New Britain herald., 1923-11-10

| day, November 12, to Saturday, No- l yember IT. During this time the jl- venile department will be open from a. m. to 9 p. m. This exhibit is a real aid to parents and others who have to oversee children's reading. i There are always a great many of the newer and better books for children on display and of course there are such splendid books as Mark Twain and Louis Stevenson wrote. The 1 Louisa Nj. Alcott books for girls and 1 the Barbour books for boys. many books for the real young folk and nursery rhymes for very young chil- dren. There are some lovely copies of Dickens works which are noteworthy for their beautiful illustrations. Miss Elizabeth Wainwright is in charge of l the exhibit. She is children's librar- l ian at the Institute and has had pos sibly more complete opportunity to understand what children like to read and why they like to read it than the average person. Among the newer books to be exhibited will be found The Great Adventure. of Mrs. Santa Claus" "The Pied Piper in Pudding Lane." "The Starlight Wonder Book" " "A. R. c. Book" Doctor Doolittle's s Post Office" The Story of Mrs. Tubhs, '' "The Filipino Twins" "chil- drcn's Book of Celebrated Sculpture" |" "Audacious Ann" and When I Was Boy in Denmark"
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 l The members of the cylinder room of the P. & F. Corbin factory and their friends gave a harvest supper and dance at the Norden bunbalow 1 Tuesday evening. The guests appear cd in costume, which were many and i varied. There were ballet dancers, gay mandarins. bright colored Span
 sh ladies farmers, clowns, tramps and all sorts of queer looking people. 1 Autumn leaves. ferns and orange and black paper were used 10 decorate.
 Solos by Robert Merriman and Wal ter Falk were repeatedly cncored as were the numbers rendered by the mixed quartet, composed Of Miss Mae Macholtz, Miss Alvira Johnson. Mir. 1 Merriman and Mir. Falk. Charles i Hartman was the target for many congratulations for his masterful con- ! 1 prompted, etc.
 X clog dance by Joe Wcnis which aroused great applause concluded the i amateur entertainment after which George Gillet, comedian, and Arthur Clements. magic fun maker. gained continued laughs with their programs. On Tuesday evening last the Girls club of tho Stanley Works gave a dance at the Elks club. Interesting | features of tho evening were a prize waltz and foxtrot. Miss Alma strom- auist and D. Stagg were awarded the prize for waltzing and Miss Margaret | odenwald and Mfr. Klein were award . cd the foxtrot prize. Decorations were carried out in black and gold. Trinity Bacchanalian orchestra furnished the music for dancing.
 Mrs. Georgia scotten of Belviderc gave a dinner party at her home Mon day evening to announce the marriage of her daughter Miss Altha Ray Scotten to James Usher Of Piainville. The ceremony was performed in sep- tember. MT. Usher, who was former ly employed by the New Jersey branch of Landcrs. Frary < Clark Co, is now postmaster of Plalnvillc. Mrs. Scotten has been for several years supervisor Of tho Southington branch of the Southern New England | Telephone Co. Mir. and Afrs. Usher will make their home in Plainyiile. |
 Raymond catlin of Lincoln street is spending a week in winsted. Conn. Manuel Bolivar of San Diego, Cuba. and Clyde Jakeway of Barre, Mass. have been the recent guests of stan ton Ashley, son of Mir. and Mrs. George Ashley of Harrison street. Mir. Jakeway, who was Mir. Ashley's room mate at Middlebury college, served overseas during the war in the avia- tion corps.
 The annual fall crew races at Smith college were held on wednes- day. There were five contests and eight crews took part. four from the senior class and four from the junior class. Miss Esther Beckwith. daugh- | ter of Mir. and Mrs. H. 4. Beckwith of Bassett street, this city. was cox swain of the second crew; Miss Eliza beth Moves. Stamford. coxswain of the third senior crew: Miss Eunice Clapp of New Haven, first junior crew; Miss Carol Baker Of New Haven. second ' junior crew: Miss Elizabeth Lane Of Hartford. third junior crew.
 The regular monthly supper and to- cial of the South church took place Thursday evening. The entertainment committee presented novel tableauK called "Tho Family Album"
 The Russell & Erwin's Foremen's 1 club gave a Harvest supper and the ater party Tuesday evening. 4 chick en supper was served in the club rooms followed by the thoater party at the Capitol.
 Mir. and Mrs. r. W. Porter and daughter Jane. Of Garden street. are spending the weekend in New Ro- l cheIie. Y. Y.. with Mr. Porter's sister and brothsr-in-lav-. Mr. and Mrs. Ad- dison J. Chase.
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 The Lincoln school announced it's Parents and Teachers meetings on inc following dates. Tuesday. November l sn! Tuesday. February 1s. Iss4; Tnes- say April 2s. 1928.
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 Miss Beatrice f:eynat. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Esynal of Lexington street vim riFe a iarge b-5dFe party ai Ter home on Friday evening Novem-