. Camp whose Natures Powers were dainty verses to the "Grass1ow- er," Indian Pipe" and "Milkweed." Miss Margaret Porter read the poems.
 The first prize in the short story group was awarded Mrs Johnstone Vance for "The Hornet Nest a story of love and hunting in the Nova Scotia deep woods Second prize was awarded Mrs. Gail Q. Porter for The Little Sinner" the story of how a Chicago urchin learned the value Of property right. Mrs W. T. Wells read the stories.
 The prizes. s10 for first. and s5 for second, were concealed in sprays of roses and presented to the prize vim ners at the close Of the program.
 During the program, Miss Virginia Leland, daughter Of Mir. and Mrs. Walter ". Leland, gave several de- liEhtful musical numbers, including Romance" (Sibelius) The Swan' and the Cradle Song by Palmgren, and Butterfly Etude" by Chopin.
 The literary contest has proved . most succ%sful way of discovering where lie the literary talents among the new members as well as among the older members. The l4o mem- bers welcomed to the club since 1920 have to their credit one-half the prize winners in the contest.
 Afternoon tea was served by the social committee.
 Edgar Guest, the poet, who under the auspices of the New Britain Lions stub spoke at the Central Junior High school Monday evening. won the hearts of his many listeners when he reclted several of his beloved poems. Mir. Guest choose poems dealing more or less with every day life and every day occurrences constantly changing from the humorous to the pathetic. Among those he gave were Rear Seat Driving" "The Meaning of Sat urday Night" "A Ten Fingered Mouse" Are You Going Home for Christmas" and "A Heap O Iivin'.r
 The Lions quartet, made up of Mir Stuhlman, Frederick Latham. Fred erick Macomber and Mir. winsbip, added 10 the already delightful pro- gram, as did John Crean, who gave two piano selections An interesting feature Of the evening was the pre- sentation of two Roy Scout Eagle merit badges, which Mir Guest pre- sented to Scout William Christ and Scout Stewart Dube. Mir. Guest is member Of the Rotary club and an honorary member of the Lions club.
 
 Mrs n. F. Dean Of Harrison street is member Of the Christmas Booth of the Greenwich Village Fair. Mrs. Edgar Field of Hartford Is chairman of this booth
 Mrs. J. \. Williams Of East Berlin entertained the members Of the "so. cial Tive" at her home Tuesday after. noon.
 Miss Gertrude Ward was given a farewell party at her home in Plain vile Monday afternoon. She is to leave in the near future to spend the winter months in Springfield, Mass.
 
 Miss Lucy coneran gave a party at her home on Rhodes street wednes- day evening for Miss Florence si- monian. who will be married later in the month. Games were played and a buffet supper was served.
 The members of the womans Aid society of the Berlin Congregational church win present '"The old Peabody Pew" on Friday evening. November 'Srd at o'clock at the church, under Inc direction Of Mrs. George Dodd. The cast of characters follows: Mrs. Baxter. Mrs Mortimer l.. Rhodes: Mrs. Burbank. Miss Hattie Royr: Mrs. Sergent, Miss Olive Shaw: Maria Sharp. Mrs. Garner Goodwin: Mrs. Miller. Mrs. Arthur L.. woodruT: Nancy. Mrs. Grant wickw1re: Lobeiia, Mrs. Anna Savage: Jsnr Buzzsl. Mrs. Robert Deming; Justin Peabody, srant wickwire.
 There Is to be dance and social it the Community house in Berlin his evening to which all community members are invited to attend.
 The engagement of Miss Msrsuerit. Rose. daughter Of Hr. and Mrs. John Rose of Broad street and stephen .yncb. son of Mrs. Anna Lynch of ff-EH E4-rr# uss s-15ss--sT Trftfs-.